Localization and functional analysis of PepI, the immunity peptide of Pep5-producing Staphylococcus epidermidis strain 5.

abstract：:Peanut kernels (Tainan 9, a Spanish cultivar) inoculated with Aspergillus parasiticus, A. flavus, A. niger, or A. ochraceus as well as noninoculated kernels were incubated in a humidified environment (relative humidity, 100%) at 25(deg)C for 7 weeks. Internal fungal populations and changes in moisture and sucrose cont...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chiou RY

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular serine protease produced by a mutant, M1, derived from Streptomyces albogriseolus S-3253 that no longer produces a protease inhibitor (Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor [SSI]) was isolated. A 20-kDa protein was purified by its affinity for SSI and designated SAM-P20. The amino acid sequence of the ami...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Taguchi S,Odaka A,Watanabe Y,Momose H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid profiles of 619 cultures of Bacillus anthracis which had been isolated and stored between 1954 and 1989 were analyzed using the Laboratory Response Network real-time PCR assay targeting a chromosomal marker and both virulence plasmids (pXO1 and pXO2). The cultures were stored at ambient temperature on tryp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marston CK,Hoffmaster AR,Wilson KE,Bragg SL,Plikaytis B,Brachman P,Johnson S,Kaufmann AF,Popovic T

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Escherichia coli JM101(pSPZ3), containing xylene monooxygenase (XMO) from Pseudomonas putida mt-2, catalyzes specific oxidations and reductions of m-nitrotoluene and derivatives thereof. In addition to reactions catalyzed by XMO, we focused on biotransformations by native enzymes of the E. coli host and their effect o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Meyer D,Witholt B,Schmid A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The luxS gene of Lactobacillus reuteri 100-23C was amplified by PCR, cloned, and then sequenced. To define a physiological and ecological role for the luxS gene in L. reuteri 100-23C, a luxS mutant was constructed by insertional mutagenesis. The luxS mutant did not produce autoinducers AI-2 or AI-3. Complementation of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tannock GW,Ghazally S,Walter J,Loach D,Brooks H,Cook G,Surette M,Simmers C,Bremer P,Dal Bello F,Hertel C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pure cultures of denitrifying bacteria, which had previously been isolated on defined alkylbenzenes, were capable of anaerobic growth with crude oil as the only source of organic substrates. Chemical analyses after growth revealed that the known growth substrates toluene, ethylbenzene, and m-xylene were selective...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rabus R,Widdel F

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haloalkane dehalogenase enzyme DmmA was identified by marine metagenomic screening. Determination of its crystal structure revealed an unusually large active site compared to those of previously characterized haloalkane dehalogenases. Here we present a biochemical characterization of this interesting enzyme with e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Buryska T,Babkova P,Vavra O,Damborsky J,Prokop Z

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two thermostable lipases were isolated and characterized from Thermosyntropha lipolytica DSM 11003, an anaerobic, thermophilic, alkali-tolerant bacterium which grows syntrophically with methanogens on lipids such as olive oil, utilizing only the liberated fatty acid moieties but not the glycerol. Lipases LipA and LipB...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salameh MA,Wiegel J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zoothamnium niveum is a giant, colonial marine ciliate from sulfide-rich habitats obligatorily covered with chemoautotrophic, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria which appear as coccoid rods and rods with a series of intermediate shapes. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridization showed ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rinke C,Schmitz-Esser S,Stoecker K,Nussbaumer AD,Molnár DA,Vanura K,Wagner M,Horn M,Ott JA,Bright M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SslI, a type II restriction endonuclease, was purified from Streptococcus salivarius subsp. thermophilus strain BSN 45. SslI is an isoschizomer of BstNI. SslI activity was maximum at pH 8.8, 0 to 50 mM NaCl, 2 to 8 mM Mg2+, and 42 degrees C. Activity against phage DNA in vitro was demonstrated. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Benbadis L,Garel JR,Hartley DL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlations between the biomass of phytoplankton and the biomass of bacteria and between the biomass of bacteria and the biomass of protozoans suggest that there is coupling between these compartments of the "microbial loop." To investigate this coupling on the species level, bacteria and protozoans from untreated la...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van Hannen EJ,Mooij W,van Agterveld MP,Gons HJ,Laanbroek HJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is a saprophytic bacterium which is the causative agent of melioidosis, a common cause of fatal bacterial pneumonia and sepsis in the tropics. The incidence of melioidosis is clustered spatially and temporally and is heavily linked to rainfall and extreme weather events. Clinical case cluster...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baker A,Tahani D,Gardiner C,Bristow KL,Greenhill AR,Warner J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial biosensor for benzene, toluene, and similar compounds has been constructed, characterized, and field tested on contaminated water and soil. The biosensor is based on a plasmid incorporating the transcriptional activator xylR from the TOL plasmid of Pseudomonas putida mt-2. The XylR protein binds a subset o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Willardson BM,Wilkins JF,Rand TA,Schupp JM,Hill KK,Keim P,Jackson PJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) constitute a new family of fungal heme-thiolate enzymes in which there is high biotechnological interest. Although several thousand genes encoding hypothetical UPO-type proteins have been identified in sequenced fungal genomes and other databases, only a few UPO enzymes have been experi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Linde D,Olmedo A,González-Benjumea A,Estévez M,Renau-Mínguez C,Carro J,Fernández-Fueyo E,Gutiérrez A,Martínez AT

