Cloning of alpha- and beta-galactosidase genes from an extreme thermophile, Thermus strain T2, and their expression in Thermus thermophilus HB27.

abstract：:Three expedition huts in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica, built between 1901 and 1911 by Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton, sheltered and stored the supplies for up to 48 men for 3 years during their explorations and scientific investigation in the South Pole region. The huts, built with wood taken to Antarctica...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blanchette RA,Held BW,Jurgens JA,McNew DL,Harrington TC,Duncan SM,Farrell RL

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to express the toxin complex genes of Photorhabdus luminescens W14 in Escherichia coli have failed to reconstitute their oral toxicity to the model insect Manduca sexta. Here we show that the combination of three genes, tcdA, tcdB, and tccC, is essential for oral toxicity to M. sexta when expression ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Waterfield N,Dowling A,Sharma S,Daborn PJ,Potter U,Ffrench-Constant RH

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of phytoplasma-insect vector interactions and epidemiological surveys of plant yellows associated with the stolbur phytoplasma (StolP) require the identification of relevant candidate genes and typing markers. A recent StolP genome survey identified a partial coding sequence, SR01H10, having no homologue in th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cimerman A,Pacifico D,Salar P,Marzachì C,Foissac X

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier studies, the pathway of toluene and m- and p-xylene degradation (TOL pathway) in Pseudomonas putida (pWW0) was found to be subject to catabolite repression when the strain was grown at the maximal rate on glucose or succinate in the presence of an inducer. This report describes catabolite repression of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duetz WA,Marqués S,Wind B,Ramos JL,van Andel JG

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial strains were isolated on the basis of their ability to proliferate in a minimal medium containing one of a series of lignin-related compounds as the sole carbon and energy source. These included the aromatic monomers guaiacol, vanillic and coumaric acids, a dimer and a trimer possessing the arylglycerol-beta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gonzalez B,Merino A,Almeida M,Vicña R

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kraft pulps, prepared from softwoods, and small chips of birch wood were treated with heme and tert-butyl hydroperoxide in aqueous solutions at reflux temperature. Analyses of treated pulps showed decreases in kappa number (a measure of lignin content) from about 36 to less than 2, with concomitant increases in bright...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paszczyński A,Crawford RL,Blanchette RA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) was detected in 2003 and rapidly became the predominant MRSA clade in the Netherlands. Studies have shown that transmissions are difficult to identify, since this MRSA variant represents a genetically homogenous clade when current typ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bosch T,Witteveen S,Haenen A,Landman F,Schouls LM

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular pH (pH(in)) is a tightly regulated physiological parameter, which controls cell performance in all living systems. The purpose of this work was to evaluate if and how H(+) homeostasis is accomplished by an industrial wine strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae while fermenting real must under the harsh winer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Viana T,Loureiro-Dias MC,Loureiro V,Prista C

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic and facultatively anaerobic bacteria isolated from false-positive, presumptive, total coliform, most-probable-number tests of Chesapeake Bay oyster, water, and sediment samples were characterized and then classified by numerical taxonomy. A total of 538 bacterial strains clustered into 17 phena, the predominan...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hussong D,Damaré JM,Weiner RM,Colwell RR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of a PCR method to investigate the fate of liberated Q(beta) coliphage RNA in wastewater suggests that a positive PCR result indicates the recent presence of potentially viable virus in the sample and therefore increases the public health significance of the result. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Limsawat S,Ohgaki S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis 5230 spores were lyophilized in 0.067 M phosphate buffer and stored at 2 to 8 degrees C for 9 to 27 months. The lyophilized spores were reconstituted with buffer or 0.9% saline, and the heat resistance was determined in a thermoresistometer. Lyophilization had no effect on the heat resistance of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odlaug TE,Caputo RA,Graham GS

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral biofilm community consists of >800 microbial species, among which Streptococcus mutans is considered a primary pathogen for dental caries. The genomic island TnSmu2 of S. mutans comprises >2% of the genome. In this study, we demonstrate that TnSmu2 harbors a gene cluster encoding nonribosomal peptide syntheta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wu C,Cichewicz R,Li Y,Liu J,Roe B,Ferretti J,Merritt J,Qi F

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus megaterium P1, a bacterial strain capable of hydrolyzing chitosan, was isolated from soil samples. Chitosan-degrading activity was induced by chitosan but not by its constituent d-glucosamine. Extracellular secretion of chitosanase reached levels corresponding to 1 U/ml under optimal conditions. Three chitosa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pelletier A,Sygusch J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although molecular techniques have identified Helicobacter pylori in drinking water-associated biofilms, there is a lack of studies reporting what factors affect the attachment of the bacterium to plumbing materials. Therefore, the adhesion of H. pylori suspended in distilled water to stainless steel 304 (SS304) coupo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azevedo NF,Pinto AR,Reis NM,Vieira MJ,Keevil CW

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid marker rescue system based on restoration of the nptII gene was established in Streptococcus gordonii to study the transfer of bacterial and transgenic plant DNA by transformation. In vitro studies revealed that the marker rescue efficiency depends on the type of donor DNA. Plasmid and chromosomal DNA of bac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kharazmi M,Sczesny S,Blaut M,Hammes WP,Hertel C

