Heat stock protein-mediated resistance to high hydrostatic pressure in Escherichia coli

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A random library of Escherichia coli MG1655 genomic fragments fused to a promoterless green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene is constructed and screened by differential fluorescence induction for promoters that are induced after exposure to a sublethal high hydrostatic pressure stress. The findings suggest a causative relationship between the expression of heat shock proteins and pressure resistance in E.coli, emphasizing proteome alteration the primary target of inactivation by pressure.

author: Michiels, Chris W., Aersten, Abram, Vanoibeek, Kristof, Spiegeleer, Philipp De, Sermon, Jan, Nystorm, Thomas, Hauben, Kristen, Farewell, Anne
Proteins

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Aerobic growth on nitroglycerin as the sole carbon, nitrogen, and energy source by a mixed bacterial culture

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Research was conducted to determine whether aerobic growth on nitroglycerin (GTN) is the sole nitrogen, carbon and energy source by a mixed bacterial culture. Other objectives were to investigate whether bacterial cultures could mediate complete GTN denitration and to conduct a preliminary analysis of GTN denitration kinetics. Results indicate a reductive denitration mechanism as shown by the denitration of GTN that led to the release of primarily nitrite-N.

author: Smets, Barth F., Vinopal, Robert T., Accashian, John V., Kim, Byung-Joon
Cultures (Biology), Bacteria, Aerobic, Aerobic bacteria, Nitroglycerin

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High diversity among environmental Escherichia coli isolates from a bovine feedlot

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Escherichia coli is a consistent and predominant facultative inhabitant of the human gastrointestinal tract. An isolation and description of the strain diversity of an E. coli population retrieved from a long-term operating bovine feedlot by employing a whole-genome fingerprinting technique is done.

author: Grasso, Domenico, Smets, Barth F., Yang, Hsiao-Hui, Vinopal, Robert T.
Gastrointestinal diseases

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subjects list: Research, Escherichia coli, Microbiology, Genomes
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