Purification and characterization of two highly thermophilic alkaline lipases from Thermosyntropha lipolytica.

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen that causes high rates of hospitalization and mortality in people infected. Contamination of fresh, ready to eat produce by this pathogen is especially troubling because of the ability of this bacterium to grow on produce under refrigeration temperatures. In this study, w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tran TD,Del Cid C,Hnasko R,Gorski L,McGarvey JA

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A six-step biochemical key is presented for the identification of all recognized Enterococcus spp. The key consists of 12 tests, but no more than 6 are needed for the most complicated identification. The reliability of the key has been evaluated with collection type strains and clinical and environmental isolates. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Manero A,Blanch AR

更新日期：1999-10-01 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 occurrence of 10 pathogens and three fecal indicators was assessed by quantitative PCR in manures of Australian feedlot cattle. Most samples tested positive for one or more pathogens. For the dominant pathogens Campylobacter jejuni, Listeria monocytogenes, Giardia spp., Cryptosporidium spp., and eaeA-positive Esch...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Klein M,Brown L,Tucker RW,Ashbolt NJ,Stuetz RM,Roser DJ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage therapy is being reexamined as a strategy for bacterial control in medical and other environments. As microorganisms often live in mixed populations, we examined the effect of Escherichia coli bacteriophage λW60 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage PB-1 infection on the viability of monoculture and mixed-spe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kay MK,Erwin TC,McLean RJ,Aron GM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multistep cleavage of carotenoids in Mucorales during the sexual phase results in a cocktail of trisporic acid (C18) sex pheromones. We hypothesized that the C18 trisporoid intermediates have a specific regulatory function for sex pheromone production and carotenogenesis that varies with genus/species and vegetati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sahadevan Y,Richter-Fecken M,Kaerger K,Voigt K,Boland W

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A UDP glucosyltransferase from Bacillus licheniformis was overexpressed, purified, and incubated with nucleotide diphosphate (NDP) d- and l-sugars to produce glucose, galactose, 2-deoxyglucose, viosamine, rhamnose, and fucose sugar-conjugated resveratrol glycosides. Significantly higher (90%) bioconversion of resverat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pandey RP,Parajuli P,Shin JY,Lee J,Lee S,Hong YS,Park YI,Kim JS,Sohng JK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum growth temperature, the optimal growth temperature, and the estimated normal physiological range for growth of Shewanella gelidimarina are functions of water activity (a(w)), which can be manipulated by changing the concentration of sodium chloride. The growth temperatures at the boundaries of the normal p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nichols DS,Olley J,Garda H,Brenner RR,McMeekin TA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen of 1,200 colonies of Escherichia coli isolated from "keebe," hamburger, or sausage produced heat-labile enterotoxin. None of them produced heat-stable enterotoxin. The characteristics of 9 of the 18 strains are presented. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reis MH,Vasconcelos JC,Trabulsi LR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbioses with gut microorganisms provides a means by which terrestrial herbivores are able to obtain energy. These microorganisms ferment cell wall materials of plants to short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), which are then absorbed and used by the host animal. Many marine herbivorous fishes contain SCFA (predominantly ace...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mountfort DO,Campbell J,Clements KD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of T-2, HT-2, 3'-OH T-2, 3'-OH HT-2, T-2 triol, and T-2 tetraol toxins which inhibited [3H]thymidine uptake in mitogen-stimulated human peripheral lymphocytes by 50% were 1.5, 3.5, 4.0, 50, 150, and 150 ng/ml, respectively. The results suggested that the initial hydrolysis of T-2 toxin and the hydroxyla...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Forsell JH,Kateley JR,Yoshizawa T,Pestka JJ

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model organism for polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) biosynthesis, Ralstonia eutropha H16, possesses multiple isoenzymes of granules coating phasins as well as of PHB depolymerases, which degrade accumulated PHB under conditions of carbon limitation. In this study, recombinant Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) strains were used ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eggers J,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane is an undesirable end product of rumen fermentative activity because of associated environmental impacts and reduced host feed efficiency. Our study characterized the rumen microbial methanogenic community in beef cattle divergently selected for phenotypic residual feed intake (RFI) while offered a high-forage...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Carberry CA,Waters SM,Kenny DA,Creevey CJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of methanogenesis and sulfate reduction to trimethylamine, choline, and glycine betaine was examined in surface sediments from the intertidal region of Lowes Cove, Maine. Addition of these substrates markedly stimulated methanogenesis in the presence of active sulfate reduction, whereas addition of other ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： King GM

