The antifungal protein AFP from Aspergillus giganteus inhibits chitin synthesis in sensitive fungi.

abstract：:The genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, the agent of Lyme disease in North America, has consequences for the performance of serological diagnostic tests and disease severity. To investigate B. burgdorferi diversity in Canada, where Lyme disease is emerging, bacterial DNA in 309 infected adult Ixod...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ogden NH,Margos G,Aanensen DM,Drebot MA,Feil EJ,Hanincová K,Schwartz I,Tyler S,Lindsay LR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cellulosome-microbe complex was assembled ex vivo on the surface of Bacillus subtilis displaying a miniscaffoldin that can bind with three dockerin-containing cellulase components: the endoglucanase Cel5, the processive endoglucanase Cel9, and the cellobiohydrolase Cel48. The hydrolysis performances of the synthetic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： You C,Zhang XZ,Sathitsuksanoh N,Lynd LR,Zhang YH

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermophilic strain (D2) identified as a Bacillus sp. was isolated from an aerobic digestor of swine waste after several months of operation at 55 degrees C. Aerobic thermophilic batch treatment of swine waste inoculated with strain D2 was studied in a 4-liter fixed-bed reactor. Stabilization of the waste was achiev...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beaudet R,Gagnon C,Bisaillon JG,Ishaque M

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferase catalyzing the O methylation of several chlorophenols and other halogenated phenols was purified 220-fold to apparent homogeneity from mycelia of Trichoderma longibrachiatum CECT 20431. The enzyme could be identified in partially purified protein prepar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coque JJ,Alvarez-Rodríguez ML,Larriba G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the herbicides EPTC (S-ethyl dipropylthiocarbamate) and atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethyl-amino-6-isopropylamino-1,3,5-triazine) is associated with an indigenous plasmid in Rhodococcus sp. strain TE1. Plasmid DNA libraries of Rhodococcus sp. strain TE1 were constructed in a Rhodococcus-Escherichia coli shu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shao ZQ,Behki R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously isolated dissimilatory perchlorate-reducing bacteria (DPRB) have been primarily affiliated with the Betaproteobacteria. Enrichments from the cathodic chamber of a bioelectrical reactor (BER) inoculated from creek water in Berkeley, CA, yielded a novel organism most closely related to a previously described ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thrash JC,Ahmadi S,Torok T,Coates JD

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol and albumin are limiting factors in the growth of Mycoplasma species. These nutrients are usually supplied in the culture medium by the addition of serum. The growth of M. pneumoniae in a serum-free medium containing an ethanolic cholesterol suspension and albumin was about one-half the level attained in s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cluss RG,Johnson JK,Somerson NL

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory conditions have been identified that cause the rapid death of cultures of cyanobacteria producing urease. Once the death phase had initiated in the stationary growth phase, cells were rapidly bleached of all pigmentation. Null mutations in the ureC gene, encoding the alpha subunit of urease, were constructe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sakamoto T,Delgaizo VB,Bryant DA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobiophage V, isolated from soil in the vicinity of soybean roots, was strongly lytic on Bradyrhizobium japonicum 123B (USDA 123) but only mildly lytic on strain L4-4, a chemically induced small-colony mutant of 123. Numerous bacteriophage-resistant variants were isolated from L4-4 infected with phage V; two were s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abebe HM,Sadowsky MJ,Kinkle BK,Schmidt EL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A natural Spodoptera exigua multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (SeMNPV) isolate from Florida shares a strikingly similar genotypic composition to that of a natural Spodoptera frugiperda MNPV (SfMNPV) isolate from Nicaragua. Both isolates comprise a high proportion of large-deletion genotypes that lack genes that are essent...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Serrano A,Williams T,Simón O,López-Ferber M,Caballero P,Muñoz D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A compound required for the luxuriant growth of Lactobacillus sanfrancisco in laboratory media was isolated from a freshly prepared yeast extract, purified, and characterized. The stimulant was identified as a small peptide with a molecular weight of approximately 1,065, containing aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic ac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berg RW,Sandine WE,Anderson AW

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Bromoethanesulfonic acid (BESA) and 2-chloroethanesulfonic acid (CESA) have been reported to be potent inhibitors of methane formation during methanogenic decomposition in batch cultures. However, in a laboratory-scale continuous-flow methanogenic fixed-film column containing a predominance of acetate-decarboxylatin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bouwer EJ,McCarty PL

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two activities involved in terminal pathway conversion of sterigmatocystin to aflatoxin B1 were isolated from an aflatoxin-nonproducing mutant of Aspergillus parasiticus (avn-1), and the time course of appearance of the activities in culture was determined. Subcellular fractionation of fungal mycelia resolved the two ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cleveland TE,Lax AR,Lee LS,Bhatnagar D

