Oxidation of chloroform in an aerobic soil exposed to natural gas.

abstract：:Cereulide and valinomycin are highly similar cyclic dodecadepsipeptides with potassium ionophoric properties. Cereulide, produced by members of the Bacillus cereus group, is known mostly as emetic toxin, and no ecological function has been assigned. A comparative analysis of the antimicrobial activity of valinomycin p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tempelaars MH,Rodrigues S,Abee T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellobiose labeled either at the reducing end (4-O-beta-d-glucopyranosyl-d-[U-C]glucopyranose) or at the nonreducing end (4-O-beta-d-[U-C]glucopyranosyl-d -glucopyranose) was synthesized with Clostridium thermocellum cellobiose phosphorylase at greater than 98% purity. The radioactive cellobioses were identical to aut...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ng TK,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial strains were isolated on the basis of their ability to proliferate in a minimal medium containing one of a series of lignin-related compounds as the sole carbon and energy source. These included the aromatic monomers guaiacol, vanillic and coumaric acids, a dimer and a trimer possessing the arylglycerol-beta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gonzalez B,Merino A,Almeida M,Vicña R

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released by infected individuals or present in human and hospital wastes can potentially cause contamination problems. The presence of HIV-1 was investigated in 16 environmental samples, including raw wastewater, sludge, final effluent, soil, and pond water, collected fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ansari SA,Farrah SR,Chaudhry GR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrite-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane (n-damo) and ammonium (anammox) are two recently discovered processes in the nitrogen cycle that are catalyzed by n-damo bacteria, including "Candidatus Methylomirabilis oxyfera," and anammox bacteria, respectively. The feasibility of coculturing anammox and n-damo bact...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luesken FA,Sánchez J,van Alen TA,Sanabria J,Op den Camp HJ,Jetten MS,Kartal B

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decisions as to the disposition of swine carcasses with lesions attributable to a mycobacterial infection are based upon a lesion criterion which is used as a diagnostic test by federal meat inspectors. Using this criterion, a federal meat inspector classified 58 of 100 pigs as "passed for cooking" and the other 42 pi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brown J,Neuman MA

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butane-oxidizing Arthrobacter (ATCC 27778) bacteria were shown to degrade low concentrations of methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE; range, 100 to 800 microg/liter) with an apparent half-saturation concentration (K(s)) of 2.14 mg/liter and a maximum substrate utilization rate (k(c)) of 0.43 mg/mg of total suspended solids per ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu CY,Speitel GE Jr,Georgiou G

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteria that cause necrotizing hepatopancreatitis in Penaeus vannamei adversely affect penaeid shrimp cultured in the western hemisphere. 16S rRNA and gyrase B gene analyses determined the taxonomic position of these bacteria. The name "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei" is proposed for these pathogenic bacteria, wh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nunan LM,Pantoja CR,Gomez-Jimenez S,Lightner DV

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of colonization of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay plantlets by a plant growth-promoting bacterium, Burkholderia sp. strain PsJN, were studied under gnotobiotic conditions. Wild-type strain PsJN and genetically engineered derivatives of this strain tagged with gfp (PsJN::gfp2x) or gusA (PsJN::gusA11) genes w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Compant S,Reiter B,Sessitsch A,Nowak J,Clément C,Ait Barka E

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae O1 strain TSI-4 (El Tor, Ogawa) can shift to a rugose colony morphology from its normal translucent colony morphology in response to nutrient starvation. We have investigated differences between the rugose and translucent forms of V. cholerae O1 strain TSI-4. Electron microscopic examination of the rug...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wai SN,Mizunoe Y,Takade A,Kawabata SI,Yoshida SI

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two microorganisms which could degrade soybean lees efficiently were isolated and identified as Bacillus circulans and B. stearothermophilus. These two strains secreted thermostable proteases into the medium and could digest soybean lees rapidly and completely at 50 degrees C. Initially, the soybean lees were degraded...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kubo M,Okajima J,Hasumi F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in a liquid medium was compared with that of human fecal flora and estuarine flora. No marked differences were noted between growth at 25 and 37 degrees C for V. parahaemolyticus. However, the marine organisms were strongly inhibited when incubated at 37 degrees C. Incubation for ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dupray E,Cormier M

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of different microorganisms, considered as typical representatives of the microflora of soil and water, was established to evaluate the influence of the nonmedical use of antimicrobial agents on bacterial ecology. Only seven strains, six chemoorganotrophs and one chemolithotroph, could be considered as...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Dijck P,van de Voorde H

