Massive infection of seabird ticks with bacterial species related to Coxiella burnetii.

abstract：:Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi strain NCPPB 3335 is a model bacterial pathogen for studying the molecular basis of disease production in woody hosts. We report the sequencing of the hrpS-to-hrpZ region of NCPPB 3335, which has allowed us to determine the phylogenetic position of this pathogen with respect to pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pérez-Martínez I,Rodríguez-Moreno L,Lambertsen L,Matas IM,Murillo J,Tegli S,Jiménez AJ,Ramos C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four DNA probes were derived that hybridized specifically to DNA from Lactobacillus acidophilus O. The probes were constructed by randomly cloning lactobacillus DNA in plasmid vector pBR322. Two of the probes (pSR1 and pSR2) were composed of vector and plasmid DNA inserts (3.6 and 1.6 kb, respectively); the others (pS...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rodtong S,Dobbinson S,Thode-Andersen S,McConnell MA,Tannock GW

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight types of lysozyme-sensitive spores among seven Bacillus species representative of thermophiles, mesophiles, and psychrophiles were obtained spanning a 3,000-fold range in moist-heat resistance. The resistance within species was altered by demineralization of the native spores to protonated spores and remi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beaman TC,Gerhardt P

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：:The strain Burkholderia cepacia G4 aerobically mineralized trichloroethene (TCE) to CO(2) over a time period of approximately 20 h. Three biodegradation experiments were conducted with different bacterial optical densities at 540 nm (OD(540)s) in order to test whether isotope fractionation was consistent. The resultin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barth JA,Slater G,Schüth C,Bill M,Downey A,Larkin M,Kalin RM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathways for degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons are constantly modified by a variety of genetic mechanisms. Genetic studies carried out with Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 suggested that the tou operon coding for toluene o-xylene monooxygenase (ToMO) was recently recruited into a preexisting pathway that already posse...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cafaro V,Notomista E,Capasso P,Di Donato A

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:The physiology of filamentous fungi at growth rates approaching zero has been subject to limited study and exploitation. With the aim of uncoupling product formation from growth, we have revisited and improved the retentostat cultivation method for Aspergillus niger. A new retention device was designed allowing reliab...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jørgensen TR,Nitsche BM,Lamers GE,Arentshorst M,van den Hondel CA,Ram AF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prototrophic and growth factor-requiring strains of Alcaligenes spp. were used to study the effect of a protozoan, Tetrahymena pyriformis, on the degradation of p-aminobenzoate. The protozoan inhibited activity of the prototrophic bacterium by reducing its population size. For the growth factor-requiring strain of Alc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang TC,Chang MC,Alexander M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three species of saltmarsh ascomycetes were grown in the presence of all of the constituents of their natural substrate (leaves of cordgrass) or were presented only with aqueous extracts of the leaves. These two growth-condition treatments had no significant effect on total ergosterol content of the fungal mycelia, co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Newell SY

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Sphingomonas are important catalysts for removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil, but their activity can be affected by various stress factors. This study examines the physiological and genome-wide transcription response of the phenanthrene-degrading Sphingomonas sp. strain LH12...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fida TT,Breugelmans P,Lavigne R,Coronado E,Johnson DR,van der Meer JR,Mayer AP,Heipieper HJ,Hofkens J,Springael D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 10-mer primer OPM-01 (5'-GTT GGT GGC T-3') was used to generate random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) profiles by polymerase chain reaction for 91 strains of Listeria monocytogenes from raw milk, food, and veterinary, medical, and food-environmental sources. The profiles obtained contained 1 to 10 bands w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lawrence LM,Harvey J,Gilmour A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanol is already an important carbon feedstock in the chemical industry, but it has found only limited application in biotechnological production processes. This can be mostly attributed to the inability of most microbial platform organisms to utilize methanol as a carbon and energy source. With the aim to turn met...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Witthoff S,Schmitz K,Niedenführ S,Nöh K,Noack S,Bott M,Marienhagen J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By taking advantage of MazF, an ACA codon-specific mRNA interferase, Escherichia coli cells can be converted into a bioreactor producing only a single protein of interest by using an ACA-less mRNA for the protein. In this single-protein production (SPP) system, we engineered MazF by replacing two tryptophan residues i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vaiphei ST,Mao L,Shimazu T,Park JH,Inouye M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfolobus solfataricus is an aerobic crenarchaeal hyperthermophile with optimum growth at temperatures greater than 80°C and pH 2 to 4. Within the crenarchaeal group of Sulfolobales, N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) has been shown to be a component of exopolysaccharides, forming their biofilms, and of the N-glycan decora...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Iacono R,Strazzulli A,Maurelli L,Curci N,Casillo A,Corsaro MM,Moracci M,Cobucci-Ponzano B

