Requirement of the galU gene for polysaccharide production by and pathogenicity and growth In Planta of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri.

abstract：:DNA dot blot hybridizations with a cryV-specific probe and a cryI-specific probe were performed to screen 24 Bacillus thuringiensis strains for their cryV-type (lepidopteran- and coleopteran-specific) and cryI-type (lepidopteran-specific) insecticidal crystal protein gene contents, respectively. The cryV-specific prob...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shin BS,Park SH,Choi SK,Koo BT,Lee ST,Kim JI

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans is a key cariogenic bacterium responsible for the initiation of tooth decay. Biofilm formation is a crucial virulence property. We discovered a putative glycosyltransferase, SMU_833, in S. mutans capable of modulating dynamic interactions between two key biofilm matrix components, glucan and extra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rainey K,Michalek SM,Wen ZT,Wu H

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil salinization is a growing threat to global agriculture and carbon sequestration, but to date it remains unclear how microbial processes will respond. We studied the acute response to salt exposure of a range of anabolic and catabolic microbial processes, including bacterial (leucine incorporation) and fungal (ace...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rath KM,Maheshwari A,Bengtson P,Rousk J

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultivation-independent analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences in vaginal samples revealed two previously unrecognized, uncultivated Megasphaera-like phylotypes. Phylogenetic analysis and environmental distribution suggest that these Megasphaera types may be unique to the vaginal environment. Quantitative PCR suggests th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zozaya-Hinchliffe M,Martin DH,Ferris MJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and dynamics of a bacterial community extracted from an exploited oil field with high natural soil salinity near Comodoro Rivadavia in Patagonia (Argentina) were investigated. Community shifts during long-term incubation with diesel fuel at four salinities between 0 and 20% NaCl were monitored by single-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kleinsteuber S,Riis V,Fetzer I,Harms H,Müller S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare strain of Clostridium botulinum subtype Ab was isolated from a canned macrobiotic food suspected of being linked to a fatal case of food-borne botulism. The strain was recovered and identified by conventional methods modified by the inclusion of a PCR assay (G. Franciosa, J.L. Ferreira, and C.L. Hatheway, J. Cl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Franciosa G,Fenicia L,Pourshaban M,Aureli P

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphaerotilus natans grew at the maximum specific growth rate (mu(max)) of 0.43/h when cultivated on PGY medium at 25 degrees C. The organism mainly grew attached to inside of the culture vessels when the culture medium was fed to the completely mixed continuous-flow apparatus at a dilution rate above mu(max) and the a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yoshikawa H,Takiguchi Y

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swimming in ocean water, including ocean water at beaches not impacted by known point sources of pollution, is an increasing health concern. This study was an initial evaluation of the presence of indicator microbes and pathogens and the association among the indicator microbes, pathogens, and environmental conditions...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abdelzaher AM,Wright ME,Ortega C,Solo-Gabriele HM,Miller G,Elmir S,Newman X,Shih P,Bonilla JA,Bonilla TD,Palmer CJ,Scott T,Lukasik J,Harwood VJ,McQuaig S,Sinigalliano C,Gidley M,Plano LR,Zhu X,Wang JD,Fleming LE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosin receptor kinase A (TrkA), a receptor tyrosine kinase, is known to be associated with various diseases. Thus, TrkA has become a major drug-screening target for these diseases. Despite the fact that the production of recombinant proteins by prokaryotic hosts has advantages, such as fast growth and ease of ge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Honda T,Yasuda T,Tanaka T,Hagiwara K,Arai T,Yoshino T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel, semicontinuous solid-phase fermentation system was used to produce fuel ethanol from sweet sorghum. The process was at an intermediate scale. In the process, dried and shredded sweet sorghum was rehydrated to 70% moisture, acidified to pH 2.0 to 3.0, and either pasteurized (12 h at 70 to 80 degrees C) or not ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gibbons WR,Westby CA,Dobbs TL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study measured the environmental variability which exists in a commercial aerobic composting process. The specific process studied is carried out in six decomposition cells which present six different phases of the process. Temperature, pH, and moisture content were determined in several randomly chosen sample si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Atchley SH,Clark JB

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographical and seasonal variation in the incidence and prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli in housed broiler flocks reared in Great Britain in 2004 to 2006 was investigated in this study. Ceca (30) from 797 flocks, not subject to prior partial depopulation and reared on 211 farms, were examined individual...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jorgensen F,Ellis-Iversen J,Rushton S,Bull SA,Harris SA,Bryan SJ,Gonzalez A,Humphrey TJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthrobacter sp. strain PBA metabolized phenylboronic acid to phenol. The oxygen atom in phenol was shown to be derived from the atmosphere using (18)O(2). 1-Naphthalene-, 2-naphthalene-, 3-cyanophenyl-, 2,5-fluorophenyl-, and 3-thiophene-boronic acids were also transformed to monooxygenated products. The oxygen atom ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Negrete-Raymond AC,Weder B,Wackett LP

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthrobacter aurescens strain TC1 metabolizes atrazine to cyanuric acid via TrzN, AtzB, and AtzC. The complete sequence of a 160-kb bacterial artificial chromosome clone indicated that trzN, atzB, and atzC are linked on the A. aurescens genome. TrzN, AtzB, and AtzC were shown to be functional in Escherichia coli. Hybr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sajjaphan K,Shapir N,Wackett LP,Palmer M,Blackmon B,Tomkins J,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the purification and characterization of propionicin F, the first bacteriocin isolated from Propionibacterium freudenreichii. The bacteriocin has a bactericidal activity and is only active against strains of P. freudenreichii. Propionicin F appears to be formed through a processing pathway new to b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brede DA,Faye T,Johnsborg O,Odegård I,Nes IF,Holo H

