A phosphonate-induced gene which promotes Penicillium-mediated bioconversion of cis-propenylphosphonic acid to fosfomycin.

abstract：:Microbial mercury methylation and methylmercury decomposition were examined in Lake Clara, an oligotrophic northern Wisconsin seepage lake, using radioisotopic tracers. Methylation activity was near background in the water column, was greatest in the profundal surficial sediments, and decreased with depth in sediment ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Korthals ET,Winfrey MR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are important disease vectors, as they transmit a variety of human and animal pathogens worldwide. Symbionts that coevolved with ticks confer crucial benefits to their host in nutrition metabolism, fecundity, and vector competence. Although over 100 tick species have been identified in China, general information...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang M,Zhu D,Dai J,Zhong Z,Zhang Y,Wang J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA from 21 collection or industrial Bifidobacterium strains was cleaved with various restriction endonucleases. Following electrophoresis, the fragments were subjected to Southern blot hybridization with a heterologous [alpha-32P]dCTP-labeled rDNA (genes coding for rRNA) 23S gene probe. The ribosomal patterns a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mangin I,Bourget N,Bouhnik Y,Bisetti N,Simonet JM,Decaris B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorhexidine (CHX) is a broad-spectrum antiseptic widely used in community and clinical contexts for many years that has recently acquired higher relevance in nosocomial infection control worldwide. Despite this, CHX tolerance among Enterococcus faecium bacteria, representing one of the leading agents causing nosocom...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duarte B,Pereira AP,Freitas AR,Coque TM,Hammerum AM,Hasman H,Antunes P,Peixe L,Novais C

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellate Caduceia versatilis in the gut of the termite Cryptotermes cavifrons reportedly propels itself not by its own flagella but solely by the flagella of ectosymbiotic bacteria. Previous microscopic observations have revealed that the motility symbionts are flagellated rods partially embedded in the host cel...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hongoh Y,Sato T,Dolan MF,Noda S,Ui S,Kudo T,Ohkuma M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell extracts of Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum, an anaerobic bacterium which ferments starch into ethanol at 65 degrees C, contained both pullulanase and glucoamylase activities. The general physiochemical and catalytic properties of these enzyme activities were compared. Pullulanase and glucoamylase activities we...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hyun HH,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the efficiency of methane and ammonium for stimulating trichloroethylene (TCE) biodegradation in groundwater microcosms (flasks and batch exchange columns) at a psychrophilic temperature (12 degrees C) typical of shallow aquifers in the northern United States or a mesophilic temperature (24 deg...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moran BN,Hickey WJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast extract agar, pork infusion agar, and modifications of these media were used to recover heated Clostridium botulinum spores. The D- and z-values were determined. Two type A strains and one type B strain of C. botulinum were studied. In all cases the D-values were largest when the spores were recovered in yeast e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odlaug TE,Pflug IJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pullulanase (EC 3.2.1.41), an important enzyme in the production of starch syrup, catalyzes the hydrolysis of α-1,6 glycosidic bonds in complex carbohydrates. A double mutant (DM; D437H/D503Y) form of Bacillus deramificans pullulanase was recently constructed to enhance the thermostability and catalytic efficiency of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duan X,Wu J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that the environment can influence the composition of the nasal microbiota. However, the direct influence of pig farming on the anterior and posterior nasal microbiota is unknown. Using a cross-sectional design, pig farms (n = 28) were visited in 2014 to 2015, and nasal swabs from 43 pig farme...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kraemer JG,Ramette A,Aebi S,Oppliger A,Hilty M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic activation of benzene is expected to represent a novel biochemistry of environmental significance. Therefore, benzene metabolism was investigated in Geobacter metallireducens, the only genetically tractable organism known to anaerobically degrade benzene. Trace amounts (<0.5 μM) of phenol accumulated in cult...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang T,Tremblay PL,Chaurasia AK,Smith JA,Bain TS,Lovley DR

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dispersion and initial transport of Cryptosporidium oocysts from fecal pats were investigated during artificial rainfall events on intact soil blocks (1,500 by 900 by 300 mm). Rainfall events of 55 mm h(-1) for 30 min and 25 mm h(-1) for 180 min were applied to soil plots with artificial fecal pats seeded with app...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davies CM,Ferguson CM,Kaucner C,Krogh M,Altavilla N,Deere DA,Ashbolt NJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria using toxic chemicals, such as detergents, as growth substrates face the challenge of exposing themselves to cell-damaging effects that require protection mechanisms, which demand energy delivered from catabolism of the toxic compound. Thus, adaptations are necessary for ensuring the rapid onset of substrate ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Panasia G,Oetermann S,Steinbüchel A,Philipp B

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological factors important in the penetration of Escherichia coli through anaerobic, nutrient-saturated, Ottawa sand-packed cores were studied under static conditions. In cores saturated with galactose-peptone medium, motile strains of E. coli penetrated four times faster than mutants defective only in flagellar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reynolds PJ,Sharma P,Jenneman GE,McInerney MJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of chemical, microbial, and eukaryotic indicators have been proposed as indicators of fecal pollution sources in water bodies. No single one of the indicators tested to date has been able to determine the source of fecal pollution in water. However, the combined use of different indicators has been demonstrat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ballesté E,Bonjoch X,Belanche LA,Blanch AR

