Lipase expression in Pseudomonas alcaligenes is under the control of a two-component regulatory system.

abstract：:Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) is a serious disease of marine-farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) caused by ISA virus (ISAV), belonging to the genus Isavirus, family Orthomyxoviridae. There is an urgent need to understand the virulence factors and pathogenic mechanisms of ISAV and to develop new vaccine approaches. U...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Toro-Ascuy D,Tambley C,Beltran C,Mascayano C,Sandoval N,Olivares E,Medina RA,Spencer E,Cortez-San Martín M

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain the health risks that may be posed by the land application of sewage sludges, a scheme was devised to determine the types and numbers of pathogenic and potentially pathogenic bacteria present in sludges. A processing treatment was adapted to sludge to give a homogenate which yielded the greatest numbers o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dudley DJ,Guentzel MN,Ibarra MJ,Moore BE,Sagik BP

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biofilm-forming strain of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), isolated from a naturally occurring mixed biofilm and identified by 16S rDNA analysis as a strain of Desulfomicrobium norvegicum, rapidly removed 200 micro M selenite from solution during growth on lactate and sulfate. Elemental selenium and elemental sulfur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hockin SL,Gadd GM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonometa podocarpi is an important pest of several species of pine in East Africa, and large numbers of trees in plantations in Kenya were partially or completely defoliated by the larval stage of this insect. After the infestation in the Mt. Elgon region, large numbers of dead and moribund larvae were found on the gr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moore NF,Armstrong T,Green B,Brown D,Hibbin J,Kelly DC,Tinsley TW,Aloo TC

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacterial hepatotoxins, microcystins, are specific inhibitors of serine/threonine protein phosphatases and potent tumor promoters. They have caused several poisonings of animals and also pose a health hazard for humans through the use of water for drinking and recreation. Different strains of the same cyanobacter...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rapala J,Sivonen K,Lyra C,Niemelä SI

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male weanling rats fed diets containing fermented and unfermented tannin-free sorghum meals naturally contaminated with traces of ochratoxin A, zearalenone, and an unidentified toxic substance developed anorexia. Mean changes in body weight over a 28-day feeding period for rats fed fermented and unfermented sorghum me...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kazanas N,Ely RW,Fields ML,Erdman JW Jr

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the interest in Bacteroides species as microbial source tracking (MST) markers, and the limited knowledge of the survival of Bacteroides species in the environment, here we examine the survival of Bacteroides fragilis, B. thetaiotaomicron, and environmental species of Bacteroides by use of culture techniques and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ballesté E,Blanch AR

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidine incorporation by the microbial community on standing dead leaves of Spartina alterniflora did not obey many of the assumptions inherent in the use of the technique in planktonic systems. Incorporation rates of [methly-H]thymidine were nonsaturable over a wide concentration range (10 to 10 nM). Owing to metab...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fallon RD,Newell SY

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a microtiter plate method for screening a large number of bacterial isolates for the ability to grow on different crystalline polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Growth on PAHs cannot easily be determined with standard growth assays because of the very low aqueous solubility and bioavailability ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johnsen AR,Bendixen K,Karlson U

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Clostridium perfringens type A is a common source of foodborne illness (FBI) in humans. Vegetative cells sporulate in the small intestinal tract and produce the major pathogenic factor C. perfringens enterotoxin. Although sporulation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of FBI, the mechanisms inducing s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yasugi M,Okuzaki D,Kuwana R,Takamatsu H,Fujita M,Sarker MR,Miyake M

更新日期：2016-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification and classification of Vibrio species have relied upon band pattern methods (e.g., amplified fragment length polymorphism) and DNA-DNA hybridization. However, data generated by these methods cannot be used to build an online electronic taxonomy. In order to overcome these limitations, we developed the fi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thompson FL,Gomez-Gil B,Vasconcelos AT,Sawabe T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane production and archaeal community composition were studied in samples from an acidic peat bog incubated at different temperatures and pH values. H(2)-dependent methanogenesis increased strongly at the lowest pH, 3.8, and Methanobacteriaceae became important except for Methanomicrobiaceae and Methanosarcinaceae...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kotsyurbenko OR,Friedrich MW,Simankova MV,Nozhevnikova AN,Golyshin PN,Timmis KN,Conrad R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A physiological, unbalanced model is presented that explicitly describes growth of the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium sp. at the expense of N(2) (diazotrophy). The model involves the dynamics of intracellular reserves of carbon and nitrogen and allows the uncoupling of the metabolism of these elements. The result...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rabouille S,Staal M,Stal LJ,Soetaert K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of high diurnal water quality fluctuations in raw municipal wastewater, the use of proportional autosampling over a period of 24 h at municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to evaluate carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus removal has become a standard in many countries. Microbial removal or load estimation ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayer RE,Vierheilig J,Egle L,Reischer GH,Saracevic E,Mach RL,Kirschner AK,Zessner M,Sommer R,Farnleitner AH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial mercury methylation and methylmercury decomposition were examined in Lake Clara, an oligotrophic northern Wisconsin seepage lake, using radioisotopic tracers. Methylation activity was near background in the water column, was greatest in the profundal surficial sediments, and decreased with depth in sediment ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Korthals ET,Winfrey MR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The low-copy-number 8.7-kb plasmid pGIF3 of Streptomyces incarnatus was studied after cloning in the Escherichia coli vector pBR322; a restriction map was constructed. Southern blot analysis showed that pGIF3 in S. incarnatus occurs predominantly as integrated in a larger replicon. The plasmid carries a gene for thios...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Malina H,Robert-Gero M

