Superoxide dismutase activity during recovery of thermally stressed Staphylococcus aureus MF-31.

abstract：UNLABELLED:Avian and possum fecal droppings may negatively impact roof-harvested rainwater (RHRW) water quality due to the presence of zoonotic pathogens. This study was aimed at evaluating the performance characteristics of a possum feces-associated (PSM) marker by screening 210 fecal and wastewater samples from possu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ahmed W,Hamilton KA,Gyawali P,Toze S,Haas CN

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The functioning of recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) is essential to maintain water quality for fish health, and one crucial process here is nitrification. The investigated RAS was connected to a rainbow trout production system and operated at an average temperature of 13°C and pH 6.8. Community analyses of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hüpeden J,Wegen S,Off S,Lücker S,Bedarf Y,Daims H,Kühn C,Spieck E

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Field-collected larvae of the tussock moth, Lymantria ninayi, a major pest of exotic pines in Papua New Guinea, were found to contain a small RNA-containing virus with a diameter of 29 nm and a buoyant density of 1.32 g/ml. The RNA was single stranded, had a molecular weight of 2.8 x 10, and was polyadenylated. Virion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pullin JS,Black F,King LA,Entwistle PF,Moore NF

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prophage-encoded Shiga toxin is a major virulence factor in Stx-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). Toxin production and phage production are linked and occur after induction of the RecA-dependent SOS response. However, food-related stress and Stx-prophage induction have not been studied at the single-cell level. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fang Y,Mercer RG,McMullen LM,Gänzle MG

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast extract agar, pork infusion agar, and modifications of these media were used to recover heated Clostridium botulinum spores. The D- and z-values were determined. Two type A strains and one type B strain of C. botulinum were studied. In all cases the D-values were largest when the spores were recovered in yeast e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odlaug TE,Pflug IJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of the important flavor compound 4-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3[2H]-furanone (HDMF; Furaneol) from D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate by the yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxii was studied with regard to the identification of intermediates present in the culture medium. Addition of o-phenylenediamine, a trapping reagent f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hauck T,Brühlmann F,Schwab W

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular bacteriocins are a group of N-to-C-terminally linked antimicrobial peptides, produced by Gram-positive bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes. Circular bacteriocins generally exhibit broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, including against common food-borne pathogens, such as Clostridium and Listeria spp. These pe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gabrielsen C,Brede DA,Nes IF,Diep DB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sclerotinia sclerotiorum acidifies its ambient environment by producing oxalic acid. This production of oxalic acid during plant infection has been implicated as a primary determinant of pathogenicity in this and other phytopathogenic fungi. We found that ambient pH conditions affect multiple processes in S. sclerotio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rollins JA,Dickman MB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phormium yellow leaf (PYL) phytoplasma causes a lethal disease of the monocotyledon, New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax). The 16S rRNA genes of PYL phytoplasma were amplified from infected flax by PCR and cloned, and the nucleotide sequences were determined. DNA sequencing and Southern hybridization analysis of genomic ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liefting LW,Andersen MT,Beever RE,Gardner RC,Forster RL

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of bifidobacteria to adhere to the intestine of the human host is considered to be important for efficient colonization and achieving probiotic effects. Bifidobacterium bifidum strains DSM20456 and MIMBb75 adhere well to the human intestinal cell lines Caco-2 and HT-29. The surface lipoprotein BopA was pre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kainulainen V,Reunanen J,Hiippala K,Guglielmetti S,Vesterlund S,Palva A,Satokari R

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After treatment of a dispersed suspension of echovirus with HOCl, much of the lost plaque titer was restored if the treated virus was induced to aggregate by adjustment of the suspending medium to pH 4.5. This did not appear to be a repair of individual virions but rather a special kind of multiplicity-related increas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Young DC,Sharp DG

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and specific method for detection of Listeria monocytogenes in milk and ground-beef samples is described. It consists of culturing samples in listeria enrichment broth (LEB) and subculturing them from LEB to listeria plating media, followed by DNA extraction and species-specific detection of the organism b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thomas EJ,King RK,Burchak J,Gannon VP

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acylation of epsilon amino groups of lysyl side chains is a widespread modification of proteins and small molecules in cells of all three domains of life. Recently, we showed that Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus anthracis encode the GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) SatA that can acetylate and inactivate streptot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burckhardt RM,Escalante-Semerena JC

