Increased transfer of a multidrug resistance plasmid in Escherichia coli biofilms at the air-liquid interface.

abstract：:A sublethal dose of ethanol (5%, vol/vol), acid (HCl, pH 4.5 to 5.0), H2O2 (500 ppm), or NaCl (7%, wt/vol) was added to a Listeria monocytogenes culture at the exponential phase, and the cells were allowed to grow for 1 h. Exponential-phase cells also were heat shocked at 45 degrees C for 1 h. The stress-adapted cells...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lou Y,Yousef AE

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of Yersinia ruckeri in a French fish farm was investigated. Y. ruckeri was isolated mainly from algae and sediment samples rather than from water. Twenty-two Y. ruckeri isolates were obtained, and three strains were distinguished by enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR amplification. These ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coquet L,Cosette P,Quillet L,Petit F,Junter GA,Jouenne T

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio tubiashii is a recently reemerging pathogen of larval bivalve mollusks, causing both toxigenic and invasive disease. Marine Vibrio spp. produce an array of extracellular products as potential pathogenicity factors. Culture supernatants of V. tubiashii have been shown to be toxic to oyster larvae and were report...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hasegawa H,Lind EJ,Boin MA,Häse CC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization and species composition of bacterial trophic groups associated with lactose biomethanation were investigated in a whey-processing chemostat by enumeration, isolation, and general characterization studies. The bacteria were spatially organized as free-living forms and as self-immobilized forms appearin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chartrain M,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arhodomonas sp. strain Seminole was isolated from a crude oil-impacted brine soil and shown to degrade benzene, toluene, phenol, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA), protocatechuic acid (PCA), and phenylacetic acid (PAA) as the sole sources of carbon at high salinity. Seminole is a member of the genus Arhodomonas in the cla...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dalvi S,Nicholson C,Najar F,Roe BA,Canaan P,Hartson SD,Fathepure BZ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of UV-B radiation on the heterotrophic nanoflagellate Bodo saltans (Kinetoplastida) were examined under controlled conditions with artificial UV sources and also under natural solar radiation in an oligotrophic lake. In both types of experiments, the characteristic elongated cell morphology of this flagell...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sommaruga R,Oberleiter A,Psenner R

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents population analyses of microbial communities inhabiting a site of extreme acid mine drainage (AMD) production. The site is the inactive underground Richmond mine at Iron Mountain, Calif., where the weathering of a massive sulfide ore body (mostly pyrite) produces solutions with pHs of approximately...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bond PL,Druschel GK,Banfield JF

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hot and cold aqueous extracts were prepared from 22 commonly ingested fruits, vegetables, and seeds. When tested by agar diffusion, extracts from 13 and 10 of the foods formed precipitin bands with samples of normal rabbit serum and human saliva, respectively; extracts from four of the foods also reacted with antigen ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gibbons RJ,Dankers I

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous fungi are widely used for the production of homologous and heterologous proteins. Recently, there has been increasing interest in Aspergillus oryzae because of its ability to produce heterologous proteins in solid-state culture. To provide an overview of protein secretion by A. oryzae in solid-state cultur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oda K,Kakizono D,Yamada O,Iefuji H,Akita O,Iwashita K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, thousands of new protistan 18S rRNA sequences are detected in environmental samples. Many of these sequences are molecular signatures of new protistan species, classes, and/or kingdoms that have never been seen before. The main goal of this study was to enable visualization of these novel organisms and to c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stoeck T,Fowle WH,Epstein SS

更新日期：2003-11-01 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 effects of pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment and processing factors on the inactivation kinetics of Listeria innocua NCTC 11289 were investigated by using a pilot plant PEF unit with a flow rate of 200 liters/h. The electric field strength, pulse length, number of pulses, and inlet temperature were the most si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wouters PC,Dutreux N,Smelt JP,Lelieveld HL

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of the herbicides EPTC (S-ethyl dipropylthiocarbamate) and atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethyl-amino-6-isopropylamino-1,3,5-triazine) is associated with an indigenous plasmid in Rhodococcus sp. strain TE1. Plasmid DNA libraries of Rhodococcus sp. strain TE1 were constructed in a Rhodococcus-Escherichia coli shu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shao ZQ,Behki R

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new detection system, the magnetic immuno-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay (MIPA) has been developed to detect Listeria monocytogenes in food. This method separates Listeria cells from PCR-inhibitory factors present in enrichment broths containing food samples by using magnetic beads coated with specific monocl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fluit AC,Torensma R,Visser MJ,Aarsman CJ,Poppelier MJ,Keller BH,Klapwijk P,Verhoef J

