Buffering Capacity of Pigmented and Nonpigmented Strains of Serratia marcescens.

abstract：:The prokaryote community activity and structural characteristics within marine sediment sampled across a continental shelf area located off eastern Antarctica (66 degrees S, 143 degrees E; depth range, 709 to 964 m) were studied. Correlations were found between microbial biomass and aminopeptidase and chitinase rates,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bowman JP,McCammon SA,Gibson JA,Robertson L,Nichols PD

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed the first Escherichia coli-Veillonella shuttle vector based on an endogenous plasmid (pVJL1) isolated from a clinical Veillonella strain. A highly transformable Veillonella strain was also identified. Both the shuttle vector and the transformable strain should be valuable tools for future Veillonel...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu J,Xie Z,Merritt J,Qi F

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there have been several reports on the efficacy assessment of a Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis vaccine against intestinal and parenchymatous organ diseases of laying hens, no public health risk characterization of its long-term effect on eggs has been reported. In this study, we attempted to assess t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Toyota-Hanatani Y,Ekawa T,Ohta H,Igimi S,Hara-Kudo Y,Sasai K,Baba E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium fredii USDA 206 harbors four large plasmids, one of which carries nodulation and nitrogen fixation genes. Previously isolated groups of plasmid-cured derivatives of strain USDA 206 were compared with each other to determine possible plasmid functions. Mutant strain 206CANS was isolated as a nonmucoid (Muc) d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barbour WM,Elkan GH

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine microbiologists commonly assay lipase activities by using a synthetic fluorescent analog, 4-methylumbelliferyl (MUF)-oleate. The technique is convenient, but it is considered to be unspecific because of the structure of this analog. This study reports the design of a new specific and sensitive lipase assay base...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bourguet N,Torréton JP,Galy O,Arondel V,Goutx M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of the mle locus harboring the malolactic enzyme gene mleA and malate permease gene mleP from Leuconostoc oenos was completed in this study by mRNA analysis. Northern (RNA) blot experiments revealed a 2.6-kb transcript, suggesting an operon structure harboring mleA and mleP genes. Primer extension ana...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Labarre C,Diviès C,Guzzo J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azospirillum is a rhizobacterial genus containing plant growth-promoting species associated with different crops worldwide. Azospirillum brasilense strains exhibit a growth-promoting effect by means of phytohormone production and possibly by N2 fixation. However, one of the most important factors for achieving an incr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stets MI,Alqueres SM,Souza EM,Pedrosa Fde O,Schmid M,Hartmann A,Cruz LM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection and enumeration of most cultivable human enteric viruses from water is possible if samples are first inoculated onto a suitable cell line such as MA-104 or BGM. Virus growth is then detected by an indirect immunoperoxidase method with human immune serum globulin as the source of antibody to most enteric ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Payment P,Trudel M

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of yeasts to ferment cellodextrins is rare. Candida wickerhamii is able to use these sugars for alcohol production because of a cell-bound, extracellular, beta-glucosidase that is unusual by not being inhibited by glucose. A cDNA expression library in lambda phage was prepared with mRNA isolated from cello...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Skory CD,Freer SN

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cutinase gene-like genes from the basidiomycete Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus) found with a similarity search were cloned and expressed in Trichoderma reesei under the control of an inducible cbh1 promoter. The selected transformants of all three polyesterase constructs showed activity with p-nitropheny...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kontkanen H,Westerholm-Parvinen A,Saloheimo M,Bailey M,Rättö M,Mattila I,Mohsina M,Kalkkinen N,Nakari-Setälä T,Buchert J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butyrate is an important intermediate in the anaerobic degradation of organic matter. In sulfate-depleted environments butyrate is oxidized to acetate and hydrogen by obligate proton reducers, in syntrophic association with hydrogen-consuming methanogens. This paper describes two enrichments of endospore-forming bacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tomei FA,Maki JS,Mitchell R

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although biofilms represent a common bacterial lifestyle in clinically and environmentally important habitats, there is scant information on the extent of gene transfer in these spatially structured populations. The objective of this study was to gain insight into factors that affect transfer of the promiscuous multid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Król JE,Nguyen HD,Rogers LM,Beyenal H,Krone SM,Top EM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of bisphenol A and nonylphenol involves the unusual rearrangement of stable carbon-carbon bonds. Some nonylphenol isomers and bisphenol A possess a quaternary alpha-carbon atom as a common structural feature. The degradation of nonylphenol in Sphingomonas sp. strain TTNP3 occurs via a type II ipso subs...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kolvenbach B,Schlaich N,Raoui Z,Prell J,Zühlke S,Schäffer A,Guengerich FP,Corvini PF

