The lantibiotic mersacidin is an autoinducing peptide.

abstract：:Submicronic particles released from fungal cultures have been suggested to be additional sources of personal exposure in mold-contaminated buildings. In vitro generation of these particles has been studied with particle counters, eventually supplemented by autofluorescence, that recognize fragments by size and discrim...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Afanou KA,Straumfors A,Skogstad A,Nilsen T,Synnes O,Skaar I,Hjeljord L,Tronsmo A,Green BJ,Eduard W

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and specific method for detection of Listeria monocytogenes in milk and ground-beef samples is described. It consists of culturing samples in listeria enrichment broth (LEB) and subculturing them from LEB to listeria plating media, followed by DNA extraction and species-specific detection of the organism b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thomas EJ,King RK,Burchak J,Gannon VP

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Salmonella enterica can produce life-threatening colitis in horses, certain serotypes are more commonly associated with clinical disease. Our aim was to evaluate the proportional morbidity attributed to different serotypes, as well as the phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of Salmonella i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leon IM,Lawhon SD,Norman KN,Threadgill DS,Ohta N,Vinasco J,Scott HM

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The ABC transporter (TliDEF) from Pseudomonas fluorescens SIK W1, which mediated the secretion of a thermostable lipase (TliA) into the extracellular space in Escherichia coli, was engineered using directed evolution (error-prone PCR) to improve its secretion efficiency. TliD mutants with increased secretion efficienc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eom GT,Song JK,Ahn JH,Seo YS,Rhee JS

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most strains of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens are known to produce extracellular polysaccharides (EPs). However, the rheological and functional properties of these EPs have not been determined. Initially, 26 strains of Butyrivibrio were screened for EP yield and apparent viscosities of cell-free supernatants. Yields range...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ha YW,Stack RJ,Hespell RB,Gordon SH,Bothast RJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG is a lactic acid bacterium widely marketed by the food industry. Its genomic analysis led to the identification of a gene cluster encoding mucus-binding SpaCBA pili, which is located in a genomic island enriched in insertion sequence (IS) elements. In the present study, we analyzed...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Douillard FP,Ribbera A,Xiao K,Ritari J,Rasinkangas P,Paulin L,Palva A,Hao Y,de Vos WM

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a sintered glass bead core to simulate the spaces and surfaces of reservoir rock in studies of the bacterial plugging phenomenon that affects waterflood oil recovery operations. The passage of pure or mixed natural populations of bacteria through this solid matrix was initially seen to promote the formati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shaw JC,Bramhill B,Wardlaw NC,Costerton JW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The doses of UV irradiation necessary to inactivate selected enteric viruses on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Contaminant Candidate List were determined. Three-log reductions of echovirus 1, echovirus 11, coxsackievirus B3, coxsackievirus B5, poliovirus 1, and human adenovirus type 2 were effected by doses ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gerba CP,Gramos DM,Nwachuku N

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Surfaces made of copper or its alloys have strong antimicrobial properties against a wide variety of microorganisms. However, the molecular mode of action responsible for the antimicrobial efficacy of metallic copper is not known. Here, we show that dry copper surfaces inactivate Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quaranta D,Krans T,Espírito Santo C,Elowsky CG,Domaille DW,Chang CJ,Grass G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen branching enzymes (GBE) or 1,4-alpha-glucan branching enzymes (EC 2.4.1.18) introduce alpha-1,6 branching points in alpha-glucans, e.g., glycogen. To identify structural features in GBEs that determine their branching pattern specificity, the Deinococcus geothermalis and Deinococcus radiodurans GBE (GBE(Dg) a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Palomo M,Kralj S,van der Maarel MJ,Dijkhuizen L

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Lysostaphin (Lst) is a potent bacteriolytic enzyme that kills Staphylococcus aureus, a common bacterial pathogen of humans and animals. With high activity against both planktonic cells and biofilms, Lst has the potential to be used in industrial products, such as commercial cleansers, for decontamination. However, Lst...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wu X,Kwon SJ,Kim D,Zha J,Mora-Pale M,Dordick JS

更新日期：2018-07-02 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：:Two different Cd(2+) uptake systems were identified in Lactobacillus plantarum. One is a high-affinity, high-velocity Mn(2+) uptake system which also takes up Cd(2+) and is induced by Mn(2+) starvation. The calculated K(m) and V(max) are 0.26 microM and 3.6 micromol g of dry cell(-1) min(-1), respectively. Unlike Mn(2...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hao Z,Reiske HR,Wilson DB

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of antibiotic production on rhizosphere microbial communities of field-grown Phaseolus vulgaris were assessed by using ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis. Inoculum strains of Rhizobium etli CE3 differing only in trifolitoxin production were used. Trifolitoxin production dramatically reduced the diversity...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robleto EA,Borneman J,Triplett EW

