Lambda red-mediated genetic modification of the insect endosymbiont Sodalis glossinidius.

abstract：:The cheese microbiota contributes to a large extent to the development of the typical color, flavor, and texture of the final product. Its composition is not well defined in most cases and varies from one cheese to another. The aim of the present study was to establish procedures for gene transcript quantification in ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Monnet C,Straub C,Castellote J,Onesime D,Bonnarme P,Irlinger F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the balance between acquiring enough iron and avoiding iron-induced toxicity is regulated in part by Fur (ferric uptake regulator). A fur mutant was constructed to address the physiological role of the regulator. Atypically, the mutant did not show alterations in the levels of siderophore...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kitphati W,Ngok-Ngam P,Suwanmaneerat S,Sukchawalit R,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopeptide, surfactin, is produced by Bacillus subtilis. A study has been made on large-scale production of this surfactant. A good yield was obtained from a glucose substrate fermentation by continuously removing the product by foam fractionation. The surfactin could be easily recovered from the collapsed foam b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cooper DG,Macdonald CR,Duff SJ,Kosaric N

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the in situ spatial organization of ammonia-oxidizing and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in domestic wastewater biofilms and autotrophic nitrifying biofilms by using microsensors and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) performed with 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes. The combination of these t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Okabe S,Satoh H,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanuric acid, a metabolic intermediate in the degradation of many s-triazine compounds, is further metabolized by cyanuric acid hydrolase. Cyanuric acid also accumulates in swimming pools due to the breakdown of the sanitizing agents di- and trichloroisocyanuric acid. Structurally stable cyanuric acid hydrolases are ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li Q,Seffernick JL,Sadowsky MJ,Wackett LP

更新日期：2009-11-01 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

abstract：:The ultrasonic determination of microbial population was carried out by using a new apparatus composed of two piezoelectric membranes. When the apparatus was immersed in a medium containing cells and an arbitrary voltage was charged on a piezoelectric membrane, an output voltage was obtained from the other membrane. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishimori Y,Karube I,Suzuki S

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Sphingomonas are important catalysts for removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil, but their activity can be affected by various stress factors. This study examines the physiological and genome-wide transcription response of the phenanthrene-degrading Sphingomonas sp. strain LH12...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fida TT,Breugelmans P,Lavigne R,Coronado E,Johnson DR,van der Meer JR,Mayer AP,Heipieper HJ,Hofkens J,Springael D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay has been developed to detect bacterial glycosidases in colonies grown on the surface of agar plates. Advantages of this technique over previously described methods include elimination of the need for replica plating, better visualization of chromagenic reaction products, and a simple permeabilization step to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paoni NF,Arroyo RL

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Aeromonas includes some species that have now been identified as human pathogens of significant medical importance. We investigated the ability of 13 selected Aeromonas strains belonging to nine species isolated from clinical cases (n = 5), environmental waters (n = 5), and fish (n = 3) to adhere to and tran...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hatje E,Neuman C,Katouli M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To survive in various environments, from host tissue to soil, opportunistic bacterial pathogens must be metabolically flexible and able to use a variety of nutrient sources. We are interested in Pseudomonas aeruginosa's catabolism of quaternary amine compounds that are prevalent in association with eukaryotes. Carniti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Meadows JA,Wargo MJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An organism tentatively identified as Ralstonia eutropha was isolated from enrichment cultures containing tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) as the sole source of carbon and energy. The strain was able to tolerate up to 200 mM THFA in mineral salt medium. The degradation was initiated by an inducible ferricyanide-depen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zarnt G,Schräder T,Andreesen JR

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bifidobacterial and lactobacillus populations of fecal samples collected from 10 human subjects were studied. The numbers of bifidobacteria were similar in the fecal samples of all of the subjects, but lactobacillus numbers varied, even between samples collected from the same individual. Analysis of the compositio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kimura K,McCartney AL,McConnell MA,Tannock GW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Size changes during starvation of 17 marine bacterial isolates at a solid-water interface and in the liquid phase were examined. Twelve rod-shaped, hydrophilic bacteria decreased in size more rapidly at the solid surface than in the liquid phase, a result parallel to that observed previously for one of the strains at ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Humphrey B,Kjelleberg S,Marshall KC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-eight halobacteria, including both culture collection strains and fresh isolates from widely differing geographical areas, were tested for susceptibility to arsenate, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, silver, and zinc ions by an agar dilution technique. The culture collection strains show...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nieto JJ,Ventosa A,Ruiz-Berraquero F

