Cloning, sequence analysis, and expression in Escherichia coli of a gene coding for a beta-mannanase from the extremely thermophilic bacterium "Caldocellum saccharolyticum".

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 662 in vol. 45.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Northeastern Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) have a multichambered stomach system which includes a nonglandular forestomach resembling that of ruminants. Bacteria from the forestomachs of herring-eating whales were enumerated and isolated in an anaerobic rumen-like culture medium (M8W medium). The t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Olsen MA,Aagnes TH,Mathiesen SD

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:The first inducible Arthrobacter overexpression system, based on the promoter/operator and the repressor of the 6-D-hydroxynicotine oxidase gene of Arthrobacter nicotinovorans, is described here. Nicotine-dependent overproduction and affinity purification of recombinant proteins are presented. The system will allow th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sandu C,Chiribau CB,Sachelaru P,Brandsch R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Micavibrio aeruginosavorus are highly motile Gram-negative predatory bacteria with the potential of being used as biocontrol agents or living antibiotics. It was suggested previously that sugar-binding proteins play a role in M. aeruginosavorus and B. bacteriovorus host specificity and p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dashiff A,Keeling TG,Kadouri DE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae is a common foliar bacterium responsible for many important plant diseases. We studied the population structure and dynamics of the core genome of P. syringae via multilocus sequencing typing (MLST) of 60 strains, representing 21 pathovars and 2 nonpathogens, isolated from a variety of plant hosts...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sarkar SF,Guttman DS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although molecular techniques have identified Helicobacter pylori in drinking water-associated biofilms, there is a lack of studies reporting what factors affect the attachment of the bacterium to plumbing materials. Therefore, the adhesion of H. pylori suspended in distilled water to stainless steel 304 (SS304) coupo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azevedo NF,Pinto AR,Reis NM,Vieira MJ,Keevil CW

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria play important roles in mineral weathering and soil formation. However, few reports of mineral weathering bacteria inhabiting subsurfaces of soil profiles have been published, raising the question of whether the subsurface weathering bacteria are fundamentally distinct from those in surface communities. To ad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang J,Sheng XF,Xi J,He LY,Huang Z,Wang Q,Zhang ZD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is among the most important food-borne pathogens and is well adapted to persist in the environment. To gain insight into the genetic relatedness and potential virulence of L. monocytogenes strains causing central nervous system (CNS) infections, we used multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Balandyté L,Brodard I,Frey J,Oevermann A,Abril C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a rapid and efficient method for producing the capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae by fermentation on tryptic soy broth and purification of this compound by using immobilized soybean lectin as an affinity adsorbent. In principle, the same strategy can be used to produce purified capsular po...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Suárez N,Fraguas LF,Texeira E,Massaldi H,Batista-Viera F,Ferreira F

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to bile is a prerequisite property of the gastrointestinal bacterial flora. Bile acids are powerful detergents, and resistance to sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) has therefore often been considered relevant to studies of bile resistance. We have studied the effects of bovine bile (BB) and SDS on Enterococcus f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Solheim M,Aakra A,Vebø H,Snipen L,Nes IF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six lactic acid bacterium strains isolated from European dairy products were identified as Streptococcus thermophilus and characterized by bacterial growth and exopolysaccharide (EPS)-producing capacity in milk and enriched milk medium. In addition, the acidification rates of the different strains were compared...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vaningelgem F,Zamfir M,Mozzi F,Adriany T,Vancanneyt M,Swings J,De Vuyst L

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel quantitative real-time PCR (Q-PCR) method for the soil actinomycete Rhodococcus equi, an important horse pathogen and emerging human pathogen. Species-specific quantification was achieved by targeting the chromosomal monocopy gene choE, universally conserved in R. equi. The choE Q-PCR included an ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rodríguez-Lázaro D,Lewis DA,Ocampo-Sosa AA,Fogarty U,Makrai L,Navas J,Scortti M,Hernández M,Vázquez-Boland JA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile oyster disease (JOD) causes significant annual mortalities of hatchery-produced Eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, cultured in the Northeast. We have reported that a novel species of the alpha-proteobacteria Roseobacter group (designated CVSP) was numerically dominant in JOD-affected animals sampled duri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boettcher KJ,Barber BJ,Singer JT

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been described which can compare the efficacy of different nongermicidal handwashing protocols for removal of transient microbial flora without the necessity of establishing or relying on a previously determined baseline for an individual subject. The wash effluent is collected, and colony counts for the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vesley D,Lillquist DR,Le CT

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initiation of methanogenesis in refuse occurs under high volatile fatty acid (VFA) concentration and low pH (5.5 to 6.25), which generally are reported to inhibit methanogenic Archaea. One hypothesized mechanism for the initiation of methanogenesis in refuse decomposition is the presence of pH-neutral niches withi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Staley BF,de Los Reyes FL 3rd,Barlaz MA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from raw milk by a method that can routinely detect less than or equal to 1 organism per ml. This procedure was used in a survey of 195 separate farms and showed a 1.5% incidence of C. jejuni in milk from bulk tanks. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lovett J,Francis DW,Hunt JM

