Chemical transformation of eremofortin C into PR toxin.

abstract：:Aerobic activated sludge granules are dense, spherical biofilms which can strongly improve purification efficiency and sludge settling in wastewater treatment processes. In this study, the structure and development of different granule types were analyzed. Biofilm samples originated from lab-scale sequencing batch rea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weber SD,Ludwig W,Schleifer KH,Fried J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extremely thermophilic anaerobic archaeon strain B1001 was isolated from a hot-spring environment in Japan. The cells were irregular cocci, 0.5 to 1.0 micrometers in diameter. The new isolate grew at temperatures between 60 and 95 degrees C (optimum, 85 degrees C), from pH 5.0 to 9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0), and from 1....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tachibana Y,Kuramura A,Shirasaka N,Suzuki Y,Yamamoto T,Fujiwara S,Takagi M,Imanaka T

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the potential for bacteriophage-mediated gene transfer in the marine environment, we established transduction systems by using marine phage host isolates. Plasmid pQSR50, which contains transposon Tn5 and encodes kanamycin and streptomycin resistance, was used in plasmid transduction assays. Both marine b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang SC,Paul JH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile causes a potentially fatal diarrheal disease through the production of its principal virulence factors, toxin A and toxin B. The tcdC gene is thought to encode a negative regulator of toxin production. Therefore, increased toxin production, and hence increased virulence, is often inferred in stra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cartman ST,Kelly ML,Heeg D,Heap JT,Minton NP

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of plasterboard composition on the growth and sporulation of Stachybotrys chartarum as well as on the inflammatory potential of the spores were studied. S. chartarum was grown on 13 modified plasterboards under saturated humidity conditions. The biomass was estimated by measuring the ergosterol content of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Murtoniemi T,Nevalainen A,Hirvonen MR

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities within soils, yet their ecological impact is largely unknown. Defining how soil viral communities change with perturbation or across environments will contribute to understanding the larger ecological significance of soil viruses. A new approach to examinin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Srinivasiah S,Lovett J,Polson S,Bhavsar J,Ghosh D,Roy K,Fuhrmann JJ,Radosevich M,Wommack KE

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus normally grows on compost or hay but is also able to colonize environments such as the human lung. In order to survive, this organism needs to react to a multitude of external stimuli. Although extensive work has been carried out to investigate intracellular signal transduc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gehrke A,Heinekamp T,Jacobsen ID,Brakhage AA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogeny and the distribution of symbiotic bacteria in the mixed segment of the wood-eating termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Shiraki) were studied. Bacterial 16S rRNA genes (rDNA) were amplified from the mixed segment of the gut by PCR, and two kinds of sequences were identified. The phylogenetic tree was construc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tokuda G,Yamaoka I,Noda H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mycoplasmas are minimal, wall-less bacteria but have retained the ability to secrete complex carbohydrate polymers that constitute a glycocalyx. In members of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster, which are important ruminant pathogens, the glycocalyx includes both cell-attached and cell-free polysaccharides. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaurivaud P,Baranowski E,Pau-Roblot C,Sagné E,Citti C,Tardy F

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against Vibrio species that infect humans, fish, and shellfish were developed for application in rapid identifications. The pathogens included Vibrio alginolyticus, V. anguillarum, V. carchariae, V. cholerae, V. damsela, V. furnissii, V. harveyi, V. ordalii, V. parahaemolyticus, and V. vul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen D,Hanna PJ,Altmann K,Smith A,Moon P,Hammond LS

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide analysis has revealed abundant FabG (beta-ketoacyl-ACP reductase) paralogs, with uncharacterized biological functions, in several halophilic archaea. In this study, we identified for the first time that the fabG1 gene, but not the other five fabG paralogs, encodes the polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)-specific ac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Han J,Lu Q,Zhou L,Liu H,Xiang H

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of Bacillus cereus spores during cooling (10 degrees C/h) from 90 degrees C occurred in two phases. One phase occurred during cooling from 90 to 80 degrees C; the second occurred during cooling from 46 to 38 degrees C. In contrast, no inactivation occurred when spores were cooled from a maximum temperatur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johnson KM,Busta FF

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stachybotrys atra is the etiologic agent of stachybotryotoxicosis, and this fungus and its trichothecene mycotoxins were recently implicated in an outbreak of unexplained illness in homes. S. atra was grown on sterile rice, autoclaved, dried, and then aerosolized by acoustic vibration. The distribution of particles (m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sorenson WG,Frazer DG,Jarvis BB,Simpson J,Robinson VA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of the sesquiterpene farnesol (3,7,11-trimethyl-2,6,10-dodecatrien-1-ol) and the sesquiterpene derivative geosmin (1,10-trans-dimethyl-trans-9-decalol) were investigated in a geosmin-producing actinomycete, Streptomyces tendae. Exposure to 300 microM farnesol reduced biomass (fresh matter) accumulation by 97% ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dionigi CP,Millie DF,Johnsen PB

