Isolation of llama antibody fragments for prevention of dandruff by phage display in shampoo.

abstract：:Seventeen bacteriophages, active against 19 Arthrobacter soil isolates, were isolated from concentrated samples of river water and sewage. Attempts to isolate Arthrobacter bacteriophages from filtrates of broth cultures of the soil isolates or from ultraviolet light-irradiated cultures were unsuccessful. Bacteriophage...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brown DR,Holt JG,Pattee PA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for protozoa for the proliferation of Legionella pneumophila in aquatic habitats is still not fully understood and is even questioned by some investigators. This study shows the in vivo growth of L. pneumophila in protozoa in aquatic biofilms developing at high concentrations on plasticized polyvinyl chloride...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kuiper MW,Wullings BA,Akkermans AD,Beumer RR,van der Kooij D

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in individual host responses have emerged as an issue regarding the health benefits of probiotics. Here, we applied ribosome engineering (RE) technology, developed in an actinomycete study, to Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG). RE can effectively enhance microbial potential by using antibiotics to indu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishida M,Namai F,Shigemori S,Kajikawa S,Tsukagoshi M,Sato T,Ogita T,Shimosato T

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:This paper introduces a novel method for sampling pathogens in natural environments. It uses fabric boot socks worn over walkers' shoes to allow the collection of composite samples over large areas. Wide-area sampling is better suited to studies focusing on human exposure to pathogens (e.g., recreational walking). Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jones NR,Millman C,van der Es M,Hukelova M,Forbes KJ,Glover C,Haldenby S,Hunter PR,Jackson K,O'Brien SJ,Rigby D,Strachan NJC,Williams N,Lake IR,ENIGMA Consortium.

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cell surface characteristics of bacteriophage-resistant Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris SK110 were compared with those of its phage-sensitive derivative SK112. After centrifugation, SK110 cells resisted suspension more strongly than SK112 cells. SK112 was more negatively charged and had a more hydrophobic c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sijtsma L,Jansen N,Hazeleger WC,Wouters JT,Hellingwerf KJ

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enrichment was performed to isolate organisms that could utilize reduced phosphorus compounds as their sole phosphorus sources. One isolate that grew well with either hypophosphite or phosphite was identified by 16S rRNA gene analysis as a strain of Alcaligenes faecalis. The genes required for oxidation of hypophosphi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilson MM,Metcalf WW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of 14C-labeled 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) in an activated-sludge system was investigated. No [14C]TNT could be detected in the contents of an aerated reactor after 3 to 5 days of incubation. No significant 14CO2 was formed, and the radioactivity was about equally divided between the floc and the supernatant....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Carpenter DF,McCormick NG,Cornell JH,Kaplan AM

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium Geobacter metallireducens was found to require iron at a concentration in excess of 50 microM for continuous cultivation on nitrate. Growth yield (approximately 3-fold), cytochrome c content (approximately 7-fold), and nitrate (approximately 4.5-fold) and nitrite (approximatel...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Senko JM,Stolz JF

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody production against aflatoxin B1 was compared in three rabbits and one goat. Titers obtained were 20 times higher in the rabbits than in the goat. The goat antiserum appeared to have a higher degree of cross-reactivity for other aflatoxins and related metabolites than did the rabbit antiserum. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaur PK,El-Nakib O,Chu FS

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a carbon and energy reserve polymer in various prokaryotic species. We determined that, when grown with mannitol as the sole carbon source, Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens produces a homopolymer composed only of 3-hydroxybutyrate units (PHB). Conditions of oxygen limitation (such as microoxi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quelas JI,Mesa S,Mongiardini EJ,Jendrossek D,Lodeiro AR

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ari1p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, recently identified as an intermediate-subclass short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase, contributes in situ to the detoxification of furfural. Furfural inhibits efficient ethanol production by yeast, particularly when the carbon source is acid-treated lignocellulose, which contains fu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bowman MJ,Jordan DB,Vermillion KE,Braker JD,Moon J,Liu ZL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portions of published procedures for measurement of ergosterol content of decomposing plants were examined for their influence upon ergosterol yield. Common methods of treatment of plant samples prior to sterol extraction (e.g., oven drying, freezing, lyophilization) led to reduced recoveries of ergosterol (ca. 20 to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Newell SY,Arsuffi TL,Fallon RD

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tremorgenic mycotoxin was isolated from Penicillium paraherquei Abe ex G. Smith and identified as verruculogen. It was produced at the rate of approximately 1 mg/g of the dried fungal mycelium cultured on peptone-enriched Czapek-Dox medium at 28 degrees C. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yoshizawa T,Morooka N,Sawada Y,Udagawa SI

