Enumeration of potentially pathogenic bacteria from sewage sludges.

abstract：:To elevate the production level of heterologous polyketide in Streptomyces venezuelae, an additional copy of the positive regulatory gene pikD was introduced into the pikromycin (Pik) polyketide synthase (PKS) deletion mutant of S. venezuelae ATCC 15439 expressing tylosin PKS genes. The resulting mutant strain showed ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jung WS,Jeong SJ,Park SR,Choi CY,Park BC,Park JW,Yoon YJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5' nuclease assay has been developed to detect viable Listeria monocytogenes. The assay targets the hemolysin A (hlyA) transcript, which is found only in L. monocytogenes. The single-tube, reverse transcriptase (RT), fluorogenic probe-based assay was formatted by using Tth DNA polymerase whose activity was modulated...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Norton DM,Batt CA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of DNA probes for Shiga-like toxin I (SLT-I) and SLT-II for detection of SLT-producing Escherichia coli (SLTEC) in foods and calf fecal samples was evaluated. Enrichment cultures were prepared from food or fecal samples. Colonies formed by plating of enrichment cultures were probed for SLTEC by colony hybridiz...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Samadpour M,Liston J,Ongerth JE,Tarr PI

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：:Bacterial aggregates from a chemolithoautotrophic, nitrifying fluidized bed reactor were investigated with microsensors and rRNA-based molecular techniques. The microprofiles of O2, NH4+, NO2-, and NO3- demonstrated the occurrence of complete nitrification in the outer 125 microgram of the aggregates. The ammonia oxid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schramm A,De Beer D,Wagner M,Amann R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous study, Bacillus subtilis strain BSK3S, containing a polymyxin biosynthetic gene cluster from Paenibacillus polymyxa, could produce polymyxin only in the presence of exogenously added L-2,4-diaminobutyric acid (Dab). The dependence of polymyxin production on exogenous Dab was removed by introducing an e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Park SY,Choi SK,Kim J,Oh TK,Park SH

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:The association of Vibrio cholerae with zooplankton has been suggested as an important factor in transmission of human epidemic cholera, and the ability to colonize zooplankton surfaces may play a role in the temporal variation and predominance of the two different serogroups (V. cholerae O1 El Tor and O139) in the aq...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rawlings TK,Ruiz GM,Colwell RR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane of microbial cells forms an effective barrier for hydrophobic compounds, potentially causing an uptake limitation for hydrophobic substrates. Low bioconversion activities (1.9 U g(cdw)(-1)) have been observed for the ω-oxyfunctionalization of dodecanoic acid methyl ester by recombinant Escherichia c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Julsing MK,Schrewe M,Cornelissen S,Hermann I,Schmid A,Bühler B

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine infaunal burrows and tubes greatly enhance solute transport between sediments and the overlying water column and are sites of elevated microbial activity. Biotic and abiotic controls of the compositions and activities of burrow and tube microbial communities are poorly understood. The microbial communities in t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matsui GY,Ringelberg DB,Lovell CR

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-xylosidase-encoding xlnD gene of Aspergillus niger 90196 was amplified by the PCR technique from first-strand cDNA synthesized on mRNA isolated from the fungus. The nucleotide sequence of the cDNA fragment was verified to contain a 2,412-bp open reading frame that encodes a 804-amino-acid propeptide. The 778-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： La Grange DC,Pretorius IS,Claeyssens M,van Zyl WH

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of psychrotrophic strains (those able to grow at or below 7 degreesC) of the Bacillus cereus group (Bacillus cereus, Bacillus thuringiensis, and Bacillus mycoides) in food products is at present extremely slow with conventional microbiology. This is due to an inability to discriminate these cold-adapted stra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Francis KP,Mayr R,von Stetten F,Stewart GS,Scherer S

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:The aim of this study was to compare the antagonistic properties of Lactobacillus casei GG exerted in vitro against Salmonella typhimurium C5 in a cellular model, cultured enterocyte-like Caco-2 cells, to those exerted in vivo in an animal model, C3H/He/Oujco mice. Our results show that a 1-h contact between the invad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hudault S,Liévin V,Bernet-Camard MF,Servin AL

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe novel forms of structural integration between endo- and episymbiotic microbes and an unusual new species of snail from hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean. The snail houses a dense population of gamma-proteobacteria within the cells of its greatly enlarged esophageal gland. This tissue setting diff...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goffredi SK,Warén A,Orphan VJ,Van Dover CL,Vrijenhoek RC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial biosensor for benzene, toluene, and similar compounds has been constructed, characterized, and field tested on contaminated water and soil. The biosensor is based on a plasmid incorporating the transcriptional activator xylR from the TOL plasmid of Pseudomonas putida mt-2. The XylR protein binds a subset o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Willardson BM,Wilkins JF,Rand TA,Schupp JM,Hill KK,Keim P,Jackson PJ

