Recovery of a strain of Clostridium botulinum producing both neurotoxin A and neurotoxin B from canned macrobiotic food.

abstract：:In this study, we fused six self-assembling amphipathic peptides (SAPs) with cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) from Paenibacillus macerans to catalyze 2-O-D-glucopyranosyl-L-ascorbic acid (AA-2G) production with cheap substrates, including maltose, maltodextrin, and soluble starch as glycosyl donors. The resul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Han R,Li J,Shin HD,Chen RR,Liu L,Du G,Chen J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the bacterial communities of epilithic biofilms in 17 streams which represented a gradient ranging from relatively pristine streams to streams highly impacted by acid mine drainage (AMD). A combination of automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis with multivariate analysis and ordination provided a se...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lear G,Niyogi D,Harding J,Dong Y,Lewis G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding a new thermostable D-stereospecific alanine amidase from the thermophile Brevibacillus borstelensis BCS-1 was cloned and sequenced. The molecular mass of the purified enzyme was estimated to be 199 kDa after gel filtration chromatography and about 30 kDa on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel ele...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baek DH,Kwon SJ,Hong SP,Kwak MS,Lee MH,Song JJ,Lee SG,Yoon KH,Sung MH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all purification stages of a biological sewage treatment plant, phototrophic bacteria were detected by the method of viable cell counts. The predominant species identified belonged to the genus Rhodopseudomonas of purple nonsulfur bacteria. The number of phototrophic bacteria was highest in wastewater containing sl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Siefert E,Irgens RL,Pfennig N

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new membrane filter agar medium (MI agar) containing a chromogen, indoxyl-beta-D-glucuronide, and a fluorogen, 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside, was developed to simultaneously detect and enumerate Escherichia coli and total coliforms (TC) in water samples on the basis of their enzyme activities. TC pro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Brenner KP,Rankin CC,Roybal YR,Stelma GN Jr,Scarpino PV,Dufour AP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alvord Basin in southeast Oregon contains a variety of hydrothermal features which have never been microbiologically characterized. A sampling of Murky Pot (61 degrees C; pH 7.1) led to the isolation of a novel arsenic-metabolizing organism (YeAs) which produces an arsenic sulfide mineral known as beta-realgar, a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ledbetter RN,Connon SA,Neal AL,Dohnalkova A,Magnuson TS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental caries is one of the most common diseases worldwide. Bacteria and fungi are both commensals in the oral cavity; however, most research regarding caries has focused on bacterial impacts. The oral fungal mycobiome associated with caries is not well characterized, and its role in disease is unclear. ITS1 amplicon ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： O'Connell LM,Santos R,Springer G,Burne RA,Nascimento MM,Richards VP

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase (FDH; EC 1.2.1.2) is an industrial enzyme widely used for NADH regeneration. However, enzyme inactivation caused by the oxidation of cysteine residues is a flaw of native FDH. In this study, we relieved the oxidation of the free cysteine of FDH from Candida boidinii (CboFDH) throug...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zheng J,Yang T,Zhou J,Xu M,Zhang X,Rao Z

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The first DNA sequences obtained from arbuscular endomycorrhizal fungi are reported. They were obtained by directly sequencing overlapping amplified fragments of the nuclear genes coding for the small subunit rRNA. These sequences were used to develop a polymerase chain reaction primer (VANS1) that enables the specifi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simon L,Lalonde M,Bruns TD

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of bacteriocin activity designated pediocin PA-1 was associated with the presence of a 6.2-megadalton plasmid in Pediococcus acidilactici PAC1.0. The bacteriocin exhibited activity against P. acidilactici, P. pentosaceus, Lactobacillus plantarum, L. casei, L. bifermentans, and Leuconostoc mesenteroides subs...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gonzalez CF,Kunka BS

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacteria were enriched from samples obtained from a geothermal underground mine in Japan. The enrichment cultures contained bacteria affiliated with the genera Desulfotomaculum, Thermanaeromonas, Thermincola, Thermovenabulum, Moorella, "Natronoanaerobium," and Clostridium. Two novel therm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kaksonen AH,Plumb JJ,Robertson WJ,Spring S,Schumann P,Franzmann PD,Puhakka JA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pAM beta 1, a 26.5-kilobase plasmid originally isolated from Streptococcus faecalis, was conjugally transferred from Streptococcus lactis to Bacillus subtilis. No conjugal transfer of pAM beta 1 from B. subtilis to S. lactis was observed. In addition, pAM beta 1 which had been reintroduced in S. lactis after cycling t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Lelie D,Venema G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) released by infected individuals or present in human and hospital wastes can potentially cause contamination problems. The presence of HIV-1 was investigated in 16 environmental samples, including raw wastewater, sludge, final effluent, soil, and pond water, collected fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ansari SA,Farrah SR,Chaudhry GR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas caviae W-61, which was isolated from water samples at the Faculty of Agriculture, Tohoku University, produced beta-1, 4-xylanase (1,4-beta-d-xylan xylanohydrolase; EC 3.2.1.8) extracellularly. The xylanase was purified to homogeneity by using DEAE-Sephadex A-50, CM-Sephadex C-50, and Sephadex G-100 column ch...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Viet DN,Kamio Y,Abe N,Kaneko J,Izaki K

