Evaluation of indoxyl-beta-D-glucuronide as a chromogen in media specific for Escherichia coli.

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：:A novel sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from fuel-contaminated subsurface soil, strain PRTOL1, mineralizes toluene as the sole electron donor and carbon source under strictly anaerobic conditions. The mineralization of 80% of toluene carbon to CO2 was demonstrated in experiments with [ring-U-14C]toluene; 15% of to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beller HR,Spormann AM,Sharma PK,Cole JR,Reinhard M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehalococcoides sp. strain BAV1 couples growth with the reductive dechlorination of vinyl chloride (VC) to ethene. Degenerate primers targeting conserved regions in reductive dehalogenase (RDase) genes were designed and used to PCR amplify putative RDase genes from strain BAV1. Seven unique RDase gene fragments were i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krajmalnik-Brown R,Hölscher T,Thomson IN,Saunders FM,Ritalahti KM,Löffler FE

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities play important roles in the functioning of coral reef communities. However, extensive autofluorescence of coral tissues and endosymbionts limits the application of standard fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques for the identification of the coral-associated bacterial communities. T...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ainsworth TD,Fine M,Blackall LL,Hoegh-Guldberg O

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of microbial viability by the plate count method is routine in microbiology laboratories worldwide. However, limitations of the technique, particularly with respect to environmental microorganisms, are widely recognized. Many alternatives based upon viability staining have been proposed, and these are of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davey HM

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:When sucrose is provided as a substrate for glucosyltransferase (GTF), Spp+ cells of the oral bacteria Streptococcus gordonii grow embedded in an insoluble glucan mass associated with surfaces. Spp- phase variants with lower GTF activity, which either arise from or are grown with Spp+ cells, segregate preferentially a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vickerman MM,Clewell DB,Jones GW

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A structurally novel chitinase, Tc-ChiD, was identified from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus chitonophagus, which can grow on chitin as the sole organic carbon source. The gene encoding Tc-ChiD contains regions corresponding to a signal sequence, two chitin-binding domains, and a putative catalyt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Horiuchi A,Aslam M,Kanai T,Atomi H

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal multicopper oxidases have many potential industrial applications, since they perform reactions under mild conditions. We isolated a phenol oxidase from the fungus Acremonium murorum var. murorum that was capable of decolorizing plant chromophores (such as anthocyanins). This enzyme is of interest in laundry-cle...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gouka RJ,van der Heiden M,Swarthoff T,Verrips CT

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus niger is known for its efficient excretion machinery. However, problems have often arisen in obtaining high amounts of heterologous proteins in the culture medium. Here we present a quick method using sandwiched colonies to evaluate transgenic strains for secretion of heterologous proteins. Expressing the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Asgeirsdóttir SA,Scholtmeijer K,Wessels JG

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three species of colonic bacteria can ferment the mucopolysaccharide chondroitin sulfate: Bacteroides ovatus, Bacteroides sp. strain 3452A (an unnamed DNA homology group), and B. thetaiotaomicron. Proteins associated with the utilization of chondroitin sulfate by B. thetaiotaomicron have been characterized previously....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lipeski L,Guthrie EP,O'Brien M,Kotarski SF,Salyers AA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cowpea is a legume of great agronomic importance that establishes symbiotic relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. However, little is known about the genetic and symbiotic diversity of these bacteria in distinct ecosystems. Our study evaluated the genetic diversity and symbiotic efficiencies of 119 bacterial str...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azarias Guimarães A,Duque Jaramillo PM,Simão Abrahão Nóbrega R,Florentino LA,Barroso Silva K,de Souza Moreira FM

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Biotransformation plays an increasingly important role in the industrial production of fine chemicals due to its high product specificity and low energy requirement. One challenge in biotransformation is the toxicity of substrates and/or products to biocatalytic microorganisms and enzymes. Biofilms are known for their...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li XZ,Webb JS,Kjelleberg S,Rosche B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane proteins IIC and IID of the mannose phosphotransferase system (Man-PTS) together form a membrane-located complex that serves as a receptor for several different bacteriocins, including the pediocin-like class IIa bacteriocins and the class IIc bacteriocin lactococcin A. Bacterial strains sensitive to clas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kjos M,Nes IF,Diep DB

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strain Burkholderia cepacia G4 aerobically mineralized trichloroethene (TCE) to CO(2) over a time period of approximately 20 h. Three biodegradation experiments were conducted with different bacterial optical densities at 540 nm (OD(540)s) in order to test whether isotope fractionation was consistent. The resultin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barth JA,Slater G,Schüth C,Bill M,Downey A,Larkin M,Kalin RM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages lytic to Vibrio vulnificus were found in estuarine waters, sediments, plankton, crustacea, molluscan shellfish, and the intestines of finfish of the U.S. Gulf Coast, but no apparent relationship between densities of V. vulnificus and its phages was observed. Phage diversity and abundance in molluscan shellfish ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： DePaola A,McLeroy S,McManus G

