Characterization of a novel type II restriction-modification system, Sth368I, encoded by the integrative element ICESt1 of Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368.

abstract：:A marine bacterial strain that decomposes the cell walls of some seaweeds, including a Laminaria sp. and Undaria pinnatifida, has been isolated from seawater. This strain has been classified to the genus Vibrio. One of the enzymes which the bacteria secreted into the culture medium was isolated and purified 45-fold fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sugano Y,Terada I,Arita M,Noma M,Matsumoto T

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a strain of Rhodopseudomonas palustris (RCB100) by selective enrichment in light on 3-chlorobenzoate to investigate the steps that it uses to accomplish anaerobic dechlorination. Analyses of metabolite pools as well as enzyme assays suggest that R. palustris grows on 3-chlorobenzoate by (i) converting it t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Egland PG,Gibson J,Harwood CS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AvrPtoB is a type III effector protein from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato that physically interacts with the tomato Pto kinase and, depending on the host genotype, either elicits or suppresses programmed cell death associated with plant immunity. We reported previously that avrPtoB-related sequences are present in d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lin NC,Abramovitch RB,Kim YJ,Martin GB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The known archaeal family B DNA polymerases are unable to participate in the PCR in the presence of uracil. Here, we report on a novel archaeal family B DNA polymerase from Nanoarchaeum equitans that can successfully utilize deaminated bases such as uracil and hypoxanthine and on its application to PCR. N. equitans fa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Choi JJ,Song JG,Nam KH,Lee JI,Bae H,Kim GA,Sun Y,Kwon ST

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferase catalyzing the O methylation of several chlorophenols and other halogenated phenols was purified 220-fold to apparent homogeneity from mycelia of Trichoderma longibrachiatum CECT 20431. The enzyme could be identified in partially purified protein prepar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coque JJ,Alvarez-Rodríguez ML,Larriba G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leuconostoc mesenteroides strains that are resistant to high levels of nisin (up to 25,000 IU/ml in broth) were isolated. These nisin-resistant mutants were evaluated to determine their potential use as starter culture strains for cabbage fermentations. We found that some L. mesenteroides strains could be adapted to h...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Breidt F,Crowley KA,Fleming HP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of Listeria monocytogenes from food is currently carried out using a double enrichment. For the ISO methodology, this double enrichment is performed using half-Fraser and Fraser broths, in which the overgrowth of L. innocua can occur in samples where both species are present. In this study, we analyzed t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lemaître JP,Duroux A,Pimpie R,Duez JM,Milat ML

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Escherichia coli as a pathogen has been the focus of considerable study, while much less is known about it as a commensal and how it adapts to and colonizes different environmental niches within the mammalian gut. In this study, we characterize Escherichia coli organisms (n = 146) isolated from different r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abraham S,Gordon DM,Chin J,Brouwers HJ,Njuguna P,Groves MD,Zhang R,Chapman TA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most copper bioleaching plants operate with a high concentration of sulfate salts caused by the continuous addition of sulfuric acid and the recycling of the leaching solution. Since the bacteria involved in bioleaching have been generally isolated at low sulfate concentrations, the bacterial population in ores leache...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Espejo RT,Romero J

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivor curves for heat-resistant ascospores of Byssochlamys fulva exposed to lethal heat were nonlogarithmic. At lower heating temperatures, the log survivor curves were characterized by a shoulder plus an accelerating death rate; with increased temperatures, the rate approached logarithmic death. The formula (log N...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： King AD Jr,Bayne HG,Alderton G

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much interest in the use of seed-applied bacteria for biocontrol and biofertilization, and several commercial products are available. However, many attempts to use this strategy fail because the seed-applied bacteria do not colonize the rhizosphere. Mechanisms of rhizosphere colonization may involve active ba...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knox OG,Killham K,Artz RR,Mullins C,Wilson M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight cultures of Legionella pneumophila isolated from surface waters were characterized by their morphological, tinctorial, biochemical, and serological properties and by their ability to produce disease in guinea pigs. Their susceptibility to antimicrobial agents also was tested. When they were compared with...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Orrison LH,Cherry WB,Fliermans CB,Dees SB,McDougal LK,Dodd DJ

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of fixation on the cell volume of marine heterotrophic nanoflagellates and planktonic ciliates were investigated. Decreases in cell volume depended on the combination of the protozoan taxa and the particular fixative. For a particular fixative and protozoan species, degree of shrinkage was independent of p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Choi JW,Stoecker DK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Bromoethanesulfonic acid (BESA) and 2-chloroethanesulfonic acid (CESA) have been reported to be potent inhibitors of methane formation during methanogenic decomposition in batch cultures. However, in a laboratory-scale continuous-flow methanogenic fixed-film column containing a predominance of acetate-decarboxylatin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bouwer EJ,McCarty PL

