Dosidicus gigas is a kind of low-fat food with poor gel properties. Fermentation has been proved to be an effective processing method that could improve the properties meat. Here, we inoculated D. two strains, Lacticaseibacillus casei and Staphylococcus carnosus, have approved for use in meat processing, studied their impact on quality product. Compared uninoculated samples, inoculation L. mixe...

Staphylococcus carnosus and Staphylococcus xylosus are widely used as aroma producers in the manufacture of dried fermented sausages. Catabolism of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) by these strains contributes to aroma formation by production of methyl-branched aldehydes and carboxy acids. The first step in the catabolism is most likely a transamination reaction catalyzed by BCAA aminotransfe...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of exogenous vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) on skin graft survival in Sprague-Dawley rats. DESIGN Dorsal full-thickness skin grafts were harvested from 18 Sprague-Dawley rats. To simulate human full-thickness skin grafts, the panniculus carnosus muscle was removed from the undersurface of each graft. The recipient beds were delivered subfascial injec...

Staphylococcus aureus invasion of mammalian cells, including epithelial, endothelial, and fibroblastic cells, critically depends on fibronectin bridging between S. aureus fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) and the host fibronectin receptor integrin alpha(5)beta(1) (B. Sinha et al., Cell. Microbiol. 1:101-117, 1999). However, it is unknown whether this mechanism is sufficient for S. aureus inv...

A digoxigenin-labeled DNA probe that was complementary to the gene ptsH and the beginning of the gene ptsI was used to clone a 3.2-kb HincII-BamHI restriction fragment containing the complete ptsI gene of Staphylococcus carnosus. The restriction fragment was cloned in the antisense orientation to the lac promoter in the low-copy-number vector pSU18. The nucleotide sequences of the ptsI gene, wh...

Heterologous protein secretion was studied in the gram-positive bacteria Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus carnosus by using the Escherichia coli outer membrane protein OmpA as a model protein. The OmpA protein was found to be translocated across the plasma membrane of both microorganisms. However, the majority of the translocated OmpA was similarly degraded in B. subtilis and S. carnosus de...

The text* describes a prosimian primate recovered from the Sivapithecus fossil locality of Lufeng, Yunnan Province. The taxon is assigned as the adapid Sinoadapis carnosus gen. et sp. nov. To date, this is the latest record of the family known and is significant toward understanding the evolutionary history of the Adapidae in addition to the habitat of Sivapithecus.

On the basis of phenotypic and DNA-DNA reassociation studies, strain CCUG 34545T has been considered to represent a distinct Lactobacillus curvatus subspecies, Lactobacillus curvatus subsp. melibiosus. However, in several independent studies dealing with Lactobacillus sakei and L. curvatus strains, the subspecies division of L. curvatus has been found to be controversial. The original study dis...

Staphylococcus aureus, a common cause of nosocomial infections, is able to invade eukaryotic cells by indirectly engaging beta1 integrin-containing host receptors, whereas non-pathogenic Staphylococcus carnosus is not invasive. Here, we identify intracellular signals involved in integrin-initiated internalization of S. aureus. In particular, the host cell actin cytoskeleton and Src family prote...