Mutants and intersexual heterokaryons of Blakeslea trispora for production of beta-carotene and lycopene.

abstract：:Nested PCR with three highly degenerate primers was used for amplification and identification of DNA polymerase (pol) genes from viruses which infect three genera of microalgae. Group-specific primers (AVS1 and AVS2) were designed on the basis of inferred amino acid sequences unique to the DNA pol genes of viruses (PB...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen F,Suttle CA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-utilizing bacteria to produce biosurfactants was investigated. Twenty-three bacteria isolated from a soil contaminated with petroleum wastes were able to form clearing zones on mineral salt agar plates sprayed with solutions of PAHs. Naphthalene and phenanthrene we...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Deziel E,Paquette G,Villemur R,Lepine F,Bisaillon J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contributions of various components of soil microflora and microfauna to rhizosphere phosphatase activity were determined with hydroponic cultures. Three treatments were employed: (i) plants alone (Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag. ex Steud.) (ii) plants plus bacteria (Pseudomonas sp.), and (iii) plants plus bacter...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gould WD,Coleman DC,Rubink AJ

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis RB14, which showed antibiotic activities against several phytopathogens in vitro by producing the antibiotics iturin A and surfactin, was subjected to a pot test to investigate its ability to suppress damping-off of tomato seedlings caused by Rhizoctonia solani. To facilitate recovery from soil, B. s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Asaka O,Shoda M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-galactosidase gene (aga) and a gene coding for a putative transcriptional regulator from the LacI/GalR family (galR) of Lactococcus raffinolactis ATCC 43920 were cloned and sequenced. When transferred into Lactococcus lactis and Pediococcus acidilactici strains, aga modified the sugar fermentation profile of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boucher I,Parrot M,Gaudreau H,Champagne CP,Vadeboncoeur C,Moineau S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe a novel clade within Ensifer meliloti and consider how geographic and ecological isolation contributed to the limited distribution of this group. Members of the genus Ensifer are best known for their ability to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with forage legumes of three related genera, Medicago L., M...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eardly B,Elia P,Brockwell J,Golemboski D,van Berkum P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki containing a single, stable copy of a uniquely amplifiable DNA oligomer integrated into the genome for tracking the fate of biological agents in the environment was developed. The use of genetically tagged spores overcomes the ambiguity of discerning the test materia...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Emanuel PA,Buckley PE,Sutton TA,Edmonds JM,Bailey AM,Rivers BA,Kim MH,Ginley WJ,Keiser CC,Doherty RW,Kragl FJ,Narayanan FE,Katoski SE,Paikoff S,Leppert SP,Strawbridge JB,VanReenen DR,Biberos SS,Moore D,Phillips DW,

更新日期：2012-12-01 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 objective of this study was to develop a rapid, reproducible, and robust method for detecting Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis in poultry samples. First, for the extraction and purification of DNA from the preenrichment culture, four methods (boiling, alkaline lysis, Nucleospin, and Dynabeads DNA Direct Sy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： De Medici D,Croci L,Delibato E,Di Pasquale S,Filetici E,Toti L

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When mixed ruminal bacteria were inoculated into semicontinuous cultures (25% transfer every other day) containing lactate, dulcitol, pectin, or xylose and Trypticase (1 g/liter) as the sole nitrogen source, the specific activity of ammonia production increased. The greatest enrichment was observed with lactate and xy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Russell JB,Strobel HJ,Chen GJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberellins (GAs) are tetracyclic diterpenoid phytohormones that were first identified as secondary metabolites of the fungus Fusarium fujikuroi (teleomorph, Gibberella fujikuroi). GAs were also found in the cassava pathogen Sphaceloma manihoticola, but the spectrum of GAs differed from that in F. fujikuroi. In contr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bömke C,Rojas MC,Gong F,Hedden P,Tudzynski B

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh produce is known to carry nonpathogenic epiphytic microorganisms. During agricultural production and harvesting, leafy greens can become contaminated with antibiotic-resistant pathogens or commensals from animal and human sources. As lettuce does not undergo any inactivation or preservation treatment during proc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Holvoet K,Sampers I,Callens B,Dewulf J,Uyttendaele M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of human-pathogenic, enteric bacteria on the surface and in the interior of raw produce is a significant health concern. Several aspects of the biology of the interaction between these bacteria and alfalfa (Medicago sativa) seedlings are addressed here. A collection of enteric bacteria associated with alf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dong Y,Iniguez AL,Ahmer BM,Triplett EW

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Fingerprints" of strains of methanol-oxidizing bacteria were obtained by exposing them to a set of chemicals which could stimulate or inhibit the growth. The chemicals gave quantitative results, which were used to calculate the similarities between the strains. The method has been used for establishing identity or no...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kühn I

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms in diverse terrestrial surface and subsurface environments can anaerobically catalyze the oxidative dissolution of uraninite. While a limited quantity (∼5 to 12 μmol liter(-1)) of uranium is oxidatively dissolved in pure culture studies, the metabolism is coupled to electron transport, providing the pot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weber KA,Thrash JC,Van Trump JI,Achenbach LA,Coates JD

