Moderate prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli isolates from lettuce, irrigation water, and soil.

abstract：:The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) yield and deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity of several yeasts were correlated. Debaryomyces castellii and Debaryomyces franciscae were found to contain active DNases which carry out DNA hydrolysis, whereas the amounts of DNA as determined by extraction with Sarkosyl buffer (pH 7.8) wer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： El-Nakhal H,Phaff HJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of various subsets of poultry intestinal microbiota to protect turkeys from colonization by Campylobacter jejuni was investigated. Community subsets were generated in vivo by inoculation of day-old poults with the cecal contents of a Campylobacter-free adult turkey, followed by treatment with one antimicro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Scupham AJ,Jones JA,Rettedal EA,Weber TE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain, designated KSM-7358, that can use alpha-cedrene for growth was isolated. The strain was identified as a member of the genus Rhodococcus and catalyzed the novel allylic oxidation of alpha-cedrene regiospecifically to produce (R)-10-hydroxycedrene (sec-cedrenol) with a very high yield. alpha-Curcumen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takigawa H,Kubota H,Sonohara H,Okuda M,Tanaka S,Fujikura Y,Ito S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A straightforward method is described for screening methanotrophic colonies for soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) activity on solid media. Such activity results in the development of a colored complex between 1-naphthol, which is formed when sMMO reacts with naphthalene, and o-dianisidine (tetrazotized). Methanotro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Graham DW,Korich DG,LeBlanc RP,Sinclair NA,Arnold RG

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal contents of 59 Zairese freshwater fish were examined for the presence of potential human enteric pathogens. Edwardsiella tarda and Plesiomonas shigelloides were isolated from 57 and 59% of them, respectively. For both microorganisms there was a significant difference between the isolation rates from lak...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Damme LR,Vandepitte J

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia albertii is a recently described species that has been associated with gastroenteritis in humans and with healthy and ill birds. Most recently, it has been identified as the causative agent in a food-borne outbreak in Japan. The distribution and clinical importance of E. albertii are not well studied becau...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lindsey RL,Fedorka-Cray PJ,Abley M,Turpin JB,Meinersmann RJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mongolian gerbils were used as an animal model to excyst and host Giardia spp. isolated from meadow voles, dogs, beavers, and humans. Both cysts and trophozoites were used to establish infections. Gerbils were infected with Giardia duodenalis from beaver, dog, and human sources, and the trophozoites were extracted and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wallis PM,Wallis HM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, ixodid ticks are important arthropod vectors of human and animal pathogens, but comprehensive studies of the prevalence of all relevant pathogens in Central Europe are scarce. As a result of ecological changes, the incidences of tick-borne infections are expected to increase. In this study, 1,394 nymphal an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reye AL,Hübschen JM,Sausy A,Muller CP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the aflatoxin biosynthesis cluster gene aflY (hypA) gave Aspergillus parasiticus transformants that accumulated versicolorin A. This gene is predicted to encode the Baeyer-Villiger oxidase necessary for formation of the xanthone ring of the aflatoxin precursor demethylsterigmatocystin. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ehrlich KC,Montalbano B,Boué SM,Bhatnagar D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the characterization of a group of seven novel Brucella strains isolated in 1964 from three native rodent species in North Queensland, Australia, during a survey of wild animals. The strains were initially reported to be Brucella suis biovar 3 on the basis of microbiological test results. Our results indi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tiller RV,Gee JE,Frace MA,Taylor TK,Setubal JC,Hoffmaster AR,De BK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the homoserine dehydrogenase genes (hom) from the gram-negative obligate methylotrophs Methylobacillus glycogenes ATCC 21276 and ATCC 21371 by complementation of an Escherichia coli homoserine dehydrogenase-deficient mutant. The 4.15-kb DNA fragment cloned from M. glycogenes ATCC 21371 also complemented...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Motoyama H,Maki K,Anazawa H,Ishino S,Teshiba S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of and production of protease, alpha-amylase, alpha-galactosidase, and lipase by Actinomucor taiwanensis in relation to temperature and relative humidity during the preparation of sufu (Chinese cheese) pehtze were investigated. The incubation temperature, humidity, and cultivation time greatly affected the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chou CC,Ho FM,Tsai CS

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the ripening of Gouda-type cheese, two kinds of endopeptidases were found to participate in the degradation of alphas1-CN(f1-23), a specific product from alphas1-casein hydrolyzed by chymosin. One of the endopeptidases, lactic acid bacteria endopeptidase (LEP-II), which can recognize the size of its substrates,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yan TR,Azuma N,Kaminogawa S,Yamauchi K

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of selenium in the environment is controlled, in part, by microbial selenium oxyanion reduction and Se(0) precipitation. In this study, we identified a genetic regulator that controls selenate reductase activity in the Se-reducing bacterium Enterobacter cloacae SLD1a-1. Heterologous expression of the global a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yee N,Ma J,Dalia A,Boonfueng T,Kobayashi DY

