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Nishida M, Mine Y, Nonoyama S, Kojo H. Nocardicin A, a new monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotic III. In vitro evaluation. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 1977; 30:917-25. [PMID: 412823 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.30.917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Nocardicin A, a new monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotic, exerts a comparatively potent antimicrobial activity against gram-negative organisms, especially Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the indole-positive and indole-negative Proteus groups (except Pr. morganii), Serratia marcescens and the Neisseria groups. The in vitro antimicrobial activity of nocardicin A against clinical isolates of Ps. aeruginosa was about twice that of carbenicillin. The mean MICs of nocardicin A for Pr. mirabilis, Pr. rettgeri and Pr. inconstans ranged from 3.13 to 12.5 microgram/ml and were 25 similar to 50 microgram/ml for Pr. vulgaris. Nocardicin A in concentrations of 12.5 similar to 50 microgram/ml inhibited 30 strains (48 percent) of S. marcescens usually resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics. However, nocardicin A had no significant in vitro activity against Staphylococci and Escherichia coli. No cross-resistance was seen between nocardicin A and other beta-lactam antibiotics. This antibiotic was stable to beta-lactamase. The in vitro activity of nocardicin A against Ps. aeruginosa and Pr. mirabilis was greatly influenced by the assay media used. Nocardicin A was bactericidal and appeared to act synergistically with serum bactericidal factors against Ps. aeruginosa and with polymorphonuclear leukocytes against Ps. aeruginosa, E. coli and Pr. vulgaris. The bactericidal activity of nocardicin A against the above 3 organisms, therefore, increased markedly in the presence of fresh serum and polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
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Khuller GK. Phospholipid composition of nocardia species. Indian J Med Res 1977; 65:657-60. [PMID: 336530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Goodfellow M, Collins MD, Minnikin DE. Thin-layer chromatographic analysis of mycolic acid and other long-chain components in whole-organism methanolysates of coryneform and related taxa. JOURNAL OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 1976; 96:351-8. [PMID: 825611 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-96-2-351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Acid methanolysates of strains representing 58 coryneform taxa were examined for mycolic acids and other long-chain constituents by thin-layer chromatography. Mycolic esters were detected in the methanolysates of true corynebacteria but not in those from plant pathogenic bacteria, Corynebacterium haemolyticum, Corynebacterium pyogenes or from representatives of the genera Arthrobacter, Cellulomonas, Curtobacterium, Kurthia or Oerskovia. Thin-layer chromatography of whole-organism methanolysates provides a simple method for distinguishing true corynebacteria from coryneforms which do not contain mycolic acids, and from nocardiae and mycobacteria which produce mycolic acids of different mobility. At present the mycolic esters of true corynebacteria cannot be clearly separated from those of some rhodochrous strains.
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Hecht ST, Causey WA. Rapid method for the detection and identification of mycolic acids in aerobic actinomycetes and related bacteria. J Clin Microbiol 1976; 4:284-7. [PMID: 972195 PMCID: PMC274451 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.4.3.284-287.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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A rapid method for the identification of lipids characteristic of the genera Corynebacterium, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, and the "rhodochrous group" has been developed. Modifications of previously described methods make this procedure suitable for use in the clinical laboratory. Thin-layer chromatography is used to demonstrate the presence of the lipid characteristic of Nocardia spp. (type A) in some corynebacteria, nocardias, and members of the "rhodochrous group." Precipitation in ether and ethanol is used to demonstrate the presence of mycobacterial mycolic acids. Since this procedure can be carried out in less than 2 days and the lipids are extracted from the same batch of cells grown for diaminopimelic acid and whole-cell sugar analyses, it can readily be added to the battery of tests performed in reference laboratories that deal with aerobic actinomycetes and related bacteria.
