Multiphasic approach to study the bacterial ecology of fermented sausages inoculated with a commercial starter culture.

abstract：:In this study, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was combined with the genetic detection of six genetic markers, ansB, dmsA, ggt, cj1585c, cjj81176-1367/71 (cj1365c), and the two-gene marker tlp7 (cj0951c plus cj0952c), to assess if their presence correlated with different C. jejuni clonal groups. Using a collection o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zautner AE,Herrmann S,Corso J,Tareen AM,Alter T,Gross U

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial transformation of lapachol, a naturally occurring naphthoquinone, was carried out by Curvularia lunata (NRRL 2178). The fungus brings about oxidative cyclization of the substrate to dehydro-alpha-lapachone, which was isolated and characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectral analyses; its str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Otten S,Rosazza JP

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial succession on the skin of broiler chicken carcasses stored at 2 degrees C was traced, and the ability of representative isolates to produce off-odors was determined by using sterile leg and breast muscle sections. Off-odors were identified by olfactory and chemical means. The inability of peptone-iron ag...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Daud HB,McMeekin TA,Thomas CJ

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial blooms are potential health hazards in water supply reservoirs. This paper reports analyses of a cyanobacterial bloom by use of PCR-based methods for direct detection and identification of strains present and determination of their toxigenicity. Serial samples from Malpas Dam, in the New England region ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baker JA,Entsch B,Neilan BA,McKay DB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" 195 can reductively dechlorinate tetrachloroethene (PCE) completely to ethene (ETH). When PCE-grown strain 195 was transferred (2% [vol/vol] inoculum) into growth medium amended with trichloroethene (TCE), cis-dichloroethene (DCE), 1,1-DCE, or 1,2-dichloroethane (DCA) as an electron accep...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maymó-Gatell X,Anguish T,Zinder SH

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum, in addition to scavenging essential fatty acids from its intra- and intercellular environments, possesses a functional complement of type II fatty acid synthase (FAS) enzymes targeted to the apicoplast organelle. Recent evidence suggests that products of the plasmodial FAS II system may be criti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Du Y,Gisselberg JE,Johnson JD,Lee PJ,Prigge ST,Bachmann BO

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 247 clones of 16S rRNA genes from microorganisms captured by 0.2- and 0.1-microm-pore-size filters from sedimentary and granite rock aquifers were amplified and yielded 37 operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Fifteen OTUs captured by 0.1-microm-pore-size filters were affiliated with the candidate divisions O...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miyoshi T,Iwatsuki T,Naganuma T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A toluene-degrading methanogenic consortium enriched from creosote-contaminated aquifer material was maintained on toluene as the sole carbon and energy source for 10 years. The species in the consortium were characterized by using a molecular approach. Total genomic DNA was isolated, and 16S rRNA genes were amplified...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ficker M,Krastel K,Orlicky S,Edwards E

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the cloning and sequencing of the gene for proline dehydrogenase (putA) of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. An open reading frame coding for 1,016 amino acids was identified. The B. japonicum gene codes for a bifunctional protein with proline dehydrogenase and pyrroline-5-carboxylate (P5C) dehydrogenase activi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Straub PF,Reynolds PH,Althomsons S,Mett V,Zhu Y,Shearer G,Kohl DH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the continuous problems that Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes as food pathogen, this study assessed global gene regulation in bacteria growing on meat. Since FlhD/FlhC of E. coli K-12 laboratory strains was previously established as a major control point in transducing signals from the environment to seve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sule P,Horne SM,Logue CM,Prüss BM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant polyphenols are of great interest for drug discovery and drug development since many of these compounds have health-promoting activities as treatments against various diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, or heart diseases. However, the limited availability of polyphenols represents a major obstacle to clinical ap...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van Summeren-Wesenhagen PV,Marienhagen J

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Mycophenolic acid (MPA) is the active ingredient in the increasingly important immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals CellCept (Roche) and Myfortic (Novartis). Despite the long history of MPA, the molecular basis for its biosynthesis has remained enigmatic. Here we report the discovery of a polyketide synthase (PKS), MpaC,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Regueira TB,Kildegaard KR,Hansen BG,Mortensen UH,Hertweck C,Nielsen J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical analysis of the detachment of bacteria adhering to substratum surfaces upon the passage of an air-liquid interface is given, together with experimental results for bacterial detachment in the absence and presence of a conditioning film on different substratum surfaces. Bacteria (Streptococcus sobrinus HG...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gómez-Suárez C,Busscher HJ,van der Mei HC

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Aminoglutaric acid, a nonprotein amino acid isomer of glutamic acid, was found in the free amino acid pool of a marine bacterium, Alteromonas luteoviolacea. It was also found in a mixed culture of fermenting bacteria enriched from an anoxic marine sediment. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Henrichs SM,Cuhel R

