Genes that enhance the ecological fitness of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in sediments reveal the value of antibiotic resistance.

abstract：:The facultative anaerobe Thauera aromatica strain AR-1 uses 3,5-dihydroxybenzoate (3,5-DHB) as a sole carbon and energy source under anoxic conditions using an unusual oxidative strategy to overcome aromatic ring stability. A 25-kb gene cluster organized in four main operons encodes the anaerobic degradation pathway f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pacheco-Sánchez D,Molina-Fuentes Á,Marín P,Díaz-Romero A,Marqués S

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth, survival, and pathogenicity of Klebsiella growing in and on environmental foci were examined. Total coliforms present in raw wastes from pulp mills were in excess of 10(5)/ml, and 60 to 80% were Klebsiella. Fecal coliform counts ranged from 10(1) to 10(5)/ml. Klebsiella isolates from industrial effluents and a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knittel MD,Seidler RJ,Eby C,Cabe LM

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 W3110 grows in the presence of membrane-permeant organic acids that can depress cytoplasmic pH and accumulate in the cytoplasm. We conducted experimental evolution by daily diluting cultures in increasing concentrations of benzoic acid (up to 20 mM) buffered at external pH 6.5, a pH at which perm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Creamer KE,Ditmars FS,Basting PJ,Kunka KS,Hamdallah IN,Bush SP,Scott Z,He A,Penix SR,Gonzales AS,Eder EK,Camperchioli DW,Berndt A,Clark MW,Rouhier KA,Slonczewski JL

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The gray mold fungus Botrytis cinerea is a major threat to fruit and vegetable production. Strawberry fields usually receive several fungicide treatments against Botrytis per season. Gray mold isolates from several German strawberry-growing regions were analyzed to determine their sensitivity against botryticides. Fun...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leroch M,Plesken C,Weber RW,Kauff F,Scalliet G,Hahn M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzothiazole-2-sulfonate (BTSO3) is one of the side products occurring in 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT) production wastewater. We are the first to isolate an axenic culture capable of BTSO3 degradation. The isolate was identified as a Rhodococcus erythropolis strain and also degraded 2-hydroxybenzothiazole (OBT) and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： De Wever H,Vereecken K,Stolz A,Verachtert H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size frequency distribution of planktonic cells of purple sulfur phototrophic bacteria was measured at several depths in a bacterial layer of Lake Cisó (Spain). The bacterioplankton was dominated by Chromatium minus (87 to 94% of the total biomass). The largest cells of C. minus were found in the top part of the b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Montesinos E

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reservoir 29 and Lake B are extremely acid lakes (epilimnion pHs of 2.7 and 3.2, respectively), because they receive acidic discharges from coal refuse piles. They differ in that the pH of profundal sediments in Reservoir 29 increased from 2.7 to 3.8 during the period of thermal stratification, whereas permanently ano...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gyure RA,Konopka A,Brooks A,Doemel W

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of the rhizosphere microbiome is a result of interactions between plant roots, soil, and environmental conditions. The impact of genetic variation in plant species on the composition of the root-associated microbiota remains poorly understood. This study assessed the abundances and structures of nitrog...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cotta SR,Dias AC,Marriel IE,Andreote FD,Seldin L,van Elsas JD

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rsan-ver, a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated at this department, was used for the development of a continuous process for biosurfactant production. The active compounds were identified as rhamnolipids. A final medium for production was designed in continuous culture by means of medium shifts, since the format...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guerra-Santos L,Käppeli O,Fiechter A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) is a serious disease of marine-farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) caused by ISA virus (ISAV), belonging to the genus Isavirus, family Orthomyxoviridae. There is an urgent need to understand the virulence factors and pathogenic mechanisms of ISAV and to develop new vaccine approaches. U...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Toro-Ascuy D,Tambley C,Beltran C,Mascayano C,Sandoval N,Olivares E,Medina RA,Spencer E,Cortez-San Martín M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenanthrene-degrading bacteria were isolated from a 1-m2 intertidal sediment site in Boston Harbor. Samples were taken six times over 2 years. A total of 432 bacteria were isolated and characterized by biochemical testing. When clustered on the basis of phenotypic characteristics, the isolates could be separated into...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berardesco G,Dyhrman S,Gallagher E,Shiaris MP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on an emerging fungal disease of the edible crab, Cancer pagurus. Juvenile (prerecruit) crabs were found to be subject to this disease condition during the months of May to September at two intertidal sites in South Wales, United Kingdom. Histopathology revealed that the fungi overwhelm the host res...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Smith AL,Hamilton KM,Hirschle L,Wootton EC,Vogan CL,Pope EC,Eastwood DC,Rowley AF

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two yellow pigments were isolated for the first time from the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens in liquid culture and were identified as the anthraquinone derivatives 3,8-dimethoxy-1-hydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone (minor) and 1,3-dimethoxy-8-hydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone (major). A known antibiotic, 3,5-dih...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li J,Chen G,Wu H,Webster JM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus gasseri ATCC 33323, Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salivarius UCC 118, and Lactobacillus casei ATCC 334 contain one (LgaI), four (Sal1, Sal2, Sal3, Sal4), and one (Lca1) distinguishable prophage sequences, respectively. Sequence analysis revealed that LgaI, Lca1, Sal1, and Sal2 prophages belong to the g...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ventura M,Canchaya C,Bernini V,Altermann E,Barrangou R,McGrath S,Claesson MJ,Li Y,Leahy S,Walker CD,Zink R,Neviani E,Steele J,Broadbent J,Klaenhammer TR,Fitzgerald GF,O'toole PW,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swarming Proteus spp. were detected with the use of proteometry (a most-probable-number technique) in the fecal material of selected animal species and in raw sewage from a local sewage treatment plant. Proteus spp. were not detected in any of several soil and freshwater samples examined. Since rat feces harbored high...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stahl ML,Williams FD

