Prophage-mediated production of a bacteriocinlike substance by SP beta lysogens of Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:Fourteen Lactococcus lactis strains showing inhibitory activity against Listeria innocua SICC 4202 were isolated from different French raw milks and raw milk cheeses and screened for bacteriocin production by the triple layer method under conditions that eliminate the effects of lactic acid and hydrogen peroxide. Thre...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ali D,Lacroix C,Thuault D,Bourgeois CM,Simard RE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, the large tailings pond (Mildred Lake Settling Basin) on the Syncrude Canada Ltd. lease near Fort McMurray, Alta., has gone methanogenic. Currently, about 60%-80% of the flux of gas across the surface of the tailings pond is methane. As well as adding to greenhouse gas emissions, the production of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Holowenko FM,MacKinnon MD,Fedorak PM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial culture based on the use of plate media is an effective method for investigating bacterial populations in the environment. To improve the culturability of bacteria from freshwater lakes, we developed a new medium, FW70, which contains sodium pyruvate, casamino acids, and lake water and is solidified using ge...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Imazaki I,Kobori Y

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural enrichments of magnetotactic bacteria were used to study the sites where heavy metals accumulate in uncultured bacteria. Most bacteria obtained by magnetic concentration from these enrichments contained, in addition to the magnetosomes, large phosphorus-rich granules in the cytoplasm. Metal (Zn, Mn, Sr, Cd, Al...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Keim CN,Lins U,Farina M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Salmonella typhimurium LT2 the F factor of Escherichia coli K-12 replicates normally but is repressed; Flac+ cells give no visible lysis on solid media with male-specific phages, low frequency transfer of Flac+ (0.001-0.007 per donor cell), few f2 infective centers (0.002-0.006 per cell), and they propagate male-sp...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sanderson KE,Kadam SK,MacLachlan PR

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-O-Methyl-D-glucose (3-O-MeGlc) or a mixture of 3-O-MeGlc and glucose stimulate invertase, beta-glucosidase, alpha-glucosidase, and alpha-galactosidase production by Cryptococcus laurentii. They also increase invertase and alpha-glucosidase production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The stimulatory effect of 3-O-MeGlc i...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bhanot P,Brown RG

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of nitrogenase (C2H2) activity in asymbiotically cultured Rhizobium sp. 32H1 was found to be associated with morphological changes in the cells which were more pronounced than those seen in bacteroids. Polyphosphate granules were found in both bacteroids and cultured cells, but poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： van Brussel AA,Costerton JW,Child JJ

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression and purification are procedures used to allow functional and structural characterization of proteins. Many overexpressed proteins are partially or completely insoluble, and can not be easily purified. The NifA protein is an enhancer-binding protein involved in activating the expression of nif and some f...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Monteiro RA,Souza EM,Yates MG,Pedrosa FO,Chubatsu LS

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the dairy industry, bacterial contaminants persist on equipment surfaces due to spore and biofilm formation. These are involved in cross-contamination problems that affect the quality of processed products and limit their life. The pasteurization process, in which milk is submitted to moderate heat treatment, is in...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Malek F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction amplification was used to compare different regions of the cytochrome c3 gene from nine strains of Desulfovibrio vulgaris, to examine homology within the species. Six 30-base polymerase chain reaction primers and three probes were synthesized on the basis of the published nucleic acid sequenc...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kwoh DY,Vedvick TS,McCue AF,Gevertz D

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:The accumulation of radioactive Cs by fungi was studied by analysis of fruit bodies (n (total) = 205, n greater than or equal to 5 for 22 species) collected in 1988 in a Norwegian mountain area with high deposition of radiocaesium from the Chernobyl accident. To account for site variation, the radiocaesium content of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bakken LR,Olsen RA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic subunit of many Escherichia coli redox enzymes bares a twin-arginine translocation (Tat)-dependent signal peptide in its precursor, which directs the redox enzyme complex to this Sec-independent pathway. NarG of the E. coli nitrate reductase NarGHI complex possesses a vestige twin-arginine motif at its N...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Li H,Turner RJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five media and procedures were compared for their recovery of fecal streptococci on membrane filters. Growth and numbers of a variety of pure cultures were compared, and recoveries from raw sewage and sewage effluent were determined on the five media. A total of 512 isolates were identified and the specificity of each...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Pagel JE,Hardy GM

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the four known isoforms of the staphylococcal exfoliative toxins (ETs), only ETA and ETB are the major causative agents. General knowledge is that the gene for ETA is located on the chromosome, whereas that for ETB is located on a large plasmid. Yoshizawa and co-workers (2000, Microbiol. Immunol. 44(3): 189-191) ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sahin F,Karasartova D,Özsan TM,Kiyan M,Karahan CZ,Tekeli A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microplaque reduction assay for human and mouse interferons is described, using plastic disposable multicompartmental plates with flat-bottomed wells of 6 mm in diameter. The procedure is rapid and reproducible and lends itself to a considerable degree of automation. Its potential application in other areas of virol...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Campbell JB,Grunberger T,Kochman MA,White SL