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Aristarkhova VI, Khokhlova IM. [Nocardia corallina pigment]. IZVESTIIA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR. SERIIA BIOLOGICHESKAIA 1976:759-61. [PMID: 1026746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Pommier MT, Michel G. [Characterisation of D(-)glyceric acid from Nocardia caviae (author's transl)]. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1976; 441:327-33. [PMID: 952993 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(76)90176-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A glycolipid was found in a strain of Nocardia caviae. It consists of glucose, myristic, palmitic and stearic acids and a polyhydroxylated acid. The structure of this hydroxyacid was demonstrated by the identification of the product glycerol after LiA1H4 reduction of the glycolipid methyl ester and subsequent hydrolysis, by comparison of the infrared spectra of the hydroxyacid and glyceric acid, by gas chromatography of acetylated methyl and ethyl esters of the polyhydroxylated acid and of standard glyceric acid and by mass spectrometry of the diacetylated methyl ester. The hydroxyacid from the glycolipid is D(-)glyceric acid, a compound rarely found amongst natural products.
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Mordarski M, Szyba K, Pulverer G, Goodfellow M. Deoxyribonucleic acid reassociation in the classification of the 'rhodochrous' complex and allied taxa. JOURNAL OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 1976; 94:235-45. [PMID: 950551 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-94-2-235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The degree of binding was determined between DNA preparations from gordonae and rhodochrous strains and uracil-labelled DNA from five reference strains, Nocardia asteroides NK20, N. pellegrino PII, Gordona bronchialis TI, G. terrae T5 and rhodochrous strain R90. Most of the rhodochrous and pellegrino strains fell into one of two genetically homogeneous taxa. The nucleotide sequence homology data also suggested that G. bronchialis, G. rubra, and more equivocally G. terrae, formed distinct species. However, the values for DNA relatedness between these species, and between then and the rhodochrous homology groups, were comparatively low. Only a small degree of nucleotide sequence homology was found between the N. asteroides reference system and the rest of the taxa studied. The nucleotide composition of the DNA preparations from 29 of the 30 test strains fell between 63 and 69 mol% guanine plus cytosine.
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Lebedeva ZD, Volkova IM, Ruban EL. [Lipids and lipases of mycobacteria and closely related microorganisms]. IZVESTIIA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR. SERIIA BIOLOGICHESKAIA 1976:221-37. [PMID: 947971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Alshamaony L, Goodfellow M, Minnikin DE, Mordarska H. Free mycolic acids as criteria in the classification of Gordona and the 'rhodochrous' complex. JOURNAL OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 1976; 92:183-7. [PMID: 1245838 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-92-1-183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The methyl esters of free mycolic acids from representative strains of Gordona bronchialis, G. rubra, G. terrae and Nocardia kirovani each gave, on mass spectroscopy, homologous series of anhydromycolic esters containing from one to four double bonds with the main components of the parent mycolic acids centered on 56, 58, 62 or 64 carbon atoms (total range from C52 to C66). The mycolic acids from the Gordona strains, with chain lengths centered around C60, form a group intermediate in size between nocardomycolic acids (centered around C50) and mycolie different from those of the 'rhodochrous' complex which have anhydromycolates ranging from C34 to C50. Gordonae are thus more closely related in their mycolic acid composition to Nocardia than to Mycobacterium but can be distinguished from each of these genera.
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Alashamaony L, Goodfellow M, Minnikin DE. Free mycolic acids as criteria in the classification of Nocardia and the 'rhodochrous' complex. JOURNAL OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 1976; 92:188-99. [PMID: 1107481 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-92-1-188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The methyl esters of free mycolic acids from representative strains of Nocardia asteroides, N. brasiliensis, N. caviae and the 'rhodochrous' complex were subjected to detailed mass spectral analysis. The anhydromycolic esters of the Nocardia strains consisted of homologous series containing from zero to three double bonds, with the main components of the parent mycolic acids centred on C52 to C54 (range C46 to C58). The anhydromycolates from one rhodochrous strain, Nocardia opaca, had a molecular weight range similar to the nocardiae (C46 to C57) but the remaining rhodochrous strains gave an homologous series of anhydromycolates containing from zero to two double bonds, with the main components of the parent mycolic acids centred on C38, C42, C44 or C46 (total range from C34 to C50). The mycolic acids from the rhodochrous strains with chain lengths centred around C40 form a group intermediate in size between corynomycolic acids (centred around C32) and nocardomycolic acids (centred around C50). These data weaken the case for retaining the 'rhodochrous' complex in the genus Mycobacterium, and also show that many rhodochrous strains can be distinguished from true nocardiae and corynebacteria. These results confirm the value of lipid characters in the classification of these organisms.
