The locus coding for the 3-nitrobenzoate dioxygenase of Comamonas sp. strain JS46 is flanked by IS1071 elements and is subject to deletion and inversion events.

abstract：:Microbial mercury methylation and methylmercury decomposition were examined in Lake Clara, an oligotrophic northern Wisconsin seepage lake, using radioisotopic tracers. Methylation activity was near background in the water column, was greatest in the profundal surficial sediments, and decreased with depth in sediment ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Korthals ET,Winfrey MR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunolatex reagent was developed from antiserum to Fusobacterium varium, an obligate anaerobe isolated from the colon of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana L. A new technique that enabled the preparation of a highly efficient immunolatex conjugate was used to localize the bacterium with scanning electron microsc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bracke JW,Markovetz AJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The l-isoaspartyl protein carboxyl methyltransferase (PCM) repairs protein damage resulting from spontaneous conversion of aspartyl or asparaginyl residues to isoaspartate and increases long-term stationary-phase survival of Escherichia coli under stress. In the course of studies intended to examine PCM func...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： VandenBerg KE,Ahn S,Visick JE

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-insoluble metal sulfides FeS2, MoS2, and WS2 are chemically attacked by iron(III) hexahydrate ions, generating thiosulfate, which is oxidized to sulfuric acid. Other metal sulfides are attacked by iron(III) ions and by protons, resulting in the formation of elemental sulfur via intermediary polysulfides. Sulf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schippers A,Sand W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two Helicobacter isolates were isolated from swine feces in The Netherlands and Denmark. All 12 isolates sequenced (16S rRNA gene) formed a robust clade with Helicobacter canadensis ( approximately 99% similarity). Species-specific PCR indicated that all of the isolates were H. canadensis isolates. Although the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inglis GD,McConville M,de Jong A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to hops is a prerequisite for the capability of lactic acid bacteria to grow in beer and thus cause beer spoilage. Bactericidal hop compounds, mainly iso-alpha-acids, are described as ionophores which exchange H+ for cellular divalent cations, e.g., Mn2+, and thus dissipate ion gradients across the cytoplas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Behr J,Israel L,Gänzle MG,Vogel RF

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2006, Geomyces destructans, the causative agent of white nose syndrome (WNS), has killed over 5.7 million bats in North America. The current hypothesis suggests that this novel fungus is an invasive species from Europe, but little is known about the diversity within the genus Geomyces and its distribution on bat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johnson LJ,Miller AN,McCleery RA,McClanahan R,Kath JA,Lueschow S,Porras-Alfaro A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1301 in vol. 50.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic incubation of membrane filter cultures significantly enhanced detection of fecal coliforms in surface-water samples from recreational beaches. In contrast to standard aerobic incubation, anaerobic incubation suppressed overgrowth of masking, noncoliform bacteria but did not increase the frequency of fecal co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Doyle JD,Tunnicliff B,Brickler SK,Kramer RE,Sinclair NA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of a system developed for the recovery of viruses contaminating large quantities of vegetables was investigated in the laboratory and tested in the field. Viruses seeded onto a number of leafy vegetables in the laboratory were eluted with a phosphate-buffered saline solution (pH 9.0). The eluate was cla...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ward BK,Chenoweth CM,Irving LG

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biologically active metabolite was found in crude extracts of Curvularia lunata (Wakker) Boedijn (ATCC 34690) isolated from decayed tissues of litchi fruit (Litchi chinensis Sonn.). The fungus was grown on a shredded wheat-yeast extract-sucrose medium, and cultures were extracted with chloroform after 3 weeks of gro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wells JM,Cole RJ,Cutler HC,Spalding DH

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anaerobic, cellulose-degrading, gram-negative rod and a gram-positive coccus, identified as Bacteroides succinogenes and Ruminococcus flavefaciens, respectively, were isolated from pig fecal samples. These organisms were isolated from cellulolytic most-probable-number dilutions which represented 4 or 6% of the viab...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Varel VH,Fryda SJ,Robinson IM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selective and differential growth medium was developed for detection of Clostridium botulinum types A, B, and F. The medium consisted of peptone-glucose-yeast extract agar supplemented with cycloserine, 250 micrograms/ml; sulfamethoxazole, 76 micrograms/ml; and trimethoprim, 4 micrograms/ml as selective inhibitors a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Silas JC,Carpenter JA,Hamdy MK,Harrison MA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic and "fingerprinting" analyses of the 16S rRNA genes of prokaryotes have been a mainstay of microbial ecology during the last two decades. However, many methods and results from studies that rely on the 16S rRNA gene for detection and quantification of specific microbial taxa have seemingly received only c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morales SE,Holben WE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Techniques and media for the production and regeneration of stable Clostridium acetobutylicum protoplasts are described. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Allcock ER,Reid SJ,Jones DT,Woods DR