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of the sesquiterpene farnesol (3,7,11-trimethyl-2,6,10-dodecatrien-1-ol) and the sesquiterpene derivative geosmin (1,10-trans-dimethyl-trans-9-decalol) were investigated in a geosmin-producing actinomycete, Streptomyces tendae. Exposure to 300 microM farnesol reduced biomass (fresh matter) accumulation by 97% ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dionigi CP,Millie DF,Johnsen PB

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hydrogen utilizing exoelectrogenic bacterium (Geobacter sulfurreducens) was compared to both a nonhydrogen oxidizer (Geobacter metallireducens) and a mixed consortium in order to compare the hydrogen production rates and hydrogen recoveries of pure and mixed cultures in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). At an app...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Call DF,Wagner RC,Logan BE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutacin 1140 belongs to the epidermin family of type AI lantibiotics. This family has a broad spectrum of activity against Gram-positive bacteria. The binding of mutacin 1140 to lipid II leads to the inhibition of cell wall synthesis. Pharmacokinetic experiments with type AI lantibiotics are generally discouraging for...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Geng M,Smith L

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody designated 302 beta that is specific for the beta subunit of the oxygenase component (ISPTOL) of toluene dioxygenase from Pseudomonas putida F1 was used to prepare an immunoaffinity column. ISPTOL in cell extracts of Escherichia coli JM109(pDTG611) bound to the column, and an enzyme-linked immuno...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lynch NA,Jiang H,Gibson DT

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acetylene block technique was used to assay denitrification in undisturbed sediment cores of an intertidal mud flat. Nitrogen loss due to this process was estimated at 1 to 41 kg of N/hectare (ha) per year. Anaerobic nitrate-saturated slurry of the same sediment had a denitrification capacity of 1,026 kg of N/ha p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kaspar HF

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is encountered frequently by Candida albicans during systemic infection of the human host. We tested if hypoxia allows biofilm formation by C. albicans, which is a major cause of perseverance and antifungal resistance in C. albicans infections. Using an in vitro biofilm system, we unexpectedly discovered that ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stichternoth C,Ernst JF

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of Mycobacterium avium complex-related lung disorders were associated with two poorly maintained spa pools by genotypic investigations. Inadequate disinfection of the two spas had reduced the load of environmental bacteria to less than 1 CFU/ml but allowed levels of M. avium complex of 4.3 x 10(4) and 4.5 ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lumb R,Stapledon R,Scroop A,Bond P,Cunliffe D,Goodwin A,Doyle R,Bastian I

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude extracts from 14 species of sulfate-reducing bacteria comprising the genera Desulfovibrio, Desulfotomaculum, Desulfobulbus, and Desulfosarcina and from three species of sulfide-oxidizing bacteria were tested in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with polyclonal antisera to adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odom JM,Jessie K,Knodel E,Emptage M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of colonization of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay plantlets by a plant growth-promoting bacterium, Burkholderia sp. strain PsJN, were studied under gnotobiotic conditions. Wild-type strain PsJN and genetically engineered derivatives of this strain tagged with gfp (PsJN::gfp2x) or gusA (PsJN::gusA11) genes w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Compant S,Reiter B,Sessitsch A,Nowak J,Clément C,Ait Barka E

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pure cultures of denitrifying bacteria, which had previously been isolated on defined alkylbenzenes, were capable of anaerobic growth with crude oil as the only source of organic substrates. Chemical analyses after growth revealed that the known growth substrates toluene, ethylbenzene, and m-xylene were selective...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rabus R,Widdel F

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trans unsaturated fatty acid was found as a major constituent in the lipids of Pseudomonas putida P8. The fatty acid was identified as 9-trans-hexadecenoic acid by gas chromatography, argentation thin-layer chromatography, and infrared absorption spectrometry. Growing cells of P. putida P8 reacted to the presence of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heipieper HJ,Diefenbach R,Keweloh H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of Listeria monocytogenes prevalence among ready-to-eat foods in Japan revealed frequent (5.7 to 12.1%) contamination of minced tuna and fish roe products, and the isolates had the same virulence levels as clinical isolates in terms of invasion efficiency and infectivity in cell cultures and a murine infec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miya S,Takahashi H,Ishikawa T,Fujii T,Kimura B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several variations in the scintillation mixture and the filter paper arrangements for double-vial radiorespirometry were compared. Improved efficiencies (44%) and shorter response times were found by adding wetting agents and methanolic NaOH to the scintillation mixture in the filter paper. The scintillation chemicals...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McKinley VL,Federle TW,Vestal JR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique, coleopteran-active protein, termed eCry3.1Ab, was generated following variable-region exchange of a Bacillus thuringiensis lepidopteran-active protein, Cry1Ab, with a Cry3A region. Our results support the hypothesis that this variable-region exchange is responsible for imparting strong bioactivity against th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Walters FS,deFontes CM,Hart H,Warren GW,Chen JS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00