Characteristics of a Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) extracellular protein targeting chitin and chitosan.

abstract：:To assess the presence of the four main viruses responsible for human acute gastroenteritis in a hydrographic network impacted by a disordered urbanization process, a 1-year study was performed involving water sample collection from streams in the hydrographic basin surrounding the city of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miagostovich MP,Ferreira FF,Guimarães FR,Fumian TM,Diniz-Mendes L,Luz SL,Silva LA,Leite JP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The low-copy-number 8.7-kb plasmid pGIF3 of Streptomyces incarnatus was studied after cloning in the Escherichia coli vector pBR322; a restriction map was constructed. Southern blot analysis showed that pGIF3 in S. incarnatus occurs predominantly as integrated in a larger replicon. The plasmid carries a gene for thios...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Malina H,Robert-Gero M

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus bulgaricus LT4(0448) is a lysogenic strain from which a temperate bacteriophage can be induced by mitomycin C or UV irradiation. Lactobacillus lactis CNRZ 326 is an indicator strain for the temperate phage 0448, but this strain lyses only in the presence of Ca ions. A resistant culture developed secondar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cluzel PJ,Serio J,Accolas JP

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeasts able to grow on d-xylose were screened for the ability to hydrolyze xylan. Xylanase activity was found to be rare; a total of only 19 of more than 250 strains yielded a positive test result. The activity was localized largely in the genus Cryptococcus and in Pichia stipitis and its anamorph Candida shehatae. Th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee H,Biely P,Latta RK,Barbosa MF,Schneider H

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermophilic strain (D2) identified as a Bacillus sp. was isolated from an aerobic digestor of swine waste after several months of operation at 55 degrees C. Aerobic thermophilic batch treatment of swine waste inoculated with strain D2 was studied in a 4-liter fixed-bed reactor. Stabilization of the waste was achiev...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beaudet R,Gagnon C,Bisaillon JG,Ishaque M

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates that elution of enteroviruses from a mixture of primary- and activated-sludge solids with beef extract at pH 9.2 +/- 0.2 may be less efficient than elution with beef extract at pH 7.2 +/- 0.2 and that elution of enteroviruses from extended-aeration-sludge solids with beef extract is at best no ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berg G,Sullivan G

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between grass roots and Azospirillum brasilense Sp 7 was investigated by the Fahraeus slide technique, using nitrogen-free medium. Young inoculated roots of pearl millet and guinea grass produced more mucilaginous sheath (mucigel), root hairs, and lateral roots than did uninoculated sterile controls. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Umali-Garcia M,Hubbell DH,Gaskins MH,Dazzo FB

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes hemorrhagic colitis and life-threatening complications. Because healthy cattle are reservoirs for the bacterium, ruminant infection models have applications in analyzing the relationship between cattle and this human pathogen and in testing interventions to reduce or prevent bovine colo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sheng H,Davis MA,Knecht HJ,Hovde CJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysogenic bacteriophage APSE infects "Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa," a facultative endosymbiont of aphids and other sap-feeding insects. This endosymbiont has established a beneficial association with aphids, increasing survivorship following attack by parasitoid wasps. Although APSE and "Ca. Hamiltonella defen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Degnan PH,Moran NA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next-generation sequencing (NGS) opens up exciting possibilities for improving our knowledge of environmental microbial diversity, allowing rapid and cost-effective identification of both cultivated and uncultivated microorganisms. However, library preparation, sequencing, and analysis of the results can provide inacc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cruaud P,Vigneron A,Lucchetti-Miganeh C,Ciron PE,Godfroy A,Cambon-Bonavita MA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hitherto undescribed Clostridium strains capable of cleaving the C ring of quercetin, kaempferol, and naringenin at C-3-C-4 were isolated from the fecal flora of humans. None of the strains cleaved catechin. C-ring fission occurred when the substrate was either in solution or in suspension. Mixed cultures of flav...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Winter J,Moore LH,Dowell VR Jr,Bokkenheuser VD

更新日期：1989-05-01 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：:In May 1999, field surveys of Lyme disease spirochetes were conducted around the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern People's Republic of China. Ixodes persulcatus ticks were obtained in a Tianchi Lake valley with primary forest, while the tick fauna was poor in the semidesert or at ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takada N,Masuzawa T,Ishiguro F,Fujita H,Kudeken M,Mitani H,Fukunaga M,Tsuchiya K,Yano Y,Ma XH

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus UW85 produces the linear aminopolyol antibiotic zwittermicin A (ZmA). This antibiotic has diverse biological activities, such as suppression of disease in plants caused by protists, inhibition of fungal and bacterial growth, and amplification of the insecticidal activity of the toxin protein from Bacil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kevany BM,Rasko DA,Thomas MG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal multicopper oxidases have many potential industrial applications, since they perform reactions under mild conditions. We isolated a phenol oxidase from the fungus Acremonium murorum var. murorum that was capable of decolorizing plant chromophores (such as anthocyanins). This enzyme is of interest in laundry-cle...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gouka RJ,van der Heiden M,Swarthoff T,Verrips CT

