Endo-xylogalacturonan hydrolase, a novel pectinolytic enzyme.

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：:A novel, semicontinuous solid-phase fermentation system was used to produce fuel ethanol from sweet sorghum. The process was at an intermediate scale. In the process, dried and shredded sweet sorghum was rehydrated to 70% moisture, acidified to pH 2.0 to 3.0, and either pasteurized (12 h at 70 to 80 degrees C) or not ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gibbons WR,Westby CA,Dobbs TL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe a novel clade within Ensifer meliloti and consider how geographic and ecological isolation contributed to the limited distribution of this group. Members of the genus Ensifer are best known for their ability to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with forage legumes of three related genera, Medicago L., M...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eardly B,Elia P,Brockwell J,Golemboski D,van Berkum P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the purification and characterization of propionicin F, the first bacteriocin isolated from Propionibacterium freudenreichii. The bacteriocin has a bactericidal activity and is only active against strains of P. freudenreichii. Propionicin F appears to be formed through a processing pathway new to b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brede DA,Faye T,Johnsborg O,Odegård I,Nes IF,Holo H

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain UHM-5, a pSym Exo derivative of the aluminum-tolerant Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. phaseoli strain CIAT899, was equally tolerant of aluminum (Al) as the parental culture. Dialyzed culture supernatants of the wild-type cells grown in YEM broth (10 cells ml) contained 185 mug of glucose equivalents ml whereas UHM-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kingsley MT,Bohlool BB

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While screening aerobic, heterotrophic marine bacteria for production of volatile organic compounds, we found that a group of isolates produced substantial amounts of acetone. Acetone production was confirmed by gas chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and high-performance liquid chromatography. The m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nemecek-Marshall M,Wojciechowski C,Kuzma J,Silver GM,Fall R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To observe real-time interactions between green fluorescent protein-labeled immune cells and invading bacteria in the zebrafish (Danio rerio), a series of plasmids was constructed for the red fluorescent protein (RFP) labeling of a variety of fish and human pathogens. The aim of this study was to create a collection o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Singer JT,Phennicie RT,Sullivan MJ,Porter LA,Shaffer VJ,Kim CH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bdellovibrios capable of axenic growth grow in a cell-free medium at a rate considerably lower than that attainable in a two-membered culture with Escherichia coli. The axenic growth rate may be improved either by adjustment of the osmosity of the medium or by the addition of low concentrations of spermine. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Varon M,Seijffers J

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli are naturally competent, but limited information exists on the impact of environmental conditions on transformation. In this study, we investigated the impact of temperature and microaerobic versus aerobic atmosphere on transformation of C. coli to erythromycin and nalidixic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim JS,Kim JW,Kathariou S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of the major carotenoid spirilloxanthin by the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum is thought to occur via a linear pathway proceeding through phytoene and, later, lycopene as intermediates. This assumption is based solely on early chemical evidence (B. H. Davies, Biochem. J. 116:93-99, 1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang GS,Grammel H,Abou-Aisha K,Sägesser R,Ghosh R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amylosucrase gene was subjected to high-rate segmental random mutagenesis, which was directed toward a segment encoding amino acids that influence the interaction with substrate molecules in subsites -1 to +3. A screen was used to identify enzyme variants with compromised glucan chain elongation. With an average mu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schneider J,Fricke C,Overwin H,Hofmann B,Hofer B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hydrogen utilizing exoelectrogenic bacterium (Geobacter sulfurreducens) was compared to both a nonhydrogen oxidizer (Geobacter metallireducens) and a mixed consortium in order to compare the hydrogen production rates and hydrogen recoveries of pure and mixed cultures in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). At an app...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Call DF,Wagner RC,Logan BE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative adherence of seven strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis to plastic surfaces was measured by an agar overlay technique in which adherent organisms were counted by their ability to form colonies under an agar overlay. The degree of adherence to plastics decreased in the order polystyrene, polyvinyl chlo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mackenzie AM,Rivera-Calderon RL

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of drying time during freeze-drying on the outermost cell surface of an encapsulated strain of Staphylococcus aureus S-7 (Smith, diffuse) were investigated, with special attention paid to capsule and slime production. To quantify capsule and slime production, capsule antigen production and cellular charact...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ohtomo T,Yamada T,Yoshida K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding affinities and specificities of six truncated S-layer homology domain (SLH) polypeptides of mosquitocidal Bacillus sphaericus strain C3-41 with the purified cell wall sacculi have been assayed. The results indicated that the SLH polypeptide comprised of amino acids 31 to 210 was responsible for anchoring t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li J,Hu X,Yan J,Yuan Z

