Intracellular accumulation of polyphosphate by the yeast Candida humicola G-1 in response to acid pH.

abstract：:Sulfolobus solfataricus is an aerobic crenarchaeal hyperthermophile with optimum growth at temperatures greater than 80°C and pH 2 to 4. Within the crenarchaeal group of Sulfolobales, N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) has been shown to be a component of exopolysaccharides, forming their biofilms, and of the N-glycan decora...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Iacono R,Strazzulli A,Maurelli L,Curci N,Casillo A,Corsaro MM,Moracci M,Cobucci-Ponzano B

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium expansum isolated from meat and apples produced both patulin and citrinin. Toxin identity was confirmed by spectroscopic and physical methods. The mean lethal dose in chicken embryos was determined for toxins administered both singly and in various ratios. Data from simultaneous administration of mycotoxin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ciegler A,Vesonder RF,Jackson LK

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of small noncoding RNAs (sRNAs) have been conducted predominantly using culturable organisms, and the acquisition of further information about sRNAs from global environments containing uncultured organisms now is very important. In this study, hot spring water (57°C, pH 8.1) was collected directly from the und...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Murakami S,Fujishima K,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus is a human and animal pathogen that carries the highest death rate of any food-borne disease agent. It colonizes shellfish and forms biofilms on the surfaces of plankton, algae, fish, and eels. Greater understanding of biofilm formation by the organism could provide insight into approaches to decreas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakhamchik A,Wilde C,Rowe-Magnus DA

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities within soils, yet their ecological impact is largely unknown. Defining how soil viral communities change with perturbation or across environments will contribute to understanding the larger ecological significance of soil viruses. A new approach to examinin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Srinivasiah S,Lovett J,Polson S,Bhavsar J,Ghosh D,Roy K,Fuhrmann JJ,Radosevich M,Wommack KE

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin exposure occurs in homes and occupational environments and is known to cause adverse health effects. In order to compare results from different studies and establish standards, airborne endotoxin exposures should be assessed using standardized methods. Although the European Committee for Standardization (CEN...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Spaan S,Heederik DJ,Thorne PS,Wouters IM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMs), Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 FR1(pFRC20P) (FR120) and Pseudomonas putida KT2440(pWWO-EB62) (EB62), were introduced into activated sludge microcosms that had the level of aeration, nutrient makeup, and microbial community structure of activated sludge reactors. FR120 cont...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nüsslein K,Maris D,Timmis K,Dwyer DF

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combination of inhibitors and carbon substrates was used to determine the relative contribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and fermenting bacteria to nitrogen fixation in a salt marsh sediment and on the roots of Spartina alterniflora. Because a lag period precedes acetylene-reducing activity (ARA) in amende...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gandy EL,Yoch DC

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vector competence refers to the ability of an arthropod to acquire, maintain, and successfully transmit a microbial pathogen. Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) spirochetes are globally distributed pathogens, and most species are transmitted by argasid ticks of the genus Ornithodoros. A defining characteristic in vecto...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krishnavajhala A,Armstrong BA,Lopez JE

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently used microbial decontamination method for spacecraft and components uses dry-heat microbial reduction at temperatures of >110°C for extended periods to prevent the contamination of extraplanetary destinations. This process is effective and reproducible, but it is also long and costly and precludes the us...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pottage T,Macken S,Giri K,Walker JT,Bennett AM

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:There have been few reports on the epidemiological analysis of environmental Leptospira isolates. This is probably because the isolation of leptospires from the environment was usually unsuccessful due to the overgrowth of contaminants and the slow growth of Leptospira. In this study, we collected a total of 88 sample...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Saito M,Villanueva SY,Chakraborty A,Miyahara S,Segawa T,Asoh T,Ozuru R,Gloriani NG,Yanagihara Y,Yoshida S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motile phototrophic consortia are highly regular associations in which numerous cells of green sulfur bacteria surround a flagellated colorless beta-proteobacterium in the center. To date, seven different morphological types of such consortia have been described. In addition, two immotile associations involving green ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glaeser J,Overmann J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains were recently found to be capable of efficiently utilizing inulin, but genetic mechanisms of inulin hydrolysis in yeast remain unknown. Here we report functional characteristics of invertase SUC2 from strain JZ1C and demonstrate that SUC2 is the key enzyme responsible for inul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang SA,Li FL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of dental plaque is a developmental process involving initial and late colonizing species that form polymicrobial communities. Fusobacteria are the most numerous gram-negative bacteria in dental plaque, but they become prevalent after the initial commensal colonizers, such as streptococci and actinomyces, ha...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Periasamy S,Chalmers NI,Du-Thumm L,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,2-Propanediol (1,2-PD) is a major commodity chemical that is currently derived from propylene, a nonrenewable resource. A goal of our research is to develop fermentation routes to 1,2-PD from renewable resources. Here we report the production of enantiomerically pure R-1,2-PD from glucose in Escherichia coli express...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Altaras NE,Cameron DC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Caldocellum saccharolyticum" is an obligatory anaerobic thermophilic bacterium. A gene from this organism, designated celB, has been cloned in Escherichia coli as part of a bacteriophage lambda gene library. This gene produces a thermostable cellulase that shows both endoglucanase and exoglucanase activities on test ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Saul DJ,Williams LC,Grayling RA,Chamley LW,Love DR,Bergquist PL