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes can change its cellular morphology from bacilli to cocci during the transition to the long-term-survival (LTS) phase. The LTS cells demonstrated increased baro- and thermotolerance compared to their vegetative counterparts. So far, the underlying mechanisms that trigger this morphological and ph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wen J,Deng X,Li Z,Dudley EG,Anantheswaran RC,Knabel SJ,Zhang W

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation and cultivation are a crucial step in elucidating the physiology, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem role of microorganisms. Many abundant marine bacteria, including the widespread Roseobacter clade-affiliated (RCA) cluster group, have not been cultured with traditional methods. Using novel techniques of coculti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayali X,Franks PJ,Azam F

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspension of adenovirus type 5 in 2.0 ml of cell culture fluid at 37 degrees C were subjected to smoke from four cigarettes over a 4-h period. The cigarettes were smoked in a normal manner, and the inhaled smoke was exhaled through glass tubing into the virus-containing fluid. The virus suspensions were then titrated...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bardell D

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from the open ocean and subsequent pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analyses indicate that these strains have a unique genotype (N. H. Khan, Y. Ishii, N. Kimata-Kino, H. Esaki, T. Nishino, M. Nishimura, and K. Kogure, Microb. Ecol. 53:173-186, 2007). We hypothesized t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Khan NH,Ahsan M,Yoshizawa S,Hosoya S,Yokota A,Kogure K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microorganisms inhabiting a 91 degrees C hot spring in Yellowstone National Park were characterized by sequencing 5S rRNAs isolated from the mixed, natural microflora without cultivation. By comparisons of these sequences with reference sequences, the phylogenetic relationships of the hot spring organisms to bette...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stahl DA,Lane DJ,Olsen GJ,Pace NR

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group I strains of Clostridium botulinum are known to degrade arginine by the arginine deiminase pathway. We have found that C. botulinum Okra B consumed a level of arginine (20 g/liter) higher than the basal requirement for growth (3 g/liter). Arginine was probably the preferred source of nitrogen for biosynthesis bu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Patterson-Curtis SI,Johnson EA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of nitroaromatic compounds, including 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), were reduced by hydrogen in the presence of enzyme preparations from Veillonella alkalescens. Consistent with the proposed reduction pathway, R-NO2 H2 leads to R-NO H2 leads to R-NHOH H2 leads to R-NH2, 3 mol of H2 was utilized per mol of nit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCormick NG,Feeherry FE,Levinson HS

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas sp. strain M114, the outer membrane receptor for ferric pseudobactin M114 was shown to transport ferric pseudobactins B10 and A225, in addition to its own. The gene encoding this receptor, which was previously cloned on pCUP3, was localized by Tn5 mutagenesis to a region comprising >1.6 kb of M114 DNA. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morris J,O'sullivan DJ,Koster M,Leong J,Weisbeek PJ,O'gara F

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 531 in vol. 41.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of human infection with Campylobacter jejuni is increasing in most developed countries and the reason for this is largely unknown. Although poultry meat is considered to be a major source, it is evident that other reservoirs exist, possibly common to humans and poultry. Environmental sources are believed...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Petersen L,Nielsen EM,Engberg J,On SL,Dietz HH

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pot experiments showed that Rhizobium japonicum cells entrapped in a polyacrylamide gel could be used as an inoculant for soybeans and compared favorably to laboratory-made peat base inoculant containing the same bacterial strain. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dommergues YR,Diem HG,Divies C

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promoter region of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (gpd) was used to drive expression of mnp1, the gene encoding Mn peroxidase isozyme 1, in primary metabolic cultures of Phanerochaete chrysosporium. A 1,100-bp fragment of the P. chrysosporium gpd promoter region was fused upstream of the mnp1 ge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayfield MB,Kishi K,Alic M,Gold MH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algal-virus-specific PCR primers were used to amplify DNA polymerase gene (pol) fragments (683 to 689 bp) from the virus-sized fraction (0.02 to 0.2 microns) concentrated from inshore and offshore water samples collected from the Gulf of Mexico. Algal-virus-like DNA pol genes were detected in five samples collected fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen F,Suttle CA,Short SM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that enhanced lysozyme resistance of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli requires the plasmid-encoded regulator, Per, and is mediated by factors outside the locus for enterocyte effacement. EspC, a Per-activated serine protease autotransporter protein, conferred enhanced resistance on nonpathogenic E. col...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salinger N,Kokona B,Fairman R,Okeke IN

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Sulfidogenic consortia enriched from an estuarine sediment were maintained on either 2-, 3-, or 4-chlorophenol as the only source of carbon and energy for over 5 years. The enrichment culture on 4-chlorophenol was the most active and this consortium was selected for further characterization. Utilization of chloropheno...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Häggblom MM,Young LY

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrification, the aerobic oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, has been suggested to have been a central part of the global biogeochemical nitrogen cycle since the oxygenation of Earth. The cultivation of several ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) as well as the discovery that archaeal ammonia monooxygenase (amo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hatzenpichler R

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00