Increased crystalline cellulose activity via combinations of amino acid changes in the family 9 catalytic domain and family 3c cellulose binding module of Thermobifida fusca Cel9A.

abstract：:To enhance the production of isoprene, a volatile 5-carbon hydrocarbon, in the Gram-positive spore-forming rod-shaped bacterium Bacillus subtilis, 1-deoxy-d-xylulose-5-phosphate synthase (Dxs) and 1-deoxy-d-xylulose-5-phosphate reductoisomerase (Dxr) were overexpressed in B. subtilis DSM 10. For the strain that overex...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xue J,Ahring BK

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen debranching enzyme (GDE) has 4-alpha-glucanotransferase and amylo-1,6-glucosidase activities in the single polypeptide chain. We analyzed the detailed action profile of GDE from Saccharomyces cerevisiae on amylose and tested whether GDE catalyzes cyclization of amylose. GDE treatment resulted in a rapid reduc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yanase M,Takata H,Takaha T,Kuriki T,Smith SM,Okada S

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the human gut microbiota can be divided into enterotypes based on the abundance of specific bacterial groups; however, the biological significance and stability of these enterotypes remain unresolved. Here, we demonstrated that subjects (n = 62) 18 to 65 years old with central obesity and co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Roager HM,Licht TR,Poulsen SK,Larsen TM,Bahl MI

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aerobic intestinal microflora of 2-week-old herring (Clupea harengus) larvae was characterized by using conventional microbiological methods and electron microscopy. Larvae were hatched and kept in filtered seawater or in seawater with penicillin and streptomycin. The gastrointestinal tract of herring larvae is es...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hansen GH,Strøm E,Olafsen JA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial content of specially treated cottons used by other investigators to test human pulmonary responses to cotton dust was examined. Cotton from Lubbock, Tex. and Stoneville, Miss. were either (i) harvested by machine and handled as commercial bale cotton, (ii) harvested as closed bolls with bracts intact and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Millner PD,Ericson KE,Marsh PB

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter infections are the most common cause of bacterial enteritis in humans, and nearly 8% of such infections are caused by Campylobacter coli. Most studies have concentrated on Campylobacter jejuni, frequently isolated from intensively farmed poultry and livestock production units, and few studies have examin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leatherbarrow AJ,Hart CA,Kemp R,Williams NJ,Ridley A,Sharma M,Diggle PJ,Wright EJ,Sutherst J,French NP

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wood protection industry has refined their products from chrome-, copper-, and arsenate-based wood preservatives toward solely copper-based preservatives in combination with organic biocides. One of these is Cu-HDO, containing the chelation product of copper and N-cyclohexyldiazenium dioxide (HDO). In this study, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jakobs-Schönwandt D,Mathies H,Abraham WR,Pritzkow W,Stephan I,Noll M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.8-kb chromosomal DNA fragment of the mycoplasmalike organism (MLO) associated with apple proliferation was sequenced. Three putative open reading frames were observed on this fragment. The protein encoded by open reading frame 2 shows significant homologies with bacterial nitroreductases. From the nucleotide seque...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jarausch W,Saillard C,Dosba F,Bové JM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversities leaf-associated bacteria on nonnodulated (Nod(-)), wild-type nodulated (Nod(+)), and hypernodulated (Nod(++)) soybeans were evaluated by clone library analyses of the 16S rRNA gene. To analyze the impact of nitrogen fertilization on the bacterial leaf community, soybeans were treated with standard nitr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ikeda S,Anda M,Inaba S,Eda S,Sato S,Sasaki K,Tabata S,Mitsui H,Sato T,Shinano T,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Separating dietary fiber from other polysaccharides in digesta and feces is necessary to understand its mechanisms of action. A gravimetric method that separates fecal plant and bacterial matter based on size and density was evaluated and modified to determine the plant and bacterial mass of lyophilized whole and blen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cabotaje LM,López-Guisa JM,Shinnick FL,Marlett JA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal activity of cecropin A(2-8)-melittin(6-9) hybrid undecapeptides, previously reported as active against plant pathogenic bacteria, was studied. A set of 15 sequences was screened in vitro against Fusarium oxysporum, Penicillium expansum, Aspergillus niger, and Rhizopus stolonifer. Most compounds were hig...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Badosa E,Ferré R,Francés J,Bardají E,Feliu L,Planas M,Montesinos E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, Borrelia burgdorferi genospecies causing Lyme borreliosis are mainly transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus. Since its discovery, B. burgdorferi has been the subject of many epidemiological studies to determine its prevalence and the distribution of the different genospecies in ticks. In the current study w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rauter C,Hartung T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a tool for controlled expression of heterologous or ectopic genes in the chestnut pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica using the promoter region from a putative copper-regulated transporter gene. In addition, we have found that expression control via this system is not affected by the virulence-attenuat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Willyerd KL,Kemp AM,Dawe AL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sediment-water interface in Halifax Harbor supports a microbial population of 6.95 x 10 cells per g (dry weight). As determined by the standard technique of suspending subsamples in filtered seawater, the uptake of added glutamic acid by this population is 113.5 ng g (dry weight) h. An alternate technique was deve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Novitsky JA