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven strains of an undescribed species of Clavispora fermented D-xylose directly to ethanol under aerobic conditions. Strain UWO(PS)83-877-1 was grown in a medium containing 2% D-xylose and 0.5% yeast extract, and the following results were obtained: ethanol yield coefficient (ethanol/D-xylose), 0.29 g g (57.4% of t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nigam JN,Margaritis A,Lachance MA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental surveillance is an effective approach in investigating circulating enteroviruses and had been conducted in the cities of Jinan and Linyi since February 2008 and April 2010, respectively. This study analyzed 46 sewage samples collected in the two cities in 2011 and found that echovirus 6 (E6) was the pred...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tao Z,Song Y,Wang H,Zhang Y,Yoshida H,Ji S,Xu A,Song L,Liu Y,Cui N,Ji F,Li Y,Chen P,Xu W

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that the coexistence of methanogenesis and reductive acetogenesis in the hindgut of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes flavipes is based largely on the radial distribution of the respective microbial populations and relatively high hydrogen partial pressures in the gut lumen. Using Clark-type mi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmitt-Wagner D,Brune A

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 75 compounds, including antioxidants, preservatives, gallic acid and p-hydroxybenzoic acid esters, hydroquinones, hydroxyquinolines, phenol derivatives, and related compounds, were screened for their antibotulinal activity in prereduced Thiotone-yeast extract-glucose broth. The most effective inhibitors of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reddy NR,Pierson MD,Lechowich RV

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium verticillioides (Gibberella fujikuroi mating population A [MP-A]) is a widespread pathogen on maize and is well-known for producing fumonisins, mycotoxins that cause severe disease in animals and humans. The species is a member of the Gibberella fujikuroi species complex, which consists of at least 11 differe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bömke C,Rojas MC,Hedden P,Tudzynski B

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we developed a large-scale screening of bacterial strains in order to identify novel candidate probiotics with immunomodulatory properties. For this, 158 strains, including a majority of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), were screened by two different cellular models: tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α)-activ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kechaou N,Chain F,Gratadoux JJ,Blugeon S,Bertho N,Chevalier C,Le Goffic R,Courau S,Molimard P,Chatel JM,Langella P,Bermúdez-Humarán LG

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toluene dioxygenase from Pseudomonas putida F1 has been implicated as an enzyme capable of degrading trichloroethylene. This has now been confirmed with Escherichia coli JM109(pDTG601) that contains the structural genes (todC1C2BA) of toluene dioxygenase under the control of the tac promoter. The extent of trichloroet...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zylstra GJ,Wackett LP,Gibson DT

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine iron agar, modified by the addition of bile salts, novobiocin, lactose, and sucrose, is a valuable plating medium for the isolation of Salmonella, including H2S-negative strains. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rappold H,Bolderdijk RF

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosensor technology has a great potential to meet the need for sensitive and nearly real-time microbial detection from foods. An antibody-based fiber-optic biosensor to detect low levels of Listeria monocytogenes cells following an enrichment step was developed. The principle of the sensor is a sandwich immunoassay w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Geng T,Morgan MT,Bhunia AK

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell extracts of Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum, an anaerobic bacterium which ferments starch into ethanol at 65 degrees C, contained both pullulanase and glucoamylase activities. The general physiochemical and catalytic properties of these enzyme activities were compared. Pullulanase and glucoamylase activities we...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hyun HH,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a biphasic culture system consisting of 4 ml of brucella agar (BA) and 6 ml of brucella broth (BB) in 25-cm2 tissue culture flasks, which were incubated in air (BB/BAa) or in a gas mixture of 5% O2, 10% CO2, and 85% N2 (BB/BAg). These media were also used with a supplement consisting of ferrous sulfate, s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rollins DM,Coolbaugh JC,Walker RI,Weiss E

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of PCR inhibitors in water samples is well known and contributes to the fact that a practical PCR assay has not been developed for legionella surveillance. In this study, we devised a new seminested PCR assay for detection of Legionella spp. in water samples as a means of overriding the PCR inhibitors wit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miyamoto H,Yamamoto H,Arima K,Fujii J,Maruta K,Izu K,Shiomori T,Yoshida S

更新日期：1997-07-01 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 photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides is capable of producing H2 via nitrogenase when grown photoheterotrophically in the absence of N2. By using 14C-labeled malate, it was found that greater than 95% of this substrate was catabolized completely to CO2 during H2 production. About 60% of this catabolism ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macler BA,Bassham JA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00