Isolation and characterization of a novel toluene-degrading, sulfate-reducing bacterium.

abstract：:Methods for the production and regeneration of Lactobacillus casei protoplasts are described. Protoplasts of L. casei strains were obtained by treatment with mutanolysin or with mutanolysin and lysozyme together in a protoplast formation buffer containing 0.02 M HEPES (N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic ac...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee-Wickner LJ,Chassy BM

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold shock at 0 to 15 degrees C for 1 to 3 h increased the thermal sensitivity of Listeria monocytogenes. In a model broth system, thermal death time at 60 degrees C was reduced by up to 45% after L. monocytogenes Scott A was cold shocked for 3 h. The duration of the cold shock affected thermal tolerance more than did...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miller AJ,Bayles DO,Eblen BS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The food-borne pathogenic bacterium Listeria is known for relatively low morbidity and high mortality rates, reaching up to 25 to 30%. Listeria is a hardy organism, and its control in foods represents a significant challenge. Many naturally occurring compounds, including the bacteriocin nisin and a number of plant ess...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Field D,Daly K,O'Connor PM,Cotter PD,Hill C,Ross RP

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A d-xylose reductase mutant of Pachysolen tannophilus was isolated on the basis of its poor growth on d-xylose but normal growth on xylitol and d-glucose. Fractionation of cell extracts indicated that the mutant was deficient in d-xylose reductase activity that used NADPH exclusively as a cofactor, but not in activity...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schneider H,Lee H,Barbosa Mde F,Kubicek CP,James AP

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A compact housing unit for low-power (X6 to X50) cinemicrographic studies of microbial specimens in the vertical plane is described. This unit was used successfully to record the development of a "halo" of cells around subsurface colonies of Escherichia coli. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilkins JR,Tynan CI Jr,Boykin EH

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling antibiotic-resistant (ART) bacteria in cheese fermentation is important for food safety and public health. A plant-maintained culture was found to be a potential source for ART bacterial contamination in cheese fermentation. Antibiotics had a detectable effect on the ART population from contamination in th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li X,Li Y,Alvarez V,Harper WJ,Wang HH

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique to determine which nutrients limit bacterial growth in soil was developed. The method was based on measuring the thymidine incorporation rate of bacteria after the addition of C, N, and P in different combinations to soil samples. First, the thymidine incorporation method was tested in two different soils:...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aldén L,Demoling F,Bååth E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces pastorianus strains are hybrids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces eubayanus that have been domesticated for centuries in lager beer brewing environments. As sequences and structures of S. pastorianus genomes are being resolved, molecular mechanisms and evolutionary origins of several industri...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brouwers N,Brickwedde A,Gorter de Vries AR,van den Broek M,Weening SM,van den Eijnden L,Diderich JA,Bai FY,Pronk JT,Daran JG

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is considered one of the major risk factors underlying the development of gastritis and gastric and duodenal ulcers. Moreover, 50% of the population carries this bacterium, and consequently, when it is detected, eradication of H. pylori is strongly recommended. Regarding the use of probiotics as fu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chenoll E,Casinos B,Bataller E,Astals P,Echevarría J,Iglesias JR,Balbarie P,Ramón D,Genovés S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Households provide environments that encourage the formation of microbial communities, often as biofilms. Such biofilms constitute potential reservoirs for pathogens, particularly for immune-compromised individuals. One household environment that potentially accumulates microbial biofilms is that provided by vinyl sho...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kelley ST,Theisen U,Angenent LT,St Amand A,Pace NR

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formate stimulates growth of a new bacterium from human feces. With high formate, it ferments glucose to acetate via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. The original isolate fermented vegetable cellulose and carboxymethylcellulose, but it lost this ability after storage at -76 degrees C. 16S rRNA gene sequencing identifies it...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wolin MJ,Miller TL,Collins MD,Lawson PA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of rumen bacteria can be stored at -20 degrees C for at least 2 years in a liquid medium containing 20% glycerol. Thawing, sampling, and refreezing do not significantly affect viability. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Teather RM

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon-starved cultures of strain Ant-300, a psychrophilic marine vibrio isolated from the Antarctic Convergence, were compared with their nonstarved counterparts for resistance to heat. Specifically, starved and unstarved cells were exposed to 17 degrees C, which is 4 degrees C above the maximum growth temperature, a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Preyer JM,Oliver JD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a metabolically versatile pathogen that causes severe infections in compromised patients. However, little is known about the genes and factors involved in its basic physiology and virulence properties. Insertion mutagenesis was used to initiate the identification and characterization of some...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dorsey CW,Tomaras AP,Actis LA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The ability to sense and adapt to temperature fluctuation is critical to the aquatic survival, transmission, and infectivity of Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the disease cholera. Little information is available on the physiological changes that occur when V. cholerae experiences temperature shifts....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Townsley L,Sison Mangus MP,Mehic S,Yildiz FH

