Determination of clonality and relatedness of Vibrio cholerae isolates by genomic fingerprinting, using long-range repetitive element sequence-based PCR.

abstract：:A dense exopolysaccharide (EPS) matrix is crucial for cyanobacterial survival in terrestrial xeric environments, in which cyanobacteria undergo frequent expansion and shrinkage processes during environmental desiccation-rehydration cycles. However, it is unclear how terrestrial cyanobacteria coordinate the structural ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu W,Cui L,Xu H,Zhu Z,Gao X

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The world's largest outbreak of waterborne toxoplasmosis occurred in a municipality in the western Canadian province of British Columbia. When drinking water emerged as a possible source of infection during the outbreak investigation, a laboratory method was needed to attempt detection of the parasite, Toxoplasma gond...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Isaac-Renton J,Bowie WR,King A,Irwin GS,Ong CS,Fung CP,Shokeir MO,Dubey JP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the submersible JAGO and by scuba diving we discovered three remarkable geothermal cones, rising 33, 25, and 45 m from the seafloor at a depth of 65 m in Eyjafjordur, northern Iceland. The greatest geothermal activity was on the highest cone, which discharged up to 50 liters of freshwater per s at 72 degrees C an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marteinsson VT,Kristjánsson JK,Kristmannsdóttir H,Dahlkvist M,Saemundsson K,Hannington M,Pétursdóttir SK,Geptner A,Stoffers P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a batch of barley associated with field cases of mycotoxic porcine nephropathy and containing ochratoxin A and citrinin, the mycoflora were isolated by parallel incubation at 10 and 25 degrees C. Subsequently, the isolated cultures were checked for production of nephrotoxins (xanthomegnin, viomellein, ochratoxin, a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hald B,Christensen DH,Krogh P

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant plasmids containing fusion proteins composed of two different modules were constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli. The modules encoded the lactase LacA (LacZ) from the thermophilic bacterium Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus and the cellulase CelD, a cellulose-binding module (CBM) from Anaerocellum the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Velikodvorskaya GA,Tikhonova TV,Gurvits ID,Karyagina AS,Lavrova NV,Sergienko OV,Tashlitskii VN,Lunina NA,Lunin VG

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenanthrene-degrading bacteria were isolated from a 1-m2 intertidal sediment site in Boston Harbor. Samples were taken six times over 2 years. A total of 432 bacteria were isolated and characterized by biochemical testing. When clustered on the basis of phenotypic characteristics, the isolates could be separated into...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berardesco G,Dyhrman S,Gallagher E,Shiaris MP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain TCE1 is capable of metabolically reducing tetra- and trichloroethenes by organohalide respiration. A previous study revealed that the pce gene cluster responsible for this process is located on an active composite transposon, Tn-Dha1. In the present work, we investigated the effects...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duret A,Holliger C,Maillard J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient insertion mutagenesis strategy for bacterial genomes based on the phage Mu DNA transposition reaction was developed. Incubation of MuA transposase protein with artificial mini-Mu transposon DNA in the absence of divalent cations in vitro resulted in stable but inactive Mu DNA transposition complexes, or t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lamberg A,Nieminen S,Qiao M,Savilahti H

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are in constant contact with a community of soil biota that contains fungi ranging from pathogenic to symbiotic. A few studies have demonstrated a critical role of chemical communication in establishing highly specialized relationships, but the general role for root exudates in structuring the soil fungal commu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Broeckling CD,Broz AK,Bergelson J,Manter DK,Vivanco JM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a biphasic culture system consisting of 4 ml of brucella agar (BA) and 6 ml of brucella broth (BB) in 25-cm2 tissue culture flasks, which were incubated in air (BB/BAa) or in a gas mixture of 5% O2, 10% CO2, and 85% N2 (BB/BAg). These media were also used with a supplement consisting of ferrous sulfate, s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rollins DM,Coolbaugh JC,Walker RI,Weiss E

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of deep-sea high-pressure-adapted (piezophilic) microbes in isolated monoculture remains low. In this study, a novel obligately psychropiezophilic bacterium was isolated from seawater collected from the Puerto Rico Trench at a depth of ∼6,000 m. This isolate, designated YC-1, grew best in a nutrient-rich...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cao Y,Chastain RA,Eloe EA,Nogi Y,Kato C,Bartlett DH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tractable model organisms are essential to characterize the molecular mechanisms of evolution and adaptation, the ecological relevance of their behavior is not always clear because certain traits are easily lost during long-term laboratory culturing. Here, we demonstrate that despite their long tenure in the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beer KD,Wurtmann EJ,Pinel N,Baliga NS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next-generation sequencing (NGS) opens up exciting possibilities for improving our knowledge of environmental microbial diversity, allowing rapid and cost-effective identification of both cultivated and uncultivated microorganisms. However, library preparation, sequencing, and analysis of the results can provide inacc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cruaud P,Vigneron A,Lucchetti-Miganeh C,Ciron PE,Godfroy A,Cambon-Bonavita MA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied a multilocus phylogenetic approach to elucidate the origin of serradella and lupin Bradyrhizobium strains that persist in soils of Western Australia and South Africa. The selected strains belonged to different randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR clusters that were distinct from RAPD clusters of ap...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stepkowski T,Moulin L,Krzyzańska A,McInnes A,Law IJ,Howieson J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) constitute a new family of fungal heme-thiolate enzymes in which there is high biotechnological interest. Although several thousand genes encoding hypothetical UPO-type proteins have been identified in sequenced fungal genomes and other databases, only a few UPO enzymes have been experi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Linde D,Olmedo A,González-Benjumea A,Estévez M,Renau-Mínguez C,Carro J,Fernández-Fueyo E,Gutiérrez A,Martínez AT

