Toxic and enzymatic activities of Vibrio vulnificus biotype 2 with respect to host specificity.

abstract：UNLABELLED:Raw sausages are perishable foodstuffs; reducing their salt content raises questions about a possible increased spoilage of these products. In this study, we evaluated the influence of salt reduction (from 2.0% to 1.5% [wt/wt]), in combination with two types of packaging (modified atmosphere [50% mix of CO2-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fougy L,Desmonts MH,Coeuret G,Fassel C,Hamon E,Hézard B,Champomier-Vergès MC,Chaillou S

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Seabird ticks are known reservoirs of bacterial pathogens of medical importance; however, ticks parasitizing tropical seabirds have received less attention than their counterparts from temperate and subpolar regions. Recently, Rickettsia africae was described to infect seabird ticks of the western Indian Ocean and New...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilkinson DA,Dietrich M,Lebarbenchon C,Jaeger A,Le Rouzic C,Bastien M,Lagadec E,McCoy KD,Pascalis H,Le Corre M,Dellagi K,Tortosa P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epimerization of sugar nucleotides is central to the structural diversification of monosaccharide building blocks for cellular biosynthesis. Epimerase applicability to carbohydrate synthesis can be limited, however, by the high degree of substrate specificity exhibited by most sugar nucleotide epimerases. Here, we dis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rapp C,van Overtveldt S,Beerens K,Weber H,Desmet T,Nidetzky B

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) constitute a new family of fungal heme-thiolate enzymes in which there is high biotechnological interest. Although several thousand genes encoding hypothetical UPO-type proteins have been identified in sequenced fungal genomes and other databases, only a few UPO enzymes have been experi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Linde D,Olmedo A,González-Benjumea A,Estévez M,Renau-Mínguez C,Carro J,Fernández-Fueyo E,Gutiérrez A,Martínez AT

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains harboring deletion mutations of the insecticidal protoxin gene of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. berliner 1715 were constructed. Although these strains did not produce intact protoxin, cell extracts from one of the mutants were extremely toxic to tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) larvae, indicat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wabiko H,Held GA,Bulla LA Jr

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous, gliding, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria of the genus Thioploca were found on sediments in profundal areas of Lake Biwa, a Japanese freshwater mesotrophic lake, and were characterized morphologically and phylogenetically. The Lake Biwa Thioploca resembled morphologically Thioploca ingrica, a brackish water spe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kojima H,Teske A,Fukui M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malic acid has great potential for replacing petrochemical building blocks in the future. For this application, high yields, rates, and titers are essential in order to sustain a viable biotechnological production process. Natural high-capacity malic acid producers like the malic acid producer Aspergillus flavus have ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knuf C,Nookaew I,Brown SH,McCulloch M,Berry A,Nielsen J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microflora in strained rumen fluid did not methylate or volatilize 203Hg2+ at detectable rates. However, there was an exponential decay in the concentration of added CH3Hg+, which was attributed to demethylation. The major product of demethylation was metallic mercury (Hg0), and it was released as a volatile produ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kozak S,Forsberg CW

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysogenic bacteriophage APSE infects "Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa," a facultative endosymbiont of aphids and other sap-feeding insects. This endosymbiont has established a beneficial association with aphids, increasing survivorship following attack by parasitoid wasps. Although APSE and "Ca. Hamiltonella defen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Degnan PH,Moran NA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noroviruses from mussels collected near sewage effluents were compared with local patient outbreak strains. Sequence analyses of RNA polymerase-capsid-poly(A)-3' (3.1-kilobase) regions confirmed the 99.9% similarity between genotype I.1 strains from mussels and patient strains from recreational-bathing outbreaks, indi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nenonen NP,Hannoun C,Horal P,Hernroth B,Bergström T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus gasseri LA39 and L. reuteri LA6 isolated from feces of the same human infant were found to produce similar cyclic bacteriocins (named gassericin A and reutericin 6, respectively) that cannot be distinguished by molecular weights or primary amino acid sequences. However, reutericin 6 has a narrower spectr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kawai Y,Ishii Y,Arakawa K,Uemura K,Saitoh B,Nishimura J,Kitazawa H,Yamazaki Y,Tateno Y,Itoh T,Saito T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strictly anaerobic pathogenic bacterium Clostridium difficile occurs in the human gut and is able to thrive from fermentation of leucine. Thereby the amino acid is both oxidized to isovalerate plus CO(2) and reduced to isocaproate. In the reductive branch of this pathway, the dehydration of (R)-2-hydroxyisocaproyl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim J,Darley D,Selmer T,Buckel W

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin exposure occurs in homes and occupational environments and is known to cause adverse health effects. In order to compare results from different studies and establish standards, airborne endotoxin exposures should be assessed using standardized methods. Although the European Committee for Standardization (CEN...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Spaan S,Heederik DJ,Thorne PS,Wouters IM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the ecological and genetic role of viruses in the marine environment, it is critical to know the infectivity of viruses and the types of interactions that occur between marine viruses and their hosts. We isolated four marine phages from turbid plaques by using four indigenous bacterial hosts obtained fro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiang SC,Kellogg CA,Paul JH

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific oxygen uptake rates [Q(02)] were highest when Candida 107 and Rhodotorula gracilis grew at their maximum dilution rates. In nitrogen-limited medium, which encourages lipid accumulation, Q(02) values of both yeasts decreased as the dilution rate was lowered. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ratledge C,Hall MJ

