Propionate-Degrading Bacterium, Syntrophobacter wolinii sp. nov. gen. nov., from Methanogenic Ecosystems.

abstract：:Glutaminase is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of l-glutamine to l-glutamate, and it plays an important role in the production of fermented foods by enhancing the umami taste. By using the genome sequence and expressed sequence tag data available for Aspergillus oryzae RIB40, we cloned a novel glutaminase gene...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ito K,Matsushima K,Koyama Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum growth temperature, the optimal growth temperature, and the estimated normal physiological range for growth of Shewanella gelidimarina are functions of water activity (a(w)), which can be manipulated by changing the concentration of sodium chloride. The growth temperatures at the boundaries of the normal p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nichols DS,Olley J,Garda H,Brenner RR,McMeekin TA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emulsan is a polyanionic heteropolysaccharide bioemulsifier produced by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus RAG-1. A mixed bacterial population was obtained by enrichment culture that was capable of degrading emulsan and using it as a carbon source. From this mixed culture, an emulsan-degrading bacterium, termed YUV-1, was is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shoham Y,Rosenberg M,Rosenberg E

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several investigations have identified benzothiophene-2,3-dione in the organic solvent extracts of acidified cultures degrading dibenzothiophene via the Kodama pathway. In solution at neutral pH, the 2,3-dione exists as 2-mercaptophenylglyoxylate, which cyclizes upon acidification and is extracted as the 2,3-dione. Th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bressler DC,Fedorak PM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved method of dot-blot hybridization to detect hepatitis A virus (HAV) was developed with single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) probes. Radioactive and nonradioactive ssRNA probes were generated by in vitro transcription of HAV templates inserted into the plasmid pGEM-1. 32P-labeled ssRNA probes were at least eightfold ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang X,Estes MK,Metcalf TG

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhizobiaceae are a bacterial family of enormous agricultural importance due to the ability of its members to fix atmospheric nitrogen in an intimate relationship with plants. Their survival as naturally occurring soil bacteria in agricultural soils as well as popular seed inocula is affected directly by drought an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vriezen JA,de Bruijn FJ,Nüsslein K

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages against Streptococcus thermophilus are a growing problem in the Italian cheese industry. One possible control method involves replacing S. thermophilus in mozzarella starter blends with lactic acid bacteria from a different genus or species. In this study, we evaluated lactose-positive pediococci for th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Caldwell SL,McMahon DJ,Oberg CJ,Broadbent JR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol and albumin are limiting factors in the growth of Mycoplasma species. These nutrients are usually supplied in the culture medium by the addition of serum. The growth of M. pneumoniae in a serum-free medium containing an ethanolic cholesterol suspension and albumin was about one-half the level attained in s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cluss RG,Johnson JK,Somerson NL

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of Mycobacterium avium complex-related lung disorders were associated with two poorly maintained spa pools by genotypic investigations. Inadequate disinfection of the two spas had reduced the load of environmental bacteria to less than 1 CFU/ml but allowed levels of M. avium complex of 4.3 x 10(4) and 4.5 ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lumb R,Stapledon R,Scroop A,Bond P,Cunliffe D,Goodwin A,Doyle R,Bastian I

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting with a strain of Bacillus cereus excreting about 40-fold more beta-amylase than does the original wild-type strain, we isolated, after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, a strain designated BQ10-S1 SpoIII which showed under optimal conditions a further 5.5-fold increase in beta-amylase act...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nanmori T,Numata Y,Shinke R

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the agent of Legionnaires' disease, is an intracellular parasite of aquatic amoebae and human macrophages. A key factor for L. pneumophila in intracellular infection is its type II protein secretion system (Lsp). In order to more completely define Lsp output, we recently performed a proteomic a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rossier O,Dao J,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of 35 Bacillus sphaericus strains was analyzed by a newly developed multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, toxin gene pool survey, and mosquito bioassay. The results demonstrated that strains assigned to the same sequence type (ST) had the same occurrence of toxin genes. Further sequence analy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ge Y,Hu X,Zheng D,Wu Y,Yuan Z

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA extraction procedures and PCR conditions to detect Vibrio vulnificus cells naturally occurring in oysters were developed. In addition, PCR amplification of V. vulnificus from oysters seeded with biotype 1 cells was demonstrated. By the methods described, V. vulnificus cells on a medium (colistin-polymyxin B-cellob...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coleman SS,Melanson DM,Biosca EG,Oliver JD

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium is a genus of waterborne protozoan parasites that causes significant gastrointestinal disease in humans. These parasites can accumulate in environmental biofilms and be subsequently released to contaminate water supplies. Natural microbial assemblages were collected each season from an eastern Pennsylv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wolyniak EA,Hargreaves BR,Jellison KL

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human norovirus (NoV) is the leading cause of nonbacterial acute gastroenteritis epidemics worldwide. High-pressure processing (HPP) has been considered a promising nonthermal processing technology to inactivate food- and waterborne viral pathogens. Due to the lack of an effective cell culture method for human NoV, th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lou F,Huang P,Neetoo H,Gurtler JB,Niemira BA,Chen H,Jiang X,Li J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of UV-B radiation on the heterotrophic nanoflagellate Bodo saltans (Kinetoplastida) were examined under controlled conditions with artificial UV sources and also under natural solar radiation in an oligotrophic lake. In both types of experiments, the characteristic elongated cell morphology of this flagell...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sommaruga R,Oberleiter A,Psenner R