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron-oxidizing thiobacilli were adapted to grow on a chalcopyrite and a galena ore concentrate. When grown on the chalcopyrite concentrate, the bacteria exhibited a doubling time of 38.4 +/- 2.9 h, with a final cellular protein concentration of 185 mug/ml and solubilization of 10.3 g of copper per liter. When grown on...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kingma JG,Silver M

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria can survive on hospital textiles and surfaces, from which they can be disseminated, representing a source of health care-associated infections (HCAIs). Surfaces containing copper (Cu), which is known for its bactericidal properties, could be an efficient way to lower the burden of potential pathogens. The ant...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rio L,Kusiak-Nejman E,Kiwi J,Bétrisey B,Pulgarin C,Trampuz A,Bizzini A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When mixed ruminal bacteria were inoculated into semicontinuous cultures (25% transfer every other day) containing lactate, dulcitol, pectin, or xylose and Trypticase (1 g/liter) as the sole nitrogen source, the specific activity of ammonia production increased. The greatest enrichment was observed with lactate and xy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Russell JB,Strobel HJ,Chen GJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Columns were packed with clean quartz sand, sterilized, and inoculated with different strains of bacteria, which multiplied within the sand at the expense of a continuous supply of fresh nutrient medium. The saturated hydraulic conductivity (HCsat) of the sand was monitored over time. Among the four bacterial strains ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vandevivere P,Baveye P

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report the cloning and expression of lipase gene from Pseudomonas fluorescens B52, a psychrotrophic spoilage bacterium isolated from refrigerated raw milk. Sequence analysis revealed one major open reading frame of 1,428 nucleotides that was predicted to encode a protein with a molecular weight of 50...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tan Y,Miller KJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of six genes that encode enzymes from glutamate-fermenting bacteria converted Escherichia coli into a glutaconate producer when grown anaerobically on a complex medium. The new anaerobic pathway starts with 2-oxoglutarate from general metabolism and proceeds via (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate, (R)-2-hydroxyglutar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Djurdjevic I,Zelder O,Buckel W

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acylation of epsilon amino groups of lysyl side chains is a widespread modification of proteins and small molecules in cells of all three domains of life. Recently, we showed that Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus anthracis encode the GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) SatA that can acetylate and inactivate streptot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burckhardt RM,Escalante-Semerena JC

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mexico is located in a transition zone between the Nearctic and Neotropical biogeographical regions and contains a rich and unique biodiversity. A total of 496 Bacillus thuringiensis strains were isolated from 503 soil samples collected from the five macroregions of the country. The characterization of the strain coll...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bravo A,Sarabia S,Lopez L,Ontiveros H,Abarca C,Ortiz A,Ortiz M,Lina L,Villalobos FJ,Peña G,Nuñez-Valdez ME,Soberón M,Quintero R

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyphomicrobium chloromethanicum CM2(T), an aerobic methylotrophic member of the alpha subclass of the class proteobacteria, can grow with chloromethane as the sole carbon and energy source. H. chloromethanicum possesses an inducible enzyme system for utilization of chloromethane, in which two polypeptides (67-kDa CmuA...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McAnulla C,Woodall CA,McDonald IR,Studer A,Vuilleumier S,Leisinger T,Murrell JC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy calves (n = 96, 1 to 9 weeks old) from a dairy herd in central Pennsylvania were examined each month over a five-month period for fecal shedding of ceftiofur-resistant gram-negative bacteria. Ceftiofur-resistant Escherichia coli isolates (n = 122) were characterized by antimicrobial resistance (disk diffusion ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Donaldson SC,Straley BA,Hegde NV,Sawant AA,DebRoy C,Jayarao BM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of bioluminescence as a sensitive marker for detection of Pseudomonas spp. in the rhizosphere was investigated. Continuous expression of the luxCDABE genes, required for bioluminescence, was not detectable in the rhizosphere. However, when either a naphthalene-inducible luxCDABE construct or a constitutive lux...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： de Weger LA,Dunbar P,Mahafee WF,Lugtenberg BJ,Sayler GS

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia spp. were isolated from 34 of 500 birds representing nine species. The highest isolation rate, 5 of 21 (23.8%), was found in blue magpies (Cyanopia cyanus), followed by pheasants (Phasianus colchicus tohkaidi), 5 of 33 (15.2%); gray starlings (Sturnus cineraceus), 6 of 57 (10.5%); tree sparrows (Passer montan...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kato Y,Ito K,Kubokura Y,Maruyama T,Kaneko K,Ogawa M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological impact of 24-h ("chronic") chromium(VI) [Cr(VI) or chromate] exposure on Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 was assessed by analyzing cellular morphology as well as genome-wide differential gene and protein expression profiles. Cells challenged aerobically with an initial chromate concentration of 0.3 mM in com...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chourey K,Thompson MR,Morrell-Falvey J,Verberkmoes NC,Brown SD,Shah M,Zhou J,Doktycz M,Hettich RL,Thompson DK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medium-chain-length (mcl) poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) are storage polymers that are produced from various substrates and accumulate in Pseudomonas strains belonging to rRNA homology group I. In experiments aimed at increasing PHA production in Pseudomonas strains, we generated an mcl PHA-overproducing mutant of P...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Klinke S,Dauner M,Scott G,Kessler B,Witholt B

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In samples of flooded soil containing blue-green algae (cyanobacteria), the presence of rice plants did not influence the nitrogenase activity of the algae. Nitrogenase activity of heterotrophic bacteria was enhanced by the presence of rice plants, but this activity was not affected by changes in plant density. The ra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Habte M,Alexander M

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00