Discrimination of psychrotrophic and mesophilic strains of the Bacillus cereus group by PCR targeting of major cold shock protein genes.

abstract：:Algal-bacterial mats which grow in the effluent channels of alkaline hot springs provided an environment suitable for studying natural thermophilic methane producing bacteria. Methane was rapidly produced in cores taken from the meat and appeared to be an end product of decomposition of the algal-bacterial organic mat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ward DM

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation and characterization of a phototrophic ferrous iron [Fe(II)]-oxidizing bacterium named TIE-1 that differs from other Fe(II)-oxidizing phototrophs in that it is genetically tractable. Under anaerobic conditions, TIE-1 grows photoautotrophically with Fe(II), H2, or thiosulfate as the electron don...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiao Y,Kappler A,Croal LR,Newman DK

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is indigenous to coastal environments and a frequent cause of seafood-borne gastroenteritis in the United States, primarily due to raw-oyster consumption. Previous seasonal-cycle studies of V. parahaemolyticus have identified water temperature as the strongest environmental predictor. Salinity ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zimmerman AM,DePaola A,Bowers JC,Krantz JA,Nordstrom JL,Johnson CN,Grimes DJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple anthropogenic disturbances to bacterial diversity have been investigated in coastal ecosystems, in which temporal variability in the bacterioplankton community has been considered a ubiquitous process. However, far less is known about the temporal dynamics of a bacterioplankton community responding to polluti...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang K,Zhang D,Xiong J,Chen X,Zheng J,Hu C,Yang Y,Zhu J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single glucosyltransferase (GTF) of Streptococcus gordonii Challis CH1 makes alpha 1,3- and alpha 1,6-linked glucans from sucrose. The GTF carboxyl-terminal region has six direct repeats thought to be involved in glucan binding. Strains with defined mutations in this region have been described recently (M. M. Vick...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vickerman MM,Clewell DB

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：:Emulsan is a polyanionic heteropolysaccharide bioemulsifier produced by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus RAG-1. A mixed bacterial population was obtained by enrichment culture that was capable of degrading emulsan and using it as a carbon source. From this mixed culture, an emulsan-degrading bacterium, termed YUV-1, was is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shoham Y,Rosenberg M,Rosenberg E

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental bacteria persist in various habitats, yet little is known about the genes that contribute to growth and survival in their respective ecological niches. Signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 coupled with a screen involving incubations of mutant strains in anoxic aquifer sediment...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Groh JL,Luo Q,Ballard JD,Krumholz LR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in brackish sediment was investigated using small-subunit rRNA and dissimilatory sulfite reductase (DSR) gene clone libraries and cultivation. The phylogenetic affiliation of the most commonly retrieved clones for both genes was strikingly similar and produced Desulfosa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Joulian C,Ramsing NB,Ingvorsen K

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:Zoothamnium niveum is a giant, colonial marine ciliate from sulfide-rich habitats obligatorily covered with chemoautotrophic, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria which appear as coccoid rods and rods with a series of intermediate shapes. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridization showed ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rinke C,Schmitz-Esser S,Stoecker K,Nussbaumer AD,Molnár DA,Vanura K,Wagner M,Horn M,Ott JA,Bright M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid, high-throughput assays that detect and quantify botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) activity in diverse matrices are required for environmental, clinical, pharmaceutical, and food testing. The current standard, the mouse bioassay, is sensitive but is low in throughput and precision. In this study, we present three bioc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dunning FM,Ruge DR,Piazza TM,Stanker LH,Zeytin FN,Tucker WC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-1,3-galactosyl-N-acetylhexosamine phosphorylase (GalGlyNAcP) homolog gene was cloned from Vibrio vulnificus CMCP6. In synthetic reactions, the recombinant enzyme acted only with GlcNAc and GalNAc as acceptors in the presence of alpha-d-galactose-1-phosphate as a donor to form lacto-N-biose I (LNB) (Galbeta1 -->...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nakajima M,Kitaoka M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper resistance mechanisms provide an important adaptive advantage to plant pathogenic bacteria under exposure to copper treatments. Copper resistance determinants have been described in Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (Pss) strains isolated from mango intimately associated with 62 kb plasmids belonging to the pPT...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Aprile F,Heredia-Ponce Z,Cazorla FM,de Vicente A,Gutiérrez-Barranquero JA

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus UW85 produces the linear aminopolyol antibiotic zwittermicin A (ZmA). This antibiotic has diverse biological activities, such as suppression of disease in plants caused by protists, inhibition of fungal and bacterial growth, and amplification of the insecticidal activity of the toxin protein from Bacil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kevany BM,Rasko DA,Thomas MG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,2-Propanediol (1,2-PD) is a major commodity chemical that is currently derived from propylene, a nonrenewable resource. A goal of our research is to develop fermentation routes to 1,2-PD from renewable resources. Here we report the production of enantiomerically pure R-1,2-PD from glucose in Escherichia coli express...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Altaras NE,Cameron DC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described whereby the presence of Salmonella spp. can be detected within 8 to 24 h of sample collection. The method depends upon the interaction of Salmonella spp. with the Salmonella-specific Felix-O1 bacteriophage. This interaction results in an increase in concentration of the bacteriophage which is det...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hirsh DC,Martin LD

