abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae exist in transparent (Tr) and opaque (Op) colony forms. Op forms are recovered from patients early in the menstrual cycle; Tr colonies predominate late in the cycle. The mechanism for this colonial variation was examined by determining the influence of gonodal hormones on growth inhibition of Op ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Salit IE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treponema denticola and Treponema vincentii were cultured in a medium supplemented with either 0.2 or 0.4% (w/v) alpha globulin in place of serum. The active factor(s) in alpha globulin was stable at pH 7.0 to autoclaving and was nondialyzable. Extraction of lipids from alpha globulin showed that both protein and lipi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Van Horn KG,Smibert RM

更新日期：1982-03-01 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 effects of the Clostridium difficile toxin were examined in HeLa and mouse adrenal tumor (MAT) cells. Cytotoxicity was evaluated by vital dye exclusion and 51Cr release. In both HeLa and MAT cells, C. difficile toxin caused rounding of virtually 100% of cells. This rounding was distinguishable from rounding produc...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Gurwith MJ,Langston C,Dunsmore B

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:This study, the first of arbovirus activity in Prince Edward Island, has shown antibodies to the snowshoe hare strain of the California encephalitis group virus to be present in sera of wild and domestic animals; 15.35% of snowshoe hare, 20% of equine. and 2.5% of bovine sera were positive for hemagglutination inhibit...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： McFarlane BL,Embree JE,Embil JA,Artsob H,Weste JB,Rozee KR

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously unmapped pan gene was localized in an Escherichia coli K-12 strain using Hfr and F' matings and by transduction studies. This Pan- mutation was shown by supplementation studies to impart a block in pantoate biosynthesis. The pan gene cotransduced with rha, metB, and argE placing it at 87 min. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Manch JN

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proline dehydrogenase which catalyzes the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) dependent oxidation of proline and the NADH-dependent reduction of delta 1-pyrroline 5-carboxylic acid (PCA) was purified from extracts of Clostridium sporogenes. Following purification, only one protein band was found on analytical po...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Monticello DJ,Costilow RN

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Glutaraldehyde, the biological fixative of choice in the cytochemical localization of the phosphatases, was investigated for its effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa alkaline phosphatase. Comparative studies on the inactivation of alkaline phosphatase by glutaraldehyde showed significant differences when the purified pro...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Day DF,Ingram JM

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat activation (70 degrees C for 20 min) resulted in alteration in structural proteins and enzymes found in Bacillus cereus spore coats. The three notable changes were increased glycosylation of coat proteins, alteration in polypeptide pattern on sodium dodecyl sulfate - polyacrylamide gels, and an increase in free S...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Srivastava OP,Fitz-James PC

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses were isolated from every sample of raw (100 L) and treated (1000 L) water collected at a water treatment plant drawing sewage-contaminated river water. Few plaque-forming isolates were formed but cytopathogenic viruses were isolated as frequently in drinking water as in raw water. In drinking water some sample...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Payment P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrobacter freundii from an environmental source displayed resistance to a wide variety of antibacterials. Some of these resistances could be transferred by conjugation with frequencies as high as 10(-2). The complexity of plasmid involvement in the antibacterial resistance of this species was demonstrated by isolati...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Austen RA,Trust TJ

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiroplasmas were cultured from nonsurface-sterilized flowers of magnolia tree (Magnolia grandiflora L.) and tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipfera L.) in Alameda, Solano, and Yolo counties in California. Spiroplasmas were also isolated from honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) collected in the vicinity of Davis and Berkeley, C...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Raju BC,Nyland G,Meikle T,Purcell AH

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial cause of the cessation of patulin biosynthesis in submerged cultures of Penicillium urticae was sought. The extrinsic limitations to patulin biosynthesis in fermentor cultures were successfully removed and kinetic profiles of the metabolites of the pathway and of three pathway enzymes were determined over ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Neway J,Gaucher GM

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A species of Arthrobacter was recovered during culture of the causal organism of pitch canker of southern pines. Fusarium moniliforme var. subglutinans (FMS). Arthrobacter is a relatively common soil bacterium and is lytic to several fungal pathogens in the soil. Soil samples from two seed orchards with pitch canker a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Barrows-Broaddus J,Kerr TJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern bean mosaic virus (SBMV) protein was cleaved with cyanogen bromide and a highly basic peptide, CB-1, was isolated by ion exclusion and ion-exchange chromatography. Twelve peptides were separated from a tryptic digest of CB-1 by ion-exchange chromatography and the composition of these peptides was similar to t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Tremaine JH,Ronald WP,Kelly EM

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of postirradiation incubation with various chemicals structurally related to pantolactone on the survival of ultraviolet-irradiated Escherichia coli lon and ruv mutants were examined. Certain cyclic compounds with a butyrolactone, tetrahydrofuran, furan, tetrahydropyran, or 2-pyron ring showed substantial ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kato Y,Shiraki S,Hamada Y,Iyehara-Ogawa H,Nakayama H

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Cultures of Bacillus subtilis lysogenic for the temperature bacteriophage SP beta release "betacin", a bacteriocinlike substance that inhibits B. subtilis strains which do not carry this phage. Production of betacin is blocked by mutations in the bet gene on the prophage and a second phage gene, tol, is apparently inv...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Hemphill HE,Gage I,Zahler SA,Korman RZ

