Methanogenic transformation of methylfurfural compounds to furfural.

abstract：:Salivaricin A (SalA), the first Streptococcus salivarius lantibiotic to be characterized, appears to be inhibitory to most Streptococcus pyogenes strains. A variant of the SalA structural gene (salA1) is present in more than 90% of S. pyogenes strains, but only strains of M serotype 4 and T pattern 4 produce the biolo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wescombe PA,Upton M,Dierksen KP,Ragland NL,Sivabalan S,Wirawan RE,Inglis MA,Moore CJ,Walker GV,Chilcott CN,Jenkinson HF,Tagg JR

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus thermophilus is a facultative anaerobic bacterium that has the ability to grow and survive in aerobic environments, but the mechanism for this remains unclear. In this study, the efeB gene, encoding a dye-decolorizing peroxidase, was identified in the genome of Streptococcus thermophilus CGMCC 7.179, and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang C,Xin Y,Wang Y,Guo T,Lu S,Kong J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli offers unparalleled engineering capacity in the context of heterologous natural product biosynthesis. However, as with other heterologous hosts, cellular metabolism must be designed or redesigned to support final compound formation. This task is at once complicated and aided by the fact that the cell ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang M,Stephanopoulos G,Pfeifer BA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxin B produced by Staphylococus aureus 243 in brain heart infusion broth was concentrated by dialysis against 40% polyethylene glycol (20 M), partially purified on a Sephadex G-100 column and heated at 110 degrees C in thermal death time cans. Various heating menstrua included 0.04 M Veronal buffer (pH 7.4), b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee IC,Stevenson KE,Harmon LG

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar populations of hypochlorite-treated spores were enumerated from two crops of Clostridium botulinum 12885A produced by the same procedure; however, germination required different L-alanine concentrations. Lactate permitted the germination of spores from both crops with suboptimal L-alanine concentrations. The d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Foegeding PM,Busta FF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruminal fluid from sheep fed hay plus concentrate diets containing 1.8% urea, 6% casein, or 6% egg albumin had proteolytic activities of 4.12, 3.02, or 4.00 mg of [14C]casein hydrolyzed ml-1 h-1, respectively. Dietary albumin had no effect on the rate of albumin breakdown relative to that of casein (0.06). Greater num...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wallace RJ,Broderick GA,Brammall ML

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic matter in sewage, soil, and aquatic systems may enhance or inhibit the infectivity of viruses associated with particulates (e.g., clay minerals, sediments). The purpose of this investigation was to identify the mechanisms whereby organic matter, in the form of defined proteins, affects the adsorption of reovir...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lipson SM,Stotzky G

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh produce is known to carry nonpathogenic epiphytic microorganisms. During agricultural production and harvesting, leafy greens can become contaminated with antibiotic-resistant pathogens or commensals from animal and human sources. As lettuce does not undergo any inactivation or preservation treatment during proc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Holvoet K,Sampers I,Callens B,Dewulf J,Uyttendaele M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of plasmids in chemically stressed bacterial populations was investigated by individually adding various concentration of kanamycin, ampicillin, and mercuric chloride to soil samples. Viable bacterial populations were enumerated, soil respiration was monitored for up to 6 weeks as an indicator of physiol...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wickham GS,Atlas RM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium-botulinum type A and type B spores were stored in tomato juice (pH 4.2) and citric acid-phosphate buffer (pH 4.2) at 4, 22, and 32 degrees C for 180 days. The spore count was determined at different intervals over the 180-day storage period. There was no significant decrease in the number of type A spores ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odlaug TE,Pflug IJ

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae is a reemerging pathogen which causes bacterial canker of kiwifruit (Actinidia sp.). Since 2008, a global outbreak of P. syringae pv. actinidiae has occurred, and in 2010 this pathogen was detected in New Zealand. The economic impact and the development of resistance in P. syringae ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Frampton RA,Taylor C,Holguín Moreno AV,Visnovsky SB,Petty NK,Pitman AR,Fineran PC

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of lactic acid bacteria, isolated from plant surfaces and plant-associated products, were found to be antagonistic to test strains of the phytopathogens Xanthomonas campestris, Erwinia carotovora, and Pseudomonas syringae. Effective "in vitro" inhibition was found both on agar plates and in broth cultures. I...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Visser R,Holzapfel WH,Bezuidenhout JJ,Kotzé JM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus iniae is a major pathogen of fish, producing fatal disease among fish species living in very diverse environments. Recently, reoccurrences of disease outbreaks were recorded in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Walbaum) farms where the entire fish population was routinely vaccinated. New strains are di...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eyngor M,Tekoah Y,Shapira R,Hurvitz A,Zlotkin A,Lublin A,Eldar A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rep-PCR DNA fingerprint technique, which uses repetitive intergenic DNA sequences, was investigated as a way to differentiate between human and animal sources of fecal pollution. BOX and REP primers were used to generate DNA fingerprints from Escherichia coli strains isolated from human and animal sources (geese, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dombek PE,Johnson LK,Zimmerley ST,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difluoromethane (HFC-32; DFM) is compared to acetylene and methyl fluoride as an inhibitor of methanotrophy in cultures and soils. DFM was found to be a reversible inhibitor of CH4 oxidation by Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath). Consumption of CH4 in soil was blocked by additions of low levels of DFM (0.03 kPa), and thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miller LG,Sasson C,Oremland RS

