Evidence that elevated CO2 levels can indirectly increase rhizosphere denitrifier activity.

abstract：:Auxotrophic microorganisms are often used for genetic engineering, because their biosynthetic deficiency can be complemented by the transforming DNA and allows selection for transformants that have become prototrophic. However, when complementation is obtained by ectopic expression this may lead to unpredictable side ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nielsen ML,de Jongh WA,Meijer SL,Nielsen J,Mortensen UH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low concentrations of furfural are formed as a side product during the dilute acid hydrolysis of hemicellulose. Growth is inhibited by exposure to furfural but resumes after the complete reduction of furfural to the less toxic furfuryl alcohol. Growth-based selection was used to isolate a furfural-resistant mutant of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miller EN,Jarboe LR,Yomano LP,York SW,Shanmugam KT,Ingram LO

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the biodegradation of nitrobenzene by Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes JS45 proceeds by the reduction of nitrobenzene through nitrosobenzene and hydroxylaminobenzene, followed by rearrangement to 2-aminophenol, which then undergoes meta ring cleavage. We report here the isolation of a Com...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nishino SF,Spain JC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Salmonella enterica can produce life-threatening colitis in horses, certain serotypes are more commonly associated with clinical disease. Our aim was to evaluate the proportional morbidity attributed to different serotypes, as well as the phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of Salmonella i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leon IM,Lawhon SD,Norman KN,Threadgill DS,Ohta N,Vinasco J,Scott HM

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular bacteriocins are a group of N-to-C-terminally linked antimicrobial peptides, produced by Gram-positive bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes. Circular bacteriocins generally exhibit broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, including against common food-borne pathogens, such as Clostridium and Listeria spp. These pe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gabrielsen C,Brede DA,Nes IF,Diep DB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lantibiotics are antimicrobial peptides belonging to the family of ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs) and feature thioether linkages in their structures. In this study, we identified the biosynthetic gene cluster of a cinnamycin analog, named mathermycin, from Marinactinospora th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen E,Chen Q,Chen S,Xu B,Ju J,Wang H

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic understanding of how new phenotypes develop to overcome the loss of a gene product provides valuable insight on both the metabolic and regulatory functions of the lost gene. The pgi gene, whose product catalyzes the second step in glycolysis, was deleted in a growth-optimized Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCloskey D,Xu S,Sandberg TE,Brunk E,Hefner Y,Szubin R,Feist AM,Palsson BO

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:High-throughput sequencing (HTS) is revolutionizing environmental surveys of microbial diversity in the three domains of life by providing detailed information on which taxa are present in microbial assemblages. However, it is still unclear how the relative abundance of specific taxa gathered by HTS correlat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Giner CR,Forn I,Romac S,Logares R,de Vargas C,Massana R

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic test systems involving microorganisms and liver enzyme preparations may be insufficient to detect compounds that require breakdown by enzymes provided by the microbial flora of the intestinal tract. A method is described for providing such activation and for simultaneously testing the potential genetic activit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayer VW,Goin CJ

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The undefined microbial floras derived from the surface of ripe cheese which are used for the ripening of commercial red smear cheeses have a strong impact on the growth of Listeria spp. In some cases, these microbial consortia inhibit Listeria almost completely. From such undefined industrial cheese-ripening floras, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eppert I,Valdés-Stauber N,Götz H,Busse M,Scherer S

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic and energetic characterization of the growth of Leuconostoc oenos on glucose-citrate or glucose-fructose mixtures enables the potential role of this bacterium in the wine-making process to be ascertained. Moreover, mixotrophic conditions remain a suitable means for improving biomass productivities of mal...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salou P,Loubiere P,Pareilleux A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the changes in the global proteome of Salmonella in response to desiccation and thermal treatment were investigated by using an iTRAQ multiplex technique. A Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain was dried, equilibrated at high (1.0) and low (0.11) water activity (aw), and thermally treated at 7...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maserati A,Lourenco A,Diez-Gonzalez F,Fink RC

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A compact housing unit for low-power (X6 to X50) cinemicrographic studies of microbial specimens in the vertical plane is described. This unit was used successfully to record the development of a "halo" of cells around subsurface colonies of Escherichia coli. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilkins JR,Tynan CI Jr,Boykin EH

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive dechlorination of the ortho moiety of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as well as of meta and para moieties is shown to occur in anaerobic enrichments of Baltimore Harbor sediments. These estuarine sediments ortho dechlorinated 2,3,5,6-chlorinated biphenyl (CB), 2,3,5-CB, and 2,3,6-CB in freshwater or estuar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berkaw M,Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Avian and possum fecal droppings may negatively impact roof-harvested rainwater (RHRW) water quality due to the presence of zoonotic pathogens. This study was aimed at evaluating the performance characteristics of a possum feces-associated (PSM) marker by screening 210 fecal and wastewater samples from possu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ahmed W,Hamilton KA,Gyawali P,Toze S,Haas CN

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of the H(2)O(2)-generating enzyme pyranose oxidase (POD) (EC 1.1.3.10) (synonym, glucose 2-oxidase), two ligninolytic peroxidases, and laccase in wood decayed by three white rot fungi was investigated by correlated biochemical, immunological, and transmission electron microscopic techniques. Enzyme acti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Daniel G,Volc J,Kubatova E

