Abundance and distribution of Legionellaceae in Puerto Rican waters.

abstract：:A method capable of detecting as little as 0.11 U of xylanase activity in polyacrylamide gels was developed. The method entails incubation of protein gels in contact with substrate gels containing unmodified xylan, followed by immersion of substrate gels in 95% ethanol. Resulting zymograms contain transparent bands co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Royer JC,Nakas JP

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of acetate in soils taken from a nutrient gradient in the northern Florida Everglades was studied by stable isotope probing. Bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA gene clone libraries from eutrophic and oligotrophic soil microcosms strongly suggest that a significant amount of acetate is consumed by syntroph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chauhan A,Ogram A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two subpopulations of Bacillus megaterium spores (1.360 and 1.355 g/ml) were obtained by density gradient centrifugation. The heavier spores had a higher thermoresistance (e.g., D(80) = 186 versus 81 min) and a higher DNA content (1.25 x 10 versus 0.65 x 10 g per spore, apparently corresponding to digenomic versus mon...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Belliveau BH,Beaman TC,Gerhardt P

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of the species within the genus Listeria is important for the food industry but only a few reliable methods are available so far. While a number of studies have used Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to identify bacteria, the extraction of complex pattern information from the infrared spec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rebuffo CA,Schmitt J,Wenning M,von Stetten F,Scherer S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pressure and temperature on the fatty acid composition in a barotolerant deep-sea bacterium that had branched-chain fatty acids were examined. The major fatty acids of the strain at atmospheric pressure were iso-C(15:0), C(16:1), iso-C(17:0), and iso-C(17:1). As the growth pressure increased, the propor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kamimura K,Fuse H,Takimura O,Yamaoka Y

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crenarchaeol, a membrane-spanning glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) containing a cyclohexane moiety in addition to four cyclopentane moieties, was originally hypothesized to be synthesized exclusively by the mesophilic Crenarchaeota. Recent studies reporting the occurrence of crenarchaeol in hot springs and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pitcher A,Schouten S,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium decumbens is able to epoxidize cis-propenylphosphonic acid (cPA) to produce the antibiotic fosfomycin [FOM; also referred to as phosphonomycin and (-)-cis-1,2-epoxypropylphosphonic acid], a bioconversion of considerable commercial significance. We sought to improve the efficiency of the process by overexpr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watanabe M,Sumida N,Murakami S,Anzai H,Thompson CJ,Tateno Y,Murakami T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei bacteria cause the majority of all shigellosis cases worldwide. However, their distributions differ, with S. sonnei predominating in middle- and high-income countries and S. flexneri predominating in low-income countries. One proposed explanation for the continued range expansion ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watson J,Jenkins C,Clements A

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternariol and alternariol methyl ether were tested in the Ames Salmonella typhimurium assay, and both were shown, with and without metabolic activation, to be nonmutagenic to strains TA98 and TA100. The finding of other investigators that alternariol methyl ether is weakly mutagenic to TA98 without metabolic activat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davis VM,Stack ME

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological impact of 24-h ("chronic") chromium(VI) [Cr(VI) or chromate] exposure on Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 was assessed by analyzing cellular morphology as well as genome-wide differential gene and protein expression profiles. Cells challenged aerobically with an initial chromate concentration of 0.3 mM in com...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chourey K,Thompson MR,Morrell-Falvey J,Verberkmoes NC,Brown SD,Shah M,Zhou J,Doktycz M,Hettich RL,Thompson DK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the biogeography of microorganisms, the habitat size of an attached-living bacterium has never been investigated. We approached this theme with a multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) study of new strains of Rhodopirellula sp., an attached-living planctomycete. The development of an MLSA for Rhodopirellula baltica en...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Winkelmann N,Jaekel U,Meyer C,Serrano W,Rachel R,Rosselló-Mora R,Harder J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been described which can compare the efficacy of different nongermicidal handwashing protocols for removal of transient microbial flora without the necessity of establishing or relying on a previously determined baseline for an individual subject. The wash effluent is collected, and colony counts for the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vesley D,Lillquist DR,Le CT

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to determine the effects of feeding a fiber-rich fraction of Brassica vegetables on the immune response through changes in enteric bacteria and short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) production in normal mice. The boiled-water-insoluble fraction of Brassica rapa L. (nozawana), which consists mainly of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tanaka S,Yamamoto K,Yamada K,Furuya K,Uyeno Y

