Natural communities of novel archaea and bacteria growing in cold sulfurous springs with a string-of-pearls-like morphology.

abstract：:Four sponge-associated Antarctic bacteria (i.e., Winogradskyella sp. strains CAL384 and CAL396, Colwellia sp. strain GW185, and Shewanella sp. strain CAL606) were selected for the highly mucous appearance of their colonies on agar plates. The production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) was enhanced by a st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Caruso C,Rizzo C,Mangano S,Poli A,Di Donato P,Finore I,Nicolaus B,Di Marco G,Michaud L,Lo Giudice A

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Epimerization of sugar nucleotides is central to the structural diversification of monosaccharide building blocks for cellular biosynthesis. Epimerase applicability to carbohydrate synthesis can be limited, however, by the high degree of substrate specificity exhibited by most sugar nucleotide epimerases. Here, we dis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rapp C,van Overtveldt S,Beerens K,Weber H,Desmet T,Nidetzky B

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A screen of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae deletion strain set was performed to identify genes affecting hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) production. Mutants were screened using two assays: colony color on BiGGY agar, which detects the basal level of sulfite reductase activity, and production of H(2)S in a synthetic juice mediu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Linderholm AL,Findleton CL,Kumar G,Hong Y,Bisson LF

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 662 in vol. 45.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anti-norovirus (anti-NoV) effect of grape seed extract (GSE) was examined by plaque assay for murine norovirus 1 (MNV-1), cell-binding reverse transcription-PCR for human NoV GII.4, and saliva-binding enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for human NoV GII.4 P particles, with or without the presence of interfering sub...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li D,Baert L,Zhang D,Xia M,Zhong W,Van Coillie E,Jiang X,Uyttendaele M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificially designed gelatins comprising tandemly repeated 30-amino-acid peptide units derived from human alphaI collagen were successfully produced with a Bacillus brevis system. The DNA encoding the peptide unit was synthesized by taking into consideration the codon usage of the host cells, but no clones having a t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kajino T,Takahashi H,Hirai M,Yamada Y

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly selective liquid membrane nitrite microsensor based on the hydrophobic ion-carrier aquocyanocobalt(III)-hepta(2-phenylethyl)-cobrynate is described. The sensor has a tip diameter of 10 to 15 (mu)m. The response is log-linear in freshwater down to 1 (mu)M NO(inf2)(sup-) and in seawater to 10 (mu)M NO(inf2)(sup...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： De Beer D,Schramm A,Santegoeds CM,Kuhl M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages are the source of many valuable tools for molecular biology and genetic manipulation. In Streptomyces, most DNA cloning vectors are based on serine integrase site-specific DNA recombination systems derived from phage. Because of their efficiency and simplicity, serine integrases are also used for divers...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fogg PCM,Haley JA,Stark WM,Smith MCM

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper resistance mechanisms provide an important adaptive advantage to plant pathogenic bacteria under exposure to copper treatments. Copper resistance determinants have been described in Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (Pss) strains isolated from mango intimately associated with 62 kb plasmids belonging to the pPT...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aprile F,Heredia-Ponce Z,Cazorla FM,de Vicente A,Gutiérrez-Barranquero JA

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid profiles of 619 cultures of Bacillus anthracis which had been isolated and stored between 1954 and 1989 were analyzed using the Laboratory Response Network real-time PCR assay targeting a chromosomal marker and both virulence plasmids (pXO1 and pXO2). The cultures were stored at ambient temperature on tryp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marston CK,Hoffmaster AR,Wilson KE,Bragg SL,Plikaytis B,Brachman P,Johnson S,Kaufmann AF,Popovic T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilithic bacteria were isolated nonselectively from riverbed stones and examined by gel zymography for their ability to produce alkylsulfatase (AS) enzymes and thus to metabolize alkyl sulfate surfactants such as sodium dodecyl sulfate. The percentages of AS+ isolates from stone epilithon at five sites from the sourc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Anderson DJ,Day MJ,Russell NJ,White GF

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungus Fusarium oxysporum produced a D-amino acid oxidase (EC 1. 4.3.3) in a medium containing glucose as the carbon and energy source and ammonium sulfate as the nitrogen source. The specific D-amino acid oxidase activity was increased up to 12.5-fold with various D-amino acids or their corresponding derivatives ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gabler M,Fischer L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of bioluminescence as a sensitive marker for detection of Pseudomonas spp. in the rhizosphere was investigated. Continuous expression of the luxCDABE genes, required for bioluminescence, was not detectable in the rhizosphere. However, when either a naphthalene-inducible luxCDABE construct or a constitutive lux...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： de Weger LA,Dunbar P,Mahafee WF,Lugtenberg BJ,Sayler GS

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The luminescence signal of luxAB-encoded bacterial luciferase strongly depends on the metabolic state of the host cell, which restricts the use of this reporter system to metabolically active bacteria. Here we show that in stationary-phase cells of Lactococcus lactis, detection of luciferase is significantly improved ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bachmann H,Santos F,Kleerebezem M,van Hylckama Vlieg JE

