Nucleotide sequence and expression of a novel pectate lyase gene (pel-3) and a closely linked endopolygalacturonase gene (peh-1) of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora 71.

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：: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 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：:Escherichia coli isolates from rectal swabs from 62 chickens and stools from 42 children living in close contact with chickens on the same farms in Kiambu district, Kenya, were compared for their genetic relatedness. Antibiotic susceptibility profiles broadly categorized isolates from the children and from the chicken...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kariuki S,Gilks C,Kimari J,Obanda A,Muyodi J,Waiyaki P,Hart CA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piscirickettsia salmonis is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen of salmonid fish and the etiological agent of the aggressive disease salmonid rickettsial syndrome. Today, this disease, also known as piscirickettsiosis, is the cause of high mortality in net pen-reared salmonids in southern Chile. Although the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Henríquez V,Rojas MV,Marshall SH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saturation point mutagenesis was carried out at position 479 in the polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase from Chromobacterium sp. strain USM2 (PhaC(Cs)) with specificities for short-chain-length (SCL) [(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) and (R)-3-hydroxyvalerate (3HV)] and medium-chain-length (MCL) [(R)-3-hydroxyhexanoate (3H...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chuah JA,Tomizawa S,Yamada M,Tsuge T,Doi Y,Sudesh K,Numata K

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid radioimmunoassay was developed for the quantitative determination of ochratoxin A in barley. [14C]ochratoxin A, with a specific activity of 130 Ci/mol, was used as the tracer. Toxin levels below 100 ng/ml required a cleanup step. Three methods (the Association of Official Analytical Chemists cleanup...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rousseau DM,Slegers GA,Van Peteghem CH

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological factors important in the penetration of Escherichia coli through anaerobic, nutrient-saturated, Ottawa sand-packed cores were studied under static conditions. In cores saturated with galactose-peptone medium, motile strains of E. coli penetrated four times faster than mutants defective only in flagellar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reynolds PJ,Sharma P,Jenneman GE,McInerney MJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination plays an important role in the structuring of genetic variation of many bacteria; however, its importance in adaptive evolution is not well established. We investigated the association of intersubspecific homologous recombination (IHR) with the shift to a novel host (mulberry) by the plant-pat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nunney L,Schuenzel EL,Scally M,Bromley RE,Stouthamer R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild animals living close to cattle and pig farms (four each) were examined for verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC; also known as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli). The prevalence of VTEC among the 260 samples from wild animals was generally low. However, VTEC isolates from a starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nielsen EM,Skov MN,Madsen JJ,Lodal J,Jespersen JB,Baggesen DL

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by specific serogroups of Vibrio cholerae that are pathogenic to humans. The disease does not persist in a chronic state in humans or animals. The pathogen is naturally present as a free-living organism in the environment. Recently, it was suggested that egg masses of the n...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Halpern M,Gancz H,Broza M,Kashi Y

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of the virulence determinants of phytopathogenic Rhodococcus fascians has been hampered by the lack of a system for introducing exogenous DNA. We investigated the possibility of genetic transformation of R. fascians by high-voltage electroporation of intact bacterial cells in the presence of plasmid DNA. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Desomer J,Dhaese P,Montagu MV

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of preexposure of soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) roots to Rhizobium japonicum strains and subsequent establishment of other strains in the nodules were investigated by using combinations of effective strains (USDA 110 and USDA 138) and effective-ineffective strains (USDA 110 and SM-5). Strain USDA 110 wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kosslak RM,Bohlool BB,Dowdle S,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrification is an alternative type of anaerobic respiration in which nitrate is reduced to gaseous products via nitrite. The key step in this process is the reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide, which is catalyzed by two structurally different but functionally equivalent forms of nitrite reductase encoded by the n...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pratscher J,Stichternoth C,Fichtl K,Schleifer KH,Braker G

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis three-domain Cry toxins kill insects by forming pores in the apical membrane of larval midgut cells. Oligomerization of the toxin is an important step for pore formation. Domain I helix α-3 participates in toxin oligomerization. Here we identify an intramolecular salt bridge within helix α-3 of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pacheco S,Gómez I,Sánchez J,García-Gómez BI,Soberón M,Bravo A

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannitol, a six-carbon sugar alcohol, is the main storage carbon in the button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. Given the physiological importance of mannitol metabolism in growth, fruit body development, and salt tolerance of A. bisporus, the enzyme responsible for mannitol biosynthesis, NADP-dependent mannitol dehydroge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stoop JM,Mooibroek H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of infectious viruses during drinking water treatment is usually achieved with free chlorine. Many drinking water utilities in the United States now use monochloramine as a secondary disinfectant to minimize disinfectant by-product formation and biofilm growth. The inactivation of human adenoviruses 2, 40...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cromeans TL,Kahler AM,Hill VR

