Use of mutants to establish (+)-scytalone as an intermediate in melanin biosynthesis by Verticillium dahliae.

abstract：:The acetylene-reduction assay was used for in situ and laboratory assessment of biological nitrogen fixation in the acidic, waterlogged, muskeg ecosystem of the southern James Bay area, in the region of Moosonee, Ontario. In situ assays and subsequent laboratory experimentation revealed that nitrogenase activity was p...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Blasco JA,Jordan DC

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shikimate metabolites are key precursors to a large number of natural products, including aromatic amino acids. Chorismic acid is an important branch point in the biosynthetic pathway to aromatic amino acids. Chorismic acid is also unique among natural products since it is the only compound known to undergo an enz...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Zamir LO,Devor KA,Jensen RA,Tiberio R,Sauriol F,Mamer O

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus could be demonstrated earlier in mice inoculated with clinical specimens if the mice were sacrificed before they appeared sick for examination by the fluorescent antibody technique. In the procedure, the optimal route for inoculation was intracerebral and the best organ tested for st...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lewis VJ,Thacker WL,Mitchell SH

更新日期：1976-11-01 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：: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：:Two bacterial species, Gram-negative Escherichia coli and Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis, were exposed to different auxins to examine possible effects of these substances on bacterial stress tolerance. Bacterial resistance to UV irradiation, heat shock, and streptomycin was assessed with and without previous exposure...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Repar J,Šućurović S,Zahradka K,Zahradka D,Ćurković-Perica M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes induced by two Rhizobium trifolii bacteriophages caused depolymerization of exopolysaccharides from most R. trifolii and R. leguminosarum strains tested, but did not, in general, attack the exopolysaccharides of R. meliloti, the slow-growing rhizobia, or Agrobacterium. Ca2+ and (or) Mg2+ were required for enzy...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Barnet YM,Humphrey B

更新日期：1975-10-01 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 effects of seven thiophosphorus pesticides and their degradation products on estuarine ammonium oxidizers were examined. Using an axenic, closed-culture, high cell density assay, the pesticides caused little inhibition of ammonium oxidation. However, the degradation product of methyl parathion, p-aminophenol, sign...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Jones RD,Hood MA

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cultural, morphological, and physiological properties of Thermomonospora fusca (strain 190Th) are described. Its physiological properties show that this species is primarily a carbohydrate-degrading actinomycete which can use a wide range of plant sugars and polymeric carbohydrates as sources of carbon and energy....

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Crawford DL

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent antibody was prepared against a temperate-soil isolate of Beijerinckia obtained from a rhizosphere of rice growing in Camargue (France). The antibody did not cross-react with any of 6 species of Azotobacter, 4 species of Beijerinckia, or 44 unidentified soil bacteria isolated from a spectrum of rhizosphere...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Diem HG,Godbillon G,Schmidt EL

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica biotype 1A (B1A) strains are considered mainly nonpathogenic. However, some studies considered strains of this biotype to be the causal agents of infections in humans and animals. In South America, there are no studies that have compared clinical and nonclinical strains of B1A typed by pulsed-f...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Campioni F,Falcão JP

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grapes inoculated with poliovirus 1 and coxsackievirus B5 were washed with water, 0.5% polyehtylene glycol, or phosphate-buffered saline with 1% serum. These washes were equally efficient at removing virus but much of the virus in the water was noninfectious until treated with 0.5% polyethylene glycol. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Konowalchuk J,Spiers JI

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nystatin-resistant mutant of Aspergillus niger is described that has quantitative changes in phospholipid composition compared with the wild type. The proportion of linoleic acid in total phospholipids was elevated in the mutant from 38 to 56% and the proportion of oleic acid was lowered from 28 to 12%. Amino acid t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Mazumder C,Basu J,Kundu M,Chakrabarti P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human astrovirus (HAstV) was an important cause of viral gastroenteritis in infants in Wuhan city based on our previous study. The aim of the study was to investigate the nature of HAstV infection in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, especially in adults. Stool specimens were collected from 361 children and 301 adult...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Wang F,Wang YH,Peng JS,Zhou X,Tang L,Kobayashi N,Hu Q,Zhou DJ,Huang HJ,Liu MQ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several restriction systems were detected in different strains of Streptomyces antibioticus by using actinophages as biological indicators. Adsorption of phages to the bacteria, together with the study of the efficiency of plating gave an initial indication of restriction in three strains. The alternation of efficienc...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sànchez J,Barbès C,Hernandez A,de los Reyes Gavilàn CR,Hardisson C

