Elimination of a Free Cysteine by Creation of a Disulfide Bond Increases the Activity and Stability of Candida boidinii Formate Dehydrogenase.

abstract：:Escherichia coli ATCC 12806 was exposed to increasing subinhibitory concentrations of three biocides widely used in food industry facilities: trisodium phosphate (TSP), sodium nitrite (SNI), and sodium hypochlorite (SHY). The cultures exhibited an acquired tolerance to biocides (especially to SNI and SHY) after exposu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Capita R,Riesco-Peláez F,Alonso-Hernando A,Alonso-Calleja C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-utilizing bacteria to produce biosurfactants was investigated. Twenty-three bacteria isolated from a soil contaminated with petroleum wastes were able to form clearing zones on mineral salt agar plates sprayed with solutions of PAHs. Naphthalene and phenanthrene we...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Deziel E,Paquette G,Villemur R,Lepine F,Bisaillon J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides xylanolyticus X5-1 was grown in pure culture and in mixed culture with Methanospirillum hungatei JF-1 under xylose limitation in the chemostat. In the pure culture, ethanol, acetate, CO(2), and hydrogen were the products. In the mixed culture, acetate, CO(2), and presumably hydrogen were the only products ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biesterveld S,Zehnder AJ,Stams AJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrolytic extracellular enzymes degrading host tissues potentially play a role in bacterial pathogenesis. Flavobacterium psychrophilum is an important bacterial pathogen of salmonid fish reared in freshwater throughout the world. Diversity among isolates has been described at the phenotypic, serological, and genomic ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rochat T,Pérez-Pascual D,Nilsen H,Carpentier M,Bridel S,Bernardet JF,Duchaud E

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The symbiotic association between the roseobacter Silicibacter sp. strain TM1040 and the dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida involves bacterial chemotaxis to dinoflagellate-produced dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), DMSP demethylation, and ultimately a biofilm on the surface of the host. Biofilm formation is coincide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Geng H,Bruhn JB,Nielsen KF,Gram L,Belas R

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To achieve functional bioluminescence, the developing light organ of newly hatched juveniles of the Hawaiian squid Euprymna scolopes must become colonized by luminous, symbiosis-competent Vibrio fischeri present in the ambient seawater. This benign infection occurs rapidly in animals placed in seawater from the host's...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee K,Ruby EG

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that certain opportunistic pathogenic species of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) can be present in distributed drinking water. However, detailed information about NTM population composition in drinking water is lacking. Therefore, NTM communities in unchlorinated drinking water from the distributi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Wielen PW,Heijnen L,van der Kooij D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of trichloroethene (TCE; 0 to 65 mg/liter) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA; 0 to 103 mg/liter) on methane consumption of a mixed culture of methane-oxidizing bacteria was studied in laboratory batch experiments. Increasing concentrations of TCE or 1,1,1-TCA resulted in decreasing methane consumption...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Broholm K,Jensen BK,Christensen TH,Olsen L

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanotrophs have multiple methane monooxygenases that are well known to be regulated by copper, i.e., a "copper switch." At low copper/biomass ratios the soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) is expressed while expression and activity of the particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) increases with increasing availabil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Farhan Ul Haque M,Kalidass B,Bandow N,Turpin EA,DiSpirito AA,Semrau JD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pot experiments showed that Rhizobium japonicum cells entrapped in a polyacrylamide gel could be used as an inoculant for soybeans and compared favorably to laboratory-made peat base inoculant containing the same bacterial strain. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dommergues YR,Diem HG,Divies C

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizobial bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum functions as a nitrogen-fixing symbiont of the soybean plant (Glycine max). Plants are capable of producing an oxidative burst, a rapid proliferation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), as a defense mechanism against pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria. Therefore, B. japoni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Donati AJ,Jeon JM,Sangurdekar D,So JS,Chang WS

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azospirillum spp. were shown to utilize both straw and xylan, a major component of straw, for growth with an adequate combined N supply and also under N-limiting conditions. For most strains examined, a semisolid agar medium was satisfactory, but several strains appeared to be capable of slow metabolism of the agar. S...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Halsall DM,Turner GL,Gibson AH

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugal transfer of lactose-fermenting ability (Lac+), nisin resistance (Nisr), and phage resistance (Hsp+) was demonstrated in matings between Streptococcus lactis ME2 (donor) and Streptococcus cremoris M43a (recipient), a derivative of M12R. Transconjugants were detected by transfer of Lac+ and were found to exhibi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Steenson LR,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, an environmental organism, is a facultative human pathogen. Here, we report the virulence profiles, comprising 18 genetic markers, of 102 clinical and 692 environmental V. cholerae strains isolated in Bangladesh between March 2004 and January 2006, showing the variability of virulence determinants wit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hasan NA,Ceccarelli D,Grim CJ,Taviani E,Choi J,Sadique A,Alam M,Siddique AK,Sack RB,Huq A,Colwell RR

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While filamentous cyanobacteria play a crucial role in food web dynamics and biogeochemical cycling of many aquatic ecosystems around the globe, the knowledge regarding the phages infecting them is limited. Here, we describe the complete genome of the virulent cyanophage vB_AphaS-CL131 (here, CL 131), a Siphoviridae p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Šulčius S,Šimoliūnas E,Alzbutas G,Gasiūnas G,Jauniškis V,Kuznecova J,Miettinen S,Nilsson E,Meškys R,Roine E,Paškauskas R,Holmfeldt K

