Physicochemical cell surface and adhesive properties of coryneform bacteria related to the presence and chain length of mycolic acids.

abstract：:Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica, E. carotovora subsp. betavasculorum, and E. carotovora subsp. carotovora produce high levels of extracellular enzymes, such as pectate lyase (Pel), polygalacturonase (Peh), cellulase (Cel), and protease (Prt), and the quorum-sensing signal N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) at 28 de...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hasegawa H,Chatterjee A,Cui Y,Chatterjee AK

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-eight halobacteria, including both culture collection strains and fresh isolates from widely differing geographical areas, were tested for susceptibility to arsenate, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, silver, and zinc ions by an agar dilution technique. The culture collection strains show...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nieto JJ,Ventosa A,Ruiz-Berraquero F

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of the predominant bacteria in the human gastrointestinal tract was studied by using 16S rRNA-based approaches. PCR amplicons of the V6 to V8 regions of fecal 16S rRNA and ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were analyzed by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE). TGGE of fecal 16S rDNA amplicons from 16 indiv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zoetendal EG,Akkermans AD,De Vos WM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that the coexistence of methanogenesis and reductive acetogenesis in the hindgut of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes flavipes is based largely on the radial distribution of the respective microbial populations and relatively high hydrogen partial pressures in the gut lumen. Using Clark-type mi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmitt-Wagner D,Brune A

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that enhanced lysozyme resistance of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli requires the plasmid-encoded regulator, Per, and is mediated by factors outside the locus for enterocyte effacement. EspC, a Per-activated serine protease autotransporter protein, conferred enhanced resistance on nonpathogenic E. col...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salinger N,Kokona B,Fairman R,Okeke IN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organophosphate pesticides used in agriculture can pose health risks to humans and wildlife. We hypothesized that dietary supplementation with Lactobacillus, a genus of commensal bacteria, would reduce absorption and toxicity of consumed organophosphate pesticides (parathion and chlorpyrifos [CP]). Several Lactobacill...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trinder M,McDowell TW,Daisley BA,Ali SN,Leong HS,Sumarah MW,Reid G

更新日期：2016-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the characterization of Yucca Mountain, Nev., as a potential repository for high-level nuclear waste, volcanic tuff was analyzed for microbial abundance and activity. Tuff was collected aseptically from nine sites along a tunnel in Yucca Mountain. Microbial abundance was generally low: direct microscopic ce...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kieft TL,Kovacik WP,Ringelberg DB,White DC,Haldeman DL,Amy PS,Hersman LE

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen different broth media were autoclaved under anaerobic conditions and then exposed to atmospheric oxygen. The hydrogen peroxide and superoxide radical formation as well as the bactericidal effect of the media were studied. The rate of killing of Peptostreptococcus anaerobius VPI 4330-1 was high in media that r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Carlsson J,Nyberg G,Wrethén J

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rolling circle amplification (RCA) generates large single-stranded and tandem repeats of target DNA as amplicons. This technique was applied to in situ nucleic acid amplification (in situ RCA) to visualize and count single Escherichia coli cells carrying a specific gene sequence. The method features (i) one short targ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maruyama F,Kenzaka T,Yamaguchi N,Tani K,Nasu M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms were grown from wild-type (WT) Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and the cell signaling lasI mutant PAO1-JP1 under laminar and turbulent flows to investigate the relative contributions of hydrodynamics and cell signaling for biofilm formation. Various biofilm morphological parameters were quantified using Image Str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Purevdorj B,Costerton JW,Stoodley P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although carbon dioxide (CO(2)) is known to inhibit growth of most bacteria, very little is known about the cellular response. The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is characterized by its ability to grow in high CO(2) concentrations at refrigeration temperatures. We examined the listerial responses of differ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jydegaard-Axelsen AM,Høiby PE,Holmstrøm K,Russell N,Knøchel S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a sintered glass bead core to simulate the spaces and surfaces of reservoir rock in studies of the bacterial plugging phenomenon that affects waterflood oil recovery operations. The passage of pure or mixed natural populations of bacteria through this solid matrix was initially seen to promote the formati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shaw JC,Bramhill B,Wardlaw NC,Costerton JW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate predictions of carbon and energy cycling rates in the environment depend on sampling frequencies and on the spatial variability associated with biological activities. We examined the variability associated with anaerobic biodegradation rates at two sites in an alluvial sand aquifer polluted by municipal landf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adrian NR,Robinson JA,Suflita JM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transformed root cultures of three nonmycotrophic and one mycotrophic plant species stimulated germination and hyphal growth of the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus etunicatum (Becker & Gerd.) in a gel medium. However, only roots of the mycotrophic species (carrot) supported continued hyphal exploration ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schreiner RP,Koide RT

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperate bacteriophage phiLC3, isolated from Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris, has an isometric head and a flexible tail containing 1 major protein and 8 minor proteins. Infection of a permissive L. lactis host strain yields a burst of about 50 phages per infected cell with a latent period of 60 min. A detailed...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lillehaug D,Lindqvist B,Birkeland NK

