Purification and Characterization of Three Chitosanase Activities from Bacillus megaterium P1.

abstract：:Resistance to HIV infection in a cohort of commercial sex workers living in Nairobi, Kenya, is linked to mucosal and antiinflammatory factors that may be influenced by the vaginal microbiota. Since bacterial vaginosis (BV), a polymicrobial dysbiosis characterized by low levels of protective Lactobacillus organisms, is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schellenberg JJ,Links MG,Hill JE,Dumonceaux TJ,Kimani J,Jaoko W,Wachihi C,Mungai JN,Peters GA,Tyler S,Graham M,Severini A,Fowke KR,Ball TB,Plummer FA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of four pathways are known for the catabolism by microorganisms of gentisate (2,5-dihydroxybenzoate) and homogentisate (2,5-dihydroxyphenylacetate). Both of these dihydric phenols can be degraded by either a glutathione-dependent or a glutathione-independent reaction sequence. We found that it is not always po...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Crawford RL,Frick TD

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects on the cell membranes of Escherichia coli of 2.45-GHz microwave (MW) treatment under various conditions with an average temperature of the cell suspension maintained at 37°C in order to examine the possible thermal versus nonthermal effects of short-duration MW expo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rougier C,Prorot A,Chazal P,Leveque P,Leprat P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SslI, a type II restriction endonuclease, was purified from Streptococcus salivarius subsp. thermophilus strain BSN 45. SslI is an isoschizomer of BstNI. SslI activity was maximum at pH 8.8, 0 to 50 mM NaCl, 2 to 8 mM Mg2+, and 42 degrees C. Activity against phage DNA in vitro was demonstrated. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Benbadis L,Garel JR,Hartley DL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytolysin and gelatinase are prominent pathogenicity determinants associated with highly virulent Enterococcus faecalis strains. In an effort to explore the expression profiles of these virulence traits in vivo, we have employed E. faecalis variants expressing the luxABCDE cassette under the control of either the P16S...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： La Rosa SL,Casey PG,Hill C,Diep DB,Nes IF,Brede DA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of two semisolid media (semisolid Rappaport and semisolid Rappaport-Vassiliadis) for the isolation of Salmonella spp. from coastal waters was compared with the use of conventional media. Two hundred and fifty six samples were studied; Salmonella spp. were detected in 83. The semisolid media were the most sensi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Perales I,Audicana A

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in brackish sediment was investigated using small-subunit rRNA and dissimilatory sulfite reductase (DSR) gene clone libraries and cultivation. The phylogenetic affiliation of the most commonly retrieved clones for both genes was strikingly similar and produced Desulfosa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Joulian C,Ramsing NB,Ingvorsen K

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During microaerophilic growth of magnetic spirillum MS-1 on tartrate and nitrate, a maximal cell density was obtained at an initial oxygen partial pressure of 17 Pa. A transient accumulation of nitrous oxide and a 1:2 (mol/mol) stoichiometry between tartrate oxidation and nitrate reduction were observed, indicating th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Escalante-Semerena JC,Blakemore RP,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：:Biodegradability screening tests of soil commonly measure 14CO2 evolution from radiolabeled test compounds, and glucose has often served as a positive control. When constant amounts of radiolabel were added to soil in combination with increasing amounts of unlabeled substrates, glucose and some related hexoses behaved...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shen J,Bartha R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubber-degrading activity was found in the extracellular culture medium of Xanthomonas sp. strain 35Y which was grown on natural rubber latex. Natural rubber in the latex state was degraded by the crude enzyme, and two fractions were separately observed by gel permeation chromatography of the reaction products. One fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsuchii A,Takeda K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decontamination treatments of burning and biocide application, alone and in combination with tillage, were evaluated for their ability to reduce populations of bacteria applied to the leaves of plants in field plots. In addition, the effects of these control methods on indigenous leaf and soil bacteria and fungi were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Donegan K,Fieland V,Fowles N,Ganio L,Seidler R

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes strains are classified in at least three distinct phylogenetic lineages. There are correlations between lineage classification and source of bacterial isolation; e.g., human clinical and food isolates usually are classified in either lineage I or II. However, human clinical isolates are overrepr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oliver HF,Orsi RH,Wiedmann M,Boor KJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of limiting concentrations of ammonium on the metabolic activity of Nitrosomonas europaea, an obligate ammonia-oxidizing soil bacterium, were investigated. Cells were harvested during late logarithmic growth and were incubated for 24 h in growth medium containing 0, 15, or 50 mM ammonium. The changes in ni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stein LY,Arp DJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carp interstitial nephritis and gill necrosis virus (CNGV) is an unclassified large DNA virus that morphologically resembles members of the Herpesviridae but contains a large (ca. approximately 280-kbp) linear double-stranded DNA. This virus has also been named koi herpesvirus, koi herpes-like virus, and cyprinid herp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dishon A,Perelberg A,Bishara-Shieban J,Ilouze M,Davidovich M,Werker S,Kotler M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique to determine which nutrients limit bacterial growth in soil was developed. The method was based on measuring the thymidine incorporation rate of bacteria after the addition of C, N, and P in different combinations to soil samples. First, the thymidine incorporation method was tested in two different soils:...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aldén L,Demoling F,Bååth E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer toxin activity of Pichia anomala WC65 appeared fungicidal for P. bimundalis WC38 and fungistatic for Candida albicans RC1. Inhibitory activity against sensitive C. albicans showed a linear relationship between toxin concentrations and the inverse of the reduced growth rates. The plot of toxin concentrations aga...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sawant AD,Abdelal AT,Ahearn DG

