High rates of conjugation in bacterial biofilms as determined by quantitative in situ analysis.

abstract：:The variable-region genes of monoclonal antibody against Bacillus cereus spores were cloned from mouse hybridoma cells by reverse transcription-PCR. The heavy- and light-chain variable-region genes were connected by a 45-base linker DNA to allow folding of the fusion protein into a functional tertiary structure. For d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Koo K,Foegeding PM,Swaisgood HE

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic probes were used to investigate hepatitis A virus (HAV) and enterovirus RNAs in two types of shellfish from natural beds (Atlantic coast, France). After elution concentration, nucleic acid extracted by proteinase K and purified by phenol-chloroform and ethanol precipitation was assayed by dot blot hybridizatio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Le Guyader F,Apaire-Marchais V,Brillet J,Billaudel S

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV) is an important biocontrol agent for the codling moth (CM) in organic and integrated apple production worldwide. Previously, Z chromosome-linked dominant resistance in at least 38 CM field populations in Europe was reported, threatening organic apple production. Growers responded by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jehle JA,Schulze-Bopp S,Undorf-Spahn K,Fritsch E

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate, sulfate, and carbonate were used as electron acceptors to examine the anaerobic biodegradability of chlorinated aromatic compounds in estuarine and freshwater sediments. The respective denitrifying, sulfidogenic, and methanogenic enrichment cultures were established on each of the monochlorinated phenol and m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Häggblom MM,Rivera MD,Young LY

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh produce is known to carry nonpathogenic epiphytic microorganisms. During agricultural production and harvesting, leafy greens can become contaminated with antibiotic-resistant pathogens or commensals from animal and human sources. As lettuce does not undergo any inactivation or preservation treatment during proc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Holvoet K,Sampers I,Callens B,Dewulf J,Uyttendaele M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of electron spin resonance spectra of 5-doxyl stearic acid in aqueous suspensions of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 and the butanol-tolerant SA-2 derivative during a small-scale fermentation at three different butanol challenge levels indicated that the SA-2 strain is able to respond to the physical flui...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baer SH,Bryant DL,Blaschek HP

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mycoparasite Humicola fuscoatra NRRL 22980 was isolated from a sclerotium of Aspergillus flavus that had been buried in a cornfield near Tifton, Ga. When grown on autoclaved rice, this fungus produced the antifungal metabolites monorden, monocillin IV, and a new monorden analog. Each metabolite produced a clear zo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wicklow DT,Joshi BK,Gamble WR,Gloer JB,Dowd PF

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in anoxic waters and sediments are the major producers of methylmercury in aquatic systems. Although a considerable amount of work has addressed the environmental factors that control methylmercury formation and the conditions that control bioavailability of inorganic mercury to SRB, li...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ekstrom EB,Morel FM,Benoit JM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungus Cunninghamella elegans ATCC 36112 metabolized approximately 80% of the 3-14C-labeled fluoranthene (FA) added within 72 h of incubation. C. elegans metabolized FA to trans-2,3-dihydroxy-2,3-dihydrofluoranthene (trans-2,3-dihydrodiol), 8- and 9-hydroxyfluoranthene trans-2,3-dihydrodiol, 3-fluoranthene-beta-gl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pothuluri JV,Freeman JP,Evans FE,Cerniglia CE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The codon-optimized genes crtB and crtI of Pantoea ananatis were expressed in Yarrowia lipolytica under the control of the TEF1 promoter of Y. lipolytica. Additionally, the rate-limiting genes for isoprenoid biosynthesis in Y. lipolytica, GGS1 and HMG1, were overexpressed to increase the production of lycopene. All of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matthäus F,Ketelhot M,Gatter M,Barth G

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi strain NCPPB 3335 is a model bacterial pathogen for studying the molecular basis of disease production in woody hosts. We report the sequencing of the hrpS-to-hrpZ region of NCPPB 3335, which has allowed us to determine the phylogenetic position of this pathogen with respect to pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pérez-Martínez I,Rodríguez-Moreno L,Lambertsen L,Matas IM,Murillo J,Tegli S,Jiménez AJ,Ramos C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure cultures of methylotrophs and methanotrophs are known to oxidize methyl bromide (MeBr); however, their ability to oxidize tropospheric concentrations (parts per trillion by volume [pptv]) has not been tested. Methylotrophs and methanotrophs were able to consume MeBr provided at levels that mimicked the tropospher...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goodwin KD,Varner RK,Crill PM,Oremland RS

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel enterotoxin gene was cloned from Bacillus cereus FM1, and its nucleotide sequence was determined. Previously, a 45-kDa protein causing characteristic enterotoxin symptoms in higher animals had been isolated (K. Shinagawa, p. 181-193, in A. E. Pohland et al., ed., Microbial Toxins in Foods and Feeds, 1990) from...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Asano SI,Nukumizu Y,Bando H,Iizuka T,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenorhabdus nematophila, a bacterium pathogenic for insects associated with the nematode Steinernema carpocapsae, releases high quantities of proteases, which may participate in the virulence against insects. Zymogram assays and cross-reactions of antibodies suggested that two distinct proteases were present. The majo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Caldas C,Cherqui A,Pereira A,Simões N