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been described which can compare the efficacy of different nongermicidal handwashing protocols for removal of transient microbial flora without the necessity of establishing or relying on a previously determined baseline for an individual subject. The wash effluent is collected, and colony counts for the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vesley D,Lillquist DR,Le CT

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:Secondary sewage effluent containing about 3 X 10(4) plaque-forming units of polio virus type 1 (LSc) per ml was passed through columns 250 cm in length packed with calcareous sand from an area in the Salt River bed used for ground-water recharge of secondary sewage effluent. Viruses were not detected in 1-ml samples ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lance JC,Gerba CP,Melnick JL

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermal inactivation kinetics of Salmonella enteritidis PT4 between 49 and 60 degrees C were investigated. Using procedures designed to eliminate methodological artifacts, we found that the death kinetics deviated from the accepted model of first-order inactivation. When we used high-density stationary-phase popul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Humpheson L,Adams MR,Anderson WA,Cole MB

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal gene sequences were obtained from bryozoans in the genus Bugula and their bacterial symbionts; analyses of host and symbiont phylogenetic trees did not support a history of strict cospeciation. Symbiont-derived compounds known to defend host larvae from predation were only detected in two out of four symbiot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lim-Fong GE,Regali LA,Haygood MG

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of hexavalent chromium (chromate) to less-toxic trivalent chromium was studied by using cell suspensions and cell-free supernatant fluids from Pseudomonas putida PRS2000. Chromate reductase activity was associated with soluble protein and not with the membrane fraction. The crude enzyme activity was heat lab...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishibashi Y,Cervantes C,Silver S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolic pathway for the catabolism of propionate is proposed. This pathway incorporates a transcarboxylation reaction involving propionyl coenzyme A and oxaloacetate and a carboxylation of pyruvate to regenerate oxaloacetate. Data indicated that the proposed pathway is reversible. The proposed pathway and its appa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robbins JE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoxyl-beta-D-glucuronide (indoxyl) was evaluated as a specific chromogen for detection of Escherichia coli by the membrane filter method. In all, 413 colonies were tested from the indoxyl-supplemented media, yielding 93.3% confirmation, as E. coli. Compared with the indoxyl medium, other media gave either much lower...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haines JR,Covert TC,Rankin CC

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A six-step biochemical key is presented for the identification of all recognized Enterococcus spp. The key consists of 12 tests, but no more than 6 are needed for the most complicated identification. The reliability of the key has been evaluated with collection type strains and clinical and environmental isolates. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Manero A,Blanch AR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia spirochetes in bird-feeding ticks were studied in the Czech Republic. During the postbreeding period (July to September 2005), 1,080 passerine birds infested by 2,240 Ixodes ricinus subadult ticks were examined. Borrelia garinii was detected in 22.2% of the ticks, Borrelia valaisiana was detected in 12.8% of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dubska L,Literak I,Kocianova E,Taragelova V,Sychra O

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria such as Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 use an uptake hydrogenase, encoded by hupSL, to recycle hydrogen gas that is produced as an obligate by-product of nitrogen fixation. The regulation of hupSL in A. variabilis is likely to differ from that of the closely related Anabaena sp. strain PC...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weyman PD,Pratte B,Thiel T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air drying of raw sludge caused inactivation of indigenous viruses. A gradual loss of infectivity occurred with the loss of water until the solids content reached about 80%. A more rapid decline of viral infectivity occurred with further dewatering. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brashear DA,Ward RL

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spent sulfite liquor (SSL) is a waste effluent from sulfite pulping that contains monomeric sugars which can be fermented to ethanol. However, fermentative yeasts used for the fermentation of the sugars in SSL are adversely affected by the inhibitory substances in this complex feedstock. To overcome this limitation, e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pinel D,D'Aoust F,del Cardayre SB,Bajwa PK,Lee H,Martin VJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibenzothiophene (DBT) and its derivatives can be microbially desulfurized by enzymes DszC, DszA, and DszB, which are encoded by the operon dszABC and contribute to the conversion in tandem. We investigated the expression characteristics of the dsz operon. Our results revealed that the levels of transcription and tran...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li GQ,Li SS,Zhang ML,Wang J,Zhu L,Liang FL,Liu RL,Ma T

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences between the recombinant xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain TMB 3399 and the mutant strain TMB 3400, derived from TMB 3399 and displaying improved ability to utilize xylose, were investigated by using genome-wide expression analysis, physiological characterization, and biochemical assays. Samp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wahlbom CF,Cordero Otero RR,van Zyl WH,Hahn-Hägerdal B,Jönsson LJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A xanthanase complex secreted by a consortium of heat-stable, salt-tolerant bacteria includes a lyase that specifically removes terminal pyruvated beta-d-mannose residues from the side chains of xanthan gum. The enzyme was purified to homogeneity from the culture broth following ion-exchange chromatography and gel per...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ahlgren JA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00