Tn5 Insertion Mutants of Pseudomonas fluorescens Defective in Adhesion to Soil and Seeds.

abstract：:Gram-positive bacteria of the genus Exiguobacterium have been repeatedly isolated from Siberian permafrost ranging in age from 20,000 to 2 to 3 million years and have been sporadically recovered from markedly diverse habitats, including microbial mats in Lake Fryxell (Antarctic), surface water, and food-processing env...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vishnivetskaya TA,Kathariou S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera were raised against nine strains which had been isolated from phenol-acclimated oil refinery activated sludge. Although several antisera reacted significantly with the activated sludge during a period of adaptation to phenol, only an antiserum against one of the isolates, Alcaligenes sp. E2, reacted with the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watanabe K,Hino S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several investigations have identified benzothiophene-2,3-dione in the organic solvent extracts of acidified cultures degrading dibenzothiophene via the Kodama pathway. In solution at neutral pH, the 2,3-dione exists as 2-mercaptophenylglyoxylate, which cyclizes upon acidification and is extracted as the 2,3-dione. Th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bressler DC,Fedorak PM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AvrPtoB is a type III effector protein from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato that physically interacts with the tomato Pto kinase and, depending on the host genotype, either elicits or suppresses programmed cell death associated with plant immunity. We reported previously that avrPtoB-related sequences are present in d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lin NC,Abramovitch RB,Kim YJ,Martin GB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population dynamics of bifidobacteria in human feces during raffinose administration were investigated at the species level by using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) coupled with flow cytometry (FCM) analysis. Although double-staining FISH-FCM using both fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) and indodicarbocy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dinoto A,Marques TM,Sakamoto K,Fukiya S,Watanabe J,Ito S,Yokota A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato was assessed in a focus of Lyme borreliosis in southern Britain dominated by game birds. Ticks, rodents, and pheasants were analyzed for spirochete infections by PCR-targeting the 23S-5S rRNA genes, followed by genotyping by the reverse line blot method. In ques...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kurtenbach K,Peacey M,Rijpkema SG,Hoodless AN,Nuttall PA,Randolph SE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis in Finland in 1984 and 1985 the widespread circulation of the causative wild-type serotype 3 poliovirus in the population was documented by demonstrating the virus in sewage water specimens in 13 different locations in the greater Helsinki district and in 13 other cities o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pöyry T,Stenvik M,Hovi T

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterium capable of anaerobic growth via reductive dehalogenation of 2-chlorophenol was isolated from a culture enriched from sediment taken from a small stream near Lansing, Mich. The organism, designated strain 2CP-1, is a gram-negative rod ca. 3 by 0.5 micron in size and is a catalase-negative, oxidase-negative,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cole JR,Cascarelli AL,Mohn WW,Tiedje JM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury is a redox-active heavy metal that reacts with active thiols and depletes cellular antioxidants. Active resistance to the mercuric ion is a widely distributed trait among bacteria and results from the action of mercuric reductase (MerA). Protein phylogenetic analysis of MerA in bacteria indicated the occurrenc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simbahan J,Kurth E,Schelert J,Dillman A,Moriyama E,Jovanovich S,Blum P

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S is a major spore coat protein of Myxococcus xanthus, consisting of two homologous domains, the N-terminal domain (NTD) and the C-terminal domain, both of which contain a Ca(2+)-binding site. Protein S tightly binds to myxospores in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. Here, we constructed a novel expression vector, pC...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kobayashi H,Yoshida T,Inouye M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-mannanase (EC 3.2.1.78) from Vibrio sp. strain MA-138 was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and several chromatographic procedures including gel filtration, adsorption, and ion-exchange chromatographies. The final ion-exchange chromatography Mono Q yielded one major active fraction and three minor acti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tamaru Y,Araki T,Amagoi H,Mori H,Morishita T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulation of a heat process used in the terminal dry-heat decontamination of the Viking spacecraft is reported. Naturally occurring airborne bacterial spores were collected on Teflon ribbons in selected spacecraft assembly areas and subsequently subjected to dry heat. Thermal inactivation experiments were conducted a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Puleo JR,Bergstrom SL,Peeler JT,Oxborrow GS

更新日期：1978-09-01 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：:Caulobacter crescentus is known to tolerate high levels of uranium [U(VI)], but its detoxification mechanism is poorly understood. Here we show that C. crescentus is able to facilitate U(VI) biomineralization through the formation of U-Pi precipitates via its native alkaline phosphatase activity. The U-Pi precipitates...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yung MC,Jiao Y

