abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes is a major cause of necrotizing fasciitis, a life-threatening subcutaneous soft-tissue infection. At the host infection site, the local environment and interactions between the host and bacteria have effects on bacterial gene expression profiles, while the gene expression pattern of S. pyogenes ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hirose Y,Yamaguchi M,Okuzaki D,Motooka D,Hamamoto H,Hanada T,Sumitomo T,Nakata M,Kawabata S

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The human enteropathogen Clostridium difficile constitutes a key public health issue in industrialized countries. Many aspects of C. difficile pathophysiology and adaptation inside the host remain poorly understood. We have recently reported that this bacterium possesses an active CRISPR-Cas system of subtype I-B for ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maikova A,Kreis V,Boutserin A,Severinov K,Soutourina O

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of food during processing is recognized as a main transmission route of Listeria monocytogenes To prevent microbial contamination, biocides are widely applied as disinfectants in food processing plants. However, there are concerns about the development of antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Roedel A,Dieckmann R,Brendebach H,Hammerl JA,Kleta S,Noll M,Al Dahouk S,Vincze S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Candidatus Nitrosotenuis uzonensis" is the only cultured moderately thermophilic member of the thaumarchaeotal order Nitrosopumilales (NP) that contains many mesophilic marine strains. We examined its membrane lipid composition at different growth temperatures (37°C, 46°C, and 50°C). Its lipids were all membrane-span...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bale NJ,Palatinszky M,Rijpstra WIC,Herbold CW,Wagner M,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large surface-to-volume ratios provide optimal nutrient uptake conditions for small microorganisms in oligotrophic habitats. The surface area can be increased with appendages. Here, we describe chains of interconnecting vesicles protruding from cells of strain Hel3_A1_48, affiliating with Formosa spp. within the Flavo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fischer T,Schorb M,Reintjes G,Kolovou A,Santarella-Mellwig R,Markert S,Rhiel E,Littmann S,Becher D,Schweder T,Harder J

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological succession that occurs during the first year of life in the gut of infants in Western countries is broadly predictable in terms of the increasing complexity of the composition of microbiotas. Less information is available about microbiotas in Asian countries, where environmental, nutritional, and cultur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lawley B,Otal A,Moloney-Geany K,Diana A,Houghton L,Heath AM,Taylor RW,Tannock GW

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin is massively produced by freshwater plankton species as a structural element of their exoskeleton or cell wall. At the same time, chitin does not accumulate in the predominantly anoxic sediments, underlining its importance as carbon and nitrogen sources for sedimentary microorganisms. We studied chitin degradat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wörner S,Pester M

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Shewanella is well known for its genetic diversity, its outstanding respiratory capacity, and its high potential for bioremediation. Here, a novel strain isolated from sediments of the Indian Ocean was characterized. A 16S rRNA analysis indicated that it belongs to the species Shewanella decolorationis It wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lemaire ON,Honoré FA,Tempel S,Fortier EM,Leimkühler S,Méjean V,Iobbi-Nivol C

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infection of animals with aerosols containing pathogenic agents is essential for an understanding of the natural history and pathogenesis of infectious disease as well as evaluation of potential treatments. We evaluated whether the Aeroneb nebulizer, a vibrating mesh nebulizer, would serve as an alternati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bowling JD,O'Malley KJ,Klimstra WB,Hartman AL,Reed DS

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural management practices affect bulk soil microbial communities and the functions they carry out, but it remains unclear how these effects extend to the rhizosphere in different agroecosystem contexts. Given close linkages between rhizosphere processes and plant nutrition and productivity, understanding how m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmidt JE,Vannette RL,Igwe A,Blundell R,Casteel CL,Gaudin ACM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of small secreted proteins (SSPs) in saprotrophic fungi is, for the most part, unknown. The white-rot mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus produces considerable amounts of SSPs at the onset of secondary metabolism, during colony development, and in response to chemical compounds such as 5-hydroxymethylfurfural an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Feldman D,Amedi N,Carmeli S,Yarden O,Hadar Y

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we shed light on the metabolism of dihydroxyacetone (DHA), a versatile, ubiquitous, and important intermediate for various chemicals in industry, by analyzing its metabolism at the system level in Escherichia coli Using constraint-based modeling, we show that the growth of E. coli on DHA is suboptimal an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Peiro C,Millard P,de Simone A,Cahoreau E,Peyriga L,Enjalbert B,Heux S

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Aminopeptidases have the unique capability to hydrolyze N-terminal β-amino acids, with varied preferences for the nature of β-amino acid side chains. This unique capability makes them useful as biocatalysts for synthesis of β-peptides and to kinetically resolve β-peptides and amides for the production of enantiopure...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： John-White M,Gardiner J,Johanesen P,Lyras D,Dumsday G

