The anaerobic degradation of 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate in freshwater sediment proceeds via either chlorophenol or hydroxybenzoate to phenol and subsequently to benzoate.

abstract：:The antifungal activity of cecropin A(2-8)-melittin(6-9) hybrid undecapeptides, previously reported as active against plant pathogenic bacteria, was studied. A set of 15 sequences was screened in vitro against Fusarium oxysporum, Penicillium expansum, Aspergillus niger, and Rhizopus stolonifer. Most compounds were hig...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Badosa E,Ferré R,Francés J,Bardají E,Feliu L,Planas M,Montesinos E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plankton to which cells of Vibrio cholerae O1 and/or O139 were attached was introduced into 0.5% Instant Ocean microcosms maintained at 25 degrees C. The bulk of the plankton and associated particulates was removed with a filter constructed from either nylon net and one of several different types of sari material, the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huq A,Xu B,Chowdhury MA,Islam MS,Montilla R,Colwell RR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NisI confers immunity against nisin, with high substrate specificity to prevent a suicidal effect in nisin-producing Lactococcus lactis strains. However, the NisI maturation process as well as its influence on nisin resistance has not been characterized. Here, we report the roles of lipoprotein signal peptidase II (Ls...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu J,Xiong H,Du Y,Wiwatanaratanabutr I,Wu X,Zhao G,Zhu H,Caiyin Q,Qiao J

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Bradyrhizobium has been considered to be a taxonomically difficult group. In this study, phylogenetics and evolutionary genetics analyses were used to investigate divergence levels among Bradyrhizobium strains nodulating soybeans in China. Eleven genospecies were identified by sequence analysis of three phyl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang XX,Guo HJ,Wang R,Sui XH,Zhang YM,Wang ET,Tian CF,Chen WX

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization by Alcaligenes faecalis of electrodes as the electron donor for denitrification was investigated in this study. The denitrification rate of A. faecalis with a poised potential was greatly enhanced compared with that of the controls without poised potentials. For nitrate reduction, although A. faecalis ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang X,Yu P,Zeng C,Ding H,Li Y,Wang C,Lu A

更新日期：2015-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A new compound, designated ML-449, structurally similar to the known 20-membered macrolactam BE-14106, was isolated from a marine sediment-derived Streptomyces sp. Cloning and sequencing of the 83-kb ML-449 biosynthetic gene cluster revealed its high level of similarity to the BE-14106 gene cluster. Comparison of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jørgensen H,Degnes KF,Dikiy A,Fjaervik E,Klinkenberg G,Zotchev SB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that pesticides have played a role in the increased rate of honey bee colony loss. One of the most commonly used pesticides in the United States is the neonicotinoid imidacloprid. Although the primary mode of action of imidacloprid is on the insect nervous system, it has also been shown ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Raymann K,Motta EVS,Girard C,Riddington IM,Dinser JA,Moran NA

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Butane-oxidizing Arthrobacter (ATCC 27778) bacteria were shown to degrade low concentrations of methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE; range, 100 to 800 microg/liter) with an apparent half-saturation concentration (K(s)) of 2.14 mg/liter and a maximum substrate utilization rate (k(c)) of 0.43 mg/mg of total suspended solids per ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu CY,Speitel GE Jr,Georgiou G

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Ascochyta rabiei which are pathogenic to chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) readily catabolized the main chickpea isoflavone biochanin A (5,7-dihydroxy-4'-methoxyisoflavone). 3'-Hydroxylation and O-demethylation reactions led to the isoflavones pratensein, genistein, and orobol, which were rapidly further degrad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kraft B,Barz W

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Submerged cultures of Penicillium urticae (NRRL 2159A) produced the antibiotics patulin and griseofulvin when grown in a glucose-nitrate medium. A high concentration of calcium (i.e., 68 mM) inhibited the production of both antibiotics while stimulating conidiogenesis. Conidial mutants that were defective in an early ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sekiguchi J,Gaucher GM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to screen for T-2 toxin in Fusarium sporotrichioides -infected corn. The assay detected T-2 toxin in diluted methanol extracts of corn samples at concentrations of 0.05 ng/ml. In infected corn samples, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and gas-liquid chromatogra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gendloff EH,Pestka JJ,Swanson SP,Hart LP

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selective and differential growth medium was developed for detection of Clostridium botulinum types A, B, and F. The medium consisted of peptone-glucose-yeast extract agar supplemented with cycloserine, 250 micrograms/ml; sulfamethoxazole, 76 micrograms/ml; and trimethoprim, 4 micrograms/ml as selective inhibitors a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Silas JC,Carpenter JA,Hamdy MK,Harrison MA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale composting facilities are known to cause environmental problems, mainly through pungent air emitted by composting material. In air samples taken above stacks set up to prepare compost used as a substrate in mushroom cultivation, several volatile compounds were identified by means of the coupled techniques ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Derikx PJ,Op Den Camp HJ,van der Drift C,van Griensven LJ,Vogels GD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

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：:A new genus and species of a nonmotile gram-negative rod, Syntrophobacter wolinii, is the first bacterium described which degrades propionate only in coculture with an H(2)-using organism and in the absence of light or exogenous electron acceptors such as O(2), sulfate, or nitrate. It was isolated from methanogenic en...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boone DR,Bryant MP

