The type II secretion system of Legionella pneumophila elaborates two aminopeptidases, as well as a metalloprotease that contributes to differential infection among protozoan hosts.

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：:A restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of nuclear ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) was used to measure the amount and distribution of genetic variability in populations of the Japanese pear pathotype of Alternaria alternata on both micro- and macrogeographical scales. A total of 322 isolates were obtained from ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adachi Y,Watanabe H,Tanabe K,Doke N,Nishimura S,Tsuge T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 grown on acidic medium containing glucose and solidified with bacteriological agar expressed a virB::lacZ fusion. No expression of this fusion was observed on a similar medium which was solidified with purified agarose. The fraction from bacteriological agar which was responsible for vir ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Loubens I,Chilton WS,Dion P

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective growth inhibitors of Sphaerotilus natans were detected in the culture broths of several strains of Streptomyces. Anslimins A and B were isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces oganonensis by adsorption on resinous adsorbent followed by elution with 50% aqueous acetone. The A and B components were the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takiguchi Y,Yoshikawa H,Terao M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain SR, a monensin-sensitive, ammonia-producing ruminal bacterium, grew rapidly on arginine and lysine, but only if sodium was present. Arginine transport could be driven by either an electrical potential or a chemical gradient of sodium. Arginine was converted to ornithine, and it appeared that ornithine efflux cr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Kessel JS,Russell JB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus bulgaricus LT4(0448) is a lysogenic strain from which a temperate bacteriophage can be induced by mitomycin C or UV irradiation. Lactobacillus lactis CNRZ 326 is an indicator strain for the temperate phage 0448, but this strain lyses only in the presence of Ca ions. A resistant culture developed secondar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cluzel PJ,Serio J,Accolas JP

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subsurface of a tidal-flat sediment was analyzed down to 360 cm in depth by molecular and geochemical methods. A community structure analysis of all three domains of life was performed using domain-specific PCR followed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis and sequencing of characteristic bands. The...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilms R,Sass H,Köpke B,Köster J,Cypionka H,Engelen B

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellobiose labeled either at the reducing end (4-O-beta-d-glucopyranosyl-d-[U-C]glucopyranose) or at the nonreducing end (4-O-beta-d-[U-C]glucopyranosyl-d -glucopyranose) was synthesized with Clostridium thermocellum cellobiose phosphorylase at greater than 98% purity. The radioactive cellobioses were identical to aut...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ng TK,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In various sediments in which Fe(III) reduction was the terminal electron-accepting process, [C]glucose was fermented to C-fatty acids in a manner similar to that observed in methanogenic sediments. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that, in Fe(III)-reducing sediments, fermentable substrates are oxidize...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lovley DR,Phillips EJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of different microorganisms, considered as typical representatives of the microflora of soil and water, was established to evaluate the influence of the nonmedical use of antimicrobial agents on bacterial ecology. Only seven strains, six chemoorganotrophs and one chemolithotroph, could be considered as...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Dijck P,van de Voorde H

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flux balance analysis and phenotypic data were used to provide clues to the relationships between the activities of gene products and the phenotypes resulting from the deletion of genes involved in respiratory function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The effect of partial or complete respiratory deficiency on the ethanol...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dikicioglu D,Pir P,Onsan ZI,Ulgen KO,Kirdar B,Oliver SG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid media on a base of B-12 or CB medium with agarose or agarose of low melting temperature were developed for the cultivation of Microcystis species. The media with 0.4% gel showed the highest number of CFU, and increasing the gel concentration resulted in a reduction of the number of CFU. There was no difference i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shirai M,Matumaru K,Ohotake A,Takamura Y,Aida T,Nakano M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium vaccae can catabolize a number of major groundwater pollutants. When added singly, acetone, cyclohexane, styrene, benzene, ethylbenzene, propylbenzene, dioxane, and 1,2-dichloroethylene can be catabolized by M. vaccae. Catabolism of a number of these chemicals was monitored by gas-chromatographic analysi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burback BL,Perry JJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected and identified genotypes of human-pathogenic microsporidia in fecal samples from 51 asymptomatic captive-bred pet parrots in South Korea. Microsporidia were identified in 8 samples (15.7%); 7 parrots tested positive for Encephalitozoon hellem, and 1 parrot tested positive for both E. hellem and Encephalito...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee SY,Lee SS,Lyoo YS,Park HM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring cell growth and measuring physical features of food-borne pathogenic bacteria are important for better understanding the conditions under which these organisms survive and proliferate. To address this challenge, buoyant masses of live and dead Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeria innocua were measured usin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lewis CL,Craig CC,Senecal AG

