Degradation of pyrene, benz[a]anthracene, and benzo[a]pyrene by Mycobacterium sp. strain RJGII-135, isolated from a former coal gasification site.

abstract：:Potato tuber disks were submerged in suspensions containing 10 to 10 cells of Agrobacterium tumefaciens B6 per ml. After 60 min, the disks were rinsed and homogenized, and portions of the homogenates were plated to measure the number of adsorbed bacteria. At low initial bacterial concentrations (10/ml), 5 to 23% of th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kluepfel DA,Pueppke SG

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pierce's disease is a devastating lethal disease of Vitus vinifera grapevines caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. There is no cure for Pierce's disease, and control is achieved predominantly by suppressing transmission of the glassy-winged sharpshooter insect vector. We present a simple robust approach for the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azizi A,Arora A,Markiv A,Lampe DJ,Miller TA,Kang AS

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that Trametes (Coriolus) versicolor bleaches kraft pulp brownstock with the concomitant release of methanol. In this work, the fungus is shown to produce both laccase and manganese peroxidase (MnP) but not lignin peroxidase during pulp bleaching. MnP production was enhanced by the presence of p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Paice MG,Reid ID,Bourbonnais R,Archibald FS,Jurasek L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional polyacrylamide electrophoresis was used to determine that mutants of Rhizobium trifolii DT6, claimed to be capable of effectively nodulating soybeans, were actually Rhizobium japonicum 110 contaminants isolated from the parent DT6 culture. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leps WT,Roberts GP,Brill WJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli ATCC 12806 was exposed to increasing subinhibitory concentrations of three biocides widely used in food industry facilities: trisodium phosphate (TSP), sodium nitrite (SNI), and sodium hypochlorite (SHY). The cultures exhibited an acquired tolerance to biocides (especially to SNI and SHY) after exposu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Capita R,Riesco-Peláez F,Alonso-Hernando A,Alonso-Calleja C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently characterized a transposon-induced NaCl-sensitive mutant of Staphylococcus aureus (U. Vijaranakul, M. J. Nadakavukaren, D. O. Bayles, B. J. Wilkinson, and R. K. Jayaswal, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:1889-1897, 1997). To further characterize this mutant, we determined the nucleotide sequence at the inserti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vijaranakul U,Xiong A,Lockwood K,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aerobic intestinal microflora of 2-week-old herring (Clupea harengus) larvae was characterized by using conventional microbiological methods and electron microscopy. Larvae were hatched and kept in filtered seawater or in seawater with penicillin and streptomycin. The gastrointestinal tract of herring larvae is es...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hansen GH,Strøm E,Olafsen JA

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:Identification and classification of Vibrio species have relied upon band pattern methods (e.g., amplified fragment length polymorphism) and DNA-DNA hybridization. However, data generated by these methods cannot be used to build an online electronic taxonomy. In order to overcome these limitations, we developed the fi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Thompson FL,Gomez-Gil B,Vasconcelos AT,Sawabe T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of biofuels from lignocellulose yields a substantial lignin by-product stream that currently has few applications. Biological conversion of lignin-derived compounds into chemicals and fuels has the potential to improve the economics of lignocellulose-derived biofuels, but few microbes are able both to c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Clarkson SM,Giannone RJ,Kridelbaugh DM,Elkins JG,Guss AM,Michener JK

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferric uptake regulator (Fur) box-like sequence was located upstream of the serine protease-encoding gene (aprII) from a marine bacterium, Alteromonas sp. strain O-7. To clarify whether the production of AprII (the gene product of aprII) is regulated by the environmental iron concentrations, this strain was cultur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsujibo H,Miyamoto K,Okamoto T,Orikoshi H,Inamori Y

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin is an abundant biopolymer whose degradation is mediated primarily by bacterial chitinases. We developed a degenerate PCR primer set to amplify a approximately 900-bp fragment of family 18, group I chitinase genes and used it to retrieve these gene fragments from environmental samples. Clone libraries of presump...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： LeCleir GR,Buchan A,Hollibaugh JT

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential resistance of substratum-attached, detached, and planktonic cells of Salmonella enteritidis phage type 4 was studied by using several inimical processes and in vivo bioluminescence as a nondestructive, real-time reporter of metabolic activity. Bioluminescence in this strain was mediated by a construct...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dhir VK,Dodd CE

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen whose survival in food processing environments may be associated with its tolerance to desiccation. To probe the molecular mechanisms used by this bacterium to adapt to desiccation stress, a transposon library of 11,700 L. monocytogenes mutants was screened, using a micro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hingston PA,Piercey MJ,Truelstrup Hansen L

更新日期：2015-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The human oral cavity is a complex ecosystem, and the alterations in salivary microbial communities are associated with both oral and nonoral diseases. The Mediterranean diet (MD) is a healthy dietary pattern useful for both prevention and treatment of several diseases. To further explore the effects of the MD on huma...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Laiola M,De Filippis F,Vitaglione P,Ercolini D