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of the biosynthetic pathway of 6-pentyl-alpha-pyrone in Trichoderma species was achieved by using labelled linoleic acid or mevalonate as a tracer. Incubation of growing cultures of Trichoderma harzianum and T. viride with [U-C]linoleic acid or [5-C]sodium mevalonate revealed that both fungal strains...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Serrano-Carreon L,Hathout Y,Bensoussan M,Belin JM

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages play a key role in the marine environment by regulating the transfer of energy between trophic levels and influencing global carbon and nutrient cycles. The diversity of marine phage communities remains difficult to characterize because of the lack of a signature gene common to all phages. Recent studies have d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Goldsmith DB,Crosti G,Dwivedi B,McDaniel LD,Varsani A,Suttle CA,Weinbauer MG,Sandaa RA,Breitbart M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The harvesting of rainwater is gaining acceptance among many governmental authorities in countries such as Australia, Germany, and South Africa, among others. However, conflicting reports on the microbial quality of harvested rainwater have been published. To monitor the presence of potential pathogenic bacteria durin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dobrowsky PH,De Kwaadsteniet M,Cloete TE,Khan W

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent advent of tools enabling statistical inferences to be drawn from comparisons of microbial communities has enabled the focus of microbial ecology to move from characterizing biodiversity to describing the distribution of that biodiversity. Although statistical tools have been developed to compare community s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schloss PD,Handelsman J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the storage lipid poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) in trichloroethylene transformation by methanotrophic mixed cultures was investigated. Naphthalene oxidation rates were used to assay for soluble methane monooxygenase activity. The PHB content of methanotrophic cells grown in reactors varied diurnally as w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Henrysson T,McCarty PL

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anaerobic diplococcoid bacterium able to degrade hydrolyzable tannins was isolated from the ruminal fluid of a goat fed desmodium (Desmodium ovalifolium), a tropical legume which contains levels as high as 17% condensed tannins. This strain grew under anaerobic conditions in the presence of up to 30 g of tannic aci...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nelson KE,Pell AN,Schofield P,Zinder S

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel flagellatropic phage of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, called iEPS5, was isolated and characterized. iEPS5 has an icosahedral head and a long noncontractile tail with a tail fiber. Genome sequencing revealed a double-stranded DNA of 59,254 bp having 73 open reading frames (ORFs). To identify the rece...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Choi Y,Shin H,Lee JH,Ryu S

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflatoxin B1 in a 5-micrograms/ml water solution was sensitive to ionizing radiation. Inactivation was assayed by the Ames microsome mutagenicity test and confirmed by thin-layer chromatography. Destruction of aflatoxin B1 had already begun at 2.5 kilograms (kGy; 1 kGy = 0.1 Mrad), but a dose exceeding 10 kGy was nece...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Dyck PJ,Tobback P,Feyes M,van de Voorde H

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrochemicals, fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), and pathogens frequently contaminate water simultaneously. No significant direct effects of fertilizer, atrazine, malathion, and chlorothalonil on the survival of Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Salmonella enterica, human polyomaviruses, and adenovirus were detec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Staley ZR,Senkbeil JK,Rohr JR,Harwood VJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mercury resistance (mer) operon of plasmid R100 was cloned onto various plasmid vectors to study the effect of mer gene amplification on the rate of Hg2+ reduction by Escherichia coli cells. The plasmids were maintained at copy numbers ranging from 3 to 140 copies per cell. The overall Hg2+ reduction rate of intac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Philippidis GP,Malmberg LH,Hu WS,Schottel JL

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae causes a severe and highly infective bee disease, American foulbrood (AFB). Despite the large economic losses induced by AFB, the virulence factors produced by P. larvae are as yet unknown. To identify such virulence factors, we experimentally infected young, susceptibl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schild HA,Fuchs SW,Bode HB,Grünewald B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5' nuclease assay has been developed to detect viable Listeria monocytogenes. The assay targets the hemolysin A (hlyA) transcript, which is found only in L. monocytogenes. The single-tube, reverse transcriptase (RT), fluorogenic probe-based assay was formatted by using Tth DNA polymerase whose activity was modulated...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Norton DM,Batt CA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agromonas oligotrophica (Bradyrhizobium oligotrophicum) S58(T) is a nitrogen-fixing oligotrophic bacterium isolated from paddy field soil that is able to grow in extra-low-nutrient environments. Here, the complete genome sequence of S58 was determined. The S58 genome was found to comprise a circular chromosome of 8,26...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Okubo T,Fukushima S,Itakura M,Oshima K,Longtonglang A,Teaumroong N,Mitsui H,Hattori M,Hattori R,Hattori T,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00