Applications of a colorimetric plate assay for soluble methane monooxygenase activity.

abstract：:The beta-subgroup of the Proteobacteria has been shown to be important in aquatic habitats and was investigated in depth here by molecular 16S rRNA techniques in biofilms of the Elbe River and its polluted tributary, the Spittelwasser River. The bacterial 16S rRNA genes were cloned from each site, screened for beta-pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brümmer IH,Felske A,Wagner-Döbler I

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive dechlorination of the ortho moiety of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as well as of meta and para moieties is shown to occur in anaerobic enrichments of Baltimore Harbor sediments. These estuarine sediments ortho dechlorinated 2,3,5,6-chlorinated biphenyl (CB), 2,3,5-CB, and 2,3,6-CB in freshwater or estuar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berkaw M,Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A push-pull method, previously used in groundwater analyses, was successfully adapted for measuring sulfide turnover rates in situ at different depths in the meromictic Lake Cadagno. In the layer of phototrophic bacteria at about 12 m in depth net sulfide consumption was observed during the day, indicating active bact...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lüthy L,Fritz M,Bachofen R

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three bacteria capable of utilizing bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)methane (bisphenol F [BPF]) as the sole carbon source were isolated from river water, and they all belonged to the family Sphingomonadaceae. One of the isolates, designated Sphingobium yanoikuyae strain FM-2, at an initial cell density of 0.01 (optical density at...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inoue D,Hara S,Kashihara M,Murai Y,Danzl E,Sei K,Tsunoi S,Fujita M,Ike M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vaginal mucosa of ovariectomized female rats has been examined by scanning electron microscopy before and after estrogen [1,3,5(10)-estratriene-3,17beta-diol] treatment. Without estrogen stimulation vaginal colonization is minimal and the epithelium is characterized by a layer of epithelial cells covered with smal...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Larsen B,Markovetz AJ,Galask RP

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 52 strains of Lactobacillus acidophilus were examined for production of bacteriocins. A majority (63%) demonstrated inhibitory activity against all members of a four-species grouping of Lactobacillus leichmannii, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus helveticus, and Lactobacillus lactis. Four L. acidophil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barefoot SF,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Patulin production by Penicillium griseofulvum was monitored with Sep-Pak cartridges and high-pressure liquid chromatography. Determination and quantification of this metabolite proved to be very simple, and our method saved time and a large amount of organic solvents. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Torres M,Sanchis V,Riba M,Canela R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipophilic compounds of the culture suspension containing Rhodococcus erythropolis DSM43215 had surfactant properties when the bacteria were cultivated with n-alkanes as the sole carbon source. Thirteen main components from a dichloromethane-methanol extract of the R. erythropolis cultures were isolated and characteri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kretschmer A,Bock H,Wagner F

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of known sulfur oxygenase-reductases (SORs) and the SOR-like sequences identified from public databases indicated that they all possess three cysteine residues within two conserved motifs (V-G-P-K-V-C(31) and C(101)-X-X-C(104); numbering according to the Acidianus tengchongensis numbering system). The thio-mo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen ZW,Jiang CY,She Q,Liu SJ,Zhou PJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron(III)-reducing bacteria have been demonstrated to rapidly catalyze the reduction and immobilization of uranium(VI) from contaminated subsurface sediments. Thus, these organisms may aid in the development of bioremediation strategies for uranium contamination, which is prevalent in acidic subsurface sediments at U....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Petrie L,North NN,Dollhopf SL,Balkwill DL,Kostka JE

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Washed cell suspensions of Desulfovibrio vulgaris rapidly reduced Cr(VI) to Cr(III) with H(2) as the electron donor. The c(3) cytochrome from this organism functioned as a Cr(VI) reductase. D. vulgaris may have advantages over previously described Cr(VI) reducers for the bioremediation of Cr(VI)-contaminated waters. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lovley DR,Phillips EJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Cd2+, Cu2+, Mg2+, and Zn2+ on the decomposition of citric acid by a Klebsiella sp. were studied by monitoring the degradation of [14C]citrate. The carbon concentration used was 10 micrograms of C liter-1, and the media were designed to provide at least 95% of the citrate complexed to the metal studied. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brynhildsen L,Rosswall T

