Using DNA microarrays to identify library-independent markers for bacterial source tracking.

abstract：:Bacteria able to perform dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium were isolated from low-oxygen masses in the Baltic Sea. In liquid media enriched with NO(3) and incubated anaerobically, the NH(4)-producing isolates transformed 25 to 72% of the NO(3) to NH(4). ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Samuelsson MO,Rönner U

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila was detected and identified by an immunoblot assay using a monoclonal antibody specific to serogroups 1 to 8. Samples containing L. pneumophila were plated on buffered charcoal yeast extract agar supplemented with glycine, vancomycin, and polymyxin B. After incubation at 35 degrees C for 3 days,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bérubé A,Trudel M,Payment P

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to extensive studies of phosphorus, widely considered the main nutrient limiting phytoplankton biomass in freshwater ecosystems, there have been few studies on the role of nitrogen in controlling phytoplankton populations. This situation may be due partly to the complexity in estimating its utilization and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gillor O,Harush A,Hadas O,Post AF,Belkin S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid profiles, modified essential amino acid (MEAA) indexes, and in vitro pepsin digestibilities were determined for single-cell protein (SCP) from certain industrially important lactobacilli. For the three parameters examined, substantial differences were seen between different Lactobacillus species and bet...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Erdman MD,Bergen WG,Reddy CA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertional mutagenesis with pGhost9::ISS1 resulted in independent insertions in a 350-bp region of the chromosome of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363 that conferred phage resistance to the integrants. The orientation and location of the insertions suggested that the phage resistance phenotype was caused by a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haaber J,Moineau S,Fortier LC,Hammer K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using scanning electron microscopy, we observed sucker-like structures on amoebae of 13 human isolates of Naegleria fowleri. The number of suckers per amoeba seemed to vary according to the virulence of the strain. We propose the term amoebastome to describe this unique sucker-like structure of N. fowleri. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： John DT,Cole TB Jr,Marciano-Cabral FM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant (furA3) was isolated from the S1 wild-type strain of Nectria haematococca on the basis of its resistance to 5-fluorouracil (5FU). This mutant has greatly reduced activity of uracil phosphoribosyltransferase, a pyrimidine salvage enzyme catalyzing the synthesis of UMP from uracil. The metabolism of 5FU was exa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Parisot D,Malet-Martino MC,Crasnier P,Martino R

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colletotrichum trifolii is the causative organism of alfalfa anthracnose. We previously cloned and characterized the small prototypical G protein, Ras, of C. trifolii, which is involved in the signaling pathways that mediate interaction between the pathogen and its host. Transformants expressing constitutively active ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Memmott SD,Ha YS,Dickman MB

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pAM beta 1, a 26.5-kilobase plasmid originally isolated from Streptococcus faecalis, was conjugally transferred from Streptococcus lactis to Bacillus subtilis. No conjugal transfer of pAM beta 1 from B. subtilis to S. lactis was observed. In addition, pAM beta 1 which had been reintroduced in S. lactis after cycling t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Lelie D,Venema G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is of significant public health importance as a vector of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis. The timing of seasonal activity of each immature I. scapularis life stage relative to the next is critical for the maintenance of B. burgdorferi because larvae must fe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gatewood AG,Liebman KA,Vourc'h G,Bunikis J,Hamer SA,Cortinas R,Melton F,Cislo P,Kitron U,Tsao J,Barbour AG,Fish D,Diuk-Wasser MA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anoxic sediments from Rotsee (Switzerland) were analyzed for the presence and diversity of methanogens by using molecular tools and for methanogenic activity by using radiotracer techniques, in addition to the measurement of chemical profiles. After PCR-assisted sequence retrieval of the 16S rRNA genes (16S rDNA) from...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zepp Falz K,Holliger C,Grosskopf R,Liesack W,Nozhevnikova AN,Müller B,Wehrli B,Hahn D

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergosterol is a membrane component specific to fungi that can be used to estimate fungal biomass using appropriate factors of conversion. Our objectives were to determine the limits of use of ergosterol content as a measure of biomass for aquatic hyphomycetes, and to evaluate a previously established ergosterol-to-bio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Charcosset JY,Chauvet E

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare strain of Clostridium botulinum subtype Ab was isolated from a canned macrobiotic food suspected of being linked to a fatal case of food-borne botulism. The strain was recovered and identified by conventional methods modified by the inclusion of a PCR assay (G. Franciosa, J.L. Ferreira, and C.L. Hatheway, J. Cl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Franciosa G,Fenicia L,Pourshaban M,Aureli P

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain capable of growing on propachlor (2-chloro-N-isopropylacetanilide) was isolated from soil by using enrichment and isolation techniques. The strain isolated, designated GCH1, was classified as a member of the genus Pseudomonas. Washed-cell suspensions of strain GCH1 accumulated N-isopropylacetanilide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Martín M,Mengs G,Plaza E,Garbi C,Sánchez M,Gibello A,Gutierrez F,Ferrer E

