Complete reductive dehalogenation of brominated biphenyls by anaerobic microorganisms in sediment.

abstract：:In a medium containing ammonia, proteose peptone, and cysteine as nitrogen sources, 17 of 24 Bacteroidaceae strains, 3 of Selenomonas strains, 1 of 7 curved rods, 3 of 7 Spirochaetaceae strains, 8 of 20 Eubacterium strains, 8 of 13 Peptococcaceae strains, 3 of 4 Clostridium strains, 19 of 20 Enterobacteriaceae strains...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takahashi M,Benno Y,Mitsuoka T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Aminopeptidases have the unique capability to hydrolyze N-terminal β-amino acids, with varied preferences for the nature of β-amino acid side chains. This unique capability makes them useful as biocatalysts for synthesis of β-peptides and to kinetically resolve β-peptides and amides for the production of enantiopure...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： John-White M,Gardiner J,Johanesen P,Lyras D,Dumsday G

更新日期：2019-07-18 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：:Two isolates of Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffr.) nuclear polyhedrosis virus from Britain and North America were compared using three biochemical techniques. Alkaline protease assays of polyhedra revealed the presence of endogenous enzyme activity in the British isolate but not in the North American isolate. Sodium dodecy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brown DA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus canker, caused by Xanthomonas citri pv. citri, is a serious disease of citrus plants worldwide. Earlier phylogenetic studies using housekeeping genes revealed that X. citri pv. citri is related to many other pathovars, which can be collectively referred as Xanthomonas citri pathovars (XCPs). From the present st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bansal K,Midha S,Kumar S,Patil PB

更新日期：2017-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 662 in vol. 45.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-chain aldehyde dehydrogenase, Ald1, was found in a soluble fraction of Acinetobacter sp. strain M-1 cells grown on n-hexadecane as a sole carbon source. The gene (ald1) was cloned from the chromosomal DNA of the bacterium. The open reading frame of ald1 was 1,512 bp long, corresponding to a protein of 503 amino...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishige T,Tani A,Sakai Y,Kato N

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:The photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides is capable of producing H2 via nitrogenase when grown photoheterotrophically in the absence of N2. By using 14C-labeled malate, it was found that greater than 95% of this substrate was catabolized completely to CO2 during H2 production. About 60% of this catabolism ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macler BA,Bassham JA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial microbial colonization of tooth surfaces is a repeatable and selective process, with certain bacterial species predominating in the nascent biofilm. Characterization of the initial microflora is the first step in understanding interactions among community members that shape ensuing biofilm development. Usi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Diaz PI,Chalmers NI,Rickard AH,Kong C,Milburn CL,Palmer RJ Jr,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the hydrogen production properties of the unicellular, diazotrophic cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. strain ATCC 51142. This organism has a versatile metabolism and can grow in the presence or absence of combined nitrogen and can grow photosynthetically or mixotrophically and heterotrophically in the presenc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Min H,Sherman LA

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.2-kb fragment containing a replicon from pBtoxis, the large plasmid that encodes the insecticidal endotoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis, was identified, cloned, and sequenced. This fragment contains cis elements, including iterons, found in replication origins of other large plasmids and suggests...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tang M,Bideshi DK,Park HW,Federici BA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 W3110 grows in the presence of membrane-permeant organic acids that can depress cytoplasmic pH and accumulate in the cytoplasm. We conducted experimental evolution by daily diluting cultures in increasing concentrations of benzoic acid (up to 20 mM) buffered at external pH 6.5, a pH at which perm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Creamer KE,Ditmars FS,Basting PJ,Kunka KS,Hamdallah IN,Bush SP,Scott Z,He A,Penix SR,Gonzales AS,Eder EK,Camperchioli DW,Berndt A,Clark MW,Rouhier KA,Slonczewski JL

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 113 strains of mesophilic strains lactic streptococci of the species Streptococcus lactis, S. lactis subsp. diacetilactis, and S. cremoris, chosen from 291 strains that had been previously classified into six groups on the basis of their sensitivity to 132 virulent phages, were subjected to induction with m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reyrolle J,Chopin MC,Letellier F,Novel G

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly virulent Serratia proteamaculans strain, AGR96X, exhibiting specific pathogenicity against larvae of the New Zealand grass grub (Costelytra giveni; Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and the New Zealand manuka beetle (Pyronota festiva and P. setosa; Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), was isolated from a diseased grass grub la...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hurst MRH,Beattie A,Jones SA,Laugraud A,van Koten C,Harper L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes hemorrhagic colitis and life-threatening complications. Because healthy cattle are reservoirs for the bacterium, ruminant infection models have applications in analyzing the relationship between cattle and this human pathogen and in testing interventions to reduce or prevent bovine colo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sheng H,Davis MA,Knecht HJ,Hovde CJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial Atlantic blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) were exposed to 2.0x10(4) infectious waterborne oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum. The study demonstrated that blue crabs can transfer C. parvum oocysts to persons involved in handling or preparing crabs and that they may contaminate other surfaces or products durin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Graczyk TK,McOliver C,Silbergeld EK,Tamang L,Roberts JD