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cyanobacteria are known to tolerate environmental extremes. Motivated by an interest in selecting cyanobacteria for applications in space, we launched rocks from a limestone cliff in Beer, Devon, United Kingdom, containing an epilithic and endolithic rock-dwelling community of cyanobacteria into low Earth orbit (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Olsson-Francis K,de la Torre R,Cockell CS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne, opportunistic, bacterial pathogen causing a wide spectrum of diseases, including meningitis, septicemia, abortion, and gastroenteritis, in humans and animals. Among the 13 L. monocytogenes serovars described, human listeriosis is mostly associated with strains of serovars 4b, 1/...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Severino P,Dussurget O,Vêncio RZ,Dumas E,Garrido P,Padilla G,Piveteau P,Lemaître JP,Kunst F,Glaser P,Buchrieser C

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni isolates possess multiple adhesive proteins termed adhesins, which promote the organism's attachment to epithelial cells. Based on the proposal that one or more adhesins are shared among C. jejuni isolates, we hypothesized that C. jejuni strains would compete for intestinal and cecal colonization ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Konkel ME,Christensen JE,Dhillon AS,Lane AB,Hare-Sanford R,Schaberg DM,Larson CL

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutritional and physical factors which influence the germination of akinetes of Nodularia spumigena (Cyanobacteriaceae) were examined. Low concentrations of phosphorus (<0.9 muM) were required for germination. Nitrate had no effect, but ammonia, at concentrations of >45 muM, inhibited germination. Salinities of >20 pe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huber AL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellobiose labeled either at the reducing end (4-O-beta-d-glucopyranosyl-d-[U-C]glucopyranose) or at the nonreducing end (4-O-beta-d-[U-C]glucopyranosyl-d -glucopyranose) was synthesized with Clostridium thermocellum cellobiose phosphorylase at greater than 98% purity. The radioactive cellobioses were identical to aut...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ng TK,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Salmonella is recognized as one of the most significant enteric foodborne bacterial pathogens. In recent years, the resistance of pathogens to biocides and other environmental stresses, especially when they are embedded in biofilm structures, has led to the search for and development of novel antimicrobial s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karampoula F,Giaouris E,Deschamps J,Doulgeraki AI,Nychas GJ,Dubois-Brissonnet F

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The promoter region of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (gpd) was used to drive expression of mnp1, the gene encoding Mn peroxidase isozyme 1, in primary metabolic cultures of Phanerochaete chrysosporium. A 1,100-bp fragment of the P. chrysosporium gpd promoter region was fused upstream of the mnp1 ge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayfield MB,Kishi K,Alic M,Gold MH

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the Frankia strains capable of establishing a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with actinorrhizal plants, in planta sporangial formation is not universal and has led to the distinction between spore-positive (Sp+) and spore-negative (Sp-) nodules. Numerous Frankia strains have been isolated in pure culture from Sp+ nod...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simonet P,Bosco M,Chapelon C,Moiroud A,Normand P

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dissimilatory Fe(III)- and Mn(IV)-reducing bacterium was isolated from bottom sediments of the Great Bay estuary, New Hampshire. The isolate was a facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rod which did not appear to fit into any previously described genus. It was temporarily designated strain BrY. BrY grew anaerobicall...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Caccavo F,Blakemore RP,Lovley DR

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few techniques are currently available for quantifying specific prokaryotic taxa in environmental samples. Quantification of specific genotypes has relied mainly on oligonucleotide hybridization to extracted rRNA or intact rRNA in whole cells. However, low abundance and cellular rRNA content limit the application of t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Suzuki MT,Taylor LT,DeLong EF

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism and virulence analyses were used to evaluate the population structure of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the rice bacterial blight pathogen, from several rice-growing countries in Asia. Two DNA sequences from X. oryzae pv. oryzae, IS1112, an insertion sequence, and avrXa10, a me...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adhikari TB,Cruz C,Zhang Q,Nelson RJ,Skinner DZ,Mew TW,Leach JE

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:We previously isolated the transaminase KES23458 from Pseudomonas sp. strain AAC as a promising biocatalyst for the production of 12-aminododecanoic acid, a constituent building block of nylon-12. Here, we report the subsequent characterization of this transaminase. It exhibits activity with a broad substrat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilding M,Peat TS,Newman J,Scott C

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed the first Escherichia coli-Veillonella shuttle vector based on an endogenous plasmid (pVJL1) isolated from a clinical Veillonella strain. A highly transformable Veillonella strain was also identified. Both the shuttle vector and the transformable strain should be valuable tools for future Veillonel...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu J,Xie Z,Merritt J,Qi F

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of substrate and enzyme concentrations on the rate of saccharification of two defined insoluble cellulose substrates, Avicel (FMC Corp., Philadelphia, Pa.) and Solka-Floc (James River Co., Berlin, N.H.), by the cellulase enzyme system of Trichoderma viride was evaluated. In the assays, enzyme concentrati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liaw ET,Penner MH

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative real-time PCR targeting the tnaA gene was studied to detect Escherichia coli and distinguish E. coli from Shigella spp. These microorganisms revealed high similarity in the molecular organization of the tna operon. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bernasconi C,Volponi G,Picozzi C,Foschino R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single 10-bp primers were used to generate random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers from commercial and wild strains of the cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus via the polymerase chain reaction. Of 20 primers tested, 19 amplified A. bisporus DNA, each producing 5 to 15 scorable markers ranging from 0.5 to 3.0...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Khush RS,Becker E,Wach M

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00