Receptors on the brush border membrane of the insect midgut as determinants of the specificity of Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxins.

abstract：:Thirty-one urease-positive thermophilic Campylobacter (UPTC) isolates, including three reference strains (NCTC12892, NCTC12895 and NCTC12896), and three Campylobacter lari isolates, which were isolated from several countries and sources, were compared genotypically by using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE). We...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matsuda M,Kaneko A,Stanley T,Millar BC,Miyajima M,Murphy PG,Moore JE

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to bile is a prerequisite property of the gastrointestinal bacterial flora. Bile acids are powerful detergents, and resistance to sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) has therefore often been considered relevant to studies of bile resistance. We have studied the effects of bovine bile (BB) and SDS on Enterococcus f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Solheim M,Aakra A,Vebø H,Snipen L,Nes IF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermal inactivation kinetics of Salmonella enteritidis PT4 between 49 and 60 degrees C were investigated. Using procedures designed to eliminate methodological artifacts, we found that the death kinetics deviated from the accepted model of first-order inactivation. When we used high-density stationary-phase popul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Humpheson L,Adams MR,Anderson WA,Cole MB

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injury induced in Escherichia coli cells by chlorination was studied from a physiological standpoint. Predictable and reproducible injury was found to occur rapidly in 0.5 mg of chlorine per liter and was reversible under nonselective conditions. There was an extended lag period in the growth of chlorinated cells not ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Camper AK,McFeters GA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we combined metabolic reconstruction, growth assays, and metabolome and transcriptome analyses to obtain a global view of the sulfur metabolic network and of the response to sulfur availability in Brevibacterium aurantiacum. In agreement with the growth of B. aurantiacum in the presence of sulfate and c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Forquin MP,Hébert A,Roux A,Aubert J,Proux C,Heilier JF,Landaud S,Junot C,Bonnarme P,Martin-Verstraete I

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial communities associated with marine algae are often dominated by members of the Roseobacter clade, and in the present study, we describe Roseobacter phenotypes that may provide this group of bacteria with selective advantages when colonizing this niche. Nine of 14 members of the Roseobacter clade, of which ha...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bruhn JB,Gram L,Belas R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are microbial polyesters that can be used as completely biodegradable polymers, but the high production cost prevents their use in a wide range of applications. Recombinant Escherichia coli strains harboring the Ralstonia eutropha PHA biosynthesis genes have been reported to have several a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Choi JI,Lee SY,Han K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene cluster that codes for feedback-resistant aspartate kinase (lysCalpha and lysCbeta) and aspartate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (asd) was cloned from a mutant strain of Corynebacterium glutamicum. Its functional analysis by subcloning, enzyme assays, and type of aspartate kinase regulation enabled the isolation ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cremer J,Eggeling L,Sahm H

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobiophage V, isolated from soil in the vicinity of soybean roots, was strongly lytic on Bradyrhizobium japonicum 123B (USDA 123) but only mildly lytic on strain L4-4, a chemically induced small-colony mutant of 123. Numerous bacteriophage-resistant variants were isolated from L4-4 infected with phage V; two were s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abebe HM,Sadowsky MJ,Kinkle BK,Schmidt EL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An early warning system using a rapid enzymatic semiautomated method suitable for fecal coliform detection in recreational waters within 8 h was developed further and evaluated in this study. This rapid method was compared to the standard method followed in the United Kingdom. We used 1,011 samples originating from 20...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Anglès d'Auriac MB,Roberts H,Shaw T,Sirevåg R,Hermansen LF,Berg JD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to deposit Bacillus subtilis spores via aerosolization onto various surface materials for biological agent decontamination and detection studies. This new method uses an apparatus coupled with a metered dose inhaler to reproducibly deposit spores onto various surfaces. A metered dose inhaler was...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee SD,Ryan SP,Snyder EG

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods to assess the impact of goose fecal contamination are needed as the result of the increasing number of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) near North American inland waters. However, there is little information on goose fecal microbial communities, and such data are important for the development of host-specific ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lu J,Santo Domingo JW,Hill S,Edge TA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scyphozoan Aurelia aurita is recognized as a key player in marine ecosystems and a driver of ecosystem change. It is thus intensely studied to address ecological questions, although its associations with microorganisms remain so far undescribed. In the present study, the microbiota associated with A. aurita was vi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weiland-Bräuer N,Neulinger SC,Pinnow N,Künzel S,Baines JF,Schmitz RA

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Resistant and susceptible populations of the diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) were tested with crystalline, solubilized, and partially and fully activated forms of the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac delta-endotoxin. Fully activated toxin greatly reduced the resistance ratio (ratio of the 50% lethal concentration ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sayyed AH,Gatsi R,Kouskoura T,Wright DJ,Crickmore N

