Autoinducer-2-producing protein LuxS, a novel salt- and chloride-induced protein in the moderately halophilic bacterium Halobacillus halophilus.

abstract：:After propagation of Rhizopus javanicus in defined media containing glucose, urea, and mineral salts in deionized distilled water, the ability of the nonliving biomass to sequester cupric ion was assayed. Growth, uptake capacity (saturation uptake at >1 mM Cu concentration in solution), and biosorptive yield (biomass ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Treen-Sears ME,Martin SM,Volesky B

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the potential for bacteriophage-mediated gene transfer in the marine environment, we established transduction systems by using marine phage host isolates. Plasmid pQSR50, which contains transposon Tn5 and encodes kanamycin and streptomycin resistance, was used in plasmid transduction assays. Both marine b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang SC,Paul JH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A structurally novel chitinase, Tc-ChiD, was identified from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus chitonophagus, which can grow on chitin as the sole organic carbon source. The gene encoding Tc-ChiD contains regions corresponding to a signal sequence, two chitin-binding domains, and a putative catalyt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Horiuchi A,Aslam M,Kanai T,Atomi H

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic environmental surveillance for poliovirus circulation has been conducted in Egypt since 2000. The surveillance has revealed three independent importations of wild-type poliovirus. In addition, several vaccine-derived polioviruses have been detected in various locations in Egypt. In addition to acute flaccid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blomqvist S,El Bassioni L,El Maamoon Nasr EM,Paananen A,Kaijalainen S,Asghar H,de Gourville E,Roivainen M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe useful vectors to select double-crossover events directly in site-directed marker exchange mutagenesis in gram-negative bacteria. These vectors contain the gusA marker gene, providing colorimetric screens to identify bacteria harboring those sequences. The applicability of these vectors was shown by mappin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Katzen F,Becker A,Ielmini MV,Oddo CG,Ielpi L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris has been utilized for heterologous protein expression for over 30 years. Because P. pastoris secretes few of its own proteins, the exported recombinant protein is the major polypeptide in the extracellular medium, making purification relatively easy. Unfortunately, some recombi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Naranjo CA,Jivan AD,Vo MN,de Sa Campos KH,Deyarmin JS,Hekman RM,Uribe C,Hang A,Her K,Fong MM,Choi JJ,Chou C,Rabara TR,Myers G,Moua P,Thor,Risser DD,Vierra CA,Franz AH,Lin-Cereghino J,Lin-Cereghino GP

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium decumbens is able to epoxidize cis-propenylphosphonic acid (cPA) to produce the antibiotic fosfomycin [FOM; also referred to as phosphonomycin and (-)-cis-1,2-epoxypropylphosphonic acid], a bioconversion of considerable commercial significance. We sought to improve the efficiency of the process by overexpr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watanabe M,Sumida N,Murakami S,Anzai H,Thompson CJ,Tateno Y,Murakami T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nor-1 gene in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus parasiticus encodes a ketoreductase involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis. To study environmental influences on nor-1 expression, we generated plasmid pAPGUSNNB containing a nor-1 promoter-beta-glucuronidase (GUS) (encoded by uidA) reporter fusion with niaD (encodes ni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chiou CH,Miller M,Wilson DL,Trail F,Linz JE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between nutrients leached onto the leaf surface and the colonization of plants by bacteria was studied by measuring both the abundance of simple sugars and the growth of Pseudomonas fluorescens on individual bean leaves. Data obtained in this study indicate that the population size of epiphytic bacter...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mercier J,Lindow SE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the lignin-degrading basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus has become a widely used model organism for fungal genomic and transcriptomic analyses. The increasing interest in this species has led to an increasing number of studies analyzing the transcriptional regulation of multigene families that encode extracel...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Castanera R,López-Varas L,Pisabarro AG,Ramírez L

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The symbiotic association between the roseobacter Silicibacter sp. strain TM1040 and the dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida involves bacterial chemotaxis to dinoflagellate-produced dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), DMSP demethylation, and ultimately a biofilm on the surface of the host. Biofilm formation is coincide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Geng H,Bruhn JB,Nielsen KF,Gram L,Belas R

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing of the thermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 revealed a gene which had high sequence similarity to the gene encoding the carboxypeptidase of Sulfolobus solfataricus and also to that encoding the aminoacylase from Bacillus stearothermophilus. The gene from P. horikoshii comprises an open rea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishikawa K,Ishida H,Matsui I,Kawarabayasi Y,Kikuchi H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demethylation inhibitor (DMI)-resistant strains of the plant pathogenic fungus Penicillium digitatum were shown to be simultaneously resistant to cycloheximide, 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide (4NQO), and acriflavine. A PMR1 (Penicillium multidrug resistance) gene encoding an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter (P-glycopr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakaune R,Adachi K,Nawata O,Tomiyama M,Akutsu K,Hibi T

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bottlenecks in protein expression and secretion often limit the development of industrial processes. By manipulating chaperone and foldase levels, improvements in yeast secretion were found for a number of proteins. Recently, sustained endoplasmic reticulum stress, occurring due to recombinant protein production, was ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Raimondi S,Zanni E,Talora C,Rossi M,Palleschi C,Uccelletti D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic hydroxylations are important bacterial metabolic processes but are difficult to perform using traditional chemical synthesis, so to use a biological catalyst to convert the priority pollutant benzene into industrially relevant intermediates, benzene oxidation was investigated. It was discovered that toluene 4...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tao Y,Fishman A,Bentley WE,Wood TK

