Isolation of Legionella pneumophila from nonepidemic-related aquatic habitats.

abstract：:The crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius has been described to synthesize trehalose via the maltooligosyltrehalose synthase (TreY) and maltooligosyltrehalose trehalohydrolase (TreZ) pathway, and the trehalose glycosyltransferring synthase (TreT) pathway has been predicted. Deletion mutant analysis of strains with si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stracke C,Meyer BH,Hagemann A,Jo E,Lee A,Albers SV,Cha J,Bräsen C,Siebers B

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial source tracking is used to apportion fecal pollution among putative sources. Within this context, library-independent markers are genetic or phenotypic traits that can be used to identify the host origin without a need for library-dependent classification functions. The objective of this project was to use m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Soule M,Kuhn E,Loge F,Gay J,Call DR

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When carbon sources are changed, Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcriptional patterns drastically change. To identify genes whose transcription can be used to quantitatively measure sugar concentrations, we searched genomic expression databases for a set of genes that are highly induced during the diauxic shift, and we u...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chambers P,Issaka A,Palecek SP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-insoluble metal sulfides FeS2, MoS2, and WS2 are chemically attacked by iron(III) hexahydrate ions, generating thiosulfate, which is oxidized to sulfuric acid. Other metal sulfides are attacked by iron(III) ions and by protons, resulting in the formation of elemental sulfur via intermediary polysulfides. Sulf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schippers A,Sand W

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Pyocins are bacteriocins secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and they assist in the colonization of different niches. A major subset of these antibacterial proteins adopt a modular organization characteristic of polymorphic toxins. They include a receptor-binding domain, a segment enabling membrane passage, and a toxi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ghequire MGK,Öztürk B

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenton reactions are believed to play important roles in wood degradation by brown rot fungi. In this context, the effect of tropolone (2-hydroxycyclohepta-2,4,6-trienone), a metal chelator, on wood degradation by Poria placenta was investigated. Tropolone (50 micro M) strongly inhibits fungal growth on malt agar, but...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Diouf PN,Delbarre N,Perrin D,Gérardin P,Rapin C,Jacquot JP,Gelhaye E

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are important vectors for many emerging pathogens. However, they are also infected with many symbionts and commensals, often competing for the same niches. In this paper, we characterize the microbiome of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae), the lone star tick, in order to better understand the evolutionary r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ponnusamy L,Gonzalez A,Van Treuren W,Weiss S,Parobek CM,Juliano JJ,Knight R,Roe RM,Apperson CS,Meshnick SR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic engineering and multisubunit protein production necessitate the expression of multiple genes at coordinated levels. In bacteria, genes for multisubunit proteins or metabolic pathways are often expressed in operons under the control of a single promoter; expression of the genes is coordinated by varying trans...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Smolke CD,Carrier TA,Keasling JD

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volumn 62, no. 11, p. 4174, Abstract, lines 12 and 13: "para dechlorination was restricted from 18 to 34(deg)C" should read "para dechlorination was restricted to temperatures from 18 to 34(deg)C." [This corrects the article on p. 4174 in vol. 62.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wu Q,Bedard DL,Wiegel J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of the methanotrophic community in mildly acidic landfill cover soil was assessed by three methods: two culture-independent molecular approaches and a traditional culture-based approach. For the first of the molecular studies, two primer pairs specific for the 16S rRNA gene of validly published type I (i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wise MG,McArthur JV,Shimkets LJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several formulations of brilliant green agar with an added H2S indicator were evaluated. Results were optimum with variations of a basic formula consisting of 40 g of tryptic soy agar (Difco), 8 g of lactose, 8 g of sucrose, 80 mg of phenol red, 1 g of sulfanilamide, 1.5 g of ferric ammonium citrate, 5 g of sodium thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moats WA,Kinner JA

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two gram-positive, strictly anoxic, coccoid- to rod-shaped strains of bacteria, Clostridium coccoides 1410 and C. coccoides 3110, were isolated from human feces on the typical homoacetogenic substrates formate plus H2 plus CO2 (strain 1410) and vanillate plus H2 plus CO2 (strain 3110) in the presence of 2-bromoethanes...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kamlage B,Gruhl B,Blaut M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of copper on the structure and physiology of freshwater biofilm microbial communities. For this purpose, biofilms that were grown during 4 weeks in a shallow, slightly polluted ditch were exposed, in aquaria in our laboratory, to a range of copper concentrations (0, 1, 3, and 10 microM). De...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Massieux B,Boivin ME,Van Den Ende FP,Langenskiöld J,Marvan P,Barranguet C,Admiraal W,Laanbroek HJ,Zwart G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) ST398 isolated from pigs raised in conventional farms was previously reported. Here we report a study on 25 farms adhering to an alternative system. LA-MRSA ST398 was not detected in nasal swabs from 178 pigs or from 89 humans working and livin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cuny C,Friedrich AW,Witte W