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mercury resistance (mer) operon of plasmid R100 was cloned onto various plasmid vectors to study the effect of mer gene amplification on the rate of Hg2+ reduction by Escherichia coli cells. The plasmids were maintained at copy numbers ranging from 3 to 140 copies per cell. The overall Hg2+ reduction rate of intac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Philippidis GP,Malmberg LH,Hu WS,Schottel JL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elevate the production level of heterologous polyketide in Streptomyces venezuelae, an additional copy of the positive regulatory gene pikD was introduced into the pikromycin (Pik) polyketide synthase (PKS) deletion mutant of S. venezuelae ATCC 15439 expressing tylosin PKS genes. The resulting mutant strain showed ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jung WS,Jeong SJ,Park SR,Choi CY,Park BC,Park JW,Yoon YJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional and physical factors which influence the germination of akinetes of Nodularia spumigena (Cyanobacteriaceae) were examined. Low concentrations of phosphorus (<0.9 muM) were required for germination. Nitrate had no effect, but ammonia, at concentrations of >45 muM, inhibited germination. Salinities of >20 pe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huber AL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LlaDII restriction/modification (R/M) system was found on the naturally occurring 8.9-kb plasmid pHW393 in Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris W39. A 2.4-kb PstI-EcoRI fragment inserted into the Escherichia coli-L. lactis shuttle vector pCI3340 conferred to L. lactis LM2301 and L. lactis SMQ86 resistance against re...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Madsen A,Josephsen J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We modeled mold growth on a solid culture medium at various temperatures and NaCl concentrations by using five common food spoilage molds (Penicillium roqueforti, Trichoderma harzianum, Paecilomyces variotii, Aspergillus niger, and Emericella nidulans). For the description of the growth rate (expressed as the increase...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cuppers HG,Oomes S,Brul S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale composting facilities are known to cause environmental problems, mainly through pungent air emitted by composting material. In air samples taken above stacks set up to prepare compost used as a substrate in mushroom cultivation, several volatile compounds were identified by means of the coupled techniques ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Derikx PJ,Op Den Camp HJ,van der Drift C,van Griensven LJ,Vogels GD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epifluorescent microscopy and flow cytometry were used in different combinations with fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled immunoglobulins M and G3 to estimate the numbers of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in soil extracts containing 10 to 10,017 oocysts/ml. No combination had a systematic effect on accuracy or precisio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Walker M,Redelman D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Bradyrhizobium has been considered to be a taxonomically difficult group. In this study, phylogenetics and evolutionary genetics analyses were used to investigate divergence levels among Bradyrhizobium strains nodulating soybeans in China. Eleven genospecies were identified by sequence analysis of three phyl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang XX,Guo HJ,Wang R,Sui XH,Zhang YM,Wang ET,Tian CF,Chen WX

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of nitroaromatic compounds, including 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), were reduced by hydrogen in the presence of enzyme preparations from Veillonella alkalescens. Consistent with the proposed reduction pathway, R-NO2 H2 leads to R-NO H2 leads to R-NHOH H2 leads to R-NH2, 3 mol of H2 was utilized per mol of nit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCormick NG,Feeherry FE,Levinson HS

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that the coexistence of methanogenesis and reductive acetogenesis in the hindgut of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes flavipes is based largely on the radial distribution of the respective microbial populations and relatively high hydrogen partial pressures in the gut lumen. Using Clark-type mi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmitt-Wagner D,Brune A

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the biological conversion of nitrite to nitrate is a well-known process, studies of Nitrobacter populations are hindered by their physiological characteristics. This report describes a new method for detecting and counting Nitrobacter populations in situ with the PCR. Two primers from the 16S rRNA gene were u...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Degrange V,Bardin R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lantibiotic nisin is produced by several strains of Lactococcus lactis. The complete gene cluster for nisin biosynthesis in L. lactis 6F3 comprises 15 kb of DNA. As described previously, the structural gene nisA is followed by the genes nisB, nisT, nisC, nisI, nisP, nisR, and nisK. Further analysis revealed three ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Siegers K,Entian KD

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of enteroviruses in oysters and oyster-harvesting waters of the Texas Gulf coast was monitored over a period of 10 months. Viruses were detected in water and oyster samples obtained from areas both open and closed to shellfish harvesting. Viruses were detected periodically in waters that met current bacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goyal SM,Gerba CP,Melnick JL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subterranean clover plants possessing two equally infectible and robust lateral root systems ("split roots") were used in conjunction with several specific mutant strains (derived from Rhizobium trifolii ANU843) to investigate a systemic plant response induced by infective Rhizobium strains. This plant response contro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sargent L,Huang SZ,Rolfe BG,Djordjevic MA

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：:Pantoea vagans C9-1 is a biocontrol strain that produces at least two antibiotics inhibiting the growth of Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight disease of pear and apple. One antibiotic, herbicolin I, was purified from culture filtrates of P. vagans C9-1 and determined to be 2-amino-3-(oxirane-2,3-dicarb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kamber T,Lansdell TA,Stockwell VO,Ishimaru CA,Smits TH,Duffy B

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe a quantitative PCR-based approach to estimating the relative abundances of major taxonomic groups of bacteria and fungi in soil. Primers were thoroughly tested for specificity, and the method was applied to three distinct soils. The technique provides a rapid and robust index of microbial community st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fierer N,Jackson JA,Vilgalys R,Jackson RB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00