Degradation of acyl-homoserine lactone molecules by Acinetobacter sp. strain C1010.

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is an opportunistic pathogen associated with a range of infections, including various lower respiratory infections, otitis media, and conjunctivitis. There is some debate as to whether or not NTHi produces biofilms and, if so, whether or not this is relevant to pathogenesis. A...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Obaid NA,Jacobson GA,Tristram S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HPr is a protein of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase transport system (PTS). In gram-positive bacteria, HPr can be phosphorylated on Ser-46 by the kinase/phosphorylase HprK/P and on His-15 by phospho-enzyme I (EI~P) of the PTS. In vitro studies with purified HPrs from Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus fa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Roy DJ,Casabon I,Vaillancourt K,Huot JL,Vadeboncoeur C

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large numbers of minute, flat, long, straight, but often broken structures were observed in aqueous extracts of soil. We have applied the purely descriptive term 'tubules' to these structure, because they apparently became flattened during preparation for electron-microscopic viewing. The tubules appeared to be compos...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Casida LE Jr,Liu KC

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the ability of environmental bacteria to metabolize the frequently prescribed fluoroquinolone drug ciprofloxacin, eight Mycobacterium spp. cultures were grown for 4 days in a medium containing sorbitol and yeast extract with 100 mg x L(-1) ciprofloxacin. After the cultures had been centrifuged and the sup...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Adjei MD,Heinze TM,Deck J,Freeman JP,Williams AJ,Sutherland JB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of Trichoderma harzianum and T. polysporum on chlamydospore production by two isolates of Phytophthora cinamomi were determined over a 21-day period in nonsterile, sterilized, and sterilized amended soil. Trichoderma was either coinoculated with P. cinnamomi or added to the cultures on day 3 of the incubation ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kelley WD

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminum (Al) toxicity is a major problem affecting soil fertility, microbial diversity, and nutrient uptake of plants. Rhizobia response and legume interaction under Al conditions are still unknown; it is important to understand how to develop and improve legume cultivation under Al stress. In this study, rhizobia re...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Artigas Ramírez MD,Silva JD,Ohkama-Ohtsu N,Yokoyama T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacteriocin, streptococcin sal-P, was isolated by freeze-thaw elution from cultures of Streptococcus salivarius strain P grown on tryptic soy agar plus 1% neopeptone. The inhibitor could also be extracted with either 7 M urea of 1 M NaCl from cells grown on this medium, but little activity was recovered from cells g...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Tagg JR,Russell C

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that is transmitted between fleas, which have a body temperature of 26 °C, and mammalian hosts, which have a body temperature of 37 °C. To adapt to the temperature shift, phenotype variations, including virulence, occur. In this study, an antigen microarray including 218 proteins of Y. p...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Li B,Tan Y,Guo J,Cui B,Wang Z,Wang H,Zhou L,Guo Z,Zhu Z,Du Z,Yang R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant and antimetabolite-resistant mutants of the nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacterium Frankia were isolated to provide strains with genetic backgrounds amenable to genetic analysis. The lethal and mutagenic effects of ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) and UV light on four Frankia strains were investigated. U...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Myers AK,Tisa LS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase from Bacillus sp. N2a (BNC) isolated from Antarctic seawater was purified to homogeneity. BNC has a molecular mass of about 230 kDa and is composed of four identical subunits of 56 kDa. The catalase showed optimal activity at 25 degrees C and at a pH range of 6-11. The enzyme could be inhibited by azide, hydr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Wang W,Sun M,Liu W,Zhang B

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebae serve as environmental hosts to a variety of mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium marinum. Mycobacterium shottsii and Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii are waterborne species isolated from the spleens and dermal lesions of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) from the Chesapeake Bay. The optimal...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Gupta T,Fine-Coulson K,Karls R,Gauthier D,Quinn F

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During exponential growth, strain AW405 of Escherichia coli K-12 did not regulate the fatty acid composition of its lipids in response either to temperature or to the addition of NaCl, KCl, or MgCl2 to the medium. Growth was severely restricted at temperatures below 21 degrees C. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： McGarrity JT,Armstrong JB

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity was found in the culture fluids of numerous marine bacteria isolated from seawater. Among these ogranisms, marine bacterium, Vibrio sp., strain No. 2, showed the highest deoxyribonucleic acid-hydrolyzing activity. This organism requires salts of seawater for both growth and extracell...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Maeda M,Taga N

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The types of bacteria and fungi present in the air of a municipal solid waste recovery system have been characterized and the population densities estimated. Conventional methods were successful in enumerating coagulase-positive staphylococci, Klebsiella spp., gram-negative bacteria, fungi, and common indicator organi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lembke LL,Kniseley RN

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A baseline serotype distribution was established by age and region for 2058 invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates collected during the implementation period of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) program in many parts of Canada in 2010. Serotypes 19A, 7F, and 3 were the most prevalent in all ag...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Demczuk WH,Martin I,Griffith A,Lefebvre B,McGeer A,Shane A,Zhanel GG,Tyrrell GJ,Gilmour MW,Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network.,Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network.

