Inhibition of biofilm formation by T7 bacteriophages producing quorum-quenching enzymes.

abstract：:So far, only scarce and rather diffuse information is available on bacteriophages infecting members of the genus Bifidobacterium. In the current study, we investigated the genetic organization, phylogenetic relationships, and, in some cases, transcription profiles and inducibility of 19 prophage-like elements present ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ventura M,Turroni F,Lima-Mendez G,Foroni E,Zomer A,Duranti S,Giubellini V,Bottacini F,Horvath P,Barrangou R,Sela DA,Mills DA,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent declines in bumble bee populations are of great concern and have prompted critical evaluations of the role of pathogen introductions and host resistance in bee health. One factor that may influence host resilience when facing infection is the gut microbiota. Previous experiments with Bombus terrestris, a Europe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mockler BK,Kwong WK,Moran NA,Koch H

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:While some species in the Bacillus cereus group are well-characterized human pathogens (e.g., B. anthracis and B. cereus sensu stricto), the pathogenicity of other species (e.g., B. pseudomycoides) either has not been characterized or is presently not well understood. To provide an updated characterization of the path...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miller RA,Jian J,Beno SM,Wiedmann M,Kovac J

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodegradability screening tests of soil commonly measure 14CO2 evolution from radiolabeled test compounds, and glucose has often served as a positive control. When constant amounts of radiolabel were added to soil in combination with increasing amounts of unlabeled substrates, glucose and some related hexoses behaved...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shen J,Bartha R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis encodes a biotin-dependent oxaloacetate decarboxylase (OAD), which is constituted by four subunits: E. faecalis carboxyltransferase subunit OadA (termed Ef-A), membrane pump Ef-B, biotin acceptor protein Ef-D, and the novel subunit Ef-H. Our results show that in E. faecalis, subunits Ef-A, Ef-D, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Repizo GD,Blancato VS,Mortera P,Lolkema JS,Magni C

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:DNA was extracted from dry standing dead Spartina alterniflora stalks as well as dry Spartina wrack from the North Inlet (South Carolina) and Sapelo Island (Georgia) salt marshes. Partial nifH sequences were PCR amplified, the products were separated by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), and the prominent...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lovell CR,Friez MJ,Longshore JW,Bagwell CE

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlorosis-inducing phytotoxin coronatine is produced by several Pseudomonas syringae pathovars, including glycinea, morsprunorum, atropurpurea, and the closely related tomato and maculicola. To date, all coronatine-producing pv. glycinea, morsprunorum, and atropurpurea strains that have been examined carry the gen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cuppels DA,Ainsworth T

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single type of bacterium, tentatively identified as a member of the genus Bacillus, was isolated from 2 of 20 midguts of Douglas fir tussock moth larvae being fed a diet of fir needles. No bacteria could be isolated from most midguts. Although spherically shaped bodies were present in the food bolus, these bodies, i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Andrews RE,Spence KD

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of xenobiotic-degradative genes in indigenous bacteria or in bacteria introduced into an ecosystem is essential for the successful bioremediation of contaminated environments. The maintenance of naphthalene utilization activity is studied in Pseudomonas putida (ATCC 17484) and an Alcaligenes sp. (strain...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guerin WF,Boyd SA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The so-called Fe/Mn-oxidizing bacteria have long been recognized for their potential to form extracellular iron hydroxide or manganese oxide structures in aquatic environments. Bacterial species belonging to the genus Gallionella, one type of such bacteria, oxidize iron and produce uniquely twisted extracellular stalk...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Suzuki T,Hashimoto H,Matsumoto N,Furutani M,Kunoh H,Takada J

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male weanling rats fed diets containing fermented and unfermented tannin-free sorghum meals naturally contaminated with traces of ochratoxin A, zearalenone, and an unidentified toxic substance developed anorexia. Mean changes in body weight over a 28-day feeding period for rats fed fermented and unfermented sorghum me...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kazanas N,Ely RW,Fields ML,Erdman JW Jr

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genome-wide search was performed to identify simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci among the available sequence databases from four strains of Xylella fastidiosa (strains causing Pierce's disease, citrus variegated chlorosis, almond leaf scorch, and oleander leaf scorch). Thirty-four SSR loci were selected for SSR prime...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lin H,Civerolo EL,Hu R,Barros S,Francis M,Walker MA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus luminescens is a bacterium which is mutualistic with entomophagous nematodes and which secretes high-molecular-weight toxin complexes following its release into the insect hemocoel upon nematode invasion. Thus, unlike other protein toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (delta-endotoxins and Vip's), P. lumine...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blackburn M,Golubeva E,Bowen D,Ffrench-Constant RH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two duck farms in Hong Kong were examined monthly for 1 year for the occurrence and persistence of influenza viruses within the duck communities. The predominant virus in one community was H3N2, a virus antigenically related to the pandemic Hong Kong strain. This virus was isolated monthly throughout the year from fec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Markwell DD,Shortridge KF