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding NAD(+)-dependent alanine dehydrogenases (AlaDHs) (EC 1.4.1.1) from the Antarctic bacterial organisms Shewanella sp. strain Ac10 (SheAlaDH) and Carnobacterium sp. strain St2 (CarAlaDH) were cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. Of all of the AlaDHs that have been sequenced, SheAlaDH exhibited the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Galkin A,Kulakova L,Ashida H,Sawa Y,Esaki N

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal gene sequences were obtained from bryozoans in the genus Bugula and their bacterial symbionts; analyses of host and symbiont phylogenetic trees did not support a history of strict cospeciation. Symbiont-derived compounds known to defend host larvae from predation were only detected in two out of four symbiot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lim-Fong GE,Regali LA,Haygood MG

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial chemicals are widely applied to clean and disinfect food-contacting surfaces. However, the cellular response of bacteria to various disinfectants is unclear. In this study, the physiological and genome-wide transcriptional responses of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 exposed to four different disinfectants (b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ceragioli M,Mols M,Moezelaar R,Ghelardi E,Senesi S,Abee T

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microbial community analysis using 16S rRNA gene sequencing was performed on borehole water and a granite rock core from Henderson Mine, a >1,000-meter-deep molybdenum mine near Empire, CO. Chemical analysis of borehole water at two separate depths (1,044 m and 1,004 m below the mine entrance) suggests that a sharp ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sahl JW,Schmidt R,Swanner ED,Mandernack KW,Templeton AS,Kieft TL,Smith RL,Sanford WE,Callaghan RL,Mitton JB,Spear JR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During incubation of seawater in bottles, the decrease in dissolved oxygen is often nonlinear over time scales frequently used to measure respiration. Numbers of bacteria always increase, and rates of assimilation of dissolved leucine often increase exponentially. This suggests that sample handling disrupts the previo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pomeroy LR,Sheldon JE,Sheldon WM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the interaction of Legionella pneumophila with free-living amoebae showed that Naegleria lovaniensis and Acanthamoeba royreba could use L. pneumophila as a sole food source. However, growth of the amoebae on nonnutrient agar plates seeded with L. pneumophila was slower than growth on nonnutrient agar plates...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tyndall RL,Domingue EL

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cup of coffee is the final product of a complex chain of operations. Wet postharvest processing of coffee is one of these operations, which involves a fermentation that inevitably has to be performed on-farm. During wet coffee processing, the interplay between microbial activities and endogenous bean metabolism resu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang SJ,De Bruyn F,Pothakos V,Torres J,Falconi C,Moccand C,Weckx S,De Vuyst L

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:NisI confers immunity against nisin, with high substrate specificity to prevent a suicidal effect in nisin-producing Lactococcus lactis strains. However, the NisI maturation process as well as its influence on nisin resistance has not been characterized. Here, we report the roles of lipoprotein signal peptidase II (Ls...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liu J,Xiong H,Du Y,Wiwatanaratanabutr I,Wu X,Zhao G,Zhu H,Caiyin Q,Qiao J

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations concerning the role of distribution system biofilms on water quality were conducted at a drinking water utility in New Jersey. The utility experienced long-term bacteriological problems in the distribution system, while treatment plant effluents were uniformly negative for coliform bacteria. Results of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： LeChevallier MW,Babcock TM,Lee RG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Streptococcus species to selectively adhere to the oral epithelial cells of newborns was studied in vitro. On day 1 of life, mucosal cells from normal infants demonstrated selective attraction for the natural distribution of streptococci that would soon colonize these surfaces. Streptococcus salivarius ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Long SS,Swenson RM

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of promoter modification on the expression of the mosquitocidal Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis cryIVB gene when used to transform the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 has been examined. Maximal transcript and protein abundances were achieved by the addition of the lacZ promoter up...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Soltes-Rak E,Kushner DJ,Williams DD,Coleman JR

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:By combining genomics and isotope imaging analysis using high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS), we examined the function and evolution of Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of the protist Barbulanympha from the hindguts of the wood-eating cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus In particular, we inv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tai V,Carpenter KJ,Weber PK,Nalepa CA,Perlman SJ,Keeling PJ

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial aggregates from a chemolithoautotrophic, nitrifying fluidized bed reactor were investigated with microsensors and rRNA-based molecular techniques. The microprofiles of O2, NH4+, NO2-, and NO3- demonstrated the occurrence of complete nitrification in the outer 125 microgram of the aggregates. The ammonia oxid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schramm A,De Beer D,Wagner M,Amann R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroalgae (or seaweeds) are considered potential biomass feedstocks for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals. Their sugar composition is different from that of lignocellulosic biomasses, and in green species, including Ulva lactuca, the major sugars are l-rhamnose and d-glucose. C. beijerinckii DSM 6423 ut...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Diallo M,Simons AD,van der Wal H,Collas F,Houweling-Tan B,Kengen SWM,López-Contreras AM

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Salinity effects on microbial community structure and on potential rates of arsenate reduction, arsenite oxidation, sulfate reduction, denitrification, and methanogenesis were examined in sediment slurries from two California soda lakes. We conducted experiments with Mono Lake and Searles Lake sediments over a wide ra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulp TR,Han S,Saltikov CW,Lanoil BD,Zargar K,Oremland RS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00