Microbial transformation of 14C-labeled 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene in an activated-sludge system.

abstract：:Flux balance analysis and phenotypic data were used to provide clues to the relationships between the activities of gene products and the phenotypes resulting from the deletion of genes involved in respiratory function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The effect of partial or complete respiratory deficiency on the ethanol...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dikicioglu D,Pir P,Onsan ZI,Ulgen KO,Kirdar B,Oliver SG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis strain BB12 in stimulated Caco-2 cells and to characterize the factors responsible for these anti-inflammatory effects. Characterization and purification studies indicate that BB12's anti-inflamma...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang Z,Wang J,Cheng Y,Liu X,Huang Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently characterized a transposon-induced NaCl-sensitive mutant of Staphylococcus aureus (U. Vijaranakul, M. J. Nadakavukaren, D. O. Bayles, B. J. Wilkinson, and R. K. Jayaswal, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:1889-1897, 1997). To further characterize this mutant, we determined the nucleotide sequence at the inserti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vijaranakul U,Xiong A,Lockwood K,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mono Lake is an alkaline hypersaline lake that supports high methane oxidation rates. Retrieved pmoA sequences showed a broad diversity of aerobic methane oxidizers including the type I methanotrophs Methylobacter (the dominant genus), Methylomicrobium, and Methylothermus, and the type II methanotroph Methylocystis. S...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lin JL,Joye SB,Scholten JC,Schäfer H,McDonald IR,Murrell JC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporulation of Clostridium botulinum 113B in a complex medium supplemented with certain transition metals (Fe, Mn, Cu, or Zn) at 0.01 to 1.0 mM gave spores that were increased two to sevenfold in their contents of the added metals. The contents of calcium, magnesium, and other metals in the purified spores were relati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kihm DJ,Hutton MT,Hanlin JH,Johnson EA

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A marine bacterial strain that decomposes the cell walls of some seaweeds, including a Laminaria sp. and Undaria pinnatifida, has been isolated from seawater. This strain has been classified to the genus Vibrio. One of the enzymes which the bacteria secreted into the culture medium was isolated and purified 45-fold fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sugano Y,Terada I,Arita M,Noma M,Matsumoto T

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human norovirus (NoV) is the leading cause of nonbacterial acute gastroenteritis epidemics worldwide. High-pressure processing (HPP) has been considered a promising nonthermal processing technology to inactivate food- and waterborne viral pathogens. Due to the lack of an effective cell culture method for human NoV, th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lou F,Huang P,Neetoo H,Gurtler JB,Niemira BA,Chen H,Jiang X,Li J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the benefits to the global food supply and agricultural economies, pesticides are believed to pose a threat to the health of both humans and wildlife. Chlorpyrifos (CP), a commonly used organophosphate insecticide, has poor target specificity and causes acute neurotoxicity in a wide range of species via the su...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Daisley BA,Trinder M,McDowell TW,Collins SL,Sumarah MW,Reid G

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The scarcity of fresh water in the Mediterranean region necessitates the search for halotolerant agents of biological control of plant diseases that can be applied in arid-zone agriculture irrigated with saline water. Among 29 Trichoderma strains previously isolated from Mediterranean Psammocinia sp. sponges, the grea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gal-Hemed I,Atanasova L,Komon-Zelazowska M,Druzhinina IS,Viterbo A,Yarden O

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of Trichoplusia ni larvae to several Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) was tested. Neonatal larvae proved to be susceptible to solubilized trypsin-treated CryIA(a), CryIA(b), and CryIA(c) (50% lethal concentrations [LC(50)s], 570, 480, and 320 ng/cm, respectively) but showe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Estada U,Ferre J

更新日期：1994-10-01 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

abstract：:Ribosomal gene sequences were obtained from bryozoans in the genus Bugula and their bacterial symbionts; analyses of host and symbiont phylogenetic trees did not support a history of strict cospeciation. Symbiont-derived compounds known to defend host larvae from predation were only detected in two out of four symbiot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lim-Fong GE,Regali LA,Haygood MG

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key enzymes and pathways involved in polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis in haloarchaea have been identified in recent years, but the haloarchaeal enzymes for PHA degradation remain unknown. In this study, a patatin-like PHA depolymerase, PhaZh1, was determined to be located on the PHA granules in the haloarch...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu G,Hou J,Cai S,Zhao D,Cai L,Han J,Zhou J,Xiang H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using bacteria to transform reactive corrosion products into stable compounds represents an alternative to traditional methods employed in iron conservation. Two environmental Aeromonas strains (CA23 and CU5) were used to transform ferric iron corrosion products (goethite and lepidocrocite) into stable ferrous iron-be...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kooli WM,Junier T,Shakya M,Monachon M,Davenport KW,Vaideeswaran K,Vernudachi A,Marozau I,Monrouzeau T,Gleasner CD,McMurry K,Lienhard R,Rufener L,Perret JL,Sereda O,Chain PS,Joseph E,Junier P

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The competition between selected or commercial killer strains of type K2 and sensitive commercial strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was studied under various conditions in sterile grape juice fermentations. The focus of this study was the effect of yeast inoculation levels and the role of assimilable nitrogen nutrit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Medina K,Carrau FM,Gioia O,Bracesco N

