Conditional-suicide containment system for bacteria which mineralize aromatics.

abstract：:To evaluate the microbial populations involved in the reduction of Fe(III) in an acidic, iron-rich sediment, the anaerobic flow of supplemental carbon and reductant was evaluated in sediment microcosms at the in situ temperature of 12 degrees C. Supplemental glucose and cellobiose stimulated the formation of Fe(II); 4...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Küsel K,Dorsch T,Acker G,Stackebrandt E

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we successfully cloned a d-cycloserine (d-CS) biosynthetic gene cluster consisting of 10 open reading frames (designated dcsA to dcsJ) from d-CS-producing Streptomyces lavendulae ATCC 11924. In this study, we put four d-CS biosynthetic genes (dcsC, dcsD, dcsE, and dcsG) in tandem under the control of the T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kumagai T,Ozawa T,Tanimoto M,Noda M,Matoba Y,Sugiyama M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although several microorganisms that produce and degrade methanethiol (MT) and dimethyl sulfide (DMS) have been isolated from various habitats, little is known about the numbers of these microorganisms in situ. This study reports on the identification and quantification of microorganisms involved in the cycling of MT ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lomans BP,Luderer R,Steenbakkers P,Pol A,van Der Drift C,Vogels GD,Op den Camp HJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mercury resistance (mer) operon of plasmid R100 was cloned onto various plasmid vectors to study the effect of mer gene amplification on the rate of Hg2+ reduction by Escherichia coli cells. The plasmids were maintained at copy numbers ranging from 3 to 140 copies per cell. The overall Hg2+ reduction rate of intac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Philippidis GP,Malmberg LH,Hu WS,Schottel JL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 has caused serious outbreaks of food-borne illness via transmission in a variety of food vehicles, including unpasteurized apple juice, dried salami, and spinach. To understand how this pathogen responds to the multiple stresses of the food environment, we compared global transcription pattern...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bergholz TM,Vanaja SK,Whittam TS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White rot fungi can oxidize high-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) rapidly to polar metabolites, but only limited mineralization takes place. The objectives of this study were to determine if the polar metabolites can be readily mineralized by indigenous microflora from several inoculum sources, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kotterman MJ,Vis EH,Field JA

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Enteric microbiota play a variety of roles in intestinal health and disease. While bacteria in the intestine have been broadly characterized, little is known about the abundance or diversity of enteric fungi. This study utilized a culture-independent method termed oligonucleotide fingerprinting of rRNA genes (OFRG) to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Scupham AJ,Presley LL,Wei B,Bent E,Griffith N,McPherson M,Zhu F,Oluwadara O,Rao N,Braun J,Borneman J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) is a serious disease of marine-farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) caused by ISA virus (ISAV), belonging to the genus Isavirus, family Orthomyxoviridae. There is an urgent need to understand the virulence factors and pathogenic mechanisms of ISAV and to develop new vaccine approaches. U...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Toro-Ascuy D,Tambley C,Beltran C,Mascayano C,Sandoval N,Olivares E,Medina RA,Spencer E,Cortez-San Martín M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a chemically defined medium without L-alanine, Lactobacillus johnsonii was demonstrated to be strictly auxotrophic for that amino acid. A comparative genetic analysis showed that all known genes involved in L-alanine biosynthesis are absent from the genome of L. johnsonii. This auxotrophy was complemented by het...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Kaaij H,Desiere F,Mollet B,Germond JE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1,6-dichlorohexane-degrading strain of Acinetobacter sp. was isolated from activated sludge. The organism could grow with and quantitatively release halide from 1,6-dichlorohexane, 1,9-dichlorononane, 1-chloropentane, 1-chlorobutane, 1-bromopentane, ethylbromide, and 1-iodopropane. Crude extracts contained an induci...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Janssen DB,Jager D,Witholt B

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vinyl chloride reductases (VC-RDase) are the key enzymes for complete microbial reductive dehalogenation of chloroethenes, including the groundwater pollutants tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene. Analysis of the codon usage of the VC-RDase genes vcrA and bvcA showed that these genes are highly unusual and are chara...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McMurdie PJ,Behrens SF,Holmes S,Spormann AM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lantibiotics are antimicrobial peptides belonging to the family of ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs) and feature thioether linkages in their structures. In this study, we identified the biosynthetic gene cluster of a cinnamycin analog, named mathermycin, from Marinactinospora th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen E,Chen Q,Chen S,Xu B,Ju J,Wang H

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray analysis showed that yfiD, yggB, and yggE genes were up-regulated when superoxide dismutase (SOD)-deficient Escherichia coli IM303 (I4) was cultivated under the oxidative stress generated by photoexcited TiO(2), and pYFD, pYGB, and pYGE were constructed by inserting the respective genes into a pUC 19 ve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim SY,Nishioka M,Hayashi S,Honda H,Kobayashi T,Taya M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of Escherichia coli infection has lead to concerns over pathogenic bacteria in our food supply and a demand for therapeutics. Glycolipids on gut cells serve as receptors for the Shiga-like toxin produced by E. coli. Oligosaccharide moiety analogues of these glycolipids can compete with receptors for the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu Z,Lu Y,Zhang J,Pardee K,Wang PG

