Purification and characterization of extremely thermostable beta-mannanase, beta-mannosidase, and alpha-galactosidase from the hyperthermophilic eubacterium Thermotoga neapolitana 5068.

abstract：:The comparative adherence of seven strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis to plastic surfaces was measured by an agar overlay technique in which adherent organisms were counted by their ability to form colonies under an agar overlay. The degree of adherence to plastics decreased in the order polystyrene, polyvinyl chlo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mackenzie AM,Rivera-Calderon RL

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swimming in ocean water, including ocean water at beaches not impacted by known point sources of pollution, is an increasing health concern. This study was an initial evaluation of the presence of indicator microbes and pathogens and the association among the indicator microbes, pathogens, and environmental conditions...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abdelzaher AM,Wright ME,Ortega C,Solo-Gabriele HM,Miller G,Elmir S,Newman X,Shih P,Bonilla JA,Bonilla TD,Palmer CJ,Scott T,Lukasik J,Harwood VJ,McQuaig S,Sinigalliano C,Gidley M,Plano LR,Zhu X,Wang JD,Fleming LE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of glutaraldehyde (GTA) at low concentrations (less than 2%) against poliovirus was assessed by a suspension procedure. The inactivation kinetics showed that concentrations of less than or equal to 0.10% were effective against purified poliovirus at pH 7.2; a 1 log10 reduction was obtained in 70 min with ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bailly JL,Chambon M,Peigue-Lafeuille H,Laveran H,De Champs C,Beytout D

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of acetate in salt marsh sediment was inhibited by the addition of fluoroacetate, and also by the addition of molybdate, an inhibitor of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Molybdate had no effect upon the metabolism of acetate in a freshwater sediment in the absence of sulfate. The inhibitory effect of molybdate on ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Banat IM,Lindström EB,Nedwell DB,Balba MT

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root-colonizing, saprophytic fluorescent pseudomonads of the Pseudomonas putida-P. fluorescens group express similar levels of catalase and superoxide dismutase activities during growth on a sucrose- and amino acid-rich medium. Increased specific activities of catalase but not superoxide dismutase were observed during...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Katsuwon J,Anderson AJ

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteorhodopsins (PRs) are widespread bacterial integral membrane proteins that function as light-driven proton pumps. Antarctic sea ice supports a complex community of autotrophic algae, heterotrophic bacteria, viruses, and protists that are an important food source for higher trophic levels in ice-covered regions of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Koh EY,Atamna-Ismaeel N,Martin A,Cowie RO,Beja O,Davy SK,Maas EW,Ryan KG

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose metabolism and the mechanisms of NADH oxidation by Treponema hyodysenteriae were studied. Under an N2 atmosphere, washed cell suspensions of the spirochete consumed glucose and produced acetate, butyrate, H2, and CO2. Approximately twice as much H2 as CO2 was produced. Determinations of radioactivity in produc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stanton TB

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some nitrate- and Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms are capable of oxidizing Fe(II) with nitrate as the electron acceptor. This enzymatic pathway may facilitate the development of anaerobic microbial communities that take advantage of the energy available during Fe-N redox oscillations. We examined this phenomenon in sy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coby AJ,Picardal F,Shelobolina E,Xu H,Roden EE

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transposon Tn916 and self-mobilizing plasmid pAM beta 1 were conjugated from Enterococcus faecalis to the ruminal bacterium Streptococcus bovis JB1. Transconjugants were identified by resistance to tetracycline (Tn916) or erythromycin (pAM beta 1) and by Southern hybridization analyses. Transfer frequencies were 7...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hespell RB,Whitehead TR

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic test systems involving microorganisms and liver enzyme preparations may be insufficient to detect compounds that require breakdown by enzymes provided by the microbial flora of the intestinal tract. A method is described for providing such activation and for simultaneously testing the potential genetic activit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayer VW,Goin CJ

更新日期：1983-02-01 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：:Trypticase soy agar supplemented with sucrose, sodium chloride, bile salts, and triphenyltetrazolium chloride is an improved plating medium for the isolation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from samples of seawater, permitting better differentiation of this organism from Vibrio alginolyticus and other bacteria. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kourany M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of leptospiral pathogenesis, which remains poorly understood, depends on reliable genetic tools for functional analysis of genes in pathogenic strains. In this study, we report the first demonstration of conjugation between Escherichia coli and Leptospira spp. by using RP4 derivative conjugative plas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Picardeau M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival studies were conducted on Legionella pneumophila cells that had been grown intracellularly in Acanthamoeba polyphaga and then exposed to polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB), benzisothiazolone (BIT), and 5-chloro-N-methylisothiazolone (CMIT). Susceptibilities were also determined for L. pneumophila grown under ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barker J,Brown MR,Collier PJ,Farrell I,Gilbert P