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To cause an infection, bacteriophages must penetrate the alginate exopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to reach the bacterial surface. Despite a lack of intrinsic motility, phage were shown to diffuse through alginate gels at alginate concentrations up to 8% (wt/vol) and to bring about a 2-log reduction in the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hanlon GW,Denyer SP,Olliff CJ,Ibrahim LJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S85 type strain of Fibrobacter succinogenes, a major ruminal fibrolytic species, was isolated 49 years ago from a bovine rumen and has been used since then as a model for extensive studies. To assess the validity of this model, we compared the cellulase- and xylanase-degrading activities of several other F. succin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Béra-Maillet C,Ribot Y,Forano E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic, glucose-limited chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK113-7D were grown with different nitrogen sources. Cultures grown with phenylalanine, leucine, or methionine as a nitrogen source contained high levels of the corresponding fusel alcohols and organic acids, indicating activity of the Ehrlich...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vuralhan Z,Luttik MA,Tai SL,Boer VM,Morais MA,Schipper D,Almering MJ,Kötter P,Dickinson JR,Daran JM,Pronk JT

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiobacillus ferrooxidans is an acidophilic organism important to metal leaching of low-grade ores. The aforementioned importance is related to the ability of the bacterium to oxidize reduced iron and sulfur, principally found in nature as pyrite (FeS2). The present study dealt with sulfide oxidation at low pH values ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tano T,Lundgren D

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rolling circle amplification (RCA) generates large single-stranded and tandem repeats of target DNA as amplicons. This technique was applied to in situ nucleic acid amplification (in situ RCA) to visualize and count single Escherichia coli cells carrying a specific gene sequence. The method features (i) one short targ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maruyama F,Kenzaka T,Yamaguchi N,Tani K,Nasu M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-ocean hydrothermal-vent environments are rich in heavy metals and metalloids and present excellent sites for the isolation of metal-resistant microorganisms. Both metalloid-oxide-resistant and metalloid-oxide-reducing bacteria were found. Tellurite- and selenite-reducing strains were isolated in high numbers from...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rathgeber C,Yurkova N,Stackebrandt E,Beatty JT,Yurkov V

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanogenic bacteria, which are presently identified on the basis of cell morphology and substrate conversion to CH(4), can be differentiated from nonmethanogens and identified in pure or mixed culture on the basis of their autofluorescence under ultraviolet illumination. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mink RW,Dugan PR

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After treatment of a dispersed suspension of echovirus with HOCl, much of the lost plaque titer was restored if the treated virus was induced to aggregate by adjustment of the suspending medium to pH 4.5. This did not appear to be a repair of individual virions but rather a special kind of multiplicity-related increas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Young DC,Sharp DG

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy calves (n = 96, 1 to 9 weeks old) from a dairy herd in central Pennsylvania were examined each month over a five-month period for fecal shedding of ceftiofur-resistant gram-negative bacteria. Ceftiofur-resistant Escherichia coli isolates (n = 122) were characterized by antimicrobial resistance (disk diffusion ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Donaldson SC,Straley BA,Hegde NV,Sawant AA,DebRoy C,Jayarao BM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic hydroxylations are important bacterial metabolic processes but are difficult to perform using traditional chemical synthesis, so to use a biological catalyst to convert the priority pollutant benzene into industrially relevant intermediates, benzene oxidation was investigated. It was discovered that toluene 4...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tao Y,Fishman A,Bentley WE,Wood TK

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of unconventional oil and gas continues to rise, but the effects of high-density hydraulic fracturing (HF) activity near aquatic ecosystems are not fully understood. A commonly used biocide in HF, 2,2-dibromo-3-nitrilopropionamide (DBNPA), was studied in microcosms of HF-impacted (HF+) versus HF-unimpacted ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Campa MF,Techtmann SM,Ladd MP,Yan J,Patterson M,Garcia de Matos Amaral A,Carter KE,Ulrich N,Grant CJ,Hettich RL,Lamendella R,Hazen TC

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Spores of Clostridium bifermentans KMR-1 were produced for use as a microbial inoculum for bioremediation and were preserved in both liquid and dry forms. All spore formulations showed good viability and ability to biodegrade the target compound, 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), after 4 months of storage. For low-cost bul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sembries S,Crawford RL

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic acids derived from engineered microbes can replace fossil-derived chemicals in many applications. Fungal hosts are preferred for organic acid production because they tolerate lignocellulosic hydrolysates and low pH, allowing economic production and recovery of the free acid. However, cell death caused by cytos...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zdraljevic S,Wagner D,Cheng K,Ruohonen L,Jäntti J,Penttilä M,Resnekov O,Pesce CG

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resources from the Sinorhizobium meliloti Rm1021 open reading frame (ORF) plasmid libraries were used in a medium-throughput method to construct a set of 50 overlapping deletion mutants covering all of the Rm1021 pSymA megaplasmid except the replicon region. Each resulting pSymA derivative carried a defined deletion o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yurgel SN,Mortimer MW,Rice JT,Humann JL,Kahn ML

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of bacteria isolated from corroded copper coupons on thin films of copper evaporated onto germanium internal reflection elements were evaluated nondestructively in real time by attentuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The films were stable in the presence of flowing or st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bremer PJ,Geesey GG

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00