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Kasumova SO, Nesterenko OO, Kvasnikov EI, Loiko ZI. [Differentiation of bacteria of the genera Nocardia and Mycobacterium based on lipid LCN-A studies]. MIKROBIOLOHICHNYI ZHURNAL 1975; 37:552-5. [PMID: 1219315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Eroshina NV, Golovlev EL, Geĭdarov TG, Bur'ianov II. [Distribution of pyrimidine blocks in the DNA of Brevibacterium linens, Arthrobacter globiformis, Nocardia corallina and Nocardia rubra]. MIKROBIOLOGIIA 1975; 44:587-91. [PMID: 241002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The nucleotide composition and the frequency of pyrimidine blocks were studied in DNA of the following bacteria: Brevibacterium linens (Weignamm, 1910) Breed, 1953; Arthrobacter globiformis (Conn, 1928) Conn et Dimmick, 1947; Nocardia corallina (Bergey et al., 1923) Waksman et Henrici, 1948; Nocardia rubra (Krassilnikov, 1949) Waksman et Henrici, 1948. These organisms are classed by some microbiologists as mycobacteria (the Mycobacteriaceae family) while other authors regard them as representatives of three families belonging to two orders. About 60 percent of all pyrimidines in DNA of these bacteria are found in the sequences pur-pyr-pur and pur-pyr-pyr-pur, the number of dipyrimidines being higher than the amount of monopyrimidine nucleotides. The content of dipyrimidine nucleotides in DNA of Nocardia corallina and Nocardia rubra is higher (16.8 mole %) than the content of dipyrimidine blocks in DNA of Brevibacterium linens and Arthrobacter globiformis, in which the quantity of dipyrimidines is almost the same (13.9 and 14.4 mole %). A new characteristic, the selected mean value, is suggested to evaluate differences in the distribution of pyrimidines in DNA.
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Minnikin DE, Alshamaony L, Goodfellow M. Differentiation of Mycobacterium, Nocardia, and related taxa by thin-layer chromatographic analysis of whole-organism methanolysates. JOURNAL OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 1975; 88:200-4. [PMID: 1151335 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-88-1-200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 332] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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White RJ, Martinelli E, Lancini G. Ansamycin biogenesis: studies on a novel rifamycin isolated from a mutant strain of Nocardia mediterranei. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1974; 71:3260-4. [PMID: 4528428 PMCID: PMC388664 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.71.8.3260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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A novel ansamycin, rifamycin W, was isolated from a mutant strain of Nocardia mediterranei. The metabolic origin of rifamycin W was studied by (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Examination of the proton-decoupled pulse and Fourier transform (13)C spectra of rifamycin W biogenetically enriched with [1-(13)C]-, [2-(13)C]-, and [3-(13)C]propionate and with [1-(13)C]acetate has revealed that the alignment of acetate and propionate units corresponds to that previously proposed for rifamycin S. Washed mycelium from a rifamycin B-producing strain of N. mediterranei transformed rifamycin W into rifamycin B. We suggest that rifamycin W is a normal intermediate in the biosynthesis of the other rifamycins. These results, together with the structural similarity of rifamycin W to the streptovaricins, reinforce our hypothesis that a common progenitor is involved in the biogenesis of all naphthalenic ansamycins.
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Bona C, Damais C, Chedid L. Blastic transformtion of mouse spleen lymphocytes by a water-soluble mitogen extracted from Nocardia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1974; 71:1602-6. [PMID: 4525452 PMCID: PMC388284 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.71.5.1602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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A water-soluble extract of Nocardia markedly increased in vitro [(3)H]thymidine incorporation by mouse spleen lymphocytes. The blastogenic activity of the extract and lipopolysaccharide was studied comparatively on various mouse lymphocyte subpopulations. The data obtained by [(3)H]thymidine incorporation and by electron microscopy have demonstrated that this preparation stimulates selectively mouse bone-marrow-derived cortisone-sensitive lymphocytes. This stimulation is related neither to a natural infection of mice with Nocardia organisms nor to the presence in Nocardia water-soluble mitogen of a lipopolysaccharide contaminant or of a lipopolysaccharide-like material.
