Genetic characterization of soybean rhizobia in Paraguay.

abstract：:The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) yield and deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity of several yeasts were correlated. Debaryomyces castellii and Debaryomyces franciscae were found to contain active DNases which carry out DNA hydrolysis, whereas the amounts of DNA as determined by extraction with Sarkosyl buffer (pH 7.8) wer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： El-Nakhal H,Phaff HJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages lytic to Vibrio vulnificus were found in estuarine waters, sediments, plankton, crustacea, molluscan shellfish, and the intestines of finfish of the U.S. Gulf Coast, but no apparent relationship between densities of V. vulnificus and its phages was observed. Phage diversity and abundance in molluscan shellfish ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： DePaola A,McLeroy S,McManus G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolbachia, a common bacterial endosymbiont of insects, has been shown to protect its hosts against a wide range of pathogens. However, not all strains exert a protective effect on their host. Here we assess the effects of two divergent Wolbachia strains, wAlbB from Aedes albopictus and wMelPop from Drosophila melanoga...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hughes GL,Vega-Rodriguez J,Xue P,Rasgon JL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presumptive bacteriophage P1 transductants of Escherichia coli, isolated from soil inoculated with lysates of transducing phage P1 and E. coli, were confirmed to be lysogenic for phage P1 by hybridization with a biotinylated DNA probe prepared from the 1.2-kilobase-pair HindIII 3 fragment of bacteriophage P1. No P1 ly...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zeph LR,Stotzky G

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six subsurface samples were collected from a borehole at depths of 173.3 to 196.8 m in the saturated zone at the Hanford Site in south-central Washington State. The sampling was performed throughout strata that included fine-grained lacustrine (lake) sediments, a paleosol (buried soil) sequence, and coarse-grai...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kieft TL,Fredrickson JK,McKinley JP,Bjornstad BN,Rawson SA,Phelps TJ,Brockman FJ,Pfiffner SM

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibenzothiophene (DBT) and its derivatives can be microbially desulfurized by enzymes DszC, DszA, and DszB, which are encoded by the operon dszABC and contribute to the conversion in tandem. We investigated the expression characteristics of the dsz operon. Our results revealed that the levels of transcription and tran...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li GQ,Li SS,Zhang ML,Wang J,Zhu L,Liang FL,Liu RL,Ma T

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bile salt hydrolase activity in intestinal homogenates reflects composite activities of the gastrointestinal microbial consortia. We have proposed that specific transformations of conjugated bile acids by the intestinal microflora result in the production of metabolites which depress the growth of poultry. The inf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Feighner SD,Dashkevicz MP

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microaerophilic nature of Campylobacter species implies an inherent sensitivity towards oxygen and its reduction products, particularly the superoxide anion. The deleterious effects of exposure to superoxide radicals are counteracted by the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD). We have shown previously that Camp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Purdy D,Cawthraw S,Dickinson JH,Newell DG,Park SF

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine immunoglobulin G and nine immunoglobulin M murine monoclonal antibody-producing hybridomas reactive with live Salmonella bacteria were obtained from several fusions of immune spleen cells and Sp2/0 myeloma cells. The antibodies were selected by the magnetic immunoluminescence assay. The monoclonal antibodies were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Torensma R,Visser MJ,Aarsman CJ,Poppelier MJ,van Beurden R,Fluit AC,Verhoef J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communities of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) in freshwater sediments and those in association with the root system of the macrophyte species Littorella uniflora, Juncus bulbosus, and Myriophyllum alterniflorum were compared for seven oligotrophic to mesotrophic softwater lakes and acidic heathland...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Herrmann M,Saunders AM,Schramm A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Products observed during anaerobic cyanide transformation are consistent with a hydrolytic pathway (HCN + H2O <--> HCONH2 + H2O <--> HCOOH + NH3). Formate, the most frequently observed product, was generally converted to bicarbonate. Formamide was rapidly hydrolyzed to formate upon exposure to the anaerobic consortium...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fallon RD

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-galactosidase gene (aga) and a gene coding for a putative transcriptional regulator from the LacI/GalR family (galR) of Lactococcus raffinolactis ATCC 43920 were cloned and sequenced. When transferred into Lactococcus lactis and Pediococcus acidilactici strains, aga modified the sugar fermentation profile of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boucher I,Parrot M,Gaudreau H,Champagne CP,Vadeboncoeur C,Moineau S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we developed a large-scale screening of bacterial strains in order to identify novel candidate probiotics with immunomodulatory properties. For this, 158 strains, including a majority of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), were screened by two different cellular models: tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α)-activ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kechaou N,Chain F,Gratadoux JJ,Blugeon S,Bertho N,Chevalier C,Le Goffic R,Courau S,Molimard P,Chatel JM,Langella P,Bermúdez-Humarán LG

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released by infected individuals or present in human and hospital wastes can potentially cause contamination problems. The presence of HIV-1 was investigated in 16 environmental samples, including raw wastewater, sludge, final effluent, soil, and pond water, collected fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ansari SA,Farrah SR,Chaudhry GR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary sewage effluent and renovated water from four wells at the Flushing Meadows Wastewater Renovation Project near Phoenix, Arizona, in operation since 1967, were assayed approximately every 2 months in 1974 for viruses and enteric bacteria during flooding periods. No viruses of Salmonella sp. were detected in a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gilbert RG,Gerba CP,Rice RC,Bouwer H,Wallis C,Melnick JL

