Streptomycin-induced expression in Bacillus subtilis of YtnP, a lactonase-homologous protein that inhibits development and streptomycin production in Streptomyces griseus.

abstract：:Gibberellins (GAs) are tetracyclic diterpenoid phytohormones that were first identified as secondary metabolites of the fungus Fusarium fujikuroi (teleomorph, Gibberella fujikuroi). GAs were also found in the cassava pathogen Sphaceloma manihoticola, but the spectrum of GAs differed from that in F. fujikuroi. In contr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bömke C,Rojas MC,Gong F,Hedden P,Tudzynski B

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus is the leading cause of food-related illness in the United States, and contamination of ready-to-eat items by food handlers poses a high risk for disease. This study reports the in vitro (suspension test) and in vivo (fingerpad protocol) assessments of a new ethanol-based hand sanitizer containing a synergis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macinga DR,Sattar SA,Jaykus LA,Arbogast JW

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect exposure to waterborne viruses increases the risk of infection, especially among children with frequent hand-to-mouth contacts. Here, we quantified the transfer of one bacteriophage (MS2) and two enteric viruses (adenovirus and coxsackievirus) from liquid to skin. MS2, a commonly used enteric virus surrogate,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pitol AK,Bischel HN,Boehm AB,Kohn T,Julian TR

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus luminescens is a bacterium which is mutualistic with entomophagous nematodes and which secretes high-molecular-weight toxin complexes following its release into the insect hemocoel upon nematode invasion. Thus, unlike other protein toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (delta-endotoxins and Vip's), P. lumine...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blackburn M,Golubeva E,Bowen D,Ffrench-Constant RH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The food-borne pathogenic bacterium Listeria is known for relatively low morbidity and high mortality rates, reaching up to 25 to 30%. Listeria is a hardy organism, and its control in foods represents a significant challenge. Many naturally occurring compounds, including the bacteriocin nisin and a number of plant ess...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Field D,Daly K,O'Connor PM,Cotter PD,Hill C,Ross RP

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latent virus-like agent, which we designated zooxanthella filamentous virus 1 (ZFV1), was isolated from Symbiodinium sp. strain CCMP 2465 and characterized. Transmission electron microscopy and analytical flow cytometry revealed the presence of a new group of distinctive filamentous virus-like particles after exposu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lohr J,Munn CB,Wilson WH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitation and detection of xylem-limited bacteria with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with a peroxidase conjugate is described. The use of the Trinder reagent (4-aminoantipyrine) allows the determination of extremely small quantities of peroxidase with no precipitate formation or inactivation of the enzyme by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Saunders MS,French WJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant polysaccharide breakdown by microbes in the rumen is fundamental to digestion in ruminant livestock. Bacterial species belonging to the rumen genera Butyrivibrio and Pseudobutyrivibrio are important degraders and utilizers of lignocellulosic plant material. These bacteria degrade polysaccharides and ferment the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Palevich N,Kelly WJ,Leahy SC,Denman S,Altermann E,Rakonjac J,Attwood GT

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To cause an infection, bacteriophages must penetrate the alginate exopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to reach the bacterial surface. Despite a lack of intrinsic motility, phage were shown to diffuse through alginate gels at alginate concentrations up to 8% (wt/vol) and to bring about a 2-log reduction in the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hanlon GW,Denyer SP,Olliff CJ,Ibrahim LJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wood-degrading fungi use a sequence of oxidative and hydrolytic mechanisms to loosen lignocellulose and then release and metabolize embedded sugars. These temporal sequences have recently been mapped at high resolution using directional growth on wood wafers, revealing previously obscured dynamics as fungi progressive...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Presley GN,Panisko E,Purvine SO,Schilling JS

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 221 strains of Lactobacillus isolated from meat and meat products were screened for antagonistic activities under conditions that eliminated the effects of organic acids and hydrogen peroxide. Nineteen strains of Lactobacillus sake, three strains of Lactobacillus plantarum, and one strain of Lactobacillus c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schillinger U,Lücke FK

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pBV-1, a recombinant plasmid that contains a chromosomal DNA fragment from Bacteroides vulgatus, hybridized to DNA from B. vulgatus but not to DNA from other colonic Bacteroides species. This plasmid was used as a DNA probe to detect and enumerate B. vulgatus in pure culture, in mixed cultures, and in a bacterial frac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kuritza AP,Salyers AA

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：:A mutant of the peptide antibiotic nisin in which the dehydroalanine residue at position 5 has been replaced by an alanine has been produced and structurally characterized. It is shown to have activity very similar to that of wild-type nisin in inhibiting growth of Lactococcus lactis and Micrococcus luteus but is very...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chan WC,Dodd HM,Horn N,Maclean K,Lian LY,Bycroft BW,Gasson MJ,Roberts GC

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maltose-limited, continuous growth of the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima at different temperatures and dilution rates (80 degrees C/0.25 h(-1), 80 degrees C/0.17 h(-1), and 85 degrees C/0.25 h(-1)) showed that transcriptome-wide variation in gene expression within mechanical steady states was minimal compared to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shockley KR,Scott KL,Pysz MA,Conners SB,Johnson MR,Montero CI,Wolfinger RD,Kelly RM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus thermophilus is one of the most widely used lactic acid bacteria in the dairy industry, in particular in yoghurt manufacture, where it is associated with Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus. This bacterial association, known as a proto-cooperation, is poorly documented at the molecular and regula...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Herve-Jimenez L,Guillouard I,Guedon E,Boudebbouze S,Hols P,Monnet V,Maguin E,Rul F