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that the prominent industrial enzyme producer Trichoderma reesei (teleomorph Hypocrea jecorina; Hypocreales, Ascomycota, Dikarya) has a genetically isolated, sympatric sister species devoid of sexual reproduction and which is constituted by the majority of anamorphic strains previously attr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Atanasova L,Jaklitsch WM,Komoń-Zelazowska M,Kubicek CP,Druzhinina IS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing of the thermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 revealed a gene which had high sequence similarity to the gene encoding the carboxypeptidase of Sulfolobus solfataricus and also to that encoding the aminoacylase from Bacillus stearothermophilus. The gene from P. horikoshii comprises an open rea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishikawa K,Ishida H,Matsui I,Kawarabayasi Y,Kikuchi H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain-specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were developed for three different bacterial isolates obtained from a freshwater environment (Lake Plusssee) in the spring of 1990. The three isolates, which were identified by molecular methods, were as follows: Cytophaga johnsonae PX62, Comamonas acidovorans PX54, and Aer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Faude UC,Höfle MG

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes were designed, validated, and used to quantify predominant groups of anaerobic bacteria in human fecal samples. A set of two probes was specific for species of the Bacteroides fragilis group and the species Bacteroides distasonis. Two others were designed to detect species ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Franks AH,Harmsen HJ,Raangs GC,Jansen GJ,Schut F,Welling GW

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deposition of manganese in a water distribution system with manganese-related "dirty water" problems was studied over a 1-year period. Four monitoring laboratories with Robbins biofilm sampling devices fitted to the water mains were used to correlate the relationship among manganese deposition, the level of mangan...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sly LI,Hodgkinson MC,Arunpairojana V

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective wastewater management is crucial to ensure the safety of water reuse projects and effluent discharge into surface waters. Multiple studies have demonstrated that municipal wastewater treatment with conventional activated sludge processes is inefficient for the removal of a wide spectrum of viruses in sewage....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chacón L,Barrantes K,Santamaría-Ulloa C,Solano M,Reyes L,Taylor L,Valiente C,Symonds EM,Achí R

更新日期：2020-08-18 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：:Twenty-four Escherichia coli strains producing standard colicins were evaluated for inhibitory activity against 27 diarrheagenic E. coli strains of serotypes O15:H-, O26:(H11, H-), and O111:(H8, H11, H-), including O157:H7, representing diarrheagenic E. coli clones, 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10. Overlay techniques were used to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Murinda SE,Roberts RF,Wilson RA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia monooxygenase of Nitrosomonas europaea catalyzes the oxidation of alkanes (up to C(8)) to alcohols and alkenes (up to C(5)) to epoxides and alcohols in the presence of ammonium ions. Straight-chain, N-terminal alkynes (up to C(10)) all exhibited a time-dependent inhibition of ammonia oxidation without effects ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hyman MR,Murton IB,Arp DJ

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure cultures of methylotrophs and methanotrophs are known to oxidize methyl bromide (MeBr); however, their ability to oxidize tropospheric concentrations (parts per trillion by volume [pptv]) has not been tested. Methylotrophs and methanotrophs were able to consume MeBr provided at levels that mimicked the tropospher...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goodwin KD,Varner RK,Crill PM,Oremland RS

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Neorickettsia (formerly Ehrlichia) risticii is an obligatory intracellular bacterium of digenetic trematodes. When a horse accidentally ingests aquatic insects containing encysted trematodes infected with N. risticii, the bacterium is transmitted from trematodes to horse cells and causes an acute and often f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xiong Q,Bekebrede H,Sharma P,Arroyo LG,Baird JD,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The competitive inhibition of fructokinase by glucose has been proposed as the mechanism by which Zymomonas mobilis preferentially consumes glucose from mixtures of glucose and fructose and accumulates fructose when growing on sucrose. In this study, incorporation of radioactive fructose into biomass was used as a mea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Parker C,Peekhaus N,Zhang X,Conway T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sludges derived from wastewater treatment are foul-smelling, biologically unstable substances. As well as containing numerous pathogenic microorganisms, they also consist of organic matter that can be used as agricultural fertilizer. Legislation nevertheless requires sludges to be virologically tested prior to spreadi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Monpoeho S,Maul A,Bonnin C,Patria L,Ranarijaona S,Billaudel S,Ferré V

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00