Evidence Regarding the UV Sunscreen Role of a Mycosporine-Like Compound in the Cyanobacterium Gloeocapsa sp.

abstract：:Piscirickettsia salmonis is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen of salmonid fish and the etiological agent of the aggressive disease salmonid rickettsial syndrome. Today, this disease, also known as piscirickettsiosis, is the cause of high mortality in net pen-reared salmonids in southern Chile. Although the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Henríquez V,Rojas MV,Marshall SH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA)-degrading bacteria, TA5 and TA27, were isolated from soil and identified as Mycobacterium spp. Strains TA5 and TA27 could degrade 25 and 75 mg. liter of TCA(-1) cometabolically in the presence of ethane as a carbon source, respectively. The compound 2,2,2-trichloroethanol was...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yagi O,Hashimoto A,Iwasaki K,Nakajima M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biotinylating reagent succinimidyl 6-(biotinamido)hexanoate was used to label the cell surfaces of the cosmopolitan, marine, eukaryotic microorganism Emiliania huxleyi under different growth conditions. Proteins characteristic of different nutrient conditions could be identified. In particular, a nitrogen-regulate...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Palenik B,Koke JA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microaerophilic nature of Campylobacter species implies an inherent sensitivity towards oxygen and its reduction products, particularly the superoxide anion. The deleterious effects of exposure to superoxide radicals are counteracted by the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD). We have shown previously that Camp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Purdy D,Cawthraw S,Dickinson JH,Newell DG,Park SF

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：: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：:Streptococcus mutans is a key cariogenic bacterium responsible for the initiation of tooth decay. Biofilm formation is a crucial virulence property. We discovered a putative glycosyltransferase, SMU_833, in S. mutans capable of modulating dynamic interactions between two key biofilm matrix components, glucan and extra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rainey K,Michalek SM,Wen ZT,Wu H

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional microscope-based estimates of species richness of aquatic hyphomycetes depend upon the ability of the species in the community to sporulate. Molecular techniques which detect DNA from all stages of the life cycle could potentially circumvent the problems associated with traditional methods. Leaf disks from...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nikolcheva LG,Cockshutt AM,Bärlocher F

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gammaproteobacterial sulfur oxidizers (GSOs), particularly SUP05-related sequences, have been found worldwide in numerous oxygen-deficient marine environments. However, knowledge regarding their abundance, distribution, and ecological role is scarce. In this study, on the basis of phylogenetic analyses of 16S rRNA gen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glaubitz S,Kießlich K,Meeske C,Labrenz M,Jürgens K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although at least 13 antigenically distinct serotypes of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii exist in an Abiqua silty clay loam soil, one serotype, AS6, occupies >/=50% of the root nodules formed on field-grown subclover and between 33 and 78% of the nodules formed on five annual clover species grown in the same soil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leung K,Yap K,Dashti N,Bottomley PJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammoniacal silver nitrate (10 mg/ml) was added to terminate acetylene reduction assays used to measure nitrogenase activity. Silver nitrate quantitatively precipitated acetylene as the carbide salt, but did not affect the ethylene formed. The vials containing ethylene can be analyzed gas chromatographically at the rat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： David KA,Apte SK,Banerji A,Thomas J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injury induced in Escherichia coli cells by chlorination was studied from a physiological standpoint. Predictable and reproducible injury was found to occur rapidly in 0.5 mg of chlorine per liter and was reversible under nonselective conditions. There was an extended lag period in the growth of chlorinated cells not ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Camper AK,McFeters GA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus megaterium P1, a bacterial strain capable of hydrolyzing chitosan, was isolated from soil samples. Chitosan-degrading activity was induced by chitosan but not by its constituent d-glucosamine. Extracellular secretion of chitosanase reached levels corresponding to 1 U/ml under optimal conditions. Three chitosa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pelletier A,Sygusch J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Processes by which fecal bacteria enter overland flow and their transportation state to surface waters are poorly understood, making the effectiveness of measures designed to intercept this pathway, such as vegetated buffer strips, difficult to predict. Freshly made and aged (up to 30 days) cowpats were exposed to sim...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Muirhead RW,Collins RP,Bremer PJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During cold storage after milk collection, psychrotrophic bacterial populations dominate the microflora, and their extracellular enzymes, mainly proteases and lipases, contribute to the spoilage of dairy products. The diversity, dynamics, and enzymatic traits of culturable psychrotrophs in raw milk from four farms wer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hantsis-Zacharov E,Halpern M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 286 isolates of Pseudomonas maltophilia was collected from sheep exhibiting brown or yellowish fleece rot and from fly-strike lesions. Enzyme activities for 10 of the isolates were examined by plate tests and with the API ZYM system and compared with the enzymatic profile of a human type strain of P. maltop...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macdiarmid JA,Burrell DH

