Phylogenetic analysis of polyketide synthase I domains from soil metagenomic libraries allows selection of promising clones.

abstract：:The worldwide decline in honeybee colonies during the past 50 years has often been linked to the spread of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor and its interaction with certain honeybee viruses. Recently in the United States, dramatic honeybee losses (colony collapse disorder) have been reported; however, there remain...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Highfield AC,El Nagar A,Mackinder LC,Noël LM,Hall MJ,Martin SJ,Schroeder DC

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA from 21 collection or industrial Bifidobacterium strains was cleaved with various restriction endonucleases. Following electrophoresis, the fragments were subjected to Southern blot hybridization with a heterologous [alpha-32P]dCTP-labeled rDNA (genes coding for rRNA) 23S gene probe. The ribosomal patterns a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mangin I,Bourget N,Bouhnik Y,Bisetti N,Simonet JM,Decaris B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), formate, and acetate mineralization and/or assimilation were determined in 13 high-temperature (>73 °C) hot springs in Yellowstone National Park (YNP), Wyoming, in order to evaluate the relative importance of these substrates in supporting microbial metabolism. While 9 of the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Urschel MR,Kubo MD,Hoehler TM,Peters JW,Boyd ES

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding thermostable alpha- and beta-galactosidases from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus strain T2, were cloned in Escherichia coli. The alpha-galactosidase gene was located just downstream from the beta-galactosidase gene. The genes were introduced into Thermus thermophilus HB27 with the aid o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Koyama Y,Okamoto S,Furukawa K

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic manipulation of the category B select agents Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei has been stifled due to the lack of compliant selectable markers. Hence, there is a need for additional select-agent-compliant selectable markers. We engineered a selectable marker based on the gat gene (encoding gly...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Norris MH,Kang Y,Lu D,Wilcox BA,Hoang TT

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using thin-layer chromatography and infrared spectroscopy, xanthomegnin and viomellein have been isolated and identified from species of the Aspergillus ochraceus group. A correlation was established between the occurrence of these fungal quinones in the fungal cultural products and the ability of these products to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robbers JE,Hong S,Tuite J,Carlton WW

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UNL-1, a lytic virus of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, was observed to express a novel inducible DNA damage reactivation activity in UV-A-irradiated P. aeruginosa host cells. The expression of bacteriophage reactivation was quantified in hosts exposed to either UV-C or UV-A radiation. While reactivation of UV-C-damaged UNL-1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shaffer JJ,Jacobsen LM,Schrader JO,Lee KW,Martin EL,Kokjohn TA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use and relative persistence of s-triazine compounds such as atrazine and simazine have led to increasing concern about environmental contamination by these compounds. Few microbial isolates capable of transforming substituted s-triazines have been identified. Rhodococcus corallinus NRRL B-15444 has pre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mulbry WW

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils harbor enormously diverse bacterial populations, and soil bacterial communities can vary greatly in composition across space. However, our understanding of the specific changes in soil bacterial community structure that occur across larger spatial scales is limited because most previous work has focused on eithe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lauber CL,Hamady M,Knight R,Fierer N

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a putative 150-amino-acid methylglyoxal synthase was identified in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. The enzyme was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified. Methylglyoxal synthase has a native molecular mass of 60 kDa and an optimum pH of 7.5. The Km and Vmax values for the substrate dihydrox...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang K,Rudolph FB,Bennett GN

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A defined substrate method was developed to simultaneously enumerate total coliforms and Escherichia coli from drinking waters without the need for confirmatory or completed tests. It is a new method based on technology that uses a hydrolyzable substrate as a specific indicator-nutrient for the target microbes. No equ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Edberg SC,Allen MJ,Smith DB

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bonds are important for the correct folding, structural integrity, and activity of many biotechnologically relevant proteins. For synthesis and subsequent secretion of these proteins in bacteria, such as the well-known "cell factory" Bacillus subtilis, it is often the correct formation of disulfide bonds tha...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kouwen TR,Dubois JY,Freudl R,Quax WJ,van Dijl JM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray analysis showed that yfiD, yggB, and yggE genes were up-regulated when superoxide dismutase (SOD)-deficient Escherichia coli IM303 (I4) was cultivated under the oxidative stress generated by photoexcited TiO(2), and pYFD, pYGB, and pYGE were constructed by inserting the respective genes into a pUC 19 ve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim SY,Nishioka M,Hayashi S,Honda H,Kobayashi T,Taya M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizopogon roseolus Corda (synonym Rhizopogon rubescens Tul.), an economically important edible mushroom associated with the Pinaceae (mostly Pinus sp.), has a global distribution resulting from the introduction of exotic trees into the Southern Hemisphere for plantation forestry. However, the marketability of R. rose...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Visnovsky SB,Guerin-Laguette A,Wang Y,Pitman AR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-mannanase (EC 3.2.1.78) from Vibrio sp. strain MA-138 was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and several chromatographic procedures including gel filtration, adsorption, and ion-exchange chromatographies. The final ion-exchange chromatography Mono Q yielded one major active fraction and three minor acti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tamaru Y,Araki T,Amagoi H,Mori H,Morishita T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High numbers (10(7) to 10(10) cells per g [dry weight]) of heterotrophic, gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-sporeforming, aerobic, thermophilic bacteria related to the genus Thermus were isolated from thermogenic composts at temperatures between 65 and 82 degrees C. These bacteria were present in different types of waste...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beffa T,Blanc M,Lyon PF,Vogt G,Marchiani M,Fischer JL,Aragno M

