Application of a competition model to the growth of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguis in binary continuous culture.

abstract：:Water samples from rivers, streams, ponds, and activated sewage were tested for the presence of bacteria which utilize 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) as a sole source of carbon. Seventy percent of the attempted enrichments yielded pure cultures of 2,4-D-metabolizing bacteria. All but 1 of the 30 isolates were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Amy PS,Schulke JW,Frazier LM,Seidler RJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ethyl picolinate on germination, outgrowth, and sporulation of Bacillus cereus T were studied in a synthetic medium containing glucose. Ethyl picolinate specifically inhibited at two stages, outgrowth and sporulation. The initiation of germination and cell division was not affected. The inhibition of ou...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pandey NK,Gollakota KG

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a method for determining mutagenic concentrations of chemicals by using an agar diffusion assay. The method is based on the linear relationship between the amount of chemical placed at the center of the dish and the radius of the mutagenic zone. A brief theoretical discussion and experimental data ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Awerbuch TE,Stark AA

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:Laccase is a copper-containing polyphenol oxidase that has great potential in industrial and biotechnological applications. Previous research has suggested that fungal laccase may be involved in the defense against oxidative stress, but there is little direct evidence supporting this hypothesis, and the mechanism by w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yang Y,Fan F,Zhuo R,Ma F,Gong Y,Wan X,Jiang M,Zhang X

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of a suitable substrate for the cultivation of the common white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, is referred to as composting. High microbiological activity causes temperatures of the composting material to rise as high as 80 degrees C. At stacking, an optimal oxygen consumption rate of 140 mumol of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Derikx PJ,Op Den Camp HJ,van der Drift C,Van Griensven LJ,Vogels GD

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UNL-1, a lytic virus of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, was observed to express a novel inducible DNA damage reactivation activity in UV-A-irradiated P. aeruginosa host cells. The expression of bacteriophage reactivation was quantified in hosts exposed to either UV-C or UV-A radiation. While reactivation of UV-C-damaged UNL-1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shaffer JJ,Jacobsen LM,Schrader JO,Lee KW,Martin EL,Kokjohn TA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 588 in vol. 60.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors：

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA extraction procedures and PCR conditions to detect Vibrio vulnificus cells naturally occurring in oysters were developed. In addition, PCR amplification of V. vulnificus from oysters seeded with biotype 1 cells was demonstrated. By the methods described, V. vulnificus cells on a medium (colistin-polymyxin B-cellob...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coleman SS,Melanson DM,Biosca EG,Oliver JD

更新日期：1996-04-01 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 solventogenic clostridia have a considerable capacity to ferment carbohydrate substrates with the production of acetone and butanol, making them attractive organisms for the conversion of waste materials to valuable products. In common with other anaerobes, the clostridia show a marked dependence on the phosphoeno...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Al Makishah NH,Mitchell WJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate predictions of carbon and energy cycling rates in the environment depend on sampling frequencies and on the spatial variability associated with biological activities. We examined the variability associated with anaerobic biodegradation rates at two sites in an alluvial sand aquifer polluted by municipal landf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adrian NR,Robinson JA,Suflita JM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The D-values of Bacillus pumilus spores on various devices ranged from 0.14 to 0.23 Mrads. The majority of devices displayed D-values equal to or less than the value obtained on filter paper. Increased resistivity was also encountered. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Prince HN

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we describe the association of three Campylobacter jejuni metabolism-related traits, γ-glutamyl-transpeptidase (GGT), fucose permease (fucP), and secreted L-asparaginase [ansB(s)], with multilocus sequence types (STs). A total of 710 C. jejuni isolates with known STs were selected and originated from hu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： de Haan CP,Llarena AK,Revez J,Hänninen ML

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine norovirus (MNV) was used as a surrogate to study resistance of human norovirus to disinfectants used in hospitals. MNV was sensitive to alcohol, alcohol hand rubs, bleach, and povidone iodine-based disinfectant. Real-time reverse transcription-PCR results indicated that the presence of viral RNA did not correla...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Belliot G,Lavaux A,Souihel D,Agnello D,Pothier P

