Improved medium for selective isolation and enumeration of Bifidobacterium.

abstract：:Enterotoxin B produced by Staphylococus aureus 243 in brain heart infusion broth was concentrated by dialysis against 40% polyethylene glycol (20 M), partially purified on a Sephadex G-100 column and heated at 110 degrees C in thermal death time cans. Various heating menstrua included 0.04 M Veronal buffer (pH 7.4), b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee IC,Stevenson KE,Harmon LG

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A European baseline survey during the years 2005 and 2006 has revealed that the monophasic Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar 4,12:d:- was, with a prevalence of 23.6%, the most frequently isolated serovar in German broiler flocks. In Denmark and the United Kingdom, its serovar prevalences were 15.15% and 2.8%...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huehn S,Bunge C,Junker E,Helmuth R,Malorny B

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A light cycler-based real-time PCR (LC-PCR) assay that amplifies the F57 sequence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis was developed. This assay also includes an internal amplification control template to monitor the amplification conditions in each reaction. The targeted F57 sequence element is unique for M...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tasara T,Stephan R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five genes encoding PhaP family proteins and one phaR gene have been identified in the genome of Burkholderia symbiont strain RPE75. PhaP proteins function as the surface proteins of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) granules, and the PhaR protein acts as a negative regulator of PhaP biosynthesis. Recently, we characterized ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jang SH,Jang HA,Lee J,Kim JU,Lee SA,Park KE,Kim BH,Jo YH,Lee BL

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of plasmid-borne antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli wild-type strains is possible by transformation under naturally occurring conditions in oligotrophic, aquatic environments containing physiologic concentrations of calcium. In contrast, transformation is suppressed in nitrogen-rich body fluids l...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Woegerbauer M,Jenni B,Thalhammer F,Graninger W,Burgmann H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first inducible Arthrobacter overexpression system, based on the promoter/operator and the repressor of the 6-D-hydroxynicotine oxidase gene of Arthrobacter nicotinovorans, is described here. Nicotine-dependent overproduction and affinity purification of recombinant proteins are presented. The system will allow th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sandu C,Chiribau CB,Sachelaru P,Brandsch R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous necrosis virus (NNV) is a member of the Betanodavirus genus that causes fatal diseases in over 40 species of fish worldwide. Mortality among NNV-infected fish larvae is almost 100%. In order to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the susceptibility of fish larvae to NNV, we exposed zebrafish larvae to NNV...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morick D,Faigenbaum O,Smirnov M,Fellig Y,Inbal A,Kotler M

更新日期：2015-05-15 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：:Five Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains were tested for the utilization of 47 low-molecular-weight compounds as their sole sources of carbon and energy for growth at a concentration of 2.5 g/liter. Of these compounds, 31 to 35 were consumed. Growth experiments in tap water at 15 degrees C were carried out with one particu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Kooij D,Oranje JP,Hijnen WA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of concentration-dependent toluene metabolism were examined by evaluating each term in the second-order rate equation. Marine and freshwater pseudomonads were used. Uptake for Pseudomonas sp. strain T2 was characterized by a completely saturatable system with small transport constant (K(t) = 44 mug/liter)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robertson BR,Button DK

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular epidemiology of 545 Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates collected between 1977 and 2009 from cattle in Hokkaido, Japan, was investigated using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Nine main clusters were identified from 116 PFGE patterns. Cluster I comprised 248 isolates, 243 of which po...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tamamura Y,Uchida I,Tanaka K,Okazaki H,Tezuka S,Hanyu H,Kataoka N,Makino S,Kishima M,Kubota T,Kanno T,Hatama S,Ishihara R,Hata E,Yamada H,Nakaoka Y,Akiba M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wax-coated capsules containing selective ingredients (brilliant green and oxgall) were added at the time of inoculation of most-probable-number media (modified lactose broths). The inhibitory ingredients gradually diffused from the capsules into the nonselective media, imparting selectivity to the media. Concentration...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lanz WW,Hartman PA

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cry2Aa3 gene was introduced into asporogenic Bacillus thuringiensis, and the synthesized protoxin killed Bombyx mori and Lymantria dispar larvae. Chymotrypsin hydrolyzed the linkages between 49Tyr/Val50 and 145Lys/Ser146 in the protoxin, and 50- and 58-kDa fragments were generated, respectively. Both peptides kill...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ohsawa M,Tanaka M,Moriyama K,Shimazu M,Asano S,Miyamoto K,Haginoya K,Mitsui T,Kouya T,Taniguchi M,Hori H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrification in chloraminated drinking water can have a number of adverse effects on water quality, including a loss of total chlorine and ammonia-N and an increase in the concentration of heterotrophic plate count bacteria and nitrite. To understand how nitrification develops, a study was conducted to examine the fa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wolfe RL,Lieu NI,Izaguirre G,Means EG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of long-term soil fertilization on the composition and potential for phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) cycling of bacterial communities associated with hyphae of the P-solubilizing fungus Penicillium canescens Using a baiting approach, hyphosphere bacterial communities were recovered ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Hao X,Garcia-Lemos AM,Nunes I,Nicolaisen MH,Nybroe O

