Purification and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis levanase produced in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Clostridium sp. strain S1, an unnamed bile acid-desulfating strain from rat intestinal microflora (S.M. Huijghebaert, J. A. Mertens, and H. J. Eyssen, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 43:185-192, 1982), was examined for its ability to desulfate different bile acid sulfates and steroid sulfates in growing cultures. Clostridiu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huijghebaert SM,Eyssen HJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human sapovirus sequences were identified in 12 (100%) influent and 7 (58%) effluent wastewater samples collected once a month for a year. The strains were characterized based on their partial capsid gene sequences and classified into 10 genotypes, demonstrating that genetically diverse sapovirus strains infect humans...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kitajima M,Haramoto E,Phanuwan C,Katayama H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1580 in vol. 58.]. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

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更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns regarding the depletion of the world's reserves of oil and global climate change have promoted an intensification of research and development toward the production of biofuels and other alternative sources of energy during the last years. There is currently much interest in developing the technology for third...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ortiz-Marquez JC,Do Nascimento M,Dublan Mde L,Curatti L

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei bacteria cause the majority of all shigellosis cases worldwide. However, their distributions differ, with S. sonnei predominating in middle- and high-income countries and S. flexneri predominating in low-income countries. One proposed explanation for the continued range expansion ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Watson J,Jenkins C,Clements A

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of the fate and transport of biological warfare (BW) agents in landfills requires the development of specific and sensitive detection assays. The objective of the current study was to develop and validate SYBR green quantitative real-time PCR (Q-PCR) assays for the specific detection and quantification of s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Saikaly PE,Barlaz MA,de Los Reyes FL 3rd

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To observe real-time interactions between green fluorescent protein-labeled immune cells and invading bacteria in the zebrafish (Danio rerio), a series of plasmids was constructed for the red fluorescent protein (RFP) labeling of a variety of fish and human pathogens. The aim of this study was to create a collection o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Singer JT,Phennicie RT,Sullivan MJ,Porter LA,Shaffer VJ,Kim CH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tannins are a diverse group of plant-produced, polyphenolic compounds with metal-chelating and antimicrobial properties that are prevalent in many soils. Using transcriptomics, we determined that tannic acid, a form of hydrolysable tannin, broadly affects the expression of genes involved in iron and zinc homeostases, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lim CK,Penesyan A,Hassan KA,Loper JE,Paulsen IT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A census of clean room surface-associated bacterial populations was derived from the results of both the cloning and sequencing of 16S rRNA genes and DNA microarray (PhyloChip) analyses. Samples from the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Multiple Testing Facility (LMA-MTF), the Kennedy Space Center Payload Hazard and Servic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： La Duc MT,Osman S,Vaishampayan P,Piceno Y,Andersen G,Spry JA,Venkateswaran K

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent phosphorylation of [14C]galactose by 11 strains of Streptococcus thermophilus indicated that these organisms possessed the Leloir enzyme, galactokinase (galK). Activities were 10 times higher in fully induced, galactose-fermenting (Gal+) strains than in galactose-nonfermenting (Gal-) strains. Lactose-gro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hutkins R,Morris HA,McKay LL

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of fractions of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of different molecular weights (MW) to support bacterial growth was studied in batch culture experiments. Natural pelagic bacteria were inoculated into particle-free (0.2-mum filtered) water, taken from 10 oligotrophic lakes of differing humic content, and eit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tranvik LJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergosterol is a membrane component specific to fungi that can be used to estimate fungal biomass using appropriate factors of conversion. Our objectives were to determine the limits of use of ergosterol content as a measure of biomass for aquatic hyphomycetes, and to evaluate a previously established ergosterol-to-bio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Charcosset JY,Chauvet E

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study measured the environmental variability which exists in a commercial aerobic composting process. The specific process studied is carried out in six decomposition cells which present six different phases of the process. Temperature, pH, and moisture content were determined in several randomly chosen sample si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Atchley SH,Clark JB

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Pseudomonas sp. strain HBP1, originally isolated on 2-hydroxybiphenyl, was selected for the ability to grow on 2-propylphenol as the sole carbon and energy source. In the mutant strain, which was designated as Pseudomonas sp. strain HBP1 Prp, the cellular induction mechanism involved in the synthesis of th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kohler HP,van der Maarel MJ,Kohler-Staub D

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between bacteria and the tree legume mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) is important for the maintenance of many desert ecosystems. Genes essential for nodulation and for extending the host range to mesquite were isolated from cosmid libraries of Rhizobium (mesquite) sp. strain HW17b and Bradyrhi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thomas PM,Golly KF,Virginia RA,Zyskind JW

