Genome-wide transposon mutagenesis of Borrelia burgdorferi for identification of phenotypic mutants.

abstract：:To examine the relationship between activated-sludge bulking and levels of specific filamentous bacteria, we developed a statistics-based quantification method for estimating the biomass levels of specific filaments using 16S rRNA-targeted fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) probes. The results of quantitative FI...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liao J,Lou I,de los Reyes FL 3rd

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in combination with the partial least squares (PLS) multivariative statistical technique was used for quantitative analysis of the poly(beta-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) contents of bacterial cells. A total of 237 replicate spectra from 34 samples were obtained together with ga...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kansiz M,Billman-Jacobe H,McNaughton D

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In raw sludges and in mesophilically and thermophilically digested anaerobic sludges, large variations in numbers of viruses occurred over narrow ranges of numbers of fecal coliforms, total coliforms, and fecal streptococci, demonstrating that the bacteria were poor quantitative reflectors of the numbers of the viruse...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berg G,Berman D

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is common in dairy farm environments, it is likely that phages infecting this bacterium ("listeriaphages") are abundant on dairy farms. To better understand the ecology and diversity of listeriaphages on dairy farms and to develop a diverse phage collection for furt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vongkamjan K,Switt AM,den Bakker HC,Fortes ED,Wiedmann M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vacuum residue fraction of heavy crudes contributes to the viscosity of these oils. Specific microbial cleavage of C-S bonds in alkylsulfide bridges that form linkages in this fraction may result in dramatic viscosity reduction. To date, no bacterial strains have been shown conclusively to cleave C-S bonds within ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Hamme JD,Fedorak PM,Foght JM,Gray MR,Dettman HD

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of yeast hulls (yeast ghosts) on sluggish or stuck white wine fermentations was studied. The enhancing effect on yeast growth and fermentation rate displayed by the hulls was shown to be similar to the effect provided by lipid extract from the same hulls. Unsaturated fatty acids and sterols were incorporate...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Munoz E,Ingledew WM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is encountered frequently by Candida albicans during systemic infection of the human host. We tested if hypoxia allows biofilm formation by C. albicans, which is a major cause of perseverance and antifungal resistance in C. albicans infections. Using an in vitro biofilm system, we unexpectedly discovered that ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stichternoth C,Ernst JF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mongolian gerbils were used as an animal model to excyst and host Giardia spp. isolated from meadow voles, dogs, beavers, and humans. Both cysts and trophozoites were used to establish infections. Gerbils were infected with Giardia duodenalis from beaver, dog, and human sources, and the trophozoites were extracted and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wallis PM,Wallis HM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain a predictive understanding of the interspecies interactions within microbial communities that govern community function, the genomic complement of every member population must be determined. Although metagenomic sequencing has enabled the de novo reconstruction of some microbial genomes from environmental comm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nelson WC,Maezato Y,Wu YW,Romine MF,Lindemann SR

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:When 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) was used as a single carbon source in the enrichment culture medium for screening 7-ACA-degrading microorganisms, pink yeast colonies appeared frequently, and these were identified as Rhodotorula glutinis. These intact R. glutinis cells converted (i) 7-ACA to deacetyl-7-ACA (7-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sakai Y,Abe T,Ohbayashi Y,Isaka K,Yamamoto K,Tani Y,Kato N

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The D-values of Bacillus pumilus spores on various devices ranged from 0.14 to 0.23 Mrads. The majority of devices displayed D-values equal to or less than the value obtained on filter paper. Increased resistivity was also encountered. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Prince HN

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facultative endosymbionts can benefit insect hosts in a variety of ways, including context-dependent roles, such as providing defense against pathogens. The role of some symbionts in defense may be overlooked, however, when pathogen infection is transient, sporadic, or asymptomatic. The facultative endosymbiont Ricket...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hendry TA,Hunter MS,Baltrus DA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains were isolated from 207 stx-positive French environmental samples. Ten of these strains were positive for stx(1), and 24 were positive for stx(2) (10 were positive for stx(2vh-a) or stx(2vh-b), 19 were positive for stx(2d), and 15 were positive for stx(...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vernozy-Rozand C,Montet MP,Bertin Y,Trably F,Girardeau JP,Martin C,Livrelli V,Beutin L

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time series incubations were conducted to provide estimates for the size selectivities and rates of protistan grazing that may be occurring in a sandy, contaminated aquifer. The experiments involved four size classes of fluorescently labeled groundwater bacteria (FLB) and 2- to 3-microns-long nanoflagellates, primaril...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kinner NE,Harvey RW,Blakeslee K,Novarino G,Meeker LD