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the peptide antibiotic nisin with liposomes has been studied. The effect of this interaction was analyzed on the membrane potential (inside negative) and the pH gradient (inside alkaline) in liposomes made from Escherichia coli phosphatidylethanolamine and egg phosphatidylcholine (9:1, wt/wt). The m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gao FH,Abee T,Konings WN

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative real-time PCR assay targeting the pcrA gene, encoding the catalytic subunit of perchlorate reductase, detected pcrA genes from perchlorate-reducing bacteria in three different genera and from soil microbial communities. Partial pcrA sequences indicated differences in the composition of perchlorate-reduc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nozawa-Inoue M,Jien M,Hamilton NS,Stewart V,Scow KM,Hristova KR

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate and impact of Pseudomonas aureofaciens TX-1 following application as a biocontrol agent for fungi in turfgrass were studied. The organism was applied with a modified irrigation system by using a preparation containing 1 x 10(6) P. aureofaciens TX-1 CFU ml(-1) about 100 times between May and August. We examine...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sigler WV,Nakatsu CH,Reicher ZJ,Turco RF

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 286 isolates of Pseudomonas maltophilia was collected from sheep exhibiting brown or yellowish fleece rot and from fly-strike lesions. Enzyme activities for 10 of the isolates were examined by plate tests and with the API ZYM system and compared with the enzymatic profile of a human type strain of P. maltop...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macdiarmid JA,Burrell DH

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidneys showing renal changes characteristic for mycotoxic porcine nephropathy were collected during the period 1 April 1982 to 31 March 1983 from 225,000 swine processed in a large slaughterhouse in the district of Poznań, Poland. Of 113 kidneys suspected of mycotoxic porcine nephropathy, 27 exhibited ochratoxin A le...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goliński P,Hult K,Grabarkiewicz-Szczesna J,Chełkowski J,Kneblewski P,Szebiotko K

更新日期：1984-06-01 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 small spirillum, designated 5175, was isolated from an anaerobic enrichment culture for Desulfuromonas in which the major medium constituents were acetate and elemental sulfur. The organisms grew only under anaerobic or microaerophilic conditions. Elemental sulfur was formed anaerobically in a malate-sulfide medium,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wolfe RS,Penning N

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of microorganisms can be predicted through the use of active biological containment systems. We have constructed contained Pseudomonas putida strains that degrade alkylbenzoates. The modified strain carries a fusion of the Plac promoter to the gef gene, which encodes a killing protein. Expression from Pla...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ronchel MC,Ramos C,Jensen LB,Molin S,Ramos JL

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, members of our group reported the isolation and characterization of mutacin II from Streptococcus mutans T8 and the genetic analyses of the mutacin II biosynthesis genes (J. Novak, P. W. Caufield, and E. J. Miller, J. Bacteriol. 176:4316-4320, 1994; F. Qi, P. Chen, and P. W. Caufield, Appl. Environ. Microb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Qi F,Chen P,Caufield PW

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report of filamentous actinobacteria isolated from surface-sterilized root tissues of healthy wheat plants (Triticum aestivum L.). Wheat roots from a range of sites across South Australia were used as the source material for the isolation of the endophytic actinobacteria. Roots were surface-sterilize...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coombs JT,Franco CM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermoacidophile Acidianus is widely distributed in Yellowstone National Park hot springs that span large gradients in pH (1.60 to 4.84), temperature (42 to 90°C), and mineralogical composition. To characterize the potential role of flexibility in mineral-dependent energy metabolism in contributing to the widespre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Amenabar MJ,Boyd ES

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms associated with the stems and roots of nonnodulated (Nod(-)), wild-type nodulated (Nod(+)), and hypernodulated (Nod(++)) soybeans [Glycine max (L.) Merril] were analyzed by ribosomal intergenic transcribed spacer analysis (RISA) and automated RISA (ARISA). RISA of stem samples detected no bands specific...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ikeda S,Rallos LE,Okubo T,Eda S,Inaba S,Mitsui H,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solubilization of coal was demonstrated with filtrates (0.45-mum-pore-size filters) obtained from the broth in which Polyporus versicolor had grown. The rate and extent of solubilization were dependent on the age of the fungal cultures, the particle size of the coal, the pH of the filtrates, and the presence of protei...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cohen MS,Bowers WC,Aronson H,Gray ET

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected and identified genotypes of human-pathogenic microsporidia in fecal samples from 51 asymptomatic captive-bred pet parrots in South Korea. Microsporidia were identified in 8 samples (15.7%); 7 parrots tested positive for Encephalitozoon hellem, and 1 parrot tested positive for both E. hellem and Encephalito...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee SY,Lee SS,Lyoo YS,Park HM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis has been associated with naturally occurring waterborne outbreaks and is also of interest as a potential biological weapon. Recovery of this pathogen from water using cultural methods is challenging due to the organism's fastidious growth requirements and interference by indigenous bacteria. A 1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Humrighouse BW,Adcock NJ,Rice EW

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00