An aflatoxin biosynthesis cluster gene encodes a novel oxidase required for conversion of versicolorin a to sterigmatocystin.

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：:To study the anaerobic degradation of the chimera 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate (3-Cl,4-OHB), anaerobic freshwater sediment samples from the vicinity of Athens, Ga., were adapted for the transformation of 4-hydroxybenzoate (4-OHB), 3-chlorobenzoate (3-CB), 2-chlorophenol (2-CP), and 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP). In nonad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang X,Wiegel J

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria able to utilize Aspon, Azodrin, Dasanit, diazinon, malathion, Orthene, parathion, Trithion, dimethoate, Dylox, methyl parathion, and Vapona as sole phosphorus sources were isolated from soil and sewage. Individual isolates used from 3 to 10 of these insecticides as sole phosphorus sources. The extent of growt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rosenberg A,Alexander M

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of a letter intentionally filled with dried Bacillus anthracis spores in the office of a United States senator prompted the collection and quarantine of all mail in congressional buildings. This mail was subsequently searched for additional intentionally contaminated letters. A microbiological sampling s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beecher DJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malonyl-coenzyme A (CoA) decarboxylase, malonyl-CoA synthetase, and malonate transporter mutants of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae and trifolii fixed N2 at wild-type rates on pea and clover, respectively. Thus, malonate does not drive N2 fixation in legume nodules. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karunakaran R,East AK,Poole PS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple microplate method was devised to assay spore production by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides by growing the fungus on 1 ml of solid media in the wells of tissue culture plates. Growth and sporulation on microplates were compared at days 4 and 8 with growth and sporulation in 100-ml liquid batch cultures that inv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Slade SJ,Harris RF,Smith CS,Andrews JH,Nordheim EV

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Streptococcus species to selectively adhere to the oral epithelial cells of newborns was studied in vitro. On day 1 of life, mucosal cells from normal infants demonstrated selective attraction for the natural distribution of streptococci that would soon colonize these surfaces. Streptococcus salivarius ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Long SS,Swenson RM

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been shown that the tomato pathogen Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis secretes a 14-kDa protein, C. michiganensis subsp. michiganensis AMP-I (CmmAMP-I), that inhibits growth of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus, the causal agent of bacterial ring rot of potato. Using sequences...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu Z,Ma P,Holtsmark I,Skaugen M,Eijsink VG,Brurberg MB

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of research exploring the feasibility of using antibody fragments to inhibit the growth of organisms implicated in dandruff, we isolated antibody fragments that bind to a cell surface protein of Malassezia furfur in the presence of shampoo. We found that phage display of llama single-domain antibody fragments ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dolk E,van der Vaart M,Lutje Hulsik D,Vriend G,de Haard H,Spinelli S,Cambillau C,Frenken L,Verrips T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction, with incorporation of either radioactive or fluorescent labels, was used as a rapid and sensitive method for obtaining genomic fingerprints of strains of Lactococcus lactis. Closely related strains produced almost identical fingerprints. Fingerprints of other strains showe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cancilla MR,Powell IB,Hillier AJ,Davidson BE

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Media used to determine the MICs of heavy metals for bacteria are unreliable because organic components in the media bind or chelate most of the metal being studied. To define specific metal activity in media and to maintain metal activity at a constant level, HEPES-MES [N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N' -2-ethanesulfonic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Angle JS,Chaney RL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-utilizing bacteria to produce biosurfactants was investigated. Twenty-three bacteria isolated from a soil contaminated with petroleum wastes were able to form clearing zones on mineral salt agar plates sprayed with solutions of PAHs. Naphthalene and phenanthrene we...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Deziel E,Paquette G,Villemur R,Lepine F,Bisaillon J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have engineered Escherichia coli to overproduce saturated and monounsaturated aliphatic methyl ketones in the C₁₁ to C₁₅ (diesel) range; this group of methyl ketones includes 2-undecanone and 2-tridecanone, which are of importance to the flavor and fragrance industry and also have favorable cetane numbers (as we re...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goh EB,Baidoo EE,Keasling JD,Beller HR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of promoter activity by oxygen availability appears to be an intriguing system for heterologous protein production. In fact, during cell growth in a bioreactor, an oxygen shortage is easily obtained simply by interrupting the air supply. The purpose of our work was to explore the possible use of hypoxic in...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Camattari A,Bianchi MM,Branduardi P,Porro D,Brambilla L

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the growth of six culturable bacterial lineages from coastal North Sea picoplankton in environmental samples under different incubation conditions. The grazing pressure of heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) was reduced either by double prefiltration through 0.8- micro m-pore-size filters or by 10-fold dilu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beardsley C,Pernthaler J,Wosniok W,Amann R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.2-kb fragment containing a replicon from pBtoxis, the large plasmid that encodes the insecticidal endotoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis, was identified, cloned, and sequenced. This fragment contains cis elements, including iterons, found in replication origins of other large plasmids and suggests...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tang M,Bideshi DK,Park HW,Federici BA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of uptake of propanoic acid and the cell dimensions were measured for 23 yeasts differing in their resistance to weak-acid-type preservatives. Relationships between reciprocal uptake rate, reciprocal permeability, cell volume, cell area, volume/area, and the MICs of benzoic acid and propanoic acid for the yea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Warth AD

