Transformation of Rhodococcus fascians by High-Voltage Electroporation and Development of R. fascians Cloning Vectors.

abstract：:In a field study of 29 dairy farms, Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated more frequently (P = 0.05) from milking parlor udder wash water systems containing iodophor germicides than from those with no germicide. Most available iodine (AI2) concentrations were below the recommended level of 25 ppm (25 microgram/ml). Rubb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hicks CR,Eberhart RJ,Erskine RJ,Spencer SB

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported recently a unique fungal structure, called the spiny ball, on the vegetative hyphae of Coprinus comatus (O. F. Müll.:Fr.) Pers. Although some observations regarding the role of this structure were presented, its function remained largely unknown. In this study, we showed that purified (isolated and washed)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luo H,Liu Y,Fang L,Li X,Tang N,Zhang K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous vegetable fermentations, with their rich flavors and postulated health benefits, are regaining popularity. However, their microbiology is still poorly understood, therefore raising concerns about food safety. In addition, such spontaneous fermentations form interesting cases of man-made microbial ecosystem...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wuyts S,Van Beeck W,Oerlemans EFM,Wittouck S,Claes IJJ,De Boeck I,Weckx S,Lievens B,De Vuyst L,Lebeer S

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of nisin on the proton motive force (delta p) generated by glucose-energized cells of the obligate putrefactive anaerobe Clostridium sporogenes PA 3679 was determined. The components of delta p, the transmembrane potential (delta psi) and the pH gradient (delta pH), were determined from the distributions...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Okereke A,Montville TJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycetes secrete into their surroundings a suite of enzymes involved in the biodegradation of plant lignocellulose; these have been reported to include both hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes, including peroxidases. Reports of secreted peroxidases have been based upon observations of peroxidase-like activity associ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mason MG,Ball AS,Reeder BJ,Silkstone G,Nicholls P,Wilson MT

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's information collection rule requires the use of 1MDS electropositive filters for concentrating enteric viruses from water, but unfortunately, these filters are not cost-effective for routine viral monitoring. In this study, an inexpensive electropositive cartridge filter, the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karim MR,Rhodes ER,Brinkman N,Wymer L,Fout GS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetic acid bacteria, especially Gluconobacter species, have been known to catalyze the extensive oxidation of sugar alcohols (polyols) such as D-mannitol, glycerol, D-sorbitol, and so on. Gluconobacter species also oxidize sugars and sugar acids and uniquely accumulate two different keto-D-gluconates, 2-keto-D-glucon...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matsushita K,Fujii Y,Ano Y,Toyama H,Shinjoh M,Tomiyama N,Miyazaki T,Sugisawa T,Hoshino T,Adachi O

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction of cytotoxicity in virus concentrates from environmental samples was accomplished by high-speed centrifugation and by filtration of the samples through positively charged depth filters. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hejkal TW,Gerba CP,Rao VC

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a method for determining mutagenic concentrations of chemicals by using an agar diffusion assay. The method is based on the linear relationship between the amount of chemical placed at the center of the dish and the radius of the mutagenic zone. A brief theoretical discussion and experimental data ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Awerbuch TE,Stark AA

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:Bacteria able to utilize Aspon, Azodrin, Dasanit, diazinon, malathion, Orthene, parathion, Trithion, dimethoate, Dylox, methyl parathion, and Vapona as sole phosphorus sources were isolated from soil and sewage. Individual isolates used from 3 to 10 of these insecticides as sole phosphorus sources. The extent of growt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rosenberg A,Alexander M

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-scale study evaluating an inoculum addition to stimulate in situ bioremediation of oily-sludge-contaminated soil was conducted at an oil refinery where the indigenous population of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in the soil was very low (10(3) to 10(4) CFU/g of soil). A feasibility study was conducted prior to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mishra S,Jyot J,Kuhad RC,Lal B

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates of Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffr.) nuclear polyhedrosis virus from Britain and North America were compared using three biochemical techniques. Alkaline protease assays of polyhedra revealed the presence of endogenous enzyme activity in the British isolate but not in the North American isolate. Sodium dodecy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brown DA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coumarin concentrations that inhibited growth of Pythium sp. rapidly decreased the rate of incorporation of [14C]glucose into the mycelium. Coumarin also reduced drastically the carbohydrate and protein content of the cytoplasm and, to a lesser extent, the amino acid content and cell wall fraction. Enzymes related to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Neto FC,Dietrich SM

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic activities that could be involved in methanethiol generation in five cheese-ripening bacteria were assayed, and the major sulfur compounds produced were identified. L-Methionine and alpha-keto-gamma-methyl-thio-butyric acid demethiolating activities were detected in whole cells and cell extracts (CFEs) of al...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bonnarme P,Psoni L,Spinnler HE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of bacteria in salted anchovies during and at the end of the curing process was investigated. Attempts to isolate bacteria under aerobic or anaerobic conditions led to the isolation of only bacteria of the genus Pediococcus which were identified as Pediococcus halophilus. The isolates correspond to a rath...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Villar M,de Ruiz Holgado AP,Sanchez JJ,Trucco RE,Oliver G