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioisotope method was devised to study bacterial respiratory reduction of arsenate in sediments. The following two arsenic-rich soda lakes in California were chosen for comparison on the basis of their different salinities: Mono Lake (approximately 90 g/liter) and Searles Lake (approximately 340 g/liter). Profiles...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulp TR,Hoeft SE,Miller LG,Saltikov C,Murphy JN,Han S,Lanoil B,Oremland RS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the food-grade bacterium Lactococcus lactis as a DNA delivery vehicle at the mucosal level is an attractive DNA vaccination strategy. Previous experiments showed that recombinant L. lactis expressing the Listeria monocytogenes inlA gene can deliver a functional gene into mammalian cells. Here, we explored t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guimarães VD,Innocentin S,Lefèvre F,Azevedo V,Wal JM,Langella P,Chatel JM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of silicic acid on the growth of Thermus thermophilus TMY, an extreme thermophile isolated from a siliceous deposit formed from geothermal water at a geothermal power plant in Japan, were examined at 75 degrees C. At concentrations higher than the solubility of amorphous silica (400 to 700 ppm SiO(2)), a s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Doi K,Fujino Y,Inagaki F,Kawatsu R,Tahara M,Ohshima T,Okaue Y,Yokoyama T,Iwai S,Ogata S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromate reductase purified from Pseudomonas ambigua was found to be homologous with several nitroreductases. Escherichia coli DH5alpha and Vibrio harveyi KCTC 2720 nitroreductases were chosen for the present study, and their chromate-reducing activities were determined. A fusion between glutathione S-transferase ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kwak YH,Lee DS,Kim HB

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of two enzymes, a 168-kDa protein and a 40-kDa protein, OmtA, purified from the filamentous fungus Aspergillus parasiticus were reported to convert the aflatoxin pathway intermediate sterigmatocystin to O-methylsterigmatocystin in vitro. Our initial goal was to determine if OmtA is necessary and suffici...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee LW,Chiou CH,Linz JE

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 896 samples of retail fresh meats and poultry was assayed for Escherichia coli serogroup O157:H7 by a hydrophobic grid membrane filter-immunoblot procedure developed specifically to isolate the organism from foods. The procedure involves several steps, including selective enrichment, filtration of enrichmen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Doyle MP,Schoeni JL

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of the aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria was isolated from a deep-ocean hydrothermal vent plume environment. The in vivo absorption spectra of cells indicate the presence of bacteriochlorophyll a incorporated into light-harvesting complex I and a reaction center. The general morphological and physiol...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yurkov V,Beatty JT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens 5R contains an NAH7-like plasmid (pKA1), and P. fluorescens 5R mutant 5RL contains a bioluminescent reporter plasmid (pUTK21) which was constructed by transposon mutagenesis. Polymerase chain reaction mapping confirmed the localization of lux transposon Tn4431 300 bp downstream from the start o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Menn FM,Applegate BM,Sayler GS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Florfenicol resistance was analyzed in 230 enteric pig isolates collected between 1998 and 2006. PCR, plasmid profiling, Southern blot hybridization, and a mixed-broth conjugation assay suggested the intra- and interspecies plasmid-mediated transfer of florfenicol resistance among the isolates that exhibited MICs for ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rayamajhi N,Cha SB,Kang ML,Lee SI,Lee HS,Yoo HS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium was grown at salt concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 7.5% in minimal medium with and without added osmoprotectant and in a rich medium. In minimal medium, the cells showed an initial decline period, and consequently the definition of the lag time of the resultant log count curve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhou K,George SM,Métris A,Li PL,Baranyi J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field-collected larvae of the tussock moth, Lymantria ninayi, a major pest of exotic pines in Papua New Guinea, were found to contain a small RNA-containing virus with a diameter of 29 nm and a buoyant density of 1.32 g/ml. The RNA was single stranded, had a molecular weight of 2.8 x 10, and was polyadenylated. Virion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pullin JS,Black F,King LA,Entwistle PF,Moore NF

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pervasive environmental stressors on coral reefs are attributed with shifting the competitive balance in favor of alternative dominants, such as macroalgae. Previous studies have demonstrated that macroalgae compete with corals via a number of mechanisms, including the production of potent primary and secondary metabo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morrow KM,Bromhall K,Motti CA,Munn CB,Bourne DG

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The current project was developed to examine inactivation of biofilm bacteria and to characterize the interaction of biocides with pipe surfaces. Unattached bacteria were quite susceptible to the variety of disinfectants tested. Viable bacterial counts were reduced 99% by exposure to 0.08 mg of hypochlorous acid (pH 7...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： LeChevallier MW,Cawthon CD,Lee RG

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00