Purification, characterization, and heterologous expression in Fusarium venenatum of a novel serine carboxypeptidase from Aspergillus oryzae.

abstract：:Experimental infection of animals with aerosols containing pathogenic agents is essential for an understanding of the natural history and pathogenesis of infectious disease as well as evaluation of potential treatments. We evaluated whether the Aeroneb nebulizer, a vibrating mesh nebulizer, would serve as an alternati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bowling JD,O'Malley KJ,Klimstra WB,Hartman AL,Reed DS

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of tetracyclines found as residues in milk inhibited the biosynthesis of beta-galactosidase in Escherichia coli. To produce the same effect, other antibacterials had to occur in concentrations that were more than 10-fold higher. This relative selectivity was exploited for the development of a screening test...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： D'Haese E,Nelis HJ,Reybroeck W

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of recovery of atypical mycobacteria was estimated in two treatment plants providing drinking water to Paris, France, at some intermediate stages of treatment. The two plants use two different filtration processes, rapid and slow sand filtration. Our results suggest that slow sand filtration is more effi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Le Dantec C,Duguet JP,Montiel A,Dumoutier N,Dubrou S,Vincent V

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, members of our group reported the isolation and characterization of mutacin II from Streptococcus mutans T8 and the genetic analyses of the mutacin II biosynthesis genes (J. Novak, P. W. Caufield, and E. J. Miller, J. Bacteriol. 176:4316-4320, 1994; F. Qi, P. Chen, and P. W. Caufield, Appl. Environ. Microb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Qi F,Chen P,Caufield PW

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterologous protein production can be doubled by increasing the copy number of the corresponding heterologous gene. We constructed a host-vector system in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis that was able to induce copy number amplification of pKD1 plasmid-based vectors upon expression of an integrated copy of the plasmid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morlino GB,Tizzani L,Fleer R,Frontali L,Bianchi MM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined growth of mixed microbial cultures (13 fungal species and one actinomycete species) and production of volatile compounds (VOCs) in typical building materials in outside walls, separating walls, and bathroom floors at various relative humidities (RHs) of air. Air samples from incubation chambers were adsorb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Korpi A,Pasanen AL,Pasanen P

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Pseudomonas putida strain (MC4) that can utilize 2,3-dichloro-1-propanol (DCP) and several aliphatic haloacids and haloalcohols as sole carbon and energy source for growth was isolated from contaminated soil. Degradation of DCP was found to start with oxidation and concomitant dehalogenation catalyzed by a 72-kDa mo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Arif MI,Samin G,van Leeuwen JG,Oppentocht J,Janssen DB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten phenols were selected as natural laccase mediators after screening 44 different compounds with a recalcitrant dye (Reactive Black 5) as a substrate. Their performances were evaluated at different mediator/dye ratios and incubation times (up to 6 h) by the use of Pycnoporus cinnabarinus and Trametes villosa laccase...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Camarero S,Ibarra D,Martínez MJ,Martínez AT

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni isolates possess multiple adhesive proteins termed adhesins, which promote the organism's attachment to epithelial cells. Based on the proposal that one or more adhesins are shared among C. jejuni isolates, we hypothesized that C. jejuni strains would compete for intestinal and cecal colonization ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Konkel ME,Christensen JE,Dhillon AS,Lane AB,Hare-Sanford R,Schaberg DM,Larson CL

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyocins are bacteriocins secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and they assist in the colonization of different niches. A major subset of these antibacterial proteins adopt a modular organization characteristic of polymorphic toxins. They include a receptor-binding domain, a segment enabling membrane passage, and a toxi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ghequire MGK,Öztürk B

更新日期：2018-08-31 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：:There is a growing interest in the use of microbial fermentation for the generation of high-demand, high-purity chemicals using cheap feedstocks in an environmentally friendly manner. One example explored here is the production of isoprene (C5H8), a hemiterpene, which is primarily polymerized to polyisoprene in synthe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Diner BA,Fan J,Scotcher MC,Wells DH,Whited GM

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The scyphozoan Aurelia aurita is recognized as a key player in marine ecosystems and a driver of ecosystem change. It is thus intensely studied to address ecological questions, although its associations with microorganisms remain so far undescribed. In the present study, the microbiota associated with A. aurita was vi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weiland-Bräuer N,Neulinger SC,Pinnow N,Künzel S,Baines JF,Schmitz RA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of fractions of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of different molecular weights (MW) to support bacterial growth was studied in batch culture experiments. Natural pelagic bacteria were inoculated into particle-free (0.2-mum filtered) water, taken from 10 oligotrophic lakes of differing humic content, and eit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tranvik LJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular protein with strong absorption at 406 nm was purified from cell-free culture fluid of latex-grown Xanthomonas sp. strain 35Y. This protein was identical to the gene product of a recently characterized gene cloned from Xanthomonas sp., as revealed by determination of m/z values and sequencing of select...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Braaz R,Fischer P,Jendrossek D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypticase soy agar supplemented with sucrose, sodium chloride, bile salts, and triphenyltetrazolium chloride is an improved plating medium for the isolation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from samples of seawater, permitting better differentiation of this organism from Vibrio alginolyticus and other bacteria. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kourany M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preinfection development in Colletotrichum spp. exhibits three morphologies (conidia, germ tubes, and appressoria) and is directed by a complex interplay of environmental signals. Germ tube morphogenesis for Colletotrichum trifolii and the related fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f. sp. aeschynomene was shown to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Buhr TL,Dickman MB