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycelial culture of Pleurotus florida produced highest extracellular laccase in optimum growth medium. At least two laccases (L(inf1) and L(inf2)) were shown to be present in the culture filtrate. Low-laccase-yielding mutants with impaired L(inf2) activity had poor mycelial growth and could not form fruit body, wherea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Das N,Sengupta S,Mukherjee M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wood-degrading fungi use a sequence of oxidative and hydrolytic mechanisms to loosen lignocellulose and then release and metabolize embedded sugars. These temporal sequences have recently been mapped at high resolution using directional growth on wood wafers, revealing previously obscured dynamics as fungi progressive...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Presley GN,Panisko E,Purvine SO,Schilling JS

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different endoxylanases (1,4-beta-D-xylan xylanohydrolases, EC 3.2.1.8), designated 1 and 2, have been purified by column chromatography to apparent homogeneity from the nonsedimentable extracellular culture fluid of the strictly anaerobic, ruminal bacterium Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 grown on crystalline cellul...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Matte A,Forsberg CW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since Vibrio cholerae O139 first appeared in 1992, both O1 El Tor and O139 have been recognized as the epidemic serogroups, although their geographic distribution, endemicity, and reservoir are not fully understood. To address this lack of information, a study of the epidemiology and ecology of V. cholerae O1 and O139...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Alam M,Hasan NA,Sadique A,Bhuiyan NA,Ahmed KU,Nusrin S,Nair GB,Siddique AK,Sack RB,Sack DA,Huq A,Colwell RR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the course of immunologic studies involving the gastrointestinal colonization of mice with Candida albicans, it became apparent that the animals were being exposed to large numbers of Aspergillus fumigatus spores which interfered with the C. albicans colonization. To determine the source of the A. fumigatus exp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mayeux P,Dupepe L,Dunn K,Balsamo J,Domer J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits have been increasingly linked to the persistence of paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) in domestic ruminants in the United Kingdom. The aims of this study were to determine the routes of intraspecies transmission of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) in rabbits and to estimate the probabilit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Judge J,Kyriazakis I,Greig A,Davidson RS,Hutchings MR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel multiplex PCR method using three sets of specific primers was developed for the detection of the cytotoxic (act), heat-labile (alt), and heat-stable (ast) enterotoxin genes in Aeromonas spp. This assay was used to characterize 35 reference strains as well as 537 food-borne isolates. A total of seven gene patte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kingombe CI,D'Aoust JY,Huys G,Hofmann L,Rao M,Kwan J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aureobasidium pullulans, a cosmopolitan yeast-like fungus, colonizes leaf surfaces and has potential as a biocontrol agent of pathogens. To assess the feasibility of rRNA as a target for A. pullulans-specific oligonucleotide probes, we compared the nucleotide sequences of the small-subunit rRNA (18S) genes of 12 geogr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li S,Cullen D,Hjort M,Spear R,Andrews JH

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections caused by Toxoplasma gondii are widely prevalent in animals and humans throughout the world. In the United States, an estimated 23% of adolescents and adults have laboratory evidence of T. gondii infection. T. gondii has been identified as a major opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised individuals, in ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schwab KJ,McDevitt JJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of autoproteolysis of Lactococcus lactis lactocepin III on its specificity towards beta-casein was investigated. beta-Casein degradation was performed by using either an autolysin-defective derivative of L. lactis MG1363 carrying the proteinase genes of L. lactis SK11, which was unable to transport oligopep...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Flambard B,Juillard V

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population dynamics of bifidobacteria in human feces during raffinose administration were investigated at the species level by using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) coupled with flow cytometry (FCM) analysis. Although double-staining FISH-FCM using both fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) and indodicarbocy...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dinoto A,Marques TM,Sakamoto K,Fukiya S,Watanabe J,Ito S,Yokota A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of time-dependent drug and environmental effects on single, live bacterial cells would benefit significantly from a permeable, nonperturbative, long-lived fluorescent stain specific to the nucleoids (chromosomal DNA). The ideal stain would not affect cell growth rate or nucleoid morphology and dynamics, even d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bakshi S,Choi H,Rangarajan N,Barns KJ,Bratton BP,Weisshaar JC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies designed to determine the factors responsible for control of herpesvirus replicaton in an infected cell, we examined the interaction of varicella-zoster (VZ) virus-infected human embryonic lung cells with the pesticide carbaryl. The replication of the cell-associated VZ virus was enhanced 2- to 13-fold as c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abrahamsen LH,Jerkofsky M

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00