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The food-borne pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus has been reported as being present in New Zealand (NZ) seawaters, but there have been no reported outbreaks of food-borne infection from commercially grown NZ seafood. Our study determined the current incidence of V. parahaemolyticus in NZ oysters and Greenshell mussels ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cruz CD,Hedderley D,Fletcher GC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A census of clean room surface-associated bacterial populations was derived from the results of both the cloning and sequencing of 16S rRNA genes and DNA microarray (PhyloChip) analyses. Samples from the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Multiple Testing Facility (LMA-MTF), the Kennedy Space Center Payload Hazard and Servic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： La Duc MT,Osman S,Vaishampayan P,Piceno Y,Andersen G,Spry JA,Venkateswaran K

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-producing isolates of Bacillus licheniformis were obtained from foods involved in food poisoning incidents, from raw milk, and from industrially produced baby food. The toxin detection method, based on the inhibition of boar spermatozoan motility, has been shown previously to be a sensitive assay for the emetic ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salkinoja-Salonen MS,Vuorio R,Andersson MA,Kämpfer P,Andersson MC,Honkanen-Buzalski T,Scoging AC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectral analysis of T-2 toxin formed during the growth of Fusarium sporotrichioides (ATCC 24043) in the presence of H(2)O showed incorporation of up to three O atoms per toxin molecule. The carbonyl oxygens of the acetates at C-4 and C-15 and of the isovalerate at C-8 were derived from H(2)O. Toxin formed in the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Desjardins AE,Plattner RD,Vanmiddlesworth F

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometry, using fluorescein-bound specific antibodies and propidium iodide, was shown to be effective in detecting Legionella spp. in cooling tower waters. The procedure was quicker and less labor intensive than fluorescent microscopy. The use of these procedures also identified qualitative differences, perhaps ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tyndall RL,Hand RE Jr,Mann RC,Evans C,Jernigan R

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the phenotypic and genotypic antibiotic resistance profiles of pseudomonads isolated from surfaces of a goat and lamb slaughterhouse, which were representative of areas that are possible sources of meat contamination. Mesophilic (85 isolates) and psychrotrophic (37 isolates) ps...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lavilla Lerma L,Benomar N,Casado Muñoz Mdel C,Gálvez A,Abriouel H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates that elution of enteroviruses from a mixture of primary- and activated-sludge solids with beef extract at pH 9.2 +/- 0.2 may be less efficient than elution with beef extract at pH 7.2 +/- 0.2 and that elution of enteroviruses from extended-aeration-sludge solids with beef extract is at best no ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berg G,Sullivan G

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in individual host responses have emerged as an issue regarding the health benefits of probiotics. Here, we applied ribosome engineering (RE) technology, developed in an actinomycete study, to Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG). RE can effectively enhance microbial potential by using antibiotics to indu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishida M,Namai F,Shigemori S,Kajikawa S,Tsukagoshi M,Sato T,Ogita T,Shimosato T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lowering the pH in bacterium-based succinate fermentation is considered a feasible approach to reduce total production costs. Newly isolated Enterobacter aerogenes strain AJ110637, a rapid carbon source assimilator under weakly acidic (pH 5.0) conditions, was selected as a platform for succinate production. Our previo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tajima Y,Yamamoto Y,Fukui K,Nishio Y,Hashiguchi K,Usuda Y,Sode K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3'-Phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphatase (PAPase) is required for the removal of toxic 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphate (PAP) produced during sulfur assimilation in various eukaryotic organisms. This enzyme is a well-known target of lithium and sodium toxicity and has been used for the production of salt-resistant transgeni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang JY,Zou J,Bao Q,Chen WL,Wang L,Yang H,Zhang CC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are important disease vectors, as they transmit a variety of human and animal pathogens worldwide. Symbionts that coevolved with ticks confer crucial benefits to their host in nutrition metabolism, fecundity, and vector competence. Although over 100 tick species have been identified in China, general information...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang M,Zhu D,Dai J,Zhong Z,Zhang Y,Wang J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new primers and one published primer were used to PCR amplify hypervariable regions within the protozoal 18S rRNA gene to determine which primer pair provided the best identification and statistical analysis. PCR amplicons of 394 to 498 bases were generated from three primer sets, sequenced using Roche 454 pyrose...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishaq SL,Wright AD

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-galactosidase gene (aga) and a gene coding for a putative transcriptional regulator from the LacI/GalR family (galR) of Lactococcus raffinolactis ATCC 43920 were cloned and sequenced. When transferred into Lactococcus lactis and Pediococcus acidilactici strains, aga modified the sugar fermentation profile of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boucher I,Parrot M,Gaudreau H,Champagne CP,Vadeboncoeur C,Moineau S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of staphylococcal strains isolated from different anatomical sites in 133 healthy goats to produce toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 (TSST-1) and the presence of antibodies to this toxin in serum and milk were studied. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method was used to detect both the toxin and the presen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Valle J,Vadillo S,Piriz S,Gomez-Lucia E

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00