Strain Improvement of Rhodotorula graminis for Production of a Novel l-Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase.

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：:Plasmid transfer rates for the conjugative plasmid R388::Tn1721 from Pseudomonas cepacia (donor) to Pseudomonas fluorescens (recipient) on agar media, in broth, and in microcosms containing sterile or nonsterile soil, in the presence or absence of germinating pea seeds, were determined. Donors, recipients, and transco...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sudarshana P,Knudsen GR

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volume 61, no. 4, p. 1211, column 2, line 40: this sentence should read as follows. "The viable-culture methods for Legionella sp. detection, however, often fail, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has turned, when necessary, to PCR for epidemiological investigations of Legionnaires' disease and Pontia...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Atlas RM,Williams JF,Huntington MK

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm bacteria challenged with monochloramine retained significant respiratory activity, even though they could not be cultured on agar plates. Microbial colony counts on agar media declined by approximately 99.9% after 1 h of disinfection, whereas the number of bacteria stained by a fluorescent redox dye experience...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stewart PS,Griebe T,Srinivasan R,Chen CI,Yu FP,deBeer D,McFeters GA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been few reports on the epidemiological analysis of environmental Leptospira isolates. This is probably because the isolation of leptospires from the environment was usually unsuccessful due to the overgrowth of contaminants and the slow growth of Leptospira. In this study, we collected a total of 88 sample...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Saito M,Villanueva SY,Chakraborty A,Miyahara S,Segawa T,Asoh T,Ozuru R,Gloriani NG,Yanagihara Y,Yoshida S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most species of the diazotrophic Proteobacteria Azoarcus spp. occur in association with grass roots, while A. tolulyticus and A. evansii are soil bacteria not associated with a plant host. To facilitate species identification and strain comparison, we developed a protocol for PCR-generated genomic fingerprints, using ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hurek T,Wagner B,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two anaerobic bacteria were isolated from polyethylene glycol (PEG)-degrading, methanogenic, enrichment cultures obtained from a municipal sludge digester. One isolate, identified as Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (strain DG2), metabolized oligomers ranging from ethylene glycol (EG) to tetraethylene glycol. The other iso...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dwyer DF,Tiedje JM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because Bacteroides spp. are obligate anaerobes that dominate the human fecal flora, and because some species may live only in the human intestine, these bacteria might be useful to distinguish human from nonhuman sources of fecal pollution. To test this hypothesis, PCR primers specific for 16S rRNA gene sequences of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kreader CA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus erythropolis BG43 is able to degrade the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing signal molecules PQS (Pseudomonas quinolone signal) [2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4(1H)-quinolone] and HHQ [2-heptyl-4(1H)-quinolone] to anthranilic acid. Based on the hypothesis that degradation of HHQ might involve hydroxylation to PQS ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Müller C,Birmes FS,Rückert C,Kalinowski J,Fetzner S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms which are derived from a bacteriophage genome are termed Per (phage-encoded resistance). When present in trans in Lactococcus lactis NCK203, Per50, the cloned origin of replication from phage phi50, interferes with phi50 replication. The per50 fragment was found to afford negligible...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： O'sullivan DJ,Hill C,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demineralization reduced heat resistance of B. subtilis spores, but the pattern and magnitude of the reduction depended on sporulation temperature and on heating menstruum pH. The differences in heat resistance of native spores caused by sporulation temperature almost disappeared after demineralization. Demineralized ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Palop A,Sala FJ,Condón S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive dechlorination of the ortho moiety of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as well as of meta and para moieties is shown to occur in anaerobic enrichments of Baltimore Harbor sediments. These estuarine sediments ortho dechlorinated 2,3,5,6-chlorinated biphenyl (CB), 2,3,5-CB, and 2,3,6-CB in freshwater or estuar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berkaw M,Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population analyses in water samples obtained from the chemocline of crenogenic, meromictic Lake Cadagno, Switzerland, in October for the years 1994 to 2003 were studied using in situ hybridization with specific probes. During this 10-year period, large shifts in abundance between purple and green sulfur bacteria and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tonolla M,Peduzzi R,Hahn D

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical models were developed to predict the probability of yeast spoilage of cold-filled ready-to-drink beverages as a function of beverage formulation. A Box-Behnken experimental design included five variables, each at three levels: pH (2.8, 3.3, and 3.8), titratable acidity (0.20, 0.40, and 0.60%), sugar conte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Battey AS,Duffy S,Schaffner DW

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The axy43A gene encoding the intracellular trifunctional xylanolytic enzyme from Paenibacillus curdlanolyticus B-6 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli Recombinant PcAxy43A consisting of a glycoside hydrolase family 43 and a family 6 carbohydrate-binding module exhibited endo-xylanase, β-xylosidase, and arabin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Teeravivattanakit T,Baramee S,Phitsuwan P,Waeonukul R,Pason P,Tachaapaikoon C,Sakka K,Ratanakhanokchai K