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a medium containing ammonia, proteose peptone, and cysteine as nitrogen sources, 17 of 24 Bacteroidaceae strains, 3 of Selenomonas strains, 1 of 7 curved rods, 3 of 7 Spirochaetaceae strains, 8 of 20 Eubacterium strains, 8 of 13 Peptococcaceae strains, 3 of 4 Clostridium strains, 19 of 20 Enterobacteriaceae strains...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takahashi M,Benno Y,Mitsuoka T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of genes encoding polyamine transporters from plasmids and polyamine supplements increased furfural tolerance (growth and ethanol production) in ethanologenic Escherichia coli LY180 (in AM1 mineral salts medium containing xylose). This represents a new approach to increase furfural tolerance and may be usef...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Geddes RD,Wang X,Yomano LP,Miller EN,Zheng H,Shanmugam KT,Ingram LO

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding serine alkaline protease (SapSh) of the psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella strain Ac10 was cloned in Escherichia coli. The amino acid sequence deduced from the 2,442-bp nucleotide sequence revealed that the protein was 814 amino acids long and had an estimated molecular weight of 85,113. SapSh exhib...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulakova L,Galkin A,Kurihara T,Yoshimura T,Esaki N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis are widely used for the large-scale industrial production of proteins. These strains can efficiently secrete proteins into the culture medium using the general secretion (Sec) pathway. A characteristic feature of all secreted proteins is their N-terminal signal peptides, wh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Degering C,Eggert T,Puls M,Bongaerts J,Evers S,Maurer KH,Jaeger KE

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces pastorianus strains are hybrids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces eubayanus that have been domesticated for centuries in lager beer brewing environments. As sequences and structures of S. pastorianus genomes are being resolved, molecular mechanisms and evolutionary origins of several industri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brouwers N,Brickwedde A,Gorter de Vries AR,van den Broek M,Weening SM,van den Eijnden L,Diderich JA,Bai FY,Pronk JT,Daran JG

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative real-time PCR targeting the tnaA gene was studied to detect Escherichia coli and distinguish E. coli from Shigella spp. These microorganisms revealed high similarity in the molecular organization of the tna operon. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bernasconi C,Volponi G,Picozzi C,Foschino R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli offers unparalleled engineering capacity in the context of heterologous natural product biosynthesis. However, as with other heterologous hosts, cellular metabolism must be designed or redesigned to support final compound formation. This task is at once complicated and aided by the fact that the cell ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang M,Stephanopoulos G,Pfeifer BA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the spontaneous formation of a stable mannitol-producing variant of Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides. The mannitol-producing variant showed mannitol dehydrogenase activity which was absent in the parental strain. It was also able to use fructose and glucose simultaneously, whereas the parental strain showed d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Grobben GJ,Peters SW,Wisselink HW,Weusthuis RA,Hoefnagel MH,Hugenholtz J,Eggink G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bile salt hydrolase (BSH) was isolated from Bifidobacterium longum SBT2928, purified, and characterized. Furthermore, we describe for the first time cloning and analysis of the gene encoding BSH (bsh) in a member of the genus Bifidobacterium. The enzyme has a native molecular weight of 125,000 to 130,000 and a subun...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tanaka H,Hashiba H,Kok J,Mierau I

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment and processing factors on the inactivation kinetics of Listeria innocua NCTC 11289 were investigated by using a pilot plant PEF unit with a flow rate of 200 liters/h. The electric field strength, pulse length, number of pulses, and inlet temperature were the most si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wouters PC,Dutreux N,Smelt JP,Lelieveld HL

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at investigating the antifungal activity of Wickerhamomyces anomalus and sourdough lactic acid bacteria to extend the shelf life of wheat flour bread. The antifungal activity was assayed by agar diffusion, growth rate inhibition, and conidial germination assays, using Penicillium roqueforti DPPMAF1 as...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coda R,Cassone A,Rizzello CG,Nionelli L,Cardinali G,Gobbetti M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To survive in various environments, from host tissue to soil, opportunistic bacterial pathogens must be metabolically flexible and able to use a variety of nutrient sources. We are interested in Pseudomonas aeruginosa's catabolism of quaternary amine compounds that are prevalent in association with eukaryotes. Carniti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Meadows JA,Wargo MJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth characteristics and acetate production of several Escherichia coli strains were compared by using shake flasks, batch fermentations, and glucose-feedback-controlled fed-batch fermentations to assess the potential of each strain to grow at high cell densities. Of the E. coli strains tested, including JM105, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luli GW,Strohl WR

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma species isolated from water-damaged buildings were screened for toxicity by using boar sperm cells as indicator cells. The crude methanolic cell extract from Trichoderma harzianum strain ES39 inhibited the boar sperm cell motility at a low exposure concentration (50% effective concentration, 1 to 5 microg ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Peltola J,Ritieni A,Mikkola R,Grigoriev PA,Pócsfalvi G,Andersson MA,Salkinoja-Salonen MS

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 247 clones of 16S rRNA genes from microorganisms captured by 0.2- and 0.1-microm-pore-size filters from sedimentary and granite rock aquifers were amplified and yielded 37 operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Fifteen OTUs captured by 0.1-microm-pore-size filters were affiliated with the candidate divisions O...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miyoshi T,Iwatsuki T,Naganuma T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane integrity of a cell is a well-accepted criterion for characterizing viable (active or inactive) cells and distinguishing them from damaged and membrane-compromised cells. This information is of major importance in studies of the function of microbial assemblages in natural environments, in order to assign...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Grégori G,Citterio S,Ghiani A,Labra M,Sgorbati S,Brown S,Denis M

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00