Fungal biodegradation of lignopolystyrene graft copolymers.

abstract：:A bacterial strain, designated KSM-7358, that can use alpha-cedrene for growth was isolated. The strain was identified as a member of the genus Rhodococcus and catalyzed the novel allylic oxidation of alpha-cedrene regiospecifically to produce (R)-10-hydroxycedrene (sec-cedrenol) with a very high yield. alpha-Curcumen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takigawa H,Kubota H,Sonohara H,Okuda M,Tanaka S,Fujikura Y,Ito S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand how microbial communities and functional genes respond to arsenic contamination in the rhizosphere of Pteris vittata, five soil samples with different arsenic contamination levels were collected from the rhizosphere of P. vittata and nonrhizosphere areas and investigated by Biolog, geochemical, and funct...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xiong J,Wu L,Tu S,Van Nostrand JD,He Z,Zhou J,Wang G

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic digestion in vitro of the Bacillus thuringiensis protoxin presumably releases and activates the toxin in a manner analogous to that which occurs when a B. thuringiensis sporulated fermentation preparation passes through the midgut of a lepidopteran larva. Therefore, a sporulated culture of B. thuringiensis s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aronson JN,Arvidson HC

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes involved in aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) biosynthesis in Aspergillus parasiticus, nor-1 and ver-1, were localized to a 35-kb region on one A. parasiticus chromosome and to the genomic DNA fragment carried on a single cosmid, NorA. A physical and transcriptional map of the 35-kb genomic DNA insert in cosmid NorA was p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trail F,Mahanti N,Rarick M,Mehigh R,Liang SH,Zhou R,Linz JE

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report simultaneous surface profile measurements of several bacterial species involved in microbially influenced corrosion and their solid-surface interfaces by using vertical scanning interferometry. The capacity to nondestructively quantify microscale topographic changes beneath a single bacterium without i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Waters MS,El-Naggar MY,Hsu L,Sturm CA,Luttge A,Udwadia FE,Cvitkovitch DG,Goodman SD,Nealson KH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 199 fungal cultures isolated from some of the common cereals collected from different parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, 70 produced toxic metabolites. Of the 70 fungi isolated, 59 produced toxins which caused visible lesions in livers, kidneys, and spleens but did not cause mortality. Toxicity, graded in t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gupta J,Pathak B,Sethi N,Vora VC

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practical task of adapting an original potentiometric technique to the bacteriological analysis of water is discussed. Various laboratory strains of organisms belonging to the usual aquatic flora were inoculated one by one in a minimal lactose broth supplied with lipoic (thioctic) acid. The time evolution of the r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Charriere G,Jouenne T,Lemeland JF,Selegny E,Junter GA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The competition between selected or commercial killer strains of type K2 and sensitive commercial strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was studied under various conditions in sterile grape juice fermentations. The focus of this study was the effect of yeast inoculation levels and the role of assimilable nitrogen nutrit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Medina K,Carrau FM,Gioia O,Bracesco N

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of Azospirillum brasilense Cd and Sp-245 in the rhizosphere of wheat and tomato plants and in 23 types of plant-free sterilized soils obtained from a wide range of environments in Israel and Mexico was evaluated. Large numbers of A. brasilense cells were detected in all the rhizospheres tested, regardless...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bashan Y,Puente ME,Rodriguez-Mendoza MN,Toledo G,Holguin G,Ferrera-Cerrato R,Pedrin S

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicinal plants are valuable resources of natural antimicrobial materials. A novel small protein with antimicrobial activities, designated LJAMP1, was purified from the seeds of a medicinal herb, motherwort (Leonurus japonicus Houtt). LJAMP1 is a heat-stable protein with a molecular mass of 7.8 kDa and a determined i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yang X,Xiao Y,Wang X,Pei Y

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulation of a heat process used in the terminal dry-heat decontamination of the Viking spacecraft is reported. Naturally occurring airborne bacterial spores were collected on Teflon ribbons in selected spacecraft assembly areas and subsequently subjected to dry heat. Thermal inactivation experiments were conducted a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Puleo JR,Bergstrom SL,Peeler JT,Oxborrow GS

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study site located in the Mediterranean Sea was visited eight times in 2005 and 2006 to collect samples from the epipelagic (5 m), mesopelagic (200 m, 600 m), and bathypelagic (1,000 m, 2,000 m) zones. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA PCR (RAPD-PCR) analysis was used to obtain fingerprints from microbial and vir...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Winter C,Weinbauer MG

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simkania negevensis is a recently discovered chlamydia-like intracellular microorganism which has been associated with bronchiolitis in infants and with community-acquired pneumonia in adults; a high seroprevalence of antibodies to the microorganism has been found in various population groups. S. negevensis can be gro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kahane S,Platzner N,Dvoskin B,Itzhaki A,Friedman MG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and proteomic tools have been utilized for investigating the mechanism of action of a new Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain (SeITE02), a gammaproteobacterium capable of resistance to high concentrations of selenite [SeO(3)(2-), Se(IV)], reducing it to nontoxic elemental selenium under aerobic conditions;...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Antonioli P,Lampis S,Chesini I,Vallini G,Rinalducci S,Zolla L,Righetti PG

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut is host to a diversity of microorganisms, including the single-celled microbial eukaryote Blastocystis. Research has shown that most carriers host a single Blastocystis subtype (ST), which is unusual given the considerable within-host species diversity observed for other microbial genera in this ecosyste...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Scanlan PD,Stensvold CR,Cotter PD

