Glutamate decarboxylase-mediated nisin resistance in Listeria monocytogenes.

abstract：:Lantibiotics are ribosomally synthesized antimicrobial peptides with substantial posttranslational modifications. They are characterized by the unique amino acids lanthionine and methyllanthionine, which are introduced by dehydration of Ser/Thr residues and linkage of the resulting dehydrated amino acids with Cys resi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Basi-Chipalu S,Dischinger J,Josten M,Szekat C,Zweynert A,Sahl HG,Bierbaum G

更新日期：2015-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus luminescens is a bacterium which is mutualistic with entomophagous nematodes and which secretes high-molecular-weight toxin complexes following its release into the insect hemocoel upon nematode invasion. Thus, unlike other protein toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (delta-endotoxins and Vip's), P. lumine...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blackburn M,Golubeva E,Bowen D,Ffrench-Constant RH

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：:Treatment of secondary effluents with hydrogen peroxide (10 mg/liter)-ascorbic acid (10 mg/liter)-Cu2+ (0.5 mg/liter) for 60 min resulted in around 99% reduction of the initial plate count. Hydrogen peroxide could be replaced by other peroxygen compounds; ascorbic acid could be replaced by other reducing agents, of wh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ragab-Depre NJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification and classification of Vibrio species have relied upon band pattern methods (e.g., amplified fragment length polymorphism) and DNA-DNA hybridization. However, data generated by these methods cannot be used to build an online electronic taxonomy. In order to overcome these limitations, we developed the fi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thompson FL,Gomez-Gil B,Vasconcelos AT,Sawabe T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the facultative photoheterotroph Rhodobacter sphaeroides to tolerate and reduce high levels of tellurite in addition to at least 10 other rare earth metal oxides and oxyanions has considerable potential for detoxification and bioremediation of contaminated environments. We report the identification and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： O'Gara JP,Gomelsky M,Kaplan S

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further study mechanisms of coping with osmotic stress-low water activity, mutants of Staphylococcus aureus with transposon Tn917-lacZ-induced NaCl sensitivity were selected for impaired ability to grow on solid defined medium containing 2 M NaCl. Southern hybridization experiments showed that NaCl-sensitive mutant...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vijaranakul U,Nadakavukaren MJ,Bayles DO,Wilkinson BJ,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcosm experiments were conducted with soils contaminated with heavy metals (Pb and Cr) and aromatic hydrocarbons to determine the effects of each upon microbial community structure and function. Organic substrates were added as a driving force for change in the microbial community. Glucose represented an energy so...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakatsu CH,Carmosini N,Baldwin B,Beasley F,Kourtev P,Konopka A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens isolated from grapevine tumors in northern China were surveyed. These strains varied in their host range properties, although all were tumorigenic on grapevines. Twelve of these strains belonged to Agrobacterium sp. biotype 3, and 11 strains resulted in the synthesis of th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ma DQ,Yanofsky MF,Gordon MP,Nester EW

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group II azoreductase BTI1 utilizes NADPH to directly cleave azo bonds in water-soluble azo dyes, including quenchers of fluorescence. Unexpectedly, optimal reduction was dye specific, ranging from a pH of <5.5 for Janus green B, to pH 6.0 for methyl red, methyl orange, and BHQ-10, to pH >8.3 for flame orange. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johansson HE,Johansson MK,Wong AC,Armstrong ES,Peterson EJ,Grant RE,Roy MA,Reddington MV,Cook RM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of salinity and growth temperature on the accumulation of intracellular organic solutes was examined in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Palaeococcus ferrophilus. The genus Palaeococcus represents a deep-branching lineage of the order Thermococcales, which diverged before Thermococcus and Pyrococcus. Palaeoco...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Neves C,da Costa MS,Santos H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EHEC and EPEC, respectively) strains are closely related human pathogens that are responsible for food-borne epidemics in many countries. Integration host factor (IHF) and the locus of enterocyte effacement-encoded regulator (Ler) are needed for the expression o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li M,Rosenshine I,Tung SL,Wang XH,Friedberg D,Hew CL,Leung KY

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate interactions between sulfate reduction and dechlorination, we systematically evaluated the effects of different concentrations of sulfate and sulfide on reductive dechlorination by isolates, constructed consortia, and enrichments containing Dehalococcoides sp. Sulfate (up to 5 mM) did not inhibit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mao X,Polasko A,Alvarez-Cohen L

更新日期：2017-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of 3 M NaCl to 72-h cultures of Penicillium fellutanum in 2 mM phosphate resulted in an increase in percentage of extracellular peptidophosphogalactomannan III (pP(x)GM(iii)) and a decrease in that of pP(x)GM(ii). The magnitude of (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance signals at 1.47 and 1.33 ppm of phospho-1-O-[N...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Park YI,Bonetti SJ,Gander JE