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal infections are a major cause of mortality in domestic rabbits. Although a few pathogenic organisms have been associated with this type of infection, it is often impossible to demonstrate the presence of any etiologic agents. Recently viral particles were observed in the intestine of diseased rabbits submitt...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lapierre J,Marsolais G,Pilon P,Descôteaux JP

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been undertaken to account for the presence of Thiobacillus acidophilus in iron-grown cultures of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Attempts to adapt T. acidophilus to ferrous iron were not successful but the facultative autotroph grew to a limited extent in the spent medium of T. ferrooxidans and was able to gro...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Arkesteyn GJ,de Bont JA

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two molecular forms of alpha-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.22) synthesized constitutively by Bacillus stearothermophilus, strain AT-7, have been purified. alpha-Galactosidase I (with the substrate p-nitrophenyl alpha-D-galactopyranoside (PNPG)) has a pH optimum of 6 and half-life at 65 degrees C of > 2 h at low protein conc...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Pederson DM,Goodman RE

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells were examined by scanning scanning electron microscopy before and after extraction of the mannans of the cell wall. The surfaces of control cells were smooth; after mannan extraction they were rough and showed erosions which were particularly striking within the area...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Koch Y,Rademacher KH

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a cinematographic analysis of culmination in fruiting bodies of Polysphondylium pallidum. During the final stages of aggregation, sorogen elongation is slow. An increase in the rate of sorogen elongation occurs when the growing stalk contacts the substratum, lifting the cell mass into the air. The elongation...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： O'Day DH,Durston AJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large pool of antibiotic resistant and auxotrophic mutants was isolated from the Staphylococcus aureus phage group 2 strains UT0002-19 and UT0017 by (1) antibiotic gradient plates, (2) trimethoprim selection, and (3) nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis, which sometimes was coupled by enrichment with either penicillin or me...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Martin SM,Rogolsky M

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of crossed immunoelectrophoresis to the analysis of a reference cytoplasm and cell envelope preparation from Pasteurella multocida serotype 1 revealed antigenic complexity not previously found. At least 55 cytoplasmic and 19 cell envelope antigens were clearly distinguished. Variation of anticytoplasm ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bhasin JL,Lapointe-Shaw L

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit antisera prepared to meningococcal serogroups Y and W135 strains were compared with horse antisera using the antiserum agar method (ASA) for the serogroup identification of Neisseria meningitidis. Thirty-seven group Y strains formed immunoprecipitates with the Y rabbit serum only, whereas the same Y strains for...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ashton FE,Ryan A,Diena BB

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strains of Rhizobium japonicum have been reported to consist of mixtures of stable derivativess having distinct colony morphologies and physiological characteristics. We isolated derivatives from strains of R. japonicum and systematically compared them with previously isolated derivatives with respect to the u...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Meyer MC,Pueppke SG

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the transition metal compound trans-[Rh(4-ethylpyridine)4Cl2]Cl x 2H2O on the syntheses of DNA, RNA, and protein has been investigated for an auxotrophic bacterial strain, Escherichia coli JS-1, incapable of thymidine, uridine, and histidine syntheses. At low concentration (7.4 x 10(-6) M), this rhodium ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Seeman SL,Jack TR

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas maltophilia has been identified in the rhizosphere of several cultured plants: cabbage, rape, mustard, corn, beet. In comparison with nonrhizospheric soil, all the rhizospheric samples analysed contain more of this Pseudomonas and the most important stimulation is supplied by cruciferous plants. The possib...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Debette J,Blondeau R

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodulation of Pisum sativum cv. Afghanistan by Rhizobium leguminosarum strain Tom can be blocked by the nonnodulating R. leguminosarum strain PF2. This system was used to study the dynamics of rhizobial binding to seedling root surfaces. Appreciable numbers of 35S-labeled rhizobia bound to the root surface within 2h a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Broughton WJ,van Egeraat AW,Lie TA

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-four strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were examined for their ability to be agglutinated by various lectins. Wheat germ agglutinin, ricin, soybean lectin, and peanut agglutinin agglutinated all strains tested. Dolichos biflorus, Sophora japonica, Maclura pomifera, Ulex Europaeus, Lens culinaris, Canavalia ensifo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Allen PZ,Connelly MC,Apicella MA

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of diaminopimelic acid (DAP) incorporation and turnover during growth recovery in chloramphenicol-treated (CMP-treated) Bacillus megaterium cells showed that two kinds of turnover occurred. A low acid-soluble turnover appeared as soon as growth resumed in bacteria labeled before the CMP treatment and at the ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Fréhel C,de Chastellier C,Ryter A

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were conducted to examine the dynamics of Cache Valley virus in Culiseta inornata, the probable chief vector of the virus. Of about 1500 laboratory reared C. inornata exposed to viraemic suckling mice, 72 took a blood meal. A relatively high precentage (93%) of the latter mosquitoes became infected. The vi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Hayles LB,Lversen JO

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menadione reductase (EC 1.6.99.2) has been purified 67-fold from Clostridium tyrobutyricum extracts. The molecular weight was found to be 60 000 and the prosthetic group was identified as FMN on the basis of the enzymatic analysis data. The binding of FMN to the menadione dehydrogenase apoenzyme was relatively weak wi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Petitdemange H,Marczak R,Raval G,Gay R

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00