Molecular cloning, sequencing, and expression in Escherichia coli of the gene encoding a novel 5-oxoprolinase without ATP-hydrolyzing activity from Alcaligenes faecalis N-38A.

abstract：:In all purification stages of a biological sewage treatment plant, phototrophic bacteria were detected by the method of viable cell counts. The predominant species identified belonged to the genus Rhodopseudomonas of purple nonsulfur bacteria. The number of phototrophic bacteria was highest in wastewater containing sl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Siefert E,Irgens RL,Pfennig N

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microflora in strained rumen fluid did not methylate or volatilize 203Hg2+ at detectable rates. However, there was an exponential decay in the concentration of added CH3Hg+, which was attributed to demethylation. The major product of demethylation was metallic mercury (Hg0), and it was released as a volatile produ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kozak S,Forsberg CW

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in the genus Rickettsiella (Coxiellaceae), which are mainly known as arthropod pathogens, are emerging as excellent models to study transitions between mutualism and pathogenicity. The current report characterizes a novel Rickettsiella found in the leafhopper Orosius albicinctus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), a m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Iasur-Kruh L,Weintraub PG,Mozes-Daube N,Robinson WE,Perlman SJ,Zchori-Fein E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To measure genetic variation within and among populations of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa, we surveyed a suite of lakes in the southern peninsula of Michigan that vary in productivity (total phosphorus concentrations of approximately 10 to 100 microg liter(-1)). Survival of M. aeruginosa iso...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilson AE,Sarnelle O,Neilan BA,Salmon TP,Gehringer MM,Hay ME

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biofilm-forming strain of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), isolated from a naturally occurring mixed biofilm and identified by 16S rDNA analysis as a strain of Desulfomicrobium norvegicum, rapidly removed 200 micro M selenite from solution during growth on lactate and sulfate. Elemental selenium and elemental sulfur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hockin SL,Gadd GM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis produces large amounts of various pesticidal proteins during the stationary phase. In order to achieve a high yield and form crystals, some pesticidal proteins require the presence of other proteins. Helper protein P20 is required for efficient production of both the Cyt1A and Cry11A crystal pro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shao Z,Liu Z,Yu Z

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanol is already an important carbon feedstock in the chemical industry, but it has found only limited application in biotechnological production processes. This can be mostly attributed to the inability of most microbial platform organisms to utilize methanol as a carbon and energy source. With the aim to turn met...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Witthoff S,Schmitz K,Niedenführ S,Nöh K,Noack S,Bott M,Marienhagen J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the continuous problems that Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes as food pathogen, this study assessed global gene regulation in bacteria growing on meat. Since FlhD/FlhC of E. coli K-12 laboratory strains was previously established as a major control point in transducing signals from the environment to seve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sule P,Horne SM,Logue CM,Prüss BM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleic acid-based analytical methods, ranging from species-targeted PCRs to metagenomics, have greatly expanded our understanding of microbiological diversity in natural samples. However, these methods provide only limited information on the activities and physiological states of microorganisms in samples. Even the m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cangelosi GA,Meschke JS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 530 strains of Staphylococcus aureus were isolated from the defeathering machinery of a chicken processing plant and from neck skin samples of carcasses at different stages of processing in two visits 4 weeks apart. Eleven different plasmid profiles were detected in the isolates, eight being common to both ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dodd CE,Chaffey BJ,Waites WM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spore-forming Bacillus strains that produce extracellular poly-γ-glutamic acid were screened for their application to natto (fermented soybean food) fermentation. Among the 424 strains, including Bacillus subtilis and B. amyloliquefaciens, which we isolated from rice straw, 59 were capable of fermenting natto. Biotin ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kubo Y,Rooney AP,Tsukakoshi Y,Nakagawa R,Hasegawa H,Kimura K

更新日期：2011-09-01 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

abstract：:The wood protection industry has refined their products from chrome-, copper-, and arsenate-based wood preservatives toward solely copper-based preservatives in combination with organic biocides. One of these is Cu-HDO, containing the chelation product of copper and N-cyclohexyldiazenium dioxide (HDO). In this study, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jakobs-Schönwandt D,Mathies H,Abraham WR,Pritzkow W,Stephan I,Noll M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dextransucrase (DSR-S) from Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-512F is a glucosyltransferase that catalyzes synthesis of soluble dextran from sucrose. In the presence of efficient acceptor molecules, such as maltose, the reaction pathway is shifted toward glucooligosaccharide synthesis. Like glucosyltransferases from or...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Monchois V,Reverte A,Remaud-Simeon M,Monsan P,Willemot RM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial growth in biofilms is the major cause of recalcitrant biofouling in industrial processes and of persistent infections in clinical settings. The use of bacteriophage treatment to lyse bacteria in biofilms has attracted growing interest. In particular, many natural or engineered phages produce depolymerases to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pei R,Lamas-Samanamud GR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether the heat-labile enterotoxin gene in porcine enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains is as divergent as in human ETEC strains, we sequenced the heat-labile and heat-stable toxin genes from 52 and 33 porcine ETEC strains, respectively. We found that the STa gene is identical, that the LT gene ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang C,Rausch D,Zhang W