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus plantarum is a versatile bacterium that occupies a wide range of environmental niches. In this study, we found that a bifunctional aldehyde-alcohol dehydrogenase-encoding gene, adhE, was responsible for L. plantarum being able to utilize mannitol and sorbitol through cross-regulation by two DNA-binding r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yang X,Teng K,Su R,Li L,Zhang T,Fan K,Zhang J,Zhong J

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's information collection rule requires the use of 1MDS electropositive filters for concentrating enteric viruses from water, but unfortunately, these filters are not cost-effective for routine viral monitoring. In this study, an inexpensive electropositive cartridge filter, the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karim MR,Rhodes ER,Brinkman N,Wymer L,Fout GS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloned 135-kDa CryIC delta-endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis is a lepidopteran-active toxin, displaying high activity in vivo against Spodoptera litoralis and Spodoptera frugiperda larvae and in vitro against the S. frugiperda Sf9 cell line. Here, we report that the CryIC delta-endotoxin cloned from B. thuring...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Smith GP,Merrick JD,Bone EJ,Ellar DJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 200 bacterial strains were selected for anaerobic growth at 50 degrees C and extracellular polysaccharide production in a sucrose-mineral salts medium with NaNO(3) and up to 10% NaCl. The predominant cell type was an encapsulated gram-positive, motile, facultative sporeforming rod similar to Bacillus species. Str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pfiffner SM,McInerney MJ,Jenneman GE,Knapp RM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexamita sp. is an amitochondriate free-living diplomonad which inhabits O(2)-limited environments, such as the deep waters and sediments of lakes and marine basins. C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals ethanol, lactate, acetate, and alanine as products of glucose fermentation under microaerobic condition...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biagini GA,McIntyre PS,Finlay BJ,Lloyd D

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemolithoautotrophic bacteria were enriched from mine water at incubation temperatures ranging from 4 to 46 degrees C, using elemental sulfur as a substrate in acid mineral salts media. Thiobacillus-type bacteria were successfully enriched for at all test temperatures except 46 degrees C. Changes in pH (-dpH/dt) were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ahonen L,Tuovinen OH

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellate Caduceia versatilis in the gut of the termite Cryptotermes cavifrons reportedly propels itself not by its own flagella but solely by the flagella of ectosymbiotic bacteria. Previous microscopic observations have revealed that the motility symbionts are flagellated rods partially embedded in the host cel...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hongoh Y,Sato T,Dolan MF,Noda S,Ui S,Kudo T,Ohkuma M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cry1-type genes of Bacillus thuringiensis represent the largest cry gene family, which contains 50 distinct holotypes. It is becoming more and more difficult to identify cry1-type genes using current methods because of the increasing number of cry1-type genes. In the present study, an improved PCR-restriction frag...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shu C,Liu D,Zhou Z,Cai J,Peng Q,Gao J,Song F,Zhang J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 70% of the cells in a suspension of the amylolytic bacterium Lactobacillus amylovorus bind to cornstarch granules within 30 min at 25 degrees C. More than 60% of the bound bacteria were removed by formaldehyde (2%) or glycine (1 M) at pH 2.0. More than 90% of the bound bacteria were removed by MgCl(2) (2...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Imam SH,Harry-O'kuru RE

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In soil ecosystems, bacteria must cope with predation activity, which is attributed mainly to protists. The development of antipredation strategies may help bacteria maintain higher populations and persist longer in the soil. We analyzed the interaction between the root-colonizing and biocontrol strain Pseudomonas flu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jousset A,Lara E,Wall LG,Valverde C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lantibiotic nisin is produced by several strains of Lactococcus lactis. The complete gene cluster for nisin biosynthesis in L. lactis 6F3 comprises 15 kb of DNA. As described previously, the structural gene nisA is followed by the genes nisB, nisT, nisC, nisI, nisP, nisR, and nisK. Further analysis revealed three ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Siegers K,Entian KD

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mycoparasite Humicola fuscoatra NRRL 22980 was isolated from a sclerotium of Aspergillus flavus that had been buried in a cornfield near Tifton, Ga. When grown on autoclaved rice, this fungus produced the antifungal metabolites monorden, monocillin IV, and a new monorden analog. Each metabolite produced a clear zo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wicklow DT,Joshi BK,Gamble WR,Gloer JB,Dowd PF

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of known sulfur oxygenase-reductases (SORs) and the SOR-like sequences identified from public databases indicated that they all possess three cysteine residues within two conserved motifs (V-G-P-K-V-C(31) and C(101)-X-X-C(104); numbering according to the Acidianus tengchongensis numbering system). The thio-mo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen ZW,Jiang CY,She Q,Liu SJ,Zhou PJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation in manure-amended soil survival capability among 18 Escherichia coli O157 strains (8 animal, 1 food, and 9 human isolates) was studied using a single sandy soil sample and a single sample of cattle manure as the inoculum carrier. The virulence profiles of E. coli O157 strains were characterized by detect...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Franz E,van Hoek AH,Bouw E,Aarts HJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00