Defined medium for Aquaspirillum serpens VHL effective in batch and continuous culture.

abstract：:The abundance of nifH, nirS, and nirK gene fragments involved in nitrogen (N) fixation and denitrification in thinned second-growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) forest soil was investigated by using quantitative real-time PCR. Prokaryotic N cycling is an important aspect of N ava...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Levy-Booth DJ,Winder RS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of methanogenic and sulfate-reducing bacteria was examined in sediments from three sites off the coast of eastern Connecticut and five sites in Long Island Sound. Both bacterial groups were detected at all sites. Three distributional patterns were observed: (i) four sites exhibited methanogenic and su...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hines ME,Buck JD

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the stabilization by pressure of enzymes, including a hydrogenase from Methanococcus jannaschii, an extremely thermophilic deep-sea methanogen. This is the first published report of proteins from thermophiles being stabilized by pressure. Inactivation studies of partially purified hydrogenases from an extr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hei DJ,Clark DS

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant sucrose-6-phosphate synthase (SpsA) was synthesized in Escherichia coli BL21DE3 by using the spsA gene of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Transformants exhibited a 10,000-fold increase in survival compared to wild-type cells following either freeze-drying, air drying, or desiccation o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Billi D,Wright DJ,Helm RF,Prickett T,Potts M,Crowe JH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus niger is known for its efficient excretion machinery. However, problems have often arisen in obtaining high amounts of heterologous proteins in the culture medium. Here we present a quick method using sandwiched colonies to evaluate transgenic strains for secretion of heterologous proteins. Expressing the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Asgeirsdóttir SA,Scholtmeijer K,Wessels JG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury is a redox-active heavy metal that reacts with active thiols and depletes cellular antioxidants. Active resistance to the mercuric ion is a widely distributed trait among bacteria and results from the action of mercuric reductase (MerA). Protein phylogenetic analysis of MerA in bacteria indicated the occurrenc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simbahan J,Kurth E,Schelert J,Dillman A,Moriyama E,Jovanovich S,Blum P

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Two Aeromonas hydrophila bacteriophages, Aeh1 and Aeh2, were isolated from sewage. Both phages showed binal symmetry. The dimensions of A. hydrophila phages Aeh1 and Aeh2 differed from those of the other Aeromonas phages. Also, phage Aeh2 was the largest Aeromonas phage studied to date. Phage Aeh1 formed small, clear ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chow MS,Rouf MA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus Cowan 1 cells were armed with anti-flagellar (anti-H) antibody produced in rabbits immunized with flagellar core protein prepared from Vibrio vulnificus. This reagent was assessed by coagglutination for its capacity to agglutinate and identify V. vulnificus. A species-specific H antigen is expres...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simonson J,Siebeling RJ

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent declines in sea grass distribution underscore the importance of understanding microbial community structure-function relationships in sea grass rhizospheres that might affect the viability of these plants. Phospholipid fatty acid analyses showed that sulfate-reducing bacteria and clostridia were enriched in sed...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Küsel K,Pinkart HC,Drake HL,Devereux R

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined the membrane fluidity of clostridial endospores during treatment with heat and pressure with nisin or reutericyclin. Heating (90°C) reduced laurdan (6-dodecanoyl-2-dimethylaminonaphthalene) general polarization, corresponding to membrane fluidization. Pressure (200 MPa) stabilized membrane order....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hofstetter S,Winter R,McMullen LM,Gänzle MG

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes were designed, validated, and used to quantify predominant groups of anaerobic bacteria in human fecal samples. A set of two probes was specific for species of the Bacteroides fragilis group and the species Bacteroides distasonis. Two others were designed to detect species ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Franks AH,Harmsen HJ,Raangs GC,Jansen GJ,Schut F,Welling GW

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The well-established killing of bacteria by copper surfaces, also called contact killing, is currently believed to be a combined effect of bacterial contact with the copper surface and the dissolution of copper, resulting in lethal bacterial damage. Iron can similarly be released in ionic form from iron surfaces and w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mathews S,Kumar R,Solioz M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain whether position 131 of a mesophilic protease, subtilisin BPN', is a potential critical site for cold adaptation as screened by evolutionary engineering (S. Taguchi, A. Ozaki, and H. Momose, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:492-495, 1998), a full set of subtilisin BPN' mutants with mutations at position 131 w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Taguchi S,Komada S,Momose H

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many but not all ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) produce urease (urea amidohydrolase, EC 3.5.1.5) and are capable of using urea for chemolithotrophic growth. We sequenced the urease operons from two AOB, the beta-proteobacterium Nitrosospira sp. strain NpAV and the gamma-proteobacterium Nitrosococcus oceani. In both ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Koper TE,El-Sheikh AF,Norton JM,Klotz MG