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous necrosis virus (NNV) is a member of the Betanodavirus genus that causes fatal diseases in over 40 species of fish worldwide. Mortality among NNV-infected fish larvae is almost 100%. In order to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the susceptibility of fish larvae to NNV, we exposed zebrafish larvae to NNV...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morick D,Faigenbaum O,Smirnov M,Fellig Y,Inbal A,Kotler M

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the gram-negative bacterium Ralstonia sp. strain SBUG 290 grown in the presence of biphenyl are able to cooxidize dibenzofuran which has been 1,2-hydroxylated. Meta cleavage of the 1, 2-dihydroxydibenzofuran between carbon atoms 1 and 9b produced 2-hydroxy-4-(3'-oxo-3'H-benzofuran-2'-yliden)but-2-enoic acid, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Becher D,Specht M,Hammer E,Francke W,Schauer F

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that a robust energy taxis response mediated by the Aer receptor can sometimes mask chemotaxis mediated by other methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We identified PA2652 as a chemoreceptor for malate by screening aer mcp double mutants by using swarm plate assays. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Alvarez-Ortega C,Harwood CS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of 22 phages of Listeria species (listeriaphages) (21 temperate and 1 virulent) were compared on the basis of morphology and protein composition. All 22 phages had icosahedral heads and exhibited either contractile or noncontractile tails. They represented two different morphotypes. Twenty phages belonged to the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zink R,Loessner MJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lantibiotic (lanthionine-containing antibiotic) mersacidin is an antimicrobial peptide consisting of 20 amino acids and is produced by Bacillus sp. strain HIL Y-85,54728. The structural gene (mrsA) and the genes for producer self-protection, modification enzymes, transport proteins, and regulator proteins are orga...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmitz S,Hoffmann A,Szekat C,Rudd B,Bierbaum G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile oyster disease (JOD) causes significant annual mortalities of hatchery-produced Eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, cultured in the Northeast. We have reported that a novel species of the alpha-proteobacteria Roseobacter group (designated CVSP) was numerically dominant in JOD-affected animals sampled duri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boettcher KJ,Barber BJ,Singer JT

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas sp. will methylate trimethyl lead acetate (Me3PbOAc) to volatile tetramethyl lead (Me4Pb). Examination of cultures grown in the presence of Me3PbOAc revealed no major irregularities between cells of the treated and untreated cultures. Some cells, however, showed evidence that intracytoplasmic materials had b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Silverberg BA,Wong PT,Chau YK

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propionate-forming bacteria seem to be abundant in anoxic rice paddy soil, but biogeochemical investigations show that propionate is not a correspondingly important intermediate in carbon flux in this system. Mixed cultures of Opitutus terrae strain PB90-1, a representative propionate-producing bacterium from rice pad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chin KJ,Janssen PH

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify antifungal compounds from natural sources to be used as ingredients in the bakery industry, water/salt-soluble extracts (WSE) from different legume flour hydrolysates obtained by the use of a fungal protease were assayed against Penicillium roqueforti DPPMAF1. The agar diffusion assays allowed the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rizzello CG,Lavecchia A,Gramaglia V,Gobbetti M

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructansucrase enzymes polymerize the fructose moiety of sucrose into levan or inulin fructans, with beta(2-6) and beta(2-1) linkages, respectively. The probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus johnsonii strain NCC 533 possesses a single fructansucrase gene (open reading frame AAS08734) annotated as a putative levansucrase p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Anwar MA,Kralj S,van der Maarel MJ,Dijkhuizen L

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia fergusonii is an emerging pathogen that has been isolated from a wide range of infections in animals and humans. Primers targeting specific genes, including yliE (encoding a conserved hypothetical protein of the cellulose synthase and regulator of cellulose synthase island), EFER_1569 (encoding a hypotheti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simmons K,Rempel H,Block G,Forgetta V,Vaillancourt R Jr,Malouin F,Topp E,Delaquis P,Diarra MS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanotrophs have multiple methane monooxygenases that are well known to be regulated by copper, i.e., a "copper switch." At low copper/biomass ratios the soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) is expressed while expression and activity of the particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) increases with increasing availabil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Farhan Ul Haque M,Kalidass B,Bandow N,Turpin EA,DiSpirito AA,Semrau JD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two samples taken from two landfills were monitored for CH(inf4) production and apparent steady-state H(inf2) concentration. The rates of methanogenesis in these samples ranged from below the detection limit to 1,900 (mu)mol kg (dry weight)(sup-1) day(sup-1), and the median steady-state hydrogen concentration wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mormile MR,Gurijala KR,Robinson JA,McInerney MJ,Suflita JM

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:The world's largest outbreak of waterborne toxoplasmosis occurred in a municipality in the western Canadian province of British Columbia. When drinking water emerged as a possible source of infection during the outbreak investigation, a laboratory method was needed to attempt detection of the parasite, Toxoplasma gond...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Isaac-Renton J,Bowie WR,King A,Irwin GS,Ong CS,Fung CP,Shokeir MO,Dubey JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00