Biochemical characterization of ochratoxin A-producing strains of the genus Penicillium.

abstract：:The human enteropathogen Clostridium difficile constitutes a key public health issue in industrialized countries. Many aspects of C. difficile pathophysiology and adaptation inside the host remain poorly understood. We have recently reported that this bacterium possesses an active CRISPR-Cas system of subtype I-B for ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maikova A,Kreis V,Boutserin A,Severinov K,Soutourina O

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research documents an effect of reactor turbulence on the ability of gram-negative wastewater biofilm bacteria to actively transport l-aspartate via a binding-protein-mediated transport system. Biofilms which were not preadapted to turbulence and which possessed two separate and distinct aspartate transport syste...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eighmy TT,Bishop PL

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is a strategy for respiration in which electrons generated from metabolism are moved outside the cell to a terminal electron acceptor, such as iron or manganese oxide. EET has primarily been studied in two model systems, Shewanella oneidensis and Geobacter sulfurreducens Metal red...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Conley BE,Intile PJ,Bond DR,Gralnick JA

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethane oxidation was studied in ethane-grown resting cells (mycelia) of an Acremonium sp. and in cell-free preparations of such mycelia. From resting cell experiments evidence was found for a pathway of ethane oxidation via ethanol, acetaldehyde, and acetic acid. In vitro studies indicated that ethane-oxidizing activi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davies JS,Wellman AM,Zajic JE

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mycoplasmas are minimal, wall-less bacteria but have retained the ability to secrete complex carbohydrate polymers that constitute a glycocalyx. In members of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster, which are important ruminant pathogens, the glycocalyx includes both cell-attached and cell-free polysaccharides. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaurivaud P,Baranowski E,Pau-Roblot C,Sagné E,Citti C,Tardy F

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dextransucrase production by Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-512F in media containing carbon sources other than sucrose is reported for the first time. Dextransucrases were analyzed by gel electrophoresis and by an in situ activity assay. Their polymers and acceptor reaction products were also compared by (13)C nucle...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quirasco M,López-Munguía A,Remaud-Simeon M,Monsan P,Farrés A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) were isolated from four species of cyanobacteria (Anabaena flos-aquae UTEX 1444. A. cylindrica, Oscillatoria tenuis, and O. brevis) frequently occurring in drinking-water supplies. The cyanobacterial LPS contained glucose, xylose, mannose, and rhamnose, but differed from the LPS derived from ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Keleti G,Sykora JL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray technology provides the opportunity to identify thousands of microbial genes or populations simultaneously, but low microbial biomass often prevents application of this technology to many natural microbial communities. We developed a whole-community genome amplification-assisted microarray detection approac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wu L,Liu X,Schadt CW,Zhou J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme-catalyzed asymmetric reduction of ethyl 4-chloro-3-oxobutanoate in an organic solvent-water diphasic system was studied. NADPH-dependent aldehyde reductase isolated from Sporobolomyces salmonicolor AKU4429 and glucose dehydrogenase were used as catalysts for reduction of ethyl 4-chloro-3-oxobutanoate and recycl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shimizu S,Kataoka M,Katoh M,Morikawa T,Miyoshi T,Yamada H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding serine alkaline protease (SapSh) of the psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella strain Ac10 was cloned in Escherichia coli. The amino acid sequence deduced from the 2,442-bp nucleotide sequence revealed that the protein was 814 amino acids long and had an estimated molecular weight of 85,113. SapSh exhib...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulakova L,Galkin A,Kurihara T,Yoshimura T,Esaki N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel quantitative real-time (Q)-PCR assay for Listeria monocytogenes based on the coamplification of a target hly gene fragment and an internal amplification control (IAC). The IAC is a chimeric double-stranded DNA containing a fragment of the rapeseed BnACCg8 gene flanked by the hly-specific target seq...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rodríguez-Lázaro D,Pla M,Scortti M,Monzó HJ,Vázquez-Boland JA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the characterization of Yucca Mountain, Nev., as a potential repository for high-level nuclear waste, volcanic tuff was analyzed for microbial abundance and activity. Tuff was collected aseptically from nine sites along a tunnel in Yucca Mountain. Microbial abundance was generally low: direct microscopic ce...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kieft TL,Kovacik WP,Ringelberg DB,White DC,Haldeman DL,Amy PS,Hersman LE

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent functional genomics and genome-scale modeling approaches indicated that B(12) production in Lactobacillus reuteri could be improved by optimization of the medium. Here we show that a series of systematic single-amino-acid omissions could significantly modulate the production of B(12) from nearly undetectable le...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Santos F,Teusink B,Molenaar D,van Heck M,Wels M,Sieuwerts S,de Vos WM,Hugenholtz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A European baseline survey during the years 2005 and 2006 has revealed that the monophasic Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar 4,12:d:- was, with a prevalence of 23.6%, the most frequently isolated serovar in German broiler flocks. In Denmark and the United Kingdom, its serovar prevalences were 15.15% and 2.8%...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huehn S,Bunge C,Junker E,Helmuth R,Malorny B