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scyphozoan Aurelia aurita is recognized as a key player in marine ecosystems and a driver of ecosystem change. It is thus intensely studied to address ecological questions, although its associations with microorganisms remain so far undescribed. In the present study, the microbiota associated with A. aurita was vi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weiland-Bräuer N,Neulinger SC,Pinnow N,Künzel S,Baines JF,Schmitz RA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human large intestine is covered with a protective mucus coating, which is heavily colonized by complex bacterial populations that are distinct from those in the gut lumen. Little is known of the composition and metabolic activities of these biofilms, although they are likely to play an important role in mucus bre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macfarlane S,Woodmansey EJ,Macfarlane GT

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field-collected larvae of the tussock moth, Lymantria ninayi, a major pest of exotic pines in Papua New Guinea, were found to contain a small RNA-containing virus with a diameter of 29 nm and a buoyant density of 1.32 g/ml. The RNA was single stranded, had a molecular weight of 2.8 x 10, and was polyadenylated. Virion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pullin JS,Black F,King LA,Entwistle PF,Moore NF

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the high level of competence for natural transformation of Acinetobacter sp. strain BD413 has been the subject of numerous studies, only two competence genes, comC and comP, have been identified to date. By chromosomal walking analysis we found two overlapping open reading frames, designated comE and comF, st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Busch S,Rosenplänter C,Averhoff B

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A four-step flavanone biosynthetic pathway was constructed and introduced into Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The recombinant yeast strain was fed with phenylpropanoid acids and produced the flavanones naringenin and pinocembrin 62 and 22 times more efficiently compared to previously reported recombinant prokaryotic strain...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yan Y,Kohli A,Koffas MA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comparative adherence of seven strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis to plastic surfaces was measured by an agar overlay technique in which adherent organisms were counted by their ability to form colonies under an agar overlay. The degree of adherence to plastics decreased in the order polystyrene, polyvinyl chlo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mackenzie AM,Rivera-Calderon RL

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is a leading cause of severe pneumonia in foals. Standard treatment is dual antimicrobial therapy with a macrolide and rifampin, but the emergence of macrolide- and rifampin-resistant R. equi isolates is an increasing problem. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of macrolide and/or...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Willingham-Lane JM,Berghaus LJ,Berghaus RD,Hart KA,Giguère S

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is an important pathogen of swine which occasionally infects humans as well. There are 35 serotypes known for this organism, and it would be desirable to develop rapid methods methods to identify and differentiate the strains of this species. To that effect, partial chaperonin 60 gene sequences were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brousseau R,Hill JE,Préfontaine G,Goh SH,Harel J,Hemmingsen SM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intergeneric conjugal transfer of plasmid DNA from Escherichia coli to Streptomyces circumvents problems such as host-controlled restriction and instability of foreign DNA during the transformation of Streptomyces protoplasts. The anthracycline antibiotic-producing strains Streptomyces peucetius and Streptomyces sp. s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paranthaman S,Dharmalingam K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sedimentary bacterial isolate has been shown to contain trans-monounsaturated fatty acids (6% of the total fatty acids). The ratio of trans- to cis-acids in this isolate was in the range 3.2 to 7.6. The identification of trans-monounsaturated acids in a marine bacterium implied that the trans-acids which have been r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gillan FT,Johns RB,Verheyen TV,Volkman JK,Bavor HJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a chemically defined medium without L-alanine, Lactobacillus johnsonii was demonstrated to be strictly auxotrophic for that amino acid. A comparative genetic analysis showed that all known genes involved in L-alanine biosynthesis are absent from the genome of L. johnsonii. This auxotrophy was complemented by het...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Kaaij H,Desiere F,Mollet B,Germond JE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different cadA cadmium resistance determinants (cadA1, first identified in Tn5422, and cadA2, associated with pLM80) were detected among cadmium-resistant Listeria monocytogenes strains from turkey processing plants. Prevalence of cadA1 versus cadA2 was serotype associated. Cadmium-resistant isolates that were als...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mullapudi S,Siletzky RM,Kathariou S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated previously unknown associations between bacterial endosymbionts and bat flies of the subfamily Nycterophiliinae (Diptera, Streblidae). Molecular analyses revealed a novel clade of Gammaproteobacteria in Nycterophilia bat flies. This clade was not closely related to Arsenophonus-like microbes found in i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morse SF,Dick CW,Patterson BD,Dittmar K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 75 compounds, including antioxidants, preservatives, gallic acid and p-hydroxybenzoic acid esters, hydroquinones, hydroxyquinolines, phenol derivatives, and related compounds, were screened for their antibotulinal activity in prereduced Thiotone-yeast extract-glucose broth. The most effective inhibitors of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reddy NR,Pierson MD,Lechowich RV

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5' nuclease assay has been developed to detect viable Listeria monocytogenes. The assay targets the hemolysin A (hlyA) transcript, which is found only in L. monocytogenes. The single-tube, reverse transcriptase (RT), fluorogenic probe-based assay was formatted by using Tth DNA polymerase whose activity was modulated...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Norton DM,Batt CA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00