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of denitrification and the causes of nitrite and nitrous oxide accumulation were examined in resting cell suspensions of three denitrifiers. An Alcaligenes species and a Pseudomonas fluorescens isolate characteristically accumulated nitrite when reducing nitrate; a Flavobacterium isolate did not. Nitrate ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Betlach MR,Tiedje JM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiosulfate dehydrogenase is known to play a significant role in thiosulfate oxidation in the acidophilic, obligately chemolithoautotroph, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. Enzyme activity measured using ferricyanide as the electron acceptor was detected in cell extracts of A. ferrooxidans ATCC 23270 grown on tetrathion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kikumoto M,Nogami S,Kanao T,Takada J,Kamimura K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A straightforward method is described for screening methanotrophic colonies for soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) activity on solid media. Such activity results in the development of a colored complex between 1-naphthol, which is formed when sMMO reacts with naphthalene, and o-dianisidine (tetrazotized). Methanotro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Graham DW,Korich DG,LeBlanc RP,Sinclair NA,Arnold RG

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequencing of the thermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 revealed a gene which had high sequence similarity to the gene encoding the carboxypeptidase of Sulfolobus solfataricus and also to that encoding the aminoacylase from Bacillus stearothermophilus. The gene from P. horikoshii comprises an open rea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishikawa K,Ishida H,Matsui I,Kawarabayasi Y,Kikuchi H

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group-specific PCR-based denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) method was developed and combined with group-specific clone library analysis to investigate the diversity of the Clostridium leptum subgroup in human feces. PCR products (length, 239 bp) were amplified using C. leptum cluster-specific primers an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shen J,Zhang B,Wei G,Pang X,Wei H,Li M,Zhang Y,Jia W,Zhao L

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytolysin and gelatinase are prominent pathogenicity determinants associated with highly virulent Enterococcus faecalis strains. In an effort to explore the expression profiles of these virulence traits in vivo, we have employed E. faecalis variants expressing the luxABCDE cassette under the control of either the P16S...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： La Rosa SL,Casey PG,Hill C,Diep DB,Nes IF,Brede DA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of fungi in permanently frozen soil from northeastern Siberia was studied by culture-independent PCR amplification of diverse environmental 18S rRNA genes. Elaborate protocols to avoid contamination during drilling, sampling, and amplification were used. A broad diversity of eukaryotic DNA sequences that...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lydolph MC,Jacobsen J,Arctander P,Gilbert MT,Gilichinsky DA,Hansen AJ,Willerslev E,Lange L

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:The presence of human-pathogenic, enteric bacteria on the surface and in the interior of raw produce is a significant health concern. Several aspects of the biology of the interaction between these bacteria and alfalfa (Medicago sativa) seedlings are addressed here. A collection of enteric bacteria associated with alf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dong Y,Iniguez AL,Ahmer BM,Triplett EW

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:Thiolase (acetyl coenzyme A acetyltransferase; EC 2.3.1.9) from Clostridium acetobutylicum is a key enzyme in the production of acids and solvents in this organism. The purification and properties of the enzyme have already been described (D. P. Wiesenborn, F. B. Rudolph, and E.T. Papoutsakis, Appl. Environ. Microbiol...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Petersen DJ,Bennett GN

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep-ocean hydrothermal-vent environments are rich in heavy metals and metalloids and present excellent sites for the isolation of metal-resistant microorganisms. Both metalloid-oxide-resistant and metalloid-oxide-reducing bacteria were found. Tellurite- and selenite-reducing strains were isolated in high numbers from...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rathgeber C,Yurkova N,Stackebrandt E,Beatty JT,Yurkov V

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory batch tests indicate that addition of sterile municipal sewage biosolids to clay soil from four depths increases the numbers of Escherichia coli isolates recoverable in EC-MUG broth (EC broth with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-glucuronide). This effect was most marked for the deeper soil layers, with increases ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Unc A,Gardner J,Springthorpe S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two highly active trifunctional hemicellulases were constructed by linking the catalytic portion of a xylanase with an arabinofuranosidase and a xylosidase, using either flexible peptide linkers or linkers containing a cellulose-binding domain. The multifunctional enzymes retain the parental enzyme properties and exhi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fan Z,Wagschal K,Chen W,Montross MD,Lee CC,Yuan L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motile phototrophic consortia are highly regular associations in which numerous cells of green sulfur bacteria surround a flagellated colorless beta-proteobacterium in the center. To date, seven different morphological types of such consortia have been described. In addition, two immotile associations involving green ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glaeser J,Overmann J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00