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonistic activity of the bacterium Pseudomonas cepacia against Trichoderma viride was greatly influenced by nutritional and environmental conditions. Xylose and trehalose strongly enhanced the antifungal activity of P. cepacia, whereas mannitol and glucose had little effect. The carbon sources that enhanced the an...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Upadhyay RS,Visintin L,Jayaswal RK

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of 36 isolates of Caryophanon latum and 3 isolates designated Caryophanon tenue, obtained from geographically diverse regions, has been examined for guanine plus cytosine (mol % G+C) base composition, genome size, and for relative reassociation levels. The isolates were found to be homo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Adcock KA,Seidler RJ,Trentini WC

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined factors related to the potent antagonistic effect of Escherichia coli and Bacteroides ovatus on Staphylococcus aureus in anaerobic continuous flow cultures. In the presence of sugars fermentable by E. coli alone or both E. coli and S. aureus, motile E. coli strains exerted a potent antagonistic effect and ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ushijima T,Ozaki Y

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 24 bacterial species examined for lisinopril refractive peptidyl dipeptidase activity, only 8 contained activity. Activity in Pseudomonas maltophilia was more than fourfold higher than that of any other species. Pseudomonas maltophilia may be unique among bacteria in possessing high peptidyl dipeptidase activity th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Stevens J,Fanburg BL,Lanzillo JJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium Thiopedia rosea forms multicellular, gas-vacuolate, regular, flat aggregates (platelets, sheets) held together by slime. Platelets found in eutrophic water consisted of slime (85% of the total wet volume) and 16 cells, while the gas-filled vacuole occupied 44% of the volume of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Scherrer R,Shull VE

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among nine eluents tested, 0.5% (w/v) isoelectric casein at pH 9.0 and 0.5% (w/v) non-fat dry milk (pH 9.0) were the most efficient in eluting poliovirus type 1 (Sabin) from Eustis fine sand. However, no significant difference was found between the overall (elution followed by concentration) virus recoveries by non-fa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bitton G,Charles MJ,Farrah SR

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the divE mutant, which has a temperature-sensitive mutation in the tRNA1(Ser) gene, the synthesis of beta-galactosidase is dramatically decreased at the non-permissive temperature. In Escherichia coli, the UCA codon is only recognized by tRNA1(Ser). Several genes containing UCA codons are normally expressed at 42 d...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kubo T,Aiso T,Ohki R

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 20% of Canada's oil supply now comes from the extraction of bitumen from the oil sands deposits in northeastern Alberta. The oil sands are strip-mined, and the bitumen is typically separated from sand and clays by an alkaline hot water extraction process. The rapidly expanding oil sands industry has mill...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Fedorak PM,Coy DL,Salloum MJ,Dudas MJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of the eukaryotic nucleus is difficult to reconstruct. While eukaryotic organelles (chloroplast, mitochondrion) are eubacterial endosymbionts, the source of nuclear genes has been obscured by multiple nucleotide substitutions. Using evolutionary parsimony, a newly developed rate-invariant treeing algorithm,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lake JA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatophytes are a group of fungi that are capable of invading keratinized tissues of humans and other animals. Antifungal susceptibility analysis and genetic studies by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD), have been used to detect polymorphism as well as determining the possible resistance of dermatophyte...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Brilhante RS,Cordeiro RA,Medrano DJ,Monteiro AJ,Sidrim JJ,Rocha MF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Salmonella typhimurium with defects in the heptose region of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) molecule (heptose-deficient, chemotype Re) leak periplasmic enzymes (acid phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.2), cyclic phosphodiesterase, ribonuclease I (EC 3.1.4.22), and phosphoglucose isomerase (EC 5.3.1.9) (PGI is at least par...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Chatterjee AK,Ross H,Sanderson KE

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic susceptibilities of 382 strains of Campylobacter jejuni isolated in Alberta, Canada, in 1980 and 1981 were determined. Although none were resistant to erythromycin or gentamicin, 5.4 and 22% of strains were resistant to ampicillin in 1980 and 1981, respectively. Tetracycline resistance was noted in 6.8% of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Taylor DE,Chang N,Garner RS,Sherburne R,Mueller L

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitinases isolated from membrane and cytosolic fractions of two mucoraceous fungi, Choanephora cucurbitarum and Phascolomyces articulosus, were investigated. The membrane-bound chitinase was isolated by Bio-Gel P-100 and DEAE Bio-Gel A chromatographic techniques. On SDS-PAGE the chitinase from both fungi migrated as ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Balasubramanian R,Manocha MS

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen of 22 group A meningococcal strains were separated into four serotypes by a microbactericidal assay using group A antisera. In addition, 6 of 19 of these strains were killed by a group B antiserum and similar cidal patterns were obtained with a group C antiserum. There was little correlation between type and...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Quan AL,Sippel JE

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00