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：:Enterocytozoon bieneusi is an emerging and clinically significant enteric parasite infecting humans and animals and can cause life-threatening diarrhea in immunocompromised people. Pigs are considered to be one of the main reservoir hosts of E. bieneusi based on their high prevalence rates and zoonotic genotypes in pi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhao W,Zhang W,Yang F,Cao J,Liu H,Yang D,Shen Y,Liu A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus UW85 produces the linear aminopolyol antibiotic zwittermicin A (ZmA). This antibiotic has diverse biological activities, such as suppression of disease in plants caused by protists, inhibition of fungal and bacterial growth, and amplification of the insecticidal activity of the toxin protein from Bacil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kevany BM,Rasko DA,Thomas MG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied injury of Escherichia coli O157:H7 cells in 11 food items during freeze storage and methods of isolating freeze-injured E. coli O157:H7 cells from foods. Food samples inoculated with E. coli O157:H7 were stored for 16 weeks at -20 degrees C in a freezer. Noninjured and injured cells were counted by using tr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hara-Kudo Y,Ikedo M,Kodaka H,Nakagawa H,Goto K,Masuda T,Konuma H,Kojima T,Kumagai S

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S85 type strain of Fibrobacter succinogenes, a major ruminal fibrolytic species, was isolated 49 years ago from a bovine rumen and has been used since then as a model for extensive studies. To assess the validity of this model, we compared the cellulase- and xylanase-degrading activities of several other F. succin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Béra-Maillet C,Ribot Y,Forano E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD-linked alcohol dehydrogenase activity was detected in cell-free crude extracts from various propane-grown bacteria. Two NAD-linked alcohol dehydrogenases, one which preferred primary alcohols (alcohol dehydrogenase I) and another which preferred secondary alcohols (alcohol dehydrogenase II), were found in propane-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hou CT,Patel RN,Laskin AI,Barist I,Barnabe N

更新日期：1983-07-01 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：:We have shown that the plant pathogen Alternaria brassicicola exhibited very high susceptibility to ambruticin VS4 and to a lesser extent to the phenylpyrrole fungicide fludioxonil. These compounds are both derived from natural bacterial metabolites with antifungal properties and are thought to exert their toxicity by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dongo A,Bataillé-Simoneau N,Campion C,Guillemette T,Hamon B,Iacomi-Vasilescu B,Katz L,Simoneau P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects in the chicken embryo assay of four Alternaria metabolites (alternariol [AOH], alternariol methyl ether [AME], altenuene [ALT], and tenuazonic acid [TA]) were investigated. Administered to 7-day-old chicken embryos by yolk sac injection, AOH, AME, and ALT caused no mortality or teratogenic effect at doses ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Griffin GF,Chu FS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 114 gram-negative fecal isolates from domestic pigs in herds with different histories of antimicrobial agent exposure were screened for the presence of plasmid DNA and specific tetracycline resistance determinants. More than 84% of the isolates harbored plasmid DNA, which ranged in size from 2.1 to 186 kb. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee C,Langlois BE,Dawson KA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of mineralization of phenol, benzoate, benzylamine, p-nitrophenol, and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate added to lake water at concentrations ranging from a few picograms to nanograms per milliliter were directly proportional to chemical concentration. The rates were still linear at levels of <1 pg of phenol or p-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rubin HE,Subba-Rao RV,Alexander M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five autoagglutinating Aeromonas hydrophila isolates recovered from eels and humans were assigned to serogroups O:14 and O:81 of the Sakazaki and Shimada (National Institutes of Health) scheme. They had the following properties in common: positive precipitation after boiling, moderate surface hydrophobicity (salt-aggr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Esteve C,Alcaide E,Canals R,Merino S,Blasco D,Figueras MJ,Tomás JM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma species isolated from water-damaged buildings were screened for toxicity by using boar sperm cells as indicator cells. The crude methanolic cell extract from Trichoderma harzianum strain ES39 inhibited the boar sperm cell motility at a low exposure concentration (50% effective concentration, 1 to 5 microg ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Peltola J,Ritieni A,Mikkola R,Grigoriev PA,Pócsfalvi G,Andersson MA,Salkinoja-Salonen MS

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel thermostable alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) showing activity toward aromatic secondary alcohols was identified from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis KOD1 (TkADH). The gene, tk0845, which encodes an aldo-keto reductase, was heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli. The enzyme was found ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wu X,Zhang C,Orita I,Imanaka T,Fukui T,Xing XH

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00