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial mats that develop in shallow brackish and hyposaline ponds in the rims of two French polynesian atolls (Rangiroa and Tetiaroa) were intensively investigated during the past three years. Comparative assessment of these mats (called kopara in polynesian language) showed remarkable similarities in their composi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Che LM,Andréfouët S,Bothorel V,Guezennec M,Rougeaux H,Guezennec J,Deslandes E,Trichet J,Matheron R,Le Campion T,Payri C,Caumette P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten strains of Caldariomyces fumago and related fungi were found to produce extracellular chloroperoxidase when grown on a glucose - malt extract medium. High enzyme levels and pigment production were observed for C. fumago ATCC 16373 and C. fumago CMI 89362. Removal of malt extract from the medium and the replacement...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Pickard MA

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 40-kDa porin protein of Haemophilus influenzae type b was reconstituted into proteoliposomes. The relative rates of diffusion of small uncharged sugars across the channels formed by this protein were determined by measuring the rates of osmotic swelling of the liposomes. From these rates, a pore diameter of 1.8 nm...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Vachon V,Kristjanson DN,Coulton JW

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization and enumeration of the adherent epimural community of the rumen wall of young, conventionally reared lambs were carried out from 2 to 21 days after birth. Three hundred strains were isolated by anaerobic procedures from three sites: dorsal, ventral, and caudal sacs, and from the sloughed epithelial ce...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Rieu F,Fonty G,Gouet P

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus temperata, an insect pathogen and nematode symbiont, is motile in liquid medium by swimming. We found that P. temperata was capable of surface movement, termed swarming behavior. Several lines of evidence indicate that P. temperata use the same flagella for both swimming and swarming motility. Both motili...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Michaels B,Tisa LS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten bacterial strains were isolated by enrichment culture, using as carbon sources either aliphatics or an aromatic-polar mixture. Oxygen uptake rate was used as a criterion to determine culture transfer timing at each enrichment stage. Biodegradation of aliphatics (10,000 mg L(-1)) and an aromatic-polar mixture (5000...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Díaz-Ramírez IJ,Ramírez-Saad H,Gutiérrez-Rojas M,Favela-Torres E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of Streptomyces peucetius often were observed to divert spontaneously from the production of anthracycline antibiotics to the excretion of acidic metabolites, whether grown in a defined medium or a nutrient-rich medium. The predominant excreted acidic metabolites were determined by high-performance liquid chr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Dekleva ML,Strohl WR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conidia of Torula caligans (Batista & Upadhyay) M. B. Ellis comb.nov. and T. terrestris Misra were examined by transmission- and scanning-electron microscopy. Torula caligans produced four-celled conidia in which the central cells were distinctly larger than the basal and apical cells. Conidia of T. terrestris were 4-...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ellis DH,Griffiths DA

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae was found to effect the reductive dechlorination of methoxychlor (2,2-bis(p-methoxyphenyl)-1, 1, 1-trichloroethane) and its dihydroxy derivative (2, 2-bis (p-hydroxyphenyl)-1, 1, 1-trichloroethane) to dichloro derivatives 2, 2-bis (p-methoxyphenyl)-1, 1-dichloroethane and 2, 2-bis (p-hydroxypheny...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Baarschers WH,Bharath AI,Elvish J,Davies M

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiochemical characteristics of the intracellular proteolytic enzymes of Oidiodendron kalari, a neuropathogenic fungus, were studied. The organism in the yeast phase was grown in a semisynthetic medium containing 1% tryptone, at 37 degrees C for 48 hr, on a gyrotory shaker. The crude extract was prepared by brea...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Cino PM,Tewari RP

更新日期：1975-09-01 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：:Boron (B) is toxic to living cells at levels above a certain threshold. We isolated several B-tolerant bacterial strains from soil samples and studied them for possible mechanisms of B tolerance. 16S rRNA gene sequencing and comparative phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the isolates belong to the following 6 gen...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ahmed I,Fujiwara T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid pattern in Mycobacterium vaccae strain JOB5 was examined after growth on n-alkanes (C14-C18), 1-alkenes (C14-C18), 2- or 3-methyl octadecane, and 8-heptadecene. It was evident that monoterminal oxidation of n-alkanes was followed by beta-oxidation and that both parent fatty acid and products of beta-oxi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： King DH,Perry JJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are inherent weaknesses associated with currently used bacterial fecal pollution indicator systems. Fecal pollution indicator data would be more meaningful if supplemented with information relating to the occurrence of pathogens in recreational water. Through surveys of four bathing beaches on Lake Ontario, it w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sherry JP,Kuchma SR,Dutka BJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00