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azotobacter vinelandii selectively utilizes three types of nitrogenase (molybdenum, vanadium, and iron only) to fix N2, with their expression regulated by the presence or absence of different metal cofactors in its environment. Each alternative nitrogenase isoenzyme is predicted to have different electron flux require...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Natzke J,Noar J,Bruno-Bárcena JM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial rhizosphere colonization is critical for phytobeneficial rhizobacteria such as phenazine-producing Pseudomonas spp. To better understand this colonization process, potential metabolic and genomic determinants required for rhizosphere colonization were identified using a collection of 60 phenazine-producing P...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zboralski A,Biessy A,Savoie MC,Novinscak A,Filion M

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococci are one of the major facultative anaerobic bacterial groups that reside in the human gastrointestinal tract. In the present study, the composition of the enterococcal fecal flora in three healthy humans was analyzed before, during, and after the daily consumption of approximately 125 g of a raw-milk Chedda...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gelsomino R,Vancanneyt M,Cogan TM,Swings J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metal-reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 displays remarkable anaerobic respiratory plasticity, which is reflected in the extensive number of electron transport components encoded in its genome. In these studies, several cell components required for the reduction of vanadium(V) were determined. V(V) redu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Myers JM,Antholine WE,Myers CR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of Pseudomonas pseudoflava to produce poly-beta-hydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from pentoses was studied. This organism was able to use a hydrolysate from the hemicellulosic fraction of poplar wood as a carbon and energy source for its growth. However, in batch cultures, growth was inhibited completely at hydr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bertrand JL,Ramsay BA,Ramsay JA,Chavarie C

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of plasmid-borne antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli wild-type strains is possible by transformation under naturally occurring conditions in oligotrophic, aquatic environments containing physiologic concentrations of calcium. In contrast, transformation is suppressed in nitrogen-rich body fluids l...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Woegerbauer M,Jenni B,Thalhammer F,Graninger W,Burgmann H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial turkey flocks in North Carolina have been found to be colonized frequently with Campylobacter coli strains that are resistant to several antimicrobials (tetracycline, streptomycin, erythromycin, kanamycin, and ciprofloxacin/nalidixic acid). Such strains have been designated multidrug resistant (MDR). Howeve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： D'lima CB,Miller WG,Mandrell RE,Wright SL,Siletzky RM,Carver DK,Kathariou S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is of significant public health importance as a vector of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis. The timing of seasonal activity of each immature I. scapularis life stage relative to the next is critical for the maintenance of B. burgdorferi because larvae must fe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gatewood AG,Liebman KA,Vourc'h G,Bunikis J,Hamer SA,Cortinas R,Melton F,Cislo P,Kitron U,Tsao J,Barbour AG,Fish D,Diuk-Wasser MA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Comamonas sp. strain JS46, 3-nitrobenzoate (3Nba) is initially oxidized at the 3,4 position by a dioxygenase, which results in release of nitrite and production of protocatechuate. The locus coding for the 3Nba dioxygenase (designated mnb, for m-nitrobenzoate) was mobilized from strain JS46 using a plasmid capture ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Providenti MA,Shaye RE,Lynes KD,McKenna NT,O'brien JM,Rosolen S,Wyndham RC,Lambert IB

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stability of foreign DNA transformed into a novel host is an important parameter in decisions to permit the release of genetically engineered microorganisms into the environment. Meiotic instability of transformed DNA has been reported in fungi such as Ascobolus, Aspergillus, and Neurospora. We used strains of Gibbere...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leslie JF,Dickman MB

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A marine bacterial strain that decomposes the cell walls of some seaweeds, including a Laminaria sp. and Undaria pinnatifida, has been isolated from seawater. This strain has been classified to the genus Vibrio. One of the enzymes which the bacteria secreted into the culture medium was isolated and purified 45-fold fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sugano Y,Terada I,Arita M,Noma M,Matsumoto T

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food-borne hepatitis A outbreaks may be prevented by subjecting foods at risk of virus contamination to moderate treatments of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP). A pretreatment promoting hepatitis A virus (HAV) capsid-folding changes enhances the virucidal effect of HHP, indicating that its efficacy depends on capsid co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： D'Andrea L,Pérez-Rodríguez FJ,Costafreda MI,Beguiristain N,Fuentes C,Aymerich T,Guix S,Bosch A,Pintó RM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During fermentative growth in natural and industrial environments, Saccharomyces cerevisiae must redistribute the available nitrogen from multiple exogenous sources to amino acids in order to suitably fulfill anabolic requirements. To exhaustively explore the management of this complex resource, we developed an advanc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Crépin L,Truong NM,Bloem A,Sanchez I,Dequin S,Camarasa C

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify genes that are important for class IIa bacteriocin interaction and resistance in Listeria species, transposon Tn917 knockout libraries were constructed for Listeria innocua strain Lin11 and screened for mutants that are resistant to pediocin AcH. A highly resistant mutant (G7) (MIC > 20 microg/ml; 1,000-fo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xue J,Hunter I,Steinmetz T,Peters A,Ray B,Miller KW

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile causes a potentially fatal diarrheal disease through the production of its principal virulence factors, toxin A and toxin B. The tcdC gene is thought to encode a negative regulator of toxin production. Therefore, increased toxin production, and hence increased virulence, is often inferred in stra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cartman ST,Kelly ML,Heeg D,Heap JT,Minton NP

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungus Cunninghamella elegans ATCC 36112 metabolized approximately 80% of the 3-14C-labeled fluoranthene (FA) added within 72 h of incubation. C. elegans metabolized FA to trans-2,3-dihydroxy-2,3-dihydrofluoranthene (trans-2,3-dihydrodiol), 8- and 9-hydroxyfluoranthene trans-2,3-dihydrodiol, 3-fluoranthene-beta-gl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pothuluri JV,Freeman JP,Evans FE,Cerniglia CE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00