Competition for Dimethyl Sulfide and Hydrogen Sulfide by Methylophaga sulfidovorans and Thiobacillus thioparus T5 in Continuous Cultures.

abstract：:A strain of the aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria was isolated from a deep-ocean hydrothermal vent plume environment. The in vivo absorption spectra of cells indicate the presence of bacteriochlorophyll a incorporated into light-harvesting complex I and a reaction center. The general morphological and physiol...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yurkov V,Beatty JT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixed population, enriched and established in a defined medium, from a sewage sludge inoculum was capable of complete mineralization of 4-chlorobenzoate. An organism, identified as Arthrobacter sp., was isolated from the consortium and shown to be capable of utilizing 4-chlorobenzoate as the sole carbon and energy s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marks TS,Smith AR,Quirk AV

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial plasmids are fragments of extrachromosomal double-stranded DNA that can contain a variety of genes that are beneficial to the host organism, like those responsible for antimicrobial resistance. The objective of this study was to characterize a collection of 437 Salmonella enterica isolates from different ani...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lindsey RL,Fedorka-Cray PJ,Frye JG,Meinersmann RJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of Pseudomonas pseudoflava to produce poly-beta-hydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from pentoses was studied. This organism was able to use a hydrolysate from the hemicellulosic fraction of poplar wood as a carbon and energy source for its growth. However, in batch cultures, growth was inhibited completely at hydr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bertrand JL,Ramsay BA,Ramsay JA,Chavarie C

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Shewanella decolorationis S12 to obtain energy for growth by coupling the oxidation of various electron donors to dissimilatory azoreduction was investigated. This microorganism can reduce a variety of azo dyes by use of formate, lactate, pyruvate, or H(2) as the electron donor. Furthermore, strain S12 ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hong Y,Xu M,Guo J,Xu Z,Chen X,Sun G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In growing cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, T-2 toxin inhibits cell growth. We have examined the role of the yeast membranes in the uptake mechanism(s) of T-2 toxin. The effects of membrane-modulating agents, ethanol, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, Triton X-100, and heat were studie...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schappert KT,Khachatourians GG

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：:Few techniques are currently available for quantifying specific prokaryotic taxa in environmental samples. Quantification of specific genotypes has relied mainly on oligonucleotide hybridization to extracted rRNA or intact rRNA in whole cells. However, low abundance and cellular rRNA content limit the application of t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Suzuki MT,Taylor LT,DeLong EF

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether microorganisms from the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated sediment in Woods Pond (Lenox, Mass.) could dehalogenate brominated biphenyls. The PCB dechlorination specificities for the microorganisms in this sediment have been well characterized. This allowed us to compare the deh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bedard DL,Van Dort HM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectral analysis of T-2 toxin formed during the growth of Fusarium sporotrichioides (ATCC 24043) in the presence of H(2)O showed incorporation of up to three O atoms per toxin molecule. The carbonyl oxygens of the acetates at C-4 and C-15 and of the isovalerate at C-8 were derived from H(2)O. Toxin formed in the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Desjardins AE,Plattner RD,Vanmiddlesworth F

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel agar medium, chromogenic Salmonella esterase (CSE) agar, for the differentiation of salmonellae is described. The agar contains peptones and nutrient extracts together with the following (grams per liter unless otherwise specified): 4-[2-(4-octanoyloxy-3, 5-dimethoxyphenyl)-vinyl]-quinolinium-1-(propan-3-yl ca...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cooke VM,Miles RJ,Price RG,Richardson AC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic eukaryotes are known to have important ecosystem functions, but their diversity in most environments remains vastly unexplored. Here we analyzed an 18S rRNA gene library from a subsurface iron- and sulfur-oxidizing microbial community growing in highly acidic (pH < 0.9) runoff within the Richmond Mine at I...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baker BJ,Tyson GW,Goosherst L,Banfield JF

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccase is a copper-containing polyphenol oxidase that has great potential in industrial and biotechnological applications. Previous research has suggested that fungal laccase may be involved in the defense against oxidative stress, but there is little direct evidence supporting this hypothesis, and the mechanism by w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yang Y,Fan F,Zhuo R,Ma F,Gong Y,Wan X,Jiang M,Zhang X