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pep5 is a cationic pore-forming lantibiotic produced by Staphylococcus epidermidis strain 5. The producer strain protects itself from the lethal action of its own bacteriocin through the 69-amino-acid immunity peptide PepI. The N-terminal segment of PepI contains a 20-amino-acid stretch of apolar residues, whereas the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hoffmann A,Schneider T,Pag U,Sahl HG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different green fluorescent protein (GFP)-based whole-cell biosensors were created based on the DNA damage inducible SOS response of Escherichia coli in order to evaluate the sensitivity of individual SOS promoters toward genotoxic substances. Treatment with the known carcinogen N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Norman A,Hestbjerg Hansen L,Sørensen SJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate (DAHP) synthase (EC 2.5.1.54) catalyzes the first step of the shikimate pathway that finally leads to the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids phenylalanine (Phe), tryptophan (Trp), and tyrosine (Tyr). In Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032, two chromosomal genes, NCgl0950...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu YJ,Li PP,Zhao KX,Wang BJ,Jiang CY,Drake HL,Liu SJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis encodes a biotin-dependent oxaloacetate decarboxylase (OAD), which is constituted by four subunits: E. faecalis carboxyltransferase subunit OadA (termed Ef-A), membrane pump Ef-B, biotin acceptor protein Ef-D, and the novel subunit Ef-H. Our results show that in E. faecalis, subunits Ef-A, Ef-D, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Repizo GD,Blancato VS,Mortera P,Lolkema JS,Magni C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetaldehyde is a toxic compound produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells under several growth conditions. The adverse effects of this molecule are important, as significant amounts accumulate inside the cells. By means of global gene expression analyses, we have detected the effects of acetaldehyde addition in the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aranda A,del Olmo ML

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:It has previously been shown that the tomato pathogen Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis secretes a 14-kDa protein, C. michiganensis subsp. michiganensis AMP-I (CmmAMP-I), that inhibits growth of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus, the causal agent of bacterial ring rot of potato. Using sequences...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu Z,Ma P,Holtsmark I,Skaugen M,Eijsink VG,Brurberg MB

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of enteroviruses in oysters and oyster-harvesting waters of the Texas Gulf coast was monitored over a period of 10 months. Viruses were detected in water and oyster samples obtained from areas both open and closed to shellfish harvesting. Viruses were detected periodically in waters that met current bacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goyal SM,Gerba CP,Melnick JL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioconversion of waste paper to single-cell protein at pH <1 by Scytalidium acidophilum is described. Waste paper pretreated with 72% H(2)SO(4) at 4 degrees C was diluted with water to a pH of <0.1 and hydrolyzed. This yielded an adequate sugar-containing substrate for the growth of the fungus. A total of 97% of t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ivarson KC,Morita H

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hot-water extracts of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) wood were assayed for their total carbohydrate, reducing sugar, and glucose content. These hydrolysates were then used as complete media for yeast growth. A total of 10 strains of yeasts were evaluated for their biomass production in the mesquite wood hydrolysates. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stanlake GJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of endosymbiotic bacteria were identified in the gastrodermis of the marine invertebrate Xenoturbella bocki (Xenoturbellida, Bilateria). While previously described Chlamydia-like endosymbionts were rare, Gammaproteobacteria distantly related to other endosymbionts and pathogens were abundant. The endosymbion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kjeldsen KU,Obst M,Nakano H,Funch P,Schramm A

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the role of the regulatory gene aflR and its product, AflR, in the biosynthesis of aflatoxin in Aspergillus. Western blot and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay analyses revealed that aflatoxin B1 accumulation was directly related to AflR expression and was regulated by various environmental and nutritional ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu BH,Chu FS

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lantibiotics are ribosomally synthesized antimicrobial peptides with substantial posttranslational modifications. They are characterized by the unique amino acids lanthionine and methyllanthionine, which are introduced by dehydration of Ser/Thr residues and linkage of the resulting dehydrated amino acids with Cys resi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Basi-Chipalu S,Dischinger J,Josten M,Szekat C,Zweynert A,Sahl HG,Bierbaum G

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously on the function of acyl coenzyme A (acyl-CoA) oxidase isozymes in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica by investigating strains disrupted in one or several acyl-CoA oxidase-encoding genes (POX1 through POX5) (H. Wang et al., J. Bacteriol. 181:5140-5148, 1999). Here, these mutants were studied for lacto...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Waché Y,Laroche C,Bergmark K,Møller-Andersen C,Aguedo M,Le Dall MT,Wang H,Nicaud JM,Belin JM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-eight halobacteria, including both culture collection strains and fresh isolates from widely differing geographical areas, were tested for susceptibility to arsenate, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, silver, and zinc ions by an agar dilution technique. The culture collection strains show...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nieto JJ,Ventosa A,Ruiz-Berraquero F

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acetic acid fermentation by Acetobacter aceti, the acetic acid produced inhibits the production of acetic acid by this microorganism. To alleviate this inhibitory effect, we developed an electrodialysis fermentation method such that acetic acid is continuously removed from the broth. The fermentation unit has a com...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nomura Y,Iwahara M,Hongo M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00