Chitinase gene sequences retrieved from diverse aquatic habitats reveal environment-specific distributions.

abstract：:Thiopeptide antibiotics are an important class of natural products resulting from posttranslational modifications of ribosomally synthesized peptides. Cyclothiazomycin is a typical thiopeptide antibiotic that has a unique bridged macrocyclic structure derived from an 18-amino-acid structural peptide. Here we reported ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang J,Yu Y,Tang K,Liu W,He X,Huang X,Deng Z

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin-labeled DNA probes prepared from whole plasmids (5.5 and 4.8 kilobases) of two lactobacillus strains (Lactobacillus delbrueckii 21 and Lactobacillus reuteri 100-23) were used to detect the homologous bacteria in microtome-cryostat-prepared sections of murine forestomach. The forestomach sections were incubated ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tannock GW

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent phosphorylation of [14C]galactose by 11 strains of Streptococcus thermophilus indicated that these organisms possessed the Leloir enzyme, galactokinase (galK). Activities were 10 times higher in fully induced, galactose-fermenting (Gal+) strains than in galactose-nonfermenting (Gal-) strains. Lactose-gro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hutkins R,Morris HA,McKay LL

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydraulic flush waste removal systems coupled to solid/liquid separators and circulated treatment lagoons are commonly utilized to manage the large amounts of animal waste produced on high-intensity dairy farms. Although these systems are common, little is known about the microbial populations that inhabit them or how...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McGarvey JA,Miller WG,Sanchez S,Stanker L

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A TAT peptide-delivered molecular beacon was developed and utilized to enumerate murine norovirus 1, a human norovirus (NoV) surrogate, in RAW 264.7 cells. This allowed the detection of a single infective virus within 6 h, a 12-fold improvement in time required for viral detection and quantification compared to that r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ganguli PS,Chen W,Yates MV

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes involved in aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) biosynthesis in Aspergillus parasiticus, nor-1 and ver-1, were localized to a 35-kb region on one A. parasiticus chromosome and to the genomic DNA fragment carried on a single cosmid, NorA. A physical and transcriptional map of the 35-kb genomic DNA insert in cosmid NorA was p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trail F,Mahanti N,Rarick M,Mehigh R,Liang SH,Zhou R,Linz JE

更新日期：1995-07-01 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 nor-1 gene in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus parasiticus encodes a ketoreductase involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis. To study environmental influences on nor-1 expression, we generated plasmid pAPGUSNNB containing a nor-1 promoter-beta-glucuronidase (GUS) (encoded by uidA) reporter fusion with niaD (encodes ni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chiou CH,Miller M,Wilson DL,Trail F,Linz JE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial blooms are potential health hazards in water supply reservoirs. This paper reports analyses of a cyanobacterial bloom by use of PCR-based methods for direct detection and identification of strains present and determination of their toxigenicity. Serial samples from Malpas Dam, in the New England region ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baker JA,Entsch B,Neilan BA,McKay DB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A "repair-detection" procedure consisting of pour plating of food samples with Trypticase soy agar, followed by 1-h repair incubation at room temperature and subsequent overlay with violet red bile agar, was found to be an effective method for the detection of injuried and uninjuried coliforms from dairy products. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ray B,Speck ML

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A real-time PCR-based method targeting the 18S rRNA gene was developed for the quantitative detection of Hartmannella vermiformis, a free-living amoeba which is a potential host for Legionella pneumophila in warm water systems and cooling towers. The detection specificity was validated using genomic DNA of the closely...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kuiper MW,Valster RM,Wullings BA,Boonstra H,Smidt H,van der Kooij D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae can shift to a "rugose" phenotype, thereby producing copious exopolysaccharide (EPS), which promotes its environmental survival and persistence. We report conditions that promote high-frequency rugose EPS production (HFRP), whereby cells switch at high frequency (up to 80%) to rugose EPS production. HF...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ali A,Rashid MH,Karaolis DK

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the aflatoxin biosynthesis cluster gene aflY (hypA) gave Aspergillus parasiticus transformants that accumulated versicolorin A. This gene is predicted to encode the Baeyer-Villiger oxidase necessary for formation of the xanthone ring of the aflatoxin precursor demethylsterigmatocystin. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ehrlich KC,Montalbano B,Boué SM,Bhatnagar D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key enzymes and pathways involved in polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis in haloarchaea have been identified in recent years, but the haloarchaeal enzymes for PHA degradation remain unknown. In this study, a patatin-like PHA depolymerase, PhaZh1, was determined to be located on the PHA granules in the haloarch...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu G,Hou J,Cai S,Zhao D,Cai L,Han J,Zhou J,Xiang H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis (B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis) produces four insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) (Cry4A, Cry4B, Cry11A, and Cyt1A). Toxicity of recombinant B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis strains expressing only one of the toxins was determined with first instars of Tipula paludo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oestergaard J,Ehlers RU,Martínez-Ramírez AC,Real MD

