Characteristics of a new enantioselective thermostable dipeptidase from Brevibacillus borstelensis BCS-1 and its application to synthesis of a D-amino-acid-containing dipeptide.

abstract：:The distribution and levels of Clostridium botulinum type E were determined from field sites used by Inuit hunters for butchering seals along the coast of Nunavik. The incidence rates of C. botulinum type E in shoreline soil along the coast were 0, 50, and 87.5% among samples tested for the Hudson Strait, Hudson Bay, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leclair D,Farber JM,Doidge B,Blanchfield B,Suppa S,Pagotto F,Austin JW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne, opportunistic, bacterial pathogen causing a wide spectrum of diseases, including meningitis, septicemia, abortion, and gastroenteritis, in humans and animals. Among the 13 L. monocytogenes serovars described, human listeriosis is mostly associated with strains of serovars 4b, 1/...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Severino P,Dussurget O,Vêncio RZ,Dumas E,Garrido P,Padilla G,Piveteau P,Lemaître JP,Kunst F,Glaser P,Buchrieser C

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epimerization of sugar nucleotides is central to the structural diversification of monosaccharide building blocks for cellular biosynthesis. Epimerase applicability to carbohydrate synthesis can be limited, however, by the high degree of substrate specificity exhibited by most sugar nucleotide epimerases. Here, we dis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rapp C,van Overtveldt S,Beerens K,Weber H,Desmet T,Nidetzky B

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of addition of purified nisin Z in liposomes to cheese milk and of in situ production of nisin Z by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis UL719 in the mixed starter on the inhibition of Listeria innocua in cheddar cheese was evaluated during 6 months of ripening. A cheese mixed starter cultu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Benech RO,Kheadr EE,Laridi R,Lacroix C,Fliss I

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometric measurement of carbon dioxide production was used to study malolactic fermentation (MLF) in Lactobacillus collinoides isolated from cider. The kinetics and stereospecificity of the malolactic enzyme (MLE) were studied, and the stoichiometry of the reaction sequence was investigated. The optimum pH f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Arthurs CE,Lloyd D

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships between the hyphae of Agaricus bisporus (Lang) Sing and bacteria from the mushroom bed casing layer were examined with a scanning electron microscope. Hyphae growing in the casing layer differed morphologically from compost-grown hyphae. Whereas the compost contained thin single hyphae surrounded by calc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masaphy S,Levanon D,Tchelet R,Henis Y

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arthrobacter sp. strain SU 4-chlorobenzoate (4-CBA) dehalogenation pathway converts 4-CBA to 4-hydroxybenzoate (4-HBA). The pathway operon contains the genes fcbA, fcbB, and fcbC (A. Schmitz, K. H. Gartemann, J. Fiedler, E. Grund, and R. Eichenlaub, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58:4068-4071, 1992). Genes fcbA and fcb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhuang Z,Gartemann KH,Eichenlaub R,Dunaway-Mariano D

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biodegradation of tert-butylphenyl diphenyl phosphate (BPDP) was examined in microcosms containing sediment and water from five different ecosystems as part of our studies to elucidate the environmental fate of phosphate ester flame retardants. Biodegradation of [14C]BPDP was monitored in the environmental microco...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heitkamp MA,Freeman JP,Cerniglia CE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much interest in the use of seed-applied bacteria for biocontrol and biofertilization, and several commercial products are available. However, many attempts to use this strategy fail because the seed-applied bacteria do not colonize the rhizosphere. Mechanisms of rhizosphere colonization may involve active ba...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knox OG,Killham K,Artz RR,Mullins C,Wilson M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial partners play important roles in the biology and ecology of animals. In insects, maternally transmitted symbionts are especially common and can have host effects ranging from reproductive manipulation to nutrient provisioning and defense against natural enemies. In this study, we report a genus-wide associat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ballinger MJ,Moore LD,Perlman SJ

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of limiting concentrations of ammonium on the metabolic activity of Nitrosomonas europaea, an obligate ammonia-oxidizing soil bacterium, were investigated. Cells were harvested during late logarithmic growth and were incubated for 24 h in growth medium containing 0, 15, or 50 mM ammonium. The changes in ni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stein LY,Arp DJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maltose-limited, continuous growth of the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima at different temperatures and dilution rates (80 degrees C/0.25 h(-1), 80 degrees C/0.17 h(-1), and 85 degrees C/0.25 h(-1)) showed that transcriptome-wide variation in gene expression within mechanical steady states was minimal compared to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shockley KR,Scott KL,Pysz MA,Conners SB,Johnson MR,Montero CI,Wolfinger RD,Kelly RM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metagenomic approach provides direct access to diverse unexplored genomes, especially from uncultivated bacteria in a given environment. This diversity can conceal many new biosynthetic pathways. Type I polyketide synthases (PKSI) are modular enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of many natural products of industr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ginolhac A,Jarrin C,Gillet B,Robe P,Pujic P,Tuphile K,Bertrand H,Vogel TM,Perrière G,Simonet P,Nalin R

