Bacteriophage ecology in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa mixed-biofilm communities.

abstract：:The respiration percentage of H-labeled glucose by heterotrophic microorganisms in water samples was determined by a method based on equimolar addition of [H]- and [C]glucose to samples. The respiration percentage of [H]glucose exceeded that of [C]glucose by 10% over the assayed range of respiration rates. Respiration...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kuparinen J,Tamminen T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quaternary ammonium compounds such as benzalkonium chloride (BC) are widely used as disinfectants in both food processing and medical environments. BC-resistant strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been implicated in multistate outbreaks of listeriosis and have been frequently isolated from food processing plants. H...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Elhanafi D,Dutta V,Kathariou S

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinear thermal inactivation of Aspergillus niger spores in phosphate-citrate buffer was studied. The thermal inactivation pattern of the spore consisted of a shoulder, an accelerated decline, and a tail at various constant temperatures around 60 degrees C. The pattern fitted a thermotolerant subpopulation model...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fujikawa H,Itoh T

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme levanase encoded by the sacC gene from Bacillus subtilis was overexpressed in Escherichia coli with the strong, inducible tac promoter. The enzyme was purified from crude E. coli cell lysates by salting out with ammonium sulfate and chromatography on DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B, S-Sepharose, and MonoQ-Sepharose. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wanker E,Huber A,Schwab H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic environmental surveillance for poliovirus circulation has been conducted in Egypt since 2000. The surveillance has revealed three independent importations of wild-type poliovirus. In addition, several vaccine-derived polioviruses have been detected in various locations in Egypt. In addition to acute flaccid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blomqvist S,El Bassioni L,El Maamoon Nasr EM,Paananen A,Kaijalainen S,Asghar H,de Gourville E,Roivainen M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment was conducted with subsurface sediments from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to determine the potential for reduction of U(VI) under sulfate-reducing conditions with either ethanol or acetate as the electron donor. The results showed extensive U(VI) reduction in sediments supplied with either electron dono...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Converse BJ,Wu T,Findlay RH,Roden EE

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular method based on restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of PCR-amplified fragments of the 23S rRNA gene was designed to rapidly identify Listeria strains to the species level. Two fragments (S1, 460 bp, and S2, 890 bp) were amplified from boiled DNA. S2 was cut with the restriction enzymes XmnI or ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paillard D,Dubois V,Duran R,Nathier F,Guittet C,Caumette P,Quentin C

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently characterized a transposon-induced NaCl-sensitive mutant of Staphylococcus aureus (U. Vijaranakul, M. J. Nadakavukaren, D. O. Bayles, B. J. Wilkinson, and R. K. Jayaswal, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:1889-1897, 1997). To further characterize this mutant, we determined the nucleotide sequence at the inserti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vijaranakul U,Xiong A,Lockwood K,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of psychrotrophic strains (those able to grow at or below 7 degreesC) of the Bacillus cereus group (Bacillus cereus, Bacillus thuringiensis, and Bacillus mycoides) in food products is at present extremely slow with conventional microbiology. This is due to an inability to discriminate these cold-adapted stra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Francis KP,Mayr R,von Stetten F,Stewart GS,Scherer S

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alteromonas sp. strain O-7 secretes several proteins in addition to chitinolytic enzymes in response to chitin induction. In this paper, we report that one of these proteins, designated MprIII, is a metalloprotease involved in the chitin degradation system of the strain. The gene encoding MprIII was cloned in Escheric...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miyamoto K,Nukui E,Hirose M,Nagai F,Sato T,Inamori Y,Tsujibo H

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal pH of Clostridium acetobutylicum was determined at various stages during the growth of the organism. Even in the presence of significant quantities of acetic, butyric, and lactic acids, an internal pH of 6.2 was maintained. Experiments using N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide indicated that a functioning H+-AT...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bowles LK,Ellefson WL

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial and temporal variations in sediment microbial community structure in a eutrophic lake polluted with inorganic mercury were identified using polar lipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis. Microbial community structure was strongly related to mercury methylation potential, sediment organic carbon content, and lake loca...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macalady JL,Mack EE,Nelson DC,Scow KM

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:A novel strain of Halomonas (Tc-202), which has the capability of removing Tc(VII) from solid- and aqueous-phase material aerobically, was isolated from the marine environment. Tc-202 removed 55% of the total 99Tc in solutions at 15 degrees C by reducing Tc(VII) to Tc(V), but other Halomonas strains did not. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fujimoto K,Morita T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polyphasic approach involving cultivation, direct viable counts, rRNA-based phylogenetic classification, and in situ probing was applied for the characterization of the dominant microbial population in a municipal drinking water distribution system. A total of 234 bacterial strains cultivated on R2A medium were scre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kalmbach S,Manz W,Szewzyk U

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni isolates possess multiple adhesive proteins termed adhesins, which promote the organism's attachment to epithelial cells. Based on the proposal that one or more adhesins are shared among C. jejuni isolates, we hypothesized that C. jejuni strains would compete for intestinal and cecal colonization ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Konkel ME,Christensen JE,Dhillon AS,Lane AB,Hare-Sanford R,Schaberg DM,Larson CL