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important feature of microbial biofilms is the development of four-dimensional physical and chemical gradients in space and time. There is need for novel approaches to probe these so-called microenvironments to determine their effect on biofilm-specific processes. In this study, we describe the use of seminaphthorh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hunter RC,Beveridge TJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar populations of hypochlorite-treated spores were enumerated from two crops of Clostridium botulinum 12885A produced by the same procedure; however, germination required different L-alanine concentrations. Lactate permitted the germination of spores from both crops with suboptimal L-alanine concentrations. The d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Foegeding PM,Busta FF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shuttle vectors that replicate stably and express selectable phenotypes in both Thermococcus kodakaraensis and Escherichia coli have been constructed. Plasmid pTN1 from Thermococcus nautilis was ligated to the commercial vector pCR2.1-TOPO, and selectable markers were added so that T. kodakaraensis transformants could...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Santangelo TJ,Cubonová L,Reeve JN

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of different sediment types on the staining effectiveness of the fluorochrome DAPI (4'-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride) over a wide range of concentrations and on the masking effect of sediment particles on DAPI-stained bacteria. Sediment type greatly affects the staining efficiency o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schallenberg M,Kalff J,Rasmussen JB

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epimerization of sugar nucleotides is central to the structural diversification of monosaccharide building blocks for cellular biosynthesis. Epimerase applicability to carbohydrate synthesis can be limited, however, by the high degree of substrate specificity exhibited by most sugar nucleotide epimerases. Here, we dis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rapp C,van Overtveldt S,Beerens K,Weber H,Desmet T,Nidetzky B

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilithic periphyton communities were sampled at three sites on the Minnesota shoreline of Lake Superior from June 2004 to August 2005 to determine if fecal coliforms and Escherichia coli were present throughout the ice-free season. Fecal coliform densities increased up to 4 orders of magnitude in early summer, reache...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ksoll WB,Ishii S,Sadowsky MJ,Hicks RE

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decontamination treatments of burning and biocide application, alone and in combination with tillage, were evaluated for their ability to reduce populations of bacteria applied to the leaves of plants in field plots. In addition, the effects of these control methods on indigenous leaf and soil bacteria and fungi were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Donegan K,Fieland V,Fowles N,Ganio L,Seidler R

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alphaproteobacterium Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense has the intriguing ability to navigate within magnetic fields, a behavior named magnetotaxis, governed by the formation of magnetosomes, intracellular membrane-enveloped crystals of magnetite. Magnetosomes are aligned in chains along the cell's motility axis by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pfeiffer D,Schüler D

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary observations in a large-scale fermentation process suggested that the lipase expression of Pseudomonas alcaligenes can be switched on by the addition of certain medium components, such as soybean oil. In an attempt to elucidate the mechanism of induction of lipase expression, we have set up a search method...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krzeslak J,Gerritse G,van Merkerk R,Cool RH,Quax WJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the catabolite repression control (Crc) protein repressed the formation of the blue pigment pyocyanin in response to a preferred carbon source (succinate) by interacting with phzM mRNA, which encodes a key enzyme in pyocyanin biosynthesis. Crc bound to an extended imperfect recognition seque...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang J,Sonnleitner E,Ren B,Xu Y,Haas D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of pectolytic enzymes (pectate lyase [Pel] and polygalacturonase [Peh]), cellulase (Cel), and protease (Prt) is activated in the soft rot bacterium Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora by aepA (activator of extracellular protein production) and celery extract (Y. Liu, H. Murata, A. Chatterjee, and A. K....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Murata H,Chatterjee A,Liu Y,Chatterjee AK

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly selective liquid membrane nitrite microsensor based on the hydrophobic ion-carrier aquocyanocobalt(III)-hepta(2-phenylethyl)-cobrynate is described. The sensor has a tip diameter of 10 to 15 (mu)m. The response is log-linear in freshwater down to 1 (mu)M NO(inf2)(sup-) and in seawater to 10 (mu)M NO(inf2)(sup...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： De Beer D,Schramm A,Santegoeds CM,Kuhl M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first inducible Arthrobacter overexpression system, based on the promoter/operator and the repressor of the 6-D-hydroxynicotine oxidase gene of Arthrobacter nicotinovorans, is described here. Nicotine-dependent overproduction and affinity purification of recombinant proteins are presented. The system will allow th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sandu C,Chiribau CB,Sachelaru P,Brandsch R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00