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes were designed for the archaeal kingdoms Euryachaeota and Crenarchaeota. Probe specificities were evaluated by nonradioactive dot blot hybridization against selected reference organisms. The successful application of fluorescent-probe derivatives for whole-cell hybridization...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burggraf S,Mayer T,Amann R,Schadhauser S,Woese CR,Stetter KO

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to develop a molecular detection method that better estimates the potential risk associated with the presence of Vibrio vulnificus. For that purpose, we applied seminested reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) to viable but nonculturable (VBNC) populations of V. vulnificus and targeted the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fischer-Le Saux M,Hervio-Heath D,Loaec S,Colwell RR,Pommepuy M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we fused six self-assembling amphipathic peptides (SAPs) with cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) from Paenibacillus macerans to catalyze 2-O-D-glucopyranosyl-L-ascorbic acid (AA-2G) production with cheap substrates, including maltose, maltodextrin, and soluble starch as glycosyl donors. The resul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Han R,Li J,Shin HD,Chen RR,Liu L,Du G,Chen J

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Corynebacterium glutamicum is able to grow in media containing up to 12 mM arsenite and 500 mM arsenate and is one of the most arsenic-resistant microorganisms described to date. Two operons (ars1 and ars2) involved in arsenate and arsenite resistance have been identified in the complete genome sequence of Corynebacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ordóñez E,Letek M,Valbuena N,Gil JA,Mateos LM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During growth on xylan and xylose Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum B6A-RI produced endoxylanase, beta-xylosidase, arabinofuranosidase, and acetyl esterase, and the first three activities appeared to be produced coordinately. During nonlimiting growth on xylan, these enzyme activities were predominantly cell assoc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee YE,Lowe SE,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mechanistic studies of many processes in Agrobacterium tumefaciens have been hampered by a lack of genetic tools for characterization of essential genes. In this study, we used a Tn7-based method for inducible control of transcription from an engineered site on the chromosome. We demonstrate that this method...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Figueroa-Cuilan W,Daniel JJ,Howell M,Sulaiman A,Brown PJ

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral bacterial microcosms, established using saliva inocula from three individuals, were maintained under a feast-famine regime within constant-depth film fermenters. Steady-state communities were exposed four times daily, postfeeding, to a chlorhexidine (CHX) gluconate-containing mouthwash (CHXM) diluted to 0.06% (wt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McBain AJ,Bartolo RG,Catrenich CE,Charbonneau D,Ledder RG,Gilbert P

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of two enzymes, a 168-kDa protein and a 40-kDa protein, OmtA, purified from the filamentous fungus Aspergillus parasiticus were reported to convert the aflatoxin pathway intermediate sterigmatocystin to O-methylsterigmatocystin in vitro. Our initial goal was to determine if OmtA is necessary and suffici...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee LW,Chiou CH,Linz JE

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD and its reduced form NADH function as essential redox cofactors and have major roles in determining cellular metabolic features. NAD can be synthesized through the deamidated and amidated pathways, for which the key reaction involves adenylylation of nicotinic acid mononucleotide (NaMN) and nicotinamide mononucleo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang X,Zhou YJ,Wang L,Liu W,Liu Y,Peng C,Zhao ZK

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. strain KIE171 was able to grow with isopropylamine or L-alaninol [S-(+)-2-amino-1-propanol] as the sole carbon source, but not with D-alaninol. To investigate the hypothesis that L-alaninol is an intermediate in the degradation of isopropylamine, two mini-Tn5 mutants unable to utilize both isopropylami...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： de Azevedo Wäsch SI,van der Ploeg JR,Maire T,Lebreton A,Kiener A,Leisinger T

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiobacillus ferrooxidans AP19-3 oxidized molybdenum blue (Mo) enzymatically. Molybdenum oxidase in the plasma membrane of this bacterium was purified ca. 77-fold compared with molybdenum oxidase in cell extract. A purified molybdenum oxidase showed characteristic absorption maxima due to reduced-type cytochrome oxida...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sugio T,Hirayama K,Inagaki K,Tanaka H,Tano T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) by Alcaligenes eutrophus DSM 545 was studied in a synthetic medium with 3% glucose at pH 7.0 supplemented with several ammonium substrates and cane molasses. Growth was measured by dry cell weight, and the PHB content was measured by gas chromatography. The effects of ammoni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beaulieu M,Beaulieu Y,Melinard J,Pandian S,Goulet J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of physiological and environmental factors on the accumulation of oxindole during anaerobic indole metabolism was investigated by high-performance liquid chromatography. Under methanogenic conditions, indole was temporarily converted to oxindole in stoichiometric amounts in media inoculated with three fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Madsen EL,Francis AJ,Bollag JM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus parryii) are active for a scant 3 to 5 months of the year. During the active season, adult squirrels compete for mates, reproduce, and fatten in preparation for hibernation, while juvenile squirrels, weaned in early July, must grow and acquire sufficient fat to survive their first ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stevenson TJ,Buck CL,Duddleston KN

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00