Unusual codon bias in vinyl chloride reductase genes of Dehalococcoides species.

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：:In this work, the enzymatic activities of selected strains of biotypes 1 and 2 of Vabrio vulnificus were analyzed by using conventional methods and the API ZYM system. The toxic activities of extracellular products (ECPs) were further evaluated by in vitro and in vivo experiments. The ECPs of both biotypes (i) showed ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biosca EG,Amaro C

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial precipitation of barite (BaSO(4)) under laboratory conditions is reported for the first time. The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus was cultivated in a solid medium with a diluted solution of barium chloride. Crystallization occurred as a result of the presence of live bacteria and the bacterial metabolic activit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： González-Muñoz MT,Fernández-Luque B,Martínez-Ruiz F,Ben Chekroun K,Arias JM,Rodríguez-Gallego M,Martínez-Cañamero M,de Linares C,Paytan A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ursodeoxycholic acid dissolves cholesterol gallstones in humans. In the present study optimum conditions for ursodeoxycholic acid production by Fusarium equiseti M41 were studied. Resting mycelia of F. equiseti M41 showed maximum conversion at 28 degrees C, pH 8.0, and dissolved oxygen tension of higher than 60% satur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulprecha S,Ueda T,Nihira T,Yoshida T,Taguchi H

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanol is already an important carbon feedstock in the chemical industry, but it has found only limited application in biotechnological production processes. This can be mostly attributed to the inability of most microbial platform organisms to utilize methanol as a carbon and energy source. With the aim to turn met...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Witthoff S,Schmitz K,Niedenführ S,Nöh K,Noack S,Bott M,Marienhagen J

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:The enzymatic production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) has gained interest in recent years, as FDCA is a renewable precursor of poly(ethylene-2,5-furandicarboxylate) (PEF). 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural oxidases (HMFOs) form a flavoenzyme family with genes annotated in a dozen bacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Viñambres M,Espada M,Martínez AT,Serrano A

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic chytrid fungi can inflict significant mortality on cyanobacteria but frequently fail to keep cyanobacterial dominance and bloom formation in check. Our study tested whether oligopeptide production, a common feature in many cyanobacteria, can be a defensive mechanism against chytrid parasitism. The study empl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rohrlack T,Christiansen G,Kurmayer R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile oyster disease (JOD) causes significant annual mortalities of hatchery-produced Eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, cultured in the Northeast. We have reported that a novel species of the alpha-proteobacteria Roseobacter group (designated CVSP) was numerically dominant in JOD-affected animals sampled duri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boettcher KJ,Barber BJ,Singer JT

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence factor internalin A (InlA) facilitates the uptake of Listeria monocytogenes by epithelial cells that express the human isoform of E-cadherin. Previous studies identified naturally occurring premature stop codon (PMSC) mutations in inlA and demonstrated that these mutations are responsible for virulence a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Stelten A,Nightingale KK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus Cowan 1 cells were armed with anti-flagellar (anti-H) antibody produced in rabbits immunized with flagellar core protein prepared from Vibrio vulnificus. This reagent was assessed by coagglutination for its capacity to agglutinate and identify V. vulnificus. A species-specific H antigen is expres...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simonson J,Siebeling RJ

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was combined with the genetic detection of six genetic markers, ansB, dmsA, ggt, cj1585c, cjj81176-1367/71 (cj1365c), and the two-gene marker tlp7 (cj0951c plus cj0952c), to assess if their presence correlated with different C. jejuni clonal groups. Using a collection o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zautner AE,Herrmann S,Corso J,Tareen AM,Alter T,Gross U

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic eukaryotes are known to have important ecosystem functions, but their diversity in most environments remains vastly unexplored. Here we analyzed an 18S rRNA gene library from a subsurface iron- and sulfur-oxidizing microbial community growing in highly acidic (pH < 0.9) runoff within the Richmond Mine at I...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baker BJ,Tyson GW,Goosherst L,Banfield JF

