Algal and Bacterial Activities in Acidic (pH 3) Strip Mine Lakes.

abstract：:"Candidatus Accumulibacter" is the dominant polyphosphate-accumulating organism (PAO) in denitrifying phosphorus removal (DPR) systems. In order to investigate the community structure and clade morphotypes of "Candidatus Accumulibacter" in DPR systems through flow cytometry (FCM), denitrifying phosphorus removal of al...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li C,Zeng W,Li N,Guo Y,Peng Y

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Curli are adhesive fimbriae of Enterobacteriaceae and are involved in surface attachment, cell aggregation, and biofilm formation. Here, we report that both inter- and intrastrain variations in curli production are widespread in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. The relative proportions of curli-producing va...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Carter MQ,Brandl MT,Louie JW,Kyle JL,Carychao DK,Cooley MB,Parker CT,Bates AH,Mandrell RE

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minute amounts of oxygen were supplied to a continuous cultivation of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363 grown on a defined glucose-limited medium at a dilution rate of 0.1 h(-1). More than 80% of the carbon supplied with glucose ended up in fermentation products other than lactate. Addition of even minute amou...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jensen NB,Melchiorsen CR,Jokumsen KV,Villadsen J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rolling circle amplification (RCA) generates large single-stranded and tandem repeats of target DNA as amplicons. This technique was applied to in situ nucleic acid amplification (in situ RCA) to visualize and count single Escherichia coli cells carrying a specific gene sequence. The method features (i) one short targ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maruyama F,Kenzaka T,Yamaguchi N,Tani K,Nasu M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular pathogens Legionella micdadei and Legionella pneumophila are the two most common Legionella species that cause Legionnaires' disease. Intracellular replication within pulmonary cells is the hallmark of Legionnaires' disease. In the environment, legionellae are parasites of protozoans, and intracellul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abu Kwaik Y,Venkataraman C,Harb OS,Gao LY

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-oxidizing thiobacilli were adapted to grow on a chalcopyrite and a galena ore concentrate. When grown on the chalcopyrite concentrate, the bacteria exhibited a doubling time of 38.4 +/- 2.9 h, with a final cellular protein concentration of 185 mug/ml and solubilization of 10.3 g of copper per liter. When grown on...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kingma JG,Silver M

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new nickel-resistant strains of Alcaligenes species were selected from a large number (about 400) of strains isolated from ecosystems polluted by heavy metals and were studied on the physiological and molecular level. Alcaligenes xylosoxydans 31A is a heterotrophic bacterium, and Alcaligenes eutrophus KTO2 is an a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmidt T,Stoppel RD,Schlegel HG

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria were isolated from lake water, and their ability to remain viable in a dilute, nutrient-deficient environment was tested by a method that permits suspension of test bacteria between two appressed microporous membranes in an aqueous environment. This approach permitted separation of the lake isolates into two ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sjogren RE,Gibson MJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion of the pcaHG genes, encoding protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase in Rhodococcus jostii RHA1, gives a gene deletion strain still able to grow on protocatechuic acid as the sole carbon source, indicating a second degradation pathway for protocatechuic acid. Metabolite analysis of wild-type R. jostii RHA1 grown on m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Spence EM,Scott HT,Dumond L,Calvo-Bado L,di Monaco S,Williamson JJ,Persinoti GF,Squina FM,Bugg TDH

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanase catalyzes the decomposition of cyanate into CO(2) and ammonium, with carbamate as an unstable intermediate. The cyanase of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes CECT5344 was negatively regulated by ammonium and positively regulated by cyanate, cyanide, and some cyanometallic complexes. Cyanase activity was not detecte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luque-Almagro VM,Huertas MJ,Sáez LP,Luque-Romero MM,Moreno-Vivián C,Castillo F,Roldán MD,Blasco R

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study measured the environmental variability which exists in a commercial aerobic composting process. The specific process studied is carried out in six decomposition cells which present six different phases of the process. Temperature, pH, and moisture content were determined in several randomly chosen sample si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Atchley SH,Clark JB

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unidentified lactic acid bacterium (LAB) isolates which had mainly been detected in spoiled, marinated, modified atmosphere packaged (MAP) broiler meat products during two previous studies, were identified and analyzed for their phenotypic properties and the capability to produce biogenic amines. To establish the taxo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Koort J,Murros A,Coenye T,Eerola S,Vandamme P,Sukura A,Björkroth J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike general peroxidases, Pleurotus ostreatus MnP2 was reported to have a unique property of direct oxidization of high-molecular-weight compounds, such as Poly R-478 and RNase A. To elucidate the mechanism for oxidation of polymeric substrates by MnP2, a series of mutant enzymes were produced by using a homologous ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsukihara T,Honda Y,Sakai R,Watanabe T,Watanabe T

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The siderophore synthetic system in Shewanella species is able to synthesize dozens of macrocyclic siderophores in vitro with synthetic precursors. In vivo, however, although three siderophores are produced naturally in Shewanella algae B516, which carries a lysine decarboxylase (AvbA) specific for siderophore synthes...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang S,Liang H,Liu L,Jiang X,Wu S,Gao H

