Characterization of methylglyoxal synthase from Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 and its use in the formation of 1, 2-propanediol.

abstract：:Morphological changes of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from rods to spheres took place after a culture was subjected to starvation at a wide range of temperatures. Scanning electron micrographs revealed that starved spherical cells gradually developed a rippled cell surface with blebs and an extracellular filamentous substa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang X,Chai TJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease, the leading vector-borne illness in the United States. Many of the genetic factors affecting spirochete morphology and physiology are unknown due to the limited genetic tools available and the large number of open reading frames with unknown f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stewart PE,Hoff J,Fischer E,Krum JG,Rosa PA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 30 strains of the pathogenic free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri were investigated by using the randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method. The present study confirmed our previous finding that RAPD variation is not correlated with geographical origin. In particular, Mexican strains belong to the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pélandakis M,De Jonckheere JF,Pernin P

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fragment of about 500 base pairs of the beta-hemolysin gene from Listeria monocytogenes was used to screen different bacterial strains by DNA colony hybridization. The cells in the colonies were lysed by microwaves in the presence of sodium hydroxide. Of 52 different strains of Listeria species screened, only the DN...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Datta AR,Wentz BA,Hill WE

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains were isolated from 207 stx-positive French environmental samples. Ten of these strains were positive for stx(1), and 24 were positive for stx(2) (10 were positive for stx(2vh-a) or stx(2vh-b), 19 were positive for stx(2d), and 15 were positive for stx(...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vernozy-Rozand C,Montet MP,Bertin Y,Trably F,Girardeau JP,Martin C,Livrelli V,Beutin L

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percentage of azygospores of Gigaspora margarita with zoosporangia of chytridiaceous fungi (CF) was reduced significantly after agitating them in fenaminosulf before incubation in soil. Fenaminosulf did not affect zoosporangia development on chlamydospores of Glomus fasciculatum. Metalaxyl and ethazol were not eff...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sylvia DM,Schenck NC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Sphingomonas are important catalysts for removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil, but their activity can be affected by various stress factors. This study examines the physiological and genome-wide transcription response of the phenanthrene-degrading Sphingomonas sp. strain LH12...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fida TT,Breugelmans P,Lavigne R,Coronado E,Johnson DR,van der Meer JR,Mayer AP,Heipieper HJ,Hofkens J,Springael D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain the health risks that may be posed by the land application of sewage sludges, a scheme was devised to determine the types and numbers of pathogenic and potentially pathogenic bacteria present in sludges. A processing treatment was adapted to sludge to give a homogenate which yielded the greatest numbers o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dudley DJ,Guentzel MN,Ibarra MJ,Moore BE,Sagik BP

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geochemical cycling of cobalt (Co) has often been considered to be controlled by the scavenging and oxidation of Co(II) on the surface of manganese [Mn(III,IV)] oxides or manganates. Because Mn(II) oxidation in the environment is often catalyzed by bacteria, we have investigated the ability of Mn(II)-oxidizing bac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee Y,Tebo BM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma reesei can produce up to 100 g/liter of extracellular proteins. The major and industrially relevant products are cellobiohydrolase I (CBHI) and the hemicellulase XYNI. The genes encoding both enzymes are transcriptionally activated by the regulatory protein Xyr1. The first 850 nucleotides of the cbh1 promo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kiesenhofer DP,Mach RL,Mach-Aigner AR

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of DNA photoproducts in organisms exposed to ambient levels of UV-B radiation can lead to death and/or reduced population growth in aquatic systems. Dependence on photoenzymatic repair to reverse DNA damage caused by UV-B radiation is demonstrated for Paraphysomonas sp., a member of a widely distributed ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macaluso AL,Mitchell DL,Sanders RW

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Columns were packed with clean quartz sand, sterilized, and inoculated with different strains of bacteria, which multiplied within the sand at the expense of a continuous supply of fresh nutrient medium. The saturated hydraulic conductivity (HCsat) of the sand was monitored over time. Among the four bacterial strains ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vandevivere P,Baveye P

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for the detection of whole cells of methanogens in samples from anaerobic continuously stirred tank digesters treating slurries of solid waste. The assay was found to allow for quantitative analysis of the most important groups of methanogens in samples from anaerobic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sørensen AH,Ahring BK

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial communities associated with marine algae are often dominated by members of the Roseobacter clade, and in the present study, we describe Roseobacter phenotypes that may provide this group of bacteria with selective advantages when colonizing this niche. Nine of 14 members of the Roseobacter clade, of which ha...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bruhn JB,Gram L,Belas R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid coliphage analysis technique for enumerating coliphages in natural waters has been evaluated by water quality laboratories located throughout the United States. Correlations were established between coliphages and coliforms in natural water systems. These correlations were highly significant. This relationship...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wentsel RS,O'Neill PE,Kitchens JF

