Use of the polymerase chain reaction in detection of culturable and nonculturable Vibrio vulnificus cells.

abstract：:VanA-type human (n=69), animal (n=49), and food (n=36) glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (GRE) from different geographic areas were investigated to study their possible reservoirs and transmission routes. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) revealed two small genetically related clusters, M39 (n=4) and M49 (n=13)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biavasco F,Foglia G,Paoletti C,Zandri G,Magi G,Guaglianone E,Sundsfjord A,Pruzzo C,Donelli G,Facinelli B

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A betaproteobacterium within the family Rhodocyclaceae previously identified as a pyrene degrader via stable-isotope probing (SIP) of contaminated soil (designated pyrene group 1 or PG1) was cultivated as the dominant member of a mixed bacterial culture. A metagenomic library was constructed, and the largest contigs w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Singleton DR,Hu J,Aitken MD

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortierella isabellina ATCC 38063 is a zygomycete capable of hydroxylating fish-toxic resin acids which occur in certain pulp mill effluents to nontoxic metabolites. Addition of dehydroabietic acid (1) (80 mg/liter) to a freshly inoculated culture of M. isabellina in dextrose-yeast extract broth resulted in precursor ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kutney JP,Choi LS,Hewitt GM,Salisbury PJ,Singh M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the catabolite repression control (Crc) protein repressed the formation of the blue pigment pyocyanin in response to a preferred carbon source (succinate) by interacting with phzM mRNA, which encodes a key enzyme in pyocyanin biosynthesis. Crc bound to an extended imperfect recognition seque...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang J,Sonnleitner E,Ren B,Xu Y,Haas D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sakacin G is a 37-amino-acid-residue-long class IIa bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus sake 2512, which is encoded by the duplicated structural genes skgA1 and skgA2. Sakacin G appears to be unique and seems to be an intermediate between pediocin-like bacteriocins, according to its double-disulfide bridges required...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simon L,Fremaux C,Cenatiempo Y,Berjeaud JM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative in situ determination of conjugative gene transfer in defined bacterial biofilms using automated confocal laser scanning microscopy followed by three-dimensional analysis of cellular biovolumes revealed conjugation rates 1,000-fold higher than those determined by classical plating techniques. Conjugation ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hausner M,Wuertz S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) was determined both in mixtures of septic tank effluent (STE) with dairy cattle manure slurry (DCMS) and in mixtures of STE with swine manure slurry (SMS). HAV was consistently inactivated more rapidly in the two types of mixed wastes than in STE alone or in the control Dulbe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Deng MY,Cliver DO

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple approach to the small-subunit (SSU) rRNA-based quantitative detection of a specific group of microorganisms in complex ecosystems has been developed. The method employs sequence-specific cleavage of rRNA molecules with oligonucleotides and RNase H. Defined mixtures of SSU rRNAs were mixed with an ol...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Uyeno Y,Sekiguchi Y,Sunaga A,Yoshida H,Kamagata Y

更新日期：2004-06-01 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 possible existence of endemism among microorganisms resulting from and preserved by geographic isolation is one of the most controversial topics in microbial ecology. We isolated 31 strains of "Spumella-like" flagellates from remote sampling sites from all continents, including Antarctica. These and another 23 iso...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boenigk J,Pfandl K,Garstecki T,Harms H,Novarino G,Chatzinotas A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV) is an important biocontrol agent for the codling moth (CM) in organic and integrated apple production worldwide. Previously, Z chromosome-linked dominant resistance in at least 38 CM field populations in Europe was reported, threatening organic apple production. Growers responded by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jehle JA,Schulze-Bopp S,Undorf-Spahn K,Fritsch E

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 200 bacterial strains were selected for anaerobic growth at 50 degrees C and extracellular polysaccharide production in a sucrose-mineral salts medium with NaNO(3) and up to 10% NaCl. The predominant cell type was an encapsulated gram-positive, motile, facultative sporeforming rod similar to Bacillus species. Str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pfiffner SM,McInerney MJ,Jenneman GE,Knapp RM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our goal was to develop a field soil biodegradation assay using (13)C-labeled compounds and identify the active microorganisms by analyzing 16S rRNA genes in soil-derived (13)C-labeled DNA. Our biodegradation approach sought to minimize microbiological artifacts caused by physical and/or nutritional disturbance of soi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Padmanabhan P,Padmanabhan S,DeRito C,Gray A,Gannon D,Snape JR,Tsai CS,Park W,Jeon C,Madsen EL

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexamita sp. is an amitochondriate free-living diplomonad which inhabits O(2)-limited environments, such as the deep waters and sediments of lakes and marine basins. C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals ethanol, lactate, acetate, and alanine as products of glucose fermentation under microaerobic condition...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biagini GA,McIntyre PS,Finlay BJ,Lloyd D

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative analysis of the 16S rRNA gene and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to identify epibiotic filamentous bacteria living on the marine amphipod crustacean Urothoe poseidonis. The epibionts belong to the gamma proteobacteria and represent a novel marine phylotype within the genus Thiothrix. FIS...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gillan DC,Dubilier N

