AidH, an alpha/beta-hydrolase fold family member from an Ochrobactrum sp. strain, is a novel N-acylhomoserine lactonase.

abstract：:Isolation of amoebae from the surface and internal tissues of edible mushrooms was investigated. Samples tested over a 3-year period included mushrooms cultivated from six geographic localities. Of 168 mushroom surfaces tested, 161 (96%) yielded amoebae. Of 166 samples of internal stalk and cap tissues tested, only 1 ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Napolitano JJ

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus has been found to persist in the environment for hours to days, allowing for secondary transmission of influenza via inanimate objects known as fomites. We evaluated the efficacy of heat and moisture for the decontamination of surfaces for the purpose of preventing of the spread of influenza. Aqueous s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McDevitt J,Rudnick S,First M,Spengler J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arginine deiminase system in a variety of streptococci and in Pseudomonas aeruginosa was found to be unusually acid tolerant in that arginolysis occurred at pH values well below the minima for growth and glycolysis. The acid tolerance of the system allowed bacteria to survive potentially lethal acidification throu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marquis RE,Bender GR,Murray DR,Wong A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caldalkalibacillus thermarum strain TA2.A1 grew in pH-controlled batch culture containing a fermentable growth substrate (i.e., sucrose) from pH 7.5 to 10.0 with no significant change in the specific growth rate, suggesting that this bacterium was a facultative alkaliphile. However, when strain TA2.A1 was grown on a n...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McMillan DG,Keis S,Berney M,Cook GM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five genes essential for folate biosynthesis in Lactococcus lactis were cloned on a broad-host-range lactococcal vector and were transferred to the folate auxotroph Lactobacillus gasseri. As a result L. gasseri changed from a folate consumer to a folate producer. This principle can be used to increase folate levels in...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wegkamp A,Starrenburg M,de Vos WM,Hugenholtz J,Sybesma W

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop a rapid and specific detection test for bacteria in soil, we improved a method based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Each step of the protocol, including direct lysis of cells, DNA purification, and PCR amplification, was optimized. To increase the efficiency of lysis, a step particularly c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Picard C,Ponsonnet C,Paget E,Nesme X,Simonet P

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postgastric, fermentative breakdown of structural plant tissue was demonstrated for green turtles. About 90% cellulose was hydrolyzed. Bacterial and protozoan numbers compared with those of the rumen. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fenchel TM,McRoy CP,Ogden JC,Parker P,Rainey WE

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of the obligately biotrophic fungus Uncinula necator cluster in three distinct genetic groups (groups I, II, and III). We designed PCR primers specific for these groups in order to monitor field populations of U. necator. We used the nucleotide sequences of the gene that encodes eburicol 14alpha-demethylase (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Délye C,Ronchi V,Laigret F,Corio-Costet MF

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleurotus ostreatus ;Florida' was grown in submerged liquid culture. The biomass yield of the fungus, grown for 3 days in 2-liter fermentors, where the mycelial pellets measuring 5 mm in diameter were formed, was 11.7 g (dry weight)/liter. Comparing the chemical constituents of fruiting bodies produced on cotton straw...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hadar Y,Cohen-Arazi E

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ethyl picolinate on germination, outgrowth, and sporulation of Bacillus cereus T were studied in a synthetic medium containing glucose. Ethyl picolinate specifically inhibited at two stages, outgrowth and sporulation. The initiation of germination and cell division was not affected. The inhibition of ou...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pandey NK,Gollakota KG

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air drying of raw sludge caused inactivation of indigenous viruses. A gradual loss of infectivity occurred with the loss of water until the solids content reached about 80%. A more rapid decline of viral infectivity occurred with further dewatering. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brashear DA,Ward RL

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A methanogenic bioreactor that utilized wastepaper was developed and operated at 55 degrees C. Microbial community structure analysis showed the presence of a group of clostridia that specifically occurred during the period of high fermentation efficiency. To isolate the effective cellulose digester, the sludge that e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shiratori H,Ikeno H,Ayame S,Kataoka N,Miya A,Hosono K,Beppu T,Ueda K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbazole 1,9a-dioxygenase (CARDO), a Rieske nonheme iron oxygenase (RO), is a three-component system composed of a terminal oxygenase (Oxy), ferredoxin, and a ferredoxin reductase. Oxy has angular dioxygenation activity against carbazole. Previously, site-directed mutagenesis of the Oxy-encoding gene from Janthinobac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inoue K,Usami Y,Ashikawa Y,Noguchi H,Umeda T,Yamagami-Ashikawa A,Horisaki T,Uchimura H,Terada T,Nakamura S,Shimizu K,Habe H,Yamane H,Fujimoto Z,Nojiri H

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic treatment of a volatile fatty acid (VFA) mixture was investigated under psychrophilic (3 to 8 degrees C) conditions in two laboratory-scale expanded granular sludge bed reactor stages in series. The reactor system was seeded with mesophilic methanogenic granular sludge and fed with a mixture of VFAs. Good re...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lettinga G,Rebac S,Parshina S,Nozhevnikova A,van Lier JB,Stams AJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis that grows to a higher cell density (SE-HCD) than wild type while retaining O-chain lipopolysaccharide was isolated by transforming wild type serovar Enteritidis with the cell density sensor plasmid pSB402 and selecting for bioluminescence. A luminescent strain, SE-HCD, that emi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guard-Petter J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterol demethylation inhibitor (DMI) fungicides are widely used to control fungi pathogenic to humans and plants. Resistance to DMIs is mediated either through alterations in the structure of the target enzyme CYP51 (encoding 14alpha-demethylase), through increased expression of the CYP51 gene, or through increased ex...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ma Z,Proffer TJ,Jacobs JL,Sundin GW