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been shown that the tomato pathogen Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis secretes a 14-kDa protein, C. michiganensis subsp. michiganensis AMP-I (CmmAMP-I), that inhibits growth of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus, the causal agent of bacterial ring rot of potato. Using sequences...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu Z,Ma P,Holtsmark I,Skaugen M,Eijsink VG,Brurberg MB

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater lakes harbor complex microbial communities, but these ecosystems are often dominated by acI Actinobacteria Members of this cosmopolitan lineage are proposed to bolster heterotrophic growth using phototrophy because their genomes encode actino-opsins (actR). This model has been difficult to validate experime...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dwulit-Smith JR,Hamilton JJ,Stevenson DM,He S,Oyserman BO,Moya-Flores F,Garcia SL,Amador-Noguez D,McMahon KD,Forest KT

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Alteromonas sp. strain O-7 secretes several proteins in addition to chitinolytic enzymes in response to chitin induction. In this paper, we report that one of these proteins, designated MprIII, is a metalloprotease involved in the chitin degradation system of the strain. The gene encoding MprIII was cloned in Escheric...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miyamoto K,Nukui E,Hirose M,Nagai F,Sato T,Inamori Y,Tsujibo H

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VanA-type human (n=69), animal (n=49), and food (n=36) glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE) from different geographic areas were investigated to study their possible reservoirs and transmission routes. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) revealed two small genetically related clusters, M39 (n=4) and M49 (n=13)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biavasco F,Foglia G,Paoletti C,Zandri G,Magi G,Guaglianone E,Sundsfjord A,Pruzzo C,Donelli G,Facinelli B

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteria that cause necrotizing hepatopancreatitis in Penaeus vannamei adversely affect penaeid shrimp cultured in the western hemisphere. 16S rRNA and gyrase B gene analyses determined the taxonomic position of these bacteria. The name "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei" is proposed for these pathogenic bacteria, wh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nunan LM,Pantoja CR,Gomez-Jimenez S,Lightner DV

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When carbon sources are changed, Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcriptional patterns drastically change. To identify genes whose transcription can be used to quantitatively measure sugar concentrations, we searched genomic expression databases for a set of genes that are highly induced during the diauxic shift, and we u...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chambers P,Issaka A,Palecek SP

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Florfenicol resistance was analyzed in 230 enteric pig isolates collected between 1998 and 2006. PCR, plasmid profiling, Southern blot hybridization, and a mixed-broth conjugation assay suggested the intra- and interspecies plasmid-mediated transfer of florfenicol resistance among the isolates that exhibited MICs for ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rayamajhi N,Cha SB,Kang ML,Lee SI,Lee HS,Yoo HS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes may influence pollutant degradation processes in groundwater ecosystems by activities such as predation on bacteria and recycling of nutrients. Culture-independent community profiling and phylogenetic analysis of 18S rRNA gene fragments, as well as culturing, were employed to obtain insight into the sedimen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brad T,Braster M,van Breukelen BM,van Straalen NM,Röling WF

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ever-increasing industrial demand for biocatalysis necessitates innovations in the preparation and stabilization of biocatalysts. In this study, we demonstrated that beta-galactosidase (beta-Gal) displayed on Bacillus spores by fusion to the spore coat proteins (CotG) may be used as a whole-cell immobilized biocat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kwon SJ,Jung HC,Pan JG

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plankton to which cells of Vibrio cholerae O1 and/or O139 were attached was introduced into 0.5% Instant Ocean microcosms maintained at 25 degrees C. The bulk of the plankton and associated particulates was removed with a filter constructed from either nylon net and one of several different types of sari material, the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huq A,Xu B,Chowdhury MA,Islam MS,Montilla R,Colwell RR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance food safety and stability, the food industry tends to use natural antimicrobials such as plant-derived compounds as an attractive alternative to chemical preservatives. Nonetheless, caution must be exercised in light of the potential for bacterial adaptation to these molecules, a phenomenon previously obser...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dubois-Brissonnet F,Naïtali M,Mafu AA,Briandet R

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrobaculum islandicum uses iron, thiosulfate, and elemental sulfur for anaerobic respiration, while Pyrobaculum aerophilum uses iron and nitrate; however, the constraints on these processes and their physiological mechanisms for iron and sulfur reduction are not well understood. Growth rates on sulfur compounds are h...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Feinberg LF,Srikanth R,Vachet RW,Holden JF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in combination with the partial least squares (PLS) multivariative statistical technique was used for quantitative analysis of the poly(beta-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) contents of bacterial cells. A total of 237 replicate spectra from 34 samples were obtained together with ga...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kansiz M,Billman-Jacobe H,McNaughton D

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrification in chloraminated drinking water can have a number of adverse effects on water quality, including a loss of total chlorine and ammonia-N and an increase in the concentration of heterotrophic plate count bacteria and nitrite. To understand how nitrification develops, a study was conducted to examine the fa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wolfe RL,Lieu NI,Izaguirre G,Means EG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Media used to determine the MICs of heavy metals for bacteria are unreliable because organic components in the media bind or chelate most of the metal being studied. To define specific metal activity in media and to maintain metal activity at a constant level, HEPES-MES [N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N' -2-ethanesulfonic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Angle JS,Chaney RL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00