Elevated temperature enhances virulence of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora strain EC153 to plants and stimulates production of the quorum sensing signal, N-acyl homoserine lactone, and extracellular proteins.

abstract：:A new method is described in which the Salkowski reaction is used for the rapid selection of alkaloid-producing mutants of the ergot fungus. This method was used to investigate the influence of a second mutation with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (NTG) on various mutants selected by a preliminary NTG mutation o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Srikrai S,Robbers JE

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poultry are considered a major reservoir and source of human campylobacteriosis, but the roles of environmental reservoirs, including wild birds, have not been assessed in depth. In this study, we isolated and characterized Campylobacter jejuni from western jackdaws (n = 91, 43%), mallard ducks (n = 82, 76%), and phea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kovanen S,Rossi M,Pohja-Mykrä M,Nieminen T,Raunio-Saarnisto M,Sauvala M,Fredriksson-Ahomaa M,Hänninen ML,Kivistö R

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcep22-like phages are a recently described group of podoviruses that infect strains of Burkholderia cenocepacia. We have isolated and characterized a novel member of this group named DC1. This podovirus shows many genomic similarities to BcepIL02 and Bcep22, but it infects strains belonging to multiple Burkholderia c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lynch KH,Stothard P,Dennis JJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed a pivotal role of the polysaccharide (PS) moiety in the cell wall of the Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (YIT 9029) as a possible immune modulator (E. Yasuda M. Serata, and T. Sako, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:4746-4755, 2008). To distinguish PS structures on the bacterial cell surface of indi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yasuda E,Tateno H,Hirabayashi J,Iino T,Sako T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody designated 302 beta that is specific for the beta subunit of the oxygenase component (ISPTOL) of toluene dioxygenase from Pseudomonas putida F1 was used to prepare an immunoaffinity column. ISPTOL in cell extracts of Escherichia coli JM109(pDTG611) bound to the column, and an enzyme-linked immuno...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lynch NA,Jiang H,Gibson DT

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcystis aeruginosa is a common cyanobacterium in water blooms that appear widely in nutrient-rich, fresh, and brackish waters, and its toxic blooms cause the death of domestic animals. The administration of a crude toxic cell extract of M. aeruginosa K-139 to mice can produce tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and prompt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakano Y,Shirai M,Mori N,Nakano M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of three key nitrogen regulatory genes, glnB (encoding the P(II) protein), glnZ (encoding the P(z) protein), and glnD (encoding the GlnD protein), in regulation of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) biosynthesis by ammonia in Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 was investigated. It was observed that glnB glnZ and glnD muta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sun J,Van Dommelen A,Van Impe J,Vanderleyden J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From Bradyrhizobium japonicum highly reiterated sequence-possessing (HRS) strains indigenous to Niigata and Tokachi in Japan with high copy numbers of the repeated sequences RSalpha and RSbeta (K. Minamisawa, T. Isawa, Y. Nakatsuka, and N. Ichikawa, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:1845-1851, 1998), several insertion sequ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Isawa T,Sameshima R,Mitsui H,Minamisawa K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfaces made of copper or its alloys have strong antimicrobial properties against a wide variety of microorganisms. However, the molecular mode of action responsible for the antimicrobial efficacy of metallic copper is not known. Here, we show that dry copper surfaces inactivate Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quaranta D,Krans T,Espírito Santo C,Elowsky CG,Domaille DW,Chang CJ,Grass G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population analyses in water samples obtained from the chemocline of crenogenic, meromictic Lake Cadagno, Switzerland, in October for the years 1994 to 2003 were studied using in situ hybridization with specific probes. During this 10-year period, large shifts in abundance between purple and green sulfur bacteria and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tonolla M,Peduzzi R,Hahn D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protease-negative variants were shown to outcompete the wild-type strains of Streptococcus cremoris E(8), HP, and Wg(2) at pH values higher than 6.0 in milk. For S. cremoris E(8) this process was studied in more detail. At lower pH values the wild type had a selective advantage. This pH-dependent selection was not fou...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hugenholtz J,Splint R,Konings WN,Veldkamp H

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe useful vectors to select double-crossover events directly in site-directed marker exchange mutagenesis in gram-negative bacteria. These vectors contain the gusA marker gene, providing colorimetric screens to identify bacteria harboring those sequences. The applicability of these vectors was shown by mappin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Katzen F,Becker A,Ielmini MV,Oddo CG,Ielpi L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis was detected in artificially inoculated eggs within 24 h through a rapid monoclonal antibody-based dot blot immunoassay. Detection in poultry and other products required 28 h. Samples were directly enriched in homogenized egg without the need for pre- or postenrichment steps. Se...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yoshimasu MA,Zawistowski J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteorhodopsin (PR), a photoactive proton pump containing retinal, is present in approximately half of all bacteria in the ocean, but its physiological role is still unclear, since very few strains carrying the PR gene have been cultured. The aim of this work was to characterize PR diversity in a North Sea water samp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Riedel T,Tomasch J,Buchholz I,Jacobs J,Kollenberg M,Gerdts G,Wichels A,Brinkhoff T,Cypionka H,Wagner-Döbler I

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiroplasma citri is transmitted from plant to plant by phloem-feeding leafhoppers. In an attempt to identify mechanisms involved in transmission, mutants of S. citri affected in their transmission must be available. For this purpose, transposon (Tn4001) mutagenesis was used to produce mutants which have been screened...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boutareaud A,Danet JL,Garnier M,Saillard C