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：:The unusual compound beta-aminoglutaric acid (beta-glutamate) has been identified by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in soluble extracts of marine methanogenic bacteria. We examined several methanogen species representing nine genera and found that beta-glutamate occurred in methanococci and two methanogen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robertson DE,Roberts MF,Belay N,Stetter KO,Boone DR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of the Hg2+ resistance mechanism of four freshwater and four coastal marine bacteria that did not hybridize with a mer operonic probe was conducted (T. Barkay, C. Liebert, and M. Gillman, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 55:1196-1202, 1989). Hybridization with a merA probe, the gene encoding the mercuric red...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barkay T,Gillman M,Liebert C

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the expression of the two major chitinase genes, ech42 (encoding the CHIT42 endochitinase) and nag1 (encoding the CHIT73 N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase), of the chitinolytic system of the mycoparasitic biocontrol fungus Trichoderma atroviride (= Trichoderma harzianum P1) was investigated by using a repo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mach RL,Peterbauer CK,Payer K,Jaksits S,Woo SL,Zeilinger S,Kullnig CM,Lorito M,Kubicek CP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) degradation potential was investigated in samples from a range of sources. From these 22 experimental variations, only one source (from wastewater treatment plant samples) exhibited MTBE degradation. These microcosms were methanogenic and were subjected to DNA-based stable isot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sun W,Sun X,Cupples AM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simplified X-ray film method for detecting bacterial production of Hgo by Escherichia coli was developed. There was excellent agreement of results between this X-ray film method and radioactive mercury volatilization assays. Although not quantitative, the X-ray film method has the advantages of being rapid, simple t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakamura K,Nakahara H

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), produced by neurotoxigenic clostridia, is the most potent biological toxin known and the causative agent of the paralytic disease botulism. The nutritional, environmental, and genetic regulation of BoNT synthesis, activation, stability, and toxin complex (TC) formation is not well studied....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fredrick CM,Lin G,Johnson EA

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth kinetics of Flavobacterium sp. strain S12 specialized in the utilization of glycerol, and a number of oligo- and polysaccharides were determined in batch-culture experiments at 15 degrees C in pasteurized tap water supplied with very low amounts of substrates. Kss for the growth on maltotriose, maltotetraos...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Kooij D,Hijnen WA

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method of detecting extracellular protease activity at biofilm-substratum interfaces was developed. This method utilizes fluorescent molecules bound to cellulose substrata with a lectin. Extracellular proteases degrade the lectin and release the fluorochrome into solution. This new technique and a standard dis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Francoeur SN,Wetzel RG,Neely RK

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To overcome the limited availability of antibiotic resistance markers in filamentous fungi, we adapted the FLP/FRT recombination system from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for marker recycling. We tested this system in the penicillin producer Penicillium chrysogenum using different experimental approaches. In a tw...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kopke K,Hoff B,Kück U

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of whole cells containing cytochrome P-450BM-3 monooxygenase [EC 1.14.14.1] for the bioconversion of long-chain saturated fatty acids to omega-1, omega-2, and omega-3 hydroxy fatty acids was investigated. We utilized pentadecanoic acid and studied its conversion to a mixture of 12-, 13-, and 14-hydroxy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schneider S,Wubbolts MG,Sanglard D,Witholt B

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in the phylum Acidobacteria are widely distributed and abundant in soils, but their ecological roles are poorly understood, owing in part to a paucity of cultured representatives. In a molecular survey of acidobacterial diversity at the Michigan State University Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eichorst SA,Breznak JA,Schmidt TM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent declines in sea grass distribution underscore the importance of understanding microbial community structure-function relationships in sea grass rhizospheres that might affect the viability of these plants. Phospholipid fatty acid analyses showed that sulfate-reducing bacteria and clostridia were enriched in sed...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Küsel K,Pinkart HC,Drake HL,Devereux R

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus oryzae has been used in the food and beverage industry for centuries, and industrial strains have been produced by multiple rounds of selection. Targeted gene deletion technology is particularly useful for strain improvement in such strains, particularly when they do not have a well-characterized meiotic c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hunter AJ,Morris TA,Jin B,Saint CP,Kelly JM

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium gradients in cyanobacteria play an important role in energy storage under photoautotrophic conditions but have not been well studied during autofermentative metabolism under the dark, anoxic conditions widely used to produce precursors to fuels. Here we demonstrate significant stress-induced acceleration of aut...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Carrieri D,Ananyev G,Lenz O,Bryant DA,Dismukes GC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciprofloxacin (CIP), a fluoroquinolone antibacterial drug, is widely used in the treatment of serious infections in humans. Its degradation by basidiomycetous fungi was studied by monitoring 14CO2 production from [14C]CIP in liquid cultures. Sixteen species inhabiting wood, soil, humus, or animal dung produced up to 3...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wetzstein HG,Stadler M,Tichy HV,Dalhoff A,Karl W

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00