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthrobacter oxydans HAP-1 hyperproduces DL-alanine in a non-growth-associated manner. We found that decreased activities of pyruvate dehydrogenase and of the enzyme catalyzing NADH oxidation in the stationary phase are paralleled by a shift of pyruvate metabolism to alanine synthesis by L-alanine dehydrogenase. We pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hashimoto Si,Katsumata R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons has been investigated mostly with naphthalene as a model compound. Naphthalene degradation by sulfate-reducing bacteria proceeds via carboxylation to 2-naphthoic acid, formation of a coenzyme A thioester, and subsequent reduction to 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2-naphtho...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weyrauch P,Heker I,Zaytsev AV,von Hagen CA,Arnold ME,Golding BT,Meckenstock RU

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A metagenomic library of a petroleum-contaminated soil was constructed in a fosmid vector that allowed heterologous expression of metagenomic DNA. The library, consisting of 6.5 Gb of metagenomic DNA, was screened for extradiol dioxygenase (Edo) activity using catechol and 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl as the substrates. Fift...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Terrón-González L,Martín-Cabello G,Ferrer M,Santero E

更新日期：2016-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1239 in vol. 45.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed five Pseudomonas-selective soil extract NAA media containing the selective properties of trimethoprim and sodium lauroyl sarcosine and 0 to 100% of the amount of Casamino Acids used in the classical Pseudomonas-selective Gould's S1 medium. All of the isolates were confirmed to be Pseudomonas by a Pseudomon...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aagot N,Nybroe O,Nielsen P,Johnsen K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and operation of a manually operated multiple syringe inoculator was described. Either 9 or 21 inoculations of constant volume could be made simultaneously. Up to 100 plates could be inoculated in 15 min with excellent reproducibility. No contact occurred between the inoculating needles and the agar surface...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kaneko T,Holder-Franklin M,Franklin M

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous fungi are widely used for the production of homologous and heterologous proteins. Recently, there has been increasing interest in Aspergillus oryzae because of its ability to produce heterologous proteins in solid-state culture. To provide an overview of protein secretion by A. oryzae in solid-state cultur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oda K,Kakizono D,Yamada O,Iefuji H,Akita O,Iwashita K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3-hydroxy fatty acids (3-OHFAs) in lipopolysaccharides (LPS) play an important role in determining endotoxin activity, and childhood exposure to endotoxin has recently been associated with reduced risk of atopic diseases. To characterize the 3-OHFAs in house dust (HD), we used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Park JH,Szponar B,Larsson L,Gold DR,Milton DK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this field study was to provide insight into three distinct populations of microorganisms involved in in situ metabolism of phenol. Our approach measured 13CO2 respired from [13C]phenol and stable isotope probing (SIP) of soil DNA at an agricultural field site. Traditionally, SIP-based investigations have ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： DeRito CM,Pumphrey GM,Madsen EL

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:The bacterial host ranges of the conjugatively self-transmissible IncN group plasmid pCU1 and its mobilizable miniderivative, pCU785, were examined. Species of the gram-negative purple bacteria were chosen for this study. Conjugative mobilization of pCU785 into a wide variety of bacteria was facilitated by the presenc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krishnan BR,Iyer VN

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:[This corrects the article on p. 4430 in vol. 63.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Restrepo S,Verdier V

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostically important surface antigen pre-S2 of hepatitis B virus was produced in large amounts in the periplasmic space of Escherichia coli. The DNA fragments (pre-S2) coding the pre-S2 antigen were tandemly duplicated or triplicated and ligated in the same reading frame to a fragment containing the promoter a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kadokura H,Yoda K,Imai M,Yamasaki M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentative production of succinic acid from glucose by Escherichia coli was significantly increased by overexpression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase. In contrast, overexpression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase had no effect. Under optimized conditions, induction of the carboxylase resulted in a 3.5-fold inc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Millard CS,Chao YP,Liao JC,Donnelly MI

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture-independent molecular phylogenetic methods were used to explore the breadth of diversity and environmental distribution of members of the division-level "candidate" phylogenetic group WS6, recently discovered in a contaminated aquifer and with no cultivated representatives. A broad diversity of WS6-affiliated ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dojka MA,Harris JK,Pace NR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid has been measured in seven genera of rumen ciliate protozoa. Expressed as milligrams per gram of total nitrogen, 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid concentrations ranged from 17.2 in Ophryoscolex spp. to 72.4 in Eremoplastron spp. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Whitelaw FG,Bruce LA,Eadie JM,Shand WJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00