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Helicobacter pylori genetic studies would benefit from an ability to move DNA sequences easily between strains by transformation and homologous recombination, without needing to leave a conventional drug resistance determinant at the targeted locus. Presented here is a two-gene cassette that can be selected both ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dailidiene D,Dailide G,Kersulyte D,Berg DE

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laying hens were individually caged at 20 weeks of age and tested for fecal excretion of Campylobacter jejuni (minimum level of detection was 100 cfu/g) during a 42-week period. Peak rates of C. jejuni isolation (approximately 25% of hens positive) occurred at two different times, in October and in late April to early...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Doyle MP

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human intestine harbors both lactate-producing and lactate-utilizing bacteria. Lactate is normally present at <3 mmol liter(-1) in stool samples from healthy adults, but concentrations up to 100 mmol liter(-1) have been reported in gut disorders such as ulcerative colitis. The effect of different initial pH values...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Belenguer A,Duncan SH,Holtrop G,Anderson SE,Lobley GE,Flint HJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:7 alpha-Dehydroxylation of cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid by whole cells of strain c-25, a Eubacterium lentum-like intestinal anaerobe, was studied. 7 alpha-Dehydroxylase activity was observed only in whole cells grown in the presence of the primary bile acid (cholic acid or chenodeoxycholic acid). Chenodeoxych...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masuda N,Oda H,Hirano S,Masuda M,Tanaka H

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of added sulfate, 2,4-dichlorophenol and 4-chlorophenol were transformed stoichiometrically to 4-chlorophenol and phenol, respectively, in anaerobic freshwater lake sediments between 18 and 40 degrees C. The concomitantly occurring sulfate reduction reduced the initial sulfate concentration from 25 mM ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kohring GW,Zhang XM,Wiegel J

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents population analyses of microbial communities inhabiting a site of extreme acid mine drainage (AMD) production. The site is the inactive underground Richmond mine at Iron Mountain, Calif., where the weathering of a massive sulfide ore body (mostly pyrite) produces solutions with pHs of approximately...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bond PL,Druschel GK,Banfield JF

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foliar pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae exhibits an exceptional ability to survive on asymptomatic plants as an epiphyte. Intermittent wetting events on plants lead to osmotic and matric stresses which must be tolerated for survival as an epiphyte. In this study, we have applied bioinformatic, genetic, a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kurz M,Burch AY,Seip B,Lindow SE,Gross H

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberella moniliformis (Fusarium verticillioides) is primarily a pathogen of maize, but it can also cause disease in other crop species. This pathogenicity, as well as the contamination of food- and feedstuffs with the fumonisin mycotoxins, results in economically significant losses to both farmers and food processor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jurgenson JE,Zeller KA,Leslie JF

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A screen of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae deletion strain set was performed to identify genes affecting hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) production. Mutants were screened using two assays: colony color on BiGGY agar, which detects the basal level of sulfite reductase activity, and production of H(2)S in a synthetic juice mediu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Linderholm AL,Findleton CL,Kumar G,Hong Y,Bisson LF

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified manganese peroxidase (MnP) from the white-rot basidiomycete Phlebia radiata was found to convert in vitro milled pine wood (MPW) suspended in an aqueous reaction solution containing Tween 20, Mn(2+), Mn-chelating organic acid (malonate), and a hydrogen peroxide-generating system (glucose-glucose oxidase). The...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hofrichter M,Lundell T,Hatakka A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) and Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) are foodborne pathogens, and outbreaks are often associated with poultry products. Chickens are typically asymptomatic when colonized by these serovars; however, the factors contributing to this observation are uncharacterized. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Troxell B,Petri N,Daron C,Pereira R,Mendoza M,Hassan HM,Koci MD

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA probes that are specific for each of five predominant species of human colonic Bacteroides (B. thetaiotaomicron, B. uniformis, B. distasonis, "Bacteroides group 3452-A", and B. ovatus) were used to detect and enumerate these species in fecal samples from two adult volunteers. These five species are capable of ferm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kuritza AP,Shaughnessy P,Salyers AA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dextransucrase production by Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-512F in media containing carbon sources other than sucrose is reported for the first time. Dextransucrases were analyzed by gel electrophoresis and by an in situ activity assay. Their polymers and acceptor reaction products were also compared by (13)C nucle...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quirasco M,López-Munguía A,Remaud-Simeon M,Monsan P,Farrés A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria comprise a phylogenetically diverse group that is capable of synthesizing intracellular magnetic particles. Although various morphotypes of magnetotactic bacteria have been observed in the environment, bacterial strains available in pure culture are currently limited to a few genera due to diffi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Arakaki A,Shibusawa M,Hosokawa M,Matsunaga T

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and a radiolabeled oligonucleotide probe were used to specifically detect proteolytic and nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum type B. Two synthetic primers deduced from the amino acid sequence data of type B neurotoxin were used to amplify a 1.5-kbp fragment corresponding to the li...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Szabo EA,Pemberton JM,Desmarchelier PM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of yeasts to ferment cellodextrins is rare. Candida wickerhamii is able to use these sugars for alcohol production because of a cell-bound, extracellular, beta-glucosidase that is unusual by not being inhibited by glucose. A cDNA expression library in lambda phage was prepared with mRNA isolated from cello...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Skory CD,Freer SN

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00