Microarray analysis of Escherichia coli strains from interstitial beach waters of Lake Huron (Canada).

abstract：:Multiple anthropogenic disturbances to bacterial diversity have been investigated in coastal ecosystems, in which temporal variability in the bacterioplankton community has been considered a ubiquitous process. However, far less is known about the temporal dynamics of a bacterioplankton community responding to polluti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang K,Zhang D,Xiong J,Chen X,Zheng J,Hu C,Yang Y,Zhu J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain that efficiently degraded methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) was obtained by initial selection on the recalcitrant compound tert-butyl alcohol (TBA). This strain, a gram-positive methylotrophic bacterium identified as Mycobacterium austroafricanum IFP 2012, was also able to degrade tert-amyl methyl ether and tert...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： François A,Mathis H,Godefroy D,Piveteau P,Fayolle F,Monot F

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain PCP-1 reductively dechlorinates pentachlorophenol (PCP) to 3-chlorophenol and a variety of halogenated aromatic compounds at the ortho, meta, and para positions. Several reductive dehalogenases (RDases) are thought to be involved in this cascade of dehalogenation. We partially purif...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bisaillon A,Beaudet R,Lépine F,Déziel E,Villemur R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the anaerobic degradation of the chimera 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate (3-Cl,4-OHB), anaerobic freshwater sediment samples from the vicinity of Athens, Ga., were adapted for the transformation of 4-hydroxybenzoate (4-OHB), 3-chlorobenzoate (3-CB), 2-chlorophenol (2-CP), and 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP). In nonad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang X,Wiegel J

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell size is a key ecological trait of soil microorganisms that determines a wide range of life history attributes, including the efficiency of nutrient acquisition. However, because of the methodological issues associated with determining cell sizes in situ, we have a limited understanding of how cell abundances vary...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Portillo MC,Leff JW,Lauber CL,Fierer N

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High concentrations of free metal ions in the environment can be detrimental to bacterial survival. However, bacteria utilize strategies, including the activation of stress response pathways and immobilizing chemical elements on their surface, to limit this toxicity. In this study, we characterized LA4131, the HtpX-li...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Henry R,Lo M,Khoo C,Zhang H,Boysen RI,Picardeau M,Murray GL,Bulach DM,Adler B

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages play a key role in the marine environment by regulating the transfer of energy between trophic levels and influencing global carbon and nutrient cycles. The diversity of marine phage communities remains difficult to characterize because of the lack of a signature gene common to all phages. Recent studies have d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goldsmith DB,Crosti G,Dwivedi B,McDaniel LD,Varsani A,Suttle CA,Weinbauer MG,Sandaa RA,Breitbart M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture-independent molecular phylogenetic methods were used to explore the breadth of diversity and environmental distribution of members of the division-level "candidate" phylogenetic group WS6, recently discovered in a contaminated aquifer and with no cultivated representatives. A broad diversity of WS6-affiliated ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dojka MA,Harris JK,Pace NR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nodule-shaped microbial mat was found subsurface in sediments of a gas seep in the anoxic Black Sea. This mat was dominated by ANME-1 archaea and consumed methane and sulfate simultaneously. We propose that such subsurface mats represent the initial stage of previously investigated microbial reefs. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Treude T,Knittel K,Blumenberg M,Seifert R,Boetius A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment was conducted with subsurface sediments from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to determine the potential for reduction of U(VI) under sulfate-reducing conditions with either ethanol or acetate as the electron donor. The results showed extensive U(VI) reduction in sediments supplied with either electron dono...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Converse BJ,Wu T,Findlay RH,Roden EE

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved method of dot-blot hybridization to detect hepatitis A virus (HAV) was developed with single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) probes. Radioactive and nonradioactive ssRNA probes were generated by in vitro transcription of HAV templates inserted into the plasmid pGEM-1. 32P-labeled ssRNA probes were at least eightfold ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang X,Estes MK,Metcalf TG

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus is a human and animal pathogen that carries the highest death rate of any food-borne disease agent. It colonizes shellfish and forms biofilms on the surfaces of plankton, algae, fish, and eels. Greater understanding of biofilm formation by the organism could provide insight into approaches to decreas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakhamchik A,Wilde C,Rowe-Magnus DA

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria have been recognized as an important sink for fixed nitrogen and are detected in many natural environments. However, their presence in terrestrial ecosystems has long been overlooked, and their contribution to the nitrogen cycling in natural and agricultural soils is cur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hu BL,Rush D,van der Biezen E,Zheng P,van Mullekom M,Schouten S,Sinninghe Damsté JS,Smolders AJ,Jetten MS,Kartal B

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect pathogenicity (IP), the commensal protection of antibiotic-sensitive pathogens by resistant microorganisms of low intrinsic virulence, can prevent the eradication of polymicrobial infections. The contributions of antibiotic resistance mechanisms and biofilm structure to IP within polymicrobial biofilms were i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： O'Connell HA,Kottkamp GS,Eppelbaum JL,Stubblefield BA,Gilbert SE,Gilbert ES

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, it is estimated that only 0.001% to 15% of bacteria in any given system can be cultured by use of commonly used techniques and media, yet culturing is critically important for investigations of bacterial function. Despite this situation, few studies have attempted to link culture-dependent and culture-indep...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Walke JB,Becker MH,Hughey MC,Swartwout MC,Jensen RV,Belden LK