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortierella isabellina ATCC 38063 is a zygomycete capable of hydroxylating fish-toxic resin acids which occur in certain pulp mill effluents to nontoxic metabolites. Addition of dehydroabietic acid (1) (80 mg/liter) to a freshly inoculated culture of M. isabellina in dextrose-yeast extract broth resulted in precursor ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kutney JP,Choi LS,Hewitt GM,Salisbury PJ,Singh M

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:An examination was made of various sites along the length of the swine large intestine, using strictly anaerobic culture methods. Sites were separated by differential washing into fractions described as lumenal content, lumenal surface layer, and intestinal wall tissue. Direct microscopic clump counts averaged 13.3 x ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Russell EG

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contamination of waterways with fecal material is a persistent threat to public health. Identification of the sources of fecal contamination is a vital component for abatement strategies and for determination of total maximum daily loads. While phenotypic and genotypic techniques have been used to determine potent...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hamilton MJ,Yan T,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nor-1 gene in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus parasiticus encodes a ketoreductase involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis. To study environmental influences on nor-1 expression, we generated plasmid pAPGUSNNB containing a nor-1 promoter-beta-glucuronidase (GUS) (encoded by uidA) reporter fusion with niaD (encodes ni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chiou CH,Miller M,Wilson DL,Trail F,Linz JE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Stress-induced abdominal dysfunction is an attractive target for probiotics. To investigate the effects of the probiotic Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota on abdominal dysfunction, a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted with healthy medical students undertaking an authorized nationwide exami...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kato-Kataoka A,Nishida K,Takada M,Kawai M,Kikuchi-Hayakawa H,Suda K,Ishikawa H,Gondo Y,Shimizu K,Matsuki T,Kushiro A,Hoshi R,Watanabe O,Igarashi T,Miyazaki K,Kuwano Y,Rokutan K

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The circulation of human parechoviruses (HPeVs) in the population was studied by environmental surveillance comprising of molecular analyses of sewage samples (n = 89) that were collected from 15 different locations in The Netherlands. Samples were taken from sewage originating from schools (n = 9) or from parts of mu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lodder WJ,Wuite M,de Roda Husman AM,Rutjes SA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most strains of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens are known to produce extracellular polysaccharides (EPs). However, the rheological and functional properties of these EPs have not been determined. Initially, 26 strains of Butyrivibrio were screened for EP yield and apparent viscosities of cell-free supernatants. Yields range...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ha YW,Stack RJ,Hespell RB,Gordon SH,Bothast RJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medium-chain-length (mcl) poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) are storage polymers that are produced from various substrates and accumulate in Pseudomonas strains belonging to rRNA homology group I. In experiments aimed at increasing PHA production in Pseudomonas strains, we generated an mcl PHA-overproducing mutant of P...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Klinke S,Dauner M,Scott G,Kessler B,Witholt B

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Escherichia coli belonging to clonal group A (CGA), a recently described disseminated cause of drug-resistant urinary tract infections in humans, were present in four of seven sewage effluents collected from geographically dispersed areas of the United States. All 15 CGA isolates (1% of the 1,484 isolates ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boczek LA,Rice EW,Johnston B,Johnson JR

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

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：:The reliable detection of airborne biological threat agents depends on several factors, including the performance criteria of the detector and its operational environment. One step in improving the detector's performance is to increase our knowledge of the biological aerosol background in potential operational environ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dybwad M,Granum PE,Bruheim P,Blatny JM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Amylase-binding streptococci (ABS) are a heterogeneous group of commensal oral bacterial species that comprise a significant proportion of dental plaque microfloras. Salivary α-amylase, one of the most abundant proteins in human saliva, binds to the surface of these bacteria via specific surface-exposed α-amylase-bi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nikitkova AE,Haase EM,Scannapieco FA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A negative enrichment procedure was developed which was capable of isolating Legionella pneumophila directly from seeded air-conditioning cooling tower water onto laboratory media. This procedure was based on an 8-h incubation under conditions that were bactericidal to the indigenous water microflora but merely bacter...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thorpe TC,Miller RD

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cyanobacterial strains are able to grow at a pH range from neutral to pH 10 or 11. Such alkaline conditions favor cyanobacterial growth (e.g., bloom formation), and cyanobacteria must have developed strategies to adjust to changes in CO2 concentration and ion availability. Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 exhibi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Summerfield TC,Sherman LA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00