We investigated a multiresistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated in our hospital. Analysis of the N-terminal peptide sequence of the outer membrane proteins (OMPs) purified from the strain allowed us to clone and sequence the nucleotides of the gene encoding the 33- to 36-kDa OMP associated with carbapenem resistance in A. baumannii.

Abstract. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), TROPOspheric (TROPOMI) satellite spectrometers were used to update extend previously developed global catalogue of large SO2 emission sources. This version 2 covers period 2005–2021 includes a total 759 continuously emitting point sources releasing about 10 kt yr−1 more tha...

In Proteobacteria, integral outer membrane proteins (OMPs) are crucial for the maintenance of envelope permeability barrier to some antibiotics and detergents. Enterobacteria, stress caused by unfolded OMPs activates sigmaE (? E ) transcriptional response. ? upregulates OMP biogenesis factors, including ?-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) that catalyses folding. Here we report DolP (formerly YraP...

The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori expresses several putative outer-membrane proteins (OMPs), but the role of individual OMPs in colonization of the stomach by H. pylori is still poorly understood. The role of four such OMPs (AlpA, AlpB, OipA and HopZ) in a guinea pig model of H. pylori infection has been investigated. Single alpA, alpB, hopZ and oipA isogenic mutants were construct...

Invasive meningococcal disease causes over 3500 cases each year in Europe, with particularly high incidence among young children. Among serogroup B meningococci, which cause most of the cases, high diversity in the outer membrane proteins (OMPs) is observed in endemic situations; however, comprehensive molecular epidemiological data are available for the diversity and distribution of the OMPs P...

Leptospirosis is a zoonosis with worldwide distribution caused by pathogenic spirochetes belonging to the genus Leptospira. The leptospiral life cycle involves transmission via freshwater and colonization of the renal tubules of their reservoir hosts. Infection requires adherence to cell surfaces and extracellular matrix components of host tissues. These host-pathogen interactions involve outer...

The timeline-based approach to planning represents an effective alternative to classical planning for complex domains requiring the use of both temporal reasoning and scheduling features. This paper discusses the constraint-based approach to timeline planning and scheduling introduced in OMPS. OMPS is a an architecture for problem solving which draws inspiration from both control theory and con...

Legionella pneumophila 2064 was selectively radiolabelled in mouse L929 cells and human monocytes to identify proteins expressed early in the course of infection. Polypeptide profiles (sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and fluorography) of adherent or intracellular bacteria indicated that a 60-kDa stress protein (Hsp60) was preferentially synthesized. Hsp60 synthesis was...