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Caldocellum saccharolyticum" is an obligatory anaerobic thermophilic bacterium. A gene from this organism, designated celB, has been cloned in Escherichia coli as part of a bacteriophage lambda gene library. This gene produces a thermostable cellulase that shows both endoglucanase and exoglucanase activities on test ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Saul DJ,Williams LC,Grayling RA,Chamley LW,Love DR,Bergquist PL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed a pivotal role of the polysaccharide (PS) moiety in the cell wall of the Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (YIT 9029) as a possible immune modulator (E. Yasuda M. Serata, and T. Sako, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:4746-4755, 2008). To distinguish PS structures on the bacterial cell surface of indi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yasuda E,Tateno H,Hirabayashi J,Iino T,Sako T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychrotolerant acidophile Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans has been identified from cold environments and has been shown to use ferrous iron and inorganic sulfur compounds as its energy sources. A bioinformatic evaluation presented in this study suggested that Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans utilized a ferrous iron ox...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liljeqvist M,Rzhepishevska OI,Dopson M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:By combining genomics and isotope imaging analysis using high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS), we examined the function and evolution of Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of the protist Barbulanympha from the hindguts of the wood-eating cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus In particular, we inv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tai V,Carpenter KJ,Weber PK,Nalepa CA,Perlman SJ,Keeling PJ

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:3'-Phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphatase (PAPase) is required for the removal of toxic 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphate (PAP) produced during sulfur assimilation in various eukaryotic organisms. This enzyme is a well-known target of lithium and sodium toxicity and has been used for the production of salt-resistant transgeni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang JY,Zou J,Bao Q,Chen WL,Wang L,Yang H,Zhang CC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of bioinformatic evidence, we suspected that proteins with a CYTH (CyaB thiamine triphosphatase) domain and/or a CHAD (conserved histidine α-helical domain) motif might represent polyphosphate (polyP) granule-associated proteins. We found no evidence of polyP targeting by proteins with CYTH domains. In co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tumlirsch T,Jendrossek D

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In various sediments in which Fe(III) reduction was the terminal electron-accepting process, [C]glucose was fermented to C-fatty acids in a manner similar to that observed in methanogenic sediments. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that, in Fe(III)-reducing sediments, fermentable substrates are oxidize...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lovley DR,Phillips EJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobiota growing on food is often beneficial for the ripening and development of the specific flavor characteristics of the product, but it can also be harmful due to the production of undesirable compounds such as mycotoxins or antibiotics. Some of the fungi most frequently isolated from fermented and cured meat pro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Laich F,Fierro F,Martín JF

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of the Hg2+ resistance mechanism of four freshwater and four coastal marine bacteria that did not hybridize with a mer operonic probe was conducted (T. Barkay, C. Liebert, and M. Gillman, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 55:1196-1202, 1989). Hybridization with a merA probe, the gene encoding the mercuric red...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barkay T,Gillman M,Liebert C

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different amounts of enterotoxin A-, B-, and C1-producing staphylococci were added to dry sausage prepared by normal processes, either alone or in conjunction with a starter culture (micrococci and lactobacilli). The sausage was examined after 0, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days for staphylococci, micrococci, and lactobacilli, a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Niskanen A,Nurmi E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poplar, a plant species frequently used for phytoremediation of groundwater contaminated with organic solvents, was inoculated with the endophyte Burkholderia cepacia VM1468. This strain, whose natural host is yellow lupine, contains the pTOM-Bu61 plasmid coding for constitutively expressed toluene degradation. Nonino...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Taghavi S,Barac T,Greenberg B,Borremans B,Vangronsveld J,van der Lelie D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the balance between acquiring enough iron and avoiding iron-induced toxicity is regulated in part by Fur (ferric uptake regulator). A fur mutant was constructed to address the physiological role of the regulator. Atypically, the mutant did not show alterations in the levels of siderophore...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kitphati W,Ngok-Ngam P,Suwanmaneerat S,Sukchawalit R,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrimination of strains within the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae was demonstrated by the use of four different techniques to type 15 strains isolated from spoiled wine and beer. Random amplified polymorphic DNA with specific oligonucleotides and PCR fingerprinting with the microsatellite oligonucleotide primers (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baleiras Couto MM,Eijsma B,Hofstra H,Huis in't Veld JH,van der Vossen JM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five media, formulated from the seeds of five legume varieties, dried cow blood, and mineral salts, were assessed for the growth and production of insecticidal properties of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Bacterial powders prepared from the broth cultures were assayed against the larvae of Aedes aegypti, C...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Obeta JA,Okafor N

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus gasseri LA39 and L. reuteri LA6 isolated from feces of the same human infant were found to produce similar cyclic bacteriocins (named gassericin A and reutericin 6, respectively) that cannot be distinguished by molecular weights or primary amino acid sequences. However, reutericin 6 has a narrower spectr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kawai Y,Ishii Y,Arakawa K,Uemura K,Saitoh B,Nishimura J,Kitazawa H,Yamazaki Y,Tateno Y,Itoh T,Saito T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel display system is described that allows highly efficient immobilization of heterologous proteins on bacterial surfaces in applications for which the use of genetically modified bacteria is less desirable. This system is based on nonliving and non-genetically modified gram-positive bacterial cells, designated g...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bosma T,Kanninga R,Neef J,Audouy SA,van Roosmalen ML,Steen A,Buist G,Kok J,Kuipers OP,Robillard G,Leenhouts K

更新日期：2006-01-01 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