Diverse virulence gene content of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from finishing swine.

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 strains have caused several cases of ear, wound, and blood infections, including one lethal case of septicemia in Austria, during recent years. All of these cases had a history of local recreational activities in the large eastern Austrian lake Neusiedler See. Thus, a monitoring program...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kirschner AK,Schlesinger J,Farnleitner AH,Hornek R,Süss B,Golda B,Herzig A,Reitner B

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of microcystin-producing cyanobacteria in the western basin of Lake Erie was studied using sequence analysis of mcyA gene fragments. Distinct populations of potentially toxic Microcystis and Planktothrix were found in spatially isolated locations. This study highlights previously undocumented diversity o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rinta-Kanto JM,Wilhelm SW

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain the health risks that may be posed by the land application of sewage sludges, a scheme was devised to determine the types and numbers of pathogenic and potentially pathogenic bacteria present in sludges. A processing treatment was adapted to sludge to give a homogenate which yielded the greatest numbers o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dudley DJ,Guentzel MN,Ibarra MJ,Moore BE,Sagik BP

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acropora and Porites corals are important reef builders in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean. Bacteria associated with mucus produced by Porites spp. and Acropora spp. from Caribbean (Punta Maroma, Mexico) and Indo-Pacific (Hoga and Sampela, Indonesia) reefs were determined. Analysis of pyrosequencing libraries showed th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McKew BA,Dumbrell AJ,Daud SD,Hepburn L,Thorpe E,Mogensen L,Whitby C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total coliforms and total coliforms resistant to streptomycin, tetracycline, or chloramphenicol were isolated from filtered activated sludge effluents before and after UV light irradiation. Although the UV irradiation effectively disinfected the wastewater effluent, the percentage of the total surviving coliform popul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Meckes MC

更新日期：1982-02-01 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：:Motile phototrophic consortia are highly regular associations in which numerous cells of green sulfur bacteria surround a flagellated colorless beta-proteobacterium in the center. To date, seven different morphological types of such consortia have been described. In addition, two immotile associations involving green ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glaeser J,Overmann J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from fuel-contaminated subsurface soil, strain PRTOL1, mineralizes toluene as the sole electron donor and carbon source under strictly anaerobic conditions. The mineralization of 80% of toluene carbon to CO2 was demonstrated in experiments with [ring-U-14C]toluene; 15% of to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beller HR,Spormann AM,Sharma PK,Cole JR,Reinhard M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-chain aldehyde dehydrogenase, Ald1, was found in a soluble fraction of Acinetobacter sp. strain M-1 cells grown on n-hexadecane as a sole carbon source. The gene (ald1) was cloned from the chromosomal DNA of the bacterium. The open reading frame of ald1 was 1,512 bp long, corresponding to a protein of 503 amino...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishige T,Tani A,Sakai Y,Kato N

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a novel 5-oxoprolinase without ATP-hydrolyzing activity from Alcaligenes faecalis N-38A was cloned and characterized. The coding region of this gene is 1,299 bp long. The predicted primary protein is composed of 433 amino acid residues, with a 31-amino-acid signal peptide. The mature protein is compo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nishimura A,Oyama H,Hamada T,Nobuoka K,Shin T,Murao S,Oda K

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight cultures of Legionella pneumophila isolated from surface waters were characterized by their morphological, tinctorial, biochemical, and serological properties and by their ability to produce disease in guinea pigs. Their susceptibility to antimicrobial agents also was tested. When they were compared with...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Orrison LH,Cherry WB,Fliermans CB,Dees SB,McDougal LK,Dodd DJ

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and phenanthrene stress on glucose uptake by natural microbial populations were examined by the heterotrophic potential technique. Temporal and spatial distributions in glucose uptake velocities were examined for natural samples as well as PCB- and phenanthrene-stressed sa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sayler GS,Lund LC,Shiaris MP,Sherrill TW,Perkins RE

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal activity of cecropin A(2-8)-melittin(6-9) hybrid undecapeptides, previously reported as active against plant pathogenic bacteria, was studied. A set of 15 sequences was screened in vitro against Fusarium oxysporum, Penicillium expansum, Aspergillus niger, and Rhizopus stolonifer. Most compounds were hig...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Badosa E,Ferré R,Francés J,Bardají E,Feliu L,Planas M,Montesinos E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five media, formulated from the seeds of five legume varieties, dried cow blood, and mineral salts, were assessed for the growth and production of insecticidal properties of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Bacterial powders prepared from the broth cultures were assayed against the larvae of Aedes aegypti, C...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Obeta JA,Okafor N

