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Genomes and Genes | T J BeveridgeSummaryAffiliation: University of Guelph Country: Canada Publications
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Use of the gram stain in microbiologyT J Beveridge
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Biotech Histochem 76:111-8. 2001..One prokaryote domain, the Archaea, have such variability of wall structure that the Gram stain is not a useful differentiating tool...
Interactions between biofilms and the environmentT J Beveridge
Canadian Bacterial Disease Network National Centre of Excellence, Guelph, Ont, Canada
FEMS Microbiol Rev 20:291-303. 1997..This obviously would be of benefit to vesicle-producing bacteria living in biofilms containing mixed microbial populations...
Functions of S-layersT J Beveridge
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Canada
FEMS Microbiol Rev 20:99-149. 1997..In addition, the functional aspect of calcium on the Caulobacter S-layer is explained...
The response of selected members of the archaea to the gram stainT J Beveridge
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Microbiology 142:2887-95. 1996....
Mechanism of gram variability in select bacteriaT J Beveridge
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
J Bacteriol 172:1609-20. 1990..By stationary phase, these cultures were virtually gram negative...
Transmission electron microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, and atomic force microscopy of the cell envelope layers of the archaeobacterium Methanospirillum hungatei GP1G Southam
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
J Bacteriol 175:1946-55. 1993....
Bacteriolytic effect of membrane vesicles from Pseudomonas aeruginosa on other bacteria including pathogens: conceptually new antibioticsJ L Kadurugamuwa
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
J Bacteriol 178:2767-74. 1996..These findings may help develop a conceptually new group of antibiotics designed to be effective against hard-to-kill bacteria...
Sorption of Fe (hydr)oxides to the surface of Shewanella putrefaciens: cell-bound fine-grained minerals are not always formed de novoS Glasauer
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Appl Environ Microbiol 67:5544-50. 2001..Given the abundance of these mineral types in natural environments, the data suggest that not all naturally occurring cell surface-associated minerals are necessarily formed de novo on the cell wall...
The influence of A-band and B-band lipopolysaccharide on the surface characteristics and adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to surfacesS A Makin
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Microbiology 142:299-307. 1996..aeruginosa can alter its overall surface characteristics in such a way as to influence adhesion and favour survival...
Characterization of the cell wall of the sheathed methanogen Methanospirillum hungatei GP1 as an S layerM Firtel
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
J Bacteriol 175:7550-60. 1993..The cell wall was composed of two nonglycosylated polypeptides (114 and 110 kDa). The cell wall resembled an archaeal S layer and may function in regulating the passage of small (< 10-kDa) sheath precursor proteins...
Characterization of novel, phenol-soluble polypeptides which confer rigidity to the sheath of Methanospirillum hungatei GP1G Southam
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
J Bacteriol 174:935-46. 1992..Southam and T. J. Beveridge, J. Bacteriol. 173:6213-6222, 1991) (phenol-insoluble material)...
Ultrastructural examination of the lipopolysaccharides of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains and their isogenic rough mutants by freeze-substitutionJ S Lam
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
J Bacteriol 174:7159-67. 1992..We conclude that freeze-substitution electron microscopy is effective in the visualization of LPS morphotypes...
Influence of lipopolysaccharide on the surface proton-binding behavior of Shewanella sppVernon R Phoenix
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada
Curr Microbiol 55:152-7. 2007..Combined pKa spectra from all eight Shewanella strains produced a common trend indicating that the way in which the surface proton-buffering capacity changes with pH is similar for the species studied here...
Detection of growth sites in and protomer pools for the sheath of Methanospirillum hungatei GP1 by use of constituent organosulfur and immunogold labelingG Southam
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
J Bacteriol 174:6460-70. 1992..J. Beveridge, G. D. Sprott, and P. Whippey, J. Bacteriol. 173:130-140, 1991)...
Chromate reduction by a pseudomonad isolated from a site contaminated with chromated copper arsenateJ McLean
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Appl Environ Microbiol 67:1076-84. 2001..Chromate reduction under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions may be a detoxification strategy for the bacterium which could be exploited to bioremediate chromate-contaminated or other toxic heavy metal-contaminated environments...
Genomic, transcriptional and phenotypic analysis of ftsE and ftsX of Neisseria gonorrhoeaeS Bernatchez
Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
DNA Res 7:75-81. 2000..Analysis of ftsE(Ng) and ftsX(Ng) mutants by transmission electron microscopy showed that both exhibited morphological abnormalities indicative of defective division sites and in some cases aberrant condensation of DNA...
Delivery of the non-membrane-permeative antibiotic gentamicin into mammalian cells by using Shigella flexneri membrane vesiclesJ L Kadurugamuwa
Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network, Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 42:1476-83. 1998..Being bilayered, with outer faces composed of LPS and Ipa proteins, these MVs were readily engulfed by the otherwise impermeable membranes and eventually liberated their contents into the cytoplasmic substance of the host tissue...
Partial characterization of a major autolysin from Mycobacterium phleiZ S Li
Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network, Department of Microbiology, University of Guelph, Ontario
Microbiology 145:169-76. 1999..Partial internal amino acid sequence of the autolysin was determined and should facilitate identification, cloning and overexpression of the encoding gene...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms react with and precipitate toxic soluble goldS Karthikeyan
Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Environ Microbiol 4:667-75. 2002..These results suggest that the biomineralization of gold is impacted by biofilm structure...
Mixed-valence cytoplasmic iron granules are linked to anaerobic respirationS Glasauer
Department of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:993-6. 2007..It is the first in situ detection at high resolution (150 nm) of a mixed-valence metal particle residing within a prokaryotic cell. The relationship of the internal particles to Fe(III) reduction may indicate a respiratory role...
Persephonella marina gen. nov., sp. nov. and Persephonella guaymasensis sp. nov., two novel, thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing microaerophiles from deep-sea hydrothermal ventsD Gotz
Department of Biology, Portland State University, OR 97201, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:1349-59. 2002..nov. It is further proposed that EX-H1T be named Persephonella marina sp. nov., the type species of the genus, and that EX-H2T be named Persephonella guaymasensis sp. nov., a second species in this genus...
Redox-reactive membrane vesicles produced by ShewanellaY Gorby
J Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Geobiology 6:232-41. 2008....