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:By combining genomics and isotope imaging analysis using high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS), we examined the function and evolution of Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of the protist Barbulanympha from the hindguts of the wood-eating cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus In particular, we inv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tai V,Carpenter KJ,Weber PK,Nalepa CA,Perlman SJ,Keeling PJ

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of a sandy loam soil taken from a long-term liming experiment in southeast England were amended with solutions of metal sulfate salts. Soils with a range of pHs were amended to contain Cu, Cd, or Zn at concentrations around the maximum permissible values for these metals in agricultural land receiving sewage s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knight BP,McGrath SP,Chaudri AM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) biosynthesis is pertinent to production of biofuels, industrial compounds, and pharmaceuticals from renewable resources. To expand on Escherichia coli SCFA products, we previously implemented a coenzyme A (CoA)-dependent pathway that condenses acetyl-CoA to a diverse group of short-chain ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McMahon MD,Prather KL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After propagation of Rhizopus javanicus in defined media containing glucose, urea, and mineral salts in deionized distilled water, the ability of the nonliving biomass to sequester cupric ion was assayed. Growth, uptake capacity (saturation uptake at >1 mM Cu concentration in solution), and biosorptive yield (biomass ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Treen-Sears ME,Martin SM,Volesky B

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermoacidophile Acidianus is widely distributed in Yellowstone National Park hot springs that span large gradients in pH (1.60 to 4.84), temperature (42 to 90°C), and mineralogical composition. To characterize the potential role of flexibility in mineral-dependent energy metabolism in contributing to the widespre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Amenabar MJ,Boyd ES

更新日期：2018-05-31 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：:Although tractable model organisms are essential to characterize the molecular mechanisms of evolution and adaptation, the ecological relevance of their behavior is not always clear because certain traits are easily lost during long-term laboratory culturing. Here, we demonstrate that despite their long tenure in the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beer KD,Wurtmann EJ,Pinel N,Baliga NS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique lipolytic bacterium was isolated in a selective growth system consisting of 99% triglycerides and a 1% water phase. The bacterium, termed Pseudomonas aeruginosa YS-7, was able to grow in an environment of low water content and could also survive amphipathic, osmotic, and matrical water stress in a triglycerid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shabtai Y

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AbiV is an abortive infection protein that inhibits the lytic cycle of several virulent phages infecting Lactococcus lactis, while a mutation in the phage gene sav confers insensitivity to AbiV. In this study, we have further characterized the effects of the bacterial AbiV and its interaction with the phage p2 protein...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haaber J,Samson JE,Labrie SJ,Campanacci V,Cambillau C,Moineau S,Hammer K

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transport characteristics of two adhesion-deficient, indigenous groundwater strains, Comamonas sp. strain DA001 and Erwinia herbicola OYS2-A, were studied by using intact sediment cores (7 by 50 cm) from Oyster, Va. Both strains are gram-negative rods (1.10 by 0.56 and 1.56 by 0.46 microm, respectively) with stron...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dong H,Rothmel R,Onstott TC,Fuller ME,DeFlaun MF,Streger SH,Dunlap R,Fletcher M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria have a good potential as agents for the delivery of heterologous proteins to the gastrointestinal mucosa and thus for the reequilibration of inappropriate immune responses to food antigens. Bovine beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) is considered a major allergen in cow's milk allergy. We have designed recom...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bernasconi E,Germond JE,Delley M,Fritsché R,Corthésy B

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the balance between acquiring enough iron and avoiding iron-induced toxicity is regulated in part by Fur (ferric uptake regulator). A fur mutant was constructed to address the physiological role of the regulator. Atypically, the mutant did not show alterations in the levels of siderophore...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kitphati W,Ngok-Ngam P,Suwanmaneerat S,Sukchawalit R,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of human noroviruses (NoVs) in public health, little information concerning the effectiveness of ozone against NoVs is available. We determined the efficacy of ozone disinfection using murine norovirus (MNV) as a surrogate of human NoV. MNV in ozone demand-free buffer was exposed to a predetermi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lim MY,Kim JM,Lee JE,Ko G

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waters in marine and freshwater areas of Puerto Rico were analyzed for the presence of Legionella spp. by direct fluorescent antibody assay with guinea pig confirmation. Several species, including L. bozemanii, L. dumoffii, L. gormanii, L. longbeachae, L. micdadei, and L. pneumophila, were widely distributed among all...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ortiz-Roque CM,Hazen TC

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a self-formed adaptor PCR (termed SEFA PCR) which can be used for chromosome walking. Most of the amplified flanking sequences were longer than 2.0 kb, and some were as long as 6.0 kb. SEFA PCR is simple and efficient and should have broad applications in the isolation of unknown sequences in complex geno...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang S,He J,Cui Z,Li S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00