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of microcystins (MC) from Microcystis aeruginosa UTEX 2388 was investigated in a P-limited continuous culture. MC (MC-LR, MC-RR, and MC-YR) from lyophilized M. aeruginosa were extracted with 5% acetic acid, purified by a Sep-Pak C(18) cartridge, and then analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatograph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oh HM,Lee SJ,Jang MH,Yoon BD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlations between the biomass of phytoplankton and the biomass of bacteria and between the biomass of bacteria and the biomass of protozoans suggest that there is coupling between these compartments of the "microbial loop." To investigate this coupling on the species level, bacteria and protozoans from untreated la...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van Hannen EJ,Mooij W,van Agterveld MP,Gons HJ,Laanbroek HJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male-specific RNA coliphages (F-RNA coliphages) have been proposed as a potential viral indicator of fecal contamination in water and foods because they are easy to culture and are a normal component of the mammalian gut flora. F-RNA coliphage plaque numbers are typically obtained by directly plating a 10-fold dilutio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jones TH,Johns MW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentation of the pentose sugar xylose to ethanol in lignocellulosic biomass would make bioethanol production economically more competitive. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an efficient ethanol producer, can utilize xylose only when expressing the heterologous genes XYL1 (xylose reductase) and XYL2 (xylitol dehydrogenase)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johansson B,Christensson C,Hobley T,Hahn-Hägerdal B

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannitol, a six-carbon sugar alcohol, is the main storage carbon in the button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. Given the physiological importance of mannitol metabolism in growth, fruit body development, and salt tolerance of A. bisporus, the enzyme responsible for mannitol biosynthesis, NADP-dependent mannitol dehydroge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stoop JM,Mooibroek H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the influence of elevated CO2 concentration on denitrifier enzyme activity in wheat rhizoplanes by using controlled environments and solution culture techniques. Potential denitrification activity was from 3 to 24 times higher on roots that were grown under an elevated CO2 concentration of 1,000 micromoles...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Smart DR,Ritchie K,Stark JM,Bugbee B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ever-increasing industrial demand for biocatalysis necessitates innovations in the preparation and stabilization of biocatalysts. In this study, we demonstrated that beta-galactosidase (beta-Gal) displayed on Bacillus spores by fusion to the spore coat proteins (CotG) may be used as a whole-cell immobilized biocat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kwon SJ,Jung HC,Pan JG

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two acetyl esterases (EC 3.1.1.6) were purified to gel electrophoretic homogeneity from Thermoanaerobacterium sp. strain JW/SL-YS485, an anaerobic, thermophilic endospore former which is able to utilize various substituted xylans for growth. Both enzymes released acetic acid from chemically acetylated larch xylan. Ace...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shao W,Wiegel J

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike general peroxidases, Pleurotus ostreatus MnP2 was reported to have a unique property of direct oxidization of high-molecular-weight compounds, such as Poly R-478 and RNase A. To elucidate the mechanism for oxidation of polymeric substrates by MnP2, a series of mutant enzymes were produced by using a homologous ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsukihara T,Honda Y,Sakai R,Watanabe T,Watanabe T

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed for the determination of dissolved DNA in aquatic environments. The method is based upon the concentration of dissolved DNA by ethanol precipitation of 0.2-mum-pore-size filtered water. The DNA in concentrated extracts was quantified by the fluorescence of Hoechst 33258-DNA complexes. Fluorescen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Deflaun MF,Paul JH,Davis D

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixed population, enriched and established in a defined medium, from a sewage sludge inoculum was capable of complete mineralization of 4-chlorobenzoate. An organism, identified as Arthrobacter sp., was isolated from the consortium and shown to be capable of utilizing 4-chlorobenzoate as the sole carbon and energy s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Marks TS,Smith AR,Quirk AV

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemolithoautotrophic bacteria were enriched from mine water at incubation temperatures ranging from 4 to 46 degrees C, using elemental sulfur as a substrate in acid mineral salts media. Thiobacillus-type bacteria were successfully enriched for at all test temperatures except 46 degrees C. Changes in pH (-dpH/dt) were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ahonen L,Tuovinen OH

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe novel forms of structural integration between endo- and episymbiotic microbes and an unusual new species of snail from hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean. The snail houses a dense population of gamma-proteobacteria within the cells of its greatly enlarged esophageal gland. This tissue setting diff...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goffredi SK,Warén A,Orphan VJ,Van Dover CL,Vrijenhoek RC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common reed (Phragmites australis), a cosmopolitan aquatic macrophyte, plays an important role in the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems. We compared bacterial community compositions (BCCs) and their assembly processes in the root-associated compartments (i.e., rhizosphere and endosphere) of reed and bul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： He R,Zeng J,Zhao D,Huang R,Yu Z,Wu QL

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of human infection with Campylobacter jejuni is increasing in most developed countries and the reason for this is largely unknown. Although poultry meat is considered to be a major source, it is evident that other reservoirs exist, possibly common to humans and poultry. Environmental sources are believed...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Petersen L,Nielsen EM,Engberg J,On SL,Dietz HH

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient biosynthesis of L-tyrosine from glucose is necessary to make biological production economically viable. To this end, we designed and constructed a modular biosynthetic pathway for L-tyrosine production in E. coli MG1655 by encoding the enzymes for converting erythrose-4-phosphate (E4P) and phosphoenolpyruvat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Juminaga D,Baidoo EE,Redding-Johanson AM,Batth TS,Burd H,Mukhopadhyay A,Petzold CJ,Keasling JD

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00