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Azuma I, Ouchida A, Taniyama T, Yamamura Y, Shoji K. The mycolic acids of Mycobacterium rhodochrous and Nocardia corallina. BIKEN JOURNAL 1974; 17:1-9. [PMID: 4854962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Bernard U, Probst I, Schlegel HG. The cytochromes of some hydrogen bacteria. ARCHIV FUR MIKROBIOLOGIE 1974; 95:29-37. [PMID: 4365643 DOI: 10.1007/bf02451745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Minnikin DE, Patel P, Goodfellow M. Mycolic acids of representative strains of Nocardia and the 'rhodochrous' complex. FEBS Lett 1974; 39:322-4. [PMID: 4853302 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(74)80140-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Beaman BL, Kim KS, Lanéelle MA, Barksdale L. Chemical characterization of organisms isolated from leprosy patients. J Bacteriol 1974; 117:1320-9. [PMID: 4813897 PMCID: PMC246616 DOI: 10.1128/jb.117.3.1320-1329.1974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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CHEMICAL ANALYSES OF THE CELL WALLS OF ORGANISMS ISOLATED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD FROM CASES OF LEPROMATOUS AND TUBERCULOID LEPROSY MAKE POSSIBLE THEIR ASSIGNMENT TO ONE OF THE THREE GENERA: Corynebacterium, Mycobacterium, or Propionibacterium. One, bacterium 22M, remains unassigned. The combined chemical and enzymatic properties attributed to leprosy bacilli freshly harvested from lepromata are found collectively, but not individually, in these three genera.
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Kuznetsov VD, Rodionova EG. [The composition of the diaminopimelic acids of the cell walls of antibiotic producing actinomycetes and their proactinomycete-like variants]. ANTIBIOTIKI 1974; 19:131-5. [PMID: 4618751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Crombach WH. Relationships among coryneform bacteria from soil, cheese and sea fish. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1974; 40:347-59. [PMID: 4605036 DOI: 10.1007/bf00399346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Crombach WH. Deep-freezing of bacterial DNA for thermal denaturation and hybridization experiments. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1973; 39:249-55. [PMID: 4578059 DOI: 10.1007/bf02578857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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An unusual strain of Nocardia, designated VH/CN-71, was isolated from a pouch-like growth in the inguinal region of a young cat. Although this organism resembles Nocardia brasiliensis in a number of its physiological activities, it appears to be more closely related to a nocardioform organism previously classified by Krasil'nikov (1941) as Proactinomyces mesentericus (Orla-Jensen) Jensen 1932.
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Azuma I, Kanetsuna F, Tanaka Y, Mera M, Yanagihara Y. Partial chemical characterization of the cell wall of Nocardia asteroides strain 131. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY 1973; 17:154-9. [PMID: 4579454 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1973.tb00720.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Craveri R, Manachini PL, Aragozzini F, Merendi C. Amino acid composition of the cell-proteins from mesophilic, thermofacultative and thermophilic actinomycetes. JOURNAL OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 1973; 74:201-4. [PMID: 4695047 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-74-1-201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Goodfellow M, Minnikin DE, Patel PV, Mordarska H. Free nocardomycolic acids in the classification of nocardias and strains of the 'rhodochrous' complex. JOURNAL OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 1973; 74:185-8. [PMID: 4695045 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-74-1-185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Jollès P, Paraf A. Chemical and biological basis of adjuvants. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND BIOPHYSICS 1973; 13:1-153. [PMID: 4212989 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-46297-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Crombach WH. DNA base composition of soil arthrobacters and other coryneforms from cheese and sea fish. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1972; 38:105-20. [PMID: 4537440 DOI: 10.1007/bf02328082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Khuller GK, Brennan PJ. The polar lipids of some species of Nocardia. JOURNAL OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 1972; 73:409-12. [PMID: 4345961 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-73-2-409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Vacheron MJ, Guinand M, Michel G, Ghuysen JM. Structural investigations on cell walls of Nocardia sp. The wall lipid and peptidoglycan moieties of Nocardia kirovani. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1972; 29:156-66. [PMID: 5083099 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1972.tb01970.