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acylation of epsilon amino groups of lysyl side chains is a widespread modification of proteins and small molecules in cells of all three domains of life. Recently, we showed that Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus anthracis encode the GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) SatA that can acetylate and inactivate streptot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burckhardt RM,Escalante-Semerena JC

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of resistance in foodborne pathogens to food preservation techniques is an issue of increasing concern, especially in minimally processed foods where safety relies on hurdle technology. In this context, mild heat can be used in combination with so-called nonthermal processes, such as high hydrostatic p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gayán E,Cambré A,Michiels CW,Aertsen A

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh produce is known to carry nonpathogenic epiphytic microorganisms. During agricultural production and harvesting, leafy greens can become contaminated with antibiotic-resistant pathogens or commensals from animal and human sources. As lettuce does not undergo any inactivation or preservation treatment during proc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Holvoet K,Sampers I,Callens B,Dewulf J,Uyttendaele M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used global transcript analyses and mutant studies to investigate the pathways that impact H(2) production in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. We found that H(2) production capacity is related to the levels of expression of the nitrogenase and hydrogenase enzymes and the enzymes of the Calvin-B...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kontur WS,Ziegelhoffer EC,Spero MA,Imam S,Noguera DR,Donohue TJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the storage lipid poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) in trichloroethylene transformation by methanotrophic mixed cultures was investigated. Naphthalene oxidation rates were used to assay for soluble methane monooxygenase activity. The PHB content of methanotrophic cells grown in reactors varied diurnally as w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Henrysson T,McCarty PL

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of acetate in soils taken from a nutrient gradient in the northern Florida Everglades was studied by stable isotope probing. Bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA gene clone libraries from eutrophic and oligotrophic soil microcosms strongly suggest that a significant amount of acetate is consumed by syntroph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chauhan A,Ogram A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soil-inhabiting Fusarium proliferatum strain was capable of transforming or degrading nonlabeled and (sup14)C-labeled industrial, natural, and synthetic lignin. The mineralization rate per day (expressed as the percentage of added radioactivity recovered as to (sup14)CO(inf2)) was maximal during primary metabolism. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Regalado V,Rodriguez A,Perestelo F,Carnicero A,De La Fuente G,Falcon MA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding NAD(+)-dependent alanine dehydrogenases (AlaDHs) (EC 1.4.1.1) from the Antarctic bacterial organisms Shewanella sp. strain Ac10 (SheAlaDH) and Carnobacterium sp. strain St2 (CarAlaDH) were cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Of all of the AlaDHs that have been sequenced, SheAlaDH exhibited the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Galkin A,Kulakova L,Ashida H,Sawa Y,Esaki N

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a microtiter plate method for screening a large number of bacterial isolates for the ability to grow on different crystalline polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Growth on PAHs cannot easily be determined with standard growth assays because of the very low aqueous solubility and bioavailability ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johnsen AR,Bendixen K,Karlson U

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biodegradation of benzene, toluene, and chlorobenzenes by Pseudomonas putida involves the initial conversion of the parent molecules to cis-dihydrodiols by dioxygenase enzyme systems. The cis-dihydrodiols are then converted to the corresponding catechols by dihydrodiol dehydrogenase enzymes. Pseudomonas sp. strain...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Spain JC,Gibson DT

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Media used to determine the MICs of heavy metals for bacteria are unreliable because organic components in the media bind or chelate most of the metal being studied. To define specific metal activity in media and to maintain metal activity at a constant level, HEPES-MES [N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N' -2-ethanesulfonic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Angle JS,Chaney RL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a common hospital and household pathogen. Given the emergence of antibiotic-resistant derivatives of this pathogen resulting from the use of antibiotics as general treatment, development of alternative therapeutic strategies is urgently needed. Here, we assess the feasibility of killing S. aur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen C,Chen L,Yi Y,Chen C,Wu LF,Song T

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A biofilm-forming strain of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), isolated from a naturally occurring mixed biofilm and identified by 16S rDNA analysis as a strain of Desulfomicrobium norvegicum, rapidly removed 200 micro M selenite from solution during growth on lactate and sulfate. Elemental selenium and elemental sulfur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hockin SL,Gadd GM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-temperature ecosystems represent the largest biosphere on Earth, and yet our understanding of the roles of bacteriophages in these systems is limited. Here, the influence of the cold-active filamentous phage SW1 on the phenotype and gene transcription of its host, Shewanella piezotolerans WP3 (WP3), was investigat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jian H,Xiao X,Wang F

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Examination of Listeria monocytogenes prevalence among ready-to-eat foods in Japan revealed frequent (5.7 to 12.1%) contamination of minced tuna and fish roe products, and the isolates had the same virulence levels as clinical isolates in terms of invasion efficiency and infectivity in cell cultures and a murine infec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miya S,Takahashi H,Ishikawa T,Fujii T,Kimura B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00