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the development and validation of a method for the qualitative analysis of complex bifidobacterial communities based on PCR and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE). Bifidobacterium genus-specific primers were used to amplify an approximately 520-bp fragment from the 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA), and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Satokari RM,Vaughan EE,Akkermans AD,Saarela M,de Vos WM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from fuel-contaminated subsurface soil, strain PRTOL1, mineralizes toluene as the sole electron donor and carbon source under strictly anaerobic conditions. The mineralization of 80% of toluene carbon to CO2 was demonstrated in experiments with [ring-U-14C]toluene; 15% of to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beller HR,Spormann AM,Sharma PK,Cole JR,Reinhard M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight types of lysozyme-sensitive spores among seven Bacillus species representative of thermophiles, mesophiles, and psychrophiles were obtained spanning a 3,000-fold range in moist-heat resistance. The resistance within species was altered by demineralization of the native spores to protonated spores and remi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beaman TC,Gerhardt P

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium oxidation is a recent addition to the microbial nitrogen cycle, and its metabolic pathway, including the production and conversion of its intermediate hydrazine, is not well understood. Therefore, the effect of hydroxylamine addition on the hydrazine metabolism of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anamm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Star WR,van de Graaf MJ,Kartal B,Picioreanu C,Jetten MS,van Loosdrecht MC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships, diversity, and in situ identification of spirochetes in the gut of the termite Neotermes koshunensis were examined without cultivation, with an emphasis on ectosymbionts attached to flagellated protists. Spirochetes in the gut microbial community investigated so far are related to the genus...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Noda S,Ohkuma M,Yamada A,Hongoh Y,Kudo T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primers were designed to target 16S rRNA and nodD genes of Rhizobium leguminosarum from DNA extracted from two different soil types contaminated with Zn applied in sewage sludge. Numbers of rhizobia estimated using 16S rRNA gene copy number showed higher abundance than those estimated by both nodD and the most-probabl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macdonald CA,Clark IM,Hirsch PR,Zhao FJ,McGrath SP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Profiles of dissolved O(2) and methane with increasing depth were generated for Lake Washington sediment, which suggested the zone of methane oxidation is limited to the top 0.8 cm of the sediment. Methane oxidation potentials were measured for 0.5-cm layers down to 1.5 cm and found to be relatively constant at 270 to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Auman AJ,Stolyar S,Costello AM,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetic acid bacteria, especially Gluconobacter species, have been known to catalyze the extensive oxidation of sugar alcohols (polyols) such as D-mannitol, glycerol, D-sorbitol, and so on. Gluconobacter species also oxidize sugars and sugar acids and uniquely accumulate two different keto-D-gluconates, 2-keto-D-glucon...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matsushita K,Fujii Y,Ano Y,Toyama H,Shinjoh M,Tomiyama N,Miyazaki T,Sugisawa T,Hoshino T,Adachi O

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In raw sludges and in mesophilically and thermophilically digested anaerobic sludges, large variations in numbers of viruses occurred over narrow ranges of numbers of fecal coliforms, total coliforms, and fecal streptococci, demonstrating that the bacteria were poor quantitative reflectors of the numbers of the viruse...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berg G,Berman D

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcin G and enterocin 1071 are two homologous two-peptide bacteriocins. Expression vectors containing the gene encoding the putative lactococcin G immunity protein (lagC) or the gene encoding the enterocin 1071 immunity protein (entI) were constructed and introduced into strains sensitive to one or both of the b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oppegård C,Emanuelsen L,Thorbek L,Fimland G,Nissen-Meyer J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody designated 302 beta that is specific for the beta subunit of the oxygenase component (ISPTOL) of toluene dioxygenase from Pseudomonas putida F1 was used to prepare an immunoaffinity column. ISPTOL in cell extracts of Escherichia coli JM109(pDTG611) bound to the column, and an enzyme-linked immuno...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lynch NA,Jiang H,Gibson DT

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the inactivation of human norovirus (HuNoV) GI.1 and GII.4 by chlorine under conditions mimicking sewage treatment. Using a porcine gastric mucin-magnetic bead (PGM-MB) assay, no statistically significant loss in HuNoV binding (inactivation) was observed for secondary effluent treatments of ≤25 ppm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kingsley DH,Fay JP,Calci K,Pouillot R,Woods J,Chen H,Niemira BA,Van Doren JM

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic acetate degradation at 70 degrees C and at 55 degrees C (as a reference) was studied by running laboratory upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors inoculated with mesophilic granular sludge. In UASB reactors fed with acetate-containing media (3 g of chemical oxygen demand [COD] per liter, correspondi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rintala J,Lepistö S,Ahring B

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The killing of Listeria monocytogenes following exposure to low pH, organic acids, and osmotic stress was enhanced by the addition of 5% (vol/vol) ethanol. At pH 3, for example, the presence of this agent stimulated killing by more than 3 log units in 40 min of exposure. The rate of cell death at pH 3.0 was dependent ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barker C,Park SF

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a sintered glass bead core to simulate the spaces and surfaces of reservoir rock in studies of the bacterial plugging phenomenon that affects waterflood oil recovery operations. The passage of pure or mixed natural populations of bacteria through this solid matrix was initially seen to promote the formati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shaw JC,Bramhill B,Wardlaw NC,Costerton JW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00