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practical task of adapting an original potentiometric technique to the bacteriological analysis of water is discussed. Various laboratory strains of organisms belonging to the usual aquatic flora were inoculated one by one in a minimal lactose broth supplied with lipoic (thioctic) acid. The time evolution of the r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Charriere G,Jouenne T,Lemeland JF,Selegny E,Junter GA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteric microbiota play a variety of roles in intestinal health and disease. While bacteria in the intestine have been broadly characterized, little is known about the abundance or diversity of enteric fungi. This study utilized a culture-independent method termed oligonucleotide fingerprinting of rRNA genes (OFRG) to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Scupham AJ,Presley LL,Wei B,Bent E,Griffith N,McPherson M,Zhu F,Oluwadara O,Rao N,Braun J,Borneman J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three predominant ruminal cellulolytic bacteria (Fibrobacter succinogenes S85, Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1, and Ruminococcus albus 7) were grown in different binary combinations to determine the outcome of competition in either cellulose-excess batch culture or in cellulose-limited continuous culture. Relative popu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shi Y,Odt CL,Weimer PJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Pseudomonas putida strain (MC4) that can utilize 2,3-dichloro-1-propanol (DCP) and several aliphatic haloacids and haloalcohols as sole carbon and energy source for growth was isolated from contaminated soil. Degradation of DCP was found to start with oxidation and concomitant dehalogenation catalyzed by a 72-kDa mo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Arif MI,Samin G,van Leeuwen JG,Oppentocht J,Janssen DB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorella stigmatophora LB 993 was grown in artificial seawater under controlled conditions. The production of cell wall polysaccharides attached to the cells and dissolved in the growth medium was monitored during algal growth. Preliminary characterization of the dissolved polysaccharides of C. stigmatophora and othe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kaplan D,Christiaen D,Arad SM

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prototrophic and growth factor-requiring strains of Alcaligenes spp. were used to study the effect of a protozoan, Tetrahymena pyriformis, on the degradation of p-aminobenzoate. The protozoan inhibited activity of the prototrophic bacterium by reducing its population size. For the growth factor-requiring strain of Alc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang TC,Chang MC,Alexander M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies from this laboratory have documented the presence of coliform bacteria emanating from wooden reservoirs containing finished drinking water. Coliforms were identified as Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter spp. In the present report, evidence is presented which suggests that the origin of these coli...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bagley ST,Seidler RJ,Talbot HW Jr,Morrow JE

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-1,3-galactosyl-N-acetylhexosamine phosphorylase (GalGlyNAcP) homolog gene was cloned from Vibrio vulnificus CMCP6. In synthetic reactions, the recombinant enzyme acted only with GlcNAc and GalNAc as acceptors in the presence of alpha-d-galactose-1-phosphate as a donor to form lacto-N-biose I (LNB) (Galbeta1 -->...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakajima M,Kitaoka M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Salmonella is recognized as one of the most significant enteric foodborne bacterial pathogens. In recent years, the resistance of pathogens to biocides and other environmental stresses, especially when they are embedded in biofilm structures, has led to the search for and development of novel antimicrobial s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karampoula F,Giaouris E,Deschamps J,Doulgeraki AI,Nychas GJ,Dubois-Brissonnet F

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternariol and alternariol methyl ether were tested in the Ames Salmonella typhimurium assay, and both were shown, with and without metabolic activation, to be nonmutagenic to strains TA98 and TA100. The finding of other investigators that alternariol methyl ether is weakly mutagenic to TA98 without metabolic activat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davis VM,Stack ME

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quick and simple protocol for long-term cryopreservation of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (anammox bacteria) was developed. After 29 weeks of preservation at -80°C, activity recovery for all tested cultures under at least one of the applied sets of preservation conditions was observed. Growth recovery was al...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heylen K,Ettwig K,Hu Z,Jetten M,Kartal B

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies causing Lyme borreliosis are mainly transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus. Since its discovery, B. burgdorferi has been the subject of many epidemiological studies to determine its prevalence and the distribution of the different genospecies in ticks. In the current study w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rauter C,Hartung T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubber-degrading activity was found in the extracellular culture medium of Xanthomonas sp. strain 35Y which was grown on natural rubber latex. Natural rubber in the latex state was degraded by the crude enzyme, and two fractions were separately observed by gel permeation chromatography of the reaction products. One fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsuchii A,Takeda K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the fermentation of sake, cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are exposed to high concentrations of ethanol, thereby damaging the cell membrane and functional proteins. L-proline protects yeast cells from damage caused by freezing or oxidative stress. In this study, we evaluated the role of intracellular L-prolin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takagi H,Takaoka M,Kawaguchi A,Kubo Y

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) have been increasingly isolated from veterinarians and companion animals. With a view to preventing the spread of MRSA and MRSP, we evaluated the occurrence and molecular characteristics of eac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishihara K,Shimokubo N,Sakagami A,Ueno H,Muramatsu Y,Kadosawa T,Yanagisawa C,Hanaki H,Nakajima C,Suzuki Y,Tamura Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against a microcystin (MCYST) leucine-arginine variant (MCYST-LR) were demonstrated 4 weeks after immunization of rabbits with either MCYST-LR-polylysine- or MCYST-LR-ethylenediamine-modified bovine serum albumin. A radioimmunoassay (RIA), a direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chu FS,Huang X,Wei RD,Carmichael WW

更新日期：1989-08-01 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