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern sake yeast strains, which produce high concentrations of ethanol, are unexpectedly sensitive to environmental stress during sake brewing. To reveal the underlying mechanism, we investigated a well-characterized yeast stress response mediated by a heat shock element (HSE) and heat shock transcription factor Hsf1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Noguchi C,Watanabe D,Zhou Y,Akao T,Shimoi H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typing of F-specific RNA (FRNA) coliphages has been proposed as a useful method for distinguishing human from animal fecal contamination in environmental samples. Group II and III FRNA coliphages are generally associated with human wastes, but several exceptions have been noted. In the present study, we have genotyped...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stewart JR,Vinjé J,Oudejans SJ,Scott GI,Sobsey MD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Candidatus Nitrosotenuis uzonensis" is the only cultured moderately thermophilic member of the thaumarchaeotal order Nitrosopumilales (NP) that contains many mesophilic marine strains. We examined its membrane lipid composition at different growth temperatures (37°C, 46°C, and 50°C). Its lipids were all membrane-span...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bale NJ,Palatinszky M,Rijpstra WIC,Herbold CW,Wagner M,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimations of the bacterial content of air can be more easily made now than a decade ago, with colony formation the method of choice for enumeration of airborne bacteria. However, plate counts are subject to error because bacteria exposed to the air may remain viable yet lose the ability to form colonies, i.e., they ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heidelberg JF,Shahamat M,Levin M,Rahman I,Stelma G,Grim C,Colwell RR

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia muris cysts were separated from fecal contaminants in primary isolates by unit gravity velocity sedimentation. Crude isolates obtained by centrifugation over 1.0 M sucrose were overlaid onto a Percoll density gradient, 1.01 to 1.03 g/ml. G. muris cysts were well separated from faster-sedimenting fecal debris a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sauch JF

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of fixation on the cell volume of marine heterotrophic nanoflagellates and planktonic ciliates were investigated. Decreases in cell volume depended on the combination of the protozoan taxa and the particular fixative. For a particular fixative and protozoan species, degree of shrinkage was independent of p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Choi JW,Stoecker DK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin is massively produced by freshwater plankton species as a structural element of their exoskeleton or cell wall. At the same time, chitin does not accumulate in the predominantly anoxic sediments, underlining its importance as carbon and nitrogen sources for sedimentary microorganisms. We studied chitin degradat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wörner S,Pester M

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological advancements, particularly in the field of geographic information systems (GIS), have made it possible to predict the likelihood of foodborne pathogen contamination in produce production environments using geospatial models. Yet, few studies have examined the validity and robustness of such models. This ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weller D,Shiwakoti S,Bergholz P,Grohn Y,Wiedmann M,Strawn LK

更新日期：2015-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization of crushed Lotus pedunculatus root nodules with P-labeled total genomic DNA probes was used to identify Rhizobium loti and Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lotus rhizobia). Probes always hybridized with homologous target DNA and frequently with DNAs of other strains from the same genus. Intergeneric hybridization did...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cooper JE,Bjourson AJ,Thompson JK

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships between the hyphae of Agaricus bisporus (Lang) Sing and bacteria from the mushroom bed casing layer were examined with a scanning electron microscope. Hyphae growing in the casing layer differed morphologically from compost-grown hyphae. Whereas the compost contained thin single hyphae surrounded by calc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masaphy S,Levanon D,Tchelet R,Henis Y

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytophthora ramorum is a recently described pathogen causing oak mortality (sudden oak death) in forests in coastal areas of California and southern Oregon and dieback and leaf blight in a range of tree, shrub, and herbaceous species in the United States and Europe. Due to the threat posed by this organism, stringent...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tomlinson JA,Boonham N,Hughes KJ,Griffin RL,Barker I

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a significant zoonotic pathogen causing severe disease associated with watery and bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in humans. Infections are frequently associated with contact with EHEC-contaminated ruminant feces. Both natural a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Joris MA,Vanrompay D,Verstraete K,De Reu K,De Zutter L,Cox E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have reported high levels of fecal indicator enterococci in marine beach sand. This study aimed to determine the spatial and temporal variation of enterococcal abundance and to evaluate its relationships with microbial community parameters in Hawaii beach sand and water. Sampling at 23 beaches on the Is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cui H,Yang K,Pagaling E,Yan T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sublethal dose of ethanol (5%, vol/vol), acid (HCl, pH 4.5 to 5.0), H2O2 (500 ppm), or NaCl (7%, wt/vol) was added to a Listeria monocytogenes culture at the exponential phase, and the cells were allowed to grow for 1 h. Exponential-phase cells also were heat shocked at 45 degrees C for 1 h. The stress-adapted cells...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lou Y,Yousef AE

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a new plasmid pCNB1 from Comamonas sp. strain CNB-1 that degrades 4-chloronitrobenzene (4CNB) was determined. pCNB1 belongs to the IncP-1beta group and is 91,181 bp in length. A total of 95 open reading frames appear to be involved in (i) the replication, maintenance, and transfer of pCNB1; ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ma YF,Wu JF,Wang SY,Jiang CY,Zhang Y,Qi SW,Liu L,Zhao GP,Liu SJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-chain-length-medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates were synthesized in Saccharomyces cerevisiae from intermediates of the beta-oxidation cycle by expressing the polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases from Aeromonas caviae and Ralstonia eutropha in the peroxisomes. The quantity of polymer produced was increased by us...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： De Oliveira VC,Maeda I,Delessert S,Poirier Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, the causal agent of take-all of wheat, varied in sensitivity in vitro to the antibiotics phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA) and 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (Phl) produced by fluorescent Pseudomonas spp. shown previously to have potential for biological control of this pa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mazzola M,Fujimoto DK,Thomashow LS,Cook RJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00