Evaluation of antibacterial activity of extracts of five species of wood-colonizing fungi.

abstract：:Leaf-cutting ants modify the properties of the soil adjacent to their nests. Here, we examined whether such an ant-altered environment impacts the belowground fungal communities. Fungal diversity and community structure of soil from the fungus garden chambers of Atta sexdens rubropilosa and Atta bisphaerica, two wides...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Rodrigues A,Passarini MR,Ferro M,Nagamoto NS,Forti LC,Bacci M Jr,Sette LD,Pagnocca FC

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to determine what effects nanoparticles (NPs) like TiO2 , ZnO, and Ag may pose on natural attenuation processes of petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated soils. The solid NPs used were identified using x-ray diffraction technique and their average size was certified as 18.2, 16.9, and 18.3 nm ...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： El-Sayed WS,Elbahloul Y,Saad ME,Hanafy AM,Hegazi AH,ElShafei GMS,Elbadry M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pichia pastoris expression system was widely used for producing heterologous proteins. Some researches revealed that the increase in the copy number could improve the expression of foreign genes in P. pastoris. Hundreds or thousands of antibiotic-resistance recombinants need to be screened because the frequency of mul...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Zheng J,Guo N,Zhou HB

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propidium iodide (PI) uptake and salt tolerance assays were used to investigate the mechanism of antibacterial action of an extract of the leaves of Eremophila duttonii, a traditional Australian medicinal plant previously shown to have potent bactericidal activity against Gram positive bacteria. The extract compromise...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Tomlinson S,Palombo EA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium signaling is one of the most important signaling-pathways in all eukaryotes. One important target activated by an increased intracellular calcium concentration via calmodulin is the protein phosphatase calcineurin, which is composed of a catalytic subunit (calcineurin A) and a regulatory subunit (calcineurin B...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Thewes S,Schubert SK,Park K,Mutzel R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP) was efficiently degraded by Bacillus sp. SB-007. The optimal conditions for DIDP (100 mg l(-1)) degradation by Bacillus sp. SB-007 in a mineral salts medium were found to be pH 7.0 at 30 degrees C, stirring at 200 rpm. The specific rate of DIDP degradation was found to be con...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Park JM,Kim M,Yoon J,Kobayashi F,Iwasaka Y,Hong CS,Min J,Kim YH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface cultures of Fusarium culmorum JP15 were found to respond to extracts of other fungi by enhanced production of orange-red fusarubin pigments and formation of aerial mycelium. Two inducers from strain Ulocladium sp. HKI 0226, the new (-)-terpestacin (1) and L-tenuazonic acid (2), were isolated. 1 inhibited syncy...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Schlegel B,Schmidtke M,Dörfelt H,Kleinwächter P,Gräfe U

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding an organic solvent-stable protease was amplified from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain K by polymerase chain reaction using consensus primers based on multiple sequence alignment of alkaline and metalloprotease genes from Pseudomonas species. The gene, which consisted of 1440 bp nucleotides and deduced 47...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Rahman RN,Geok LP,Wong CF,Basri M,Salleh AB

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylella fastidiosa, the causal agent of citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC), colonizes plant xylem, reducing sap flow, and inducing internerval chlorosis, leaf size reduction, necrosis, and harder and smaller fruits. This bacterium may be transmitted from plant to plant by sharpshooter insects, including Bucephalogonia ...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Dourado MN,Santos DS,Nunes LR,Costa de Oliveira RL,de Oliveira MV,Araújo WL

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of RubisCO genes is a highly useful instrument to explore the diversity of chemoautotrophic bacteria using the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle for CO2 fixation. However, because of the wide taxonomic distribution of phylogenetically related RubisCO forms, environmental studies targeting chemoautotrophs are ha...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Alfreider A,Bogensperger T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermophilic, arsenate resistant bacterial strain was isolated from a geothermal field located in the area surrounding Monterotondo (Tuscany, Italy). Based on 16S rRNA gene analysis and recN comparisons the strain was identified as Geobacillus kaustophilus. Cells of the strain, designated A1, were rod-shaped, 2-3 μm...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Cuebas M,Sannino D,Bini E

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A culture was isolated from an industrial mercuric salt-contaminated soil, which could tolerate Cd, Co, Zn, Cr, and Hg up to 190, 525, 350, 935, and 370 μM, respectively. The isolate was identified as Lysinibacillus sphaericus by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. It bioaccumulated Cd, Co, and Zn, and reductively detoxified Cr...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Bafana A,Chakrabarti T,Krishnamurthi K

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to identify the most promising nutritional mode of growth for enhanced biomass and lipid productivity in a set of twenty microalgal strains, grown under photoautotrophic and mixotrophic/heterotrophic conditions using 2% glucose as carbon source. These included four cyanobacterial strain...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Ratha SK,Babu S,Renuka N,Prasanna R,Prasad RB,Saxena AK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen actinomycete strains were evaluated for their potential use in removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Their capability to degrade of naphthalene, phenanthrene, and pyrene was tested in minimal medium (MM) and MM with glucose as another substrate. Degradation of naphthalene in MM was observed in all...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Bourguignon N,Isaac P,Alvarez H,Amoroso MJ,Ferrero MA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans accepting electrons from Fe(II) have previously focused on cytochrome c. However, we have discovered that, besides cytochrome c, type IV pili (Tfp) can transfer electrons. Here, we report conduction by Tfp of A. ferrooxidans analyzed with a conducting-probe atomic force micros...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Li Y,Li H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Sau3AI digest of total DNA from Saccharomycopsis fibuligera was cloned with the yeast-integrating plasmid YEp24 delta EcoRI and the capacity for autonomous replication (ARS) was assayed in yeast. From eighty clones, five mitoticaly unstable yeast transformants were picked up, recombinant plasmids from these clones w...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Jurský F,Hostinová E

