Cloning of the nprA gene for neutral protease A of Bacillus thuringiensis and effect of in vivo deletion of nprA on insecticidal crystal protein.

abstract：:Phormium yellow leaf (PYL) phytoplasma causes a lethal disease of the monocotyledon, New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax). The 16S rRNA genes of PYL phytoplasma were amplified from infected flax by PCR and cloned, and the nucleotide sequences were determined. DNA sequencing and Southern hybridization analysis of genomic ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liefting LW,Andersen MT,Beever RE,Gardner RC,Forster RL

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni isolates possess multiple adhesive proteins termed adhesins, which promote the organism's attachment to epithelial cells. Based on the proposal that one or more adhesins are shared among C. jejuni isolates, we hypothesized that C. jejuni strains would compete for intestinal and cecal colonization ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Konkel ME,Christensen JE,Dhillon AS,Lane AB,Hare-Sanford R,Schaberg DM,Larson CL

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-living and surface-associated microbial communities in sand-packed columns perfused with groundwater were compared by examination of compositional and functional characteristics. The composition of the microbial communities was assessed by bulk DNA extraction, PCR amplification of 16S ribosomal DNA fragments, sep...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lehman RM,O'Connell SP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrification, the aerobic oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, has been suggested to have been a central part of the global biogeochemical nitrogen cycle since the oxygenation of Earth. The cultivation of several ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) as well as the discovery that archaeal ammonia monooxygenase (amo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hatzenpichler R

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typing of F-specific RNA (FRNA) coliphages has been proposed as a useful method for distinguishing human from animal fecal contamination in environmental samples. Group II and III FRNA coliphages are generally associated with human wastes, but several exceptions have been noted. In the present study, we have genotyped...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stewart JR,Vinjé J,Oudejans SJ,Scott GI,Sobsey MD

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:Purified manganese peroxidase (MnP) from the white-rot basidiomycete Phlebia radiata was found to convert in vitro milled pine wood (MPW) suspended in an aqueous reaction solution containing Tween 20, Mn(2+), Mn-chelating organic acid (malonate), and a hydrogen peroxide-generating system (glucose-glucose oxidase). The...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hofrichter M,Lundell T,Hatakka A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high risk associated with biological threat agents dictates that any suspicious sample be handled under strict surety and safety controls and processed under high-level containment in specialized laboratories. This study attempted to find a rapid, reliable, and simple method for the complete inactivation of a wide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sagripanti JL,Hülseweh B,Grote G,Voss L,Böhling K,Marschall HJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：UNLABELLED:Salmonella is recognized as one of the most significant enteric foodborne bacterial pathogens. In recent years, the resistance of pathogens to biocides and other environmental stresses, especially when they are embedded in biofilm structures, has led to the search for and development of novel antimicrobial s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karampoula F,Giaouris E,Deschamps J,Doulgeraki AI,Nychas GJ,Dubois-Brissonnet F

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined physiological adaptations which allow the psychrotroph Rhodococcus sp. strain Q15 to assimilate alkanes at a low temperature (alkanes are contaminants which are generally insoluble and/or solid at low temperatures). During growth at 5 degrees C on hexadecane or diesel fuel, strain Q15 produced a cell surfa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Whyte LG,Slagman SJ,Pietrantonio F,Bourbonnière L,Koval SF,Lawrence JR,Inniss WE,Greer CW

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiration of three phenotypes of Histoplasma capsulatum, the causal agent of histoplasmosis in humans, was markedly reduced by low concentrations of montmorillonite but was reduced less by even higher concentrations of kaolinite or attapulgite (palygorskite). The reduction in respiration followed a pattern that ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lavie S,Stotzky G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were carried out to examine the behavior of Listeria monocytogenes in the course of fabrication and storage of smoked salmon. In three trials, raw salmon fillets were surface inoculated with L. monocytogenes, marinated, smoked at 26 to 30 degrees C, and stored at 4 or 10 degrees C for up to 30 days. At dif...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Guyer S,Jemmi T

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of cereal gluten proteins. This disorder is associated with imbalances in the gut microbiota composition that could be involved in the pathogenesis of CD. The aim of this study was to characterize the composition and diversity of the cult...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sánchez E,Donat E,Ribes-Koninckx C,Fernández-Murga ML,Sanz Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the anaerobic degradation of the chimera 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate (3-Cl,4-OHB), anaerobic freshwater sediment samples from the vicinity of Athens, Ga., were adapted for the transformation of 4-hydroxybenzoate (4-OHB), 3-chlorobenzoate (3-CB), 2-chlorophenol (2-CP), and 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP). In nonad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang X,Wiegel J

