Development of procedures for direct extraction of Cryptosporidium DNA from water concentrates and for relief of PCR inhibitors.

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the five genes (gutRMCBA) downstream from the previously described sorbitol-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-encoding Lactobacillus casei gutF gene revealed that they constitute a sorbitol (glucitol) utilization operon. The gutRM genes encode putative regulators, while the gutCBA genes encode the EIIC, E...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Alcántara C,Sarmiento-Rubiano LA,Monedero V,Deutscher J,Pérez-Martínez G,Yebra MJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic acids derived from engineered microbes can replace fossil-derived chemicals in many applications. Fungal hosts are preferred for organic acid production because they tolerate lignocellulosic hydrolysates and low pH, allowing economic production and recovery of the free acid. However, cell death caused by cytos...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zdraljevic S,Wagner D,Cheng K,Ruohonen L,Jäntti J,Penttilä M,Resnekov O,Pesce CG

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to concerns about a link between variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and similar prion protein-induced disease in cattle, i.e., bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), strict controls are in place to exclude BSE-positive animals and/or specified risk materials including bovine central nervous system (CNS) ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Daly DJ,Prendergast DM,Sheridan JJ,Blair IS,McDowell DA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural gene which codes for an extracellular lipase (EC 3.1.1.3) in Aeromonas hydrophila H3, which was isolated from a female hospitalized patient, was cloned in Escherichia coli by using pBR322 as a vector. Lipase purified from both A. hydrophila culture supernatant and the periplasmic fluids of E. coli contain...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Anguita J,Rodríguez Aparicio LB,Naharro G

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether microorganisms from the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated sediment in Woods Pond (Lenox, Mass.) could dehalogenate brominated biphenyls. The PCB dechlorination specificities for the microorganisms in this sediment have been well characterized. This allowed us to compare the deh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bedard DL,Van Dort HM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) serotype B (BoNT/B) is one of the serotypes of BoNT that causes deadly human botulism, though it is used clinically for treatment of many neuromuscular diseases. BoNT/B is produced by Clostridium botulinum, and it is secreted along with a group of neurotoxin-associated proteins (NAPs) in th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang HH,Riding S,Lindo P,Singh BR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alvord Basin in southeast Oregon contains a variety of hydrothermal features which have never been microbiologically characterized. A sampling of Murky Pot (61 degrees C; pH 7.1) led to the isolation of a novel arsenic-metabolizing organism (YeAs) which produces an arsenic sulfide mineral known as beta-realgar, a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ledbetter RN,Connon SA,Neal AL,Dohnalkova A,Magnuson TS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel halophilic and metal-reducing bacterium, Orenia metallireducens strain Z6, was isolated from briny groundwater extracted from a 2.02 km-deep borehole in the Illinois Basin, IL. This organism shared 96% 16S rRNA gene similarity with Orenia marismortui but demonstrated physiological properties previously unknown...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dong Y,Sanford RA,Boyanov MI,Kemner KM,Flynn TM,O'Loughlin EJ,Chang YJ,Locke RA Jr,Weber JR,Egan SM,Mackie RI,Cann I,Fouke BW

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Of more than 400 bacteria isolated from turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), 89 have previously been shown to inhibit the in vitro growth of the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum. The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential of seven of these strains, as well as of intestinal isolates (four strains) from a c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Olsson JC,Westerdahl A,Conway PL,Kjelleberg S

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:Antimicrobial chemicals are widely applied to clean and disinfect food-contacting surfaces. However, the cellular response of bacteria to various disinfectants is unclear. In this study, the physiological and genome-wide transcriptional responses of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 exposed to four different disinfectants (b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ceragioli M,Mols M,Moezelaar R,Ghelardi E,Senesi S,Abee T

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth on 3-chlorobenzoate was found to induce the enzymes of the protocatechuate meta ring fission pathway in Alcaligenes sp. strain BR60. The chlorobenzoate catabolic genes, designated cba, were localized to a 3.7-kb NotI-EcoRI fragment within the nonrepeated region of the composite transposon Tn5271. The cba genes ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakatsu CH,Wyndham RC

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active population of low-affinity methanotrophs in a peat soil microcosm was characterized by stable-isotope probing. "Heavy" (13)C-labeled DNA, produced after microbial growth on (13)CH(4), was separated from naturally abundant (12)C-DNA by cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation and used as a template fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morris SA,Radajewski S,Willison TW,Murrell JC

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method designed to sensitively detect and identify Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli without the need for isolating and culturing strains is described. The intergenic sequence between the flagellin genes flaA and flaB was amplified and characterized with a triple primer or s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wegmüller B,Lüthy J,Candrian U

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b produces an extracellular copper-binding ligand (CBL) with high affinity for copper. Wild-type cells and mutants that express soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) in the presence and absence of copper (sMMOc) were used to obtain cell exudates that were separated and analyzed by size exc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Téllez CM,Gaus KP,Graham DW,Arnold RG,Guzman RZ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectral analysis of T-2 toxin formed during the growth of Fusarium sporotrichioides (ATCC 24043) in the presence of H(2)O showed incorporation of up to three O atoms per toxin molecule. The carbonyl oxygens of the acetates at C-4 and C-15 and of the isovalerate at C-8 were derived from H(2)O. Toxin formed in the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Desjardins AE,Plattner RD,Vanmiddlesworth F

