Isolation, characterization, and polyaromatic hydrocarbon degradation potential of aerobic bacteria from marine macrofaunal burrow sediments and description of Lutibacterium anuloederans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Cycloclasticus spirillensus sp. nov.

abstract：:Microcystis aeruginosa is a common cyanobacterium in water blooms that appear widely in nutrient-rich, fresh, and brackish waters, and its toxic blooms cause the death of domestic animals. The administration of a crude toxic cell extract of M. aeruginosa K-139 to mice can produce tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and prompt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakano Y,Shirai M,Mori N,Nakano M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenolic compounds are believed to be promising candidates as complementary therapeutics. Maple syrup, prepared by concentrating the sap from the North American maple tree, is a rich source of natural and process-derived phenolic compounds. In this work, we report the antimicrobial activity of a phenolic-rich maple sy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maisuria VB,Hosseinidoust Z,Tufenkji N

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies causing Lyme borreliosis are mainly transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus. Since its discovery, B. burgdorferi has been the subject of many epidemiological studies to determine its prevalence and the distribution of the different genospecies in ticks. In the current study w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rauter C,Hartung T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of antibiotic resistance genes in plasmids causes potential biosafety and clinical hazards, such as the possibility of horizontal spread of resistance genes or the rapid emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens. This paper introduces a novel auxotrophy complementation system that allowed plasmids and host ce...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dong WR,Xiang LX,Shao JZ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of candidate division OP11 are widely distributed in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, yet little information regarding their metabolic capabilities and ecological role within such habitats is currently available. Here, we report on the microfluidic isolation, multiple-displacement-amplification, pyrosequenci...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Youssef NH,Blainey PC,Quake SR,Elshahed MS

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of Listeria monocytogenes prevalence among ready-to-eat foods in Japan revealed frequent (5.7 to 12.1%) contamination of minced tuna and fish roe products, and the isolates had the same virulence levels as clinical isolates in terms of invasion efficiency and infectivity in cell cultures and a murine infec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miya S,Takahashi H,Ishikawa T,Fujii T,Kimura B

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Each year, thousands of new protistan 18S rRNA sequences are detected in environmental samples. Many of these sequences are molecular signatures of new protistan species, classes, and/or kingdoms that have never been seen before. The main goal of this study was to enable visualization of these novel organisms and to c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stoeck T,Fowle WH,Epstein SS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-D-Galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) was extracted from Streptococcus thermophilus grown in deproteinized cheese whey. Cultural conditions optimum for maximum enzyme production were pH 7.0, 40 degrees C, and 24 h. Proteose peptone (2.0%, wt/vol) and corn steep liquor (2.8%, wt/vol) were highly stimulatory, increasing th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rao MV,Dutta SM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the moment of cellobiose starvation, Clostridium cellulolyticum cells behave in different ways. Cells starved during the exponential phase of growth sporulate at 30%, whereas exhaustion of the carbon substrate at the beginning of growth does not provoke cell sporulation. Growth in the presence of excess c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gehin A,Gelhaye E,Raval G,Petitdemange H

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of silicic acid on the growth of Thermus thermophilus TMY, an extreme thermophile isolated from a siliceous deposit formed from geothermal water at a geothermal power plant in Japan, were examined at 75 degrees C. At concentrations higher than the solubility of amorphous silica (400 to 700 ppm SiO(2)), a s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Doi K,Fujino Y,Inagaki F,Kawatsu R,Tahara M,Ohshima T,Okaue Y,Yokoyama T,Iwai S,Ogata S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive pathogen that causes a variety of diseases, including bovine mastitis, which has severe economic consequences. Standard antibiotic treatment results in selection of resistant strains, leading to a need for alternative treatments, such as bacteriophage therapy. Forty-nine S. aur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Synnott AJ,Kuang Y,Kurimoto M,Yamamichi K,Iwano H,Tanji Y

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new bacterial xylanase belonging to family 5 of glycosyl hydrolases was identified and characterized. The xylanase, Xyn5B from Bacillus sp. strain BP-7, was active on neutral, nonsubstituted xylooligosaccharides, showing a clear difference from other GH5 xylanases characterized to date that show a requirement for me...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gallardo O,Fernández-Fernández M,Valls C,Valenzuela SV,Roncero MB,Vidal T,Díaz P,Pastor FI

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a common hospital and household pathogen. Given the emergence of antibiotic-resistant derivatives of this pathogen resulting from the use of antibiotics as general treatment, development of alternative therapeutic strategies is urgently needed. Here, we assess the feasibility of killing S. aur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen C,Chen L,Yi Y,Chen C,Wu LF,Song T

