Fusion of self-assembling amphipathic oligopeptides with cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase improves 2-O-D-glucopyranosyl-L-ascorbic acid synthesis with soluble starch as the glycosyl donor.

abstract：:The developing intestinal microbiota of breast-fed infants is considered to play an important role in the priming of the infants' mucosal and systemic immunity. Generally, Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus predominate the microbiota of breast-fed infants. In intervention trials it has been shown that lactobacilli can ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haarman M,Knol J

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial Halanaerobium strains become the dominant persisting microbial community member in produced fluids across geographically distinct hydraulically fractured shales. Halanaerobium is believed to be inadvertently introduced into this environment during the drilling and fracturing process and must therefore tolera...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Booker AE,Hoyt DW,Meulia T,Eder E,Nicora CD,Purvine SO,Daly RA,Moore JD,Wunch K,Pfiffner SM,Lipton MS,Mouser PJ,Wrighton KC,Wilkins MJ

更新日期：2019-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Three soilborne viruses transmitted by Polymyxa betae KESKIN in sugar beet have been described: Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), the agent of rhizomania, Beet soilborne virus (BSBV), and Beet virus Q (BVQ). A multiplex reverse transcription-PCR technique was developed to simultaneously detect BNYVV, BSBV, and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Meunier A,Schmit JF,Stas A,Kutluk N,Bragard C

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive PCR technique was used to enumerate the proteolytic bacterium Clostridium proteoclasticum from the rumen. A PCR primer, which circumscribes this organism and several closely related strains, was designed for a variable region within their 16S rRNA genes and was used in conjunction with a universal forwar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reilly K,Attwood GT

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccases couple the oxidation of phenolic compounds to the reduction of molecular oxygen and thus span a wide variety of applications. While laccases of eukaryotes and bacteria are well characterized, these enzymes have not been described in archaea. Here, we report the purification and characterization of a laccase (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Uthandi S,Saad B,Humbard MA,Maupin-Furlow JA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to examine the capacity of the biphenyl catabolic enzymes of Comamonas testosteroni B-356 to metabolize dihydroxybiphenyls symmetrically substituted on both rings. Data show that 3,3'-dihydroxybiphenyl is by far the preferred substrate for strain B-356. However, the dihydrodiol me...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sondossi M,Barriault D,Sylvestre M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of silicic acid on the growth of Thermus thermophilus TMY, an extreme thermophile isolated from a siliceous deposit formed from geothermal water at a geothermal power plant in Japan, were examined at 75 degrees C. At concentrations higher than the solubility of amorphous silica (400 to 700 ppm SiO(2)), a s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Doi K,Fujino Y,Inagaki F,Kawatsu R,Tahara M,Ohshima T,Okaue Y,Yokoyama T,Iwai S,Ogata S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera were raised against nine strains which had been isolated from phenol-acclimated oil refinery activated sludge. Although several antisera reacted significantly with the activated sludge during a period of adaptation to phenol, only an antiserum against one of the isolates, Alcaligenes sp. E2, reacted with the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watanabe K,Hino S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fully grown broth cultures of various fast- and slow-growing rhizobia were deliberately diluted with various diluents before their aseptic incorporation into autoclaved peat in polypropylene bags (aseptic method) or mixed with the peat autoclaved in trays (tray method). In a factorial experiment with the aseptic metho...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Somasegaran P

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dairy starter bacterium Lactococcus lactis is able to synthesize folate and accumulates large amounts of folate, predominantly in the polyglutamyl form. Only small amounts of the produced folate are released in the extracellular medium. Five genes involved in folate biosynthesis were identified in a folate gene cl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sybesma W,Starrenburg M,Kleerebezem M,Mierau I,de Vos WM,Hugenholtz J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sourdough lactic acid bacteria were preliminarily screened for proteolytic activity by using a digest of albumin and globulin polypeptides as a substrate. Based on their hydrolysis profile patterns, Lactobacillus alimentarius 15M, Lactobacillus brevis 14G, Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis 7A, and Lactobacillus hilgardii...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Di Cagno R,De Angelis M,Lavermicocca P,De Vincenzi M,Giovannini C,Faccia M,Gobbetti M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertical and seasonal distribution and diversity of archaeal sequences was investigated in a hypersaline, stratified, monomictic lake, Solar Lake, Sinai, Egypt, during the limnological development of stratification and mixing. Archaeal sequences were studied via phylogenetic analysis of 16S rDNA sequences as well ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cytryn E,Minz D,Oremland RS,Cohen Y

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio alginolyticus is one of the most abundant microorganisms in marine environments and is also an opportunistic pathogen mediating high-mortality vibriosis in marine animals. Alternative sigma factors play essential roles in bacterial pathogens in the adaptation to environmental changes during infection and the ad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gu D,Zhang J,Hao Y,Xu R,Zhang Y,Ma Y,Wang Q

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The killing of Listeria monocytogenes following exposure to low pH, organic acids, and osmotic stress was enhanced by the addition of 5% (vol/vol) ethanol. At pH 3, for example, the presence of this agent stimulated killing by more than 3 log units in 40 min of exposure. The rate of cell death at pH 3.0 was dependent ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barker C,Park SF