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyophilization was used to concentrate bovine feces prior to DNA extraction and analysis using real-time PCR. Lyophilization significantly improved the sensitivity of detection compared to that in fresh feces and was associated with reliable quantification of both Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Campylobacter jejuni bact...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rapp D,Waller J,Brightwell G,Muirhead RW

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chloroflexi CL500-11 clade contributes a large proportion of the bacterial biomass in the oxygenated hypolimnia of deep lakes worldwide, including the world's largest freshwater system, the Laurentian Great Lakes. Traits that allow CL500-11 to thrive and its biogeochemical role in these environments are currently ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Denef VJ,Mueller RS,Chiang E,Liebig JR,Vanderploeg HA

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenoprotein synthesis in Escherichia coli strictly depends on the presence of a specific selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) following the selenocysteine-encoding UGA codon of the respective mRNA. It is recognized by the selenocysteine-specific elongation factor SelB, leading to cotranslational insertion of se...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gursinsky T,Gröbe D,Schierhorn A,Jäger J,Andreesen JR,Söhling B

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expanded Fermi solution was originally developed for estimating the number of food-poisoning victims when information concerning the circumstances of exposure is scarce. The method has been modified for estimating the initial number of pathogenic or probiotic cells or spores so that enough of them will survive the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Peleg M,Normand MD,Horowitz J,Corradini MG

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper appears to be influencing the distribution and abundance of phytoplankton in marine environments, and cyanobacteria are thought to be the most sensitive of the phytoplankton groups to copper toxicity. By using growth assays of phylogenetically divergent clades, we found that coastal strains of marine Synechococ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stuart RK,Dupont CL,Johnson DA,Paulsen IT,Palenik B

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the yield of the B vitamin folic acid could be elevated in Bacillus subtilis. Strategies for increasing the folic acid yield were investigated by employing computer-aided flux analysis and mutation. Controlling the activity of the enzyme pyruvate kinase by placing it under inducible control was...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhu T,Pan Z,Domagalski N,Koepsel R,Ataai MM,Domach MM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hindguts of lower termites and Cryptocercus cockroaches are home to a distinct community of archaea, bacteria, and protists (primarily parabasalids and some oxymonads). Within a host species, the composition of these hindgut communities appears relatively stable, but the evolutionary and ecological factors structu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tai V,James ER,Nalepa CA,Scheffrahn RH,Perlman SJ,Keeling PJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic oomycete Aphanomyces invadans is the primary etiological agent in ulcerative mycosis, an ulcerative skin disease caused by a fungus-like agent of wild and cultured fish. We developed sensitive PCR and fluorescent peptide nucleic acid in situ hybridization (FISH) assays to detect A. invadans. Laboratory-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vandersea MW,Litaker RW,Yonnish B,Sosa E,Landsberg JH,Pullinger C,Moon-Butzin P,Green J,Morris JA,Kator H,Noga EJ,Tester PA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six laboratories actively involved in water virology research participated in a methods evaluation study, conducted under the auspices of the American Society for Testing and Materials Committee on Viruses in the Aquatic Environment, Task Force on Drinking Water. Each participant was asked to examine the Viradel (viru...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Melnick JL,Safferman R,Rao VC,Goyal S,Berg G,Dahling DR,Wright BA,Akin E,Stetler R,Sorber C

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the ligninolytic system of the wood-degrading fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium is induced during secondary metabolism, brought about by nitrogen, carbon, or sulfur starvation. We describe here a strategy for selection of mutants which are ligninolytic (lignin----CO2) and overproduce lignin-degrading enz...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tien M,Myer SB

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus virus-like particles (VLPs) and MS2 bacteriophages were bioaccumulated in bivalve mollusks to evaluate viral persistence in shellfish during depuration and relaying under natural conditions. Using this nonpathogenic surrogate virus, we were able to demonstrate that about 1 log10 of VLPs was depurated after 1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Loisy F,Atmar RL,Le Saux JC,Cohen J,Caprais MP,Pommepuy M,Le Guyader FS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 98 suspected food-borne Clostridium perfringens isolates obtained from a nationwide survey by the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority in The Netherlands, 59 strains were identified as C. perfringens type A. Using PCR-based techniques, the cpe gene encoding enterotoxin was detected in eight isolates, showing ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xiao Y,Wagendorp A,Moezelaar R,Abee T,Wells-Bennik MH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decomposition of natural populations of Lake Mendota phytoplankton dominated by blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) was monitored by using oxygen uptake and disappearance of chlorophyll, algal volume (fluorescence microscopy), particulate protein, particulate organic carbon, and photosynthetic ability (CO(2) up-take). In...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fallon RD,Brock TD

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exudates from Streptomyces griseoflavus Tü 2484 effectively mediated electron transfer between hydrogen sulfide and various nitrobenzenes. In general, pseudo-first-order kinetics were observed, except for the initial phase of the reaction at higher pH values. Under fixed pH and Dh conditions, linear free energy relati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glaus MA,Heijman CG,Schwarzenbach RP,Zeyer J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium fredii USDA 206 harbors four large plasmids, one of which carries nodulation and nitrogen fixation genes. Previously isolated groups of plasmid-cured derivatives of strain USDA 206 were compared with each other to determine possible plasmid functions. Mutant strain 206CANS was isolated as a nonmucoid (Muc) d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barbour WM,Elkan GH

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00