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique, coleopteran-active protein, termed eCry3.1Ab, was generated following variable-region exchange of a Bacillus thuringiensis lepidopteran-active protein, Cry1Ab, with a Cry3A region. Our results support the hypothesis that this variable-region exchange is responsible for imparting strong bioactivity against th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Walters FS,deFontes CM,Hart H,Warren GW,Chen JS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fomites are known to play a role in the transmission of pathogens. Quantitative analysis of the parameters that affect sample recovery efficiency (SRE) at the limit of detection of viruses on fomites will aid in improving quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) and infection control. The variability in SRE as a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Herzog AB,Pandey AK,Reyes-Gastelum D,Gerba CP,Rose JB,Hashsham SA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paenilide is a novel, heat-stable peptide toxin from Paenibacillus tundrae, which colonizes barley. P. tundrae produced 20 to 50 ng of the toxin mg(-1) of cells (wet weight) throughout a range of growth temperatures from +5°C to +28°C. Paenilide consisted of two substances of 1,152 Da and 1,166 Da, with masses and tan...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rasimus S,Mikkola R,Andersson MA,Teplova VV,Venediktova N,Ek-Kommonen C,Salkinoja-Salonen M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of Vibrio cholerae with zooplankton has been suggested as an important factor in transmission of human epidemic cholera, and the ability to colonize zooplankton surfaces may play a role in the temporal variation and predominance of the two different serogroups (V. cholerae O1 El Tor and O139) in the aq...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rawlings TK,Ruiz GM,Colwell RR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus gasseri ATCC 33323, Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salivarius UCC 118, and Lactobacillus casei ATCC 334 contain one (LgaI), four (Sal1, Sal2, Sal3, Sal4), and one (Lca1) distinguishable prophage sequences, respectively. Sequence analysis revealed that LgaI, Lca1, Sal1, and Sal2 prophages belong to the g...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ventura M,Canchaya C,Bernini V,Altermann E,Barrangou R,McGrath S,Claesson MJ,Li Y,Leahy S,Walker CD,Zink R,Neviani E,Steele J,Broadbent J,Klaenhammer TR,Fitzgerald GF,O'toole PW,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although only partially understood, multicellular behavior is relatively common in bacterial pathogens. Bacterial aggregates can resist various host defenses and colonize their environment more efficiently than planktonic cells. For the waterborne pathogen Legionella pneumophila, little is known about the roles of aut...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abdel-Nour M,Duncan C,Prashar A,Rao C,Ginevra C,Jarraud S,Low DE,Ensminger AW,Terebiznik MR,Guyard C

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Environmental bacteria are exposed to a myriad of biotic interactions that influence their function and survival. The grazing activity of protozoan predators significantly impacts the dynamics, diversification, and evolution of bacterial communities in soil ecosystems. To evade protozoan predation, bacteria employ var...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mazzola M,de Bruijn I,Cohen MF,Raaijmakers JM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous genetic analysis (J. W. Willis, J. K. Engwall, and A. K. Chatterjee, Phytopathology 77:1199-1205, 1987) had revealed a tight linkage between pel-3 (pel, pectate lyase gene) and peh-1 (peh, polygalacturonase gene) within the chromosome of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora 71. Nucleotide sequencing, tran...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu Y,Chatterjee A,Chatterjee AK

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysogenic bacteriophage APSE infects "Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa," a facultative endosymbiont of aphids and other sap-feeding insects. This endosymbiont has established a beneficial association with aphids, increasing survivorship following attack by parasitoid wasps. Although APSE and "Ca. Hamiltonella defen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Degnan PH,Moran NA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A glycosyltransferase, involved in the synthesis of cyclic maltosylmaltose [CMM; cyclo-{-->6)-alpha-D-Glcp(1-->4)-alpha-D-Glcp(1-->6)-alpha-D-Glcp(1-->4)-alpha-D-Glcp(1-->}] from starch, was purified to homogeneity from the culture supernatant of Arthrobacter globiformis M6. The CMM-forming enzyme had a molecular mass...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mukai K,Watanabe H,Kubota M,Chaen H,Fukuda S,Kurimoto M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most species of the diazotrophic Proteobacteria Azoarcus spp. occur in association with grass roots, while A. tolulyticus and A. evansii are soil bacteria not associated with a plant host. To facilitate species identification and strain comparison, we developed a protocol for PCR-generated genomic fingerprints, using ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hurek T,Wagner B,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane proteins IIC and IID of the mannose phosphotransferase system (Man-PTS) together form a membrane-located complex that serves as a receptor for several different bacteriocins, including the pediocin-like class IIa bacteriocins and the class IIc bacteriocin lactococcin A. Bacterial strains sensitive to clas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kjos M,Nes IF,Diep DB

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid profiles of 619 cultures of Bacillus anthracis which had been isolated and stored between 1954 and 1989 were analyzed using the Laboratory Response Network real-time PCR assay targeting a chromosomal marker and both virulence plasmids (pXO1 and pXO2). The cultures were stored at ambient temperature on tryp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marston CK,Hoffmaster AR,Wilson KE,Bragg SL,Plikaytis B,Brachman P,Johnson S,Kaufmann AF,Popovic T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00