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobiota growing on food is often beneficial for the ripening and development of the specific flavor characteristics of the product, but it can also be harmful due to the production of undesirable compounds such as mycotoxins or antibiotics. Some of the fungi most frequently isolated from fermented and cured meat pro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Laich F,Fierro F,Martín JF

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The harvesting of rainwater is gaining acceptance among many governmental authorities in countries such as Australia, Germany, and South Africa, among others. However, conflicting reports on the microbial quality of harvested rainwater have been published. To monitor the presence of potential pathogenic bacteria durin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dobrowsky PH,De Kwaadsteniet M,Cloete TE,Khan W

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryparin is a cell-surface-associated hydrophobin of the filamentous ascomycete Cryphonectria parasitica. This protein contains a signal peptide that directs it to the vesicle-mediated secretory pathway. We detected a glycosylated form of cryparin in a secretory vesicle fraction, but secreted forms of this protein are...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCabe PM,Van Alfen NK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complex network regulates virulence in Ralstonia solanacearum (formerly Pseudomonas solanacearum); central to this system is PhcA, a LysR-type transcriptional regulator. We report here that two PhcA-regulated virulence factors, endoglucanase (Egl) and acidic exopolysaccharide I (EPS I), and motility are expressed di...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Clough SJ,Flavier AB,Schell MA,Denny TP

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the complete genome sequence of Lactobacillus gasseri ATCC 33323, a neotype strain of human origin and a native species found commonly in the gastrointestinal tracts of neonates and adults. The plasmid-free genome was 1,894,360 bp in size and predicted to encode 1,810 genes. The GC content was 35.3...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azcarate-Peril MA,Altermann E,Goh YJ,Tallon R,Sanozky-Dawes RB,Pfeiler EA,O'Flaherty S,Buck BL,Dobson A,Duong T,Miller MJ,Barrangou R,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lytic activity of 132 phages isolated during slow acid production in cheese factories situated in all the dairying regions of France during the past 16 years has been determined on 291 strains of mesophilic lactic streptococci. The results have been treated according to a method of analysis of data so as to establ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chopin MC,Chopin A,Roux C

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of the microbial spoilage population for air- and vacuum-packaged meat (beef and pork) stored at 4 degrees C was investigated over 11 days. We monitored the viable counts (mesophilic total aerobic bacteria, Pseudomonas spp., Enterobacteriaceae, lactic acid bacteria, and Enterococcus spp.) by the microbio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayr D,Margesin R,Klingsbichel E,Hartungen E,Jenewein D,Schinner F,Märk TD

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seabird ticks are known reservoirs of bacterial pathogens of medical importance; however, ticks parasitizing tropical seabirds have received less attention than their counterparts from temperate and subpolar regions. Recently, Rickettsia africae was described to infect seabird ticks of the western Indian Ocean and New...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilkinson DA,Dietrich M,Lebarbenchon C,Jaeger A,Le Rouzic C,Bastien M,Lagadec E,McCoy KD,Pascalis H,Le Corre M,Dellagi K,Tortosa P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific oxygen uptake rates [Q(02)] were highest when Candida 107 and Rhodotorula gracilis grew at their maximum dilution rates. In nitrogen-limited medium, which encourages lipid accumulation, Q(02) values of both yeasts decreased as the dilution rate was lowered. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ratledge C,Hall MJ

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphanothece halophytica is a halotolerant alkaliphilic cyanobacterium which can grow at NaCl concentrations up to 3.0 M and at pH values up to 11. The genome sequence revealed that the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 contains five putative Na+/H+ antiporters, two of which are homologous to NhaP of Pse...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wutipraditkul N,Waditee R,Incharoensakdi A,Hibino T,Tanaka Y,Nakamura T,Shikata M,Takabe T,Takabe T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of Trichoplusia ni larvae to several Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) was tested. Neonatal larvae proved to be susceptible to solubilized trypsin-treated CryIA(a), CryIA(b), and CryIA(c) (50% lethal concentrations [LC(50)s], 570, 480, and 320 ng/cm, respectively) but showe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Estada U,Ferre J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to identify genes in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis IL1403 and Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris Wg2 important for adsorption of the 936-species phages bIL170 and phi 645, respectively. Random insertional mutagenesis of the two L. lactis strains was carried out with the vector pGh9:ISS1, an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dupont K,Janzen T,Vogensen FK,Josephsen J,Stuer-Lauridsen B

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enrichment and isolation of thermophilic bacteria capable of rubber [poly(cis-1,4-isoprene)] degradation revealed eight different strains exhibiting both currently known strategies used by rubber-degrading mesophilic bacteria. Taxonomic characterization of these isolates by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis demonstr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ibrahim EM,Arenskötter M,Luftmann H,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms which are derived from a bacteriophage genome are termed Per (phage-encoded resistance). When present in trans in Lactococcus lactis NCK203, Per50, the cloned origin of replication from phage phi50, interferes with phi50 replication. The per50 fragment was found to afford negligible...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： O'sullivan DJ,Hill C,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological dinitrogen fixation in mangrove communities of the Tampa Bay region of South Florida was investigated using the acetylene reduction technique. Low rates of acetylene reduction (0.01 to 1.84 nmol of C(2)H(4)/g [wet weight] per h) were associated with plant-free sediments, while plant-associated sediments gav...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zuberer DA,Silver WS

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00