Phytic Acid and Sodium Chloride Show Marked Synergistic Bactericidal Effects against Nonadapted and Acid-Adapted Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strains.

abstract：:Butane-oxidizing Arthrobacter (ATCC 27778) bacteria were shown to degrade low concentrations of methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE; range, 100 to 800 microg/liter) with an apparent half-saturation concentration (K(s)) of 2.14 mg/liter and a maximum substrate utilization rate (k(c)) of 0.43 mg/mg of total suspended solids per ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu CY,Speitel GE Jr,Georgiou G

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciprofloxacin (CIP), a fluoroquinolone antibacterial drug, is widely used in the treatment of serious infections in humans. Its degradation by basidiomycetous fungi was studied by monitoring 14CO2 production from [14C]CIP in liquid cultures. Sixteen species inhabiting wood, soil, humus, or animal dung produced up to 3...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wetzstein HG,Stadler M,Tichy HV,Dalhoff A,Karl W

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of glucose concentration on Cd, Cu, Hg, and Zn toxicity to a Klebsiella sp. was studied by following the degradation of C-labeled glucose at pH 6.0. Uptake of C into the cells was also determined. The carbon concentrations ranged from 0.01 to 40 mg liter, which are equivalent to soluble C concentrations ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brynhildsen L,Lundgren BV,Allard B,Rosswall T

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictive models, based on environmental and water quality variables, have been used to improve the timeliness and accuracy of recreational water quality assessments, but their effectiveness has not been studied in inland waters. Sampling at eight inland recreational lakes in Ohio was done in order to investigate usi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Francy DS,Stelzer EA,Duris JW,Brady AM,Harrison JH,Johnson HE,Ware MW

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-mannanase (EC 3.2.1.78) from Vibrio sp. strain MA-138 was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and several chromatographic procedures including gel filtration, adsorption, and ion-exchange chromatographies. The final ion-exchange chromatography Mono Q yielded one major active fraction and three minor acti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tamaru Y,Araki T,Amagoi H,Mori H,Morishita T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain capable of growing on propachlor (2-chloro-N-isopropylacetanilide) was isolated from soil by using enrichment and isolation techniques. The strain isolated, designated GCH1, was classified as a member of the genus Pseudomonas. Washed-cell suspensions of strain GCH1 accumulated N-isopropylacetanilide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Martín M,Mengs G,Plaza E,Garbi C,Sánchez M,Gibello A,Gutierrez F,Ferrer E

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we describe the identification of functions that promote genomic recombination of linear DNA introduced into Pseudomonas cells by electroporation. The genes encoding these functions were identified in Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a based on similarity to the lambda Red Exo/Beta and RecET prote...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Swingle B,Bao Z,Markel E,Chambers A,Cartinhour S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects on the cell membranes of Escherichia coli of 2.45-GHz microwave (MW) treatment under various conditions with an average temperature of the cell suspension maintained at 37°C in order to examine the possible thermal versus nonthermal effects of short-duration MW expo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rougier C,Prorot A,Chazal P,Leveque P,Leprat P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biofilm-forming strain of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), isolated from a naturally occurring mixed biofilm and identified by 16S rDNA analysis as a strain of Desulfomicrobium norvegicum, rapidly removed 200 micro M selenite from solution during growth on lactate and sulfate. Elemental selenium and elemental sulfur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hockin SL,Gadd GM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The currently used microbial decontamination method for spacecraft and components uses dry-heat microbial reduction at temperatures of >110°C for extended periods to prevent the contamination of extraplanetary destinations. This process is effective and reproducible, but it is also long and costly and precludes the us...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pottage T,Macken S,Giri K,Walker JT,Bennett AM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective growth inhibitors of Sphaerotilus natans were detected in the culture broths of several strains of Streptomyces. Anslimins A and B were isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces oganonensis by adsorption on resinous adsorbent followed by elution with 50% aqueous acetone. The A and B components were the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takiguchi Y,Yoshikawa H,Terao M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial precipitation of barite (BaSO(4)) under laboratory conditions is reported for the first time. The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus was cultivated in a solid medium with a diluted solution of barium chloride. Crystallization occurred as a result of the presence of live bacteria and the bacterial metabolic activit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： González-Muñoz MT,Fernández-Luque B,Martínez-Ruiz F,Ben Chekroun K,Arias JM,Rodríguez-Gallego M,Martínez-Cañamero M,de Linares C,Paytan A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus is the leading cause of food-related illness in the United States, and contamination of ready-to-eat items by food handlers poses a high risk for disease. This study reports the in vitro (suspension test) and in vivo (fingerpad protocol) assessments of a new ethanol-based hand sanitizer containing a synergis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macinga DR,Sattar SA,Jaykus LA,Arbogast JW

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuations in ciliated protozoan concentrations were monitored in 40 individually fed crossbred heifers that were stepped up to an 85% concentrate diet either slowly (12 days) or rapidly (3 days), with or without monensin (30 ppm). Ruminal fluid was withdrawn from all animals by stomach tube at the start of the stud...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Towne G,Nagaraja TG,Brandt RT Jr,Kemp KE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Municipal wastewater includes human waste that contains both commensal and pathogenic enteric microorganisms, and this collective community microbiome can be monitored for community diseases. In a previous study, we assessed the salmonellosis disease burden using municipal wastewater from Honolulu, Hawaii, which was m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Diemert S,Yan T