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannitol, a six-carbon sugar alcohol, is the main storage carbon in the button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. Given the physiological importance of mannitol metabolism in growth, fruit body development, and salt tolerance of A. bisporus, the enzyme responsible for mannitol biosynthesis, NADP-dependent mannitol dehydroge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stoop JM,Mooibroek H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world's largest outbreak of waterborne toxoplasmosis occurred in a municipality in the western Canadian province of British Columbia. When drinking water emerged as a possible source of infection during the outbreak investigation, a laboratory method was needed to attempt detection of the parasite, Toxoplasma gond...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Isaac-Renton J,Bowie WR,King A,Irwin GS,Ong CS,Fung CP,Shokeir MO,Dubey JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibenzothiophene is degraded to 3-hydroxy-2-formyl benzothiophene by various bacteria, including a strain of Pseudomonas putida that also forms dibenzothiophene sulfone via an alternate pathway. By using these end products as substrates, mixed enrichment cultures that could degrade 3-hydroxy-2-formyl benzothiophene an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mormile MR,Atlas RM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental bacteria are exposed to a myriad of biotic interactions that influence their function and survival. The grazing activity of protozoan predators significantly impacts the dynamics, diversification, and evolution of bacterial communities in soil ecosystems. To evade protozoan predation, bacteria employ var...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mazzola M,de Bruijn I,Cohen MF,Raaijmakers JM

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Tannins are a diverse group of plant-produced, polyphenolic compounds with metal-chelating and antimicrobial properties that are prevalent in many soils. Using transcriptomics, we determined that tannic acid, a form of hydrolysable tannin, broadly affects the expression of genes involved in iron and zinc homeostases, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lim CK,Penesyan A,Hassan KA,Loper JE,Paulsen IT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingomonas sp. strain TTNP3 degrades 4(3',5'-dimethyl-3'-heptyl)-phenol and unidentified metabolites that were described previously. The chromatographic analyses of the synthesized reference compound and the metabolites led to their identification as 2(3',5'-dimethyl-3'-heptyl)-1,4-benzenediol. This finding indicate...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Corvini PF,Meesters RJ,Schäffer A,Schröder HF,Vinken R,Hollender J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of food samples for E. coli O157:H7 using the standard U.S. Food and Drug Administration procedure is frequently complicated by overgrowth of nontarget microorganisms. A new procedure was developed for enrichment of enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) which utilizes exposure to pH 2.00 for 2 h. This procedure yi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Grant MA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-dependent regulation of cell cycle progression in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus strain WH-8101 was demonstrated through the use of flow cytometry. Our results show that, similar to eucaryotic cells, marine Synechococcus spp. display two gaps in DNA synthesis, at the beginning and at the end of the cell...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Armbrust EV,Bowen JD,Olson RJ,Chisholm SW

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of 3 M NaCl to 72-h cultures of Penicillium fellutanum in 2 mM phosphate resulted in an increase in percentage of extracellular peptidophosphogalactomannan III (pP(x)GM(iii)) and a decrease in that of pP(x)GM(ii). The magnitude of (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance signals at 1.47 and 1.33 ppm of phospho-1-O-[N...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Park YI,Bonetti SJ,Gander JE

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from the open ocean and subsequent pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analyses indicate that these strains have a unique genotype (N. H. Khan, Y. Ishii, N. Kimata-Kino, H. Esaki, T. Nishino, M. Nishimura, and K. Kogure, Microb. Ecol. 53:173-186, 2007). We hypothesized t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Khan NH,Ahsan M,Yoshizawa S,Hosoya S,Yokota A,Kogure K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain PCP-1 reductively dechlorinates pentachlorophenol (PCP) to 3-chlorophenol and a variety of halogenated aromatic compounds at the ortho, meta, and para positions. Several reductive dehalogenases (RDases) are thought to be involved in this cascade of dehalogenation. We partially purif...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bisaillon A,Beaudet R,Lépine F,Déziel E,Villemur R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel technique, combining labelling and stereological methods, for the determination of spatial distribution of two microorganisms in a biofilm is presented. Cells of Nitrosomonas europaea (ATCC 19718) and Nitrobacter agilis (ATCC 14123) were homogeneously distributed in a kappa-carrageenan gel during immobilizatio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hunik JH,van den Hoogen MP,de Boer W,Smit M,Tramper J

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new virulent phage belonging to the Siphoviridae family and able to infect Lactococcus garvieae strains was isolated from compost soil. Phage GE1 has a prolate capsid (56 by 38 nm) and a long noncontractile tail (123 nm). It had a burst size of 139 and a latent period of 31 min. Its host range was limited to only tw...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eraclio G,Tremblay DM,Lacelle-Côté A,Labrie SJ,Fortina MG,Moineau S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00