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report a novel method to produce microencapsulated enzymes using Saccharomyces cerevisiae spores. In sporulating cells, soluble secreted proteins are transported to the spore wall. Previous work has shown that the spore wall is capable of retaining soluble proteins because its outer layers work as a diffusion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shi L,Li Z,Tachikawa H,Gao XD,Nakanishi H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains of Streptococcus bovis, a homolactic bacterium capable of utilizing starch, were evaluated for growth kinetics and ability to decrease the pH of alfalfa silage. A selected strain was evaluated for its competitiveness as an inoculant with Enterococcus faecium, an organism used in inoculants, and for its a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jones BA,Muck RE,Ricke SC

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A project to investigate biofouling, under conditions relevant to ocean thermal energy conversion heat exchangers, was conducted during July through September 1977 at a site about 13 km north of St. Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands). Seawater was drawn from a depth of 20 m, within the surface mixed layer, through aluminum p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aftring RP,Taylor BF

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prokaryote community activity and structural characteristics within marine sediment sampled across a continental shelf area located off eastern Antarctica (66 degrees S, 143 degrees E; depth range, 709 to 964 m) were studied. Correlations were found between microbial biomass and aminopeptidase and chitinase rates,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bowman JP,McCammon SA,Gibson JA,Robertson L,Nichols PD

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micro-Raman spectroscopy is a fast and sensitive tool for the detection, classification, and identification of biological organisms. The vibrational spectrum inherently serves as a fingerprint of the biochemical composition of each bacterium and thus makes identification at the species level, or even the subspecies le...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stöckel S,Schumacher W,Meisel S,Elschner M,Rösch P,Popp J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cities, the feral rock dove is an abundant bird species that can harbor Chlamydophila psittaci. We determined the prevalence and genotype of C. psittaci in fresh fecal samples from feral pigeons in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The prevalence was 7.9% overall (26/331; 95% confidence interval, 5 to 11). Ten genot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heddema ER,Ter Sluis S,Buys JA,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,van Wijnen JH,Visser CE

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work describes the development of a superior strain of Corynebacterium glutamicum for diaminopentane (cadaverine) production aimed at the identification and deletion of the underlying unknown N-acetyldiaminopentane pathway. This acetylated product variant, recently discovered, is a highly undesired by-prod...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kind S,Jeong WK,Schröder H,Zelder O,Wittmann C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yarrowia lipolytica produces brown extracellular pigments that correlate with tyrosine catabolism. During tyrosine depletion, the yeast accumulated homogentisic acid, p-hydroxyphenylethanol, and p-hydroxyphenylacetic acid in the medium. Homogentisic acid accumulated under all aeration conditions tested, but its concen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Carreira A,Ferreira LM,Loureiro V

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactose is the only soluble and economically feasible carbon source for the production of cellulases or heterologous proteins regulated by cellulase expression signals by Hypocrea jecorina (Trichoderma reesei). We investigated the role of the major beta-galactosidase of H. jecorina in lactose metabolism and cellulase ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Seiboth B,Hartl L,Salovuori N,Lanthaler K,Robson GD,Vehmaanperä J,Penttilä ME,Kubicek CP

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury is a redox-active heavy metal that reacts with active thiols and depletes cellular antioxidants. Active resistance to the mercuric ion is a widely distributed trait among bacteria and results from the action of mercuric reductase (MerA). Protein phylogenetic analysis of MerA in bacteria indicated the occurrenc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simbahan J,Kurth E,Schelert J,Dillman A,Moriyama E,Jovanovich S,Blum P

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short sequence repeats (SSRs) with a potential variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci were identified in the genome of the citrus pathogen Xylella fastidiosa and used for typing studies. Although mono- and dinucleotide repeats were absent, we found several intermediate-length 7-, 8-, and 9-nucleotide repeats, wh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coletta-Filho HD,Takita MA,de Souza AA,Aguilar-Vildoso CI,Machado MA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stable bacterial community absorbed and transformed the herbicide metolachlor [2-chloro-N-(2-ethyl- 6-methylphenyl)-N-(2-methoxy-1-methylethyl)-acetamide] from a liquid medium. About 80% of the added ring-[U-C]metolachlor (50 mug/ml) disappeared from the medium and accumulated inside the cells. The ratio of cellular...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu SY,Zheng Z,Zhang R,Bollag JM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective adhesion to only certain epithelia is particularly common among the bacterial members of the indigenous microflora of mammals. We have found that the stratified squamous epithelium of the nonsecreting area of horse stomach is colonized by gram-positive rods. The microscopic features of a dense layer of these...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yuki N,Shimazaki T,Kushiro A,Watanabe K,Uchida K,Yuyama T,Morotomi M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus adsorption to soils is considered to be the most important factor in removing viruses after land treatment of wastewater. Most of the studies on virus adsorption to soils have utilized poliovirus as the model system. In the present study, comparative adsorption of a number of different types and strains of human...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goyal SM,Gerba CP

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00