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to develop a strategy to isolate a morphologically stable mutant of Streptomyces ambofaciens ATCC 15154 which produced high titers of spiramycin. The rationale was to grow a nitrosoguanidine-mutated population for many generations under nonselective conditions followed by two cycles of protopl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ford LM,Eaton TE,Godfrey OW

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding of functional diversity of microbial populations has lagged description of their molecular diversity. Differences in substrate specificity, kinetics, products, and regulation can dramatically influence phenotypic variation among closely related strains, features that are missed when the strains studied a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rhodes AN,Fulthorpe RR,Tiedje JM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is common in dairy farm environments, it is likely that phages infecting this bacterium ("listeriaphages") are abundant on dairy farms. To better understand the ecology and diversity of listeriaphages on dairy farms and to develop a diverse phage collection for furt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vongkamjan K,Switt AM,den Bakker HC,Fortes ED,Wiedmann M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm bacteria challenged with monochloramine retained significant respiratory activity, even though they could not be cultured on agar plates. Microbial colony counts on agar media declined by approximately 99.9% after 1 h of disinfection, whereas the number of bacteria stained by a fluorescent redox dye experience...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stewart PS,Griebe T,Srinivasan R,Chen CI,Yu FP,deBeer D,McFeters GA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that two species of basidiomycete fungi (Polyporus versicolor and Poria monticola) grow in minimal liquid or solid medium when supplemented with crushed lignite coal. The fungi also grow directly on crushed lignite coal. The growth of both fungi was observed qualitatively as the production and extension of h...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cohen MS,Gabriele PD

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a facultative anaerobe that derives energy by coupling organic matter oxidation to the reduction of a wide range of electron acceptors. Here, we quantitatively assessed the lactate and pyruvate metabolism of MR-1 under three distinct conditions: electron acceptor-limited growth on lactate...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pinchuk GE,Geydebrekht OV,Hill EA,Reed JL,Konopka AE,Beliaev AS,Fredrickson JK

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure cultures of Geobacter sulfurreducens and other Fe(III)-reducing bacteria accumulated hydrogen to partial pressures of 5 to 70 Pa with acetate, butyrate, benzoate, ethanol, lactate, or glucose as the electron donor if electron release to an acceptor was limiting. G. sulfurreducens coupled acetate oxidation with el...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cord-Ruwisch R,Lovley DR,Schink B

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for the production of the trypsin inhibitor from Cephalosporium sp. KM 388 were investigated. Polypeptone-meat extract-glucose medium supported excellent production of the trypsin inhibitor. In this medium, polypeptone and meat extract were utilized both as carbon and nitrogen sources and as limiting substr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsuchiya K,Kimura T

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spice oil components eugenol and cinnamaldehyde possess activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, but the mechanisms of action remain obscure. In broth media at 20 degrees C, 5 mM eugenol or 30 mM cinnamaldehyde was bactericidal (>1-log reduction in the number of CFU per milliliter in 1 h) to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gill AO,Holley RA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two alpha-amylase genes from the thermophilic alkaliphile Anaerobranca gottschalkii were cloned, and the corresponding enzymes, AmyA and AmyB, were investigated after purification of the recombinant proteins. Based on their amino acid sequences, AmyA is proposed to be a lipoprotein with extracellular localization and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ballschmiter M,Armbrecht M,Ivanova K,Antranikian G,Liebl W

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of transgenic plants and microorganisms expressing truncated genes from various subspecies of Bacillus thuringiensis that encode active insecticidal toxins rather than inactive protoxins could result in the accumulation of these active proteins in soil, especially when bound on clays and other soil particl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tapp H,Stotzky G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assayed the tolerance to solvents of three toluene-degrading Pseudomonas putida strains and Pseudomonas mendocina KR1 in liquid and soil systems. P. putida DOT-T1 tolerated concentrations of heptane, propylbenzene, octanol, and toluene of at least 10% (vol/vol), while P. putida F1 and EEZ15 grew well in the presenc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huertas MJ,Duque E,Marqués S,Ramos JL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-chain-length-medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates were synthesized in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from intermediates of the beta-oxidation cycle by expressing the polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases from Aeromonas caviae and Ralstonia eutropha in the peroxisomes. The quantity of polymer produced was increased by us...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： De Oliveira VC,Maeda I,Delessert S,Poirier Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of nuclear ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) was used to measure the amount and distribution of genetic variability in populations of the Japanese pear pathotype of Alternaria alternata on both micro- and macrogeographical scales. A total of 322 isolates were obtained from ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adachi Y,Watanabe H,Tanabe K,Doke N,Nishimura S,Tsuge T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim to extend the presently available inducible gene expression systems for lactobacilli, we have isolated a thermoinducible promoter-repressor cassette from the temperate Lactobacillus casei phage phiFSW-TI in Escherichia coli. The phiFSW-TI promoter fragment was abutted to the plasmid-borne promoterless bet...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Binishofer B,Moll I,Henrich B,Bläsi U

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00