更新日期：2018-12-13 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：:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) and Norwalk-like virus (NLV) were detected by reverse transcription-PCR in clams imported into the United States from China. An epidemiological investigation showed that these clams were associated with five cases of Norwalk-like gastroenteritis in New York State in August 2000 (Food and Drug A...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kingsley DH,Meade GK,Richards GP

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Escherichia coli MV1184 to accumulate inorganic phosphate (Pi) was enhanced by manipulating the genes involved in the transport and metabolism of Pi. The high-level Pi accumulation was achieved by modifying the genetic regulation and increasing the dosage of the E. coli genes encoding polyphosphate kina...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kato J,Yamada K,Muramatsu A,Hardoyo,Ohtake H

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic hydroxylations are important bacterial metabolic processes but are difficult to perform using traditional chemical synthesis, so to use a biological catalyst to convert the priority pollutant benzene into industrially relevant intermediates, benzene oxidation was investigated. It was discovered that toluene 4...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tao Y,Fishman A,Bentley WE,Wood TK

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of cucumber roots (Cucumis sativus L.) grown in bark compost media and of the surrounding edaphic substrate showed profiles of polar lipid fatty acids commonly found in bacteria. The composition of fatty acids in these profiles differed significantly between roots grown in a medium naturally suppressive to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tunlid A,Hoitink HA,Low C,White DC

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptation of Lactobacillus sakei to a meat environment is reflected in its metabolic potential. For instance, the ability to utilize arginine through the arginine deiminase (ADI) pathway, resulting in additional ATP, represents a competitive benefit. In L. sakei CTC 494, the arc operon (arcABCTDR) shows the same ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rimaux T,Rivière A,Illeghems K,Weckx S,De Vuyst L,Leroy F

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study concerns the exploitation of the lytic enzyme enterolysin A (EntL), produced by Enterococcus faecalis strain DPC5280, to elicit the controlled autolysis of starter lactococci. EntL, a cell wall metalloendopeptidase secreted by some E. faecalis strains, can kill a wide range of gram-positive bacteria, includ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hickey RM,Ross RP,Hill C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas genus contains a metabolically versatile group of organisms that are known to occupy numerous ecological niches, including the rhizosphere and endosphere of many plants. Their diversity influences the phylogenetic diversity and heterogeneity of these communities. On the basis of average amino acid iden...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jun SR,Wassenaar TM,Nookaew I,Hauser L,Wanchai V,Land M,Timm CM,Lu TY,Schadt CW,Doktycz MJ,Pelletier DA,Ussery DW

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA of 10 lines of rice yellow dwarf (RYD) mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs) from Japan, the Phillippines, and Thailand hybridized with four probes containing chromosomal and six probes containing extrachromosomal DNA of a Tochigi (Japan) line of RYD MLO. One chromosomal probe (RYD9) and all six extrachromosomal probes ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakashima K,Kato S,Iwanami S,Murata N

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic eukaryotes are known to have important ecosystem functions, but their diversity in most environments remains vastly unexplored. Here we analyzed an 18S rRNA gene library from a subsurface iron- and sulfur-oxidizing microbial community growing in highly acidic (pH < 0.9) runoff within the Richmond Mine at I...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baker BJ,Tyson GW,Goosherst L,Banfield JF

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthrobacter aurescens strain TC1 metabolizes atrazine to cyanuric acid via TrzN, AtzB, and AtzC. The complete sequence of a 160-kb bacterial artificial chromosome clone indicated that trzN, atzB, and atzC are linked on the A. aurescens genome. TrzN, AtzB, and AtzC were shown to be functional in Escherichia coli. Hybr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sajjaphan K,Shapir N,Wackett LP,Palmer M,Blackmon B,Tomkins J,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algal-bacterial mats which grow in the effluent channels of alkaline hot springs provided an environment suitable for studying natural thermophilic methane producing bacteria. Methane was rapidly produced in cores taken from the meat and appeared to be an end product of decomposition of the algal-bacterial organic mat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ward DM

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel multiplex PCR method using three sets of specific primers was developed for the detection of the cytotoxic (act), heat-labile (alt), and heat-stable (ast) enterotoxin genes in Aeromonas spp. This assay was used to characterize 35 reference strains as well as 537 food-borne isolates. A total of seven gene patte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kingombe CI,D'Aoust JY,Huys G,Hofmann L,Rao M,Kwan J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA primers corresponding to conserved motifs in bacterial repetitive (REP, ERIC, and BOX) elements and PCR were used to show that REP-, ERIC-, and BOX-like DNA sequences are widely distributed in phytopathogenic Xanthomonas and Pseudomonas strains. REP-, ERIC, and BOX-PCR (collectively known as rep-PCR) were used to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Louws FJ,Fulbright DW,Stephens CT,de Bruijn FJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfaces made of copper or its alloys have strong antimicrobial properties against a wide variety of microorganisms. However, the molecular mode of action responsible for the antimicrobial efficacy of metallic copper is not known. Here, we show that dry copper surfaces inactivate Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quaranta D,Krans T,Espírito Santo C,Elowsky CG,Domaille DW,Chang CJ,Grass G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00