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five strains of Aspergillus fumigatus (A, B, D, H, and K) isolated from sawmills were used to expose groups of three rats by intratracheal intubation. The dose was 10(9) spores per rat. At 48 h after administration, two rats from the D group and all rats from the K group died with symptoms of strong dyspnea and tachyp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Land CJ,Sostarić B,Fuchs R,Lundström H,Hult K

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new thermostable dipeptidase gene was cloned from the thermophile Brevibacillus borstelensis BCS-1 by genetic complementation of the D-Glu auxotroph Escherichia coli WM335 on a plate containing D-Ala-D-Glu. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that the gene included an open reading frame coding for a 307-amino-acid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baek DH,Song JJ,Kwon SJ,Park C,Jung CM,Sung MH

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:Xylella fastidiosa is a gram-negative, xylem-limited bacterium affecting economically important crops (e.g., grapevine, citrus, and coffee). The citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC) strain of X. fastidiosa is the causal agent of this severe disease of citrus in Brazil and represents the first plant-pathogenic bacterium f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Monteiro PB,Teixeira DC,Palma RR,Garnier M,Bové JM,Renaudin J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus UW85 produces the linear aminopolyol antibiotic zwittermicin A (ZmA). This antibiotic has diverse biological activities, such as suppression of disease in plants caused by protists, inhibition of fungal and bacterial growth, and amplification of the insecticidal activity of the toxin protein from Bacil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kevany BM,Rasko DA,Thomas MG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of economic and product quality advantages exist in brewing when high-gravity worts of 16 to 18% dissolved solids are fermented. Above this level, production problems such as slow or stuck fermentations and poor yeast viability occur. Ethanol toxicity has been cited as the main cause, as brewers' yeasts are r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Casey GP,Magnus CA,Ingledew WM

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Processes by which fecal bacteria enter overland flow and their transportation state to surface waters are poorly understood, making the effectiveness of measures designed to intercept this pathway, such as vegetated buffer strips, difficult to predict. Freshly made and aged (up to 30 days) cowpats were exposed to sim...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Muirhead RW,Collins RP,Bremer PJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the genotypic characteristics of a collection of 100 multidrug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli strains recovered from cattle and the farm environment in Ireland in 2007. The most prevalent antimicrobial resistance identified was to streptomycin (100%), followed by tetracycline (99%), sulfonamides...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karczmarczyk M,Walsh C,Slowey R,Leonard N,Fanning S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six strains of Clostridium thermocellum isolated from various environments were characterized as to growth rate, production of reducing sugars, ethanol, and acetic acid from cellulose, base composition of DNA, and the abilities to adapt to ethanol and to grow at 45 degrees C. Five of the six new isolates produced 7 to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bender J,Vatcharapijarn Y,Jeffries TW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary goal of this study was to determine the conditions required for the effective inactivation of Bacillus anthracis spores on materials by using methyl bromide (MeBr) gas. Another objective was to obtain comparative decontamination efficacy data with three avirulent microorganisms to assess their potential fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wood JP,Wendling M,Richter W,Lastivka A,Mickelsen L

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme-catalyzed asymmetric reduction of ethyl 4-chloro-3-oxobutanoate in an organic solvent-water diphasic system was studied. NADPH-dependent aldehyde reductase isolated from Sporobolomyces salmonicolor AKU4429 and glucose dehydrogenase were used as catalysts for reduction of ethyl 4-chloro-3-oxobutanoate and recycl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shimizu S,Kataoka M,Katoh M,Morikawa T,Miyoshi T,Yamada H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A culture-independent method called mRNA profiling has been developed for the analysis of fecal enterobacteria and their physiological status in environmental samples. This taxon-specific approach determines the single-cell content of selected gene transcripts whose abundance is either directly or inversely proportion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen H,Ponniah G,Salonen N,Blum P

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:Three expedition huts in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica, built between 1901 and 1911 by Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton, sheltered and stored the supplies for up to 48 men for 3 years during their explorations and scientific investigation in the South Pole region. The huts, built with wood taken to Antarctica...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blanchette RA,Held BW,Jurgens JA,McNew DL,Harrington TC,Duncan SM,Farrell RL

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vector competence refers to the ability of an arthropod to acquire, maintain, and successfully transmit a microbial pathogen. Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) spirochetes are globally distributed pathogens, and most species are transmitted by argasid ticks of the genus Ornithodoros. A defining characteristic in vecto...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krishnavajhala A,Armstrong BA,Lopez JE

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction of cytotoxicity in virus concentrates from environmental samples was accomplished by high-speed centrifugation and by filtration of the samples through positively charged depth filters. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hejkal TW,Gerba CP,Rao VC

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00