Spontaneous formation of a mannitol-producing variant of Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides grown in the presence of fructose.

abstract：:Reductive and oxidative pathways of the sulfur cycle were studied in a marine sediment by parallel radiotracer experiments with SO(4), H(2)S, and S(2)O(3) injected into undisturbed sediment cores. The distributions of viable populations of sulfate- and thiosulfate-reducing bacteria and of thiosulfate-disproportionatin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jørgensen BB,Bak F

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethylbenzene dehydrogenase (EbDH) catalyzes the initial step in anaerobic degradation of ethylbenzene in denitrifying bacteria, namely, the oxygen-independent hydroxylation of ethylbenzene to (S)-1-phenylethanol. In our study we investigate the kinetic properties of 46 substrate analogs acting as substrates or inhibit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knack D,Hagel C,Szaleniec M,Dudzik A,Salwinski A,Heider J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiroplasma citri is transmitted from plant to plant by phloem-feeding leafhoppers. In an attempt to identify mechanisms involved in transmission, mutants of S. citri affected in their transmission must be available. For this purpose, transposon (Tn4001) mutagenesis was used to produce mutants which have been screened...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boutareaud A,Danet JL,Garnier M,Saillard C

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Bradyrhizobium japonicum were grown in media containing either 1.0 mM or 0.5 muM phosphorus. In growth pouch experiments, infection of the primary root of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) by B. japonicum USDA 31, 110, and 142 was significantly delayed when P-limited cells were applied to the root. In a greenh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mullen MD,Israel DW,Wollum AG

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental contamination with compounds containing oxyanions of chlorine, such as perchlorate or chlorate [(per)chlorate] or chlorine dioxide, has been a constantly growing problem over the last 100 years. Although the fact that microbes reduce these compounds has been recognized for more than 50 years, only six or...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coates JD,Michaelidou U,Bruce RA,O'Connor SM,Crespi JN,Achenbach LA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify the origin of the fecal contamination observed in French estuaries, two library-independent microbial source tracking (MST) methods were selected: (i) Bacteroidales host-specific 16S rRNA gene markers and (ii) F-specific RNA bacteriophage genotyping. The specificity of the Bacteroidales markers wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gourmelon M,Caprais MP,Ségura R,Le Mennec C,Lozach S,Piriou JY,Rincé A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatedness between Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris and L. lactis subsp. lactis was assessed by Southern hybridization analysis, with cloned chromosomal genes as probes. The results indicate that strains of the two subspecies form two distinct groups and that the DNA sequence divergence between L. lactis subsp. lac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Godon JJ,Delorme C,Ehrlich SD,Renault P

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinear thermal inactivation of Aspergillus niger spores in phosphate-citrate buffer was studied. The thermal inactivation pattern of the spore consisted of a shoulder, an accelerated decline, and a tail at various constant temperatures around 60 degrees C. The pattern fitted a thermotolerant subpopulation model...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fujikawa H,Itoh T

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population dynamics of bifidobacteria in human feces during raffinose administration were investigated at the species level by using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) coupled with flow cytometry (FCM) analysis. Although double-staining FISH-FCM using both fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) and indodicarbocy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dinoto A,Marques TM,Sakamoto K,Fukiya S,Watanabe J,Ito S,Yokota A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of the peptide antibiotic nisin in which the dehydroalanine residue at position 5 has been replaced by an alanine has been produced and structurally characterized. It is shown to have activity very similar to that of wild-type nisin in inhibiting growth of Lactococcus lactis and Micrococcus luteus but is very...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chan WC,Dodd HM,Horn N,Maclean K,Lian LY,Bycroft BW,Gasson MJ,Roberts GC

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the microbiology and epidemiology of the 1,700 sporadic cases of listeriosis that occur annually in the United States, we developed a multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE) typing system for Listeria monocytogenes. We studied 390 isolates by MEE. Eighty-two electrophoretic types (ETs) were defined. Two...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bibb WF,Gellin BG,Weaver R,Schwartz B,Plikaytis BD,Reeves MW,Pinner RW,Broome CV

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugal transfer of lactose-fermenting ability (Lac+), nisin resistance (Nisr), and phage resistance (Hsp+) was demonstrated in matings between Streptococcus lactis ME2 (donor) and Streptococcus cremoris M43a (recipient), a derivative of M12R. Transconjugants were detected by transfer of Lac+ and were found to exhibi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Steenson LR,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortierella isabellina ATCC 38063 is a zygomycete capable of hydroxylating fish-toxic resin acids which occur in certain pulp mill effluents to nontoxic metabolites. Addition of dehydroabietic acid (1) (80 mg/liter) to a freshly inoculated culture of M. isabellina in dextrose-yeast extract broth resulted in precursor ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kutney JP,Choi LS,Hewitt GM,Salisbury PJ,Singh M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenorhabdus nematophila engages in a mutualistic association with the nematode Steinernema carpocapsae. The nematode invades and traverses the gut of susceptible insects. X. nematophila is released in the insect blood (hemolymph), where it suppresses host immune responses and functions as a pathogen. X. nematophila pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Singh S,Reese JM,Casanova-Torres AM,Goodrich-Blair H,Forst S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of long-term soil fertilization on the composition and potential for phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) cycling of bacterial communities associated with hyphae of the P-solubilizing fungus Penicillium canescens Using a baiting approach, hyphosphere bacterial communities were recovered ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Hao X,Garcia-Lemos AM,Nunes I,Nicolaisen MH,Nybroe O