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:A pathway was metabolically engineered to produce poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), a biodegradable thermoplastic with proven commercial applications, from a single, unrelated carbon source. An expression system was developed in which a prpC strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, with a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aldor IS,Kim SW,Prather KL,Keasling JD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seabird ticks are known reservoirs of bacterial pathogens of medical importance; however, ticks parasitizing tropical seabirds have received less attention than their counterparts from temperate and subpolar regions. Recently, Rickettsia africae was described to infect seabird ticks of the western Indian Ocean and New...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilkinson DA,Dietrich M,Lebarbenchon C,Jaeger A,Le Rouzic C,Bastien M,Lagadec E,McCoy KD,Pascalis H,Le Corre M,Dellagi K,Tortosa P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary metabolite mediating the GacS-dependent growth-inhibitory effect exerted by the rice rhizosphere isolate Pseudomonas putida RW10S2 on phytopathogenic Xanthomonas species was identified as white-line-inducing principle (WLIP), a member of the viscosin group of cyclic lipononadepsipeptides. WLIP producers ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rokni-Zadeh H,Li W,Sanchez-Rodriguez A,Sinnaeve D,Rozenski J,Martins JC,De Mot R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent (R)-dichlorprop dioxygenase (RdpA) and alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent (S)-dichlorprop dioxygenase (SdpA), which are involved in the degradation of phenoxyalkanoic acid herbicides in Sphingomonas herbicidovorans MH, were expressed and purified as His6-tagged fusion proteins from Escherichia...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Müller TA,Fleischmann T,van der Meer JR,Kohler HP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aqueous spore suspensions of Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC 12980 were heated at different temperatures for various time intervals in a resistometer, spread plated on antibiotic assay medium supplemented with 0.1% soluble starch without (AAMS) or with (AAMS-S) 0.9% NaCl, and incubated at 55 degrees C unless otherwis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Feeherry FE,Munsey DT,Rowley DB

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of candidate division OP11 are widely distributed in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, yet little information regarding their metabolic capabilities and ecological role within such habitats is currently available. Here, we report on the microfluidic isolation, multiple-displacement-amplification, pyrosequenci...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Youssef NH,Blainey PC,Quake SR,Elshahed MS

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus UW85 produces a novel aminopolyol antibiotic, zwittermicin A, that contributes to the ability of UW85 to suppress damping-off of alfalfa caused by Phytophthora medicaginis. UW85 produces a second antibiotic, provisionally designated antibiotic B, which also contributes to suppression of damping-off but...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stabb EV,Jacobson LM,Handelsman J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The probability of recovering pathogenic Escherichia coli from food by the Bacteriological Analytical Manual method was determined by the effects of several factors: the number of strains per food, the ability of pathogenic strains to survive enrichment, and the frequency of plasmid loss during enrichment. Biochemical...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hill WE,Ferreira JL,Payne WL,Jones VM

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermoanaerobacter sp. strain X514 has great potential in biotechnology due to its capacity to ferment a range of C(5) and C(6) sugars to ethanol and other metabolites under thermophilic conditions. This study investigated the central metabolism of strain X514 via (13)C-labeled tracer experiments using either glucose ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Feng X,Mouttaki H,Lin L,Huang R,Wu B,Hemme CL,He Z,Zhang B,Hicks LM,Xu J,Zhou J,Tang YJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 2610 in vol. 57.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil emission of gaseous N oxides during nitrification of ammonium represents loss of an available plant nutrient and has an important impact on the chemistry of the atmosphere. We used selective inhibitors and a glucose amendment in a factorial design to determine the relative contributions of autotrophic ammonium ox...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tortoso AC,Hutchinson GL

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium accumulates glutamate in response to osmotic stress. Cells in aerobic exponential growth have an intracellular pool of approximately 125 nmol of glutamate mg of protein-1. When cells were grown in minimal medium with 500 mM NaCl, KCl, or sucrose, 290 to 430 nmol of glutamate was found to accumul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Botsford JL,Alvarez M,Hernandez R,Nichols R

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease, the leading vector-borne illness in the United States. Many of the genetic factors affecting spirochete morphology and physiology are unknown due to the limited genetic tools available and the large number of open reading frames with unknown f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stewart PE,Hoff J,Fischer E,Krum JG,Rosa PA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male-specific RNA coliphages (F-RNA coliphages) have been proposed as a potential viral indicator of fecal contamination in water and foods because they are easy to culture and are a normal component of the mammalian gut flora. F-RNA coliphage plaque numbers are typically obtained by directly plating a 10-fold dilutio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jones TH,Johns MW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria able to utilize Aspon, Azodrin, Dasanit, diazinon, malathion, Orthene, parathion, Trithion, dimethoate, Dylox, methyl parathion, and Vapona as sole phosphorus sources were isolated from soil and sewage. Individual isolates used from 3 to 10 of these insecticides as sole phosphorus sources. The extent of growt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rosenberg A,Alexander M

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-mannanase (EC 3.2.1.78) from Vibrio sp. strain MA-138 was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and several chromatographic procedures including gel filtration, adsorption, and ion-exchange chromatographies. The final ion-exchange chromatography Mono Q yielded one major active fraction and three minor acti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tamaru Y,Araki T,Amagoi H,Mori H,Morishita T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00