A meta cleavage pathway for 4-chlorobenzoate, an intermediate in the metabolism of 4-chlorobiphenyl by Pseudomonas cepacia P166.

abstract：:For decades, untreated sewage flowing northward from Tijuana, Mexico, via the Tijuana River has adversely affected the water quality of the recreational beaches of San Diego, California. We used quantitative reverse transcription-PCR to measure the levels of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and enteroviruses in coastal waters ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gersberg RM,Rose MA,Robles-Sikisaka R,Dhar AK

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods were used to evaluate bacterial recovery from beef, pork, and lamb adipose tissue. Higher counts were obtained with a tissue removal and fluid agitation technique (shaking) than with surface swabbing, but only when bacterial levels were low. Bacterial recovery by both methods was unaffected by specie origi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berry BW,Joseph AL,Chen AA

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are important vectors for many emerging pathogens. However, they are also infected with many symbionts and commensals, often competing for the same niches. In this paper, we characterize the microbiome of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae), the lone star tick, in order to better understand the evolutionary r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ponnusamy L,Gonzalez A,Van Treuren W,Weiss S,Parobek CM,Juliano JJ,Knight R,Roe RM,Apperson CS,Meshnick SR

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organically raised swine had high fecal populations of chlortetracycline (CTC)-resistant (growing at 64 μg CTC/ml) Escherichia coli, Megasphaera elsdenii, and anaerobic bacteria. By comparison, CTC-resistant bacteria in feral swine feces were over 1,000-fold fewer and exhibited lower taxonomic diversity. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stanton TB,Humphrey SB,Stoffregen WC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enumeration of lactic acid streptococci from dairy starter cultures on Elliker agar was improved by the addition of 0.4% (wt/vol) diammonium phosphate. Agar plate counts were up to 7.75 times greater due to improved buffering by the phosphate salt. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barach JT

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:Nisin is a small gene-encoded antimicrobial protein produced by Lactococcus lactis that contains unusual dehydroalanine and dehydrobutyrine residues. The reactivity of these residues toward nucleophiles was explored by reacting nisin with a variety of mercaptans. The kinetics of reaction with 2-mercaptoethane-sulfonat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu W,Hansen JN

更新日期：1990-08-01 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：:Actinomycetes secrete into their surroundings a suite of enzymes involved in the biodegradation of plant lignocellulose; these have been reported to include both hydrolytic and oxidative enzymes, including peroxidases. Reports of secreted peroxidases have been based upon observations of peroxidase-like activity associ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mason MG,Ball AS,Reeder BJ,Silkstone G,Nicholls P,Wilson MT

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspensions of Nitrosomonas europaea catalyzed the oxidation of the commercial nitrification inhibitor nitrapyrin [2-chloro-6-(trichloromethyl)-pyridine]. Rapid oxidation of nitrapyrin (at a concentration of 10 muM) required the concomitant oxidation of ammonia, hydroxylamine, or hydrazine. The turnover rate was highe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vannelli T,Hooper AB

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe intoxications caused by the Bacillus cereus emetic toxin cereulide can hardly be prevented due to the ubiquitous distribution and heat resistance of spores and the extreme thermal and chemical stability of cereulide. It would therefore be desirable to inhibit cereulide synthesis during food manufacturing proces...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Frenzel E,Letzel T,Scherer S,Ehling-Schulz M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate was formed from ammonium at pH 3.2 to 6.1 in suspensions of a naturally acid forest soil; the maximum rates of formation occurred at ca. pH 4 to 5. Nitrate was also formed from soil nitrogen in suspensions incubated at 50 degrees C. Autotrophic nitrifying bacteria could not be isolated from this soil. Enrichme...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stroo HF,Klein TM,Alexander M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report the expression and secretion of the leaderless two-peptide (EntL50A and EntL50B) bacteriocin enterocin L50 from Enterococcus faecium L50 by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris X-33. The bacteriocin structural genes entL50A and entL50B were fused to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene region ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Basanta A,Gómez-Sala B,Sánchez J,Diep DB,Herranz C,Hernández PE,Cintas LM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, a new mechanism influencing the transport of microorganisms through unsaturated porous media is examined, and a new method for directly visualizing bacterial behavior within a porous medium under controlled chemical and flow conditions is introduced. Resting cells of hydrophilic and relatively hydroph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wan J,Wilson JL,Kieft TL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial plasmids are fragments of extrachromosomal double-stranded DNA that can contain a variety of genes that are beneficial to the host organism, like those responsible for antimicrobial resistance. The objective of this study was to characterize a collection of 437 Salmonella enterica isolates from different ani...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lindsey RL,Fedorka-Cray PJ,Frye JG,Meinersmann RJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the molecular relationship between the 60-megadalton (Mdal) recombinant lactose plasmids in ML 3 x LM2301 lactose-positive (Lac+) transconjugants and the genetic material of Streptococcus lactis ML3. Lactose metabolism is linked to the 33-Mdal plasmid pSK08 in ML3, and the recipient LM2301 is cured of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Walsh PM,McKay LL

