Microbiological comparison of surface soil and unsaturated subsurface soil from a semiarid high desert.

abstract：:Over 200 bacterial strains were selected for anaerobic growth at 50 degrees C and extracellular polysaccharide production in a sucrose-mineral salts medium with NaNO(3) and up to 10% NaCl. The predominant cell type was an encapsulated gram-positive, motile, facultative sporeforming rod similar to Bacillus species. Str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pfiffner SM,McInerney MJ,Jenneman GE,Knapp RM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High numbers (10(7) to 10(10) cells per g [dry weight]) of heterotrophic, gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-sporeforming, aerobic, thermophilic bacteria related to the genus Thermus were isolated from thermogenic composts at temperatures between 65 and 82 degrees C. These bacteria were present in different types of waste...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beffa T,Blanc M,Lyon PF,Vogt G,Marchiani M,Fischer JL,Aragno M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The als gene for alpha-acetolactate synthase of Lactococcus lactis MG1363 was cloned on a multicopy plasmid under the control of the inducible L. lactis lacA promoter. More than a hundredfold overproduction of alpha-acetolactate synthase was obtained in L. lactis under inducing conditions as compared with that of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Platteeuw C,Hugenholtz J,Starrenburg M,van Alen-Boerrigter I,de Vos WM

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symbiotic association between the roseobacter Silicibacter sp. strain TM1040 and the dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida involves bacterial chemotaxis to dinoflagellate-produced dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), DMSP demethylation, and ultimately a biofilm on the surface of the host. Biofilm formation is coincide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Geng H,Bruhn JB,Nielsen KF,Gram L,Belas R

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the characterization of the ccpA gene of Lactobacillus plantarum, coding for catabolite control protein A. The gene is linked to the pepQ gene, encoding a proline peptidase, in the order ccpA-pepQ, with the two genes transcribed in tandem from the same strand as distinct transcriptional units. Two ccpA trans...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Muscariello L,Marasco R,De Felice M,Sacco M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exopolysaccharide-producing Lactobacillus casei CG11 was isolated from soft, white, homemade cheese. In basal minimal medium, it produces a neutral heteropolysaccharide consisting predominantly of glucose (about 75%) and rhamnose (about 15%). Plasmid curing experiments revealed that exopolysaccharide production by str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kojic M,Vujcic M,Banina A,Cocconcelli P,Cerning J,Topisirovic L

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative role of biting flies in Bartonella transmission among ruminants was investigated. Amplification of the Bartonella citrate synthase gene from 83 Hippoboscidae was detected in 94% of 48 adult Lipoptena cervi flies, 71% of 17 adult Hippobosca equina flies, 100% of 20 adult Melophagus ovinus flies, and 100% o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Halos L,Jamal T,Maillard R,Girard B,Guillot J,Chomel B,Vayssier-Taussat M,Boulouis HJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Burkholderia includes over 60 species isolated from a wide range of environmental niches and can be tentatively divided into two major species clusters. The first cluster includes pathogens such as Burkholderia glumae, B. pseudomallei, and B. mallei and 17 well-studied species of the Burkholderia cepacia com...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Suárez-Moreno ZR,Devescovi G,Myers M,Hallack L,Mendonça-Previato L,Caballero-Mellado J,Venturi V

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcystis aeruginosa is a common cyanobacterium in water blooms that appear widely in nutrient-rich, fresh, and brackish waters, and its toxic blooms cause the death of domestic animals. The administration of a crude toxic cell extract of M. aeruginosa K-139 to mice can produce tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and prompt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakano Y,Shirai M,Mori N,Nakano M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flocs consisting of Anabaena and Zoogloea spp. were used as a model system for the study of planktonic phototroph-heterotroph interactions. In CO(2)-limited continuous culture (3.2 mumol of NaHCO(3) liter h, 1.5 mumol of glucose liter h, pH 8.5, D = 0.026 h), the biomass of the phototroph increased 8.6-fold due to ass...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schiefer GE,Caldwell DE

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Washed cell suspensions of Desulfovibrio vulgaris rapidly reduced Cr(VI) to Cr(III) with H(2) as the electron donor. The c(3) cytochrome from this organism functioned as a Cr(VI) reductase. D. vulgaris may have advantages over previously described Cr(VI) reducers for the bioremediation of Cr(VI)-contaminated waters. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lovley DR,Phillips EJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of nuclear ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) was used to measure the amount and distribution of genetic variability in populations of the Japanese pear pathotype of Alternaria alternata on both micro- and macrogeographical scales. A total of 322 isolates were obtained from ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adachi Y,Watanabe H,Tanabe K,Doke N,Nishimura S,Tsuge T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) was determined both in mixtures of septic tank effluent (STE) with dairy cattle manure slurry (DCMS) and in mixtures of STE with swine manure slurry (SMS). HAV was consistently inactivated more rapidly in the two types of mixed wastes than in STE alone or in the control Dulbe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Deng MY,Cliver DO