更新日期：2016-02-12 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：: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：:Acetic acid bacteria, especially Gluconobacter species, have been known to catalyze the extensive oxidation of sugar alcohols (polyols) such as D-mannitol, glycerol, D-sorbitol, and so on. Gluconobacter species also oxidize sugars and sugar acids and uniquely accumulate two different keto-D-gluconates, 2-keto-D-glucon...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matsushita K,Fujii Y,Ano Y,Toyama H,Shinjoh M,Tomiyama N,Miyazaki T,Sugisawa T,Hoshino T,Adachi O

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An aseptic vacuum extraction technique was used to obtain xylem fluid from the roots of rough lemon (Citrus jambhiri Lush.) rootstock of Florida citrus trees. Bacteria were consistently isolated from vascular fluid of both healthy and young tree decline-affected trees. Thirteen genera of bacteria were found, the most ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gardner JM,Feldman AW,Zablotowicz RM

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the first isolation of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in 2003, this MRSA variant quickly became the predominant MRSA obtained from humans as part of the Dutch national MRSA surveillance. Previous studies have suggested that human-to-human transmission of LA-MRSA, compa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bosch T,Verkade E,van Luit M,Landman F,Kluytmans J,Schouls LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the development of a single-reaction multiplex PCR assay for the enterotoxin genes from Staphylococcus aureus that utilizes a universal toxin gene primer in combination with toxin-specific primers to amplify characteristic toxin gene products. In combination with a new DNA purification method, the ass...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sharma NK,Rees CE,Dodd CE

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Sporulation of Bacillus larvae NRRL B-3650 occurred only at aeration rates lower than those used for cultivation of most Bacillus species. One possible explanation for the requirement for a low level of aeration in B. larvae is that toxic forms of oxygen such as H(2)O(2) and superoxide are involved. The superoxide dis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dingman DW,Stahly DP

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherence to hydroxyapatite (HA) was examined as a method to concentrate bacteria from foods. Using HA at a level of 10% and suspensions of an Escherichia coli strain containing 10(9), 10(6), and 10(3) cells per ml, kinetic studies revealed that maximum adherence was attained within 5 min for all cell concentrations a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berry ED,Siragusa GR

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 flow biofilms with a D-amino acid mixture caused significant reductions in cell biomass by 75% and cell viability by 71%. No biofilm disassembly occurred, and matrix production increased by 30%, thereby providing a thick protective cover for remaining viable or persister cells....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sanchez Z,Tani A,Kimbara K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cheese microbiota contributes to a large extent to the development of the typical color, flavor, and texture of the final product. Its composition is not well defined in most cases and varies from one cheese to another. The aim of the present study was to establish procedures for gene transcript quantification in ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Monnet C,Straub C,Castellote J,Onesime D,Bonnarme P,Irlinger F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used the technique of waiting time modeling to analyze the combined effects of temperature, pH, carbohydrate, protein, and lipid on the time-to-toxicity of Clostridium botulinum 56A. Waiting time models can be used whenever the time to the occurrence of some event is the variable of interest. In the case of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schaffner DW,Ross WH,Montville TJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural products of both eremofortin C (EC) and PR toxin are secondary metabolites of Penicillium roqueforti. Because the chemical structures of EC and PR toxin are closely related to each other and differ only by a hydroxyl functional group in EC and an aldehyde functional group in PR toxin at the C-12 position, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li SY,Chang SC,Wei RD

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased listerial barotolerance at elevated osmolarity is attributed, in part, to the presence of accumulated betaine and L-carnitine. The percentage of listerial survival following exposure to 400 MPa for 5 min increased from 0.008 to 0.02% with added L-carnitine (5 mM) and to 0.05% with added betaine (5 mM). Furth...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Smiddy M,Sleator RD,Patterson MF,Hill C,Kelly AL

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the sensitivity of coastal picophytoplankton exposed to natural sunlight in short-term experiments. Cell abundance and cell-specific chlorophyll fluorescence were significantly reduced in Prochlorococcus spp. but not in Synechococcus, whereas picoeukaryotes had an intermediate response. These results are the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sommaruga R,Hofer JS,Alonso-Sáez L,Gasol JM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeasts grown in the presence of benzoic acid tolerated 40 to 100% higher benzoic acid concentrations than did those grown in the absence of weak-acid-type preservatives. They also accumulated less benzoate in the presence of glucose. In chemostat cultures, benzoic acid reduced growth yield and the rate of cell product...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Warth AD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00