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavobacterium psychrophilum, a member of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group, is an important pathogen of salmonid fish. Previous attempts to develop genetic techniques for this fastidious, psychrotrophic bacterium have met with failure. Here we describe the development of techniques for the genetic manipu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Alvarez B,Secades P,McBride MJ,Guijarro JA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this field study was to provide insight into three distinct populations of microorganisms involved in in situ metabolism of phenol. Our approach measured 13CO2 respired from [13C]phenol and stable isotope probing (SIP) of soil DNA at an agricultural field site. Traditionally, SIP-based investigations have ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： DeRito CM,Pumphrey GM,Madsen EL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short peptides of 11 residues were synthesized and tested against the economically important plant pathogenic bacteria Erwinia amylovora, Pseudomonas syringae, and Xanthomonas vesicatoria and compared to the previously described peptide Pep3 (WKLFKKILKVL-NH(2)). The antimicrobial activity of Pep3 and 22 analogues was ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ferre R,Badosa E,Feliu L,Planas M,Montesinos E,Bardají E

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf-cutter ants use plant matter to culture the obligate mutualistic basidiomycete Leucoagaricus gongylophorus. This fungus mediates ant nutrition on plant resources. Furthermore, other microbes living in the fungus garden might also contribute to plant digestion. The fungus garden comprises a young sector with recen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Somera AF,Lima AM,Dos Santos-Neto ÁJ,Lanças FM,Bacci M Jr

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid pretreatment is commonly used to release pentoses from the hemicellulose fraction of cellulosic biomass for bioconversion. The predominant pentose in the hemicellulose fraction of hardwoods and crop residues is xylose in the polysaccharide methylglucuronoxylan, in which as many as one in six of the beta-1,4-linke...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bi C,Rice JD,Preston JF

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli represents a global health problem for mammals, including humans. At present, diarrheagenic E. coli bacteria are grouped into seven major pathotypes that differ in their virulence factor profiles, severity of clinical manifestations, and prognosis. In this study, we developed and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Müller D,Greune L,Heusipp G,Karch H,Fruth A,Tschäpe H,Schmidt MA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of denitrification and the causes of nitrite and nitrous oxide accumulation were examined in resting cell suspensions of three denitrifiers. An Alcaligenes species and a Pseudomonas fluorescens isolate characteristically accumulated nitrite when reducing nitrate; a Flavobacterium isolate did not. Nitrate ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Betlach MR,Tiedje JM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are important mutualists for the growth and health of most boreal trees. Forest age and its host species composition can impact the composition of ECM fungal communities. Although plentiful empirical data exist for forested environments, the effects of established vegetation and its success...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hui N,Liu X,Kotze DJ,Jumpponen A,Francini G,Setälä H

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Plankton to which cells of Vibrio cholerae O1 and/or O139 were attached was introduced into 0.5% Instant Ocean microcosms maintained at 25 degrees C. The bulk of the plankton and associated particulates was removed with a filter constructed from either nylon net and one of several different types of sari material, the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huq A,Xu B,Chowdhury MA,Islam MS,Montilla R,Colwell RR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of environmental stress exposure on Listeria monocytogenes growth and virulence-associated characteristics were investigated. Specifically, we measured the effects of temperature (7 or 37 degrees C), pH (5.5 or 7.4), the presence of salt and organic acids (375 mM NaCl, 8.45 mM sodium diacetate [SD], 275 mM...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Garner MR,James KE,Callahan MC,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies of predetermined specificity for pediocin PA-1 (pedA1) have been generated by immunization of rabbits with a chemically synthesized C-terminal fragment of this bacteriocin (PH2) conjugated to the carrier protein keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH). The sensitivity and specificity of the PH2-KLH-gener...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez JM,Martínez MI,Suárez AM,Herranz C,Casaus P,Cintas LM,Rodríguez JM,Hernández PE

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly specific medium was developed for the enumeration of lactate-utilizing bacteria in the rumen of sheep. This medium, which contained 2.0% lactate, 2.0% Trypticase, 0.2% yeast extract, and volatile fatty acids, hemin, and trace elements in place of rumen fluid, enabled high counts (42 x 10 to 190 x 10/g of inge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mackie RI,Heath S

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Ascochyta rabiei which are pathogenic to chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) readily catabolized the main chickpea isoflavone biochanin A (5,7-dihydroxy-4'-methoxyisoflavone). 3'-Hydroxylation and O-demethylation reactions led to the isoflavones pratensein, genistein, and orobol, which were rapidly further degrad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kraft B,Barz W

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens food poisoning is caused mainly by enterotoxigenic type A isolates that typically possess high spore heat resistance. Previous studies have shown that alpha/beta-type small, acid-soluble proteins (SASP) play a major role in the resistance of Bacillus subtilis and C. perfringens spores to moist ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paredes-Sabja D,Sarker N,Setlow B,Setlow P,Sarker MR

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia amylovora bacteriophages (phages) belonging to the Myoviridae and Podoviridae families demonstrated a preference for either high-exopolysaccharide-producing (HEP) or low-exopolysaccharide-producing (LEP) bacterial hosts when grown on artificial medium without or with sugar supplementation. Myoviridae phages pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Roach DR,Sjaarda DR,Castle AJ,Svircev AM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00