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a deadly pathogen that has killed countless people worldwide. Saccharomyces cerevisiae-derived HBV vaccines based upon hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is highly effective. However, the emergence of vaccine escape mutants due to mutations on the HBsAg and polymerase genes has produced a c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yong CY,Yeap SK,Goh ZH,Ho KL,Omar AR,Tan WS

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a ready-to-use real-time quantitative Legionella pneumophila PCR assay system by testing 136 hot-water-system samples collected from 55 sites as well as 49 cooling tower samples collected from 20 different sites, in parallel with the standard culture method. The PCR assay was reproducible and suitable for...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yaradou DF,Hallier-Soulier S,Moreau S,Poty F,Hillion Y,Reyrolle M,André J,Festoc G,Delabre K,Vandenesch F,Etienne J,Jarraud S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven strains representing 14 different Bacillus species isolated from clinical and food samples were grown in reconstituted infant milk formulae (IMF) and subsequently assessed for adherence to, invasion of, and cytotoxicity toward HEp-2 and Caco-2 cells. Cell-free supernatant fluids from 38 strains (81%) were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rowan NJ,Deans K,Anderson JG,Gemmell CG,Hunter IS,Chaithong T

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma canadense and Mycoplasma verecundum were cultured in a serum-free medium containing bovine serum albumin, cholesterol, oleic acid, and palmitic acid in order to avoid the addition of horse serum. Growth was detected by measurement of A640 and by colony formation. The level of growth attained in this medium ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Muñoz G,Sotomayor P

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1913 in vol. 45.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An agar medium containing 5% cholesterol has been developed for the isolation, enumeration, and characterization of cholesterol-reducing strains of Eubacterium. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brinkley AW,Gottesman AR,Mott GE

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediocin PA-1 is an antimicrobial peptide (called bacteriocin) that shows inhibitory activity against the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. To elucidate which residue(s) is responsible for this function, the antimicrobial activities of pediocin PA-1 mutants were evaluated and compared. Each of the 44 native ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tominaga T,Hatakeyama Y

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:o-Methoxycinnamaldehyde has been isolated and purified from powdered cinnamon. The compound inhibits the growth and toxin production of mycotoxin-producing fungi. The substance completely inhibited the growth of Aspergillus parasiticus and A. flavus at 100 microgram/ml and A. ochraceus and A. versicolor at 200 microgr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morozumi S

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how species interaction and assembly processes structure the abundant and rare bacterial biospheres in soils is crucial for predicting how biodiversity influences ecosystem functioning. Here, we profiled the bacterial communities across a salt marsh ecosystem gradient to investigate the co-occurrence pat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Du S,Dini-Andreote F,Zhang N,Liang C,Yao Z,Zhang H,Zhang D

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin is an abundant biopolymer whose degradation is mediated primarily by bacterial chitinases. We developed a degenerate PCR primer set to amplify a approximately 900-bp fragment of family 18, group I chitinase genes and used it to retrieve these gene fragments from environmental samples. Clone libraries of presump...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： LeCleir GR,Buchan A,Hollibaugh JT

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus erythropolis HL 24-1 isolated as a 2,4-dinitrophenol-degrading organism can utilize 2-chloro-4,6-dinitrophenol as the sole nitrogen, carbon, and energy source under aerobic conditions. This compound is metabolized with liberation of stoichiometric amounts of chloride and nitrite. Under anaerobic conditions...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lenke H,Knackmuss H

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven Azospirillum strains induced more deformation of root hairs of wheat than did strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum, Azotobacter chroococcum, or Escherichia coli. Azospirillum sp. strain Sp245 caused the most deformation. Strain Sp245 (isolated from surface sterile roots of wheat) and strain Sp7 (isolated from the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jain DK,Patriquin DG

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population sizes of algae, bacteria, heterotrophic flagellates, and viruses were observed through the 1989 spring diatom bloom in Raunefjorden in western Norway. The culmination of the diatom bloom was followed by a peak in the concentration of bacteria and an increase in the concentration of heterotrophic flagellates...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bratbak G,Heldal M,Norland S,Thingstad TF

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：:This work reports on the identification and molecular characterization of a two-component regulatory system (2CRS), encoded by serRK, which is believed to control the expression of the ser(2003) locus in Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003. The ser(2003) locus consists of two genes, Bbr_1319 (sagA) and Bbr_1320 (serU), whic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Alvarez-Martin P,O'Connell Motherway M,Turroni F,Foroni E,Ventura M,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allozyme electrophoresis and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analyses were used to examine the genetic diversity of a collection of 18 Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii, 1 R. leguminosarum bv. viciae, and 2 R. meliloti strains. Allozyme analysis at 28 loci revealed 16 electrophoretic types. The mean...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Demezas DH,Reardon TB,Watson JM,Gibson AH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the herbicides EPTC (S-ethyl dipropylthiocarbamate) and atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethyl-amino-6-isopropylamino-1,3,5-triazine) is associated with an indigenous plasmid in Rhodococcus sp. strain TE1. Plasmid DNA libraries of Rhodococcus sp. strain TE1 were constructed in a Rhodococcus-Escherichia coli shu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shao ZQ,Behki R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00