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zearalenone [6-(10-hydroxy-6-oxo-trans-1-undecenyl)beta-resorcyclic acid lactone] is a hormone produced by Fusarium spp. which regulates the sexual stage in F. roseum. 3H- and 14C-labeled zearalenone were found to bind preferentially to one of two peaks containing uncharacterized proteins obtained from the cytosol of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inaba T,Mirocha CJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated thermotolerant Gluconobacter strains that are able to produce 5-keto-d-gluconic acid (5KGA) at 37 degrees C, a temperature at which regular mesophilic 5KGA-producing strains showed much less growth and 5KGA production. The thermotolerant strains produced 2KGA as the major product at both 30 and 37 degrees ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Saichana I,Moonmangmee D,Adachi O,Matsushita K,Toyama H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The competitive inhibition of fructokinase by glucose has been proposed as the mechanism by which Zymomonas mobilis preferentially consumes glucose from mixtures of glucose and fructose and accumulates fructose when growing on sucrose. In this study, incorporation of radioactive fructose into biomass was used as a mea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Parker C,Peekhaus N,Zhang X,Conway T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonmotile, gram-positive, spherical organism was isolated from the intestinal tracts of rabbits. Both hydrogen and methanol were required for growth. No methane was produced from hydrogen-carbon dioxide, formate, acetate, methylamines, ethanol, or isopropanol. The optimum pH was 6.8, and the optimum temperature was ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biavati B,Vasta M,Ferry JG

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of addition of purified nisin Z in liposomes to cheese milk and of in situ production of nisin Z by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis UL719 in the mixed starter on the inhibition of Listeria innocua in cheddar cheese was evaluated during 6 months of ripening. A cheese mixed starter cultu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Benech RO,Kheadr EE,Laridi R,Lacroix C,Fliss I

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium accumulates glutamate in response to osmotic stress. Cells in aerobic exponential growth have an intracellular pool of approximately 125 nmol of glutamate mg of protein-1. When cells were grown in minimal medium with 500 mM NaCl, KCl, or sucrose, 290 to 430 nmol of glutamate was found to accumul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Botsford JL,Alvarez M,Hernandez R,Nichols R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of 14C-labeled 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) in an activated-sludge system was investigated. No [14C]TNT could be detected in the contents of an aerated reactor after 3 to 5 days of incubation. No significant 14CO2 was formed, and the radioactivity was about equally divided between the floc and the supernatant....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Carpenter DF,McCormick NG,Cornell JH,Kaplan AM

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the measurement of specific levels of gene expression that combines target mRNA and target DNA quantitation has been developed. The use of target gene dose as a normalizing factor for mRNA provides an alternative to 16S or 23S rRNA, which are unsuitable for use in the environment because of their presence...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pichard SL,Paul JH

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mycoplasmas are minimal, wall-less bacteria but have retained the ability to secrete complex carbohydrate polymers that constitute a glycocalyx. In members of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster, which are important ruminant pathogens, the glycocalyx includes both cell-attached and cell-free polysaccharides. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaurivaud P,Baranowski E,Pau-Roblot C,Sagné E,Citti C,Tardy F

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, food samples were intentionally contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7, and then DNA was isolated by using four commercial kits. The isolated DNA samples were compared by using real-time PCR detection of the Shiga toxin genes. The four kits tested worked similarly. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heller LC,Davis CR,Peak KK,Wingfield D,Cannons AC,Amuso PT,Cattani J

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to extensive studies of phosphorus, widely considered the main nutrient limiting phytoplankton biomass in freshwater ecosystems, there have been few studies on the role of nitrogen in controlling phytoplankton populations. This situation may be due partly to the complexity in estimating its utilization and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gillor O,Harush A,Hadas O,Post AF,Belkin S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate predictions of carbon and energy cycling rates in the environment depend on sampling frequencies and on the spatial variability associated with biological activities. We examined the variability associated with anaerobic biodegradation rates at two sites in an alluvial sand aquifer polluted by municipal landf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adrian NR,Robinson JA,Suflita JM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most denitrifiers produce nitrous oxide (N(2)O) instead of dinitrogen (N(2)) under aerobic conditions. We isolated and characterized novel aerobic denitrifiers that produce low levels of N(2)O under aerobic conditions. We monitored the denitrification activities of two of the isolates, strains TR2 and K50, in batch an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takaya N,Catalan-Sakairi MA,Sakaguchi Y,Kato I,Zhou Z,Shoun H

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, ixodid ticks are important arthropod vectors of human and animal pathogens, but comprehensive studies of the prevalence of all relevant pathogens in Central Europe are scarce. As a result of ecological changes, the incidences of tick-borne infections are expected to increase. In this study, 1,394 nymphal an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reye AL,Hübschen JM,Sausy A,Muller CP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peanut kernels (Tainan 9, a Spanish cultivar) inoculated with Aspergillus parasiticus, A. flavus, A. niger, or A. ochraceus as well as noninoculated kernels were incubated in a humidified environment (relative humidity, 100%) at 25(deg)C for 7 weeks. Internal fungal populations and changes in moisture and sucrose cont...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chiou RY

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00