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) composition of microorganisms to detect previous self-heating events was studied in naturally self-heated peat and in peat incubated under temperature-controlled conditions. An increased content of total PLFAs was found in self-heated peat compared to that in unheated peat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ranneklev SB,Bååth E

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In soil ecosystems, bacteria must cope with predation activity, which is attributed mainly to protists. The development of antipredation strategies may help bacteria maintain higher populations and persist longer in the soil. We analyzed the interaction between the root-colonizing and biocontrol strain Pseudomonas flu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jousset A,Lara E,Wall LG,Valverde C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The routine production and storage of frozen doughs are still problematic. Although commercial baker's yeast is highly resistant to environmental stress conditions, it rapidly loses stress resistance during dough preparation due to the initiation of fermentation. As a result, the yeast loses gassing power significantl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Teunissen A,Dumortier F,Gorwa MF,Bauer J,Tanghe A,Loïez A,Smet P,Van Dijck P,Thevelein JM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteriophage (phage) therapy against Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, and Enterococcus faecalis, members of a genus of SPO1-like viruses are typically employed because of their extreme virulence and broad host spectrum. Phage φEF24C, which is a SPO1-like virus infectin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Uchiyama J,Takemura I,Hayashi I,Matsuzaki S,Satoh M,Ujihara T,Murakami M,Imajoh M,Sugai M,Daibata M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a method for determining mutagenic concentrations of chemicals by using an agar diffusion assay. The method is based on the linear relationship between the amount of chemical placed at the center of the dish and the radius of the mutagenic zone. A brief theoretical discussion and experimental data ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Awerbuch TE,Stark AA

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray analysis showed that yfiD, yggB, and yggE genes were up-regulated when superoxide dismutase (SOD)-deficient Escherichia coli IM303 (I4) was cultivated under the oxidative stress generated by photoexcited TiO(2), and pYFD, pYGB, and pYGE were constructed by inserting the respective genes into a pUC 19 ve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim SY,Nishioka M,Hayashi S,Honda H,Kobayashi T,Taya M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sequenced the Staphylococcus aureus phospho-beta-galactosidase gene. The protein product of this gene consisted of 470 amino acids, giving a molecular weight of 54,557. This gene appears to be transcribed as the terminal sequence on a polycistronic message. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Breidt F Jr,Stewart GC

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MICRO-ID LISTERIA system, designed to identify Listeria isolates to species level within 24 h, was compared with conventional biochemical identification. MICRO-ID LISTERIA used in combination with the CAMP test correctly identified 409 (98.8%) of 414 strains isolated from human, animal, food, and environmental sou...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bannerman E,Yersin MN,Bille J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP uses the herbicide atrazine as the sole nitrogen source. We have devised a simple atrazine degradation assay to determine the effect of other nitrogen sources on the atrazine degradation pathway. The atrazine degradation rate was greatly decreased in cells grown on nitrogen sources that supp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： García-González V,Govantes F,Shaw LJ,Burns RG,Santero E

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:To measure genetic variation within and among populations of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa, we surveyed a suite of lakes in the southern peninsula of Michigan that vary in productivity (total phosphorus concentrations of approximately 10 to 100 microg liter(-1)). Survival of M. aeruginosa iso...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilson AE,Sarnelle O,Neilan BA,Salmon TP,Gehringer MM,Hay ME

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White rot basidiomycetes were able to biodegrade styrene (1-phenylethene) graft copolymers of lignin containing different proportions of lignin and polystyrene [poly(1-phenylethylene)]. The biodegradation tests were run on lignin-styrene copolymerization products which contained 10.3, 32.2, and 50.4% (wt/wt) lignin. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Milstein O,Gersonde R,Huttermann A,Chen MJ,Meister JJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate description of a microbial community is an important first step in understanding the roles of its components in ecosystem function. A method for surveying microbial communities termed serial analysis of rRNA genes (SARD) is described here. Through a series of molecular cloning steps, short DNA sequence ta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ashby MN,Rine J,Mongodin EF,Nelson KE,Dimster-Denk D

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of the biosynthetic pathway of 6-pentyl-alpha-pyrone in Trichoderma species was achieved by using labelled linoleic acid or mevalonate as a tracer. Incubation of growing cultures of Trichoderma harzianum and T. viride with [U-C]linoleic acid or [5-C]sodium mevalonate revealed that both fungal strains...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Serrano-Carreon L,Hathout Y,Bensoussan M,Belin JM

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major barrier to the use of nitrogen-fixing inoculum strains for the enhancement of legume productivity is the inability of commercially available strains to compete with indigenous rhizobia for nodule formation. Despite extensive research on nodulation competitiveness, there are no examples of field efficacy studie...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robleto EA,Kmiecik K,Oplinger ES,Nienhuis J,Triplett EW

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of addition of purified nisin Z in liposomes to cheese milk and of in situ production of nisin Z by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis UL719 in the mixed starter on the inhibition of Listeria innocua in cheddar cheese was evaluated during 6 months of ripening. A cheese mixed starter cultu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Benech RO,Kheadr EE,Laridi R,Lacroix C,Fliss I

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00