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) are signaling molecules in many quorum-sensing (QS) systems that regulate interactions between various pathogenic bacteria and their hosts. Quorum quenching by the enzymatic inactivation of AHLs holds great promise in preventing and treating infections, and several such enzymes have be...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mei GY,Yan XX,Turak A,Luo ZQ,Zhang LQ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains produce extracellular cellulose, a long polymer of glucose with β-1-4 glycosidic bonds. This study evaluated the efficacies of selected enzymatic and chemical treatments in inactivating STEC and degrading/removing the cellulose on STEC surfaces. Six cellulose-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Park YJ,Chen J

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 carried on plant surfaces, including alfalfa sprouts, has been implicated in food poisoning and outbreaks of disease in the United States. Adhesion to cell surfaces is a key component for bacterial establishment and colonization on many types of surfaces. Several E. coli O157:H7 surface protei...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Torres AG,Jeter C,Langley W,Matthysse AG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1913 in vol. 45.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a high-rate oxidation pond, 0.1 to 1.0% of the algal population of Scenedesmus obliquus was found to be infected by a chytrid. When suitable conditions developed, these infections burst into massive epidemics that killed most of the algae. The major factors triggering massive infections were optimal oxygen concentr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abeliovich A,Dikbuck S

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiology of ethanologenic Escherichia coli grown anaerobically in alkali-pretreated plant hydrolysates is complex and not well studied. To gain insight into how E. coli responds to such hydrolysates, we studied an E. coli K-12 ethanologen fermenting a hydrolysate prepared from corn stover pretreated by ammonia f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schwalbach MS,Keating DH,Tremaine M,Marner WD,Zhang Y,Bothfeld W,Higbee A,Grass JA,Cotten C,Reed JL,da Costa Sousa L,Jin M,Balan V,Ellinger J,Dale B,Kiley PJ,Landick R

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis are extensively exploited by the food industry as health-promoting bacteria, although the genetic variability of members belonging to this taxon has so far not received much scientific attention. In this article, we describe the complete genetic makeup of the B. animal...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Milani C,Duranti S,Lugli GA,Bottacini F,Strati F,Arioli S,Foroni E,Turroni F,van Sinderen D,Ventura M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Q fever, caused by Coxiella burnetii, is a zoonosis with a worldwide distribution. A large rural area in the southeast of the Netherlands was heavily affected by Q fever between 2007 and 2009. This initiated the development of a robust and internally controlled multiplex quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay for the detection...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： de Bruin A,de Groot A,de Heer L,Bok J,Wielinga PR,Hamans M,van Rotterdam BJ,Janse I

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bioassay method was developed to measure the average intensity within a UV disinfection reactor. The survival of spores of Bacillus subtilis was determined as a function of UV dose to prepare a standard curve. Spores were added to unknown systems, and the survival rate was used to determine the average intensity. A ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Qualls RG,Johnson JD

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus sp. strain SS, an aerobic, gram-positive sporeformer, was isolated from seeds of Astragalus crotalariae, a selenium-accumulating plant. This bacillus grew in a nutrient broth (containing beef extract and peptone) if the medium was supplemented with high concentrations of selenium. Concentrations of Na(2)SeO(3...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lindblow-Kull C,Shrift A,Gherna RL

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The different serotyping systems, based on thermostable O antigens, reported for Vibrio anguillarum and V. ordalii were compared by quantitative agglutination, sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and subsequent silver staining or Western blotting (immunoblotting) of purified lipopolysaccharide (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Grisez L,Ollevier F

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Shewanella is well known for its genetic diversity, its outstanding respiratory capacity, and its high potential for bioremediation. Here, a novel strain isolated from sediments of the Indian Ocean was characterized. A 16S rRNA analysis indicated that it belongs to the species Shewanella decolorationis It wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lemaire ON,Honoré FA,Tempel S,Fortier EM,Leimkühler S,Méjean V,Iobbi-Nivol C

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Washed cell suspensions of Desulfovibrio vulgaris rapidly reduced Cr(VI) to Cr(III) with H(2) as the electron donor. The c(3) cytochrome from this organism functioned as a Cr(VI) reductase. D. vulgaris may have advantages over previously described Cr(VI) reducers for the bioremediation of Cr(VI)-contaminated waters. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lovley DR,Phillips EJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A homokaryotic, clavine alkaloid-producing strain of ergot, Claviceps sp. strain SD 58, was used in an attempt to demonstrate parasexuality. Genetically marked auxotrophic strains were produced by mutation with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Protoplast fusion of pairs of unlike doubly auxotrophic strains and is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brauer KL,Robbers JE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, is an emerging zoonotic disease in Canada and is vectored by the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis. Here we used Bayesian analyses of sequence types (STs), determined by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), to investigate the phylogeography of B...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mechai S,Margos G,Feil EJ,Lindsay LR,Ogden NH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salinity effects on microbial community structure and on potential rates of arsenate reduction, arsenite oxidation, sulfate reduction, denitrification, and methanogenesis were examined in sediment slurries from two California soda lakes. We conducted experiments with Mono Lake and Searles Lake sediments over a wide ra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulp TR,Han S,Saltikov CW,Lanoil BD,Zargar K,Oremland RS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00