Improved transferase/hydrolase ratio through rational design of a family 1 β-glucosidase from Thermotoga neapolitana.

abstract：:Chlorpromazine was used to perform a test for the detection of microbial peroxidase activities. The compound acts as both a cell permeabilizer and a reagent in the procedure developed which allows the detection of peroxidase and peroxidase like reactions both semiquantitatively in whole cell determinations and quantit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Galeazzi L,Turchetti G,Grilli G,Groppa G,Giunta S

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli, commonly used in chemotaxis studies, is attracted mostly by amino acids, sugars, and peptides. We envisioned modifying the chemotaxis specificity of E. coli by expressing heterologous chemoreceptors from Pseudomonas putida enabling attraction either to toluene or benzoate. The mcpT gene encoding the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Roggo C,Clerc EE,Hadadi N,Carraro N,Stocker R,van der Meer JR

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a tool for repetitive, marker-free, site-specific integration in Lactococcus lactis, in which a nonreplicating plasmid vector (pKV6) carrying a phage attachment site (attP) can be integrated into a bacterial attachment site (attB). The novelty of the tool described here is the inclusion of a minimal bacteri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Petersen KV,Martinussen J,Jensen PR,Solem C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms which are derived from a bacteriophage genome are termed Per (phage-encoded resistance). When present in trans in Lactococcus lactis NCK203, Per50, the cloned origin of replication from phage phi50, interferes with phi50 replication. The per50 fragment was found to afford negligible...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： O'sullivan DJ,Hill C,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report the expression and secretion of the leaderless two-peptide (EntL50A and EntL50B) bacteriocin enterocin L50 from Enterococcus faecium L50 by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris X-33. The bacteriocin structural genes entL50A and entL50B were fused to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene region ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Basanta A,Gómez-Sala B,Sánchez J,Diep DB,Herranz C,Hernández PE,Cintas LM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A purified lipase from the yeast Cryptococcus sp. strain S-2 exhibited remote homology to proteins belonging to the cutinase family rather than to lipases. This enzyme could effectively degrade the high-molecular-weight compound polylactic acid, as well as other biodegradable plastics, including polybutylene succinate...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masaki K,Kamini NR,Ikeda H,Iefuji H

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium-botulinum type A and type B spores were stored in tomato juice (pH 4.2) and citric acid-phosphate buffer (pH 4.2) at 4, 22, and 32 degrees C for 180 days. The spore count was determined at different intervals over the 180-day storage period. There was no significant decrease in the number of type A spores ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odlaug TE,Pflug IJ

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting cells of Micrococcus luteus have been shown to remove strontium (Sr) from dilute aqueous solutions of SrCl(2) at pH 7. Loadings of 25 mg of Sr per g of cell dry weight were achieved by cells exposed to a solution containing 50 ppm (mg/liter) of Sr. Sr binding occurred in the absence of nutrients and did not re...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Faison BD,Cancel CA,Lewis SN,Adler HI

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mycoplasmas are minimal, wall-less bacteria but have retained the ability to secrete complex carbohydrate polymers that constitute a glycocalyx. In members of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster, which are important ruminant pathogens, the glycocalyx includes both cell-attached and cell-free polysaccharides. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaurivaud P,Baranowski E,Pau-Roblot C,Sagné E,Citti C,Tardy F

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term epidemiological study of Cryptosporidium molnari in aquacultured European sea bass (ESB) and gilthead sea bream (GSB) was performed in different types of facilities on the Atlantic, Cantabric, and Mediterranean coasts. Four types of studies were carried out. In study A, fish raised from juveniles to market...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sitjà-Bobadilla A,Padrós F,Aguilera C,Alvarez-Pellitero P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safe and effective nuclear waste disposal, as well as accidental radionuclide releases, necessitates our understanding of the fate of radionuclides in the environment, including their interaction with microorganisms. We examined the sorption of Pu(IV) and Pu(V) to Pseudomonas sp. strain EPS-1W, an aerobic bacterium is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boggs MA,Jiao Y,Dai Z,Zavarin M,Kersting AB

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteria that cause necrotizing hepatopancreatitis in Penaeus vannamei adversely affect penaeid shrimp cultured in the western hemisphere. 16S rRNA and gyrase B gene analyses determined the taxonomic position of these bacteria. The name "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei" is proposed for these pathogenic bacteria, wh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nunan LM,Pantoja CR,Gomez-Jimenez S,Lightner DV

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant-pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum was successfully transformed with the beta-D-glucuronidase gene from Escherichia coli (gusA) (GUS system) in combination with the gene for nitrate reductase (niaD) as the selectable marker. The frequency of cotransformation, as determined by GUS expression on plates conta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Couteaudier Y,Daboussi MJ,Eparvier A,Langin T,Orcival J

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bdellovibrios capable of axenic growth grow in a cell-free medium at a rate considerably lower than that attainable in a two-membered culture with Escherichia coli. The axenic growth rate may be improved either by adjustment of the osmosity of the medium or by the addition of low concentrations of spermine. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Varon M,Seijffers J

