The groESL chaperone operon of Lactobacillus johnsonii.

abstract：:We have engineered Escherichia coli to overproduce saturated and monounsaturated aliphatic methyl ketones in the C₁₁ to C₁₅ (diesel) range; this group of methyl ketones includes 2-undecanone and 2-tridecanone, which are of importance to the flavor and fragrance industry and also have favorable cetane numbers (as we re...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goh EB,Baidoo EE,Keasling JD,Beller HR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An organism capable of growth on pyridine was isolated from soil by enrichment culture techniques and identified as Micrococcus luteus. The organism oxidized pyridine for energy and released N contained in the pyridine ring as ammonium. The organism could not grow on mono- or disubstituted pyridinecarboxylic acids or ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sims GK,Sommers LE,Konopka A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different amounts of enterotoxin A-, B-, and C1-producing staphylococci were added to dry sausage prepared by normal processes, either alone or in conjunction with a starter culture (micrococci and lactobacilli). The sausage was examined after 0, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days for staphylococci, micrococci, and lactobacilli, a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Niskanen A,Nurmi E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of novel aromatic copolyesters were synthesized from 11-phenoxyundecanoic acid (11-POU) as the sole carbon source and the cosubstrates 11-POU and octanoate, respectively, by isolated Pseudomonas putida BM01 that is known to accumulate high concentrations of medium-chain-length polyesters. Insoluble 11-POU wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Song JJ,Yoon SC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first description, to our knowledge, of the distribution of human polyomavirus and simian virus 40 (SV40) in urban sewage. Using a nested-PCR procedure, we report the detection of human polyomaviruses JC virus (JCV) and BK virus (BKV) but not SV40 in a high percentage of urban sewage samples obtained from ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bofill-Mas S,Pina S,Girones R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase (FDH; EC 1.2.1.2) is an industrial enzyme widely used for NADH regeneration. However, enzyme inactivation caused by the oxidation of cysteine residues is a flaw of native FDH. In this study, we relieved the oxidation of the free cysteine of FDH from Candida boidinii (CboFDH) throug...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zheng J,Yang T,Zhou J,Xu M,Zhang X,Rao Z

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Acropora and Porites corals are important reef builders in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean. Bacteria associated with mucus produced by Porites spp. and Acropora spp. from Caribbean (Punta Maroma, Mexico) and Indo-Pacific (Hoga and Sampela, Indonesia) reefs were determined. Analysis of pyrosequencing libraries showed th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McKew BA,Dumbrell AJ,Daud SD,Hepburn L,Thorpe E,Mogensen L,Whitby C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP uses the herbicide atrazine as the sole nitrogen source. We have devised a simple atrazine degradation assay to determine the effect of other nitrogen sources on the atrazine degradation pathway. The atrazine degradation rate was greatly decreased in cells grown on nitrogen sources that supp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： García-González V,Govantes F,Shaw LJ,Burns RG,Santero E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of 35 Bacillus sphaericus strains was analyzed by a newly developed multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, toxin gene pool survey, and mosquito bioassay. The results demonstrated that strains assigned to the same sequence type (ST) had the same occurrence of toxin genes. Further sequence analy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ge Y,Hu X,Zheng D,Wu Y,Yuan Z

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) has gained interest in recent years, as FDCA is a renewable precursor of poly(ethylene-2,5-furandicarboxylate) (PEF). 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural oxidases (HMFOs) form a flavoenzyme family with genes annotated in a dozen bacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Viñambres M,Espada M,Martínez AT,Serrano A

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:An obligately anaerobic bacterium which transforms several chlorinated phenols was isolated. Dechlorination of the substituents ortho to the phenolic OH group was preferred, while removal of a meta-substituted chlorine was observed only with 3,5-dichlorophenol. The bacterium was a gram-positive, endospore-forming, mot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Madsen T,Licht D

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of foreign DNA transformed into a novel host is an important parameter in decisions to permit the release of genetically engineered microorganisms into the environment. Meiotic instability of transformed DNA has been reported in fungi such as Ascobolus, Aspergillus, and Neurospora. We used strains of Gibbere...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leslie JF,Dickman MB

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient method for the transformation of the methylotrophic bacterium Methylobacterium extorquens NR-2 with a broad-host-range plasmid, pLA2917, by electroporation was examined. Transformants of M. extorquens NR-2 expressing resistance to kanamycin were obtained after electric pulse. These transformants were foun...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ueda S,Matsumoto S,Shimizu S,Yamane T

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of the biochemical pathways nitrification, denitrification, and dissimilatory NO3- reduction to NH4+ (DNRA) to the accumulation of NO2- in freshwaters is governed by the species compositions of the bacterial populations resident in the sediments, available carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) substrates, and e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kelso BHL,Smith RV,Laughlin RJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Submerged cultures of Penicillium urticae (NRRL 2159A) produced the antibiotics patulin and griseofulvin when grown in a glucose-nitrate medium. A high concentration of calcium (i.e., 68 mM) inhibited the production of both antibiotics while stimulating conidiogenesis. Conidial mutants that were defective in an early ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sekiguchi J,Gaucher GM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decarboxylation of phthalic acids was studied with Bacillus sp. strain FO, a marine mixed culture ON-7, and Pseudomonas testosteroni. The mixed culture ON-7, when grown anaerobically on phthalate but incubated aerobically with chloramphenicol, quantitatively converted phthalic acid to benzoic acid. Substituted pht...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Taylor BF,Ribbons DW

