Cutinase-like enzyme from the yeast Cryptococcus sp. strain S-2 hydrolyzes polylactic acid and other biodegradable plastics.

abstract：:Ninety-nine Campylobacter coli isolates were examined by bacterial restriction endonuclease DNA analysis (BRENDA) with HindIII. Isolates from poultry from the same environment had identical patterns, patterns of isolates carried by suckling piglets were generally the same as those of isolates recovered from their dams...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kakoyiannis CK,Winter PJ,Marshall RB

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our goal was to develop a field soil biodegradation assay using (13)C-labeled compounds and identify the active microorganisms by analyzing 16S rRNA genes in soil-derived (13)C-labeled DNA. Our biodegradation approach sought to minimize microbiological artifacts caused by physical and/or nutritional disturbance of soi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Padmanabhan P,Padmanabhan S,DeRito C,Gray A,Gannon D,Snape JR,Tsai CS,Park W,Jeon C,Madsen EL

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus isolates were identified by PCR amplification and sequencing of the region between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes (spacer region). The sequences obtained from the isolates were compared to those of reference strains held in GenBank. A similarity of 97.5% or greater was considered to provide identification. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tannock GW,Tilsala-Timisjarvi A,Rodtong S,Ng J,Munro K,Alatossava T

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soil bacterial consortium that was grown on diesel fuel and consisted of more than 10 members from different genera was maintained through repetitive subculturing and was utilized as a practical model to investigate a bacterial community that was continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons. Through metagenomics a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mori JF,Kanaly RA

更新日期：2020-12-17 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：:Microcosms were prepared from aquifer material, spiked with monoaromatic hydrocarbons, and amended with oxygen, nitrate, and nitrous oxide. Benzene and alkylbenzenes were degraded to concentrations below 5 micrograms/liter within 7 days under aerobic conditions, whereas only the alkylbenzenes were degraded when either...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hutchins SR

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, a new mechanism influencing the transport of microorganisms through unsaturated porous media is examined, and a new method for directly visualizing bacterial behavior within a porous medium under controlled chemical and flow conditions is introduced. Resting cells of hydrophilic and relatively hydroph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wan J,Wilson JL,Kieft TL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chickens on a broiler farm in southern England were found to be colonized with Campylobacter jejuni of a single serotype, Lior 1 Penner 4. The farm was the sole supplier of a local slaughterhouse associated with a campylobacter outbreak in 1984 caused by this serotype. The serotype persisted on the farm for at least 1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pearson AD,Greenwood M,Healing TD,Rollins D,Shahamat M,Donaldson J,Colwell RR

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten laboratories participated in an interlaboratory comparison of determination of bioleaching rates of a pyrite reference material. A standardized procedure and a single strain of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans were used in this study. The mean rate of bioleaching of the pyrite reference material was 12.4 mg of Fe per lit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Olson GJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 247 clones of 16S rRNA genes from microorganisms captured by 0.2- and 0.1-microm-pore-size filters from sedimentary and granite rock aquifers were amplified and yielded 37 operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Fifteen OTUs captured by 0.1-microm-pore-size filters were affiliated with the candidate divisions O...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miyoshi T,Iwatsuki T,Naganuma T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sediment-water interface in Halifax Harbor supports a microbial population of 6.95 x 10 cells per g (dry weight). As determined by the standard technique of suspending subsamples in filtered seawater, the uptake of added glutamic acid by this population is 113.5 ng g (dry weight) h. An alternate technique was deve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Novitsky JA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 114 gram-negative fecal isolates from domestic pigs in herds with different histories of antimicrobial agent exposure were screened for the presence of plasmid DNA and specific tetracycline resistance determinants. More than 84% of the isolates harbored plasmid DNA, which ranged in size from 2.1 to 186 kb. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee C,Langlois BE,Dawson KA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Modulation of the intestinal microbial ecosystem (IME) is a useful target to establish probiotic efficacy in a healthy population. We conducted a randomized, double-blind, crossover, and placebo-controlled intervention study to determine the impact of Bifidobacterium bifidum strain Bb on the IME of adult hea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gargari G,Taverniti V,Balzaretti S,Ferrario C,Gardana C,Simonetti P,Guglielmetti S

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural gene coding for the lysine-sensitive aspartokinase II of the methylotrophic thermotolerant Bacillus sp. strain MGA3 was cloned from a genomic library by complementation of an Escherichia coli auxotrophic mutant lacking all three aspartokinase isozymes. The nucleotide sequence of the entire 2.2-kb PstI f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schendel FJ,Flickinger MC

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By targeted deletion of the polyglutamate operon (pga) in Bacillus licheniformis F11, a derivative form, F11.1 (Δpga), was obtained that, along with lacking polyglutamate (PGA) formation, displayed enhanced proteolytic activities. The phenotypic properties were maintained in a strain in which the chiBA operon was addi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hoffmann K,Daum G,Köster M,Kulicke WM,Meyer-Rammes H,Bisping B,Meinhardt F

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sputter coating of leaf litter microbe samples provides scanning electron microscope images with greater information content than either vacuum evaporation of thin metal coatings or tissue conductance. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Draggan S