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The milk supply is considered a primary route for a bioterrorism attack with Bacillus anthracis spores because typical high-temperature short-time (HTST) pasteurization conditions cannot inactivate spores. In the event of intentional contamination, an effective method to inactivate the spores in milk under HTST proces...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xu S,Labuza TP,Diez-Gonzalez F

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several wild-type isolates of marine bdellovibrios formed stable bdelloplasts when they infected gram-negative bacterial prey under certain culture conditions. Synchronous predator-prey cultures and low nutrient concentrations increased the yield of stable bdelloplasts. The bdellovibrio cells retained in the stable bd...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sánchez-Amat A,Torrella F

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new compound, designated ML-449, structurally similar to the known 20-membered macrolactam BE-14106, was isolated from a marine sediment-derived Streptomyces sp. Cloning and sequencing of the 83-kb ML-449 biosynthetic gene cluster revealed its high level of similarity to the BE-14106 gene cluster. Comparison of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jørgensen H,Degnes KF,Dikiy A,Fjaervik E,Klinkenberg G,Zotchev SB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid marker rescue system based on restoration of the nptII gene was established in Streptococcus gordonii to study the transfer of bacterial and transgenic plant DNA by transformation. In vitro studies revealed that the marker rescue efficiency depends on the type of donor DNA. Plasmid and chromosomal DNA of bac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kharazmi M,Sczesny S,Blaut M,Hammes WP,Hertel C

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas oleovorans grows on C(6) to C(12)n-alkanes and 1-alkenes. These substrates are oxidized to the corresponding fatty acids, which are oxidized further via the beta-oxidation pathway, yielding shorter fatty acids which have lost one or more C(2) units. P. oleovorans normally utilizes beta-oxidation pathway in...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lageveen RG,Huisman GW,Preusting H,Ketelaar P,Eggink G,Witholt B

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine typical and atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains belonging to different serotypes and isolated from humans, pets (cats and dogs), farm animals (bovines, sheep, and rabbits), and wild animals (monkeys) were investigated for virulence markers and clonal similarity by pulsed-field gel elec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moura RA,Sircili MP,Leomil L,Matté MH,Trabulsi LR,Elias WP,Irino K,Pestana de Castro AF

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivor curves for heat-resistant ascospores of Byssochlamys fulva exposed to lethal heat were nonlogarithmic. At lower heating temperatures, the log survivor curves were characterized by a shoulder plus an accelerating death rate; with increased temperatures, the rate approached logarithmic death. The formula (log N...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： King AD Jr,Bayne HG,Alderton G

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported recently a unique fungal structure, called the spiny ball, on the vegetative hyphae of Coprinus comatus (O. F. Müll.:Fr.) Pers. Although some observations regarding the role of this structure were presented, its function remained largely unknown. In this study, we showed that purified (isolated and washed)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luo H,Liu Y,Fang L,Li X,Tang N,Zhang K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme levanase encoded by the sacC gene from Bacillus subtilis was overexpressed in Escherichia coli with the strong, inducible tac promoter. The enzyme was purified from crude E. coli cell lysates by salting out with ammonium sulfate and chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B, S-Sepharose, and MonoQ-Sepharose. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wanker E,Huber A,Schwab H

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Bacteria forming light-organ symbiosis with deep-sea chlorophthalmid fishes (Aulopiformes: Chlorophthalmidae) are considered to belong to the species Photobacterium phosphoreum. The identification of these bacteria as P. phosphoreum, however, was based exclusively on phenotypic traits, which may not discriminate betwe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dunlap PV,Ast JC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group II azoreductase BTI1 utilizes NADPH to directly cleave azo bonds in water-soluble azo dyes, including quenchers of fluorescence. Unexpectedly, optimal reduction was dye specific, ranging from a pH of <5.5 for Janus green B, to pH 6.0 for methyl red, methyl orange, and BHQ-10, to pH >8.3 for flame orange. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johansson HE,Johansson MK,Wong AC,Armstrong ES,Peterson EJ,Grant RE,Roy MA,Reddington MV,Cook RM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recreational and potable water supplies polluted with human wastewater can pose a direct health risk to humans. Therefore, sensitive detection of human fecal pollution in environmental waters is very important to water quality authorities around the globe. Microbial source tracking (MST) utilizes human fecal markers (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ahmed W,Sidhu JPS,Smith K,Beale DJ,Gyawali P,Toze S

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology and cellulases of Ruminococcus albus 8 were markedly affected by the inclusion of 3-phenylpropanoic acid (PPA) in a defined growth medium. PPA-grown bacteria produced substantial quantities of cell-bound cellulase, as well as a very high-molecular-weight extracellular enzyme and lesser amounts of two lo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stack RJ,Hungate RE

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron (Fe) is one of the most important micronutrients for most life forms on earth. While abundant in soil, Fe bioavailability in oxic soil is very low. Under environmental conditions, bacteria need to acquire sufficient Fe to sustain growth while limiting the energy cost of siderophore synthesis. Biofilm formation mi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rizzi A,Leroux J,Charron-Lamoureux V,Roy S,Beauregard PB,Bellenger JP

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00