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnobacteriocin B2 is a well-characterized class II bacteriocin produced by a 61-kb plasmid from Carnobacterium piscicola LV17. Export of this bacteriocin is dependent on specific ABC (ATP-binding cassette) secretion proteins. Divergicin A is a strongly hydrophobic narrow-spectrum bacteriocin produced by a 3.4-kb pla...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCormick JK,Worobo RW,Stiles ME

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium oxysporum isolated from roots of and soil around Baccharis species from Brazil produced the trichothecenes T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin, diacetoxyscirpenol, and 3'-OH T-2 (TC-1), whereas Fusarium sporotrichioides from the same source produced T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin, acetyl T-2, neosolaniol, TC-1, 3'-OH HT-2 (TC-3), i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mirocha CJ,Abbas HK,Kommedahl T,Jarvis BB

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the efficiency of methane and ammonium for stimulating trichloroethylene (TCE) biodegradation in groundwater microcosms (flasks and batch exchange columns) at a psychrophilic temperature (12 degrees C) typical of shallow aquifers in the northern United States or a mesophilic temperature (24 deg...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moran BN,Hickey WJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although molecular techniques have identified Helicobacter pylori in drinking water-associated biofilms, there is a lack of studies reporting what factors affect the attachment of the bacterium to plumbing materials. Therefore, the adhesion of H. pylori suspended in distilled water to stainless steel 304 (SS304) coupo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azevedo NF,Pinto AR,Reis NM,Vieira MJ,Keevil CW

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas sp. strain M114, the outer membrane receptor for ferric pseudobactin M114 was shown to transport ferric pseudobactins B10 and A225, in addition to its own. The gene encoding this receptor, which was previously cloned on pCUP3, was localized by Tn5 mutagenesis to a region comprising >1.6 kb of M114 DNA. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morris J,O'sullivan DJ,Koster M,Leong J,Weisbeek PJ,O'gara F

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biobleaching of hardwood unbleached kraft pulp (UKP) by Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Trametes versicolor was studied in the solid-state fermentation system with different culture media. In this fermentation system with low-nitrogen and high-carbon culture medium, pulp brightness increased by 15 and 30 points after ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Katagiri N,Tsutsumi Y,Nishida T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel β-(1,3)-glucanase gene designated lamC, cloned from Corallococcus sp. strain EGB, contains a fascin-like module and a glycoside hydrolase family 16 (GH16) catalytic module. LamC displays broad hydrolytic activity toward various polysaccharides. Analysis of the hydrolytic products revealed that LamC is an exo-a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhou J,Li Z,Wu J,Li L,Li D,Ye X,Luo X,Huang Y,Cui Z,Cao H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antialgal allelochemicals were isolated from Phragmites communis Tris. The isolated allelopathic fraction showed strong inhibition activity on the growth of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Microcystis aeruginosa but had no inhibition on Chlorella vulgaris. The 50% effective concentrations (EC50) of the allelopathic fraction...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li FM,Hu HY

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current models suggest that (i) filamentous bacteria are protected against predation by nanoflagellates, (ii) prey size is positively correlated with prey-predator contact probability, and (iii) contact probability is mainly responsible for size-selective predation by interception-feeding flagellates. We used five str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wu QL,Boenigk J,Hahn MW

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported recently a unique fungal structure, called the spiny ball, on the vegetative hyphae of Coprinus comatus (O. F. Müll.:Fr.) Pers. Although some observations regarding the role of this structure were presented, its function remained largely unknown. In this study, we showed that purified (isolated and washed)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luo H,Liu Y,Fang L,Li X,Tang N,Zhang K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cheese microbiota contributes to a large extent to the development of the typical color, flavor, and texture of the final product. Its composition is not well defined in most cases and varies from one cheese to another. The aim of the present study was to establish procedures for gene transcript quantification in ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Monnet C,Straub C,Castellote J,Onesime D,Bonnarme P,Irlinger F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-Helicobacter pylori activities were determined by agar dilution, confocal laser scanning microscopy, and cell proliferation assays following treatment with various grape extracts. Muscadine grape skin possessed the strongest activity, followed by grape synergy (skin and seed) and seed, suggesting that higher phen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brown JC,Huang G,Haley-Zitlin V,Jiang X

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four enteric viruses, poliovirus type 1, echovirus type 1, reovirus type 3, and simian adenovirus SV-11, were concentrated from seeded 1.3-liter volumes of raw, finished, and granular activated carbon-treated waters by adsorption to 47-mm-diameter (17 cm2), electropositive ( Virosorb 1MDS ) filters at pH 7.5 or electr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sobsey MD,Glass JS

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the ripening of Gouda-type cheese, two kinds of endopeptidases were found to participate in the degradation of alphas1-CN(f1-23), a specific product from alphas1-casein hydrolyzed by chymosin. One of the endopeptidases, lactic acid bacteria endopeptidase (LEP-II), which can recognize the size of its substrates,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yan TR,Azuma N,Kaminogawa S,Yamauchi K

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of a mycorrhizal inoculum could be one way to increase the yield of rice plants and reduce the application of fertilizer. We therefore studied arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the roots of wetland rice (Oryza sativa L.) collected at the seedling, tillering, heading, and ripening stages in four paddy w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Li T,Li Y,Björn LO,Rosendahl S,Olsson PA,Li S,Fu X

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00