Comparative analysis of antimicrobial activities of valinomycin and cereulide, the Bacillus cereus emetic toxin.

abstract：:A total of 52 strains of Lactobacillus acidophilus were examined for production of bacteriocins. A majority (63%) demonstrated inhibitory activity against all members of a four-species grouping of Lactobacillus leichmannii, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus helveticus, and Lactobacillus lactis. Four L. acidophil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barefoot SF,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geochemical cycling of cobalt (Co) has often been considered to be controlled by the scavenging and oxidation of Co(II) on the surface of manganese [Mn(III,IV)] oxides or manganates. Because Mn(II) oxidation in the environment is often catalyzed by bacteria, we have investigated the ability of Mn(II)-oxidizing bac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee Y,Tebo BM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase) and glycogen synthase (GS) catalyze the first two reactions of glycogen synthesis in cyanobacteria. Mutants defective in each of these enzymes in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 were constructed and characterized. Activities of the corresponding enzymes in the selected mutants w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Suzuki E,Ohkawa H,Moriya K,Matsubara T,Nagaike Y,Iwasaki I,Fujiwara S,Tsuzuki M,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The competitive inhibition of fructokinase by glucose has been proposed as the mechanism by which Zymomonas mobilis preferentially consumes glucose from mixtures of glucose and fructose and accumulates fructose when growing on sucrose. In this study, incorporation of radioactive fructose into biomass was used as a mea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Parker C,Peekhaus N,Zhang X,Conway T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal integration of heterologous metabolic pathways is optimal for industrially relevant fermentation, as plasmid-based fermentation causes extra metabolic burden and genetic instabilities. In this work, chromosomal integration was adapted for the production of mevalonate, which can be readily converted into β-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang J,Niyompanich S,Tai YS,Wang J,Bai W,Mahida P,Gao T,Zhang K

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of feed supplementation with bambermycin, monensin, narasin, virginiamycin, chlortetracycline, penicillin, salinomycin, and bacitracin on the distribution of Escherichia coli pathotypes in broiler chickens was investigated using an E. coli virulence DNA microarray. Among 256 E. coli isolates examined, 59 (2...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bonnet C,Diarrassouba F,Brousseau R,Masson L,Topp E,Diarra MS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular granules containing ferric and ferrous iron formed in Shewanella putrefaciens CN32 during dissimilatory reduction of solid-phase ferric iron. It is the first in situ detection at high resolution (150 nm) of a mixed-valence metal particle residing within a prokaryotic cell. The relationship of the interna...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glasauer S,Langley S,Boyanov M,Lai B,Kemner K,Beveridge TJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofouling of reverse-osmosis membranes was investigated at an advanced wastewater treatment facility. Cellulose diacetate membranes operated for approximately 4,000 h became uniformly coated with a mucilaginous fouling layer. The fouling material was approximately 93% water by weight, and nearly 90% of the dehydrated...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ridgway HF,Kelly A,Justice C,Olson BH

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microaerophilic nature of Campylobacter species implies an inherent sensitivity towards oxygen and its reduction products, particularly the superoxide anion. The deleterious effects of exposure to superoxide radicals are counteracted by the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD). We have shown previously that Camp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Purdy D,Cawthraw S,Dickinson JH,Newell DG,Park SF

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Searles Lake occupies a closed basin harboring salt-saturated, alkaline brines that have exceptionally high concentrations of arsenic oxyanions. Strain SLAS-1(T) was previously isolated from Searles Lake (R. S. Oremland, T. R. Kulp, J. Switzer Blum, S. E. Hoeft, S. Baesman, L. G. Miller, and J. F. Stolz, Science 308:1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blum JS,Han S,Lanoil B,Saltikov C,Witte B,Tabita FR,Langley S,Beveridge TJ,Jahnke L,Oremland RS

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:The genes encoding NAD(+)-dependent alanine dehydrogenases (AlaDHs) (EC 1.4.1.1) from the Antarctic bacterial organisms Shewanella sp. strain Ac10 (SheAlaDH) and Carnobacterium sp. strain St2 (CarAlaDH) were cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Of all of the AlaDHs that have been sequenced, SheAlaDH exhibited the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Galkin A,Kulakova L,Ashida H,Sawa Y,Esaki N

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of the species within the genus Listeria is important for the food industry but only a few reliable methods are available so far. While a number of studies have used Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to identify bacteria, the extraction of complex pattern information from the infrared spec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rebuffo CA,Schmitt J,Wenning M,von Stetten F,Scherer S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli is a widely utilized indicator of the sanitary quality of bivalve molluscan shellfish sold for human consumption. However, it is now well documented that shellfish that meet the E. coli standards for human consumption may contain human enteric viruses that cause gastroenteritis and hepatitis. In this ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Doré WJ,Henshilwood K,Lees DN

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divercin V41 (DV41) is a class IIa bacteriocin produced by Carnobacterium divergens V41. This antilisterial peptide is homologous to pediocin PA-1 and contains two disulfide bonds. To establish the structure-activity relationships of this specific family of bacteriocin, chemical modifications and enzymatic hydrolysis ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bhugaloo-Vial P,Douliez JP,Moll D,Dousset X,Boyaval P,Marion D

