Characterization of DC1, a broad-host-range Bcep22-like podovirus.

abstract：:The bacterial content of specially treated cottons used by other investigators to test human pulmonary responses to cotton dust was examined. Cotton from Lubbock, Tex. and Stoneville, Miss. were either (i) harvested by machine and handled as commercial bale cotton, (ii) harvested as closed bolls with bracts intact and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Millner PD,Ericson KE,Marsh PB

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basidiomycetes that cause brown rot of wood are essential biomass recyclers in coniferous forest ecosystems and a major cause of failure in wooden structures. Recent work indicates that distinct lineages of brown rot fungi have arisen independently from ligninolytic white rot ancestors via loss of lignocellulolytic en...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Korripally P,Timokhin VI,Houtman CJ,Mozuch MD,Hammel KE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftiofur, a third-generation cephalosporin antimicrobial, was used in Canadian hatcheries for many years to prevent early mortality in chicks, leading to a high prevalence of cephalosporin resistance in Escherichia coli in chickens. Preventive use of ceftiofur in hatcheries ceased in 2014. We examined the effect of c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Verrette L,Fairbrother JM,Boulianne M

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcosms were prepared from aquifer material, spiked with monoaromatic hydrocarbons, and amended with oxygen, nitrate, and nitrous oxide. Benzene and alkylbenzenes were degraded to concentrations below 5 micrograms/liter within 7 days under aerobic conditions, whereas only the alkylbenzenes were degraded when either...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hutchins SR

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucoromycota representatives are known to harbour two types of endohyphal bacteria (EHB) - Burkholderia related endobacteria (BRE) and Mycoplasma related endobacteria (MRE). While both BRE and MRE occur in fungi representing all subphyla of Mucoromycota, their distribution is not well studied. Therefore, it is difficu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Okrasińska A,Bokus A,Duk K,Gęsiorska A,Sokołowska B,Miłobędzka A,Wrzosek M,Pawłowska J

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative to those of unexposed cultures, the transcript levels of the four CprA-type reductive dehalogenase genes (cprA2, cprA3, cprA4, and cprA5) in Desulfitobacterium hafniense PCP-1 were measured in cultures exposed to chlorophenols. In 2,4,6-trichlorophenol-amended cultures, cprA2 and cprA3 were upregulated, as wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bisaillon A,Beaudet R,Lépine F,Villemur R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Comamonas testosteroni strain was isolated from activated sludge on the basis of its ability to coaggregate with yeast cells. On agar plates the following two types of colonies were formed: colonies with a mucoid appearance and colonies with a nonmucoid appearance. On plates this strain alternated between the two fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bossier P,Verstraete W

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analyses revealed multiple alkB gene copies/cell in soil bacterial isolates and an apparently high genetic mobility among various phylogenetic groups. Identifying alkane degraders by alkB terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) and sequences is str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Giebler J,Wick LY,Schloter M,Harms H,Chatzinotas A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single glucosyltransferase (GTF) of Streptococcus gordonii Challis CH1 makes alpha 1,3- and alpha 1,6-linked glucans from sucrose. The GTF carboxyl-terminal region has six direct repeats thought to be involved in glucan binding. Strains with defined mutations in this region have been described recently (M. M. Vick...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vickerman MM,Clewell DB

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vineyard isolate of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, UCD932, was identified as a strain producing little or no detectable hydrogen sulfide during wine fermentation. Genetic analysis revealed that this trait segregated as a single genetic determinant. The gene also conferred a white colony phenotype on BiGGY agar ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Linderholm A,Dietzel K,Hirst M,Bisson LF

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-positive Streptomyces bacteria produce thousands of bioactive secondary metabolites, including antibiotics. To systematically investigate genes affecting secondary metabolism, we developed a hyperactive transposase-based Tn5 transposition system and employed it to mutagenize the model species Streptomyces coelico...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xu Z,Wang Y,Chater KF,Ou HY,Xu HH,Deng Z,Tao M

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl fluoride is frequently used to specifically inhibit acetoclastic methanogenesis, thus allowing determination of the relative contribution of acetate versus H2/CO2 to total CH4 production in natural environments. However, the effect of the inhibitor on growth of the target archaeal population has not yet been st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Penning H,Conrad R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high risk associated with biological threat agents dictates that any suspicious sample be handled under strict surety and safety controls and processed under high-level containment in specialized laboratories. This study attempted to find a rapid, reliable, and simple method for the complete inactivation of a wide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sagripanti JL,Hülseweh B,Grote G,Voss L,Böhling K,Marschall HJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gordonia polyisoprenivorans strain VH2, a potent rubber-degrading actinomycete, harbors two latex clearing proteins (Lcps), which are known to be essential for the microbial degradation of rubber. However, biochemical information on the exact role of this protein in the degradation of polyisoprene was lacking. In this...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hiessl S,Böse D,Oetermann S,Eggers J,Pietruszka J,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-subsurface samples obtained by deep drilling are likely to be contaminated with mesophilic microorganisms in the drilling fluid, and this could affect determination of the community structure of the geothermal microflora using 16S rRNA gene clone library analysis. To eliminate possible contamination by PCR-amplif...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kimura H,Sugihara M,Kato K,Hanada S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria using toxic chemicals, such as detergents, as growth substrates face the challenge of exposing themselves to cell-damaging effects that require protection mechanisms, which demand energy delivered from catabolism of the toxic compound. Thus, adaptations are necessary for ensuring the rapid onset of substrate ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Panasia G,Oetermann S,Steinbüchel A,Philipp B