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppression of soilborne disease by fluorescent pseudomonads may be inconsistent. Inefficient root colonization by the introduced bacteria is often responsible for this inconsistency. To better understand the bacterial traits involved in root colonization, the effect of two plant species, flax (Linum usitatissinum L.)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lemanceau P,Corberand T,Gardan L,Latour X,Laguerre G,Boeufgras J,Alabouvette C

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A yellow-pigmented marine bacterium, designated strain SD-21, was isolated from surface sediments of San Diego Bay, San Diego, Calif., based on its ability to oxidize soluble Mn(II) to insoluble Mn(III, IV) oxides. 16S rRNA analysis revealed that this organism was most closely related to members of the genus Erythroba...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Francis CA,Co EM,Tebo BM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acetic acid fermentation by Acetobacter aceti, the acetic acid produced inhibits the production of acetic acid by this microorganism. To alleviate this inhibitory effect, we developed an electrodialysis fermentation method such that acetic acid is continuously removed from the broth. The fermentation unit has a com...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nomura Y,Iwahara M,Hongo M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One emerging disease of grapevine in Europe is Bois noir (BN), a phytoplasmosis caused by "Candidatus Phytoplasma solani" and spread in vineyards by the planthopper Hyalesthes obsoletus (Hemiptera: Cixiidae). Here we present the first full characterization of the bacterial community of this important disease vector co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gonella E,Negri I,Marzorati M,Mandrioli M,Sacchi L,Pajoro M,Crotti E,Rizzi A,Clementi E,Tedeschi R,Bandi C,Alma A,Daffonchio D

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the spontaneous formation of a stable mannitol-producing variant of Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides. The mannitol-producing variant showed mannitol dehydrogenase activity which was absent in the parental strain. It was also able to use fructose and glucose simultaneously, whereas the parental strain showed d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Grobben GJ,Peters SW,Wisselink HW,Weusthuis RA,Hoefnagel MH,Hugenholtz J,Eggink G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2006, Geomyces destructans, the causative agent of white nose syndrome (WNS), has killed over 5.7 million bats in North America. The current hypothesis suggests that this novel fungus is an invasive species from Europe, but little is known about the diversity within the genus Geomyces and its distribution on bat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johnson LJ,Miller AN,McCleery RA,McClanahan R,Kath JA,Lueschow S,Porras-Alfaro A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) constitute a new family of fungal heme-thiolate enzymes in which there is high biotechnological interest. Although several thousand genes encoding hypothetical UPO-type proteins have been identified in sequenced fungal genomes and other databases, only a few UPO enzymes have been experi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Linde D,Olmedo A,González-Benjumea A,Estévez M,Renau-Mínguez C,Carro J,Fernández-Fueyo E,Gutiérrez A,Martínez AT

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The inability of two Lactobacillus strains to ferment D-xylose was complemented by the introduction of Lactobacillus pentosus genes encoding D-xylose isomerase, D-xylulose kinase, and a D-xylose catabolism regulatory protein. This result opens the possibility of using D-xylose fermentation as a food-grade selection ma...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Posno M,Heuvelmans PT,van Giezen MJ,Lokman BC,Leer RJ,Pouwels PH

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In the summer of 2010, Vibrio parahaemolyticus caused an outbreak in Maryland linked to the consumption of oysters. Strains isolated from both stool and oyster samples were indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). However, the oysters contained other potentially pathogenic V. parahaemoly...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haendiges J,Jones J,Myers RA,Mitchell CS,Butler E,Toro M,Gonzalez-Escalona N

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen pesticides (fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides) were tested to determine whether they had deleterious effects on the bioinsecticide Bacillus popilliae, the causal agent of milky disease. All of these pesticides reduced levels of spore viability, spore germination, and/or vegetative cell growth when they...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dingman DW

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular granules containing ferric and ferrous iron formed in Shewanella putrefaciens CN32 during dissimilatory reduction of solid-phase ferric iron. It is the first in situ detection at high resolution (150 nm) of a mixed-valence metal particle residing within a prokaryotic cell. The relationship of the interna...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glasauer S,Langley S,Boyanov M,Lai B,Kemner K,Beveridge TJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pellet softening reactors are used in centralized and decentralized drinking water treatment plants for the removal of calcium (hardness) through chemically induced precipitation of calcite. This is accomplished in fluidized pellet reactors, where a strong base is added to the influent to increase the pH and facilitat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hammes F,Boon N,Vital M,Ross P,Magic-Knezev A,Dignum M

更新日期：2011-02-01 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