Oenococcus oeni is an acidophilic member of the Leuconostoc branch of lactic acid bacteria
indigenous to wine and similar environments. O. oeni is commonly responsible for the …

This paper describes a molecular-based method which is able to discriminate between viable
and inactivated Bacillus subtilis spores by utilizing the DNA-intercalating dye propidium …

Zygosaccharomyces bailii is a major food and beverage spoilage organism. Existing
methods for its detection involve lengthy enrichment techniques and then the result does not …

Recombinant albumin-drug genetic fusions are an effective technology to prolong the serum
half-life of therapeutics that has resulted in marketed products. Indirect evidence suggests …

Lactococcus lactis ssp. cremoris MG1363 contains two FNR homologues, FlpA and FlpB,
encoded by the distal genes of two paralogous operons (orfX A/B -orfY A/B -flpA/B). An flpA …

Group II introns are mobile genetic elements that can be redirected to invade specific genes.
Here we describe the use of the lactococcal group II intron, Ll.ltrB, to achieve multicopy …

Automatically extracting geographic information from text is the key to harnessing the vast
amount of spatial knowledge that only exists in this unstructured form. The fundamental …

Human serum albumin is an endogenous ligand transport protein whose long circulatory
half-life is facilitated by engagement with the human cellular recycling neonatal Fc receptor (…

In this study, we use ethidium monoazide (EMA) a dye commonly used to differentiate viable
and nonviable populations of bacteria in real-time PCR (QPCR) assays to eliminate the …

Studying the interactions between enteric pathogens and their environment is important to
improving our understanding of their persistence and transmission. However, this remains …