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some species of ruminal bacteria are known to produce antimicrobial peptides, but the screening procedures have mostly been based on in vitro assays using standardized methods. Recent sequencing efforts have made available the genome sequences of hundreds of ruminal microorganisms. In this work, we performed genome mi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Azevedo AC,Bento CB,Ruiz JC,Queiroz MV,Mantovani HC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of hydrothermal vent sites exist on the summit of the Loihi Seamount, a shield volcano that is part of the Hawaiian archipelago. The vents are 1,100 to 1,325 m below the surface and range in temperature from slightly above ambient (10 degrees C) to high temperature (167 degrees C). The vent fluid is character...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Emerson D,Moyer CL

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical agents, such as low electric voltage and current, have recently gained attention for antimicrobial treatment due to their bactericidal capability. Although microampere electric current was shown to suppress the growth of bacteria, it remains unclear to what extent the microampere current damaged the bacterial...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krishnamurthi VR,Rogers A,Peifer J,Niyonshuti II,Chen J,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The biogeography of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris on a local scale was investigated. Thirty clones of phototrophic bacteria were isolated from each of five unevenly spaced sampling locations in freshwater marsh sediments along a linear 10-m transect, and a total of 150 clones were character...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oda Y,Star B,Huisman LA,Gottschal JC,Forney LJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Four sourdoughs (A to D) were produced under practical conditions by using a starter mixture of three commercially available sourdough starters and a baker's yeast constitutively containing various species of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). The sourdoughs were continuously propagated until the composition of the LAB flora...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Meroth CB,Walter J,Hertel C,Brandt MJ,Hammes WP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons has been investigated mostly with naphthalene as a model compound. Naphthalene degradation by sulfate-reducing bacteria proceeds via carboxylation to 2-naphthoic acid, formation of a coenzyme A thioester, and subsequent reduction to 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2-naphtho...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weyrauch P,Heker I,Zaytsev AV,von Hagen CA,Arnold ME,Golding BT,Meckenstock RU

更新日期：2020-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier studies, the pathway of toluene and m- and p-xylene degradation (TOL pathway) in Pseudomonas putida (pWW0) was found to be subject to catabolite repression when the strain was grown at the maximal rate on glucose or succinate in the presence of an inducer. This report describes catabolite repression of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duetz WA,Marqués S,Wind B,Ramos JL,van Andel JG

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helix alpha 4 of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxins is thought to play a critical role in the toxins' mode of action. Accordingly, single-site substitutions of many Cry1Aa helix alpha 4 amino acid residues have previously been shown to cause substantial reductions in the protein's pore-forming activity. Changes in prot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Girard F,Vachon V,Préfontaine G,Marceau L,Schwartz JL,Masson L,Laprade R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three crude oil bioremediation techniques were applied in a randomized block field experiment simulating a coastal oil spill. Four treatments (no oil control, oil alone, oil plus nutrients, and oil plus nutrients plus an indigenous inoculum) were applied. In situ microbial community structures were monitored by phosph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： MacNaughton SJ,Stephen JR,Venosa AD,Davis GA,Chang YJ,White DC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriocin nisin is produced only by some strains of Lactococcus lactis, and to date production in other lactic acid bacteria has not been achieved. Enterococcus sp. strain N12beta is a nisin-immune transconjugant obtained from a nisin-producing donor (L. lactis ATCC 11454) and a dairy recipient (Enterococcus sp....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li H,O'Sullivan DJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pathway was metabolically engineered to produce poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), a biodegradable thermoplastic with proven commercial applications, from a single, unrelated carbon source. An expression system was developed in which a prpC strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, with a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aldor IS,Kim SW,Prather KL,Keasling JD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli represents a global health problem for mammals, including humans. At present, diarrheagenic E. coli bacteria are grouped into seven major pathotypes that differ in their virulence factor profiles, severity of clinical manifestations, and prognosis. In this study, we developed and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Müller D,Greune L,Heusipp G,Karch H,Fruth A,Tschäpe H,Schmidt MA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of host nutrition on symbiont regulation in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum was investigated. The population density of the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola positively correlated with dietary nitrogen levels. In contrast, the population density of the facultative symbiont Serratia symbiotica increase...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilkinson TL,Koga R,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination was made of various sites along the length of the swine large intestine, using strictly anaerobic culture methods. Sites were separated by differential washing into fractions described as lumenal content, lumenal surface layer, and intestinal wall tissue. Direct microscopic clump counts averaged 13.3 x ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Russell EG

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00