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis established the linkage between recalled chocolate milk and a multistate invasive listeriosis outbreak during a four-product recall period. Listeria monocytogenes isolates from four hospitalized patients and an environmental dairy sample displayed AscI restriction endonuclease digestio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Proctor ME,Brosch R,Mellen JW,Garrett LA,Kaspar CW,Luchansky JB

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotavirus virus-like particles (VLPs) and MS2 bacteriophages were bioaccumulated in bivalve mollusks to evaluate viral persistence in shellfish during depuration and relaying under natural conditions. Using this nonpathogenic surrogate virus, we were able to demonstrate that about 1 log10 of VLPs was depurated after 1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Loisy F,Atmar RL,Le Saux JC,Cohen J,Caprais MP,Pommepuy M,Le Guyader FS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoplasts of Claviceps purpurea were prepared by treatment of mycelium with a lytic mixture of snail gut enzyme and cellulase from Trichoderma viride. Such protoplasts could be efficiently lysed by Triton X-100 treatment at high osmotic pressure without Ca or Mg, allowing the release of intact vacuoles in high yield...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Keller U,Madry N,Kleinkauf H,Glund K

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen Bradyrhizobium sp. strains and one Azorhizobium strain were compared on the basis of five genetic and phenetic features: (i) partial sequence analyses of the 16S rRNA gene (rDNA), (ii) randomly amplified DNA polymorphisms (RAPD) using three oligonucleotide primers, (iii) total cellular protein profiles, (iv)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Rossum D,Schuurmans FP,Gillis M,Muyotcha A,Van Verseveld HW,Stouthamer AH,Boogerd FC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and proteomic tools have been utilized for investigating the mechanism of action of a new Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain (SeITE02), a gammaproteobacterium capable of resistance to high concentrations of selenite [SeO(3)(2-), Se(IV)], reducing it to nontoxic elemental selenium under aerobic conditions;...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Antonioli P,Lampis S,Chesini I,Vallini G,Rinalducci S,Zolla L,Righetti PG

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens isolates 13525 and 2-79 were grown in Luria broth and low-nutrient medium (LNM). Pililike fibrils were very rarely produced in Luria broth but were abundantly produced in LNM. In LNM the pili were peritrichously distributed and had diameters ranging from 3 to 8 nm. Pili were purified from strai...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vesper SJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most probable numbers (MPNs) of methanogens in various salt marsh and estuarine sediments were determined with an anaerobic, habitat-simulating culture medium with 80% H(2) plus 20% CO(2) as substrate. Average MPNs for the short Spartina (SS) marsh sediments of Sapelo Island, Ga., were maximal at the 5- to 7-cm depth ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jones WJ,Paynter MJ

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannitol, a six-carbon sugar alcohol, is the main storage carbon in the button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. Given the physiological importance of mannitol metabolism in growth, fruit body development, and salt tolerance of A. bisporus, the enzyme responsible for mannitol biosynthesis, NADP-dependent mannitol dehydroge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stoop JM,Mooibroek H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) and Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) are foodborne pathogens, and outbreaks are often associated with poultry products. Chickens are typically asymptomatic when colonized by these serovars; however, the factors contributing to this observation are uncharacterized. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Troxell B,Petri N,Daron C,Pereira R,Mendoza M,Hassan HM,Koci MD

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus iners is often associated with vaginal dysbiosis and bacterial vaginosis (BV), which are risk factors for adverse gynecological and obstetric outcomes. To discover natural inhibitors of L. iners, cell-free culture supernatants (CFSs) from 77 vaginal human Lactobacillus strains and 1 human intestinal stra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nilsen T,Swedek I,Lagenaur LA,Parks TP

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthobacter flavus 14p1 was isolated from sludge of the river Mulde by selective enrichment with 1,4-dichlorobenzene as the sole source of carbon and energy. The bacterium did not use other aromatic or chloroaromatic compounds as growth substrates. During growth on 1,4-dichlorobenzene, stoichiometric amounts of chlor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Spiess E,Sommer C,Görisch H

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative real-time PCR targeting the tnaA gene was studied to detect Escherichia coli and distinguish E. coli from Shigella spp. These microorganisms revealed high similarity in the molecular organization of the tna operon. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bernasconi C,Volponi G,Picozzi C,Foschino R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergosterol, a fungus-specific sterol enriched in cell plasma membranes, is an effective antifungal drug target. However, current knowledge of the ergosterol biosynthesis process in the saprophytic human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus remains limited. In this study, we found that two endoplasmic reticulum-locali...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Long N,Xu X,Zeng Q,Sang H,Lu L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A homokaryotic, clavine alkaloid-producing strain of ergot, Claviceps sp. strain SD 58, was used in an attempt to demonstrate parasexuality. Genetically marked auxotrophic strains were produced by mutation with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Protoplast fusion of pairs of unlike doubly auxotrophic strains and is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brauer KL,Robbers JE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure cultures of methylotrophs and methanotrophs are known to oxidize methyl bromide (MeBr); however, their ability to oxidize tropospheric concentrations (parts per trillion by volume [pptv]) has not been tested. Methylotrophs and methanotrophs were able to consume MeBr provided at levels that mimicked the tropospher...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goodwin KD,Varner RK,Crill PM,Oremland RS

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00