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different nutrient receptors varied in triggering germination of Bacillus subtilis spores with a pressure of 150 MPa, the GerA receptor being more responsive than the GerB receptor and even more responsive than the GerK receptor. This hierarchy in receptor responsiveness to pressure was the same as receptor responsive...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Black EP,Koziol-Dube K,Guan D,Wei J,Setlow B,Cortezzo DE,Hoover DG,Setlow P

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group-specific primer, F243 (positions 226 to 243, Escherichia coli numbering), was developed by comparison of sequences of genes encoding 16S rRNA (16S rDNA) for the detection of actinomycetes in the environment with PCR and temperature or denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE or DGGE, respectively). The sp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heuer H,Krsek M,Baker P,Smalla K,Wellington EM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates of Neodiprion sertifer (Geoffr.) nuclear polyhedrosis virus from Britain and North America were compared using three biochemical techniques. Alkaline protease assays of polyhedra revealed the presence of endogenous enzyme activity in the British isolate but not in the North American isolate. Sodium dodecy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brown DA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Escherichia coli belonging to clonal group A (CGA), a recently described disseminated cause of drug-resistant urinary tract infections in humans, were present in four of seven sewage effluents collected from geographically dispersed areas of the United States. All 15 CGA isolates (1% of the 1,484 isolates ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boczek LA,Rice EW,Johnston B,Johnson JR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Ethoxy-3-methoxyphenylglycerol-gamma-formyl ester (compound IV) was identified as a degradation product of both 4-ethoxy-3-methoxyphenylglycerol-beta-syringaldehyde ether (compound I) and 4-ethoxy-3-methoxyphenylglycerol-beta-2,6-dimethoxyphenyl ether (compound II) by a ligninolytic culture of Coriolus versicolor. A...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kawai S,Umezawa T,Higuchi T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,2,3-Trichloropropane (TCP) is a highly toxic and recalcitrant compound. Haloalkane dehalogenases are bacterial enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of a carbon-halogen bond in a wide range of organic halogenated compounds. Haloalkane dehalogenase LinB from Sphingobium japonicum UT26 has, for a long time, been consider...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Monincová M,Prokop Z,Vévodová J,Nagata Y,Damborsky J

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis 5230 spores were lyophilized in 0.067 M phosphate buffer and stored at 2 to 8 degrees C for 9 to 27 months. The lyophilized spores were reconstituted with buffer or 0.9% saline, and the heat resistance was determined in a thermoresistometer. Lyophilization had no effect on the heat resistance of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odlaug TE,Caputo RA,Graham GS

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by specific serogroups of Vibrio cholerae that are pathogenic to humans. The disease does not persist in a chronic state in humans or animals. The pathogen is naturally present as a free-living organism in the environment. Recently, it was suggested that egg masses of the n...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Halpern M,Gancz H,Broza M,Kashi Y

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of nifH, nirS, and nirK gene fragments involved in nitrogen (N) fixation and denitrification in thinned second-growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) forest soil was investigated by using quantitative real-time PCR. Prokaryotic N cycling is an important aspect of N ava...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Levy-Booth DJ,Winder RS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large numbers of bacteriophages (2 x 10(7) to 1 x 10(8)/ml) were present in ruminal fluid from sheep and cattle. Twenty-six distinct types were identified and placed in three morphological groups; several phages possessed unusual structural features. The large numbers and diversity of phages observed indicates a possi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Klieve AV,Bauchop T

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zearalenone [6-(10-hydroxy-6-oxo-trans-1-undecenyl)beta-resorcyclic acid lactone] is a hormone produced by Fusarium spp. which regulates the sexual stage in F. roseum. 3H- and 14C-labeled zearalenone were found to bind preferentially to one of two peaks containing uncharacterized proteins obtained from the cytosol of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inaba T,Mirocha CJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and characterized the cDNA and genomic DNA coding for a phenoloxidase, laccase I, previously purified from culture supernatant of the newly isolated ligninolytic basidiomycete PM1 (CECT 2971). A cDNA library from basidiomycete PM1 was constructed, and laccase-encoding cDNAs were identified by screenin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coll PM,Tabernero C,Santamaría R,Pérez P

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the enzymatic formation of 7,8-epoxy-1-octene, 1,2-7,8-diepoxyoctane, and 1,2-epoxyoctane by growing and resting cell suspensions of Pseudomonas oleovorans are described. Formation of 1,2-epoxyoctane occurs concurrently with exponential growth on 1-octene, providing that 1-octene is in excess. Conversi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schwartz RD,McCoy CJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding serine alkaline protease (SapSh) of the psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella strain Ac10 was cloned in Escherichia coli. The amino acid sequence deduced from the 2,442-bp nucleotide sequence revealed that the protein was 814 amino acids long and had an estimated molecular weight of 85,113. SapSh exhib...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulakova L,Galkin A,Kurihara T,Yoshimura T,Esaki N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a method to purify Clostridium perfringens phospholipase C from a culture of recombinant Bacillus subtilis cells. This method consists of three purification steps, and it allowed us to obtain 6.2 mg of pure phospholipase C from 800 ml of culture. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hirata Y,Minami J,Koyama M,Matsushita O,Katayama S,Jin F,Maeta H,Okabe A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00