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil bacteria adapt to diverse and rapidly changing environmental conditions by sensing and responding to environmental cues using a variety of sensory systems. Two-component systems are a widespread type of signal transduction system present in all three domains of life and typically are comprised of a sensor kinase ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luu RA,Schomer RA,Brunton CN,Truong R,Ta AP,Tan WA,Parales JV,Wang YJ,Huo YW,Liu SJ,Ditty JL,Stewart V,Parales RE

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure cultures of Escherichia coli and Streptococcus faecalis and environmental water samples were examined for the possibility that pollution involving organotin compounds could decrease the values for indicator organisms when standard methods were applied to the analysis of water samples. (CH3)2SnCl2 and (CH3)3SnCl d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pettibone GW,Cooney JJ

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gram-negative bacterium isolated from activated sludge was able to utilize up to 25 mM phosphonoacetate as the sole carbon and phosphorus source, with simultaneous excretion of virtually equimolar levels of phosphate. 2-Aminoethylphosphonate was similarly utilized with equivalent growth rates and cellular yields, wh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McMullan G,Harrington F,Quinn JP

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free fatty acids are important flavor compounds in cheese. Propionibacterium freudenreichii is the main agent of their release through lipolysis in Swiss cheese. Our aim was to identify the esterase(s) involved in lipolysis by P. freudenreichii. We targeted two previously identified esterases: one secreted esterase, P...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abeijón Mukdsi MC,Falentin H,Maillard MB,Chuat V,Medina RB,Parayre S,Thierry A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular tools that can provide an estimate of the in situ growth rate of Geobacter species could improve understanding of dissimilatory metal reduction in a diversity of environments. Whole-genome microarray analyses of a subsurface isolate of Geobacter uraniireducens, grown under a variety of conditions, identified...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Holmes DE,Giloteaux L,Barlett M,Chavan MA,Smith JA,Williams KH,Wilkins M,Long P,Lovley DR

更新日期：2013-03-01 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 ability of staphylococcal strains isolated from different anatomical sites in 133 healthy goats to produce toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) and the presence of antibodies to this toxin in serum and milk were studied. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method was used to detect both the toxin and the presen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Valle J,Vadillo S,Piriz S,Gomez-Lucia E

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the facultative photoheterotroph Rhodobacter sphaeroides to tolerate and reduce high levels of tellurite in addition to at least 10 other rare earth metal oxides and oxyanions has considerable potential for detoxification and bioremediation of contaminated environments. We report the identification and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： O'Gara JP,Gomelsky M,Kaplan S

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of glucose concentration on Cd, Cu, Hg, and Zn toxicity to a Klebsiella sp. was studied by following the degradation of C-labeled glucose at pH 6.0. Uptake of C into the cells was also determined. The carbon concentrations ranged from 0.01 to 40 mg liter, which are equivalent to soluble C concentrations ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brynhildsen L,Lundgren BV,Allard B,Rosswall T

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis that grows to a higher cell density (SE-HCD) than wild type while retaining O-chain lipopolysaccharide was isolated by transforming wild type serovar Enteritidis with the cell density sensor plasmid pSB402 and selecting for bioluminescence. A luminescent strain, SE-HCD, that emi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guard-Petter J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is an important pathogen of pigs and may cause serious disease in humans. Serotyping is an important tool for detection and epidemiological studies of S. suis Thirty-three reference serotypes and nine novel cps loci (NCLs) are recognized in S. suis To gain a better understanding of the prevalence an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Qiu X,Bai X,Lan R,Zheng H,Xu J

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaglyceroporins (GlpFs) that transport glycerol along with water and other uncharged solutes are involved in osmoregulation in myriad species. Fungal species form a large group of eukaryotic organisms, and their GlpFs may be diverse, exhibiting various activities. However, few filamentous fungal GlpFs have been biol...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu XD,Wei Y,Zhou XY,Pei X,Zhang SH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the herbicides EPTC (S-ethyl dipropylthiocarbamate) and atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethyl-amino-6-isopropylamino-1,3,5-triazine) is associated with an indigenous plasmid in Rhodococcus sp. strain TE1. Plasmid DNA libraries of Rhodococcus sp. strain TE1 were constructed in a Rhodococcus-Escherichia coli shu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shao ZQ,Behki R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloned 135-kDa CryIC delta-endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis is a lepidopteran-active toxin, displaying high activity in vivo against Spodoptera litoralis and Spodoptera frugiperda larvae and in vitro against the S. frugiperda Sf9 cell line. Here, we report that the CryIC delta-endotoxin cloned from B. thuring...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Smith GP,Merrick JD,Bone EJ,Ellar DJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 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