The bacteriostatic activities of monoacyl sugar alcohols with different acyl chains and hydrophilic heads were examined against some thermophilic sporeformers. Monomyristoyl erythritol and xylitol efficaciously suppressed their spore development. The number and orientation of the hydroxyl groups also played important roles in this activity, and monomyristoyl xylitol exhibited the highest activi...

Thermus sp. strain CCB_US3_UF1, a thermophilic bacterium, has been isolated from a hot spring in Malaysia. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of Thermus sp. CCB_US3_UF1.

Anoxybacillus suryakundensis strain JS1(T), a facultative anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, alkalitolerant bacterium, was isolated from a hot spring. The estimated genome is 2.6 Mb and encodes 2,668 proteins.

We report here the draft genome sequence of the thermophilic filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus sp. strain isl-2, which was isolated from the Strokkur geyser, Iceland, and contains 5,222,563 bp with a G+C content of 59.65%. The annotated genome sequence offers the genetic basis for understanding the strain's ecological role as a phototrophic bacterium within the bacteria...

results all 90 campylobacter isolates confirmed by m-pcr were successfully typed using flaa-pcr-rflp. eleven different types were defined according to flaa-typing method and the rflp patterns were located at three separate clusters in rflp image analysis dendrogram. conclusions campylobacter jejuni isolates significantly showed more variety than c. coli isolates. a relatively low genetic divers...

Treatment of the inorganic pyrophosphatase from thermophilic bacterium PS-3 with diethyl pyrocarbonate resulted in the almost complete loss of its activity, which followed pseudo-first-order kinetics. The presence of Mg2+ prevented the inactivation. Enzyme inactivated with diethyl pyrocarbonate was re-activated by hydroxylamine. The inactivation parallelled the amount of modified histidine resi...

We describe a case of osteitis caused by a new and unusual Clostridium species, Clostridium amygdalinum, an environmental, moderately thermophilic bacterium. This is the first documented report of human infection caused by this organism.

Strain skMP5(T) is a moderately thermophilic and facultatively anaerobic bacterium, described as a representative of Mizugakiibacter sediminis. Here, we report the annotated draft genome sequence of strain skMP5(T).