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus gasseri ATCC 33323, Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salivarius UCC 118, and Lactobacillus casei ATCC 334 contain one (LgaI), four (Sal1, Sal2, Sal3, Sal4), and one (Lca1) distinguishable prophage sequences, respectively. Sequence analysis revealed that LgaI, Lca1, Sal1, and Sal2 prophages belong to the g...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ventura M,Canchaya C,Bernini V,Altermann E,Barrangou R,McGrath S,Claesson MJ,Li Y,Leahy S,Walker CD,Zink R,Neviani E,Steele J,Broadbent J,Klaenhammer TR,Fitzgerald GF,O'toole PW,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recent outbreaks of toxoplasmosis were related to drinking water. We propose a strategy for Toxoplasma oocyst detection as part of an approach to detecting multiple waterborne parasites, including Giardia and Cryptosporidium spp., by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency method with the same sample. Water s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Villena I,Aubert D,Gomis P,Ferté H,Inglard JC,Denis-Bisiaux H,Dondon JM,Pisano E,Ortis N,Pinon JM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agromonas oligotrophica (Bradyrhizobium oligotrophicum) S58(T) is a nitrogen-fixing oligotrophic bacterium isolated from paddy field soil that is able to grow in extra-low-nutrient environments. Here, the complete genome sequence of S58 was determined. The S58 genome was found to comprise a circular chromosome of 8,26...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Okubo T,Fukushima S,Itakura M,Oshima K,Longtonglang A,Teaumroong N,Mitsui H,Hattori M,Hattori R,Hattori T,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular growth of Rickettsia prowazekii places severe restrictions on the analysis of rickettsial gene expression. With a small genome, predicted to code for 835 proteins, identifying which proteins are differentially expressed in rickettsiae that are isolated from different hosts or that vary in vi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tucker AM,Driskell LO,Pannell LK,Wood DO

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular parasite of protozoa and human phagocytes. To examine adaptation of this bacterium to parasitize protozoa, the sequence of events of the intracellular infection of the amoeba Hartmannella vermiformis was examined. The previously described uptake phenomenon of coiling phagocyt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abu Kwaik Y

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representatives of Actinobacteria were isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria panicea collected from the Baltic Sea (Germany). For the first time, a comprehensive investigation was performed with regard to phylogenetic strain identification, secondary metabolite profiling, bioactivity determination, and genetic ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schneemann I,Nagel K,Kajahn I,Labes A,Wiese J,Imhoff JF

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the survival of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and microbial source-tracking (MST) markers is critical to developing pathogen fate and transport models. Although pathogen survival in water microcosms and manure-amended soils is well documented, little is known about their survival in intact cow pats depo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oladeinde A,Bohrmann T,Wong K,Purucker ST,Bradshaw K,Brown R,Snyder B,Molina M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latent virus-like agent, which we designated zooxanthella filamentous virus 1 (ZFV1), was isolated from Symbiodinium sp. strain CCMP 2465 and characterized. Transmission electron microscopy and analytical flow cytometry revealed the presence of a new group of distinctive filamentous virus-like particles after exposu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lohr J,Munn CB,Wilson WH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic degradation of monochlorophenols and monochlorobenzoates in a variety of aquatic sediments was compared under four enrichment conditions. A broader range of compounds was degraded in enrichments inoculated with sediment exposed to industrial effluents. Degradation of chloroaromatic compounds was observed mos...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Genthner BR,Price WA,Pritchard PH

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of environmental stress exposure on Listeria monocytogenes growth and virulence-associated characteristics were investigated. Specifically, we measured the effects of temperature (7 or 37 degrees C), pH (5.5 or 7.4), the presence of salt and organic acids (375 mM NaCl, 8.45 mM sodium diacetate [SD], 275 mM...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Garner MR,James KE,Callahan MC,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a number of Listeria monocytogenes strains of different origins were evaluated for in vitro invasion capacity for various human cell types (monocytic THP-1, enterocytic Caco-2, and hepatocytic HepG2 cells) and for expression levels of specific virulence genes. For THP-1 cells, no differences between cli...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Werbrouck H,Grijspeerdt K,Botteldoorn N,Van Pamel E,Rijpens N,Van Damme J,Uyttendaele M,Herman L,Van Coillie E

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure nonhydrolyzed inulin was directly converted to ethanol in a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process. An inulinase-hyperproducing mutant, Aspergillus niger 817, was grown in a submerged culture at 30 degrees C for 5 days. The inulin-digestive liquid culture (150 ml) was supplemented with 45 g of inu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ohta K,Hamada S,Nakamura T

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of 0.6 M sucrose of 0.016 M Mg2+ to the enumeration medium was required for early expression of heat resistance (10 min at 70 degrees C) in stage V Bacillus cereus forspores. The addition of Mg2+ to the sporulation medium did not remove this requirment for sucrose of Mg2+. The heat damage did not affect f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Busta FF,Baillie E,Murrell WG

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azospirillum is a rhizobacterial genus containing plant growth-promoting species associated with different crops worldwide. Azospirillum brasilense strains exhibit a growth-promoting effect by means of phytohormone production and possibly by N2 fixation. However, one of the most important factors for achieving an incr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stets MI,Alqueres SM,Souza EM,Pedrosa Fde O,Schmid M,Hartmann A,Cruz LM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00