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Representatives of only four well-characterized bacterial phyla were isolated from a pasture soil by using liquid serial dilution culture. In contrast, members of Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Gemmatimonadetes and of other poorly represented bacterial lineages were isolated in earlier experiments with solidified...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schoenborn L,Yates PS,Grinton BE,Hugenholtz P,Janssen PH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Raw sausages are perishable foodstuffs; reducing their salt content raises questions about a possible increased spoilage of these products. In this study, we evaluated the influence of salt reduction (from 2.0% to 1.5% [wt/wt]), in combination with two types of packaging (modified atmosphere [50% mix of CO2-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fougy L,Desmonts MH,Coeuret G,Fassel C,Hamon E,Hézard B,Champomier-Vergès MC,Chaillou S

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of the mle locus harboring the malolactic enzyme gene mleA and malate permease gene mleP from Leuconostoc oenos was completed in this study by mRNA analysis. Northern (RNA) blot experiments revealed a 2.6-kb transcript, suggesting an operon structure harboring mleA and mleP genes. Primer extension ana...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Labarre C,Diviès C,Guzzo J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic optimizations to achieve high-level production of three different proteins of medical importance for humans, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interferon alpha 2b (IFN-alpha2b), and single-chain antibody variable fragment (scFv-phOx), were investigated during high-cell-density cultivat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sletta H,Tøndervik A,Hakvåg S,Aune TE,Nedal A,Aune R,Evensen G,Valla S,Ellingsen TE,Brautaset T

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid degradation of marine infrastructure at the low tide level due to accelerated low-water corrosion (ALWC) is a problem encountered worldwide. Despite this, there is limited understanding of the microbial communities involved in this process. We obtained samples of the orange-colored tubercles commonly associa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Phan HC,Wade SA,Blackall LL

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Endosymbiosis is a unique form of interaction between organisms, with one organism dwelling inside the other. One of the most widespread endosymbionts is Wolbachia pipientis, a maternally transmitted bacterium carried by insects, crustaceans, mites, and filarial nematodes. Although candidate proteins that co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Christensen S,Pérez Dulzaides R,Hedrick VE,Momtaz AJ,Nakayasu ES,Paul LN,Serbus LR

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Bacillus subtilis ferments 20 g/liter glucose in 48 h, producing lactate and butanediol, but not ethanol or acetate. To construct an ethanologenic B. subtilis strain, homologous recombination was used to disrupt the native lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) gene (ldh) by chromosomal insertion of the Zymomonas mobil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Romero S,Merino E,Bolívar F,Gosset G,Martinez A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMs), Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 FR1(pFRC20P) (FR120) and Pseudomonas putida KT2440(pWWO-EB62) (EB62), were introduced into activated sludge microcosms that had the level of aeration, nutrient makeup, and microbial community structure of activated sludge reactors. FR120 cont...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nüsslein K,Maris D,Timmis K,Dwyer DF

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizomucor miehei lipase (RML), as a kind of eukaryotic protein catalyst, plays an important role in the food, organic chemical, and biofuel industries. However, RML retains its catalytic activity below 50°C, which limits its industrial applications at higher temperatures. Soluble expression of this eukaryotic protein...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li G,Fang X,Su F,Chen Y,Xu L,Yan Y

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods were used to evaluate bacterial recovery from beef, pork, and lamb adipose tissue. Higher counts were obtained with a tissue removal and fluid agitation technique (shaking) than with surface swabbing, but only when bacterial levels were low. Bacterial recovery by both methods was unaffected by specie origi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berry BW,Joseph AL,Chen AA

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccase is a copper-containing polyphenol oxidase that has great potential in industrial and biotechnological applications. Previous research has suggested that fungal laccase may be involved in the defense against oxidative stress, but there is little direct evidence supporting this hypothesis, and the mechanism by w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yang Y,Fan F,Zhuo R,Ma F,Gong Y,Wan X,Jiang M,Zhang X

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of known sulfur oxygenase-reductases (SORs) and the SOR-like sequences identified from public databases indicated that they all possess three cysteine residues within two conserved motifs (V-G-P-K-V-C(31) and C(101)-X-X-C(104); numbering according to the Acidianus tengchongensis numbering system). The thio-mo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen ZW,Jiang CY,She Q,Liu SJ,Zhou PJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved method of dot-blot hybridization to detect hepatitis A virus (HAV) was developed with single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) probes. Radioactive and nonradioactive ssRNA probes were generated by in vitro transcription of HAV templates inserted into the plasmid pGEM-1. 32P-labeled ssRNA probes were at least eightfold ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang X,Estes MK,Metcalf TG

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of auxotrophic mutants, which is a prerequisite for a substantial genetic analysis and metabolic engineering of obligate methylotrophs, remains a rather complicated task. We describe a novel method of constructing mutants of the bacterium Methylophilus methylotrophus AS1 that are auxotrophic for aromatic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yomantas YA,Tokmakova IL,Gorshkova NV,Abalakina EG,Kazakova SM,Gak ER,Mashko SV

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanogenic isolates did not consume hydrogen below partial pressures of 6.5 Pa. Thus, in contrast to a previous report, results from pure-culture studies do not invalidate the threshold model for methane production from hydrogen in sediments. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lovley DR

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia amylovora bacteriophages (phages) belonging to the Myoviridae and Podoviridae families demonstrated a preference for either high-exopolysaccharide-producing (HEP) or low-exopolysaccharide-producing (LEP) bacterial hosts when grown on artificial medium without or with sugar supplementation. Myoviridae phages pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Roach DR,Sjaarda DR,Castle AJ,Svircev AM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00