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the cloning and sequencing of the gene for proline dehydrogenase (putA) of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. An open reading frame coding for 1,016 amino acids was identified. The B. japonicum gene codes for a bifunctional protein with proline dehydrogenase and pyrroline-5-carboxylate (P5C) dehydrogenase activi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Straub PF,Reynolds PH,Althomsons S,Mett V,Zhu Y,Shearer G,Kohl DH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that overexpression of the soxS or robA gene causes in several Escherichia coli strains the acquisition of higher organic solvent tolerance and also increased resistance to a number of antibiotics (H. Nakajima, K. Kobayashi, M. Kobayashi, H. Asako, and R. Aono, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:2302-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Asako H,Nakajima H,Kobayashi K,Kobayashi M,Aono R

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:A multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis of 96 strains of the salmonellae distinguished 80 electrophoretic types (ETs) and placed them in eight groups, seven of which correspond precisely to the seven taxonomic groups (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IV, V, and VI) previously defined on the basis of biotype and genomic DNA hyb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boyd EF,Wang FS,Whittam TS,Selander RK

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colorimetric assay for NADPH-dependent, mercuric ion-specific oxidoreductase activity was developed to facilitate the investigation of mercuric reductase gene expression in polluted aquatic ecosystems. Protein molecules extracted directly from unseeded freshwater and samples seeded with Pseudomonas aeruginosa PU21 (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ogunseitan OA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achromobacter spp. are nonfermentative Gram-negative bacilli considered emergent pathogens in cystic fibrosis (CF). Although some cross-transmission events between CF patients have been described, Achromobacter strains were mostly patient specific, suggesting sporadic acquisitions from nonhuman reservoirs. However, so...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dupont C,Jumas-Bilak E,Doisy C,Aujoulat F,Chiron R,Marchandin H

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcript abundances of nitrate transporter genes (Nrt2) were proposed as potential markers for nitrogen deficiency in marine diatoms. To correctly quantify diatom Nrt2 mRNA in the East China Sea (ECS), we utilized both mixed-species sequencing and single-cell PCR to expand the sequence database for this region. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kang LK,Wang HF,Chang J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of plasmid-borne antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli wild-type strains is possible by transformation under naturally occurring conditions in oligotrophic, aquatic environments containing physiologic concentrations of calcium. In contrast, transformation is suppressed in nitrogen-rich body fluids l...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Woegerbauer M,Jenni B,Thalhammer F,Graninger W,Burgmann H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivation of catechol 2,3-dioxygenase from Pseudomonas putida mt-2 by 3-chloro- and 3-fluorocatechol and the iron-chelating agent Tiron (catechol-3,5-disulfonate) was studied. Whereas inactivation by Tiron is an oxygen-independent and mostly reversible process, inactivation by the 3-halocatechols was only obser...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bartels I,Knackmuss HJ,Reineke W

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seawater used in mariculture has been suspected of being a potential source of infection. In this study, the lethal effects of low-amperage electric treatment on microorganisms were examined in natural seawater and in seawater inoculated with Vibrio parahaemolyticus. In both cases, bacteria including V. parahaemolytic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Park JC,Lee MS,Lee DH,Park BJ,Han DW,Uzawa M,Takatori K

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the survival of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and microbial source-tracking (MST) markers is critical to developing pathogen fate and transport models. Although pathogen survival in water microcosms and manure-amended soils is well documented, little is known about their survival in intact cow pats depo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oladeinde A,Bohrmann T,Wong K,Purucker ST,Bradshaw K,Brown R,Snyder B,Molina M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the human gut microbiota can be divided into enterotypes based on the abundance of specific bacterial groups; however, the biological significance and stability of these enterotypes remain unresolved. Here, we demonstrated that subjects (n = 62) 18 to 65 years old with central obesity and co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Roager HM,Licht TR,Poulsen SK,Larsen TM,Bahl MI

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiosulfate-oxidizing sox gene homologues were found at four loci (I, II, III, and IV) on the genome of Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110, a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium in soil. In fact, B. japonicum USDA110 can oxidize thiosulfate and grow under a chemolithotrophic condition. The deletion mutation of the soxY(...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masuda S,Eda S,Ikeda S,Mitsui H,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 2610 in vol. 57.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaternary ammonium compounds such as benzalkonium chloride (BC) are widely used as disinfectants in both food processing and medical environments. BC-resistant strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been implicated in multistate outbreaks of listeriosis and have been frequently isolated from food processing plants. H...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Elhanafi D,Dutta V,Kathariou S

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:We characterized the intracellular symbiotic microbiota of the bamboo pseudococcid Antonina crawii by performing a molecular phylogenetic analysis in combination with in situ hybridization. Almost the entire length of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene was amplified and cloned from A. crawii whole DNA. Restriction fragment l...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fukatsu T,Nikoh N

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00