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:While some species in the Bacillus cereus group are well-characterized human pathogens (e.g., B. anthracis and B. cereus sensu stricto), the pathogenicity of other species (e.g., B. pseudomycoides) either has not been characterized or is presently not well understood. To provide an updated characterization of the path...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miller RA,Jian J,Beno SM,Wiedmann M,Kovac J

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safe and effective nuclear waste disposal, as well as accidental radionuclide releases, necessitates our understanding of the fate of radionuclides in the environment, including their interaction with microorganisms. We examined the sorption of Pu(IV) and Pu(V) to Pseudomonas sp. strain EPS-1W, an aerobic bacterium is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boggs MA,Jiao Y,Dai Z,Zavarin M,Kersting AB

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictive models, based on environmental and water quality variables, have been used to improve the timeliness and accuracy of recreational water quality assessments, but their effectiveness has not been studied in inland waters. Sampling at eight inland recreational lakes in Ohio was done in order to investigate usi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Francy DS,Stelzer EA,Duris JW,Brady AM,Harrison JH,Johnson HE,Ware MW

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial isolates from frogs were phenotypically identified as Ochrobactrum anthropi, but 16S rRNA sequencing showed up to 100% identity with Brucella inopinata. Further analysis of recA, omp2a, omp2b, bcsp31, and IS711 and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) verified a close relationship with Brucella, suggesting th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eisenberg T,Hamann HP,Kaim U,Schlez K,Seeger H,Schauerte N,Melzer F,Tomaso H,Scholz HC,Koylass MS,Whatmore AM,Zschöck M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lambda recombinant phage expressing beta-mannanase activity in Escherichia coli has been isolated from a genomic library of the extremely thermophilic anaerobe "Caldocellum saccharolyticum." The gene was cloned into pBR322 on a 5-kb BamHI fragment, and its location was obtained by deletion analysis. The sequence of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lüthi E,Jasmat NB,Grayling RA,Love DR,Bergquist PL

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crenarchaeol, a membrane-spanning glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) containing a cyclohexane moiety in addition to four cyclopentane moieties, was originally hypothesized to be synthesized exclusively by the mesophilic Crenarchaeota. Recent studies reporting the occurrence of crenarchaeol in hot springs and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pitcher A,Schouten S,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are in constant contact with a community of soil biota that contains fungi ranging from pathogenic to symbiotic. A few studies have demonstrated a critical role of chemical communication in establishing highly specialized relationships, but the general role for root exudates in structuring the soil fungal commu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Broeckling CD,Broz AK,Bergelson J,Manter DK,Vivanco JM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peat bogs dominated by Sphagnum spp. have relatively high areal rates of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) emission to the atmosphere. DMS was produced in anoxic slurries of Sphagnum peat with a linear time course and with an average rate of 40.4 (range, 22.0 to 68.6) nmol per liter of slurry (middot) day(sup-1) observed in nine...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kiene RP,Hines ME

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificially designed gelatins comprising tandemly repeated 30-amino-acid peptide units derived from human alphaI collagen were successfully produced with a Bacillus brevis system. The DNA encoding the peptide unit was synthesized by taking into consideration the codon usage of the host cells, but no clones having a t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kajino T,Takahashi H,Hirai M,Yamada Y

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG is a lactic acid bacterium widely marketed by the food industry. Its genomic analysis led to the identification of a gene cluster encoding mucus-binding SpaCBA pili, which is located in a genomic island enriched in insertion sequence (IS) elements. In the present study, we analyzed...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Douillard FP,Ribbera A,Xiao K,Ritari J,Rasinkangas P,Paulin L,Palva A,Hao Y,de Vos WM

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphaerotilus natans grew at the maximum specific growth rate (mu(max)) of 0.43/h when cultivated on PGY medium at 25 degrees C. The organism mainly grew attached to inside of the culture vessels when the culture medium was fed to the completely mixed continuous-flow apparatus at a dilution rate above mu(max) and the a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yoshikawa H,Takiguchi Y

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report cloning of cyanobacterial genes encoding pteridine glycosyltransferases that catalyze glucosyl or xylosyl transfer from UDP-sugars to tetrahydrobiopterin. The genes were cloned by PCR amplification from genomic DNA which was isolated from culture and environmental samples and overexpressed in Escherich...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee YG,Kim AH,Park MB,Kim HL,Lee KH,Park YS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of salinity and growth temperature on the accumulation of intracellular organic solutes was examined in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Palaeococcus ferrophilus. The genus Palaeococcus represents a deep-branching lineage of the order Thermococcales, which diverged before Thermococcus and Pyrococcus. Palaeoco...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Neves C,da Costa MS,Santos H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of epichlorohydrin (3-chloropropylene oxide or 1-chloro-2,3-epoxypropane) by whole-cell suspensions of Xanthobacter strain Py2 was investigated. Cell suspensions prepared from cultures grown with propylene as the carbon source readily degraded epichlorohydrin. The ability to degrade epichlorohydrin cor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Small FJ,Tilley JK,Ensign SA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant amounts of ethylene were produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea, pv. phaseolicola (which had been isolated from viny weed Pueraria lobata [Willd.] Ohwi [common name, kudzu]), and pv. pisi in synthetic medium. On the other hand, the bean strains of P. syringae pv. phaseolicola and strains of 17 other...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weingart H,Volksch B

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00