更新日期：2019-11-14 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：:The potential of Pseudomonas pseudoflava to produce poly-beta-hydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from pentoses was studied. This organism was able to use a hydrolysate from the hemicellulosic fraction of poplar wood as a carbon and energy source for its growth. However, in batch cultures, growth was inhibited completely at hydr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bertrand JL,Ramsay BA,Ramsay JA,Chavarie C

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal multicopper oxidases have many potential industrial applications, since they perform reactions under mild conditions. We isolated a phenol oxidase from the fungus Acremonium murorum var. murorum that was capable of decolorizing plant chromophores (such as anthocyanins). This enzyme is of interest in laundry-cle...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gouka RJ,van der Heiden M,Swarthoff T,Verrips CT

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation (loss of culturability) by sunlight of enterococci and fecal coliforms within sewage effluent diluted in seawater was investigated in field experiments. In most experiments, 500-ml flasks of pure silica were used to confine activated sludge effluent diluted to 2% (vol/vol) in seawater. Inactivation of bac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davies-Colley RJ,Bell RG,Donnison AM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the submersible JAGO and by scuba diving we discovered three remarkable geothermal cones, rising 33, 25, and 45 m from the seafloor at a depth of 65 m in Eyjafjordur, northern Iceland. The greatest geothermal activity was on the highest cone, which discharged up to 50 liters of freshwater per s at 72 degrees C an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marteinsson VT,Kristjánsson JK,Kristmannsdóttir H,Dahlkvist M,Saemundsson K,Hannington M,Pétursdóttir SK,Geptner A,Stoffers P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of livestock with bacteria resistant to antibiotics is considered a risk for the entry of drug-resistant pathogens into the food chain. For this reason, there is a need for novel concepts to address the eradication of drug-resistant commensals on farms. In the present report, we evaluated the decontaminat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmithausen RM,Kellner SR,Schulze-Geisthoevel SV,Hack S,Engelhart S,Bodenstein I,Al-Sabti N,Reif M,Fimmers R,Körber-Irrgang B,Harlizius J,Hoerauf A,Exner M,Bierbaum G,Petersen B,Bekeredjian-Ding I

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic treatment of a volatile fatty acid (VFA) mixture was investigated under psychrophilic (3 to 8 degrees C) conditions in two laboratory-scale expanded granular sludge bed reactor stages in series. The reactor system was seeded with mesophilic methanogenic granular sludge and fed with a mixture of VFAs. Good re...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lettinga G,Rebac S,Parshina S,Nozhevnikova A,van Lier JB,Stams AJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assembly consisting of Styrofoam cups with membranes of varying porosities was developed to study microorganism-root interactions. The assembly permitted uniform distribution of a bacterium in soil and was simple, easy to use, and disposable. In tests with the bacterium Pseudomonas solanacearum, little difference i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hartel PG,Billingsley JW,Williamson JW

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new polyaromatic hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacteria have been isolated from burrow wall sediments of benthic macrofauna by using enrichments on phenanthrene. Strain LC8 (from a polychaete) and strain M4-6 (from a mollusc) are aerobic and gram negative and require sodium chloride (>1%) for growth. Both strains c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chung WK,King GM

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crenarchaeol, a membrane-spanning glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) containing a cyclohexane moiety in addition to four cyclopentane moieties, was originally hypothesized to be synthesized exclusively by the mesophilic Crenarchaeota. Recent studies reporting the occurrence of crenarchaeol in hot springs and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pitcher A,Schouten S,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subsurface sediments were recovered from a 52-m-deep borehole cored in the 300 Area of the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State to assess the potential for biogeochemical transformation of radionuclide contaminants. Microbial analyses were made on 17 sediment samples traversing multiple geological units: the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lin X,Kennedy D,Peacock A,McKinley J,Resch CT,Fredrickson J,Konopka A

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,2-Dibromoethane (EDB), which is a groundwater contaminant in areas where it was once used as a soil fumigant, was shown to be degraded aerobically by microorganisms in two types of surface soils from an EDB-contaminated groundwater discharge area. At initial concentrations of 6 to 8 mug/liter, EDB was degraded in a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pignatello JJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five media, formulated from the seeds of five legume varieties, dried cow blood, and mineral salts, were assessed for the growth and production of insecticidal properties of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Bacterial powders prepared from the broth cultures were assayed against the larvae of Aedes aegypti, C...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Obeta JA,Okafor N

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, the enzymatic activities of selected strains of biotypes 1 and 2 of Vabrio vulnificus were analyzed by using conventional methods and the API ZYM system. The toxic activities of extracellular products (ECPs) were further evaluated by in vitro and in vivo experiments. The ECPs of both biotypes (i) showed ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biosca EG,Amaro C

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00