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Azuma I, Kanetsuna F, Kada Y, Takashima T, Yamamura Y. Adjuvant-polyarthritogenicity of cell walls of mycobacteria, nocardia and corynebacteria. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY 1972; 16:333-6. [PMID: 4631613 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1972.tb00666.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Ortiz-Ortiz L, Contreras MF, Bojalil LF. The assay of delayed hypersensitivity to ribosomal proteins from Nocardia. SABOURAUDIA 1972; 10:147-51. [PMID: 4557877 DOI: 10.1080/00362177285190291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Röhrscheidt E, Tárnok I. [Norcardia pigments. Chromatographic properties of the pigments and their significance for differentiation of pigmented Nocardia strains]. ZENTRALBLATT FUR BAKTERIOLOGIE, PARASITENKUNDE, INFEKTIONSKRANKHEITEN UND HYGIENE. ERSTE ABTEILUNG ORIGINALE. REIHE A: MEDIZINISCHE MIKROBIOLOGIE UND PARASITOLOGIE 1972; 221:221-33. [PMID: 4146500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Ortiz-Ortiz L, Contreras MF, Bujalil LF. Cytoplasmic antigens from Nocardia elicting a specific delayed hypersensitivity. Infect Immun 1972; 5:879-82. [PMID: 4564404 PMCID: PMC422456 DOI: 10.1128/iai.5.6.879-882.1972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Purified cytoplasmic extracts from Nocardia asteroides and N. brasiliensis elicit delayed hypersensitivity in Nocardia-sensitized guinea pigs. The differences in skin reactivity clearly show that it is possible to distinguish between different Nocardia species. When peritoneal exudate cells from the latter animals were obtained and treated with the purified cytoplasmic extracts, their migration was inhibited to a significant degree only by means of the homologous antigen. A mild delayed reactivity was observed when the cytoplasmic antigens were used as skin test materials on animals sensitized with BCG. On the other hand, no inhibition of migration was observed when peritoneal exudate cells from BCG-sensitized guinea pigs were exposed to the cytoplasmic antigens.
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Birner J, Hodgson PR, Lane WR, Baxter EH. An Australian isolate of Nocardia mediterranea producing rifamycin SV. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 1972; 25:356-9. [PMID: 4649865 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.25.356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) reassociation analyses were employed to determine the molecular relationships between recombinable nocardiae. Analysis of the compatibility system of Nocardia erythropolis Mat-Ce and Mat-cE mating strains demonstrated the existence of extensive homology under both exacting and nonexacting conditions. Labeled N. erythropolis Mat-cE DNA reassociated equally as well with the Mat-Ce test DNA as with its own filter-bound DNA. However, the Mat-cE DNA bound only ca. 60% of the Mat-Ce DNA, when the latter was the reference. The existence of unique nucleotide sequences is postulated on the basis of these results as well as of aberrant segregation patterns which have been observed in certain class types of recombinants. Reassociation data reveal that recombinants representing the inheritance of different portions of each of the parental genomes have inherited the unique portion from the Mat-Ce parent. N. restrictus AY-B-226 exhibited little relatedness (11 to 32%), and N. globerula ATCC 9356 only slightly more (21 to 42%), to either of these mating strains at either exacting or nonexacting temperatures of incubation.
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Brownell GH, Crockett JK. Inactivation of nocardiophages phi C and phi EC by extracts of bacteriophage-attachable cells. J Virol 1971; 8:894-9. [PMID: 5006039 PMCID: PMC376280 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.8.6.894-899.1971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Cultures of several species of Nocardia, including N. erythropolis Mat-Ce and Mat-cE mating strains, were extracted with solvents in an attempt to isolate an inactivating complex for nocardiophages phiC and phiEC. Ethanol was the only solvent found effective in solubilizing an inhibitory substance. Inactivating extracts were obtained from the cells of all species to which the phage were able to attach. After extraction of whole cells or cell wall preparations, the phage could not effectively attach to them. Both phages phiC and phiEC were inactivated by the same complex. However, phage phiEC inactivation was 10-fold greater than phiC inactivation. The velocity of inactivation was about 4.1 x 10(2) plaque-forming units per microgram per minute for phiC and 1.1 x 10(3) plaque-forming units per microgram per minute for phage phiEC. The cell extracts required divalent cations for phage inactivation. The inhibitory capacity of the cell extracts was reduced or lost by the activity of proteolytic enzymes, Tween 80, 2-mercaptoethanol, thymol, and sodium lauryl sulfate. Boiling the extract for 10 min did not alter its activity. The inactivating substance was postulated to be a lipoprotein of considerable complexity, unique in the ease with which it is solubilized from host cells by ethanol.