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of 2 mg of Pb2+/g of soil concident with or after amendment with starch or maltose resulted in 75 and 50% decreases in net synthesis of amylase and alpha-glucosidase, respectively. Invertase synthesis in sucrose-amended soil was transiently reduced after Pb2+ addition. Amylase activity was several times less ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cole MA

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane filtration method incorporating a combination of anaerobic and aerobic incubation has been developed for the enumeration of Aeromonas spp. in drinking water. The use of anaerobic incubation improved the detection of Aeromonas spp. by reducing the growth of nonaeromonads. The confirmation rate of presumptive...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cunliffe DA,Adcock P

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructansucrase enzymes polymerize the fructose moiety of sucrose into levan or inulin fructans, with beta(2-6) and beta(2-1) linkages, respectively. The probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus johnsonii strain NCC 533 possesses a single fructansucrase gene (open reading frame AAS08734) annotated as a putative levansucrase p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Anwar MA,Kralj S,van der Maarel MJ,Dijkhuizen L

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibenzothiophene (DBT) and its derivatives can be microbially desulfurized by enzymes DszC, DszA, and DszB, which are encoded by the operon dszABC and contribute to the conversion in tandem. We investigated the expression characteristics of the dsz operon. Our results revealed that the levels of transcription and tran...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li GQ,Li SS,Zhang ML,Wang J,Zhu L,Liang FL,Liu RL,Ma T

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium longum strain JDM301, a widely used commercial strain in China, encodes at least two MazEF-like modules and one RelBE-like toxin-antitoxin (TA) system in its chromosome, designated MazE1F1Bif, MazE2F2Bif, and RelBEBif, respectively. Bacterial TA systems play an important role in several stress response...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wei Y,Li Y,Yang F,Wu Q,Liu D,Li X,Hua H,Liu X,Wang Y,Zheng K,Tang R

更新日期：2017-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This study quantified the levels of airborne microorganisms in six swine farms with more than 10,000 pigs in subtropical Taiwan. We evaluated breeding, growing, and finishing stalls, which were primarily open-air buildings, as well as partially enclosed farrowing and nursery piggeries. Airborne culturable bacteria, gr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chang CW,Chung H,Huang CF,Su HJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) is a pathogen of young salmon and trout. Viral epizootics among these fish in private and public rearing facilities have been a problem in the northwestern United States from California to Alaska, and an IHNV vaccine has been sought by the aquaculture experts. Since an IH...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Engelking HM,Harry JB,Leong JA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineral soil-based inoculants of Rhizobium meliloti and Rhizobium phaseoli survived better at 4 degrees C than at higher temperatures, but ca. 15% of the cells were viable at 37 degrees C after 27 days. Soil-based inoculants of R. meliloti, R. phaseoli, Rhizobium japonicum, and a cowpea Rhizobium sp. applied to seeds ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chao WL,Alexander M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens" is an archaeon that couples the anaerobic oxidation of methane to nitrate reduction. In natural and man-made ecosystems, this archaeon is often found at oxic-anoxic interfaces where nitrate, the product of aerobic nitrification, cooccurs with methane produced by methanogens. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guerrero-Cruz S,Cremers G,van Alen TA,Op den Camp HJM,Jetten MSM,Rasigraf O,Vaksmaa A

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assembled a collection of 13 psychrophilic ligA alleles that can serve as genetic elements for engineering mesophiles to a temperature-sensitive (TS) phenotype. When these ligA alleles were substituted into Francisella novicida, they conferred a TS phenotype with restrictive temperatures between 33 and 39°C. W...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pankowski JA,Puckett SM,Nano FE

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:After propagation of Rhizopus javanicus in defined media containing glucose, urea, and mineral salts in deionized distilled water, the ability of the nonliving biomass to sequester cupric ion was assayed. Growth, uptake capacity (saturation uptake at >1 mM Cu concentration in solution), and biosorptive yield (biomass ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Treen-Sears ME,Martin SM,Volesky B

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular method based on restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of PCR-amplified fragments of the 23S rRNA gene was designed to rapidly identify Listeria strains to the species level. Two fragments (S1, 460 bp, and S2, 890 bp) were amplified from boiled DNA. S2 was cut with the restriction enzymes XmnI or ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paillard D,Dubois V,Duran R,Nathier F,Guittet C,Caumette P,Quentin C

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of drying time during freeze-drying on the outermost cell surface of an encapsulated strain of Staphylococcus aureus S-7 (Smith, diffuse) were investigated, with special attention paid to capsule and slime production. To quantify capsule and slime production, capsule antigen production and cellular charact...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ohtomo T,Yamada T,Yoshida K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all purification stages of a biological sewage treatment plant, phototrophic bacteria were detected by the method of viable cell counts. The predominant species identified belonged to the genus Rhodopseudomonas of purple nonsulfur bacteria. The number of phototrophic bacteria was highest in wastewater containing sl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Siefert E,Irgens RL,Pfennig N

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium botulinum 62A and ATCC 25763 spores required heat activation for maximum colony formation when plated on reinforced clostridial agar (BBL Microbiology Systems) but not when plated on botulinum assay medium. Spores from strains B-aphis and 53B did not exhibit heat activation when plated on either medium. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Montville TJ

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00