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two anaerobic bacteria were isolated from polyethylene glycol (PEG)-degrading, methanogenic, enrichment cultures obtained from a municipal sludge digester. One isolate, identified as Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (strain DG2), metabolized oligomers ranging from ethylene glycol (EG) to tetraethylene glycol. The other iso...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dwyer DF,Tiedje JM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromate reductase purified from Pseudomonas ambigua was found to be homologous with several nitroreductases. Escherichia coli DH5alpha and Vibrio harveyi KCTC 2720 nitroreductases were chosen for the present study, and their chromate-reducing activities were determined. A fusion between glutathione S-transferase ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kwak YH,Lee DS,Kim HB

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Sepiola (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) contains 10 known species that occur in the Mediterranean Sea today. All Sepiola species have a light organ that contains at least one of two species of luminous bacteria, Vibrio fischeri and Vibrio logei. The two Vibrio species coexist in at least four Sepiola species (S. a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nishiguchi MK

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine rates of microbial transformation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in freshwater sediments, C-labeled PAH were incubated with samples from both pristine and petroleum-contaminated streams. Evolved CO(2) was trapped in KOH, unaltered PAH and polar metabolic intermediate fractions were quantitated ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Herbes SE,Schwall LR

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b produces an extracellular copper-binding ligand (CBL) with high affinity for copper. Wild-type cells and mutants that express soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) in the presence and absence of copper (sMMOc) were used to obtain cell exudates that were separated and analyzed by size exc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Téllez CM,Gaus KP,Graham DW,Arnold RG,Guzman RZ

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of secondary effluents with hydrogen peroxide (10 mg/liter)-ascorbic acid (10 mg/liter)-Cu2+ (0.5 mg/liter) for 60 min resulted in around 99% reduction of the initial plate count. Hydrogen peroxide could be replaced by other peroxygen compounds; ascorbic acid could be replaced by other reducing agents, of wh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ragab-Depre NJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water samples from rivers, streams, ponds, and activated sewage were tested for the presence of bacteria which utilize 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) as a sole source of carbon. Seventy percent of the attempted enrichments yielded pure cultures of 2,4-D-metabolizing bacteria. All but 1 of the 30 isolates were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Amy PS,Schulke JW,Frazier LM,Seidler RJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biotinylating reagent succinimidyl 6-(biotinamido)hexanoate was used to label the cell surfaces of the cosmopolitan, marine, eukaryotic microorganism Emiliania huxleyi under different growth conditions. Proteins characteristic of different nutrient conditions could be identified. In particular, a nitrogen-regulate...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Palenik B,Koke JA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method designed to sensitively detect and identify Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli without the need for isolating and culturing strains is described. The intergenic sequence between the flagellin genes flaA and flaB was amplified and characterized with a triple primer or s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wegmüller B,Lüthy J,Candrian U

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to detect NO- or N(2)O-producing bacteria in solid or liquid medium by their ability to oxidize the redox indicator resazurin from its reduced colorless form to its oxidized pink form. The method was sensitive to as little as 35 nM N(2)O or 0.5 nM NO. Ninety-one percent of the colonies that oxid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jenneman GE,Montgomery AD,McInerney MJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：:This report describes the use of an oligonucleotide macroarray to profile the expression of 375 genes in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis IL1403 during heat, acid, and osmotic stress. A set of known stress-associated genes in IL1403 was used as the internal control on the array. Every stress response was accurately de...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xie Y,Chou LS,Cutler A,Weimer B

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preinfection development in Colletotrichum spp. exhibits three morphologies (conidia, germ tubes, and appressoria) and is directed by a complex interplay of environmental signals. Germ tube morphogenesis for Colletotrichum trifolii and the related fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f. sp. aeschynomene was shown to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Buhr TL,Dickman MB

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effects of grain size and nutritional conditions on the penetration rate and metabolic activity of Escherichia coli strains in anaerobic, nutrient-saturated chambers packed with different sizes of glass beads (diameters, 116 to 767 mum) under static conditions. The chambers had nearly equal porositie...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sharma PK,McInerney MJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food-borne hepatitis A outbreaks may be prevented by subjecting foods at risk of virus contamination to moderate treatments of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP). A pretreatment promoting hepatitis A virus (HAV) capsid-folding changes enhances the virucidal effect of HHP, indicating that its efficacy depends on capsid co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： D'Andrea L,Pérez-Rodríguez FJ,Costafreda MI,Beguiristain N,Fuentes C,Aymerich T,Guix S,Bosch A,Pintó RM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00