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Pseudomonas putida KT2440, a saprophytic soil bacterium that colonizes the plant root, is a suitable microorganism for the removal of pollutants and a stable host for foreign genes used in biotransformation processes. Because of its potential use in agriculture and industry, we investigated the conditions for the opti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Muñoz-Rojas J,Bernal P,Duque E,Godoy P,Segura A,Ramos JL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly virulent Serratia proteamaculans strain, AGR96X, exhibiting specific pathogenicity against larvae of the New Zealand grass grub (Costelytra giveni; Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and the New Zealand manuka beetle (Pyronota festiva and P. setosa; Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), was isolated from a diseased grass grub la...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hurst MRH,Beattie A,Jones SA,Laugraud A,van Koten C,Harper L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental studies of the human-pathogenic bacterium Campylobacter jejuni have focused on linking distributions with potential sources. However, in aquatic ecosystems, the abundance of C. jejuni may also be regulated by predation. We examine the potential for grazing by the freshwater planktonic crustacean Daphnia ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schallenberg M,Bremer PJ,Henkel S,Launhardt A,Burns CW

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:The ability of Streptococcus species to selectively adhere to the oral epithelial cells of newborns was studied in vitro. On day 1 of life, mucosal cells from normal infants demonstrated selective attraction for the natural distribution of streptococci that would soon colonize these surfaces. Streptococcus salivarius ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Long SS,Swenson RM

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient production of heterologous proteins with yeasts and other eukaryotic hosts is often hampered by inefficient secretion of the product. Limitation of protein secretion has been attributed to a low folding rate, and a rational solution is the overexpression of proteins supporting folding, like protein disulfide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gasser B,Sauer M,Maurer M,Stadlmayr G,Mattanovich D

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of Bartonella spp. was investigated in domestic ungulates grazing in communal pastures from a mountain area in northern Spain, where 18.3% (17/93) of cattle were found to be positive by PCR combined with a reverse line blot (PCR/RLB), whereas sheep (n = 133) or horses (n = 91) were found not to be infecte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Antequera-Gómez ML,Lozano-Almendral L,Barandika JF,González-Martín-Niño RM,Rodríguez-Moreno I,García-Pérez AL,Gil H

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:In Europe the use of the growth promoter avoparcin is considered to have selected for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Sweden ceased using avoparcin in 1986, and only occasional cases of VRE from hospitals have been reported since 1995. Within the framework of a European study, samples from urban raw sewage, tr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Iversen A,Kühn I,Franklin A,Möllby R

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-based methods have been developed to rapidly screen for Legionella pneumophila in water as an alternative to time-consuming culture techniques. However, these methods fail to discriminate between live and dead bacteria. Here, we report a viability assay (viability PCR [v-PCR]) for L. pneumophila that combines ethi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Delgado-Viscogliosi P,Solignac L,Delattre JM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial transformation of lapachol, a naturally occurring naphthoquinone, was carried out by Curvularia lunata (NRRL 2178). The fungus brings about oxidative cyclization of the substrate to dehydro-alpha-lapachone, which was isolated and characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectral analyses; its str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Otten S,Rosazza JP

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the bacterial communities of epilithic biofilms in 17 streams which represented a gradient ranging from relatively pristine streams to streams highly impacted by acid mine drainage (AMD). A combination of automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis with multivariate analysis and ordination provided a se...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lear G,Niyogi D,Harding J,Dong Y,Lewis G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a pathogenic, microaerophilic, gram-negative, mesophilic bacterium. Three strains isolated from humans with enteric campylobacteriosis were able to survive at high population levels (10(7) cells ml-1) as viable-but-nonculturable (VBNC) forms in microcosm water. The VBNC forms of the three C. je...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tholozan JL,Cappelier JM,Tissier JP,Delattre G,Federighi M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of mineralization of phenol, benzoate, benzylamine, p-nitrophenol, and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate added to lake water at concentrations ranging from a few picograms to nanograms per milliliter were directly proportional to chemical concentration. The rates were still linear at levels of <1 pg of phenol or p-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rubin HE,Subba-Rao RV,Alexander M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00