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria constitute a specific group of commensal bacteria that inhabit the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and other mammals. Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 has previously been shown to utilize several plant-derived carbohydrates that include cellodextrins, starch, and galactan. In the present study, we invest...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Egan M,O'Connell Motherway M,Ventura M,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several wild-type isolates of marine bdellovibrios formed stable bdelloplasts when they infected gram-negative bacterial prey under certain culture conditions. Synchronous predator-prey cultures and low nutrient concentrations increased the yield of stable bdelloplasts. The bdellovibrio cells retained in the stable bd...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sánchez-Amat A,Torrella F

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of Lactococcus lactis (the most extensively characterized lactic acid bacterium) as a delivery organism for heterologous proteins is, in some cases, limited by low production levels and poor-quality products due to surface proteolysis. In this study, we combined in one L. lactis strain use of the nisin-inducib...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miyoshi A,Poquet I,Azevedo V,Commissaire J,Bermudez-Humaran L,Domakova E,Le Loir Y,Oliveira SC,Gruss A,Langella P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-acetylglucosaminidase LytB of Streptococcus pneumoniae is involved in nasopharyngeal colonization and is responsible for cell separation at the end of cell division; thus, ΔlytB mutants form long chains of cells. This paper reports the construction and properties of a defective pneumococcal mutant producing an i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Domenech M,García E

更新日期：2020-05-05 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：:Demethylation inhibitor (DMI)-resistant strains of the plant pathogenic fungus Penicillium digitatum were shown to be simultaneously resistant to cycloheximide, 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide (4NQO), and acriflavine. A PMR1 (Penicillium multidrug resistance) gene encoding an ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter (P-glycopr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakaune R,Adachi K,Nawata O,Tomiyama M,Akutsu K,Hibi T

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth characteristics and acetate production of several Escherichia coli strains were compared by using shake flasks, batch fermentations, and glucose-feedback-controlled fed-batch fermentations to assess the potential of each strain to grow at high cell densities. Of the E. coli strains tested, including JM105, ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luli GW,Strohl WR

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the facultative photoheterotroph Rhodobacter sphaeroides to tolerate and reduce high levels of tellurite in addition to at least 10 other rare earth metal oxides and oxyanions has considerable potential for detoxification and bioremediation of contaminated environments. We report the identification and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： O'Gara JP,Gomelsky M,Kaplan S

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteorhodopsin (PR), a photoactive proton pump containing retinal, is present in approximately half of all bacteria in the ocean, but its physiological role is still unclear, since very few strains carrying the PR gene have been cultured. The aim of this work was to characterize PR diversity in a North Sea water samp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Riedel T,Tomasch J,Buchholz I,Jacobs J,Kollenberg M,Gerdts G,Wichels A,Brinkhoff T,Cypionka H,Wagner-Döbler I

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insertion of a heterologous gene into commensal bacteria is a common technique to develop a delivery agent for vaccination and therapies, but the pleiotropic effects of genetic modifications need to be investigated before its use in practical applications. Although supplemental properties provided by the expressio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kajikawa A,Igimi S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fecal Candida pintolopesii population levels were found to be significantly affected by laparotomy-inoculation-Bollman apparatus restraint, laparotomy-inoculation, and a milk diet. Gastrectomized rats could not support yeast populations; in intact animals, yeast cells failed to colonize the gastrointestinal tract dist...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Artwohl J,McClain A,Cera L

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat destruction characteristics of Clostridium botulinum spores suspended in tomato juice and phosphate buffer were determined by the survivor curve method with aluminum thermal death time tubes. Two type A strains of C. botulinum and a type B strain were evaluated. Strains A16037 and B15580 were implicated in ou...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Odlaug TE,Pflug IJ

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unusual compound beta-aminoglutaric acid (beta-glutamate) has been identified by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in soluble extracts of marine methanogenic bacteria. We examined several methanogen species representing nine genera and found that beta-glutamate occurred in methanococci and two methanogen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robertson DE,Roberts MF,Belay N,Stetter KO,Boone DR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural management practices affect bulk soil microbial communities and the functions they carry out, but it remains unclear how these effects extend to the rhizosphere in different agroecosystem contexts. Given close linkages between rhizosphere processes and plant nutrition and productivity, understanding how m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmidt JE,Vannette RL,Igwe A,Blundell R,Casteel CL,Gaudin ACM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, seven volatile compounds were identified in vacuum-packaged sliced corned beef spoiled by Brochothrix thermosphacta under aerobic conditions. Acetoin and diacetyl appeared to be of major sensory significance. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stanley G,Shaw KJ,Egan AF

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptation of Lactobacillus sakei to a meat environment is reflected in its metabolic potential. For instance, the ability to utilize arginine through the arginine deiminase (ADI) pathway, resulting in additional ATP, represents a competitive benefit. In L. sakei CTC 494, the arc operon (arcABCTDR) shows the same ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rimaux T,Rivière A,Illeghems K,Weckx S,De Vuyst L,Leroy F

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00