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sequenced the Staphylococcus aureus phospho-beta-galactosidase gene. The protein product of this gene consisted of 470 amino acids, giving a molecular weight of 54,557. This gene appears to be transcribed as the terminal sequence on a polycistronic message. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Breidt F Jr,Stewart GC

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and rRNA slot blot hybridization with 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes were used to investigate the phylogenetic composition of a marine Arctic sediment (Svalbard). FISH resulted in the detection of a large fraction of microbes living in the top 5 cm of the sediment. U...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ravenschlag K,Sahm K,Amann R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus [GBS]) is a cause of severe infections, particularly during the newborn period. While methods exist for generating chromosomal mutations in GBS, they are cumbersome and inefficient and present significant challenges if the goal is to study subtle mutations, such as singl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hooven TA,Bonakdar M,Chamby AB,Ratner AJ

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Exiguobacterium can adapt readily to, and survive in, diverse environments. Our study demonstrated that Exiguobacterium sp. strain S3-2, isolated from marine sediment, is resistant to five antibiotics. The plasmid pMC1 in this strain carries seven putative resistance genes. We functionally characterized thes...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yang J,Wang C,Wu J,Liu L,Zhang G,Feng J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective adhesion to only certain epithelia is particularly common among the bacterial members of the indigenous microflora of mammals. We have found that the stratified squamous epithelium of the nonsecreting area of horse stomach is colonized by gram-positive rods. The microscopic features of a dense layer of these...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yuki N,Shimazaki T,Kushiro A,Watanabe K,Uchida K,Yuyama T,Morotomi M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), formate, and acetate mineralization and/or assimilation were determined in 13 high-temperature (>73 °C) hot springs in Yellowstone National Park (YNP), Wyoming, in order to evaluate the relative importance of these substrates in supporting microbial metabolism. While 9 of the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Urschel MR,Kubo MD,Hoehler TM,Peters JW,Boyd ES

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of PCR inhibitors in water samples is well known and contributes to the fact that a practical PCR assay has not been developed for legionella surveillance. In this study, we devised a new seminested PCR assay for detection of Legionella spp. in water samples as a means of overriding the PCR inhibitors wit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miyamoto H,Yamamoto H,Arima K,Fujii J,Maruta K,Izu K,Shiomori T,Yoshida S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different amounts of enterotoxin A-, B-, and C1-producing staphylococci were added to dry sausage prepared by normal processes, either alone or in conjunction with a starter culture (micrococci and lactobacilli). The sausage was examined after 0, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days for staphylococci, micrococci, and lactobacilli, a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Niskanen A,Nurmi E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ensifer adhaerens is a soil bacterium that attaches to other bacteria and may cause lysis of these other bacteria. Based on the sequence of its small-subunit rRNA gene, E. adhaerens is related to Sinorhizobium spp. E. adhaerens ATCC 33499 did not nodulate Phaseolus vulgaris (bean) or Leucaena leucocephala, but with sy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rogel MA,Hernández-Lucas I,Kuykendall LD,Balkwill DL,Martinez-Romero E

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect exposure to waterborne viruses increases the risk of infection, especially among children with frequent hand-to-mouth contacts. Here, we quantified the transfer of one bacteriophage (MS2) and two enteric viruses (adenovirus and coxsackievirus) from liquid to skin. MS2, a commonly used enteric virus surrogate,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pitol AK,Bischel HN,Boehm AB,Kohn T,Julian TR

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An amylolytic Lactobacillus plantarum silage strain with the starch-degrading ability displayed by Lactobacillus amylovorus was developed. An active fragment of the gene coding for alpha-amylase production in L. amylovorus was cloned and integrated into the chromosome of the competitive inoculant strain L. plantarum L...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fitzsimons A,Hols P,Jore J,Leer RJ,O'Connell M,Delcour J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biocontrol agents generally do not perform well enough under field conditions to compete with chemical fungicides. We determined whether transgenic strain SJ3-4 of Trichoderma atroviride, which expresses the Aspergillus niger glucose oxidase-encoding gene, goxA, under a homologous chitinase (nag1) promoter had increas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brunner K,Zeilinger S,Ciliento R,Woo SL,Lorito M,Kubicek CP,Mach RL

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus is one of the most common causes of acute viral gastroenteritis. The virus is spread via the fecal-oral route, most commonly from infected food and water, but several outbreaks have originated from contamination of surfaces with infectious virus. In this study, a close surrogate of human norovirus causing ga...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Warnes SL,Summersgill EN,Keevil CW

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spent sulfite liquor (SSL) is a waste effluent from sulfite pulping that contains monomeric sugars which can be fermented to ethanol. However, fermentative yeasts used for the fermentation of the sugars in SSL are adversely affected by the inhibitory substances in this complex feedstock. To overcome this limitation, e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pinel D,D'Aoust F,del Cardayre SB,Bajwa PK,Lee H,Martin VJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00