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Diversity among 130 strains of Bacillus polymyxa was studied; the bacteria were isolated by immunotrapping from nonrhizosphere soil (32 strains), rhizosphere soil (38 strains), and the rhizoplane (60 strains) of wheat plantlets growing in a growth chamber. The strains were characterized phenotypically by 63 auxanograp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mavingui P,Laguerre G,Berge O,Heulin T

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloned 135-kDa CryIC delta-endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis is a lepidopteran-active toxin, displaying high activity in vivo against Spodoptera litoralis and Spodoptera frugiperda larvae and in vitro against the S. frugiperda Sf9 cell line. Here, we report that the CryIC delta-endotoxin cloned from B. thuring...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Smith GP,Merrick JD,Bone EJ,Ellar DJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 grown on acidic medium containing glucose and solidified with bacteriological agar expressed a virB::lacZ fusion. No expression of this fusion was observed on a similar medium which was solidified with purified agarose. The fraction from bacteriological agar which was responsible for vir ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Loubens I,Chilton WS,Dion P

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli KO11 was previously constructed to produce ethanol from acid hydrolysates of hemicellulose (pentoses and hexoses) by the chromosomal integration of Zymomonas mobilis genes encoding pyruvate decarboxylase (pdc) and alcohol dehydrogenase (adhB). Klebsiella oxytoca P2 was constructed in an analogous fash...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moniruzzaman M,Lai X,York SW,Ingram LO

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacteria community composition in an acidic Sphagnum peat bog (pH 3.9 to 4.5) was characterized by a combination of 16S rRNA gene clone library analysis, rRNA-targeted fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and cultivation. Among 84 environmental 16S rRNA gene clones, a set of only 16 cloned sequences was clos...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dedysh SN,Pankratov TA,Belova SE,Kulichevskaya IS,Liesack W

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a wealth of studies examining the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials, current knowledge on their cytotoxic mechanisms (particularly from a physical perspective) remains limited. In this work, we imaged and quantitatively characterized the biomechanical (hardness and elasticity), adhesive, and surface electri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang W,Hughes J,Chen Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model was constructed to simulate the results of experiments which investigated nitrification and denitrification in the freshwater sediment of Lake Vilhelmsborg, Denmark (K. Jensen, N. P. Sloth, N. Risgaard-Petersen, S. Rysgaard, and N. P. Revsbech, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:2094-2100, 1994). The model output fa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blackburn TH,Blackburn ND,Jensen K,Risgaard-Petersen N

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens 2-79 suppresses take-all, a major root disease of wheat caused by Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici. The bacteria produce an antibiotic, phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA), and a fluorescent pyoverdin siderophore. Previous studies have established that PCA has an important role in the biologi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hamdan H,Weller DM,Thomashow LS

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial bioremediation is a promising approach for the removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contaminants. Many degraders of PAHs possess efflux pump genes in their genomes; however, their specific roles in the degradation of PAHs have not been clearly elucidated. In this study, two efflux pumps, TtgABC a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yao X,Tao F,Zhang K,Tang H,Xu P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to extensive studies of phosphorus, widely considered the main nutrient limiting phytoplankton biomass in freshwater ecosystems, there have been few studies on the role of nitrogen in controlling phytoplankton populations. This situation may be due partly to the complexity in estimating its utilization and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gillor O,Harush A,Hadas O,Post AF,Belkin S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hitherto undescribed Clostridium strains capable of cleaving the C ring of quercetin, kaempferol, and naringenin at C-3-C-4 were isolated from the fecal flora of humans. None of the strains cleaved catechin. C-ring fission occurred when the substrate was either in solution or in suspension. Mixed cultures of flav...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Winter J,Moore LH,Dowell VR Jr,Bokkenheuser VD

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subsurface sediments were recovered from a 52-m-deep borehole cored in the 300 Area of the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State to assess the potential for biogeochemical transformation of radionuclide contaminants. Microbial analyses were made on 17 sediment samples traversing multiple geological units: the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lin X,Kennedy D,Peacock A,McKinley J,Resch CT,Fredrickson J,Konopka A

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell extracts of Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum, an anaerobic bacterium which ferments starch into ethanol at 65 degrees C, contained both pullulanase and glucoamylase activities. The general physiochemical and catalytic properties of these enzyme activities were compared. Pullulanase and glucoamylase activities we...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hyun HH,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 286 isolates of Pseudomonas maltophilia was collected from sheep exhibiting brown or yellowish fleece rot and from fly-strike lesions. Enzyme activities for 10 of the isolates were examined by plate tests and with the API ZYM system and compared with the enzymatic profile of a human type strain of P. maltop...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macdiarmid JA,Burrell DH

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Comamonas testosteroni strain was isolated from activated sludge on the basis of its ability to coaggregate with yeast cells. On agar plates the following two types of colonies were formed: colonies with a mucoid appearance and colonies with a nonmucoid appearance. On plates this strain alternated between the two fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bossier P,Verstraete W

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the measurement of specific levels of gene expression that combines target mRNA and target DNA quantitation has been developed. The use of target gene dose as a normalizing factor for mRNA provides an alternative to 16S or 23S rRNA, which are unsuitable for use in the environment because of their presence...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pichard SL,Paul JH

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00