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiration rates of bacterial cultures can be a powerful tool in gauging the effects of genetic manipulation and environmental changes affecting overall metabolism. We present an optical method for measuring respiration rates using a robust phosphorescence lifetime-based sensor and off-the-shelf technology. This meth...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Strovas TJ,Dragavon JM,Hankins TJ,Callis JB,Burgess LW,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Amazon rainforest, the largest equatorial forest in the world, is being cleared for pasture and agricultural use at alarming rates. Tropical deforestation is known to cause alterations in microbial communities at taxonomic and phylogenetic levels, but it is unclear whether microbial functional groups are altered. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mirza BS,Potisap C,Nüsslein K,Bohannan BJ,Rodrigues JL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of CO2 availability on cell size, shape, and aggregation in continuous cultures of Candida utilis was studied in minimal medium with glucose or ethanol as the sole carbon and energy source. Enrichment with CO2 was achieved (i) by using the substrate with more C atoms, (ii) by using pure oxygen and thus decr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Straskrabová V,Páca J,Králícková E

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many recombinant proteins that are produced in Escherichia coli have to be targeted to the periplasm to be functional. N-terminal signal peptides can be used to direct recombinant proteins to the membrane-embedded Sec translocon, a multiprotein complex that translocates proteins across the membrane into the periplasm....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ytterberg AJ,Zubarev RA,Baumgarten T

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that Trametes (Coriolus) versicolor bleaches kraft pulp brownstock with the concomitant release of methanol. In this work, the fungus is shown to produce both laccase and manganese peroxidase (MnP) but not lignin peroxidase during pulp bleaching. MnP production was enhanced by the presence of p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paice MG,Reid ID,Bourbonnais R,Archibald FS,Jurasek L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-tubulin gene from a UV-irradiated benomyl-resistant mutant of Fusarium moniliforme was isolated, cloned, and sequenced. The gene encodes a 446-amino-acid polypeptide with homology to other fungal beta-tubulins. RNA blot analysis showed expression of the gene during vegetative growth and conidial germination but...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yan K,Dickman MB

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcosm experiments were conducted with soils contaminated with heavy metals (Pb and Cr) and aromatic hydrocarbons to determine the effects of each upon microbial community structure and function. Organic substrates were added as a driving force for change in the microbial community. Glucose represented an energy so...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakatsu CH,Carmosini N,Baldwin B,Beasley F,Kourtev P,Konopka A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cyanobacteria are known to tolerate environmental extremes. Motivated by an interest in selecting cyanobacteria for applications in space, we launched rocks from a limestone cliff in Beer, Devon, United Kingdom, containing an epilithic and endolithic rock-dwelling community of cyanobacteria into low Earth orbit (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Olsson-Francis K,de la Torre R,Cockell CS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 765 Escherichia coli isolates from point and nonpoint sources were collected from the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, and their multiple-antibiotic-resistance (MAR) profiles were determined with 10 antibiotics. E. coli isolates from point sources showed significantly greater resistance (P ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Parveen S,Murphree RL,Edmiston L,Kaspar CW,Portier KM,Tamplin ML

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363 is a model for the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) used in the dairy industry. The proteolytic system, consisting of a proteinase, several peptide and amino acid uptake systems, and a host of intracellular peptidases, plays a vital role in nitrogen metabolism and is of eminent impo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang C,Hernandez-Valdes JA,Kuipers OP,Kok J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatedness between Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris and L. lactis subsp. lactis was assessed by Southern hybridization analysis, with cloned chromosomal genes as probes. The results indicate that strains of the two subspecies form two distinct groups and that the DNA sequence divergence between L. lactis subsp. lac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Godon JJ,Delorme C,Ehrlich SD,Renault P

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By targeted deletion of the polyglutamate operon (pga) in Bacillus licheniformis F11, a derivative form, F11.1 (Δpga), was obtained that, along with lacking polyglutamate (PGA) formation, displayed enhanced proteolytic activities. The phenotypic properties were maintained in a strain in which the chiBA operon was addi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hoffmann K,Daum G,Köster M,Kulicke WM,Meyer-Rammes H,Bisping B,Meinhardt F

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equations defining the reaction of microbial alginase on commercial sodium alginate are presented with respect to the viscometric assay of enzyme activity. The negative log of K was found to be linearly related to the concentration of algin, where K is defined as the change in the reciprocal of relative viscosity with...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stevens RA,Levin RE

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00