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major taxon of obligate marine bacteria within the order Actinomycetales has been discovered from ocean sediments. Populations of these bacteria (designated MAR 1) are persistent and widespread, spanning at least three distinct ocean systems. In this study, 212 actinomycete isolates possessing MAR 1 morphologies wer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mincer TJ,Jensen PR,Kauffman CA,Fenical W

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlorosis-inducing phytotoxin coronatine is produced by several Pseudomonas syringae pathovars, including glycinea, morsprunorum, atropurpurea, and the closely related tomato and maculicola. To date, all coronatine-producing pv. glycinea, morsprunorum, and atropurpurea strains that have been examined carry the gen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cuppels DA,Ainsworth T

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose metabolism and the mechanisms of NADH oxidation by Treponema hyodysenteriae were studied. Under an N2 atmosphere, washed cell suspensions of the spirochete consumed glucose and produced acetate, butyrate, H2, and CO2. Approximately twice as much H2 as CO2 was produced. Determinations of radioactivity in produc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stanton TB

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria play important roles in mineral weathering and soil formation. However, few reports of mineral weathering bacteria inhabiting subsurfaces of soil profiles have been published, raising the question of whether the subsurface weathering bacteria are fundamentally distinct from those in surface communities. To ad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang J,Sheng XF,Xi J,He LY,Huang Z,Wang Q,Zhang ZD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wieners and sausages were prepared which contained the most heat-tolerant representative of the Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare complex we were able to obtain. They also were prepared with infected tissues obtained from tuberculous swine. Processing conditions were as varied as possible. Neither incor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Merkal RS,Crawford JA,Whipple DL

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A device for sampling at depths of up to 6,000 m is described in which 3 liters of seawater is concentrated over a Nucleopore filter to about 13 ml and retrieved under in situ pressure and temperature. Subsamples can be withdrawn into transfer units that are equipped with individual gas accumulators for preventing los...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jannasch HW,Wirsen CO

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen Tn5-induced mutants of Rhizobium fredii HH303 defective in acidic exopolysaccharide synthesis were isolated by screening for lack of Calcofluor fluorescence. They were grouped by complementation analysis by using Rhizobium meliloti cosmids carrying exo genes. All of the 19 mutants were symbiotically effective...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim CH,Tully RE,Keister DL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectral analysis of T-2 toxin formed during the growth of Fusarium sporotrichioides (ATCC 24043) in the presence of H(2)O showed incorporation of up to three O atoms per toxin molecule. The carbonyl oxygens of the acetates at C-4 and C-15 and of the isovalerate at C-8 were derived from H(2)O. Toxin formed in the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Desjardins AE,Plattner RD,Vanmiddlesworth F

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrene is a regulated pollutant at sites contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). It is mineralized by some bacteria but is also transformed to nonmineral products by a variety of other PAH-degrading bacteria. We examined the formation of such products by four bacterial strains and identified and furt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kazunga C,Aitken MD

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soil bacterium capable of utilizing fluoranthene as the sole source of carbon and energy for growth was purified from a seven-member bacterial community previously isolated from a creosote waste site for its ability to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. By standard bacteriological methods, this bacterium was ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mueller JG,Chapman PJ,Blattmann BO,Pritchard PH

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the enzymatic activities of selected strains of biotypes 1 and 2 of Vabrio vulnificus were analyzed by using conventional methods and the API ZYM system. The toxic activities of extracellular products (ECPs) were further evaluated by in vitro and in vivo experiments. The ECPs of both biotypes (i) showed ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biosca EG,Amaro C

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic activated sludge granules are dense, spherical biofilms which can strongly improve purification efficiency and sludge settling in wastewater treatment processes. In this study, the structure and development of different granule types were analyzed. Biofilm samples originated from lab-scale sequencing batch rea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weber SD,Ludwig W,Schleifer KH,Fried J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple microplate method was devised to assay spore production by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides by growing the fungus on 1 ml of solid media in the wells of tissue culture plates. Growth and sporulation on microplates were compared at days 4 and 8 with growth and sporulation in 100-ml liquid batch cultures that inv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Slade SJ,Harris RF,Smith CS,Andrews JH,Nordheim EV

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychrophilic, gas vacuolate, heterotrophic bacteria indigenous to sea ice communities in Antarctica have been isolated. Phylogenetic analysis of representative members of these bacteria shows that they belong to the alpha, beta, and gamma Proteobacteria and the Flavobacteria-Cytophaga group. This is the first report ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gosink JJ,Staley JT

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid has been measured in seven genera of rumen ciliate protozoa. Expressed as milligrams per gram of total nitrogen, 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid concentrations ranged from 17.2 in Ophryoscolex spp. to 72.4 in Eremoplastron spp. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Whitelaw FG,Bruce LA,Eadie JM,Shand WJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00