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Organically raised swine had high fecal populations of chlortetracycline (CTC)-resistant (growing at 64 μg CTC/ml) Escherichia coli, Megasphaera elsdenii, and anaerobic bacteria. By comparison, CTC-resistant bacteria in feral swine feces were over 1,000-fold fewer and exhibited lower taxonomic diversity. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stanton TB,Humphrey SB,Stoffregen WC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of nifH, nirS, and nirK gene fragments involved in nitrogen (N) fixation and denitrification in thinned second-growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) forest soil was investigated by using quantitative real-time PCR. Prokaryotic N cycling is an important aspect of N ava...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Levy-Booth DJ,Winder RS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of the predominant bacteria in the human gastrointestinal tract was studied by using 16S rRNA-based approaches. PCR amplicons of the V6 to V8 regions of fecal 16S rRNA and ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were analyzed by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE). TGGE of fecal 16S rDNA amplicons from 16 indiv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zoetendal EG,Akkermans AD,De Vos WM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships between the hyphae of Agaricus bisporus (Lang) Sing and bacteria from the mushroom bed casing layer were examined with a scanning electron microscope. Hyphae growing in the casing layer differed morphologically from compost-grown hyphae. Whereas the compost contained thin single hyphae surrounded by calc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masaphy S,Levanon D,Tchelet R,Henis Y

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mexico is located in a transition zone between the Nearctic and Neotropical biogeographical regions and contains a rich and unique biodiversity. A total of 496 Bacillus thuringiensis strains were isolated from 503 soil samples collected from the five macroregions of the country. The characterization of the strain coll...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bravo A,Sarabia S,Lopez L,Ontiveros H,Abarca C,Ortiz A,Ortiz M,Lina L,Villalobos FJ,Peña G,Nuñez-Valdez ME,Soberón M,Quintero R

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to develop a rapid, reproducible, and robust method for detecting Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis in poultry samples. First, for the extraction and purification of DNA from the preenrichment culture, four methods (boiling, alkaline lysis, Nucleospin, and Dynabeads DNA Direct Sy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： De Medici D,Croci L,Delibato E,Di Pasquale S,Filetici E,Toti L

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenolic compounds are believed to be promising candidates as complementary therapeutics. Maple syrup, prepared by concentrating the sap from the North American maple tree, is a rich source of natural and process-derived phenolic compounds. In this work, we report the antimicrobial activity of a phenolic-rich maple sy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maisuria VB,Hosseinidoust Z,Tufenkji N

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly isolated rod-shaped, gram-negative anaerobic bacterium from human feces, named Julong 732, was found to be capable of metabolizing the isoflavone dihydrodaidzein to S-equol under anaerobic conditions. The metabolite, equol, was identified by using electron impact ionization mass spectrometry, (1)H and (13)C nu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang XL,Hur HG,Lee JH,Kim KT,Kim SI

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common source of Salmonella infections in humans is food of poultry origin. Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis has a particular affinity for the contamination of the egg supply. In this study, the medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA), caproic, caprylic, and capric acid, were evaluated for the control of Salmo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Immerseel F,De Buck J,Boyen F,Bohez L,Pasmans F,Volf J,Sevcik M,Rychlik I,Haesebrouck F,Ducatelle R

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:The degradation of p-nitrophenol (PNP) by Moraxella and Pseudomonas spp. involves an initial monooxygenase-catalyzed removal of the nitro group. The resultant hydroquinone is subject to ring fission catalyzed by a dioxygenase enzyme. We have isolated a strain of an Arthrobacter sp., JS443, capable of degrading PNP wit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jain RK,Dreisbach JH,Spain JC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed at assessing whether the repeated exposure of 12 strains of Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli, and Listeria monocytogenes to alternative nonthermal decontamination techniques with UV light (UV-C) and nonthermal atmospheric plasma (NTAP) may cause the emergence of variants showing increased resista...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Álvarez-Molina A,de Toro M,Ruiz L,López M,Prieto M,Alvarez-Ordóñez A

更新日期：2020-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastobacter spp. are freshwater bacteria that form rosette structures by cellular attachment to a common base. Comparative analyses of ribosomal 16S rRNA gene and internally transcribed spacer region sequences indicated that B. denitrificans is a member of the alpha-subdivision of Proteobacteria. Among the alpha-Prot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van Berkum P,Eardly BD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spores of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi contain thousands of nuclei. In order to understand the karyotic structure of a VAM fungus spore, the genetic variation of the first generation of spores from a VAM fungus (Gigaspora margarita) was examined. Spores originating from both single- and multispore inoc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zeze A,Sulistyowati E,Ophel-Keller K,Barker S,Smith S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for detection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in water are time-consuming and difficult. We have developed a reverse transcription (RT)-PCR which can detect the presence of a single viable oocyst spiked into concentrated environmental water samples. The test is based on the detection of mRNA from a C...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stinear T,Matusan A,Hines K,Sandery M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00