Cloning and nucleotide sequences of the homoserine dehydrogenase genes (hom) and the threonine synthase genes (thrC) of the gram-negative obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus glycogenes.

abstract：:The susceptibility of the Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) to Mycoplasma conjunctivae ocular infection and the changes in their interaction over time were studied in terms of clinical outcome, molecular detection, and IgG immune response in a captive population that underwent a severe infectious keratoconjunctivitis (IK...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fernández-Aguilar X,Cabezón O,Granados JE,Frey J,Serrano E,Velarde R,Cano-Manuel FJ,Mentaberre G,Ráez-Bravo A,Fandos P,López-Olvera JR

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven organotin compounds and tin chloride were tested for their effects on the methanogenic bacteria Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus, Methanococcus deltae delta LH, and Methanosarcina barkeri 227. The methanogens were strongly inhibited by triethyltin, tripropyltin, and monophenyltin compounds, generally at concen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boopathy R,Daniels L

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the biochemical basis of the differences in the insecticidal spectrum of Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs), we performed membrane binding and toxicity assays with three different ICPs and three lepidopteran species. The three ICPs have different toxicity patterns in the three s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Rie J,Jansens S,Höfte H,Degheele D,Van Mellaert H

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vortex flow filtration (VFF) was used to concentrate viruses and dissolved DNA from freshwater and seawater samples taken in Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Bahamas Bank. Recoveries of T2 phage and calf thymus DNA added to artificial seawater and concentrated by VFF were 72.8 and 80%, respectively. Virus concentr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paul JH,Jiang SC,Rose JB

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of p-nitrophenol (PNP) by Moraxella and Pseudomonas spp. involves an initial monooxygenase-catalyzed removal of the nitro group. The resultant hydroquinone is subject to ring fission catalyzed by a dioxygenase enzyme. We have isolated a strain of an Arthrobacter sp., JS443, capable of degrading PNP wit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jain RK,Dreisbach JH,Spain JC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkyl glycosides are attractive surfactants because of their high surface activity and good biodegradability and can be produced from renewable resources. Through enzymatic catalysis, one can obtain well-defined alkyl glycosides, something that is very difficult to do using conventional chemistry. However, there is a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lundemo P,Adlercreutz P,Karlsson EN

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods, digestion and elution, were used to recover parasitic nematodes from 470 flatfish belonging to species in the family Pleuronectidae. Samples of similar fish were collected from market lots; half of each sample was subjected to digestion, and half was subjected to elution (sedimentation). The edible (flesh...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jackson GJ,Bier JW,Payne WL,McClure FD

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen debranching enzyme (GDE) has 4-alpha-glucanotransferase and amylo-1,6-glucosidase activities in the single polypeptide chain. We analyzed the detailed action profile of GDE from Saccharomyces cerevisiae on amylose and tested whether GDE catalyzes cyclization of amylose. GDE treatment resulted in a rapid reduc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yanase M,Takata H,Takaha T,Kuriki T,Smith SM,Okada S

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 114 gram-negative fecal isolates from domestic pigs in herds with different histories of antimicrobial agent exposure were screened for the presence of plasmid DNA and specific tetracycline resistance determinants. More than 84% of the isolates harbored plasmid DNA, which ranged in size from 2.1 to 186 kb. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee C,Langlois BE,Dawson KA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The D-values of Bacillus pumilus spores on various devices ranged from 0.14 to 0.23 Mrads. The majority of devices displayed D-values equal to or less than the value obtained on filter paper. Increased resistivity was also encountered. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Prince HN

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factor in normal sera primarily responsible for the enhancement of transfection (and transformation) of Staphylococcus aureus was identified as fibronectin. Serum samples which were depleted of fibronectin by affinity chromatography showed a marked decrease in enhancing activity. Fibronectin isolated from sera of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thompson NE,Bergdoll MS,Pattee PA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporulation of Clostridium botulinum 113B in a complex medium supplemented with certain transition metals (Fe, Mn, Cu, or Zn) at 0.01 to 1.0 mM gave spores that were increased two to sevenfold in their contents of the added metals. The contents of calcium, magnesium, and other metals in the purified spores were relati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kihm DJ,Hutton MT,Hanlin JH,Johnson EA

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major barrier to the use of nitrogen-fixing inoculum strains for the enhancement of legume productivity is the inability of commercially available strains to compete with indigenous rhizobia for nodule formation. Despite extensive research on nodulation competitiveness, there are no examples of field efficacy studie...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robleto EA,Kmiecik K,Oplinger ES,Nienhuis J,Triplett EW

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius has been described to synthesize trehalose via the maltooligosyltrehalose synthase (TreY) and maltooligosyltrehalose trehalohydrolase (TreZ) pathway, and the trehalose glycosyltransferring synthase (TreT) pathway has been predicted. Deletion mutant analysis of strains with si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stracke C,Meyer BH,Hagemann A,Jo E,Lee A,Albers SV,Cha J,Bräsen C,Siebers B

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The industrial production of beta-carotene with the zygomycete Blakeslea trispora involves the joint cultivation of mycelia of opposite sex in the presence of beta-ionone and other chemical activators. We have obtained improved strains by mutation and heterokaryosis. We chose wild strains on the basis of their growth ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mehta BJ,Obraztsova IN,Cerdá-Olmedo E