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Cd2+, Cu2+, Mg2+, and Zn2+ on the decomposition of citric acid by a Klebsiella sp. were studied by monitoring the degradation of [14C]citrate. The carbon concentration used was 10 micrograms of C liter-1, and the media were designed to provide at least 95% of the citrate complexed to the metal studied. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brynhildsen L,Rosswall T

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonuclease fragment patterns of the deoxyribonucleic acid genomes of Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (multiply embedded type) and Trichoplusia ni nuclear polyhedrosis virus (multiply embedded type) demonstrate that the two viruses are distinct but closely related variants. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miller LK,Dawes KP

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Avian and possum fecal droppings may negatively impact roof-harvested rainwater (RHRW) water quality due to the presence of zoonotic pathogens. This study was aimed at evaluating the performance characteristics of a possum feces-associated (PSM) marker by screening 210 fecal and wastewater samples from possu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ahmed W,Hamilton KA,Gyawali P,Toze S,Haas CN

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A metagenomic library of a petroleum-contaminated soil was constructed in a fosmid vector that allowed heterologous expression of metagenomic DNA. The library, consisting of 6.5 Gb of metagenomic DNA, was screened for extradiol dioxygenase (Edo) activity using catechol and 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl as the substrates. Fift...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Terrón-González L,Martín-Cabello G,Ferrer M,Santero E

更新日期：2016-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A human feeding study was performed with Lactococcus lactis TC165.5, which is genetically marked by insertion of the sucrose-nisin conjugative transposon Tn5276 and chromosomal resistance to rifampin and streptomycin. The fate of strain TC165.5 and its nucleic acids was monitored by conventional plating methods and by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Klijn N,Weerkamp AH,de Vos WM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were carried out to examine the behavior of Listeria monocytogenes in the course of fabrication and storage of smoked salmon. In three trials, raw salmon fillets were surface inoculated with L. monocytogenes, marinated, smoked at 26 to 30 degrees C, and stored at 4 or 10 degrees C for up to 30 days. At dif...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guyer S,Jemmi T

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary goal of this study was to determine the conditions required for the effective inactivation of Bacillus anthracis spores on materials by using methyl bromide (MeBr) gas. Another objective was to obtain comparative decontamination efficacy data with three avirulent microorganisms to assess their potential fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wood JP,Wendling M,Richter W,Lastivka A,Mickelsen L

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative genomics have revealed massive horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between Mycoplasma species sharing common ruminant hosts. Further results pointed toward an integrative conjugative element (ICE) as an important contributor of HGT in the small-ruminant-pathogen Mycoplasma agalactiae. To estimate the prevalence...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tardy F,Mick V,Dordet-Frisoni E,Marenda MS,Sirand-Pugnet P,Blanchard A,Citti C

更新日期：2015-03-01 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 milk supply is considered a primary route for a bioterrorism attack with Bacillus anthracis spores because typical high-temperature short-time (HTST) pasteurization conditions cannot inactivate spores. In the event of intentional contamination, an effective method to inactivate the spores in milk under HTST proces...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xu S,Labuza TP,Diez-Gonzalez F

更新日期：2008-06-01 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 ultrasonic determination of microbial population was carried out by using a new apparatus composed of two piezoelectric membranes. When the apparatus was immersed in a medium containing cells and an arbitrary voltage was charged on a piezoelectric membrane, an output voltage was obtained from the other membrane. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishimori Y,Karube I,Suzuki S

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermostable and thermoactive beta-mannanase (1,4-beta-D-mannan mannanohydrolase [EC 3.2.1.78]), beta-mannosidase (beta-D-mannopyranoside hydrolase [EC 3.2.1.25]) and alpha-galactosidase (alpha-D-galactoside galactohydrolase [EC 3.2.1.22]) were purified to homogeneity from cell extracts and extracellular culture super...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duffaud GD,McCutchen CM,Leduc P,Parker KN,Kelly RM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denitrifying betaproteobacterium "Aromatoleum aromaticum" strain EbN1 degrades several aromatic compounds, including ethylbenzene, toluene, p-cresol, and phenol, under anoxic conditions. The hydrophobicity of these aromatic solvents determines their toxic properties. Here, we investigated the response of strain Eb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trautwein K,Kühner S,Wöhlbrand L,Halder T,Kuchta K,Steinbüchel A,Rabus R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00