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil emission of gaseous N oxides during nitrification of ammonium represents loss of an available plant nutrient and has an important impact on the chemistry of the atmosphere. We used selective inhibitors and a glucose amendment in a factorial design to determine the relative contributions of autotrophic ammonium ox...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tortoso AC,Hutchinson GL

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cutinase gene-like genes from the basidiomycete Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus) found with a similarity search were cloned and expressed in Trichoderma reesei under the control of an inducible cbh1 promoter. The selected transformants of all three polyesterase constructs showed activity with p-nitropheny...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kontkanen H,Westerholm-Parvinen A,Saloheimo M,Bailey M,Rättö M,Mattila I,Mohsina M,Kalkkinen N,Nakari-Setälä T,Buchert J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the submersible JAGO and by scuba diving we discovered three remarkable geothermal cones, rising 33, 25, and 45 m from the seafloor at a depth of 65 m in Eyjafjordur, northern Iceland. The greatest geothermal activity was on the highest cone, which discharged up to 50 liters of freshwater per s at 72 degrees C an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marteinsson VT,Kristjánsson JK,Kristmannsdóttir H,Dahlkvist M,Saemundsson K,Hannington M,Pétursdóttir SK,Geptner A,Stoffers P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were developed for three different bacterial isolates obtained from a freshwater environment (Lake Plusssee) in the spring of 1990. The three isolates, which were identified by molecular methods, were as follows: Cytophaga johnsonae PX62, Comamonas acidovorans PX54, and Aer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Faude UC,Höfle MG

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different Cd(2+) uptake systems were identified in Lactobacillus plantarum. One is a high-affinity, high-velocity Mn(2+) uptake system which also takes up Cd(2+) and is induced by Mn(2+) starvation. The calculated K(m) and V(max) are 0.26 microM and 3.6 micromol g of dry cell(-1) min(-1), respectively. Unlike Mn(2...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hao Z,Reiske HR,Wilson DB

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tremorgenic mycotoxin was isolated from Penicillium paraherquei Abe ex G. Smith and identified as verruculogen. It was produced at the rate of approximately 1 mg/g of the dried fungal mycelium cultured on peptone-enriched Czapek-Dox medium at 28 degrees C. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yoshizawa T,Morooka N,Sawada Y,Udagawa SI

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gordonia polyisoprenivorans strain VH2, a potent rubber-degrading actinomycete, harbors two latex clearing proteins (Lcps), which are known to be essential for the microbial degradation of rubber. However, biochemical information on the exact role of this protein in the degradation of polyisoprene was lacking. In this...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hiessl S,Böse D,Oetermann S,Eggers J,Pietruszka J,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard plate count (SPC) bacteria were isolated from a drinking-water treatment facility and from the river supplying the facility. All isolates were identified and tested for their resistance to six antibiotics to determine if drug-resistant bacteria were selected for as a consequence of water treatment. Among the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Armstrong JL,Calomiris JJ,Seidler RJ

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme levanase encoded by the sacC gene from Bacillus subtilis was overexpressed in Escherichia coli with the strong, inducible tac promoter. The enzyme was purified from crude E. coli cell lysates by salting out with ammonium sulfate and chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B, S-Sepharose, and MonoQ-Sepharose. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wanker E,Huber A,Schwab H

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Chromosomal integration of heterologous metabolic pathways is optimal for industrially relevant fermentation, as plasmid-based fermentation causes extra metabolic burden and genetic instabilities. In this work, chromosomal integration was adapted for the production of mevalonate, which can be readily converted into β-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang J,Niyompanich S,Tai YS,Wang J,Bai W,Mahida P,Gao T,Zhang K

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is an important pathogen of pigs and may cause serious disease in humans. Serotyping is an important tool for detection and epidemiological studies of S. suis Thirty-three reference serotypes and nine novel cps loci (NCLs) are recognized in S. suis To gain a better understanding of the prevalence an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Qiu X,Bai X,Lan R,Zheng H,Xu J

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to methanol dehydrogenase purified from Methylobacterium sp. strain AM1 and Methylomonas sp. strain A4 were raised. The antibody preparations were used in indirect immunogold labeling studies. With this approach, methanol dehydrogenase was found to be preferentially localized to the periplasmic region of th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fassel TA,Buchholz LA,Collins ML,Remsen CC

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertional mutagenesis with pGhost9::ISS1 resulted in independent insertions in a 350-bp region of the chromosome of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363 that conferred phage resistance to the integrants. The orientation and location of the insertions suggested that the phage resistance phenotype was caused by a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haaber J,Moineau S,Fortier LC,Hammer K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of bacteriocin activity designated pediocin PA-1 was associated with the presence of a 6.2-megadalton plasmid in Pediococcus acidilactici PAC1.0. The bacteriocin exhibited activity against P. acidilactici, P. pentosaceus, Lactobacillus plantarum, L. casei, L. bifermentans, and Leuconostoc mesenteroides subs...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gonzalez CF,Kunka BS

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of hydrothermal vent sites exist on the summit of the Loihi Seamount, a shield volcano that is part of the Hawaiian archipelago. The vents are 1,100 to 1,325 m below the surface and range in temperature from slightly above ambient (10 degrees C) to high temperature (167 degrees C). The vent fluid is character...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Emerson D,Moyer CL

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00