Thermal resistance of naturally occurring airborne bacterial spores.

abstract：:We report that two species of basidiomycete fungi (Polyporus versicolor and Poria monticola) grow in minimal liquid or solid medium when supplemented with crushed lignite coal. The fungi also grow directly on crushed lignite coal. The growth of both fungi was observed qualitatively as the production and extension of h...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cohen MS,Gabriele PD

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of genetic tools available for studying Francisella tularensis, the etiological agent of tularemia; however, there is no effective inducible or repressible gene expression system. Here, we describe inducible and repressible gene expression systems for F. tularensis based on the Tet repressor, TetR. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： LoVullo ED,Miller CN,Pavelka MS Jr,Kawula TH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some species of ruminal bacteria are known to produce antimicrobial peptides, but the screening procedures have mostly been based on in vitro assays using standardized methods. Recent sequencing efforts have made available the genome sequences of hundreds of ruminal microorganisms. In this work, we performed genome mi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azevedo AC,Bento CB,Ruiz JC,Queiroz MV,Mantovani HC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the microbial composition of animal bedding wastes, including poultry litter, and what is known has been deduced from standard culture methods, by which some fastidious organisms that exist in the environment may not be detected. We evaluated the bacterial composition of poultry litter by us...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lu J,Sanchez S,Hofacre C,Maurer JJ,Harmon BG,Lee MD

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed infections have important consequences for the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions. In vector-borne diseases, interactions between pathogens occur in both the vertebrate host and the arthropod vector. Spirochete bacteria belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies complex are tra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Herrmann C,Gern L,Voordouw MJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the interest in Bacteroides species as microbial source tracking (MST) markers, and the limited knowledge of the survival of Bacteroides species in the environment, here we examine the survival of Bacteroides fragilis, B. thetaiotaomicron, and environmental species of Bacteroides by use of culture techniques and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ballesté E,Blanch AR

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization of the fuel oxygenate methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and related compounds by microorganisms was investigated in a mainly theoretical study based on the Y(ATP) concept. Experiments were conducted to derive realistic maintenance coefficients and K(s) values needed to calculate substrate fluxes available...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Müller RH,Rohwerder T,Harms H

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary sewage effluent containing about 3 X 10(4) plaque-forming units of polio virus type 1 (LSc) per ml was passed through columns 250 cm in length packed with calcareous sand from an area in the Salt River bed used for ground-water recharge of secondary sewage effluent. Viruses were not detected in 1-ml samples ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lance JC,Gerba CP,Melnick JL

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate carboxylase (PYC) is an ecologically, medically, and industrially important enzyme. It is widespread in all three domains of life, the archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. PYC catalyzes ATP-dependent carboxylation of pyruvate to oxaloacetate. Detailed structure-function studies of this enzyme have been hampered du...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lai H,Kraszewski JL,Purwantini E,Mukhopadhyay B

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary goal of this study was to determine the conditions required for the effective inactivation of Bacillus anthracis spores on materials by using methyl bromide (MeBr) gas. Another objective was to obtain comparative decontamination efficacy data with three avirulent microorganisms to assess their potential fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wood JP,Wendling M,Richter W,Lastivka A,Mickelsen L

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Size changes during starvation of 17 marine bacterial isolates at a solid-water interface and in the liquid phase were examined. Twelve rod-shaped, hydrophilic bacteria decreased in size more rapidly at the solid surface than in the liquid phase, a result parallel to that observed previously for one of the strains at ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Humphrey B,Kjelleberg S,Marshall KC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different endoxylanases (1,4-beta-D-xylan xylanohydrolases, EC 3.2.1.8), designated 1 and 2, have been purified by column chromatography to apparent homogeneity from the nonsedimentable extracellular culture fluid of the strictly anaerobic, ruminal bacterium Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 grown on crystalline cellul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matte A,Forsberg CW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied HNPP (2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid-2'-phenylanilide phosphate) to direct in situ PCR for the routine detection of specific bacterial cells at the single-cell level. PCR was performed on glass slides with digoxigenin-labeled dUTP. The digoxigenin-labeled PCR products were detected with alkaline phosphatase-lab...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tani K,Kurokawa K,Nasu M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study concerns the exploitation of the lytic enzyme enterolysin A (EntL), produced by Enterococcus faecalis strain DPC5280, to elicit the controlled autolysis of starter lactococci. EntL, a cell wall metalloendopeptidase secreted by some E. faecalis strains, can kill a wide range of gram-positive bacteria, includ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hickey RM,Ross RP,Hill C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification and classification of Vibrio species have relied upon band pattern methods (e.g., amplified fragment length polymorphism) and DNA-DNA hybridization. However, data generated by these methods cannot be used to build an online electronic taxonomy. In order to overcome these limitations, we developed the fi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thompson FL,Gomez-Gil B,Vasconcelos AT,Sawabe T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly isolated rod-shaped, gram-negative anaerobic bacterium from human feces, named Julong 732, was found to be capable of metabolizing the isoflavone dihydrodaidzein to S-equol under anaerobic conditions. The metabolite, equol, was identified by using electron impact ionization mass spectrometry, (1)H and (13)C nu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang XL,Hur HG,Lee JH,Kim KT,Kim SI