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anaerobic, cellulose-degrading, gram-negative rod and a gram-positive coccus, identified as Bacteroides succinogenes and Ruminococcus flavefaciens, respectively, were isolated from pig fecal samples. These organisms were isolated from cellulolytic most-probable-number dilutions which represented 4 or 6% of the viab...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Varel VH,Fryda SJ,Robinson IM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entomopathogenic fungi can produce a series of chitinases, some of which act synergistically with proteases to degrade insect cuticle. However, chitinase involvement in insect fungus pathogenesis has not been fully characterized. In this paper, an endochitinase, Bbchit1, was purified to homogeneity from liquid culture...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fang W,Leng B,Xiao Y,Jin K,Ma J,Fan Y,Feng J,Yang X,Zhang Y,Pei Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from the open ocean and subsequent pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analyses indicate that these strains have a unique genotype (N. H. Khan, Y. Ishii, N. Kimata-Kino, H. Esaki, T. Nishino, M. Nishimura, and K. Kogure, Microb. Ecol. 53:173-186, 2007). We hypothesized t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Khan NH,Ahsan M,Yoshizawa S,Hosoya S,Yokota A,Kogure K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Comamonas testosteroni strain was isolated from activated sludge on the basis of its ability to coaggregate with yeast cells. On agar plates the following two types of colonies were formed: colonies with a mucoid appearance and colonies with a nonmucoid appearance. On plates this strain alternated between the two fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bossier P,Verstraete W

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that overexpression of the soxS or robA gene causes in several Escherichia coli strains the acquisition of higher organic solvent tolerance and also increased resistance to a number of antibiotics (H. Nakajima, K. Kobayashi, M. Kobayashi, H. Asako, and R. Aono, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:2302-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Asako H,Nakajima H,Kobayashi K,Kobayashi M,Aono R

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual-trap laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy (LTRS) and elastic light scattering (ELS) were used to investigate dynamic processes during high-temperature treatment of individual spores of Bacillus cereus, Bacillus megaterium, and Bacillus subtilis in water. Major conclusions from these studies included the following. (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang P,Kong L,Setlow P,Li YQ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven strains representing 14 different Bacillus species isolated from clinical and food samples were grown in reconstituted infant milk formulae (IMF) and subsequently assessed for adherence to, invasion of, and cytotoxicity toward HEp-2 and Caco-2 cells. Cell-free supernatant fluids from 38 strains (81%) were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rowan NJ,Deans K,Anderson JG,Gemmell CG,Hunter IS,Chaithong T

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of quorum quenching (QQ) activity was evaluated in cultivable bacteria obtained from oceanic and estuarine seawater and compared with the frequency of QQ enzyme sequences in the available marine metagenomic collections. The possible role of the high QQ activity found among marine bacteria is discussed. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Romero M,Martin-Cuadrado AB,Otero A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we evaluated the effect of soil clay content on RNA isolation and on quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) quantification of microbial gene transcripts. The amount of clay significantly altered RNA isolation yields and qRT-PCR analyses. Recommendations are made for quantifying microbial gene ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Novinscak A,Filion M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium acetobutylicum is not able to grow on glycerol as the sole carbon source since it cannot reoxidize the excess of NADH generated by glycerol catabolism. Nevertheless, when the pSPD5 plasmid, carrying the NADH-consuming 1,3-propanediol pathway from C. butyricum VPI 3266, was introduced into C. acetobutylicum...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： González-Pajuelo M,Meynial-Salles I,Mendes F,Soucaille P,Vasconcelos I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger, a common food spoilage organism, is inhibited by the weak acid preservative sorbic acid (trans-trans-2,4-hexadienoic acid). Conidia inoculated at 10(5)/ml of medium showed a sorbic acid MIC of 4.5 mM at pH 4.0, whereas the MIC for the amount of mycelia at 24 h de...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Plumridge A,Hesse SJ,Watson AJ,Lowe KC,Stratford M,Archer DB

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human large intestine is covered with a protective mucus coating, which is heavily colonized by complex bacterial populations that are distinct from those in the gut lumen. Little is known of the composition and metabolic activities of these biofilms, although they are likely to play an important role in mucus bre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macfarlane S,Woodmansey EJ,Macfarlane GT

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representatives of only four well-characterized bacterial phyla were isolated from a pasture soil by using liquid serial dilution culture. In contrast, members of Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Gemmatimonadetes and of other poorly represented bacterial lineages were isolated in earlier experiments with solidified...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schoenborn L,Yates PS,Grinton BE,Hugenholtz P,Janssen PH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cereulide and valinomycin are highly similar cyclic dodecadepsipeptides with potassium ionophoric properties. Cereulide, produced by members of the Bacillus cereus group, is known mostly as emetic toxin, and no ecological function has been assigned. A comparative analysis of the antimicrobial activity of valinomycin p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tempelaars MH,Rodrigues S,Abee T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00