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:An obligately anaerobic bacterium which transforms several chlorinated phenols was isolated. Dechlorination of the substituents ortho to the phenolic OH group was preferred, while removal of a meta-substituted chlorine was observed only with 3,5-dichlorophenol. The bacterium was a gram-positive, endospore-forming, mot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Madsen T,Licht D

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eubacterium lentum is a gram-positive, nonsporeforming, nonmotile, asaccharolytic anaerobe. In the present investigations, 3 E. lentum strains (group E) isolated from rat feces were compared with 30 E. lentum strains (groups A, B, C, and D) previously studied by Macdonald et al. (I. A. Macdonald, J. F. Jellet, D. E. M...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eyssen H,Verhulst A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen debranching enzyme (GDE) has 4-alpha-glucanotransferase and amylo-1,6-glucosidase activities in the single polypeptide chain. We analyzed the detailed action profile of GDE from Saccharomyces cerevisiae on amylose and tested whether GDE catalyzes cyclization of amylose. GDE treatment resulted in a rapid reduc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yanase M,Takata H,Takaha T,Kuriki T,Smith SM,Okada S

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of ochratoxin C to ochratoxin A was studied in rats after oral and intravenous administration. The concentration of ochratoxin A in the blood as a function of time was the same after oral administration of equivalent amounts of either ochratoxin C or ochratoxin A. The maximum ochratoxin A concentrations...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fuchs R,Hult K,Peraica M,Radić B,Plestina R

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn5 insertion mutants of a soil isolate, Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1, were selected for decreased ability to adhere to quartz sand in a column assay. Three adhesion-deficient mutants that differed in the location of the Tn5 insertion in the chromosome were isolated and compared with the wild-type strain. One mutant,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Deflaun MF,Marshall BM,Kulle EP,Levy SB

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adsorption of Agrobacterium tumefaciens cells to potato tuber disks reached equilibrium after coincubation for about 30 min. More than 10% of the number of bacteria bound at equilibrium were adsorbed within 30 s. Adsorption isotherms obtained at three temperatures showed that the heat of adsorption was nearly zero. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kluepfel DA,Pueppke SG

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large, obligately anaerobic spirochete (strain PB) was isolated from bovine rumen fluid by a procedure involving rifampin as a selective agent. The helical cells measured 0.6 to 0.7 micron by 12 to 20 micron and possessed approximately 16 periplasmic flagella inserted near each end of the protoplasmic cylinder. The ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paster BJ,Canale-Parola E

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel display system is described that allows highly efficient immobilization of heterologous proteins on bacterial surfaces in applications for which the use of genetically modified bacteria is less desirable. This system is based on nonliving and non-genetically modified gram-positive bacterial cells, designated g...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bosma T,Kanninga R,Neef J,Audouy SA,van Roosmalen ML,Steen A,Buist G,Kok J,Kuipers OP,Robillard G,Leenhouts K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma canadense and Mycoplasma verecundum were cultured in a serum-free medium containing bovine serum albumin, cholesterol, oleic acid, and palmitic acid in order to avoid the addition of horse serum. Growth was detected by measurement of A640 and by colony formation. The level of growth attained in this medium ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Muñoz G,Sotomayor P

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of Aspergillus flavus growth from spores was used as a simple bioassay for toxicity of Al and Mn mobilized by simulated acid precipitation. Al was identified as being toxic in soil leachates resulting from acid inputs of pH less than 2.7. Inhibition by Mn was not detectable. The addition of fluoride signifi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Firestone MK,Killham K,McColl JG

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly efficient, rapid, and reliable PCR-based method for distinguishing Lactococcus lactis subspecies (L. lactis subsp. lactis and L. lactis subsp. cremoris) is described. Primers complementary to positions in the glutamate decarboxylase gene have been constructed. PCR analysis with extracted DNA or with cells of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nomura M,Kobayashi M,Okamoto T

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis was observed on media with citrate as the only energy source. At pH 5.6, steady state was achieved in a chemostat on a citrate-containing medium in the absence of a carbohydrate. Under these conditions, pyruvate, acetate, and some acetoin and butanediol w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hugenholtz J,Perdon L,Abee T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00