Simple, sensitive zymogram technique for detection of xylanase activity in polyacrylamide gels.

abstract：:Cryptosporidium is a genus of waterborne protozoan parasites that causes significant gastrointestinal disease in humans. These parasites can accumulate in environmental biofilms and be subsequently released to contaminate water supplies. Natural microbial assemblages were collected each season from an eastern Pennsylv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wolyniak EA,Hargreaves BR,Jellison KL

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation showed by means of autoradiography that the cyanobacterium Microcystis wesenbergii did not incorporate [H]thymidine at nanomolar concentrations, whereas its associated heterotrophic bacteria appearing in the gelatinous cover of the cyanobacterium became labeled. Several other tested cyaobacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bern L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscale fluorescence measurements were performed in photosynthetic biofilms at a spatial resolution of 100 to 200 microm with a new fiber-optic fluorometer which allowed four different excitation and emission wavelengths and was configured for measuring phycobiliproteins, chlorophylls, and bacteriochlorophylls. We ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thar R,Kühl M,Holst G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-living amoebae are frequent hosts for bacterial endosymbionts. In this study, the symbionts of eight novel environmental Acanthamoeba strains isolated from different locations worldwide were characterized. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that they were related to one of four evolutionary lineages of amoeba symbion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmitz-Esser S,Toenshoff ER,Haider S,Heinz E,Hoenninger VM,Wagner M,Horn M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic marine microbes play pivotal roles in biogeochemical nutrient cycling and ecosystem function, but studies that focus on the protistan biogeography and genetic diversity lag-behind studies of other microbes. 18S rRNA PCR amplification and clone library sequencing are commonly used to assess diversity that is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Koid A,Nelson WC,Mraz A,Heidelberg KB

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undefined mesophilic mixed (DL) starter cultures are used in the production of continental cheeses and contain unknown strain mixtures of Lactococcus lactis and leuconostocs. The choice of starter culture affects the taste, aroma, and quality of the final product. To gain insight into the diversity of Lactococcus lact...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Frantzen CA,Kleppen HP,Holo H

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A tremorgenic mycotoxin was isolated from Penicillium paraherquei Abe ex G. Smith and identified as verruculogen. It was produced at the rate of approximately 1 mg/g of the dried fungal mycelium cultured on peptone-enriched Czapek-Dox medium at 28 degrees C. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yoshizawa T,Morooka N,Sawada Y,Udagawa SI

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A glycosyltransferase, involved in the synthesis of cyclic maltosylmaltose [CMM; cyclo-{-->6)-alpha-D-Glcp(1-->4)-alpha-D-Glcp(1-->6)-alpha-D-Glcp(1-->4)-alpha-D-Glcp(1-->}] from starch, was purified to homogeneity from the culture supernatant of Arthrobacter globiformis M6. The CMM-forming enzyme had a molecular mass...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mukai K,Watanabe H,Kubota M,Chaen H,Fukuda S,Kurimoto M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses in some fungi are associated with hypovirulence and have been used or proposed as biological control agents. We isolated 7.5-kb dsRNAs from 13 of 286 field strains of Fusarium graminearum isolated from maize in Korea. One of these strains, DK21, was examined in more detail. This str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chu YM,Jeon JJ,Yea SJ,Kim YH,Yun SH,Lee YW,Kim KH

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use and relative persistence of s-triazine compounds such as atrazine and simazine have led to increasing concern about environmental contamination by these compounds. Few microbial isolates capable of transforming substituted s-triazines have been identified. Rhodococcus corallinus NRRL B-15444 has pre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mulbry WW

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active population of low-affinity methanotrophs in a peat soil microcosm was characterized by stable-isotope probing. "Heavy" (13)C-labeled DNA, produced after microbial growth on (13)CH(4), was separated from naturally abundant (12)C-DNA by cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation and used as a template fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morris SA,Radajewski S,Willison TW,Murrell JC

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denitrifying betaproteobacterium "Aromatoleum aromaticum" strain EbN1 degrades several aromatic compounds, including ethylbenzene, toluene, p-cresol, and phenol, under anoxic conditions. The hydrophobicity of these aromatic solvents determines their toxic properties. Here, we investigated the response of strain Eb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trautwein K,Kühner S,Wöhlbrand L,Halder T,Kuchta K,Steinbüchel A,Rabus R

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newcastle disease, one of the most important health problems that affects the poultry industry around the world, is caused by virulent strains of Newcastle disease virus. Newcastle disease virus is considered to be endemic in several countries in the Americas, including Mexico. In order to control Newcastle disease ou...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cardenas Garcia S,Navarro Lopez R,Morales R,Olvera MA,Marquez MA,Merino R,Miller PJ,Afonso CL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of three key nitrogen regulatory genes, glnB (encoding the P(II) protein), glnZ (encoding the P(z) protein), and glnD (encoding the GlnD protein), in regulation of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) biosynthesis by ammonia in Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 was investigated. It was observed that glnB glnZ and glnD muta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sun J,Van Dommelen A,Van Impe J,Vanderleyden J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.5-kb region immediately downstream of the styABCD operon involved in styrene degradation in Pseudomonas putida CA-3 has been cloned. Sequence analysis revealed a 1,296-bp open reading frame, designated styE, and BLAST P database comparisons of the deduced StyE amino acid sequence revealed 33 to 98% identity with s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mooney A,O'Leary ND,Dobson AD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and survival of bacteria in soil was investigated by applying different inoculation protocols. The soil was inoculated with Sphingomonas paucimobilis BA 2 and strain BP 9, which are able to degrade anthracene and pyrene, respectively. CFU of soil bacteria and of t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kästner M,Breuer-Jammali M,Mahro B