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfitobacterium frappieri PCP-1 was induced for ortho- and para-dechlorinating activities by different chlorophenols. Dehalogenation rates ranging from 25 to 1,158 nmol/min/mg of cell protein were observed according to the chlorophenol tested and the position of the chlorine removed. D. frappieri shows a broad subs...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dennie D,Gladu I I,Lepine F,Villemur R,Bisaillon J,Beaudet R

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory-scale soil microcosms containing different soils were permeated with CH(inf4) for up to 6 months to investigate their capacity to develop a methanotrophic community. Methane emissions were monitored continuously until steady states were established. The porous, coarse sand soil developed the greatest methan...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kightley D,Nedwell DB,Cooper M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrification, the aerobic oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, has been suggested to have been a central part of the global biogeochemical nitrogen cycle since the oxygenation of Earth. The cultivation of several ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) as well as the discovery that archaeal ammonia monooxygenase (amo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hatzenpichler R

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotransformation of 2-chlorophenol by a methanogenic sediment community resulted in the transient accumulation of phenol and benzoate. 3-Chlorobenzoate was a more persistent product of 2-chlorophenol metabolism. The anaerobic biotransformation of phenol to benzoate presumably occurred via para-carboxylation and dehyd...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Becker JG,Stahl DA,Rittmann BE

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：:Low and high levels of resistance to the benzimidazole fungicides benomyl and thiophanate-methyl were observed in field isolates of Monilinia fructicola, which is the causative agent of brown rot of stone fruit. Isolates that had low levels of resistance (hereafter referred to as LR isolates) and high levels of resist...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ma Z,Yoshimura MA,Michailides TJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are a major component of the intestinal microbiota in humans, particularly breast-fed infants. Therefore, elucidation of the mechanisms by which these bacteria colonize the intestine is desired. One approach is transposon mutagenesis, a technique currently attracting much attention because, in combinati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sakanaka M,Nakakawaji S,Nakajima S,Fukiya S,Abe A,Saburi W,Mori H,Yokota A

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporulation of Clostridium botulinum 113B in a complex medium supplemented with certain transition metals (Fe, Mn, Cu, or Zn) at 0.01 to 1.0 mM gave spores that were increased two to sevenfold in their contents of the added metals. The contents of calcium, magnesium, and other metals in the purified spores were relati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kihm DJ,Hutton MT,Hanlin JH,Johnson EA

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae causes swine erysipelas, an important infectious disease in the swine industry. In Japan, the incidence of acute swine erysipelas due to E. rhusiopathiae serovar 1a has recently increased markedly. To study the genetic relatedness of the strains from the recent cases, we analyzed 34 E. rhu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ogawa Y,Shiraiwa K,Ogura Y,Ooka T,Nishikawa S,Eguchi M,Hayashi T,Shimoji Y

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the harmful side effects on indigenous soil microorganisms of two organic solvents, acetone and dichloromethane, that are normally used for spiking of soil with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for experimental purposes. The solvents were applied in two contamination protocols to either the whole soil samp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brinch UC,Ekelund F,Jacobsen CS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pathway was metabolically engineered to produce poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), a biodegradable thermoplastic with proven commercial applications, from a single, unrelated carbon source. An expression system was developed in which a prpC strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, with a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aldor IS,Kim SW,Prather KL,Keasling JD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the in situ spatial organization of ammonia-oxidizing and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in domestic wastewater biofilms and autotrophic nitrifying biofilms by using microsensors and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) performed with 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes. The combination of these t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Okabe S,Satoh H,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization of crushed Lotus pedunculatus root nodules with P-labeled total genomic DNA probes was used to identify Rhizobium loti and Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lotus rhizobia). Probes always hybridized with homologous target DNA and frequently with DNAs of other strains from the same genus. Intergeneric hybridization did...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cooper JE,Bjourson AJ,Thompson JK

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biofilm-forming strain of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), isolated from a naturally occurring mixed biofilm and identified by 16S rDNA analysis as a strain of Desulfomicrobium norvegicum, rapidly removed 200 micro M selenite from solution during growth on lactate and sulfate. Elemental selenium and elemental sulfur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hockin SL,Gadd GM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of six genes that encode enzymes from glutamate-fermenting bacteria converted Escherichia coli into a glutaconate producer when grown anaerobically on a complex medium. The new anaerobic pathway starts with 2-oxoglutarate from general metabolism and proceeds via (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate, (R)-2-hydroxyglutar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Djurdjevic I,Zelder O,Buckel W

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00