Identification of DysI, the immunity factor of the streptococcal bacteriocin dysgalacticin.

abstract：:In this work, we report the expression and secretion of the leaderless two-peptide (EntL50A and EntL50B) bacteriocin enterocin L50 from Enterococcus faecium L50 by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris X-33. The bacteriocin structural genes entL50A and entL50B were fused to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene region ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Basanta A,Gómez-Sala B,Sánchez J,Diep DB,Herranz C,Hernández PE,Cintas LM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is considered one of the major risk factors underlying the development of gastritis and gastric and duodenal ulcers. Moreover, 50% of the population carries this bacterium, and consequently, when it is detected, eradication of H. pylori is strongly recommended. Regarding the use of probiotics as fu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chenoll E,Casinos B,Bataller E,Astals P,Echevarría J,Iglesias JR,Balbarie P,Ramón D,Genovés S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified glucoamylase gene (glaA) with an extra Thr- and Ser-rich Gp-I domain (T. Semimaru, M. Goto, K. Furukawa, and S. Hayashida, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:2885-2890, 1995) was introduced into a mutant parental host, Aspergillus awamori var. kawachi, in which the original glaA gene had been completely deleted a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goto M,Ekino K,Furukawa K

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using thin-layer chromatography and infrared spectroscopy, xanthomegnin and viomellein have been isolated and identified from species of the Aspergillus ochraceus group. A correlation was established between the occurrence of these fungal quinones in the fungal cultural products and the ability of these products to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robbers JE,Hong S,Tuite J,Carlton WW

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ionic and nonionic surfactants sodium dodecyl sulfate and Triton X-100, respectively, eluted two viruses, phi X174 and PRD1, which were adsorbed to the ionic and nonionic binding membranes cationic polysulfone and nitrocellulose, respectively. Results indicated that complete elution was readily achieved only when ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fujito BT,Lytle CD

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stable bacterial community absorbed and transformed the herbicide metolachlor [2-chloro-N-(2-ethyl- 6-methylphenyl)-N-(2-methoxy-1-methylethyl)-acetamide] from a liquid medium. About 80% of the added ring-[U-C]metolachlor (50 mug/ml) disappeared from the medium and accumulated inside the cells. The ratio of cellular...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu SY,Zheng Z,Zhang R,Bollag JM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.2-kb fragment containing a replicon from pBtoxis, the large plasmid that encodes the insecticidal endotoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis, was identified, cloned, and sequenced. This fragment contains cis elements, including iterons, found in replication origins of other large plasmids and suggests...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tang M,Bideshi DK,Park HW,Federici BA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus gasseri LA39 and L. reuteri LA6 isolated from feces of the same human infant were found to produce similar cyclic bacteriocins (named gassericin A and reutericin 6, respectively) that cannot be distinguished by molecular weights or primary amino acid sequences. However, reutericin 6 has a narrower spectr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kawai Y,Ishii Y,Arakawa K,Uemura K,Saitoh B,Nishimura J,Kitazawa H,Yamazaki Y,Tateno Y,Itoh T,Saito T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equations defining the reaction of microbial alginase on commercial sodium alginate are presented with respect to the viscometric assay of enzyme activity. The negative log of K was found to be linearly related to the concentration of algin, where K is defined as the change in the reciprocal of relative viscosity with...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stevens RA,Levin RE

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A real-time PCR-based method targeting the 18S rRNA gene was developed for the quantitative detection of Hartmannella vermiformis, a free-living amoeba which is a potential host for Legionella pneumophila in warm water systems and cooling towers. The detection specificity was validated using genomic DNA of the closely...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kuiper MW,Valster RM,Wullings BA,Boonstra H,Smidt H,van der Kooij D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria can survive on hospital textiles and surfaces, from which they can be disseminated, representing a source of health care-associated infections (HCAIs). Surfaces containing copper (Cu), which is known for its bactericidal properties, could be an efficient way to lower the burden of potential pathogens. The ant...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rio L,Kusiak-Nejman E,Kiwi J,Bétrisey B,Pulgarin C,Trampuz A,Bizzini A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous rpsL mutant of Thermus thermophilus was isolated in a search for new selection markers for this organism. This new allele, named rpsL1, encodes a K47R/K57E double mutant S12 ribosomal protein that confers a streptomycin-dependent (SD) phenotype to T. thermophilus. Models built on the available three-dime...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blas-Galindo E,Cava F,López-Viñas E,Mendieta J,Berenguer J

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prodigiosin (PG), a red linear tripyrrole pigment normally secreted by Serratia marcescens, has received attention for its reported immunosuppressive, antimicrobial, and anticancer properties. Although several genes have been shown to be important for prodigiosin synthesis, information on the regulatory mechanisms beh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pan X,Tang M,You J,Liu F,Sun C,Osire T,Fu W,Yi G,Yang T,Yang ST,Rao Z

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins with high catalytic efficiency and selectivity under mild conditions have long been appreciated by industrial and medicinal fields. These proteins, which are commonly multimeric, often possess low stability, impeding wider application. Currently, strategies to improve the stability of multimeric proteins conc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhu L,Wang S,Tian W,Zhang Y,Song Y,Zhang J,Mu B,Peng C,Deng Z,Ma H,Qu X