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study concerns the exploitation of the lytic enzyme enterolysin A (EntL), produced by Enterococcus faecalis strain DPC5280, to elicit the controlled autolysis of starter lactococci. EntL, a cell wall metalloendopeptidase secreted by some E. faecalis strains, can kill a wide range of gram-positive bacteria, includ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hickey RM,Ross RP,Hill C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potato tuber disks were submerged in suspensions containing 10 to 10 cells of Agrobacterium tumefaciens B6 per ml. After 60 min, the disks were rinsed and homogenized, and portions of the homogenates were plated to measure the number of adsorbed bacteria. At low initial bacterial concentrations (10/ml), 5 to 23% of th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kluepfel DA,Pueppke SG

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most denitrifiers produce nitrous oxide (N(2)O) instead of dinitrogen (N(2)) under aerobic conditions. We isolated and characterized novel aerobic denitrifiers that produce low levels of N(2)O under aerobic conditions. We monitored the denitrification activities of two of the isolates, strains TR2 and K50, in batch an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takaya N,Catalan-Sakairi MA,Sakaguchi Y,Kato I,Zhou Z,Shoun H

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alfalfa sprouts and other seed sprouts have been implicated in numerous outbreaks of salmonellosis. The source of these epidemics appears to have been low-level contamination of seeds by Salmonella bacteria that developed into clinically significant populations during the seed germination process. To test the possibil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Howard MB,Hutcheson SW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the first isolation of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in 2003, this MRSA variant quickly became the predominant MRSA obtained from humans as part of the Dutch national MRSA surveillance. Previous studies have suggested that human-to-human transmission of LA-MRSA, compa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bosch T,Verkade E,van Luit M,Landman F,Kluytmans J,Schouls LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anaerobic diplococcoid bacterium able to degrade hydrolyzable tannins was isolated from the ruminal fluid of a goat fed desmodium (Desmodium ovalifolium), a tropical legume which contains levels as high as 17% condensed tannins. This strain grew under anaerobic conditions in the presence of up to 30 g of tannic aci...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nelson KE,Pell AN,Schofield P,Zinder S

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new thermostable dipeptidase gene was cloned from the thermophile Brevibacillus borstelensis BCS-1 by genetic complementation of the D-Glu auxotroph Escherichia coli WM335 on a plate containing D-Ala-D-Glu. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that the gene included an open reading frame coding for a 307-amino-acid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baek DH,Song JJ,Kwon SJ,Park C,Jung CM,Sung MH

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects in the chicken embryo assay of four Alternaria metabolites (alternariol [AOH], alternariol methyl ether [AME], altenuene [ALT], and tenuazonic acid [TA]) were investigated. Administered to 7-day-old chicken embryos by yolk sac injection, AOH, AME, and ALT caused no mortality or teratogenic effect at doses ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Griffin GF,Chu FS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of uptake of propanoic acid and the cell dimensions were measured for 23 yeasts differing in their resistance to weak-acid-type preservatives. Relationships between reciprocal uptake rate, reciprocal permeability, cell volume, cell area, volume/area, and the MICs of benzoic acid and propanoic acid for the yea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Warth AD

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the competitive relationship between two isolates of denitrifying bacteria, both of which grow well under aerobic conditions but differ in their ability to grow under denitrifying conditions. The growth and persistence of the two isolates, added to sterile soil or added to soil previously colonized by the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Murray RE,Parsons LL,Smith MS

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:The spice oil components eugenol and cinnamaldehyde possess activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, but the mechanisms of action remain obscure. In broth media at 20 degrees C, 5 mM eugenol or 30 mM cinnamaldehyde was bactericidal (>1-log reduction in the number of CFU per milliliter in 1 h) to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gill AO,Holley RA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty years of intensive research have significantly contributed to our understanding of Helicobacter pylori biology and pathogenesis. However, the lack of convenient genetic tools, in particular the limited effectiveness of available reporter systems, has notably limited the toolbox for fundamental and applied studi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vannini A,Agriesti F,Mosca F,Roncarati D,Scarlato V,Danielli A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities from a subseafloor sediment core from the southwestern Sea of Okhotsk were evaluated by performing both cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent (molecular) analyses. The core, which extended 58.1 m below the seafloor, was composed of pelagic clays with several volcanic ash layers contai...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inagaki F,Suzuki M,Takai K,Oida H,Sakamoto T,Aoki K,Nealson KH,Horikoshi K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of dental plaque is a developmental process involving initial and late colonizing species that form polymicrobial communities. Fusobacteria are the most numerous gram-negative bacteria in dental plaque, but they become prevalent after the initial commensal colonizers, such as streptococci and actinomyces, ha...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Periasamy S,Chalmers NI,Du-Thumm L,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of Bacillus cereus spores during cooling (10 degrees C/h) from 90 degrees C occurred in two phases. One phase occurred during cooling from 90 to 80 degrees C; the second occurred during cooling from 46 to 38 degrees C. In contrast, no inactivation occurred when spores were cooled from a maximum temperatur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johnson KM,Busta FF

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00