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fixed-bed loop, high-rate anaerobic bioreactor treating sulfite evaporator condensate was sampled when it reached steady state and afterwards following perturbations during a 14-month period. By using immunotechnology, it was observed that shifts in methanogenic subpopulations occurred in association with perturbati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macario AJ,Conway de Macario E,Ney U,Schoberth SM,Sahm H

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progesterone was converted to 5alpha-pregnane-3alpha-ol-20-one, delta4-pregnene-20alpha-ol-3-one, delta4-pregnene-14alpha-ol-3,20-dione, delta4-pregnene-7beta,14alpha-diol-3,20-dione, and delta4-pregnene-6beta,11alpha-diol-3,20-dione by cell cultures of Lycopersicon esculentum. Cell cultures of Capsicum frutescens (gr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yagen B,Gallili GE,Mateles RI

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental studies of the human-pathogenic bacterium Campylobacter jejuni have focused on linking distributions with potential sources. However, in aquatic ecosystems, the abundance of C. jejuni may also be regulated by predation. We examine the potential for grazing by the freshwater planktonic crustacean Daphnia ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schallenberg M,Bremer PJ,Henkel S,Launhardt A,Burns CW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exudates from Streptomyces griseoflavus Tü 2484 effectively mediated electron transfer between hydrogen sulfide and various nitrobenzenes. In general, pseudo-first-order kinetics were observed, except for the initial phase of the reaction at higher pH values. Under fixed pH and Dh conditions, linear free energy relati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glaus MA,Heijman CG,Schwarzenbach RP,Zeyer J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid media on a base of B-12 or CB medium with agarose or agarose of low melting temperature were developed for the cultivation of Microcystis species. The media with 0.4% gel showed the highest number of CFU, and increasing the gel concentration resulted in a reduction of the number of CFU. There was no difference i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shirai M,Matumaru K,Ohotake A,Takamura Y,Aida T,Nakano M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butyrate is an important intermediate in the anaerobic degradation of organic matter. In sulfate-depleted environments butyrate is oxidized to acetate and hydrogen by obligate proton reducers, in syntrophic association with hydrogen-consuming methanogens. This paper describes two enrichments of endospore-forming bacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tomei FA,Maki JS,Mitchell R

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to identify genes in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis IL1403 and Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris Wg2 important for adsorption of the 936-species phages bIL170 and phi 645, respectively. Random insertional mutagenesis of the two L. lactis strains was carried out with the vector pGh9:ISS1, an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dupont K,Janzen T,Vogensen FK,Josephsen J,Stuer-Lauridsen B

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple gel immunodiffusion agar procedure was developed for detecting toxigenic strains of Clostridium botulinum type A. The method consisted of overlaying colonies grown on thin-layer tryptone-peptone-glucose-yeast extract agar with gel diffusion agar containing desired levels of C. botulinum type A antitoxin. Conc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ferreira JL,Hamdy MK,Zapatka FA,Hebert WO

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of the important flavor compound 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3[2H]-furanone (HDMF; Furaneol) from D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate by the yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxii was studied with regard to the identification of intermediates present in the culture medium. Addition of o-phenylenediamine, a trapping reagent f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hauck T,Brühlmann F,Schwab W

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model organism for polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) biosynthesis, Ralstonia eutropha H16, possesses multiple isoenzymes of granules coating phasins as well as of PHB depolymerases, which degrade accumulated PHB under conditions of carbon limitation. In this study, recombinant Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) strains were used ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eggers J,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enrichment and isolation of thermophilic bacteria capable of rubber [poly(cis-1,4-isoprene)] degradation revealed eight different strains exhibiting both currently known strategies used by rubber-degrading mesophilic bacteria. Taxonomic characterization of these isolates by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis demonstr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ibrahim EM,Arenskötter M,Luftmann H,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineralization of [U-(14)C]methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE) to (14)CO(2) without accumulation of t-butyl alcohol (TBA) was observed in surface-water sediment microcosms under denitrifying conditions. Methanogenic activity and limited transformation of MTBE to TBA were observed in the absence of denitrification. Results ind...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bradley PM,Chapelle FH,Landmeyer JE

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains overproducing glycerol and with a reduced ethanol yield is a potentially valuable strategy for producing wine with decreased ethanol content. However, glycerol overproduction is accompanied by acetate accumulation. In this study, we evaluated the effects of the overe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cambon B,Monteil V,Remize F,Camarasa C,Dequin S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial transformation of [N-methyl-(sup14)C]aldicarb, a carbamate pesticide, occurred in aquifer, lake, and salt marsh sediments. Microbial degradation of aldicarb took place within 21 days in aquifer sediments from sites previously exposed to aldicarb (Jamesport, Long Island, N.Y.) but did not occur in sedimen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kazumi J,Capone DG

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00