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A natural Spodoptera exigua multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (SeMNPV) isolate from Florida shares a strikingly similar genotypic composition to that of a natural Spodoptera frugiperda MNPV (SfMNPV) isolate from Nicaragua. Both isolates comprise a high proportion of large-deletion genotypes that lack genes that are essent...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Serrano A,Williams T,Simón O,López-Ferber M,Caballero P,Muñoz D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of integron abundance and diversity in soil amended with pig slurry were studied. Real-time PCR illustrated a significant increase in class 1 integron prevalence after slurry application, with increased prevalence still evident at 10 months after application. Culture-dependent data revealed 10 genera, inclu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Byrne-Bailey KG,Gaze WH,Zhang L,Kay P,Boxall A,Hawkey PM,Wellington EM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biobleaching of hardwood unbleached kraft pulp (UKP) by Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Trametes versicolor was studied in the solid-state fermentation system with different culture media. In this fermentation system with low-nitrogen and high-carbon culture medium, pulp brightness increased by 15 and 30 points after ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Katagiri N,Tsutsumi Y,Nishida T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil field bacteria were characterized by cloning and sequencing of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes. A variety of gram-negative, sulfate-reducing bacteria was detected (16 members of the family Desulfovibrionaceae and 8 members of the family Desulfobacteriaceae). In contrast, a much more limited number of anaerobic, ferme...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Voordouw G,Armstrong SM,Reimer MF,Fouts B,Telang AJ,Shen Y,Gevertz D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found a remarkable capacity for the ubiquitous Gram-negative rod bacterium Serratia marcescens to migrate along and kill the mycelia of zygomycete molds. This migration was restricted to zygomycete molds and several basidiomycete species. No migration was seen on any molds of the phylum Ascomycota. S. marcesce...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hover T,Maya T,Ron S,Sandovsky H,Shadkchan Y,Kijner N,Mitiagin Y,Fichtman B,Harel A,Shanks RM,Bruna RE,García-Véscovi E,Osherov N

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and phenanthrene stress on glucose uptake by natural microbial populations were examined by the heterotrophic potential technique. Temporal and spatial distributions in glucose uptake velocities were examined for natural samples as well as PCB- and phenanthrene-stressed sa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sayler GS,Lund LC,Shiaris MP,Sherrill TW,Perkins RE

更新日期：1979-05-01 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

abstract：:We have developed a program that can accurately analyze the dynamic properties of tethered bacterial cells. The program works especially well with cells that tend to give rise to unstable rotations, such as polar-flagellated bacteria. The program has two novel components. The first dynamically adjusts the center of th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Qian C,Wong CC,Swarup S,Chiam KH

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the use of an oligonucleotide macroarray to profile the expression of 375 genes in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis IL1403 during heat, acid, and osmotic stress. A set of known stress-associated genes in IL1403 was used as the internal control on the array. Every stress response was accurately de...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xie Y,Chou LS,Cutler A,Weimer B

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A purified lipase from the yeast Cryptococcus sp. strain S-2 exhibited remote homology to proteins belonging to the cutinase family rather than to lipases. This enzyme could effectively degrade the high-molecular-weight compound polylactic acid, as well as other biodegradable plastics, including polybutylene succinate...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masaki K,Kamini NR,Ikeda H,Iefuji H

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia amylovora bacteriophages (phages) belonging to the Myoviridae and Podoviridae families demonstrated a preference for either high-exopolysaccharide-producing (HEP) or low-exopolysaccharide-producing (LEP) bacterial hosts when grown on artificial medium without or with sugar supplementation. Myoviridae phages pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Roach DR,Sjaarda DR,Castle AJ,Svircev AM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sedimentary bacterial isolate has been shown to contain trans-monounsaturated fatty acids (6% of the total fatty acids). The ratio of trans- to cis-acids in this isolate was in the range 3.2 to 7.6. The identification of trans-monounsaturated acids in a marine bacterium implied that the trans-acids which have been r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gillan FT,Johns RB,Verheyen TV,Volkman JK,Bavor HJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the first steps in characterizing an ecosystem is to describe the organisms inhabiting it. For microbial studies, experimental limitations have hindered the ability to depict diverse communities. Here we describe oligonucleotide fingerprinting of rRNA genes (OFRG), a method that permits identification of arraye...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Valinsky L,Della Vedova G,Scupham AJ,Alvey S,Figueroa A,Yin B,Hartin RJ,Chrobak M,Crowley DE,Jiang T,Borneman J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors on the cell surfaces of bacterial hosts are essential during the infection cycle of bacteriophages. To date, the phage receptors of the industrial relevant dairy starter bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus remain elusive. Thus, we set out to identify cell surface structures that are involved in host recogni...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Szymczak P,Filipe SR,Covas G,Vogensen FK,Neves AR,Janzen T

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00