Differential transmission of the genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato by game birds and small rodents in England.

abstract：:Thirty-nine isolates of fungi obtained from foodstuffs and soil samples from various parts of the world have been identified. The isolates were grown on a solid rice medium, and extracts were prepared with 50% aqueous methanol. The extracts were examined for toxicity in the following systems: (i) cytotoxicity to cultu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abbas HK,Mirocha CJ,Shier WT

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the presence of the four main viruses responsible for human acute gastroenteritis in a hydrographic network impacted by a disordered urbanization process, a 1-year study was performed involving water sample collection from streams in the hydrographic basin surrounding the city of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miagostovich MP,Ferreira FF,Guimarães FR,Fumian TM,Diniz-Mendes L,Luz SL,Silva LA,Leite JP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous rpsL mutant of Thermus thermophilus was isolated in a search for new selection markers for this organism. This new allele, named rpsL1, encodes a K47R/K57E double mutant S12 ribosomal protein that confers a streptomycin-dependent (SD) phenotype to T. thermophilus. Models built on the available three-dime...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blas-Galindo E,Cava F,López-Viñas E,Mendieta J,Berenguer J

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:An epoxyalkane:coenzyme M (CoM) transferase (EaCoMT) enzyme was recently found to be active in the aerobic vinyl chloride (VC) and ethene assimilation pathways of Mycobacterium strain JS60. In the present study, EaCoMT activity and genes were investigated in 10 different mycobacteria isolated on VC or ethene from dive...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coleman NV,Spain JC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of solar radiation and predacious microorganisms on the survival of bacteria of fecal and plant origin was studied. The decline in the numbers of Escherichia coli cells in estuarine water samples was found to be significantly greater in the presence of both naturally occurring microbial predators and solar ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCambridge J,McMeekin TA

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental studies of the human-pathogenic bacterium Campylobacter jejuni have focused on linking distributions with potential sources. However, in aquatic ecosystems, the abundance of C. jejuni may also be regulated by predation. We examine the potential for grazing by the freshwater planktonic crustacean Daphnia ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schallenberg M,Bremer PJ,Henkel S,Launhardt A,Burns CW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas sp. will methylate trimethyl lead acetate (Me3PbOAc) to volatile tetramethyl lead (Me4Pb). Examination of cultures grown in the presence of Me3PbOAc revealed no major irregularities between cells of the treated and untreated cultures. Some cells, however, showed evidence that intracytoplasmic materials had b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Silverberg BA,Wong PT,Chau YK

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium fredii USDA 206 harbors four large plasmids, one of which carries nodulation and nitrogen fixation genes. Previously isolated groups of plasmid-cured derivatives of strain USDA 206 were compared with each other to determine possible plasmid functions. Mutant strain 206CANS was isolated as a nonmucoid (Muc) d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barbour WM,Elkan GH

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum growth temperature, the optimal growth temperature, and the estimated normal physiological range for growth of Shewanella gelidimarina are functions of water activity (a(w)), which can be manipulated by changing the concentration of sodium chloride. The growth temperatures at the boundaries of the normal p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nichols DS,Olley J,Garda H,Brenner RR,McMeekin TA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-D-Galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) was extracted from Streptococcus thermophilus grown in deproteinized cheese whey. Cultural conditions optimum for maximum enzyme production were pH 7.0, 40 degrees C, and 24 h. Proteose peptone (2.0%, wt/vol) and corn steep liquor (2.8%, wt/vol) were highly stimulatory, increasing th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rao MV,Dutta SM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,2-Dibromoethane (EDB), which is a groundwater contaminant in areas where it was once used as a soil fumigant, was shown to be degraded aerobically by microorganisms in two types of surface soils from an EDB-contaminated groundwater discharge area. At initial concentrations of 6 to 8 mug/liter, EDB was degraded in a ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pignatello JJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Sepiola (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) contains 10 known species that occur in the Mediterranean Sea today. All Sepiola species have a light organ that contains at least one of two species of luminous bacteria, Vibrio fischeri and Vibrio logei. The two Vibrio species coexist in at least four Sepiola species (S. a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nishiguchi MK

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcin G and enterocin 1071 are two homologous two-peptide bacteriocins. Expression vectors containing the gene encoding the putative lactococcin G immunity protein (lagC) or the gene encoding the enterocin 1071 immunity protein (entI) were constructed and introduced into strains sensitive to one or both of the b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oppegård C,Emanuelsen L,Thorbek L,Fimland G,Nissen-Meyer J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the Frankia strains capable of establishing a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with actinorrhizal plants, in planta sporangial formation is not universal and has led to the distinction between spore-positive (Sp+) and spore-negative (Sp-) nodules. Numerous Frankia strains have been isolated in pure culture from Sp+ nod...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Simonet P,Bosco M,Chapelon C,Moiroud A,Normand P

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanuric acid is an industrial chemical produced during the biodegradation of s-triazine pesticides. The biodegradation of cyanuric acid has been elucidated using a single model system, Pseudomonas sp. strain ADP, in which cyanuric acid hydrolase (AtzD) opens the s-triazine ring and AtzEG deaminates the ring-opened pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aukema KG,Tassoulas LJ,Robinson SL,Konopatski JF,Bygd MD,Wackett LP