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the anaerobic biodegradation of 3-chlorobenzoate (3CBz) by microorganisms from an aquifer where chloroaromatic compounds were previously found to resist decay in the presence of sulfate. After a lengthy lag period, 3CBz was degraded in the presence of sulfate and concurrently with sulfate reduction. Ch...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Townsend GT,Ramanand K,Suflita JM

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to study the biodegradation and oxidative biodehalogenation of fluorinated phenols by 19F nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Characterization of the 19F NMR spectra of metabolite profiles of a series of fluorophenols, converted by purified phenol hydroxylase, catechol 1,2-dioxygenase, and/or by t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boersma MG,Dinarieva TY,Middelhoven WJ,van Berkel WJ,Doran J,Vervoort J,Rietjens IM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses (NoV) annually cause millions of cases of gastrointestinal disease in the United States. NoV are associated with raw shellfish outbreaks, particularly oysters, which are thought to bioaccumulate NoV particles during the filter-feeding process. NoV outbreaks, however, have also been known to occur from othe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gandhi KM,Mandrell RE,Tian P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new membrane filter agar medium (MI agar) containing a chromogen, indoxyl-beta-D-glucuronide, and a fluorogen, 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside, was developed to simultaneously detect and enumerate Escherichia coli and total coliforms (TC) in water samples on the basis of their enzyme activities. TC pro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brenner KP,Rankin CC,Roybal YR,Stelma GN Jr,Scarpino PV,Dufour AP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusive penetration of fluorescently tagged macromolecular solutes into model oral biofilms was visualized by time-lapse microscopy. All of the solutes tested, including dextrans, proteases, green fluorescent protein, and immunoglobulin G, accessed the interior of cell clusters 100 to 200 microm in diameter with...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takenaka S,Pitts B,Trivedi HM,Stewart PS

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens is able to produce the medically and industrially important exopolysaccharide alginate. The proteins involved in alginate biosynthesis and secretion form a multiprotein complex spanning the inner and outer membranes. In the present study, we developed a method by which the porin AlgE was detect...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maleki S,Almaas E,Zotchev S,Valla S,Ertesvåg H

更新日期：2015-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released by infected individuals or present in human and hospital wastes can potentially cause contamination problems. The presence of HIV-1 was investigated in 16 environmental samples, including raw wastewater, sludge, final effluent, soil, and pond water, collected fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ansari SA,Farrah SR,Chaudhry GR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture-independent (PCR with Crenarchaeota-specific primers and subsequent denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis) and culture-dependent approaches were used to study the diversity of Crenarchaeota in terrestrial hot springs of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Lake Baikal region (Russia) and of Iceland. Among the phy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Perevalova AA,Kolganova TV,Birkeland NK,Schleper C,Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA,Lebedinsky AV

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one urease-positive thermophilic Campylobacter (UPTC) isolates, including three reference strains (NCTC12892, NCTC12895 and NCTC12896), and three Campylobacter lari isolates, which were isolated from several countries and sources, were compared genotypically by using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE). We...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matsuda M,Kaneko A,Stanley T,Millar BC,Miyajima M,Murphy PG,Moore JE

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruminococcus albus 8 is a ruminal bacterium capable of metabolizing hemicellulose and cellulose, the major components of the plant cell wall. The enzymes that allow this bacterium to capture energy from the two polysaccharides, therefore, have potential application in plant cell wall depolymerization, a process critic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moon YH,Iakiviak M,Bauer S,Mackie RI,Cann IK

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high risk associated with biological threat agents dictates that any suspicious sample be handled under strict surety and safety controls and processed under high-level containment in specialized laboratories. This study attempted to find a rapid, reliable, and simple method for the complete inactivation of a wide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sagripanti JL,Hülseweh B,Grote G,Voss L,Böhling K,Marschall HJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we investigated the antibacterial properties of differently shaped silver nanoparticles against the gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli, both in liquid systems and on agar plates. Energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy images revealed considerable changes in the cell membranes upon treatme...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pal S,Tak YK,Song JM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report a novel method to produce microencapsulated enzymes using Saccharomyces cerevisiae spores. In sporulating cells, soluble secreted proteins are transported to the spore wall. Previous work has shown that the spore wall is capable of retaining soluble proteins because its outer layers work as a diffusion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shi L,Li Z,Tachikawa H,Gao XD,Nakanishi H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the role of the regulatory gene aflR and its product, AflR, in the biosynthesis of aflatoxin in Aspergillus. Western blot and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay analyses revealed that aflatoxin B1 accumulation was directly related to AflR expression and was regulated by various environmental and nutritional ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu BH,Chu FS

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic and facultatively anaerobic bacteria isolated from false-positive, presumptive, total coliform, most-probable-number tests of Chesapeake Bay oyster, water, and sediment samples were characterized and then classified by numerical taxonomy. A total of 538 bacterial strains clustered into 17 phena, the predominan...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hussong D,Damaré JM,Weiner RM,Colwell RR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00