Role of host nutrition in symbiont regulation: impact of dietary nitrogen on proliferation of obligate and facultative bacterial endosymbionts of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.

abstract：:Thermostable and thermoactive beta-mannanase (1,4-beta-D-mannan mannanohydrolase [EC 3.2.1.78]), beta-mannosidase (beta-D-mannopyranoside hydrolase [EC 3.2.1.25]) and alpha-galactosidase (alpha-D-galactoside galactohydrolase [EC 3.2.1.22]) were purified to homogeneity from cell extracts and extracellular culture super...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duffaud GD,McCutchen CM,Leduc P,Parker KN,Kelly RM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermophilic actinomycetes and bacilli were recovered from mushroom compost by conventional dilution plating and sedimentation chamber-Andersen sampler methods. Excessive growth of thermophilic bacilli on dilution plates accounted for the poor recovery and limited diversity of actinomycete colonies, and this result wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Amner W,McCarthy AJ,Edwards C

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seasonal variations in community structure and cell morphology of pelagic procaryotes from a high mountain lake (Gossenkollesee, Austria) were studied by in situ hybridization with rRNA-targeted fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes (FISH) and image-analyzed microscopy. Compositional changes and biomass flu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pernthaler J,Glockner FO,Unterholzner S,Alfreider A,Psenner R,Amann R

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Vibrio vulnificus, virulence for eels is associated with serovar E strains. In this study, we investigated some biological properties of purified lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) from serovar E and non-serovar E strains. Purified LPSs retained their O-polysaccharidic side chains and did not show any differences that coul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biosca EG,Collado RM,Oliver JD,Amaro C

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay has been developed to detect bacterial glycosidases in colonies grown on the surface of agar plates. Advantages of this technique over previously described methods include elimination of the need for replica plating, better visualization of chromagenic reaction products, and a simple permeabilization step to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paoni NF,Arroyo RL

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dextransucrase production by Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL B-512F in media containing carbon sources other than sucrose is reported for the first time. Dextransucrases were analyzed by gel electrophoresis and by an in situ activity assay. Their polymers and acceptor reaction products were also compared by (13)C nucle...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quirasco M,López-Munguía A,Remaud-Simeon M,Monsan P,Farrés A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male weanling rats fed diets containing fermented and unfermented tannin-free sorghum meals naturally contaminated with traces of ochratoxin A, zearalenone, and an unidentified toxic substance developed anorexia. Mean changes in body weight over a 28-day feeding period for rats fed fermented and unfermented sorghum me...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kazanas N,Ely RW,Fields ML,Erdman JW Jr

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated rumen bacteria were examined for growth and, where appropriate, for their ability to degrade cellulose in the presence of the hydroxycinnamic acids trans-p-coumaric acid and trans-ferulic acid and the hydroxybenzoic acids vanillic acid and 4-hydroxybenzoic acid. Ferulic and p-coumaric acids proved to be the m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chesson A,Stewart CS,Wallace RJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between two Fusarium mycotoxins, zearalenone (ZEN) and its derivative (')alpha-zearalenol ((')alpha-ZOL), with two food-grade strains of Lactobacillus was investigated. The mycotoxins (2 microg ml(-1)) were incubated with either Lactobacillus rhamnosus strain GG or L. rhamnosus strain LC705. A consider...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： El-Nezami H,Polychronaki N,Salminen S,Mykkänen H

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 1999, field surveys of Lyme disease spirochetes were conducted around the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern People's Republic of China. Ixodes persulcatus ticks were obtained in a Tianchi Lake valley with primary forest, while the tick fauna was poor in the semidesert or at ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takada N,Masuzawa T,Ishiguro F,Fujita H,Kudeken M,Mitani H,Fukunaga M,Tsuchiya K,Yano Y,Ma XH

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a new enzyme-coupled assay for the quantitation of d-xylose using readily available enzymes that allows kinetic evaluation of hemicellulolytic enzymes using natural xylooligosaccharide substrates. Hydrogen peroxide is generated as an intermediary analyte, which allows flexibility in the choice of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wagschal K,Franqui-Espiet D,Lee CC,Robertson GH,Wong DW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on elementary mode analysis, an Escherichia coli strain was designed for efficient conversion of glycerol to ethanol. By using nine gene knockout mutations, the functional space of the central metabolism of E. coli was reduced from over 15,000 possible pathways to a total of 28 glycerol-utilizing pathways that s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trinh CT,Srienc F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of a 359-bp fragment of nifH was determined for the heterocystous strains Anabaena sp. strain CA (ATCC 33047), Nostoc muscorum UTEX 1933, a Nostoc sp., Gloeothece sp. strain ATCC 27152, Lyngbya lagerheimii UTEX 1930, and Plectonema boryanum IU 594. Results confirmed that the DNA sequence of the 359-bp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ben-Porath J,Zehr JP

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:The genetic diversity of 35 Bacillus sphaericus strains was analyzed by a newly developed multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, toxin gene pool survey, and mosquito bioassay. The results demonstrated that strains assigned to the same sequence type (ST) had the same occurrence of toxin genes. Further sequence analy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ge Y,Hu X,Zheng D,Wu Y,Yuan Z