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 carried on plant surfaces, including alfalfa sprouts, has been implicated in food poisoning and outbreaks of disease in the United States. Adhesion to cell surfaces is a key component for bacterial establishment and colonization on many types of surfaces. Several E. coli O157:H7 surface protei...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Torres AG,Jeter C,Langley W,Matthysse AG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice blast caused by the phytopathogen Magnaporthe grisea poses a serious threat to global food security and is difficult to control. Bacillus species have been extensively explored for the biological control of many fungal diseases. In the present study, the marine bacterium Bacillus subtilis BS155 showed a strong an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Sun C

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene cluster that codes for feedback-resistant aspartate kinase (lysCalpha and lysCbeta) and aspartate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (asd) was cloned from a mutant strain of Corynebacterium glutamicum. Its functional analysis by subcloning, enzyme assays, and type of aspartate kinase regulation enabled the isolation ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cremer J,Eggeling L,Sahm H

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile oyster disease (JOD) causes significant annual mortalities of hatchery-produced Eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, cultured in the Northeast. We have reported that a novel species of the alpha-proteobacteria Roseobacter group (designated CVSP) was numerically dominant in JOD-affected animals sampled duri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boettcher KJ,Barber BJ,Singer JT

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and rRNA slot blot hybridization with 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes were used to investigate the phylogenetic composition of a marine Arctic sediment (Svalbard). FISH resulted in the detection of a large fraction of microbes living in the top 5 cm of the sediment. U...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ravenschlag K,Sahm K,Amann R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently little information on nonphosphorylated sugar epimerases, which are of potential interest for producing rare sugars. We found a gene (the TM0416 gene) encoding a putative d-tagatose-3-epimerase-related protein from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima We overexpressed the TM0416 gene ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shin SM,Cao TP,Choi JM,Kim SB,Lee SJ,Lee SH,Lee DW

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) ST398 isolated from pigs raised in conventional farms was previously reported. Here we report a study on 25 farms adhering to an alternative system. LA-MRSA ST398 was not detected in nasal swabs from 178 pigs or from 89 humans working and livin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cuny C,Friedrich AW,Witte W

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Sphingomonas are important catalysts for removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil, but their activity can be affected by various stress factors. This study examines the physiological and genome-wide transcription response of the phenanthrene-degrading Sphingomonas sp. strain LH12...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fida TT,Breugelmans P,Lavigne R,Coronado E,Johnson DR,van der Meer JR,Mayer AP,Heipieper HJ,Hofkens J,Springael D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetative cells of Bacillus cereus were subjected to low doses of nisin (0.06 microg/ml) and mild pulsed-electric field treatment (16.7 kV/cm, 50 pulses each of 2-micros duration). Combining both treatments resulted in a reduction of 1.8 log units more than the sum of the reductions obtained with the single treatment...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pol IE,Mastwijk HC,Bartels PV,Smid EJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities from a subseafloor sediment core from the southwestern Sea of Okhotsk were evaluated by performing both cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent (molecular) analyses. The core, which extended 58.1 m below the seafloor, was composed of pelagic clays with several volcanic ash layers contai...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inagaki F,Suzuki M,Takai K,Oida H,Sakamoto T,Aoki K,Nealson KH,Horikoshi K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cup of coffee is the final product of a complex chain of operations. Wet postharvest processing of coffee is one of these operations, which involves a fermentation that inevitably has to be performed on-farm. During wet coffee processing, the interplay between microbial activities and endogenous bean metabolism resu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang SJ,De Bruyn F,Pothakos V,Torres J,Falconi C,Moccand C,Weckx S,De Vuyst L

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Incorporation of plant residues strongly enhances the methane production and emission from flooded rice fields. Temperature and residue type are important factors that regulate residue decomposition and CH(4) production. However, the response of the methanogenic archaeal community to these factors in rice field soil i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Peng J,Lü Z,Rui J,Lu Y

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of microorganisms to perform dissimilatory (per)chlorate reduction is, for most species, known to be oxygen sensitive. Consequently, bioremediation processes for the removal of oxochlorates will be disturbed if oxygen is present. We measured the expression of chlorite dismutase and chlorate reductase in th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lindqvist MH,Johansson N,Nilsson T,Rova M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some effects of visible light on the survival of Escherichia coli in waters of the Butrón river were studied by comparing illuminated and nonilluminated systems. The following count methods were used: CFU on a selective medium (eosin-methylene blue agar), CFU on a medium of recuperation (Trypticase soy agar with yeast...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barcina I,González JM,Iriberri J,Egea L

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biphasic systems can overcome the problem of low productivity in conventional media and have been exploited for biocatalysis. Solvent-tolerant microorganisms are useful in biotransformation with whole cells in biphasic reactions. A solvent-tolerant desulfurizing bacterium, Pseudomonas putida A4, was constructed by int...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tao F,Yu B,Xu P,Ma CQ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristics of an obligately methylotrophic coccoid methanogen (strain GS-16) previously isolated from estuarine sediment are described. Growth was demonstrated on dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or trimethylamine (TMA), but not on methane thiol, methane thiol plus hydrogen, dimethyl disulfide, or methionine. DMS-grown cel...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oremland RS,Kiene RP,Mathrani I,Whiticar MJ,Boone DR

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00