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of tetracyclines found as residues in milk inhibited the biosynthesis of beta-galactosidase in Escherichia coli. To produce the same effect, other antibacterials had to occur in concentrations that were more than 10-fold higher. This relative selectivity was exploited for the development of a screening test...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： D'Haese E,Nelis HJ,Reybroeck W

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tractable model organisms are essential to characterize the molecular mechanisms of evolution and adaptation, the ecological relevance of their behavior is not always clear because certain traits are easily lost during long-term laboratory culturing. Here, we demonstrate that despite their long tenure in the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beer KD,Wurtmann EJ,Pinel N,Baliga NS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcosms capable of reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) were constructed in glass bottles by seeding them with a polluted river sediment and incubating them anaerobically with an organic medium. All of the PCDD/F congeners detected were equally reduced without the ac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yoshida N,Takahashi N,Hiraishi A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of sucrose monolaurate and a novel ester, lactose monolaurate (LML), were tested. Gram-positive bacteria were more susceptible than Gram-negative bacteria to both esters. The minimal bactericidal concentrations of LML were 5 to 9.5 mM for Listeria monocytogenes isolates and 0.2 to 2 mM for...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wagh A,Shen S,Shen FA,Miller CD,Walsh MK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae killer strains secrete a protein toxin active on nonkiller strains of the same (or other) yeast species. Different killer toxins, K1, K2, K28, and Klus, have been described. Each toxin is encoded by a medium-size (1.5- to 2.3-kb) M double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) located in the cytoplasm. M dsRNAs...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rodríguez-Cousiño N,Esteban R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven strains of an undescribed species of Clavispora fermented D-xylose directly to ethanol under aerobic conditions. Strain UWO(PS)83-877-1 was grown in a medium containing 2% D-xylose and 0.5% yeast extract, and the following results were obtained: ethanol yield coefficient (ethanol/D-xylose), 0.29 g g (57.4% of t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nigam JN,Margaritis A,Lachance MA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A toxic substance contained in the blue-green alga Microcystis aeruginosa was purified and partially characterized. Toxic algal cells were collected from a highly eutrophic lake in Japan, and the toxin was purified by homogenization, ultrafiltration, gel filtration, and ion-exchange chromatography. The final preparati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watanabe MF,Oishi S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of copper on the structure and physiology of freshwater biofilm microbial communities. For this purpose, biofilms that were grown during 4 weeks in a shallow, slightly polluted ditch were exposed, in aquaria in our laboratory, to a range of copper concentrations (0, 1, 3, and 10 microM). De...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Massieux B,Boivin ME,Van Den Ende FP,Langenskiöld J,Marvan P,Barranguet C,Admiraal W,Laanbroek HJ,Zwart G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To simulate growth conditions experienced by microbiota at O(inf2)-limited interfaces of organic matter in compost, an experimental system capable of maintaining dual limitations of oxygen and carbon for extended periods, i.e., a pO(inf2)-auxostat, has been used. (sup15)N tracer studies on thermophilic (53(deg)C) deco...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pel R,Oldenhuis R,Brand W,Vos A,Gottschal JC,Zwart KB

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences between the recombinant xylose-utilizing Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain TMB 3399 and the mutant strain TMB 3400, derived from TMB 3399 and displaying improved ability to utilize xylose, were investigated by using genome-wide expression analysis, physiological characterization, and biochemical assays. Samp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wahlbom CF,Cordero Otero RR,van Zyl WH,Hahn-Hägerdal B,Jönsson LJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 is a soil bacterium that suppresses plant pathogens due in part to its production of the antibiotic pyoluteorin. Previous characterization of Pf-5 revealed three global regulators, including the stationary-phase sigma factor sigma(S) and the two-component regulators GacA and GacS, that inf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Whistler CA,Stockwell VO,Loper JE

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of preexposure of soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) roots to Rhizobium japonicum strains and subsequent establishment of other strains in the nodules were investigated by using combinations of effective strains (USDA 110 and USDA 138) and effective-ineffective strains (USDA 110 and SM-5). Strain USDA 110 wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kosslak RM,Bohlool BB,Dowdle S,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of 35 Bacillus sphaericus strains was analyzed by a newly developed multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, toxin gene pool survey, and mosquito bioassay. The results demonstrated that strains assigned to the same sequence type (ST) had the same occurrence of toxin genes. Further sequence analy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ge Y,Hu X,Zheng D,Wu Y,Yuan Z

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facultative endosymbionts can benefit insect hosts in a variety of ways, including context-dependent roles, such as providing defense against pathogens. The role of some symbionts in defense may be overlooked, however, when pathogen infection is transient, sporadic, or asymptomatic. The facultative endosymbiont Ricket...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hendry TA,Hunter MS,Baltrus DA

更新日期：2014-12-01 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