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:Bacteriophages are very abundant in the biosphere, and viral infection is believed to affect the activity and genetic diversity of bacterial communities in aquatic environments. Lysogenic conversion, for example, can improve host fitness and lead to phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer. However, little is known abo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ghosh D,Roy K,Williamson KE,White DC,Wommack KE,Sublette KL,Radosevich M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray analyses revealed that clusters of repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR-related Escherichia coli isolates were isogenic only within interstitial Lake Huron beach water samples and not in surrounding waters. This suggested that adaptation and growth occurred within the interstitial water sites tested. A...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kon T,Weir SC,Trevors JT,Lee H,Champagne J,Meunier L,Brousseau R,Masson L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some Listeria monocytogenes internalins are recognized as contributing to invasion of mammalian tissue culture cells. While PrfA is well established as a positive regulator of L. monocytogenes virulence gene expression, the stress-responsive sigma(B) has been recognized only recently as contributing to expression of v...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McGann P,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of pigmented bacteria in potable water, from raw source water through treatment to distribution water, including dead-end locations, was compared at sample sites in a large municipal water system. Media used to enumerate heterotrophic bacteria and differentiate pigmented colonies were standard method pl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reasoner DJ,Blannon JC,Geldreich EE,Barnick J

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reporter gene technology was used to observe the regulation of the alginate biosynthesis gene, algC in a mucoid strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in developing and mature biofilms in continuous culture on Teflon and glass substrata. The plasmid pNZ63, carrying an algC-lacZ transcriptional fusion, was shown to not be di...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davies DG,Geesey GG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses, which are members of the Caliciviridae family, represent the leading cause of nonbacterial gastroenteritis in developed countries; such norovirus infections result in high economic costs for health protection. Person-to-person contact, contaminated water, and foods, especially raw shellfish, vegetables, a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Buckow R,Isbarn S,Knorr D,Heinz V,Lehmacher A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter capsulatus E1F1, a phototrophic purple nonsulfur bacterium capable of photoassimilating nitrate or nitrite, grew phototrophically in the presence of mono- and dinitrophenols with acetate as a carbon source, the highest growth levels being obtained under microaerobic conditions. Utilization of 2,4-dinitroph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blasco R,Castillo F

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcin G and enterocin 1071 are two homologous two-peptide bacteriocins. Expression vectors containing the gene encoding the putative lactococcin G immunity protein (lagC) or the gene encoding the enterocin 1071 immunity protein (entI) were constructed and introduced into strains sensitive to one or both of the b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oppegård C,Emanuelsen L,Thorbek L,Fimland G,Nissen-Meyer J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 514 in vol. 55.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Shewanella decolorationis S12 to obtain energy for growth by coupling the oxidation of various electron donors to dissimilatory azoreduction was investigated. This microorganism can reduce a variety of azo dyes by use of formate, lactate, pyruvate, or H(2) as the electron donor. Furthermore, strain S12 ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hong Y,Xu M,Guo J,Xu Z,Chen X,Sun G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione was found in several dairy Lactococcus lactis strains grown in M17 medium. None of these strains was able to synthesize glutathione. In chemically defined medium, L. lactis subsp. cremoris strain SK11 was able to accumulate up to approximately 60 mM glutathione when this compound was added to the medium. S...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li Y,Hugenholtz J,Abee T,Molenaar D

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of copper on the structure and physiology of freshwater biofilm microbial communities. For this purpose, biofilms that were grown during 4 weeks in a shallow, slightly polluted ditch were exposed, in aquaria in our laboratory, to a range of copper concentrations (0, 1, 3, and 10 microM). De...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Massieux B,Boivin ME,Van Den Ende FP,Langenskiöld J,Marvan P,Barranguet C,Admiraal W,Laanbroek HJ,Zwart G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation and fate of model microbial "pathogens" within a drinking-water distribution system was investigated in naturally grown biofilms formed in a novel pilot-scale water distribution system provided with chlorinated and UV-treated water. Biofilms were exposed to 1-mum hydrophilic and hydrophobic microspher...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Långmark J,Storey MV,Ashbolt NJ,Stenström TA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00