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of Cephalosporium acremonium to selected amino acid analogues was markedly influenced by the carbon source used in the test media. Lysine hydroxamate, beta-hydroxy norvaline, and hexafluorovaline were toxic when tested with ribose, ribose or fructose, and ribose or galactose, respectively. In contra...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Mehta RJ,Nash CH

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colletotrichum gloeosporioides is the causal agent of rubber tree anthracnose and leads to serious losses of natural rubber production. The pathogenesis of C. gloeosporioides on rubber tree remains unknown. Cerato-platanin proteins are small, secreted cysteine-rich proteins that contribute to virulence and function in...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Wang W,An B,Feng L,He C,Luo H

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty Haemophilus strains and six Actinobacillus strains, all of porcine origin, were examined for their biochemical reactivity on API 20E and API ZYM test strips using dense cell suspensions (supplemented with NAD as appropriate) as strip inocula. When combined with a test for V-factor dependency, the use of both st...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： O'Reilly T,Rosendal S,Niven DF

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation was to isolate a probiotic strain from 23 samples of yurts cheese and 21 samples of kumiss (collected from scattered households in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia), and from eN-Lac Capsules, a health-promoting product. The isolates were subjected to biochemical characterization analysi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kou X,Chen Q,Ju X,Liu H,Chen W,Xue Z

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against staphylococcal enterotoxin D (SED) were obtained by fusion of myeloma cells with mouse spleen cells immunized with SED only or a combination of SED and either enterotoxin A (SEA) or enterotoxin E (SEE). When only SED was used as an immunogen, six MAbs were specific for...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Shinagawa K,Omoe K,Matsusaka N,Sugii S

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysis of mid-log phase cells of the Gram-positive bacterium, Corynebacterium sepedonicum, by a combination of lysozyme treatment and incubation with alkaline sodium dodecyl sulfate at 56 degrees C led to the recovery of a single plasmid. The plasmid was purified in CsCl density gradients, and its molecular weight esti...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Clark MC,Lawrence CH

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxins produced by Escherichia coli O157:H7 cause a wide spectrum of enteric diseases, such as lethal hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome. In this study, the B subunit protein of Shiga toxin type 1 (Stx1) was produced in the E. coli system, was further purified by Ni-column Affinity Chromatography ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Wang Q,Hou XJ,Cai K,Li T,Liu YN,Tu W,Xiao L,Bao SZ,Shi J,Gao X,Liu H,Tian RM,Wang H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to examine aminoglycosides (AMGs) resistance mechanisms, including the AMG-modifying enzyme genes, mexXY, rplY, nuoG, and galU, in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa non-cystic fibrosis (CF) isolates in Thailand. One hundred P. aeruginosa isolates from non-CF patients were examined for susceptibility to AMGs ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Poonsuk K,Tribuddharat C,Chuanchuen R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the recovery of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts ((oo)cysts) from raw waters using 4 different concentration-elution methods: flatbed membranes, FiltaMax foam, Envirochek HV capsules, and Hemoflow ultrafilters. The recovery efficiency of the combined immunomagnetic separation and staining ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ferguson C,Kaucner C,Krogh M,Deere D,Warnecke M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A test is described for selective inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis isolates in fluid medium. The method employs rho-nitro-alpha-acetyl-amino-beta-hydroxy-propiophenone (NAP) as an inhibitory agent for differentiation of mammalian tuberculosis strains from other Mycobacteria. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Laszlo A,Eidus L

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term survival, dispersal, and germination of Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki DMU67R has been investigated in a field trial. An experimental cabbage plot was sprayed with DMU67R in 1993 and allowed to lie fallow since. The investigations reported here were carried out from 1997 to 2000 in this plot. High pers...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Hendriksen NB,Hansen BM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza undergoes extensive antigenic variation in nature. These new antigenic variants invariably supplant the preceding antigenic type that then disappears. In apparent contrast to this, two H3N2 strains that were forwarded to the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, in 1984 from a Canadian public health...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Brown EG

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for mycotoxin production by Chaetomium spp. and related fungi on rice culture was conducted by a combination of cytotoxicity tests using HeLa cells and thin-layer chromatography. Producers of sterigmatocystin, O-methylsterigmatocystin, chaetochromin, chaetocin, chetomin, cochliodinols, and mollicellin G were...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sekita S,Yoshihira K,Natori S,Udagawa S,Muroi T,Sugiyama Y,Kurata H,Umeda M

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-d-Fructofuranosidase (FFase), an important enzyme of the confectionery and fructose syrup industry, is produced by several microorganisms. However, yeasts are the most used source because of their high sucrose fermentation capacity. In this work, production of FFase was carried out in submerged fermentation using...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Venkateshwar M,Chaitanya K,Altaf MD,Hameeda B,Ghopal Reddy M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental distribution of Giardia spp. and Cryptosporidium spp. is dependent upon human, agricultural, and wildlife sources. The significance of each source with regard to the presence of parasites in the environment is unknown. This 2-year study examined parasite prevalence in human sewage influent, wildlife,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Heitman TL,Frederick LM,Viste JR,Guselle NJ,Morgan UM,Thompson RC,Olson ME

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00