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae causes a severe and highly infective bee disease, American foulbrood (AFB). Despite the large economic losses induced by AFB, the virulence factors produced by P. larvae are as yet unknown. To identify such virulence factors, we experimentally infected young, susceptibl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schild HA,Fuchs SW,Bode HB,Grünewald B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollutants is constrained, in part, by their solid physical state and very low water solubility. Searching for ways to overcome these limitations, we isolated from soil a bacterium capable of growing on pyrene as a sole source of carbon and energy. Acid-fast stain,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jimenez IY,Bartha R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme levanase encoded by the sacC gene from Bacillus subtilis was overexpressed in Escherichia coli with the strong, inducible tac promoter. The enzyme was purified from crude E. coli cell lysates by salting out with ammonium sulfate and chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B, S-Sepharose, and MonoQ-Sepharose. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wanker E,Huber A,Schwab H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cells of the parent strain of Beijerinckia, grown with succinate and biphenyl, oxidized dibenzo-p-dioxin and several chlorinated dioxins. The rate of oxidation of the chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins decreased with an increasing degree of chlorine substitution. A mutant strain (B8/36) of Beijerinckia oxidized diben...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Klecka GM,Gibson DT

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A six-step biochemical key is presented for the identification of all recognized Enterococcus spp. The key consists of 12 tests, but no more than 6 are needed for the most complicated identification. The reliability of the key has been evaluated with collection type strains and clinical and environmental isolates. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Manero A,Blanch AR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Aeromonas hydrophila bacteriophages, Aeh1 and Aeh2, were isolated from sewage. Both phages showed binal symmetry. The dimensions of A. hydrophila phages Aeh1 and Aeh2 differed from those of the other Aeromonas phages. Also, phage Aeh2 was the largest Aeromonas phage studied to date. Phage Aeh1 formed small, clear ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chow MS,Rouf MA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of long-term heavy metal deposition on microbial community structure and the level of bacterial community tolerance were studied along two different gradients in Scandinavian coniferous forest soils. One was near the Harjavalta smelter in Finland, and one was at Ronnskar in Sweden. Phospholipid fatty acid ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pennanen T,Frostegard A,Fritze H,Baath E

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microwave radiation in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis cell suspensions resulted in a dramatic reduction of the viable counts as well as increases in the amounts of DNA and protein released from the cells according to the increase of the final temperature of the cell suspensions. However, no significant reducti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Woo IS,Rhee IK,Park HD

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative real-time PCR targeting the tnaA gene was studied to detect Escherichia coli and distinguish E. coli from Shigella spp. These microorganisms revealed high similarity in the molecular organization of the tna operon. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bernasconi C,Volponi G,Picozzi C,Foschino R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent advent of tools enabling statistical inferences to be drawn from comparisons of microbial communities has enabled the focus of microbial ecology to move from characterizing biodiversity to describing the distribution of that biodiversity. Although statistical tools have been developed to compare community s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schloss PD,Handelsman J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium salicylate and ammonium sulfate were applied to leaf surfaces along with suspensions of the biological control agents Pseudomonas syringae Cit7(pNAH7), which catabolizes salicylate, and Cit7, which does not catabolize salicylate, to determine whether enhanced biological control of bacterial speck of tomato coul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ji P,Wilson M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis was observed on media with citrate as the only energy source. At pH 5.6, steady state was achieved in a chemostat on a citrate-containing medium in the absence of a carbohydrate. Under these conditions, pyruvate, acetate, and some acetoin and butanediol w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hugenholtz J,Perdon L,Abee T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniaturized growth systems for heterogeneous culture collections are not only attractive in reducing demands for incubation space and medium but also in making the parallel handling of large numbers of strains more practicable. We report here on the optimization of oxygen transfer rates in deep-well microtiter plates...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duetz WA,Rüedi L,Hermann R,O'Connor K,Büchs J,Witholt B

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Comamonas sp. strain JS46, 3-nitrobenzoate (3Nba) is initially oxidized at the 3,4 position by a dioxygenase, which results in release of nitrite and production of protocatechuate. The locus coding for the 3Nba dioxygenase (designated mnb, for m-nitrobenzoate) was mobilized from strain JS46 using a plasmid capture ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Providenti MA,Shaye RE,Lynes KD,McKenna NT,O'brien JM,Rosolen S,Wyndham RC,Lambert IB

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugal plasmid transfer was examined on the phylloplane of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and related to the spatial distribution pattern and metabolic activity of the bacteria. The donor (Pseudomonas putida KT2442) harbored a derivative of the TOL plasmid, which conferred kanamycin resistance and had the gfp gene insert...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Normander B,Christensen BB,Molin S,Kroer N

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An obligately anaerobic bacterium which transforms several chlorinated phenols was isolated. Dechlorination of the substituents ortho to the phenolic OH group was preferred, while removal of a meta-substituted chlorine was observed only with 3,5-dichlorophenol. The bacterium was a gram-positive, endospore-forming, mot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Madsen T,Licht D

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Searles Lake occupies a closed basin harboring salt-saturated, alkaline brines that have exceptionally high concentrations of arsenic oxyanions. Strain SLAS-1(T) was previously isolated from Searles Lake (R. S. Oremland, T. R. Kulp, J. Switzer Blum, S. E. Hoeft, S. Baesman, L. G. Miller, and J. F. Stolz, Science 308:1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blum JS,Han S,Lanoil B,Saltikov C,Witte B,Tabita FR,Langley S,Beveridge TJ,Jahnke L,Oremland RS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00