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol fermentation by Enterobacter agglomerans revealed that both growth and 1,3-propanediol production ceased after consumption of about 430 mM glycerol, irrespective of the initial glycerol content. This phenomenon was assigned to the production of 3-hydroxypropionaldehyde, which was identified by proton nuclear ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barbirato F,Grivet JP,Soucaille P,Bories A

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus can grow with short- to long-chain fatty acids as the sole carbon source (R. G. Kranz, K. K. Gabbert, T. A. Locke, and M. T. Madigan, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:3003-3009, 1997). Concomitant with growth on fatty acids is the production to high levels of the polyest...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kranz RG,Gabbert KK,Madigan MT

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) was used to demonstrate the attachment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 transformed with a plasmid encoding for green fluorescent protein (GFP) to the surface and within the internal structures of nonwaxed Red Delicious cv. apples. Apples at 2 or 25 degrees C were inoculated with a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burnett SL,Chen J,Beuchat LR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sclerotinia sclerotiorum acidifies its ambient environment by producing oxalic acid. This production of oxalic acid during plant infection has been implicated as a primary determinant of pathogenicity in this and other phytopathogenic fungi. We found that ambient pH conditions affect multiple processes in S. sclerotio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rollins JA,Dickman MB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature of chilled foods is an important variable for controlling microbial growth in a production and distribution chain. Therefore, it is essential to model growth as a function of temperature in order to predict the number of organisms as a function of temperature and time. This article deals with the corre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zwietering MH,Cuppers HG,de Wit JC,van 't Riet K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathways for degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons are constantly modified by a variety of genetic mechanisms. Genetic studies carried out with Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1 suggested that the tou operon coding for toluene o-xylene monooxygenase (ToMO) was recently recruited into a preexisting pathway that already posse...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cafaro V,Notomista E,Capasso P,Di Donato A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyethylene glycol 6000 precipitation was found to be an effective concentration method that enhanced the chances for detecting human virus pathogens in environmental samples. Percent recoveries from eluates of fresh and estuarine waters with 8% polyethylene glycol 6000 averaged 86 for hepatitis A virus, 77 for human...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lewis GD,Metcalf TG

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kraft pulps, prepared from softwoods, and small chips of birch wood were treated with heme and tert-butyl hydroperoxide in aqueous solutions at reflux temperature. Analyses of treated pulps showed decreases in kappa number (a measure of lignin content) from about 36 to less than 2, with concomitant increases in bright...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paszczyński A,Crawford RL,Blanchette RA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial transformation of the antimelanoma agent betulinic acid was studied. The main objective of this study was to utilize microorganisms as in vitro models to predict and prepare potential mammalian metabolites of this compound. Preparative-scale biotransformation with resting-cell suspensions of Bacillus megater...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chatterjee P,Kouzi SA,Pezzuto JM,Hamann MT

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extremely thermoacidophilic archaeon Metallosphaera sedula (optimum growth temperature, 73°C, pH 2.0) grows chemolithoautotrophically on metal sulfides or molecular hydrogen by employing the 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate (3HP/4HB) carbon fixation cycle. This cycle adds two CO2 molecules to acetyl coenzyme ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hawkins AB,Adams MW,Kelly RM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid-adapted strains of Escherichia coli K-12 W3110 were obtained by serial culture in medium buffered at pH 4.6 (M. M. Harden, A. He, K. Creamer, M. W. Clark, I. Hamdallah, K. A. Martinez, R. L. Kresslein, S. P. Bush, and J. L. Slonczewski, Appl Environ Microbiol 81:1932-1941, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03494-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： He A,Penix SR,Basting PJ,Griffith JM,Creamer KE,Camperchioli D,Clark MW,Gonzales AS,Chávez Erazo JS,George NS,Bhagwat AA,Slonczewski JL

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this field study was to provide insight into three distinct populations of microorganisms involved in in situ metabolism of phenol. Our approach measured 13CO2 respired from [13C]phenol and stable isotope probing (SIP) of soil DNA at an agricultural field site. Traditionally, SIP-based investigations have ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： DeRito CM,Pumphrey GM,Madsen EL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane integrity of a cell is a well-accepted criterion for characterizing viable (active or inactive) cells and distinguishing them from damaged and membrane-compromised cells. This information is of major importance in studies of the function of microbial assemblages in natural environments, in order to assign...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Grégori G,Citterio S,Ghiani A,Labra M,Sgorbati S,Brown S,Denis M

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometric measurement of carbon dioxide production was used to study malolactic fermentation (MLF) in Lactobacillus collinoides isolated from cider. The kinetics and stereospecificity of the malolactic enzyme (MLE) were studied, and the stoichiometry of the reaction sequence was investigated. The optimum pH f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Arthurs CE,Lloyd D

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium longum strain JDM301, a widely used commercial strain in China, encodes at least two MazEF-like modules and one RelBE-like toxin-antitoxin (TA) system in its chromosome, designated MazE1F1Bif, MazE2F2Bif, and RelBEBif, respectively. Bacterial TA systems play an important role in several stress response...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wei Y,Li Y,Yang F,Wu Q,Liu D,Li X,Hua H,Liu X,Wang Y,Zheng K,Tang R

更新日期：2017-04-17 00:00:00