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of Micromonospora strains isolated from the water column, sediment, and cellulose baits placed in freshwater lakes were shown to be able to degrade cellulose in lake water without any addition of nutrients. A selective isolation method was also developed to demonstrate that CFU arose from both spores and hyph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： de Menezes AB,Lockhart RJ,Cox MJ,Allison HE,McCarthy AJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), produced by neurotoxigenic clostridia, is the most potent biological toxin known and the causative agent of the paralytic disease botulism. The nutritional, environmental, and genetic regulation of BoNT synthesis, activation, stability, and toxin complex (TC) formation is not well studied....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fredrick CM,Lin G,Johnson EA

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-treated Escherichia coli producing Thermus polyphosphate kinase regenerated ATP by using exogenous polyphosphate. This recombinant could be used as a platform to produce valuable compounds in combination with thermostable phosphorylating or energy-requiring enzymes. In this work, we demonstrated the production of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Iwamoto S,Motomura K,Shinoda Y,Urata M,Kato J,Takiguchi N,Ohtake H,Hirota R,Kuroda A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preparation of DNA by alcohol precipitation in the presence of Na1 was used to enable the direct detection of Listeria monocytogenes in the amount of 10(3) CFU/0.5 g of sample. This procedure produces PCR-quality DNA directly from foods, such as soft cheese and minced meat. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Makino S,Okada Y,Maruyama T

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate carboxylase (PYC) is an ecologically, medically, and industrially important enzyme. It is widespread in all three domains of life, the archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. PYC catalyzes ATP-dependent carboxylation of pyruvate to oxaloacetate. Detailed structure-function studies of this enzyme have been hampered du...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lai H,Kraszewski JL,Purwantini E,Mukhopadhyay B

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-positive rubber degraders such as Streptomyces sp. strain K30 cleave rubber [poly(cis-1,4-isoprene)] to low-molecular-mass oligoisoprenoid products with terminal keto and aldehyde groups by the secretion of a latex clearing protein (Lcp) designated rubber oxygenase. LcpK30 is a heme b cytochrome and has a domain ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Röther W,Austen S,Birke J,Jendrossek D

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis is a prokaryotic microorganism with great importance as a culture starter and has become the model species among the lactic acid bacteria. The long and safe history of use of L. lactis in dairy fermentations has resulted in the classification of this species as GRAS (General Regarded As Safe) or QPS...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ladero V,Rattray FP,Mayo B,Martín MC,Fernández M,Alvarez MA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of human-pathogenic, enteric bacteria on the surface and in the interior of raw produce is a significant health concern. Several aspects of the biology of the interaction between these bacteria and alfalfa (Medicago sativa) seedlings are addressed here. A collection of enteric bacteria associated with alf...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dong Y,Iniguez AL,Ahmer BM,Triplett EW

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is an essential micronutrient for life. In mammals, dietary iron is absorbed primarily in the small intestine. Currently, the impacts of dietary iron on the taxonomic structure and function of the gut microbiome and reciprocal effects on the animal host are not well understood. Here, we establish a mouse model of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coe GL,Pinkham NV,Celis AI,Johnson C,DuBois JL,Walk ST

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Simian rotavirus SA-11 was concentrated from tap water by adsorption to and elution from microporous filters, followed by organic flocculation. Two types of filters were compared for their ability to concentrate the virus. Both Zeta Plus 60S and Cox AA type M-780 filters were efficient for virus adsorption, but the ef...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guttman-Bass N,Armon R

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil samples were screened to select microorganisms with the capability to oxidize organic sulfides into the corresponding sulfoxides with differential enantioselectivities. Several bacterial strains that preferentially produced the S-configured sulfoxide enantiomer were isolated. Surprisingly, one bacterial strain, g...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Adam W,Heckel F,Saha-Möller CR,Taupp M,Meyer JM,Schreier P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis strain BB12 in stimulated Caco-2 cells and to characterize the factors responsible for these anti-inflammatory effects. Characterization and purification studies indicate that BB12's anti-inflamma...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang Z,Wang J,Cheng Y,Liu X,Huang Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shuttle vectors that replicate stably and express selectable phenotypes in both Thermococcus kodakaraensis and Escherichia coli have been constructed. Plasmid pTN1 from Thermococcus nautilis was ligated to the commercial vector pCR2.1-TOPO, and selectable markers were added so that T. kodakaraensis transformants could...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Santangelo TJ,Cubonová L,Reeve JN

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Submicronic fungal fragments have been observed in in vitro aerosolization experiments. The occurrence of these particles has therefore been suggested to contribute to respiratory health problems observed in mold-contaminated indoor environments. However, the role of submicronic fragments in exacerbating adverse healt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Afanou KA,Straumfors A,Skogstad A,Nayak AP,Skaar I,Hjeljord L,Tronsmo A,Eduard W,Green BJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component regulatory systems are one primary mechanism for environmental sensing and signal transduction. Annotation of the complete genome sequence of the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM revealed nine two-component regulatory systems. In this study, the histidine protein kinase of a two-compone...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azcarate-Peril MA,McAuliffe O,Altermann E,Lick S,Russell WM,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00