An altered Pseudomonas diversity is recovered from soil by using nutrient-poor Pseudomonas-selective soil extract media.

abstract：:An amylosucrase gene was subjected to high-rate segmental random mutagenesis, which was directed toward a segment encoding amino acids that influence the interaction with substrate molecules in subsites -1 to +3. A screen was used to identify enzyme variants with compromised glucan chain elongation. With an average mu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schneider J,Fricke C,Overwin H,Hofmann B,Hofer B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain molecular insights into the action mode of antimicrobial activity of pediocin PA-1, the interactions between this bacteriocin and dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) or dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol (DMPG) model membranes have been investigated in D(2)O at pD 6 by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaussier H,Lefèvre T,Subirade M

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:The objective of the present study was to evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis strain BB12 in stimulated Caco-2 cells and to characterize the factors responsible for these anti-inflammatory effects. Characterization and purification studies indicate that BB12's anti-inflamma...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang Z,Wang J,Cheng Y,Liu X,Huang Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azotobacter vinelandii OP was grown to stationary phase in defined medium. The cell-free culture medium was analyzed for cytokinin content by XAD-2 and Sephadex LH-20 chromatography, thin-layer chromatography, tobacco callus bioassay, and enzyme immunoassay. Three cytokinin-active fractions were detected and tentative...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Taller BJ,Wong TY

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of the Hg2+ resistance mechanism of four freshwater and four coastal marine bacteria that did not hybridize with a mer operonic probe was conducted (T. Barkay, C. Liebert, and M. Gillman, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 55:1196-1202, 1989). Hybridization with a merA probe, the gene encoding the mercuric red...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barkay T,Gillman M,Liebert C

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA primers corresponding to conserved motifs in bacterial repetitive (REP, ERIC, and BOX) elements and PCR were used to show that REP-, ERIC-, and BOX-like DNA sequences are widely distributed in phytopathogenic Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas strains. REP-, ERIC, and BOX-PCR (collectively known as rep-PCR) were used to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Louws FJ,Fulbright DW,Stephens CT,de Bruijn FJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between bacteria and the tree legume mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) is important for the maintenance of many desert ecosystems. Genes essential for nodulation and for extending the host range to mesquite were isolated from cosmid libraries of Rhizobium (mesquite) sp. strain HW17b and Bradyrhi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thomas PM,Golly KF,Virginia RA,Zyskind JW

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primers were designed to target 16S rRNA and nodD genes of Rhizobium leguminosarum from DNA extracted from two different soil types contaminated with Zn applied in sewage sludge. Numbers of rhizobia estimated using 16S rRNA gene copy number showed higher abundance than those estimated by both nodD and the most-probabl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macdonald CA,Clark IM,Hirsch PR,Zhao FJ,McGrath SP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains associated with severe disease, such as hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), carry large enterohemolysin-encoding (ehxA) plasmids, e.g., pO157 and pO103, that contribute to STEC clinical manifestations. Six ehxA subtypes (A through F) exist that phylogenetically c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lorenz SC,Monday SR,Hoffmann M,Fischer M,Kase JA

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversities leaf-associated bacteria on nonnodulated (Nod(-)), wild-type nodulated (Nod(+)), and hypernodulated (Nod(++)) soybeans were evaluated by clone library analyses of the 16S rRNA gene. To analyze the impact of nitrogen fertilization on the bacterial leaf community, soybeans were treated with standard nitr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ikeda S,Anda M,Inaba S,Eda S,Sato S,Sasaki K,Tabata S,Mitsui H,Sato T,Shinano T,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid coliphage analysis technique for enumerating coliphages in natural waters has been evaluated by water quality laboratories located throughout the United States. Correlations were established between coliphages and coliforms in natural water systems. These correlations were highly significant. This relationship...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wentsel RS,O'Neill PE,Kitchens JF

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When mixed ruminal bacteria were incubated with a pancreatic casein hydrolysate and free amino acids of a similar composition, rates of ammonia production were much greater for peptides than for amino acids. The pancreatic digest of casein was then fractionated with 90% isopropyl alcohol. Hydrophobic peptides which di...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen G,Strobel HJ,Russell JB,Sniffen CJ

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation and fate of model microbial "pathogens" within a drinking-water distribution system was investigated in naturally grown biofilms formed in a novel pilot-scale water distribution system provided with chlorinated and UV-treated water. Biofilms were exposed to 1-mum hydrophilic and hydrophobic microspher...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Långmark J,Storey MV,Ashbolt NJ,Stenström TA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three standard mycotoxins were assayed by thin-layer chromatography and by cytotoxicity in HEp-2 and Chang cells. Various levels of detection were found. The cytotoxicity test was significantly more sensitive than thin-layer chromatography for the trichothecenes and should be useful for screening extracts from ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robb J,Norval M

