The dynamics of mesophilic and thermophilic bacterial population was studied in the bulk soil and rhizosphere of the grass Aristida adscensionis L. in a caatinga of the semi-arid Brazilian Northeast. Mesophilic heterotrophic bacteria, spore–forming bacteria and actinomycetes were significantly more abundant than thermophiles, and their counts were 10 10 CFU g dry soil, showing weak fluctuations...

The role of protein kinase A (PKA) in the humoral immune response of the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella larvae to live gram-positive bacteria Micrococcus lysodeikticus and gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli was investigated. The immune challenge of larvae with both kinds of bacteria caused an increase in fat body PKA activity depending on the injected bacteria. Gram-positive M. lysod...

The sequences and structures of RNase P RNAs of some Gram-positive bacteria, e.g. Bacillus subtilis, are very different than those of other bacteria. In order to expand our understanding of the structure and evolution of RNase P RNA in Gram-positive bacteria, gene sequences encoding RNase P RNAs from 10 additional species from this evolutionary group have been determined, doubling the number of...

The dnaK operon in gram-positive bacteria includes grpE, dnaJ and, in some members, hrcA as well. Both DnaK and DnaJ have been utilized for constructing phylogenetic relationships among various organisms. Multiple copies exist for dnaK and dnaJ genes in some bacterial genera, as opposed to a single gene copy for grpE and for hrcA, according to the currently available data. Here, we present a pa...

The nearly complete sequence of the 16S rRNA gene of an extremely highly radiotolerant bacterium, Rubrobacter radiotolerans (reclassified from Arthrobacter radiotolerans based on chemical characteristics), was determined by PCR amplification of the genomic DNA followed by cloning of the amplified gene and sequencing by the dideoxynucleotide method. The sequence was aligned with the sequences of...

Some necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a G-positive (G-repositive) solution to adjointable operator equations $AX=C,AXA^{left( astright) }=C$ and $AXB=C$ over Hilbert $C^{ast}$-modules, respectively. Moreover, the expressions of these general G-positive (G-repositive) solutions are also derived. Some of the findings of this paper extend some known results in the...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of pathogenic bacteria in inpatients with pulmonary infection in the neurological intensive care unit (NICU). METHODS A total of 947 sputum specimens of 428 inpatients from May 2007 to May 2008 in the NICU were enrolled in the study, and bacterial identification and antibiotic susceptibility ...

A fingerprinting technique similar to repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR was developed to identify strains of Lactococcus lactis. The method distinguishes closely related strains and discriminates among some with identical ldh sequences. The fingerprinting primer LL-Rep1 complements a moderately repeated sequence found in low G + C Gram-positive bacteria and may therefore prove useful for di...