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies of predetermined specificity for pediocin PA-1 (pedA1) have been generated by immunization of rabbits with a chemically synthesized C-terminal fragment of this bacteriocin (PH2) conjugated to the carrier protein keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH). The sensitivity and specificity of the PH2-KLH-gener...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez JM,Martínez MI,Suárez AM,Herranz C,Casaus P,Cintas LM,Rodríguez JM,Hernández PE

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungus Fusarium oxysporum produced a D-amino acid oxidase (EC 1. 4.3.3) in a medium containing glucose as the carbon and energy source and ammonium sulfate as the nitrogen source. The specific D-amino acid oxidase activity was increased up to 12.5-fold with various D-amino acids or their corresponding derivatives ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gabler M,Fischer L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular H(inf2)O(inf2)-requiring Remazol brilliant blue R (RBBR) decolorizing enzymatic activity was found in the culture medium of Pleurotus ostreatus. The enzymatic activity was maximally obtained in idiophase, and the optimum C/N ratio was 24. High C/N ratios repressed the enzymatic activity, and addition ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shin K,Oh I,Kim C

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) can cause toxin-mediated disease, and those that function as superantigens are implicated in the pathogenesis of allergic diseases. The prevalence of 19 enterotoxin genes was determined by PCR in clinical S. aureus strains derived from wounds (108) and blood (99). We performed spa typi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Varshney AK,Mediavilla JR,Robiou N,Guh A,Wang X,Gialanella P,Levi MH,Kreiswirth BN,Fries BC

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although their exact function remains enigmatic, bifidobacteria are among the first colonizers of the newborn infant gut and further develop into abundant communities, notably in response to diet. Therefore, the transcriptional responses of bifidobacteria in rapidly processed fecal samples from young infants that were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Klaassens ES,Boesten RJ,Haarman M,Knol J,Schuren FH,Vaughan EE,de Vos WM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White rot basidiomycetes were able to biodegrade styrene (1-phenylethene) graft copolymers of lignin containing different proportions of lignin and polystyrene [poly(1-phenylethylene)]. The biodegradation tests were run on lignin-styrene copolymerization products which contained 10.3, 32.2, and 50.4% (wt/wt) lignin. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Milstein O,Gersonde R,Huttermann A,Chen MJ,Meister JJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three bacteria capable of utilizing bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)methane (bisphenol F [BPF]) as the sole carbon source were isolated from river water, and they all belonged to the family Sphingomonadaceae. One of the isolates, designated Sphingobium yanoikuyae strain FM-2, at an initial cell density of 0.01 (optical density at...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inoue D,Hara S,Kashihara M,Murai Y,Danzl E,Sei K,Tsunoi S,Fujita M,Ike M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium vaccae can catabolize a number of major groundwater pollutants. When added singly, acetone, cyclohexane, styrene, benzene, ethylbenzene, propylbenzene, dioxane, and 1,2-dichloroethylene can be catabolized by M. vaccae. Catabolism of a number of these chemicals was monitored by gas-chromatographic analysi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burback BL,Perry JJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A database was probed with artificial neural network (ANN) and multivariate logistic regression (MLR) models to investigate the efficacy of predicting PCR-identified human adenovirus (ADV), Norwalk-like virus (NLV), and enterovirus (EV) presence or absence in shellfish harvested from diverse countries in Europe (Spain...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brion G,Viswanathan C,Neelakantan TR,Lingireddy S,Girones R,Lees D,Allard A,Vantarakis A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing mycelia of Trichoderma reesei Rut-C30 are richly endowed with endoplasmic reticula and a variety of pleomorphic subcellular bodies. Mycelia of the culture growing in presence of avicel pH101 was fractionated in sucrose density gradients, and several morphologically and biochemically distinct fractions were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glenn M,Ghosh A,Ghosh BK

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large numbers of bacteriophages (2 x 10(7) to 1 x 10(8)/ml) were present in ruminal fluid from sheep and cattle. Twenty-six distinct types were identified and placed in three morphological groups; several phages possessed unusual structural features. The large numbers and diversity of phages observed indicates a possi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Klieve AV,Bauchop T

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the survival of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and microbial source-tracking (MST) markers is critical to developing pathogen fate and transport models. Although pathogen survival in water microcosms and manure-amended soils is well documented, little is known about their survival in intact cow pats depo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oladeinde A,Bohrmann T,Wong K,Purucker ST,Bradshaw K,Brown R,Snyder B,Molina M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of Trichoplusia ni larvae to several Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) was tested. Neonatal larvae proved to be susceptible to solubilized trypsin-treated CryIA(a), CryIA(b), and CryIA(c) (50% lethal concentrations [LC(50)s], 570, 480, and 320 ng/cm, respectively) but showe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Estada U,Ferre J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofouling of reverse-osmosis membranes was investigated at an advanced wastewater treatment facility. Cellulose diacetate membranes operated for approximately 4,000 h became uniformly coated with a mucilaginous fouling layer. The fouling material was approximately 93% water by weight, and nearly 90% of the dehydrated...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ridgway HF,Kelly A,Justice C,Olson BH

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latent virus-like agent, which we designated zooxanthella filamentous virus 1 (ZFV1), was isolated from Symbiodinium sp. strain CCMP 2465 and characterized. Transmission electron microscopy and analytical flow cytometry revealed the presence of a new group of distinctive filamentous virus-like particles after exposu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lohr J,Munn CB,Wilson WH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00