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinear thermal inactivation of Aspergillus niger spores in phosphate-citrate buffer was studied. The thermal inactivation pattern of the spore consisted of a shoulder, an accelerated decline, and a tail at various constant temperatures around 60 degrees C. The pattern fitted a thermotolerant subpopulation model...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fujikawa H,Itoh T

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective growth inhibitors of Sphaerotilus natans were detected in the culture broths of several strains of Streptomyces. Anslimins A and B were isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces oganonensis by adsorption on resinous adsorbent followed by elution with 50% aqueous acetone. The A and B components were the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takiguchi Y,Yoshikawa H,Terao M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presumptive bacteriophage P1 transductants of Escherichia coli, isolated from soil inoculated with lysates of transducing phage P1 and E. coli, were confirmed to be lysogenic for phage P1 by hybridization with a biotinylated DNA probe prepared from the 1.2-kilobase-pair HindIII 3 fragment of bacteriophage P1. No P1 ly...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zeph LR,Stotzky G

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two intertidal marshes, the vertical distribution in the sediment and inhibition by ammonium of methane oxidation were investigated by slurry incubation experiments. The two sites differ in their dominant vegetation type, i.e., reed and bulrush, and in their heights above sea level. The reed site was elevated with ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Der Nat F,De Brouwer J,Middelburg JJ,Laanbroek HJ

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic, glucose-limited chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK113-7D were grown with different nitrogen sources. Cultures grown with phenylalanine, leucine, or methionine as a nitrogen source contained high levels of the corresponding fusel alcohols and organic acids, indicating activity of the Ehrlich...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vuralhan Z,Luttik MA,Tai SL,Boer VM,Morais MA,Schipper D,Almering MJ,Kötter P,Dickinson JR,Daran JM,Pronk JT

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of microorganisms can be predicted through the use of active biological containment systems. We have constructed contained Pseudomonas putida strains that degrade alkylbenzoates. The modified strain carries a fusion of the Plac promoter to the gef gene, which encodes a killing protein. Expression from Pla...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ronchel MC,Ramos C,Jensen LB,Molin S,Ramos JL

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the molecular relationship between the 60-megadalton (Mdal) recombinant lactose plasmids in ML 3 x LM2301 lactose-positive (Lac+) transconjugants and the genetic material of Streptococcus lactis ML3. Lactose metabolism is linked to the 33-Mdal plasmid pSK08 in ML3, and the recipient LM2301 is cured of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Walsh PM,McKay LL

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms for Fe(III) oxide reduction were investigated in Geothrix fermentans, a dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing microorganism found within the Fe(III) reduction zone of subsurface environments. Culture filtrates of G. fermentans stimulated the reduction of poorly crystalline Fe(III) oxide by washed cell suspensions,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nevin KP,Lovley DR

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model was developed to estimate the number of logarithmic cycles (LDec) of lipopolysaccharide concentration destroyed by a dry-heat sterilization process. The LDec values calculated from the mathematical model agreed well with those obtained from the destruction of lipopolysaccharide by a dry-heat treat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsuji K,Lewis AR

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the first steps in characterizing an ecosystem is to describe the organisms inhabiting it. For microbial studies, experimental limitations have hindered the ability to depict diverse communities. Here we describe oligonucleotide fingerprinting of rRNA genes (OFRG), a method that permits identification of arraye...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Valinsky L,Della Vedova G,Scupham AJ,Alvey S,Figueroa A,Yin B,Hartin RJ,Chrobak M,Crowley DE,Jiang T,Borneman J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An accurate most-probable-number enumeration method was developed for counting the number of Beggiatoa trichomes from various freshwater sediments. The medium consisted of extracted hay, diluted soil extract, 0.05% acetate, and 15 to 35 U of catalase per ml. The same enrichment medium, but without the acetate, was the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Strohl WR,Larkin JM

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are important disease vectors, as they transmit a variety of human and animal pathogens worldwide. Symbionts that coevolved with ticks confer crucial benefits to their host in nutrition metabolism, fecundity, and vector competence. Although over 100 tick species have been identified in China, general information...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang M,Zhu D,Dai J,Zhong Z,Zhang Y,Wang J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus is one of the most common causes of acute viral gastroenteritis. The virus is spread via the fecal-oral route, most commonly from infected food and water, but several outbreaks have originated from contamination of surfaces with infectious virus. In this study, a close surrogate of human norovirus causing ga...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Warnes SL,Summersgill EN,Keevil CW

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of sucrose monolaurate and a novel ester, lactose monolaurate (LML), were tested. Gram-positive bacteria were more susceptible than Gram-negative bacteria to both esters. The minimal bactericidal concentrations of LML were 5 to 9.5 mM for Listeria monocytogenes isolates and 0.2 to 2 mM for...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wagh A,Shen S,Shen FA,Miller CD,Walsh MK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of two closely related species to maintain species boundaries in spite of retained interfertility between them is a documented driving force of speciation. Experimental evidence to support possible interspecific postzygotic isolation mechanisms for organisms belonging to the kingdom Fungi is still missing....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Garbelotto M,Gonthier P,Nicolotti G

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00