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adsorbed bovine serum albumin was resistant to exchange with beta-lactoglobulin, and when albumin was adsorbed from a mixture, its surface concentration increased with time. The passivating character of adsorbed albumin and its resistance to desorption were consistent with the level of Listeria monocytogenes adhesion ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： al-Makhlafi H,Nasir A,McGuire J,Daeschel M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid transfer rates for the conjugative plasmid R388::Tn1721 from Pseudomonas cepacia (donor) to Pseudomonas fluorescens (recipient) on agar media, in broth, and in microcosms containing sterile or nonsterile soil, in the presence or absence of germinating pea seeds, were determined. Donors, recipients, and transco...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sudarshana P,Knudsen GR

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrate metabolism by Enterococcus faecium FAIR-E 198, an isolate from Greek Feta cheese, was studied in modified MRS (mMRS) medium under different pH conditions and glucose and citrate concentrations. In the absence of glucose, this strain was able to metabolize citrate in a pH range from constant pH 5.0 to 7.0. At a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vaningelgem F,Ghijsels V,Tsakalidou E,De Vuyst L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free fatty acids are important flavor compounds in cheese. Propionibacterium freudenreichii is the main agent of their release through lipolysis in Swiss cheese. Our aim was to identify the esterase(s) involved in lipolysis by P. freudenreichii. We targeted two previously identified esterases: one secreted esterase, P...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abeijón Mukdsi MC,Falentin H,Maillard MB,Chuat V,Medina RB,Parayre S,Thierry A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pressure resistances of the spores of six Bacillus strains were examined at 5 to 10(deg)C and were compared with their heat resistances. The pressure treatments (at 981 MPa for 40 min and at 588 MPa for 120 min) did not inactivate the spores of B. stearothermophilus IAM12043, B. subtilis IAM12118, and B. lichenifo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakayama A,Yano Y,Kobayashi S,Ishikawa M,Sakai K

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) serotype B (BoNT/B) is one of the serotypes of BoNT that causes deadly human botulism, though it is used clinically for treatment of many neuromuscular diseases. BoNT/B is produced by Clostridium botulinum, and it is secreted along with a group of neurotoxin-associated proteins (NAPs) in th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang HH,Riding S,Lindo P,Singh BR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative in situ determination of conjugative gene transfer in defined bacterial biofilms using automated confocal laser scanning microscopy followed by three-dimensional analysis of cellular biovolumes revealed conjugation rates 1,000-fold higher than those determined by classical plating techniques. Conjugation ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hausner M,Wuertz S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high growth rate in bacterial cultures is usually achieved by optimizing growth conditions, but metabolism of the bacterium limits the maximal growth rate attainable on the carbon source used. This limitation can be circumvented by engineering the metabolism of the bacterium. Acinetobacter baylyi has become a model ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kannisto M,Aho T,Karp M,Santala V

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron (Fe) is one of the most important micronutrients for most life forms on earth. While abundant in soil, Fe bioavailability in oxic soil is very low. Under environmental conditions, bacteria need to acquire sufficient Fe to sustain growth while limiting the energy cost of siderophore synthesis. Biofilm formation mi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rizzi A,Leroux J,Charron-Lamoureux V,Roy S,Beauregard PB,Bellenger JP

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Several probiotic strains of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis are widely supplemented into food products and dietary supplements due to their documented health benefits and ability to survive within the mammalian gastrointestinal tract and acidified dairy products. The strain specificity of these characteristics...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Briczinski EP,Loquasto JR,Barrangou R,Dudley EG,Roberts AM,Roberts RF

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multilocus enzyme electrophoresis analysis of 96 strains of the salmonellae distinguished 80 electrophoretic types (ETs) and placed them in eight groups, seven of which correspond precisely to the seven taxonomic groups (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IV, V, and VI) previously defined on the basis of biotype and genomic DNA hyb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boyd EF,Wang FS,Whittam TS,Selander RK

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic understanding of how new phenotypes develop to overcome the loss of a gene product provides valuable insight on both the metabolic and regulatory functions of the lost gene. The pgi gene, whose product catalyzes the second step in glycolysis, was deleted in a growth-optimized Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCloskey D,Xu S,Sandberg TE,Brunk E,Hefner Y,Szubin R,Feist AM,Palsson BO

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chrysophanol and islandicin, two anthraquinones which are structurally related to emodin, were found to be frame-shift mutagens for Salmonella typhimurium strain TA 1537 after metabolic activation. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liberman DF,Schaefer FL,Fink RC,Ramgopal M,Ghosh AC,Mulcahy R

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assembly consisting of Styrofoam cups with membranes of varying porosities was developed to study microorganism-root interactions. The assembly permitted uniform distribution of a bacterium in soil and was simple, easy to use, and disposable. In tests with the bacterium Pseudomonas solanacearum, little difference i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hartel PG,Billingsley JW,Williamson JW

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pBV-1, a recombinant plasmid that contains a chromosomal DNA fragment from Bacteroides vulgatus, hybridized to DNA from B. vulgatus but not to DNA from other colonic Bacteroides species. This plasmid was used as a DNA probe to detect and enumerate B. vulgatus in pure culture, in mixed cultures, and in a bacterial frac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kuritza AP,Salyers AA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00