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a gram-negative facultative anaerobe capable of utilizing a broad range of electron acceptors, including several solid substrates. S. oneidensis MR-1 can reduce Mn(IV) and Fe(III) oxides and can produce current in microbial fuel cells. The mechanisms that are employed by S. oneidensis MR-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bretschger O,Obraztsova A,Sturm CA,Chang IS,Gorby YA,Reed SB,Culley DE,Reardon CL,Barua S,Romine MF,Zhou J,Beliaev AS,Bouhenni R,Saffarini D,Mansfeld F,Kim BH,Fredrickson JK,Nealson KH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages play a key role in the marine environment by regulating the transfer of energy between trophic levels and influencing global carbon and nutrient cycles. The diversity of marine phage communities remains difficult to characterize because of the lack of a signature gene common to all phages. Recent studies have d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goldsmith DB,Crosti G,Dwivedi B,McDaniel LD,Varsani A,Suttle CA,Weinbauer MG,Sandaa RA,Breitbart M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrification is an alternative type of anaerobic respiration in which nitrate is reduced to gaseous products via nitrite. The key step in this process is the reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide, which is catalyzed by two structurally different but functionally equivalent forms of nitrite reductase encoded by the n...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pratscher J,Stichternoth C,Fichtl K,Schleifer KH,Braker G

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the physiological effect of the interconversion between the NAD(H) and NADP(H) coenzyme systems in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing the membrane-bound transhydrogenase from Escherichia coli. Our objective was to determine if the membrane-bound transhydrogenase could work in reoxidation of NAD...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Anderlund M,Nissen TL,Nielsen J,Villadsen J,Rydström J,Hahn-Hägerdal B,Kielland-Brandt MC

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of organic and inorganic nutrient additions on the specific growth rates of bacterioplankton in oligotrophic lake water cultures were investigated. Lake water was first passed through 0.8-mum-pore-size filters (prescreening) to remove bacterivores and to minimize confounding effects of algae. Specific grow...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coveney MF,Wetzel RG

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment and processing factors on the inactivation kinetics of Listeria innocua NCTC 11289 were investigated by using a pilot plant PEF unit with a flow rate of 200 liters/h. The electric field strength, pulse length, number of pulses, and inlet temperature were the most si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wouters PC,Dutreux N,Smelt JP,Lelieveld HL

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial assemblages of Lake Cisó and Lake Vilar (Banyoles, northeast Spain) were analyzed in space and time by microscopy and by performing PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and sequence analysis of 16S rRNA gene fragments. Samples obtained from different water depths and at two different times ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Casamayor EO,Schäfer H,Bañeras L,Pedrós-Alió C,Muyzer G

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium expansum isolated from meat and apples produced both patulin and citrinin. Toxin identity was confirmed by spectroscopic and physical methods. The mean lethal dose in chicken embryos was determined for toxins administered both singly and in various ratios. Data from simultaneous administration of mycotoxin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ciegler A,Vesonder RF,Jackson LK

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV) is an important biocontrol agent for the codling moth (CM) in organic and integrated apple production worldwide. Previously, Z chromosome-linked dominant resistance in at least 38 CM field populations in Europe was reported, threatening organic apple production. Growers responded by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jehle JA,Schulze-Bopp S,Undorf-Spahn K,Fritsch E

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Between November 2002 and April 2003, 244 bottles and cartons of commercially pasteurized cow's milk were obtained at random from retail outlets throughout the Czech Republic. During the same period, samples of raw milk and of milk that was subsequently subjected to a minimum of 71.7 degrees C for 15 s in a local past...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ayele WY,Svastova P,Roubal P,Bartos M,Pavlik I

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human large intestine is covered with a protective mucus coating, which is heavily colonized by complex bacterial populations that are distinct from those in the gut lumen. Little is known of the composition and metabolic activities of these biofilms, although they are likely to play an important role in mucus bre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macfarlane S,Woodmansey EJ,Macfarlane GT

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group II azoreductase BTI1 utilizes NADPH to directly cleave azo bonds in water-soluble azo dyes, including quenchers of fluorescence. Unexpectedly, optimal reduction was dye specific, ranging from a pH of <5.5 for Janus green B, to pH 6.0 for methyl red, methyl orange, and BHQ-10, to pH >8.3 for flame orange. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johansson HE,Johansson MK,Wong AC,Armstrong ES,Peterson EJ,Grant RE,Roy MA,Reddington MV,Cook RM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycophenolic acid (MPA) is the active ingredient in the increasingly important immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals CellCept (Roche) and Myfortic (Novartis). Despite the long history of MPA, the molecular basis for its biosynthesis has remained enigmatic. Here we report the discovery of a polyketide synthase (PKS), MpaC,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Regueira TB,Kildegaard KR,Hansen BG,Mortensen UH,Hertweck C,Nielsen J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis three-domain Cry toxins kill insects by forming pores in the apical membrane of larval midgut cells. Oligomerization of the toxin is an important step for pore formation. Domain I helix α-3 participates in toxin oligomerization. Here we identify an intramolecular salt bridge within helix α-3 of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pacheco S,Gómez I,Sánchez J,García-Gómez BI,Soberón M,Bravo A

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00