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene that codes for a novel intracellular poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) depolymerase, designated PhaZ1, has been identified in the genome of Bacillus megaterium. A native PHB (nPHB) granule-binding assay showed that purified soluble PhaZ1 had strong affinity for nPHB granules. Turbidimetric analyses revealed that Ph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen HJ,Pan SC,Shaw GC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of psychrotrophic strains (those able to grow at or below 7 degreesC) of the Bacillus cereus group (Bacillus cereus, Bacillus thuringiensis, and Bacillus mycoides) in food products is at present extremely slow with conventional microbiology. This is due to an inability to discriminate these cold-adapted stra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Francis KP,Mayr R,von Stetten F,Stewart GS,Scherer S

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:The survival of bacteria exposed to toxic compounds is a multifactorial phenomenon, involving well-known molecular mechanisms of resistance but also less-well-understood mechanisms of tolerance that need to be clarified. In particular, the contribution of biofilm formation to survival in the presence of toxic compound...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Perrin C,Briandet R,Jubelin G,Lejeune P,Mandrand-Berthelot MA,Rodrigue A,Dorel C

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using bacteria to transform reactive corrosion products into stable compounds represents an alternative to traditional methods employed in iron conservation. Two environmental Aeromonas strains (CA23 and CU5) were used to transform ferric iron corrosion products (goethite and lepidocrocite) into stable ferrous iron-be...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kooli WM,Junier T,Shakya M,Monachon M,Davenport KW,Vaideeswaran K,Vernudachi A,Marozau I,Monrouzeau T,Gleasner CD,McMurry K,Lienhard R,Rufener L,Perret JL,Sereda O,Chain PS,Joseph E,Junier P

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic and energetic characterization of the growth of Leuconostoc oenos on glucose-citrate or glucose-fructose mixtures enables the potential role of this bacterium in the wine-making process to be ascertained. Moreover, mixotrophic conditions remain a suitable means for improving biomass productivities of mal...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salou P,Loubiere P,Pareilleux A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium-botulinum type A and type B spores were stored in tomato juice (pH 4.2) and citric acid-phosphate buffer (pH 4.2) at 4, 22, and 32 degrees C for 180 days. The spore count was determined at different intervals over the 180-day storage period. There was no significant decrease in the number of type A spores ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odlaug TE,Pflug IJ

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrification in chloraminated drinking water can have a number of adverse effects on water quality, including a loss of total chlorine and ammonia-N and an increase in the concentration of heterotrophic plate count bacteria and nitrite. To understand how nitrification develops, a study was conducted to examine the fa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wolfe RL,Lieu NI,Izaguirre G,Means EG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus niger is known for its efficient excretion machinery. However, problems have often arisen in obtaining high amounts of heterologous proteins in the culture medium. Here we present a quick method using sandwiched colonies to evaluate transgenic strains for secretion of heterologous proteins. Expressing the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Asgeirsdóttir SA,Scholtmeijer K,Wessels JG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 22 phages of Listeria species (listeriaphages) (21 temperate and 1 virulent) were compared on the basis of morphology and protein composition. All 22 phages had icosahedral heads and exhibited either contractile or noncontractile tails. They represented two different morphotypes. Twenty phages belonged to the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zink R,Loessner MJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal olefins (1-alkenes) are natural products that have important industrial applications as both fuels and chemicals. However, their biosynthesis has been largely unexplored. We describe a group of bacteria, Jeotgalicoccus spp., which synthesize terminal olefins, in particular 18-methyl-1-nonadecene and 17-methyl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rude MA,Baron TS,Brubaker S,Alibhai M,Del Cardayre SB,Schirmer A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological utilization of CO(2) and H(2) for the formation of short-chain fatty acids was studied by using a mixed culture of bacteria. Optimization of a medium was carried out in continuous culture to identify limiting factors which controlled growth and production of organic acids. The optimal pH for growth and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goldberg I,Cooney CL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acclimated shake flask CO(2) evolution test was used to study the biodegradability of 14 commercial phthalate esters that are commonly used as plasticizers. Both CO(2) evolution (ultimate biodegradation) and loss of parent phthalate esters (primary biodegradation) were measured. With only a few exceptions, primary ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sugatt RH,O'grady DP,Banerjee S,Howard PH,Gledhill WE

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biogeography of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris on a local scale was investigated. Thirty clones of phototrophic bacteria were isolated from each of five unevenly spaced sampling locations in freshwater marsh sediments along a linear 10-m transect, and a total of 150 clones were character...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oda Y,Star B,Huisman LA,Gottschal JC,Forney LJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00