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Biotin-labeled DNA probes prepared from whole plasmids (5.5 and 4.8 kilobases) of two lactobacillus strains (Lactobacillus delbrueckii 21 and Lactobacillus reuteri 100-23) were used to detect the homologous bacteria in microtome-cryostat-prepared sections of murine forestomach. The forestomach sections were incubated ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tannock GW

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathways for degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons are constantly modified by a variety of genetic mechanisms. Genetic studies carried out with Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 suggested that the tou operon coding for toluene o-xylene monooxygenase (ToMO) was recently recruited into a preexisting pathway that already posse...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cafaro V,Notomista E,Capasso P,Di Donato A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between grass roots and Azospirillum brasilense Sp 7 was investigated by the Fahraeus slide technique, using nitrogen-free medium. Young inoculated roots of pearl millet and guinea grass produced more mucilaginous sheath (mucigel), root hairs, and lateral roots than did uninoculated sterile controls. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Umali-Garcia M,Hubbell DH,Gaskins MH,Dazzo FB

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to explore the long-term effects of different organic and inorganic fertilizers on activity and composition of the denitrifying and total bacterial communities in arable soil. Soil from the following six treatments was analyzed in an experimental field site established in 1956: cattle m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Enwall K,Philippot L,Hallin S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on elementary mode analysis, an Escherichia coli strain was designed for efficient conversion of glycerol to ethanol. By using nine gene knockout mutations, the functional space of the central metabolism of E. coli was reduced from over 15,000 possible pathways to a total of 28 glycerol-utilizing pathways that s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trinh CT,Srienc F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for detection and quantitation of Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin by counterimmunoelectrophoresis are described. As little as 0.2 microgram of enterotoxin per ml could be detected. The test was found to be rapid, sensitive, specific and easy for the detection and quantitation of enterotoxin. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Naik HS,Duncan CL

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IncQ marker plasmids were previously constructed to enable the analysis of the survival of populations of Pseudomonas putida released into lake water (C. Winstanley, J. A. W. Morgan, R. W. Pickup, J. G. Jones, and J. R. Saunders, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 55:771-777, 1989). We constructed equivalent IncP plasmids, pLV...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Winstanley C,Morgan JA,Pickup RW,Saunders JR

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the natural environment, most of the phages that target bacteria are thought to exist in biofilm ecosystems. The purpose of this study was to gain a clearer understanding of the reactivity of these viral particles when they come into contact with bacteria embedded in biofilms. Experimentally, we quantified lactococ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Briandet R,Lacroix-Gueu P,Renault M,Lecart S,Meylheuc T,Bidnenko E,Steenkeste K,Bellon-Fontaine MN,Fontaine-Aupart MP

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of genes encoding polyamine transporters from plasmids and polyamine supplements increased furfural tolerance (growth and ethanol production) in ethanologenic Escherichia coli LY180 (in AM1 mineral salts medium containing xylose). This represents a new approach to increase furfural tolerance and may be usef...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Geddes RD,Wang X,Yomano LP,Miller EN,Zheng H,Shanmugam KT,Ingram LO

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay has been developed to detect bacterial glycosidases in colonies grown on the surface of agar plates. Advantages of this technique over previously described methods include elimination of the need for replica plating, better visualization of chromagenic reaction products, and a simple permeabilization step to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paoni NF,Arroyo RL

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient biosynthesis of L-tyrosine from glucose is necessary to make biological production economically viable. To this end, we designed and constructed a modular biosynthetic pathway for L-tyrosine production in E. coli MG1655 by encoding the enzymes for converting erythrose-4-phosphate (E4P) and phosphoenolpyruvat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Juminaga D,Baidoo EE,Redding-Johanson AM,Batth TS,Burd H,Mukhopadhyay A,Petzold CJ,Keasling JD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-chloramine compound 3-chloro-4,4-dimethyl-2-oxazolidinone (agent I) has been compared with calcium hypochlorite as to its efficacy as a bactericide for the treatment of water. The study included concentration, contact time, pH, temperature, and water quality as controlled variables. The species of bacteria teste...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Williams DE,Worley SD,Wheatley WB,Swango LJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotransformation of 2-chlorophenol by a methanogenic sediment community resulted in the transient accumulation of phenol and benzoate. 3-Chlorobenzoate was a more persistent product of 2-chlorophenol metabolism. The anaerobic biotransformation of phenol to benzoate presumably occurred via para-carboxylation and dehyd...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Becker JG,Stahl DA,Rittmann BE

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane filter procedure has been developed for the rapid quantitation of C. perfringens in the aquatic environment. Background growth is inhibited by the use of D-cycloserine, polymyxin B sulfate, and incubation at 45 degrees C. Differential characteristics include the fermentation of sucrose, production of acid p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bisson JW,Cabelli VJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00