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports on the identification and molecular characterization of a two-component regulatory system (2CRS), encoded by serRK, which is believed to control the expression of the ser(2003) locus in Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003. The ser(2003) locus consists of two genes, Bbr_1319 (sagA) and Bbr_1320 (serU), whic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Alvarez-Martin P,O'Connell Motherway M,Turroni F,Foroni E,Ventura M,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of long-term heavy metal deposition on microbial community structure and the level of bacterial community tolerance were studied along two different gradients in Scandinavian coniferous forest soils. One was near the Harjavalta smelter in Finland, and one was at Ronnskar in Sweden. Phospholipid fatty acid ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pennanen T,Frostegard A,Fritze H,Baath E

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid profiles, modified essential amino acid (MEAA) indexes, and in vitro pepsin digestibilities were determined for single-cell protein (SCP) from certain industrially important lactobacilli. For the three parameters examined, substantial differences were seen between different Lactobacillus species and bet...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Erdman MD,Bergen WG,Reddy CA

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：:16S rRNA gene-targeted group-specific primers were designed and validated for specific detection and quantification of the Clostridium leptum subgroup and the Atopobium cluster. To monitor the predominant bacteria in human feces by real-time PCR, we used these specific primers together with four sets of group-specific...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matsuki T,Watanabe K,Fujimoto J,Takada T,Tanaka R

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of microorganisms to perform dissimilatory (per)chlorate reduction is, for most species, known to be oxygen sensitive. Consequently, bioremediation processes for the removal of oxochlorates will be disturbed if oxygen is present. We measured the expression of chlorite dismutase and chlorate reductase in th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lindqvist MH,Johansson N,Nilsson T,Rova M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis is a prokaryotic microorganism with great importance as a culture starter and has become the model species among the lactic acid bacteria. The long and safe history of use of L. lactis in dairy fermentations has resulted in the classification of this species as GRAS (General Regarded As Safe) or QPS...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ladero V,Rattray FP,Mayo B,Martín MC,Fernández M,Alvarez MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive dechlorination of the ortho moiety of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as well as of meta and para moieties is shown to occur in anaerobic enrichments of Baltimore Harbor sediments. These estuarine sediments ortho dechlorinated 2,3,5,6-chlorinated biphenyl (CB), 2,3,5-CB, and 2,3,6-CB in freshwater or estuar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berkaw M,Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, a strain of anaerobic pentachlorophenol (PCP) degrader, Desulfitobacterium frappieri PCP-1, was used to augment a mixed bacterial community of an anaerobic upflow sludge bed reactor degrading PCP. To estimate the efficiency of augmentation, the population of PCP-1 in the reactor was enumerated by a compe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tartakovsky B,Levesque M,Dumortier R,Beaudet R,Guiot SR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrorotation is a noninvasive technique that is capable of detecting changes in the morphology and physicochemical properties of microorganisms. Electrorotation studies are reported for two intestinal parasites, Giardia intestinalis and Cyclospora cayetanensis. It is concluded that viable and nonviable G. intestina...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dalton C,Goater AD,Pethig R,Smith HV

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are a major component of the intestinal microbiota in humans, particularly breast-fed infants. Therefore, elucidation of the mechanisms by which these bacteria colonize the intestine is desired. One approach is transposon mutagenesis, a technique currently attracting much attention because, in combinati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sakanaka M,Nakakawaji S,Nakajima S,Fukiya S,Abe A,Saburi W,Mori H,Yokota A

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae causes swine erysipelas, an important infectious disease in the swine industry. In Japan, the incidence of acute swine erysipelas due to E. rhusiopathiae serovar 1a has recently increased markedly. To study the genetic relatedness of the strains from the recent cases, we analyzed 34 E. rhu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ogawa Y,Shiraiwa K,Ogura Y,Ooka T,Nishikawa S,Eguchi M,Hayashi T,Shimoji Y

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Preinfection development in Colletotrichum spp. exhibits three morphologies (conidia, germ tubes, and appressoria) and is directed by a complex interplay of environmental signals. Germ tube morphogenesis for Colletotrichum trifolii and the related fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f. sp. aeschynomene was shown to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Buhr TL,Dickman MB

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Listeria comprises food-borne pathogens associated with severe infections and a high mortality rate. Endolysins from bacteriophages infecting Listeria are promising tools for both their detection and control. These proteins feature a modular organization, consisting of an N-terminal enzymatically active doma...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmelcher M,Shabarova T,Eugster MR,Eichenseher F,Tchang VS,Banz M,Loessner MJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altogether, 100 strains of Listeria monocytogenes serovar 1/2a isolated from humans, animals, food, and the environment were typed by a combination of PCR and restriction enzyme analysis (REA). A PCR product of 2,916 bp, containing the downstream end of the gene inlA (955 bp), the space between inlA and inlB (85 bp), ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Unnerstad H,Nilsson I,Ericsson H,Danielsson-Tham ML,Bille J,Bannerman E,Tham W

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00