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop a rapid and specific detection test for bacteria in soil, we improved a method based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Each step of the protocol, including direct lysis of cells, DNA purification, and PCR amplification, was optimized. To increase the efficiency of lysis, a step particularly c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Picard C,Ponsonnet C,Paget E,Nesme X,Simonet P

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the event of a biothreat agent release, hundreds of samples would need to be rapidly processed to characterize the extent of contamination and determine the efficacy of remediation activities. Current biological agent identification and viability determination methods are both labor- and time-intensive such that tu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Létant SE,Murphy GA,Alfaro TM,Avila JR,Kane SR,Raber E,Bunt TM,Shah SR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cities, the feral rock dove is an abundant bird species that can harbor Chlamydophila psittaci. We determined the prevalence and genotype of C. psittaci in fresh fecal samples from feral pigeons in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The prevalence was 7.9% overall (26/331; 95% confidence interval, 5 to 11). Ten genot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heddema ER,Ter Sluis S,Buys JA,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,van Wijnen JH,Visser CE

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A database was probed with artificial neural network (ANN) and multivariate logistic regression (MLR) models to investigate the efficacy of predicting PCR-identified human adenovirus (ADV), Norwalk-like virus (NLV), and enterovirus (EV) presence or absence in shellfish harvested from diverse countries in Europe (Spain...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brion G,Viswanathan C,Neelakantan TR,Lingireddy S,Girones R,Lees D,Allard A,Vantarakis A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver toxicity is a problem that microorganisms face in medical and environmental settings. Through exposure to silver compounds, some bacteria have adapted to growth in high concentrations of silver ions. Such adapted microbes may be dangerous as pathogens but, alternatively, could be potentially useful in nanomater...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sedlak RH,Hnilova M,Grosh C,Fong H,Baneyx F,Schwartz D,Sarikaya M,Tamerler C,Traxler B

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isophthalate (IPA) degradation gene cluster (iphACBDR) responsible for the conversion of IPA into protocatechuate (PCA) was isolated from Comamonas sp. strain E6, which utilizes phthalate isomers as sole carbon and energy sources via the PCA 4,5-cleavage pathway. Based on amino acid sequence similarity, the iphA, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fukuhara Y,Inakazu K,Kodama N,Kamimura N,Kasai D,Katayama Y,Fukuda M,Masai E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microorganisms produce surface-active substances that enhance the availability of water-insoluble substrates. Although many of these biosurfactants have interesting potential applications, very little is known about their biosynthesis. The basidiomycetous fungus Ustilago maydis secretes large amounts of mannosyle...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hewald S,Linne U,Scherer M,Marahiel MA,Kämper J,Bölker M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD and its reduced form NADH function as essential redox cofactors and have major roles in determining cellular metabolic features. NAD can be synthesized through the deamidated and amidated pathways, for which the key reaction involves adenylylation of nicotinic acid mononucleotide (NaMN) and nicotinamide mononucleo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang X,Zhou YJ,Wang L,Liu W,Liu Y,Peng C,Zhao ZK

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The supernatant from centrifugation at 1,000 x g of strained rumen fluid was lyophilized, and the residue and sublimate fractions were used to replace fresh rumen fluid in a complete roll tube medium for enumeration of total rumen bacteria. Most of the growth-supporting nutrients in fresh rumen fluid were found in the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dehority BA,Tirabasso PA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deposition of manganese in a water distribution system with manganese-related "dirty water" problems was studied over a 1-year period. Four monitoring laboratories with Robbins biofilm sampling devices fitted to the water mains were used to correlate the relationship among manganese deposition, the level of mangan...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sly LI,Hodgkinson MC,Arunpairojana V

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently, the only effective treatment for celiac disease is a life-long gluten-free diet. In this work, we used a new mixture of selected sourdough lactobacilli and fungal proteases to eliminate the toxicity of wheat flour during long-time fermentation. Immunological (R5 antibody-based sandwich and competitive enzym...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rizzello CG,De Angelis M,Di Cagno R,Camarca A,Silano M,Losito I,De Vincenzi M,De Bari MD,Palmisano F,Maurano F,Gianfrani C,Gobbetti M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methanol-utilizing bacterium, Protaminobacter ruber, produced a large amount of vitamin B(12). The compounds were isolated from the cells and identified as methylcobalamin (methyl-B(12)) and adenosylcobalamin (adenosyl-B(12)) by various tests. The variation in the form of B(12) during cultivation was examined by bio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sato K,Ueda S,Shimizu S

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspension of adenovirus type 5 in 2.0 ml of cell culture fluid at 37 degrees C were subjected to smoke from four cigarettes over a 4-h period. The cigarettes were smoked in a normal manner, and the inhaled smoke was exhaled through glass tubing into the virus-containing fluid. The virus suspensions were then titrated...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bardell D

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the natural environment, most of the phages that target bacteria are thought to exist in biofilm ecosystems. The purpose of this study was to gain a clearer understanding of the reactivity of these viral particles when they come into contact with bacteria embedded in biofilms. Experimentally, we quantified lactococ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Briandet R,Lacroix-Gueu P,Renault M,Lecart S,Meylheuc T,Bidnenko E,Steenkeste K,Bellon-Fontaine MN,Fontaine-Aupart MP

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broiler chickens from eight commercial farms in Southern Finland were analyzed for the structure of their gastrointestinal microbial community by a nonselective DNA-based method, percent G+C-based profiling. The bacteriological impact of the feed source and in-farm whole-wheat amendment of the diet was assessed by per...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Apajalahti JH,Kettunen A,Bedford MR,Holben WE

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00