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout four field trials, compost heaps covered with finished compost maintained temperatures under the physical covering that were ca. 7 to 15.5°C higher, resulting in rapid Escherichia coli O157:H7 reduction, than those of the heaps covered with fresh straw or left uncovered. Our results validated recommendation...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shepherd MW Jr,Kim J,Jiang X,Doyle MP,Erickson MC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated rumen bacteria were examined for growth and, where appropriate, for their ability to degrade cellulose in the presence of the hydroxycinnamic acids trans-p-coumaric acid and trans-ferulic acid and the hydroxybenzoic acids vanillic acid and 4-hydroxybenzoic acid. Ferulic and p-coumaric acids proved to be the m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chesson A,Stewart CS,Wallace RJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vacuum residue fraction of heavy crudes contributes to the viscosity of these oils. Specific microbial cleavage of C-S bonds in alkylsulfide bridges that form linkages in this fraction may result in dramatic viscosity reduction. To date, no bacterial strains have been shown conclusively to cleave C-S bonds within ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Hamme JD,Fedorak PM,Foght JM,Gray MR,Dettman HD

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Chloro-4,6-diamino-s-triazine (CAAT) is a metabolite of atrazine biodegradation in soils. Atrazine chlorohydrolase (AtzA) catalyzes the dechlorination of atrazine but is unreactive with CAAT. In this study, melamine deaminase (TriA), which is 98% identical to AtzA, catalyzed deamination of CAAT to produce 2-chloro-4...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Seffernick JL,Shapir N,Schoeb M,Johnson G,Sadowsky MJ,Wackett LP

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard plate count (SPC) bacteria were isolated from a drinking-water treatment facility and from the river supplying the facility. All isolates were identified and tested for their resistance to six antibiotics to determine if drug-resistant bacteria were selected for as a consequence of water treatment. Among the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Armstrong JL,Calomiris JJ,Seidler RJ

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal resistance by bacteria is a topic of much importance to the bioremediation of contaminated soils and sediments. We report here the isolation of a highly cadmium-resistant Klebsiella planticola strain, Cd-1, from reducing salt marsh sediments. The strain grows in up to 15 mM CdCl(2) under a wide range of Na...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sharma PK,Balkwill DL,Frenkel A,Vairavamurthy MA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas chromatographic studies showed that nitrous oxide was produced in each instance when sterilized (autoclaved) soil was incubated after treatment with ammonium sulfate and inoculation with pure cultures of ammonia-oxidizing chemoautotrophic microorganisms (strains of Nitrosomonas, Nitrosospira, and Nitrosolobus). Pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blackmer AM,Bremner JM,Schmidt EL

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage T4 denV gene encodes a well-characterized DNA repair enzyme involved in pyrimidine photodimer excision. We have discovered the first homologs of the denV gene in chlorella viruses, which are common in fresh water. This gene functions in vivo and also when cloned in Escherichia coli. Photodamaged viru...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Furuta M,Schrader JO,Schrader HS,Kokjohn TA,Nyaga S,McCullough AK,Lloyd RS,Burbank DE,Landstein D,Lane L,Van Etten JL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Searles Lake occupies a closed basin harboring salt-saturated, alkaline brines that have exceptionally high concentrations of arsenic oxyanions. Strain SLAS-1(T) was previously isolated from Searles Lake (R. S. Oremland, T. R. Kulp, J. Switzer Blum, S. E. Hoeft, S. Baesman, L. G. Miller, and J. F. Stolz, Science 308:1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blum JS,Han S,Lanoil B,Saltikov C,Witte B,Tabita FR,Langley S,Beveridge TJ,Jahnke L,Oremland RS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pediocin-like bacteriocins, produced by lactic acid bacteria, are bactericidal polypeptides with very similar primary structures. Peptide synthesis followed by reverse-phase and ion-exchange chromatographies yielded biologically active pediocin-like bacteriocins in amounts and with a purity sufficient for characte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fimland G,Blingsmo OR,Sletten K,Jung G,Nes IF,Nissen-Meyer J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiobacillus ferrooxidans AP19-3 oxidized molybdenum blue (Mo) enzymatically. Molybdenum oxidase in the plasma membrane of this bacterium was purified ca. 77-fold compared with molybdenum oxidase in cell extract. A purified molybdenum oxidase showed characteristic absorption maxima due to reduced-type cytochrome oxida...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sugio T,Hirayama K,Inagaki K,Tanaka H,Tano T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation and fate of model microbial "pathogens" within a drinking-water distribution system was investigated in naturally grown biofilms formed in a novel pilot-scale water distribution system provided with chlorinated and UV-treated water. Biofilms were exposed to 1-mum hydrophilic and hydrophobic microspher...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Långmark J,Storey MV,Ashbolt NJ,Stenström TA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the communities of soil basidiomycetes in agroecosystems that differ in tillage history at the Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research site near Battle Creek, Michigan. The approach combined soil DNA extraction through a bead-beating method modified to increase recovery of fungal DNA, PCR ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lynch MD,Thorn RG

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Listeria monocytogenes to tolerate salt stress is of particular importance, as this pathogen is often exposed to such environments during both food processing and food preservation. In order to understand the survival mechanisms of L. monocytogenes, an initial approach using two-dimensional polyacrylami...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duché O,Trémoulet F,Glaser P,Labadie J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acetylene block technique was used to assay denitrification in undisturbed sediment cores of an intertidal mud flat. Nitrogen loss due to this process was estimated at 1 to 41 kg of N/hectare (ha) per year. Anaerobic nitrate-saturated slurry of the same sediment had a denitrification capacity of 1,026 kg of N/ha p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kaspar HF

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00