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic clone bank of Acetobacter polyoxogenes NBI1028 constructed in Escherichia coli by use of the expression vector pUC18 was screened with antibody raised against membrane-bound aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH; 75 kilodaltons [kDa]) from A. polyoxogenes NBI1028. A clone that synthesized a 41-kDa protein cross-react...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fukaya M,Tayama K,Tamaki T,Tagami H,Okumura H,Kawamura Y,Beppu T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective wastewater management is crucial to ensure the safety of water reuse projects and effluent discharge into surface waters. Multiple studies have demonstrated that municipal wastewater treatment with conventional activated sludge processes is inefficient for the removal of a wide spectrum of viruses in sewage....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chacón L,Barrantes K,Santamaría-Ulloa C,Solano M,Reyes L,Taylor L,Valiente C,Symonds EM,Achí R

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Estuarine systems are the major conduits for the transfer of nitrate from agricultural and other terrestrial-anthropogenic sources into marine ecosystems. Within estuarine sediments some microbially driven processes (denitrification and anammox) result in the net removal of nitrogen from the environment, while others ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Smith CJ,Nedwell DB,Dong LF,Osborn AM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioconversion of sugars present in wood hemicellulose to 2,3-butanediol by Klebsiella pneumoniae grown on high sugar concentrations was investigated. When K. pneumoniae was grown under finite air conditions in the presence of added acetic acid, 50 g of D-glucose and D-xylose per liter could be converted to 25 and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yu EK,Saddler JN

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibenzothiophene is degraded to 3-hydroxy-2-formyl benzothiophene by various bacteria, including a strain of Pseudomonas putida that also forms dibenzothiophene sulfone via an alternate pathway. By using these end products as substrates, mixed enrichment cultures that could degrade 3-hydroxy-2-formyl benzothiophene an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mormile MR,Atlas RM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of a bacterium (Pseudomonas chlororaphis) and a bactivorous protozoan (Uronema sp.) on transformations of labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC). In 36-day time series experiments, bacteria were grown on glucose both with and without protozoa. We measured bulk organic carbon pools and used electr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gruber DF,Simjouw JP,Seitzinger SP,Taghon GL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four sponge-associated Antarctic bacteria (i.e., Winogradskyella sp. strains CAL384 and CAL396, Colwellia sp. strain GW185, and Shewanella sp. strain CAL606) were selected for the highly mucous appearance of their colonies on agar plates. The production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) was enhanced by a st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Caruso C,Rizzo C,Mangano S,Poli A,Di Donato P,Finore I,Nicolaus B,Di Marco G,Michaud L,Lo Giudice A

更新日期：2018-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A light cycler-based real-time PCR (LC-PCR) assay that amplifies the F57 sequence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis was developed. This assay also includes an internal amplification control template to monitor the amplification conditions in each reaction. The targeted F57 sequence element is unique for M...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tasara T,Stephan R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium acetobutylicum is not able to grow on glycerol as the sole carbon source since it cannot reoxidize the excess of NADH generated by glycerol catabolism. Nevertheless, when the pSPD5 plasmid, carrying the NADH-consuming 1,3-propanediol pathway from C. butyricum VPI 3266, was introduced into C. acetobutylicum...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： González-Pajuelo M,Meynial-Salles I,Mendes F,Soucaille P,Vasconcelos I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and sequenced the Cercospora nicotianae gene for the carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme phytoene dehydrogenase. Analysis of the derived amino acid sequence revealed it has greater than 50% identity with its counterpart in Neurospora crassa and approximately 30% identity with prokaryotic phytoene dehydrogena...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ehrenshaft M,Daub ME

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, the agent of Lyme disease in North America, has consequences for the performance of serological diagnostic tests and disease severity. To investigate B. burgdorferi diversity in Canada, where Lyme disease is emerging, bacterial DNA in 309 infected adult Ixod...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ogden NH,Margos G,Aanensen DM,Drebot MA,Feil EJ,Hanincová K,Schwartz I,Tyler S,Lindsay LR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Washed and air-oxidized proteins from Sporomusa ovata cleaved the C-O bond of methanol or methoxyaromatics and transferred the methyl to dl-tetrahydrofolate. The reactions strictly required a reductive activation by titanium citrate, catalytic amounts of ATP, and the addition of dl-tetrahydrofolate. Methylcorrinoid-co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stupperich E,Konle R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-two samples taken from two landfills were monitored for CH(inf4) production and apparent steady-state H(inf2) concentration. The rates of methanogenesis in these samples ranged from below the detection limit to 1,900 (mu)mol kg (dry weight)(sup-1) day(sup-1), and the median steady-state hydrogen concentration wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mormile MR,Gurijala KR,Robinson JA,McInerney MJ,Suflita JM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two mouse immunoglobulin G1 monoclonal antibodies that bind to the trichothecene mycotoxin T-2 were prepared. These antibodies, designated 12C12 and 15H6, had affinities for T-2 of 3.5 X 10(6) and 5.8 X 10(7) liters/mol, respectively. A competitive inhibition enzyme immunoassay that employed these antibodies had a sen...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hunter KW Jr,Brimfield AA,Miller M,Finkelman FD,Chu SF

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00