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A toxic substance contained in the blue-green alga Microcystis aeruginosa was purified and partially characterized. Toxic algal cells were collected from a highly eutrophic lake in Japan, and the toxin was purified by homogenization, ultrafiltration, gel filtration, and ion-exchange chromatography. The final preparati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watanabe MF,Oishi S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing mycelia of Trichoderma reesei Rut-C30 are richly endowed with endoplasmic reticula and a variety of pleomorphic subcellular bodies. Mycelia of the culture growing in presence of avicel pH101 was fractionated in sucrose density gradients, and several morphologically and biochemically distinct fractions were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glenn M,Ghosh A,Ghosh BK

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, a strain of anaerobic pentachlorophenol (PCP) degrader, Desulfitobacterium frappieri PCP-1, was used to augment a mixed bacterial community of an anaerobic upflow sludge bed reactor degrading PCP. To estimate the efficiency of augmentation, the population of PCP-1 in the reactor was enumerated by a compe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tartakovsky B,Levesque M,Dumortier R,Beaudet R,Guiot SR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colonization of granular activated carbon columns by bacteria can have both beneficial and potentially detrimental consequences. Bacterial growth on the carbon surface can remove adsorbed organics and thus partially regenerate the carbon bed. However, growth can also increase the levels of bacteria in the column e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shimp RJ,Pfaender FK

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human intestine harbors both lactate-producing and lactate-utilizing bacteria. Lactate is normally present at <3 mmol liter(-1) in stool samples from healthy adults, but concentrations up to 100 mmol liter(-1) have been reported in gut disorders such as ulcerative colitis. The effect of different initial pH values...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Belenguer A,Duncan SH,Holtrop G,Anderson SE,Lobley GE,Flint HJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) pattern was analyzed in a forest humus and in an arable soil experimentally polluted with Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, or Zn at different concentrations. In both soil types, there were gradual changes in the PLFA patterns for the different levels of metal contamination. The changes in the forest ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Frostegård A,Tunlid A,Bååth E

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the potential for bacteriophage-mediated gene transfer in the marine environment, we established transduction systems by using marine phage host isolates. Plasmid pQSR50, which contains transposon Tn5 and encodes kanamycin and streptomycin resistance, was used in plasmid transduction assays. Both marine b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang SC,Paul JH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanobacterium espanolae, an acidiphilic methanogen, required acetate for maximal growth on H(2)-CO(2). In the presence of 5 to 15 mM acetate, at a growth pH of 5.5, the mu(max) was 0.05 h. M. espanolae consumed 12.3 mM acetate during 96 h of incubation at 35 degrees C with shaking at 100 rpm. At initial acetate lev...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Patel GB,Sprott D,Ekiel I

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial second messengers (p)ppGpp and bis-(3'-5')-cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) regulate important functions, such as transcription, virulence, biofilm formation, and quorum sensing. In mycobacteria, they regulate long-term survival during starvation, pathogenicity, and dormancy. Recently, a Pseudomonas aerugin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gupta KR,Kasetty S,Chatterji D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of 3 M NaCl to 72-h cultures of Penicillium fellutanum in 2 mM phosphate resulted in an increase in percentage of extracellular peptidophosphogalactomannan III (pP(x)GM(iii)) and a decrease in that of pP(x)GM(ii). The magnitude of (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance signals at 1.47 and 1.33 ppm of phospho-1-O-[N...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Park YI,Bonetti SJ,Gander JE

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat inactivation of mycobacteria from lesions and from culture was compared in meat products. In vivo-grown organisms were more easily heat inactivated than were in vitro-grown organisms. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Merkal RS,Lyle PS,Whipple DL

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of bacterial communities in two healthy babies was examined for more than the first 10 months of life by monitoring 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) diversity in fecal samples by PCR and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and by analyzing the sequences of the major ribotypes. DGGE profiles of the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Favier CF,Vaughan EE,De Vos WM,Akkermans AD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biogeography of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris on a local scale was investigated. Thirty clones of phototrophic bacteria were isolated from each of five unevenly spaced sampling locations in freshwater marsh sediments along a linear 10-m transect, and a total of 150 clones were character...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oda Y,Star B,Huisman LA,Gottschal JC,Forney LJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter infections are increasing and pose a serious public health problem in Denmark. Infections in humans and broiler flocks show similar seasonality, suggesting that climate may play a role in infection. We examined the effects of temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, and hours of sunlight on Campylo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Patrick ME,Christiansen LE,Wainø M,Ethelberg S,Madsen H,Wegener HC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00