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella species are pathogenic bacteria often detected in sewage, freshwater, marine coastal water, and groundwater. Salmonella spp. can survive for long periods in natural waters, and the persistence of specific and epidemic strains is of great concern in public health. However, the diversity of species found in t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baudart J,Lemarchand K,Brisabois A,Lebaron P

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cutinase gene-like genes from the basidiomycete Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus) found with a similarity search were cloned and expressed in Trichoderma reesei under the control of an inducible cbh1 promoter. The selected transformants of all three polyesterase constructs showed activity with p-nitropheny...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kontkanen H,Westerholm-Parvinen A,Saloheimo M,Bailey M,Rättö M,Mattila I,Mohsina M,Kalkkinen N,Nakari-Setälä T,Buchert J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive PCR technique was used to enumerate the proteolytic bacterium Clostridium proteoclasticum from the rumen. A PCR primer, which circumscribes this organism and several closely related strains, was designed for a variable region within their 16S rRNA genes and was used in conjunction with a universal forwar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reilly K,Attwood GT

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen Bacillus thuringiensis strains representing 13 serotypes were screened with five oligodeoxyribonucleotide probes specific for certain regions of two published sequences and one unpublished sequence of B. thuringiensis delta-endotoxin genes. Of the 15 cultures, 14 hybridized with at least one probe; the B. thur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Prefontaine G,Fast P,Lau PC,Hefford MA,Hanna Z,Brousseau R

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital dermatitis (DD) is an important cause of lameness in dairy cattle worldwide. It has now been reported in beef cattle and also sheep (contagious ovine digital dermatitis [CODD]). Three Treponema phylogroups are consistently isolated from lesions, Treponema medium-like, Treponema phagedenis-like, and Treponema p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sullivan LE,Carter SD,Duncan JS,Grove-White DH,Angell JW,Evans NJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate description of a microbial community is an important first step in understanding the roles of its components in ecosystem function. A method for surveying microbial communities termed serial analysis of rRNA genes (SARD) is described here. Through a series of molecular cloning steps, short DNA sequence ta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ashby MN,Rine J,Mongodin EF,Nelson KE,Dimster-Denk D

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Households provide environments that encourage the formation of microbial communities, often as biofilms. Such biofilms constitute potential reservoirs for pathogens, particularly for immune-compromised individuals. One household environment that potentially accumulates microbial biofilms is that provided by vinyl sho...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kelley ST,Theisen U,Angenent LT,St Amand A,Pace NR

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural abundance of stable carbon isotopes measured in bacterial nucleic acids extracted from estuarine bacterial concentrates was used to trace sources of organic matter for bacteria in aquatic environments. The stable carbon isotope ratios of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and nucleic acids extracted from cultures rese...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coffin RB,Velinsky DJ,Devereux R,Price WA,Cifuentes LA

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hot-water extracts of mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) wood were assayed for their total carbohydrate, reducing sugar, and glucose content. These hydrolysates were then used as complete media for yeast growth. A total of 10 strains of yeasts were evaluated for their biomass production in the mesquite wood hydrolysates. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stanlake GJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant amounts of ethylene were produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea, pv. phaseolicola (which had been isolated from viny weed Pueraria lobata [Willd.] Ohwi [common name, kudzu]), and pv. pisi in synthetic medium. On the other hand, the bean strains of P. syringae pv. phaseolicola and strains of 17 other...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weingart H,Volksch B

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of physiological and environmental factors on the accumulation of oxindole during anaerobic indole metabolism was investigated by high-performance liquid chromatography. Under methanogenic conditions, indole was temporarily converted to oxindole in stoichiometric amounts in media inoculated with three fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Madsen EL,Francis AJ,Bollag JM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of long-term heavy metal deposition on microbial community structure and the level of bacterial community tolerance were studied along two different gradients in Scandinavian coniferous forest soils. One was near the Harjavalta smelter in Finland, and one was at Ronnskar in Sweden. Phospholipid fatty acid ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pennanen T,Frostegard A,Fritze H,Baath E

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of nitroaromatic compounds, including 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), were reduced by hydrogen in the presence of enzyme preparations from Veillonella alkalescens. Consistent with the proposed reduction pathway, R-NO2 H2 leads to R-NO H2 leads to R-NHOH H2 leads to R-NH2, 3 mol of H2 was utilized per mol of nit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCormick NG,Feeherry FE,Levinson HS

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccases couple the oxidation of phenolic compounds to the reduction of molecular oxygen and thus span a wide variety of applications. While laccases of eukaryotes and bacteria are well characterized, these enzymes have not been described in archaea. Here, we report the purification and characterization of a laccase (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Uthandi S,Saad B,Humbard MA,Maupin-Furlow JA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the increased number of anthrax outbreaks in Georgia and the other Caucasian republics of the former Soviet Union, no data are available on the diversity of the Bacillus anthracis strains involved. There is also little data available on strains from the former Soviet Union, including the strains previously use...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Merabishvili M,Natidze M,Rigvava S,Brusetti L,Raddadi N,Borin S,Chanishvili N,Tediashvili M,Sharp R,Barbeschi M,Visca P,Daffonchio D

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00