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of two semisolid media (semisolid Rappaport and semisolid Rappaport-Vassiliadis) for the isolation of Salmonella spp. from coastal waters was compared with the use of conventional media. Two hundred and fifty six samples were studied; Salmonella spp. were detected in 83. The semisolid media were the most sensi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Perales I,Audicana A

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray analyses revealed that clusters of repetitive extragenic palindromic PCR-related Escherichia coli isolates were isogenic only within interstitial Lake Huron beach water samples and not in surrounding waters. This suggested that adaptation and growth occurred within the interstitial water sites tested. A...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kon T,Weir SC,Trevors JT,Lee H,Champagne J,Meunier L,Brousseau R,Masson L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial partners play important roles in the biology and ecology of animals. In insects, maternally transmitted symbionts are especially common and can have host effects ranging from reproductive manipulation to nutrient provisioning and defense against natural enemies. In this study, we report a genus-wide associat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ballinger MJ,Moore LD,Perlman SJ

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fomites are known to play a role in the transmission of pathogens. Quantitative analysis of the parameters that affect sample recovery efficiency (SRE) at the limit of detection of viruses on fomites will aid in improving quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) and infection control. The variability in SRE as a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Herzog AB,Pandey AK,Reyes-Gastelum D,Gerba CP,Rose JB,Hashsham SA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different endoxylanases (1,4-beta-D-xylan xylanohydrolases, EC 3.2.1.8), designated 1 and 2, have been purified by column chromatography to apparent homogeneity from the nonsedimentable extracellular culture fluid of the strictly anaerobic, ruminal bacterium Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 grown on crystalline cellul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matte A,Forsberg CW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunolatex reagent was developed from antiserum to Fusobacterium varium, an obligate anaerobe isolated from the colon of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana L. A new technique that enabled the preparation of a highly efficient immunolatex conjugate was used to localize the bacterium with scanning electron microsc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bracke JW,Markovetz AJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-threonine can be made by the amino acid-producing bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum. However, in the course of this process, some of the L-threonine is degraded to glycine. We detected an aldole cleavage activity of L-threonine in crude extracts with an activity of 2.2 nmol min(-1) (mg of protein)(-1). In order t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simic P,Willuhn J,Sahm H,Eggeling L

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:High-throughput sequencing (HTS) is revolutionizing environmental surveys of microbial diversity in the three domains of life by providing detailed information on which taxa are present in microbial assemblages. However, it is still unclear how the relative abundance of specific taxa gathered by HTS correlat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Giner CR,Forn I,Romac S,Logares R,de Vargas C,Massana R

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathways for degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons are constantly modified by a variety of genetic mechanisms. Genetic studies carried out with Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 suggested that the tou operon coding for toluene o-xylene monooxygenase (ToMO) was recently recruited into a preexisting pathway that already posse...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cafaro V,Notomista E,Capasso P,Di Donato A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free fatty acids are important flavor compounds in cheese. Propionibacterium freudenreichii is the main agent of their release through lipolysis in Swiss cheese. Our aim was to identify the esterase(s) involved in lipolysis by P. freudenreichii. We targeted two previously identified esterases: one secreted esterase, P...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abeijón Mukdsi MC,Falentin H,Maillard MB,Chuat V,Medina RB,Parayre S,Thierry A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strictly anaerobic pathogenic bacterium Clostridium difficile occurs in the human gut and is able to thrive from fermentation of leucine. Thereby the amino acid is both oxidized to isovalerate plus CO(2) and reduced to isocaproate. In the reductive branch of this pathway, the dehydration of (R)-2-hydroxyisocaproyl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim J,Darley D,Selmer T,Buckel W

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhizobiaceae are a bacterial family of enormous agricultural importance due to the ability of its members to fix atmospheric nitrogen in an intimate relationship with plants. Their survival as naturally occurring soil bacteria in agricultural soils as well as popular seed inocula is affected directly by drought an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vriezen JA,de Bruijn FJ,Nüsslein K

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pressure and temperature on the fatty acid composition in a barotolerant deep-sea bacterium that had branched-chain fatty acids were examined. The major fatty acids of the strain at atmospheric pressure were iso-C(15:0), C(16:1), iso-C(17:0), and iso-C(17:1). As the growth pressure increased, the propor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kamimura K,Fuse H,Takimura O,Yamaoka Y

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195, an anaerobic dehalorespiring bacterium, contains 18 copies of putative reductive dehalogenase genes, including the well-characterized tceA gene, whose gene product functions as the key enzyme in the environmentally important dehalorespiration process. The genome of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Regeard C,Maillard J,Dufraigne C,Deschavanne P,Holliger C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis has been associated with naturally occurring waterborne outbreaks and is also of interest as a potential biological weapon. Recovery of this pathogen from water using cultural methods is challenging due to the organism's fastidious growth requirements and interference by indigenous bacteria. A 1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Humrighouse BW,Adcock NJ,Rice EW

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Streptococcus species to selectively adhere to the oral epithelial cells of newborns was studied in vitro. On day 1 of life, mucosal cells from normal infants demonstrated selective attraction for the natural distribution of streptococci that would soon colonize these surfaces. Streptococcus salivarius ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Long SS,Swenson RM

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00