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial diversity in a deep-sea sediment was investigated by constructing actinobacterium-specific 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) clone libraries from sediment sections taken 5 to 12, 15 to 18, and 43 to 46 cm below the sea floor at a depth of 3,814 m. Clones were placed into operational taxonomic unit (OTU) groups with >...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stach JE,Maldonado LA,Masson DG,Ward AC,Goodfellow M,Bull AT

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria constitute a specific group of commensal bacteria that inhabit the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and other mammals. Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 has previously been shown to utilize several plant-derived carbohydrates that include cellodextrins, starch, and galactan. In the present study, we invest...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Egan M,O'Connell Motherway M,Ventura M,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis vegetative insecticidal proteins (Vip3A) have been recently introduced in important crops as a strategy to delay the emerging resistance to the existing Cry toxins. The mode of action of Vip3A proteins has been studied in Spodoptera frugiperda with the aim of characterizing their binding to the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chakroun M,Ferré J

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica contamination in foods is a significant concern for public health. When DNA detection methods are used for analysis of foods, one of the major concerns is false-positive results from the detection of dead cells. To circumvent this crucial issue, a TaqMan quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) assa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： González-Escalona N,Hammack TS,Russell M,Jacobson AP,De Jesús AJ,Brown EW,Lampel KA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida KT2440, a saprophytic soil bacterium that colonizes the plant root, is a suitable microorganism for the removal of pollutants and a stable host for foreign genes used in biotransformation processes. Because of its potential use in agriculture and industry, we investigated the conditions for the opti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Muñoz-Rojas J,Bernal P,Duque E,Godoy P,Segura A,Ramos JL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-antigen biosynthetic (wbf) regions for Vibrio cholerae serogroups O5, O8, and O108 were isolated and sequenced. Sequences were compared to those of other published V. cholerae O-antigen regions. These wbf regions showed a high degree of heterogeneity both in gene content and in gene order. Genes identified frequentl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aydanian A,Tang L,Morris JG,Johnson JA,Stine OC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel, semicontinuous solid-phase fermentation system was used to produce fuel ethanol from sweet sorghum. The process was at an intermediate scale. In the process, dried and shredded sweet sorghum was rehydrated to 70% moisture, acidified to pH 2.0 to 3.0, and either pasteurized (12 h at 70 to 80 degrees C) or not ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gibbons WR,Westby CA,Dobbs TL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus are naturally occurring estuarine bacteria and are the leading causes of seafood-associated infections and mortality in the United States. Though multiple-antibiotic-resistant V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus strains have been reported, resistance patterns in vibrios ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Elmahdi S,Parveen S,Ossai S,DaSilva LV,Jahncke M,Bowers J,Jacobs J

更新日期：2018-01-17 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：:This study used the technique of waiting time modeling to analyze the combined effects of temperature, pH, carbohydrate, protein, and lipid on the time-to-toxicity of Clostridium botulinum 56A. Waiting time models can be used whenever the time to the occurrence of some event is the variable of interest. In the case of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schaffner DW,Ross WH,Montville TJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of hydrogenase activity to corrosion of steel was assessed by using mixed populations of sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from corroded and noncorroded oil pipelines. Biofilms which developed on the steel studs contained detectable numbers of sulfate-reducing bacteria (10 increasing to 10/0.5 cm). How...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bryant RD,Jansen W,Boivin J,Laishley EJ,Costerton JW

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：:Strain selection and improvement in the baker's yeast industry have aimed to increase the speed of maltose fermentation in order to increase the leavening activity of industrial baking yeast. We identified two groups of baker's strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that can be distinguished by the mode of regulation of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Higgins VJ,Braidwood M,Bell P,Bissinger P,Dawes IW,Attfield PV

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio alginolyticus is one of the most abundant microorganisms in marine environments and is also an opportunistic pathogen mediating high-mortality vibriosis in marine animals. Alternative sigma factors play essential roles in bacterial pathogens in the adaptation to environmental changes during infection and the ad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gu D,Zhang J,Hao Y,Xu R,Zhang Y,Ma Y,Wang Q

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence or absence of molecular oxygen has been shown to play a crucial role in the degradability of haloaromatic compounds. In the present study, it was shown that anaerobic phototrophic 3-chlorobenzoate (3CBA) metabolism by Rhodopseudomonas palustris DCP3 is oxygen tolerant up to a concentration of 3 microM O2....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krooneman J,van den Akker S,Pedro Gomes TM,Forney LJ,Gottschal JC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00