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary carbohydrates and polyols affect the microbial colonization of oral surfaces by modulating adhesion and biofilm formation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of a select group of l-carbohydrates and polyols on either Streptococcus mutans or Candida albicans adhesion and biofilm formation in vi...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Brambilla E,Ionescu AC,Cazzaniga G,Ottobelli M,Samaranayake LP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermus strains are regarded as models to investigate the mechanism of thermostability of thermophiles, and phages from Thermus are particularly interesting because of their way to regulate gene expression. In this research, a Thermus bacteriophage named TSP4 (Thermus Siphoviridae phage) was isolated from Tengchong ho...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Lin L,Hong W,Ji X,Han J,Huang L,Wei Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of high Cu(II) concentrations on superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) activity in Candida fukuyamaensis RCL-3 and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa RCL-11, previously isolated from a copper filter at a mine plant in Argentina, was studied. Addition of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.5 mM Cu(II) to the culture medium increas...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Villegas LB,Amoroso MJ,de Figueroa LI

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeasts form a significant and diverse part of the phyllosphere microbiota. Some yeasts that inhabit plants have been found to exhibit extracellular enzymatic activities. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ability of yeasts isolated from leaves, fruits, and blossoms of fruit trees cultivated in Southwe...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Molnárová J,Vadkertiová R,Stratilová E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimum growth of soil crust-forming cyanobacterial species occurs between 21 and 30 °C. When the temperature decreases below -5 °C, the liquid water in the cyanobacterial cells may freeze. In the natural environment, the temperature gradually decreases from autumn to winter, and the diurnal temperatures fluctuate...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Wang W,Wang Y,Shu X,Zhang Q

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimization of indigo production process from indole using a newly isolated phenol-degrading bacterial strain was performed by Plackett-Burman design and response surface methodology. The strain designated as QM was identified as Pseudomonas sp. according to 16S rDNA analysis. Spectrum analysis of indole biotransform...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Qu Y,Ma Q,Zhang X,Zhou H,Li X,Zhou J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of Actinobacteria associated with Paratrechina longicornis, an ant species that prefers a high protein diet, in a subtropical dry forest (Guánica, Puerto Rico) was determined by culture methods and by 16S rDNA clone libraries. The results of both methodologies were integrated to obtain a broader view of ...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Reyes RD,Cafaro MJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichoderma atroviride (T-15603.1) is a promising fungal agent for biological control of wood decay fungi in urban tree wounds. The aim of this work was to determine the combined effects of water activity (a(w), 0.998-0.892), temperature (10-30 °C) and pH (3-7) on the development of conidia on low-nutrient agar (LNA)....

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Schubert M,Mourad S,Schwarze FW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude glucoamylase preparation from Rhizoctonia solani was used to saccharify raw and cooked starch. Various concentrations of potato starch and wheat flour from 10-40%, w/v were used for mashing but 30% was found to be the optimal and economical. The saccharified mash yielded 5.89%, v/v ethanol in a simultaneous sacc...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Singh D,Dahiya JS,Nigam P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abscisic acid (ABA) plays important roles in many aspects of plant growth and development. Botrytis cinerea TB-3-H8, a high-yield strain of ABA, was used to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of ABA production in the present work. cDNA-amplified fragment length polymorphism (cDNA-AFLP) technique was applied to isolate...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Gong T,Shu D,Zhao M,Zhong J,Deng HY,Tan H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobins are a family of small, moderately hydrophobic proteins with eight cysteine residues arranged in a conserved pattern. A full-length cDNA, designated Po.hyd, corresponding to a hydrophobin gene of Pleurotus ostreatus was obtained in our previous work. The Po.hyd gene contains a 333 bp open reading frame (OR...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Ma A,Shan L,Wang N,Zheng L,Chen L,Xie B

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple photometric method for the determination of the agglutination rate of cells by lectins in a continuously stirred suspension is presented. Besides the agglutination rate the method allows the estimation of an average degree of agglutination, i.e. the number of cells per aggregate. The influence of the Con A-co...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Flemming C,Gabert A,Flemming I

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-hundreds and eighty bacterial strains, isolated from various Antarctic marine sources and locations, were screened for antimicrobial activity against terrestrial microorganisms. Twenty-two Antarctic isolates (3.8%), mainly retrieved from the water column at Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea), expressed antagonistic activi...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Lo Giudice A,Bruni V,Michaud L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophytes represent a hidden world within plants. Almost all plants that are studied harbor one or more endophytes, which help their host to survive against pathogens and changing adverse environmental conditions. Fungal and bacterial endophytes with distinct ecological niches show important biological activities and...

journal_title：Journal of basic microbiology

authors： Shah A,Hassan QP,Mushtaq S,Shah AM,Hussain A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00