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol and albumin are limiting factors in the growth of Mycoplasma species. These nutrients are usually supplied in the culture medium by the addition of serum. The growth of M. pneumoniae in a serum-free medium containing an ethanolic cholesterol suspension and albumin was about one-half the level attained in s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cluss RG,Johnson JK,Somerson NL

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two gram-positive, strictly anoxic, coccoid- to rod-shaped strains of bacteria, Clostridium coccoides 1410 and C. coccoides 3110, were isolated from human feces on the typical homoacetogenic substrates formate plus H2 plus CO2 (strain 1410) and vanillate plus H2 plus CO2 (strain 3110) in the presence of 2-bromoethanes...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kamlage B,Gruhl B,Blaut M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sputter coating of leaf litter microbe samples provides scanning electron microscope images with greater information content than either vacuum evaporation of thin metal coatings or tissue conductance. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Draggan S

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major barrier to the use of nitrogen-fixing inoculum strains for the enhancement of legume productivity is the inability of commercially available strains to compete with indigenous rhizobia for nodule formation. Despite extensive research on nodulation competitiveness, there are no examples of field efficacy studie...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robleto EA,Kmiecik K,Oplinger ES,Nienhuis J,Triplett EW

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioisotope method was devised to study bacterial respiratory reduction of arsenate in sediments. The following two arsenic-rich soda lakes in California were chosen for comparison on the basis of their different salinities: Mono Lake (approximately 90 g/liter) and Searles Lake (approximately 340 g/liter). Profiles...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulp TR,Hoeft SE,Miller LG,Saltikov C,Murphy JN,Han S,Lanoil B,Oremland RS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding serine alkaline protease (SapSh) of the psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella strain Ac10 was cloned in Escherichia coli. The amino acid sequence deduced from the 2,442-bp nucleotide sequence revealed that the protein was 814 amino acids long and had an estimated molecular weight of 85,113. SapSh exhib...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulakova L,Galkin A,Kurihara T,Yoshimura T,Esaki N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drinking water quality management requires early warning tools which enable water supply companies to detect quickly and to forecast degradation of the microbial quality of drinking water during its transport throughout distribution systems. This study evaluated the feasibility of assessing, in real time, drinking wat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Delille A,Quilès F,Humbert F

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains were isolated from 207 stx-positive French environmental samples. Ten of these strains were positive for stx(1), and 24 were positive for stx(2) (10 were positive for stx(2vh-a) or stx(2vh-b), 19 were positive for stx(2d), and 15 were positive for stx(...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vernozy-Rozand C,Montet MP,Bertin Y,Trably F,Girardeau JP,Martin C,Livrelli V,Beutin L

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi strain NCPPB 3335 is a model bacterial pathogen for studying the molecular basis of disease production in woody hosts. We report the sequencing of the hrpS-to-hrpZ region of NCPPB 3335, which has allowed us to determine the phylogenetic position of this pathogen with respect to pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pérez-Martínez I,Rodríguez-Moreno L,Lambertsen L,Matas IM,Murillo J,Tegli S,Jiménez AJ,Ramos C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lake Fryxell is a perennially ice-covered lake in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, with a sharp oxycline in a water column that is density stabilized by a gradient in salt concentration. Dissolved oxygen falls from 20 mg liter(-1) to undetectable over one vertical meter from 8.9- to 9.9-m depth. We provide the fir...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jungblut AD,Hawes I,Mackey TJ,Krusor M,Doran PT,Sumner DY,Eisen JA,Hillman C,Goroncy AK

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Profiles of dissolved O(2) and methane with increasing depth were generated for Lake Washington sediment, which suggested the zone of methane oxidation is limited to the top 0.8 cm of the sediment. Methane oxidation potentials were measured for 0.5-cm layers down to 1.5 cm and found to be relatively constant at 270 to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Auman AJ,Stolyar S,Costello AM,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel catabolic transformation of vanillic acid (4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzoic acid) by microorganisms is reported. Several strains of Bacillus megaterium and a strain of Streptomyces are shown to convert vanillate to guaiacol (o-methoxyphenol) and CO2 by nonoxidative decarboxylation. Use of a modified most-probable-nu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Crawford RL,Olson PP

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoplankton replace phosphorus-containing lipids (P-lipids) with non-P analogues, boosting growth in P-limited oceans. In the model diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana, the substitution dynamics of lipid headgroups are well described, but those of the individual lipids, differing in fatty acid composition, are unknown. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hunter JE,Brandsma J,Dymond MK,Koster G,Moore CM,Postle AD,Mills RA,Attard GS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conjugal transfer of R-plasmids is known to occur at temperatures above 22 degrees C. We found that R1drd-19 is transferable below 22 degrees C, and we discuss this finding in the context of plasmid transfer in environmental waters. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Singleton P,Anson AE

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00