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane is an undesirable end product of rumen fermentative activity because of associated environmental impacts and reduced host feed efficiency. Our study characterized the rumen microbial methanogenic community in beef cattle divergently selected for phenotypic residual feed intake (RFI) while offered a high-forage...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Carberry CA,Waters SM,Kenny DA,Creevey CJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of a 30-cm covering of finished compost (FC) on survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. in active static and windrow composting systems. Feedstocks inoculated with E. coli O157:H7 (7.41 log CFU/g) and Salmonella (6.46 log CFU/g) were placed in biosentry tubes (7.5-cm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Patel JR,Yossa I,Macarisin D,Millner P

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a field experiment, Pseudomonas cepacia J82rif and J51rif increased sunflower emergence in the presence of the fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Pyrrolnitrin, aminopyrrolnitrin, and monochloroaminopyrrolnitrin were isolated from J82 and identified by using thin-layer chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatog...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McLoughlin TJ,Quinn JP,Bettermann A,Bookland R

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With an initial microbial level of ca. 10 microorganisms per g of Ivory Coast cacao beans, 5 kGy of gamma radiation under an atmosphere of air reduced the microflora per g by 2.49 and 3.03 logs at temperatures of 35 and 50 degrees C, respectively. Bahia cacao beans were artificially contaminated with dried spores of A...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Restaino L,Myron JJ,Lenovich LM,Bills S,Tscherneff K

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The culturability of Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Inaba strain 569B was decreased by the addition of glucose to cell suspensions in starvation media. A similar effect was observed with sucrose, maltose, and fructose. We term this inhibitory effect glucose shock. It was not observed with arabinose or xylose or with carb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shiba T,Hill RT,Straube WL,Colwell RR

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 40 bacterial strains belonging to the cosmopolitan Polynucleobacter necessarius cluster (Betaproteobacteria) were isolated from a broad spectrum of freshwater habitats located in three climatic zones. Sequences affiliated with the freshwater P. necessarius cluster are among the most frequently detected in st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hahn MW

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two highly active trifunctional hemicellulases were constructed by linking the catalytic portion of a xylanase with an arabinofuranosidase and a xylosidase, using either flexible peptide linkers or linkers containing a cellulose-binding domain. The multifunctional enzymes retain the parental enzyme properties and exhi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fan Z,Wagschal K,Chen W,Montross MD,Lee CC,Yuan L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high biomasses of Cladophora, a filamentous green alga, is found mainly during the summer along the shores of Lake Michigan. In this study, the abundance and persistence of the fecal indicator bacterium Escherichia coli and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) on Cladophora mats collected at Lake Michigan beaches were ev...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Olapade OA,Depas MM,Jensen ET,McLellan SL

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent phosphorylation of [14C]galactose by 11 strains of Streptococcus thermophilus indicated that these organisms possessed the Leloir enzyme, galactokinase (galK). Activities were 10 times higher in fully induced, galactose-fermenting (Gal+) strains than in galactose-nonfermenting (Gal-) strains. Lactose-gro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hutkins R,Morris HA,McKay LL

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：:Air drying of raw sludge caused inactivation of indigenous viruses. A gradual loss of infectivity occurred with the loss of water until the solids content reached about 80%. A more rapid decline of viral infectivity occurred with further dewatering. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brashear DA,Ward RL

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mold-damaged building materials may contain biologically active agents, such as (1-->3)-beta-D-glucan, allergens, and mycotoxins, which have been associated with adverse health effects. The release of these components from contaminated surfaces into the air is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to char...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Seo SC,Reponen T,Levin L,Borchelt T,Grinshpun SA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the genetic diversity of symbiotic bacteria associated with two newly discovered species of Osedax from Monterey Canyon, CA, at 1,017-m (Osedax Monterey Bay sp. 3 "rosy" [Osedax sp. MB3]) and 381-m (Osedax Monterey Bay sp. 4 "yellow collar") depths. Quantitative PCR and clone libraries of 16S rRNA gene...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goffredi SK,Johnson SB,Vrijenhoek RC

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:Campylobacter jejuni is a recognized and common gastrointestinal pathogen in most parts of the world. Human infections are often food borne, and the bacterium is frequent among poultry and other food animals. However, much less is known about the epidemiology of C. jejuni in the environment and what mechanisms the bac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Axelsson-Olsson D,Svensson L,Olofsson J,Salomon P,Waldenström J,Ellström P,Olsen B

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00