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

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：:We determined the effects of grain size and nutritional conditions on the penetration rate and metabolic activity of Escherichia coli strains in anaerobic, nutrient-saturated chambers packed with different sizes of glass beads (diameters, 116 to 767 mum) under static conditions. The chambers had nearly equal porositie...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sharma PK,McInerney MJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quick and simple protocol for long-term cryopreservation of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (anammox bacteria) was developed. After 29 weeks of preservation at -80°C, activity recovery for all tested cultures under at least one of the applied sets of preservation conditions was observed. Growth recovery was al...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heylen K,Ettwig K,Hu Z,Jetten M,Kartal B

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization by partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing, ribotyping, and green fluorescent protein-based nisin bioassay revealed that 6 of 20 human milk samples contained nisin-producing Lactococcus lactis bacteria. This suggests that the history of humans consuming nisin is older than the tradition of consuming fermente...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beasley SS,Saris PE

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generic taxon-specific DNA probes that target an internal region of the gene (rbcL) encoding the large subunit of ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO) were developed for two groups of marine phytoplankton (diatoms and prymnesiophytes). The specificity and utility of the probes were evaluated in t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wyman M,Davies JT,Crawford DW,Purdie DA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicity of Listeria monocytogenes as influenced by growth on crabmeat at 5 and 10 degrees C was studied. Crabmeat was inoculated with L. monocytogenes V7 (ca. 10(4) CFU/g) and incubated for up to 14 days at 5 and 10 degrees C. At selected incubation times, L. monocytogenes was removed from crabmeat by washin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brackett RE,Beuchat LR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of phospholipids from Mycobacterium convolutum R22 was determined after growth at two temperatures (20 and 30 degrees C) with 1-chlorohexadecane as the substrate. Comparisons were made with the phospholipids of cells grown on n-hexadecane. Phosphatidylinositolmannosides and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Murphy GL,Perry JJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on results from eight experiments, no overall difference was found between roll tube and three- and five-tube most-probable-number (MPN) methods for estimating total numbers of ruminal bacteria. However, standard errors for the replicate means within an experiment were higher with the MPN procedures. Visual grow...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dehority BA,Tirabasso PA,Grifo AP Jr

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroids prepared from nodules of soybean and bean were tested for viability. Contrary to the prevailing view that bacteroids are nonviable, it was found that bacteroids averaged 90% viability, irrespective of Rhizobium strain, nodule age, or nodule environment. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsien HC,Cain PS,Schmidt EL

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different green fluorescent protein (GFP)-based whole-cell biosensors were created based on the DNA damage inducible SOS response of Escherichia coli in order to evaluate the sensitivity of individual SOS promoters toward genotoxic substances. Treatment with the known carcinogen N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Norman A,Hestbjerg Hansen L,Sørensen SJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia fergusonii is an emerging pathogen that has been isolated from a wide range of infections in animals and humans. Primers targeting specific genes, including yliE (encoding a conserved hypothetical protein of the cellulose synthase and regulator of cellulose synthase island), EFER_1569 (encoding a hypotheti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simmons K,Rempel H,Block G,Forgetta V,Vaillancourt R Jr,Malouin F,Topp E,Delaquis P,Diarra MS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of livestock with bacteria resistant to antibiotics is considered a risk for the entry of drug-resistant pathogens into the food chain. For this reason, there is a need for novel concepts to address the eradication of drug-resistant commensals on farms. In the present report, we evaluated the decontaminat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmithausen RM,Kellner SR,Schulze-Geisthoevel SV,Hack S,Engelhart S,Bodenstein I,Al-Sabti N,Reif M,Fimmers R,Körber-Irrgang B,Harlizius J,Hoerauf A,Exner M,Bierbaum G,Petersen B,Bekeredjian-Ding I

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages are the source of many valuable tools for molecular biology and genetic manipulation. In Streptomyces, most DNA cloning vectors are based on serine integrase site-specific DNA recombination systems derived from phage. Because of their efficiency and simplicity, serine integrases are also used for divers...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fogg PCM,Haley JA,Stark WM,Smith MCM

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of concentration-dependent toluene metabolism were examined by evaluating each term in the second-order rate equation. Marine and freshwater pseudomonads were used. Uptake for Pseudomonas sp. strain T2 was characterized by a completely saturatable system with small transport constant (K(t) = 44 mug/liter)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robertson BR,Button DK

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnobacterium maltaromaticum UAL307, isolated from fresh pork, exhibits potent activity against a number of gram-positive organisms, including numerous Listeria species. Three bacteriocins were isolated from culture supernatant, and using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Martin-Visscher LA,van Belkum MJ,Garneau-Tsodikova S,Whittal RM,Zheng J,McMullen LM,Vederas JC

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00