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen branching enzymes (GBE) or 1,4-alpha-glucan branching enzymes (EC 2.4.1.18) introduce alpha-1,6 branching points in alpha-glucans, e.g., glycogen. To identify structural features in GBEs that determine their branching pattern specificity, the Deinococcus geothermalis and Deinococcus radiodurans GBE (GBE(Dg) a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Palomo M,Kralj S,van der Maarel MJ,Dijkhuizen L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus can beneficially affect the host by producing acetic acid and lactic acid, which lower pH and thereby inhibit the growth of pathogens or allow the probiotic bacteria to compete with pathogens for epithelial adhesion sites and nutrients. The transmural migration of enteric organisms in...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang IK,Lai HC,Yu CJ,Liang CC,Chang CT,Kuo HL,Yang YF,Lin CC,Lin HH,Liu YL,Chang YC,Wu YY,Chen CH,Li CY,Chuang FR,Huang CC,Lin CH,Lin HC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for the production and regeneration of Lactobacillus casei protoplasts are described. Protoplasts of L. casei strains were obtained by treatment with mutanolysin or with mutanolysin and lysozyme together in a protoplast formation buffer containing 0.02 M HEPES (N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic ac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee-Wickner LJ,Chassy BM

更新日期：1984-11-01 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：:Transfer of plasmid-borne antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli wild-type strains is possible by transformation under naturally occurring conditions in oligotrophic, aquatic environments containing physiologic concentrations of calcium. In contrast, transformation is suppressed in nitrogen-rich body fluids l...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Woegerbauer M,Jenni B,Thalhammer F,Graninger W,Burgmann H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas genus contains a metabolically versatile group of organisms that are known to occupy numerous ecological niches, including the rhizosphere and endosphere of many plants. Their diversity influences the phylogenetic diversity and heterogeneity of these communities. On the basis of average amino acid iden...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jun SR,Wassenaar TM,Nookaew I,Hauser L,Wanchai V,Land M,Timm CM,Lu TY,Schadt CW,Doktycz MJ,Pelletier DA,Ussery DW

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A gram-negative rod, identified as a Pseudomonas sp., was isolated from soil by using bromacil as the sole source of carbon and energy. During growth on bromacil or 5-bromouracil, almost stoichiometric amounts of bromide were released. The bacterium was shown to harbor two plasmids approximately 60 and 100 kilobases i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chaudhry GR,Cortez L

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress causes transient actin cytoskeleton depolarization and also provokes vacuole fragmentation in wild-type cells. Under conditions of oxidative stress induced by hydrogen peroxide, the Slt2 protein is required to repolarize the actin cytoskeleton and to promote vacuole fusion. In this study, we show that...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pujol-Carrion N,Petkova MI,Serrano L,de la Torre-Ruiz MA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens isolated from crown galls were tested for agrocin production. Of six agrocin-producing strains, one (D286) produced a broad-host-range agrocin active against strains carrying nopaline, octopine, and agropine type Ti plasmids. Sensitivity to agrocin D286 was found to map in...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hendson M,Askjaer L,Thomson JA,van Montagu M

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The only major structural protein (35 kDa) of the lactococcal small isometric-headed bacteriophage ul36, a member of the P335 species, was isolated from a preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) were raised against the denatured 35-kDa protein. Six MAbs...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moineau S,Bernier D,Jobin M,Hébert J,Klaenhammer TR,Pandian S

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusive penetration of fluorescently tagged macromolecular solutes into model oral biofilms was visualized by time-lapse microscopy. All of the solutes tested, including dextrans, proteases, green fluorescent protein, and immunoglobulin G, accessed the interior of cell clusters 100 to 200 microm in diameter with...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takenaka S,Pitts B,Trivedi HM,Stewart PS

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-based systems are emerging as the premier method to manipulate many cellular processes. In this study, a simple and efficient CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) system for targeted gene repression in archaea was developed. The Methanosarcina acetivorans CRISPR-Cas9 system was repurposed by replacing Cas9 with the ca...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dhamad AE,Lessner DJ

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of host specificity, combined with genomic sequencing of Giardia and Cryptosporidium spp., has demonstrated a microbial source tracking (MST) utility for these common waterborne microbes. To explore the source attribution potential of these pathogens, water samples were collected in a mixed rural-urban water...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Prystajecky N,Huck PM,Schreier H,Isaac-Renton JL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen of 1,200 colonies of Escherichia coli isolated from "keebe," hamburger, or sausage produced heat-labile enterotoxin. None of them produced heat-stable enterotoxin. The characteristics of 9 of the 18 strains are presented. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reis MH,Vasconcelos JC,Trabulsi LR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00