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the impact of solar UV radiation (UVR) (280 to 400 nm) on the filamentous cyanobacterium Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis, we examined the morphological changes and photosynthetic performance using an indoor-grown strain (which had not been exposed to sunlight for decades) and an outdoor-grown strain (which ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wu H,Gao K,Villafañe VE,Watanabe T,Helbling EW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixed culture of nitrate-reducing bacteria degraded o-cresol in the presence of toulene as a primary growth substrate. No degradation of o-cresol was observed in the absence of toluene or when the culture grew on p-cresol and 2,4-dimethylphenol. In batch cultures, the degradation of o-cresol started after toluene wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Flyvbjerg J,Jørgensen C,Arvin E,Jensen BK,Olsen SK

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-xylosidase-encoding xlnD gene of Aspergillus niger 90196 was amplified by the PCR technique from first-strand cDNA synthesized on mRNA isolated from the fungus. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA fragment was verified to contain a 2,412-bp open reading frame that encodes a 804-amino-acid propeptide. The 778-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： La Grange DC,Pretorius IS,Claeyssens M,van Zyl WH

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of peptides were evaluated as chemoattractants for Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Several strains recognized tri-, tetra-, penta-, and hexapeptides in a capillary tube assay. Tripeptides altered at the carboxyl terminus were good attractants, whereas tripeptides altered at the amino terminus did not serve as chemoat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kelly-Wintenberg K,Montie TC

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:After the first isolation of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in 2003, this MRSA variant quickly became the predominant MRSA obtained from humans as part of the Dutch national MRSA surveillance. Previous studies have suggested that human-to-human transmission of LA-MRSA, compa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bosch T,Verkade E,van Luit M,Landman F,Kluytmans J,Schouls LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Mold-damaged building materials may contain biologically active agents, such as (1-->3)-beta-D-glucan, allergens, and mycotoxins, which have been associated with adverse health effects. The release of these components from contaminated surfaces into the air is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to char...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Seo SC,Reponen T,Levin L,Borchelt T,Grinshpun SA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermophilic strain (D2) identified as a Bacillus sp. was isolated from an aerobic digestor of swine waste after several months of operation at 55 degrees C. Aerobic thermophilic batch treatment of swine waste inoculated with strain D2 was studied in a 4-liter fixed-bed reactor. Stabilization of the waste was achiev...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beaudet R,Gagnon C,Bisaillon JG,Ishaque M

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 75 compounds, including antioxidants, preservatives, gallic acid and p-hydroxybenzoic acid esters, hydroquinones, hydroxyquinolines, phenol derivatives, and related compounds, were screened for their antibotulinal activity in prereduced Thiotone-yeast extract-glucose broth. The most effective inhibitors of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reddy NR,Pierson MD,Lechowich RV

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory and photosynthetic quinones of microbial mats which occurred in Japanese sulfide-containing neutral-pH hot springs at different temperatures were analyzed by spectrochromatography and mass spectrometry. All of the microbial mats that developed at high temperatures (temperatures above 68 degreesC) were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hiraishi A,Umezawa T,Yamamoto H,Kato K,Maki Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 BM-3, a self-sufficient P450 enzyme from Bacillus megaterium that catalyzes the subterminal hydroxylation of long-chain fatty acids, has been engineered into a catalyst for the oxidation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The activities of a triplet mutant (A74G/F87V/L188Q) towards naphthalene, fluor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li QS,Ogawa J,Schmid RD,Shimizu S

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient insertion mutagenesis strategy for bacterial genomes based on the phage Mu DNA transposition reaction was developed. Incubation of MuA transposase protein with artificial mini-Mu transposon DNA in the absence of divalent cations in vitro resulted in stable but inactive Mu DNA transposition complexes, or t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lamberg A,Nieminen S,Qiao M,Savilahti H

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:Ammoniacal silver nitrate (10 mg/ml) was added to terminate acetylene reduction assays used to measure nitrogenase activity. Silver nitrate quantitatively precipitated acetylene as the carbide salt, but did not affect the ethylene formed. The vials containing ethylene can be analyzed gas chromatographically at the rat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： David KA,Apte SK,Banerji A,Thomas J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of transgenic plants and microorganisms expressing truncated genes from various subspecies of Bacillus thuringiensis that encode active insecticidal toxins rather than inactive protoxins could result in the accumulation of these active proteins in soil, especially when bound on clays and other soil particl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tapp H,Stotzky G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00