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Kojima R. [Antitumor activity of fatty acid-trehalose ester from Arthrobacter and Nocardia]. Nihon Saikingaku Zasshi 1971; 26:533-6. [PMID: 5168581 DOI: 10.3412/jsb.26.533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Two classes of preparations of cell walls of Nocardia rubra strain 721-A, digested by trypsin and pepsin with or without subsequent extraction in alkaline ethanol, when examined by electron microscope and analyzed quantitatively for amino acid content differ in ultrastructure and constituent amino acids. Evidence suggests that the lipid-associated amino acids (as peptide or protein) occupy a location superficial to the basal peptido-glycan layer of this nocardia. Their removal is associated with the loss of a characteristic pattern of the outer envelope.
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Maurice MT, Vacheron MJ, Michel G. [Isolation of nocardic acids from several species of Nocardia]. Chem Phys Lipids 1971; 7:9-18. [PMID: 5141148 DOI: 10.1016/0009-3084(71)90017-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Batt RD, Hodges R, Robertson JG. Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry of the trimethylsilyl ether methyl ester derivatives of long chain hydroxy acids from Nocardia corallina. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1971; 239:368-73. [PMID: 5113498 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(71)90028-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Kirillova NF, Kuimova TF. [Correlation of the qualitative pigment composition of Proactinomyces asteroides with other taxonomic properties]. MIKROBIOLOGIIA 1971; 40:44-8. [PMID: 5580119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Azuma I. [Chemial structure of cell walls prepared from nocardia, corynebacteria and mycobacteria]. KEKKAKU : [TUBERCULOSIS] 1970; 45:432-5. [PMID: 5493646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Chamoiseau G, Asselineau J. [Study of lipids of a strain of Nocardia farcinia: presence of mycolic acids]. COMPTES RENDUS HEBDOMADAIRES DES SEANCES DE L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES. SERIE D: SCIENCES NATURELLES 1970; 270:2603-4. [PMID: 4987654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Kirillova NF. [Differences in the pigment complexes of proactinomycetes, mycobacteria and mycococci of the red-orange group]. MIKROBIOLOGIIA 1970; 39:503-6. [PMID: 5490464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Krasil'nikov NA, El'-Registan GI, Iliasova VB, Agre NS. [The infrared spectrum of whole Actinomyces, Proactinomyces and Mycobacterium cells]. MIKROBIOLOGIIA 1970; 39:471-9. [PMID: 5490459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Farshtchi D, McClung NM. Effect of substrate on fatty acid production in Nocardia asteroides. Can J Microbiol 1970; 16:213-7. [PMID: 5445340 DOI: 10.1139/m70-039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Cellular fatty acids of the six Nocardia asteroides strains grown on glucose, glucose and amino acids, glycerol, and Dubos oleic albumin complex were determined by gas–liquid chromatography. Cells grown on each medium contained saturated, unsaturated, and branched-chain fatty acids. The fatty acids consisted of normal saturated C13, C14, C15, C16, C17, and C18; monoenoic C16 and C18; branched-chain C14, C15, and 10-methyl C18. Composition of the media affected cellular fatty acid content of N. asteroides strains qualitatively and quantitatively. Five of the six strains closely resembled each other, but one strain appeared to be different. The fatty acid pattern of Nocardia may be a useful criterion in differentiation of this genus from the closely related Mycobacterium and Streptomyces, which have a different fatty acid composition.
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Asselineau C, Tocanne G, Tocanne JF. [Stereochemistry of mycolic acids]. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE CHIMIQUE DE FRANCE 1970; 4:1445-9. [PMID: 5419426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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