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils contain a tangle of minerals, water, nutrients, gases, plant roots, decaying organic matter, and microorganisms which work together to cycle nutrients and support terrestrial plant growth. Most soil microorganisms live in periodically interconnected communities closely associated with soil aggregates, i.e., smal...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilpiszeski RL,Aufrecht JA,Retterer ST,Sullivan MB,Graham DE,Pierce EM,Zablocki OD,Palumbo AV,Elias DA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio alginolyticus is one of the most abundant microorganisms in marine environments and is also an opportunistic pathogen mediating high-mortality vibriosis in marine animals. Alternative sigma factors play essential roles in bacterial pathogens in the adaptation to environmental changes during infection and the ad...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gu D,Zhang J,Hao Y,Xu R,Zhang Y,Ma Y,Wang Q

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceftiofur, a third-generation cephalosporin antimicrobial, was used in Canadian hatcheries for many years to prevent early mortality in chicks, leading to a high prevalence of cephalosporin resistance in Escherichia coli in chickens. Preventive use of ceftiofur in hatcheries ceased in 2014. We examined the effect of c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Verrette L,Fairbrother JM,Boulianne M

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Many recombinant proteins that are produced in Escherichia coli have to be targeted to the periplasm to be functional. N-terminal signal peptides can be used to direct recombinant proteins to the membrane-embedded Sec translocon, a multiprotein complex that translocates proteins across the membrane into the periplasm....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ytterberg AJ,Zubarev RA,Baumgarten T

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial Halanaerobium strains become the dominant persisting microbial community member in produced fluids across geographically distinct hydraulically fractured shales. Halanaerobium is believed to be inadvertently introduced into this environment during the drilling and fracturing process and must therefore tolera...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Booker AE,Hoyt DW,Meulia T,Eder E,Nicora CD,Purvine SO,Daly RA,Moore JD,Wunch K,Pfiffner SM,Lipton MS,Mouser PJ,Wrighton KC,Wilkins MJ

更新日期：2019-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Contamination of fresh produce with pathogenic Escherichia coli, including Shiga-toxigenic E. coli (STEC), represents a serious risk to human health. Colonization is governed by multiple bacterial and plant factors that can impact the probability and suitability of bacterial growth. Thus, we aimed to determine whether...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Merget B,Forbes KJ,Brennan F,McAteer S,Shepherd T,Strachan NJC,Holden NJ

更新日期：2019-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Small streams and their headwaters are key sources of microbial diversity in fluvial systems and serve as an entry point for bacteria from surrounding environments. Community assembly processes occurring in these streams shape downstream population structure and nutrient cycles. To elucidate the development and stabil...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Teachey ME,McDonald JM,Ottesen EA

更新日期：2019-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains that produce immunologically heterogeneous fimbriae and enterotoxins are the primary cause of neonatal diarrhea and postweaning diarrhea in young pigs. A multivalent vaccine inducing protective immunity against ideally all ETEC fimbriae and enterotoxins could be effectiv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lu T,Moxley RA,Zhang W

更新日期：2019-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota is a diverse and dynamic ecological community that is increasingly recognized to play important roles in host metabolic, immunological, and behavioral functioning. As such, identifying new routes for manipulating the microbiota may provide valuable additional methods for improving host health. Dieta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reese AT,Carmody RN

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Municipal wastewater includes human waste that contains both commensal and pathogenic enteric microorganisms, and this collective community microbiome can be monitored for community diseases. In a previous study, we assessed the salmonellosis disease burden using municipal wastewater from Honolulu, Hawaii, which was m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Diemert S,Yan T

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between dissolved organic matter (DOM) and mineral particles are critical for the stabilization of soil organic matter (SOM) in terrestrial ecosystems. The processing of DOM by ectomycorrhizal fungi contributes to the formation of mineral-stabilized SOM by two contrasting pathways: the extracellular t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang T,Tian Z,Tunlid A,Persson P

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbiotic microorganisms are widespread in nature and can play a major role in the ecology and evolution of animals. The aphid-Serratia symbiotica bacterium interaction provides a valuable model to study the mechanisms behind these symbiotic associations. The recent discovery of cultivable S. symbiotica strains with a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pons I,Renoz F,Noël C,Hance T

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris produces methane (CH4) from carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) from protons (H+) when it expresses a variant form of molybdenum (Mo) nitrogenase that has two amino acid substitutions near its active site. We examined the influence of light energy and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zheng Y,Harwood CS

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:"Candidatus Accumulibacter" is the dominant polyphosphate-accumulating organism (PAO) in denitrifying phosphorus removal (DPR) systems. In order to investigate the community structure and clade morphotypes of "Candidatus Accumulibacter" in DPR systems through flow cytometry (FCM), denitrifying phosphorus removal of al...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li C,Zeng W,Li N,Guo Y,Peng Y

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:LeLoir glycosyltransferases are important biocatalysts for the production of glycosidic bonds in natural products, chiral building blocks, and pharmaceuticals. Trehalose transferase (TreT) is of particular interest since it catalyzes the stereo- and enantioselective α,α-(1→1) coupling of a nucleotide sugar donor and m...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mestrom L,Marsden SR,Dieters M,Achterberg P,Stolk L,Bento I,Hanefeld U,Hagedoorn PL

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae (group B Streptococcus [GBS]) is a cause of severe infections, particularly during the newborn period. While methods exist for generating chromosomal mutations in GBS, they are cumbersome and inefficient and present significant challenges if the goal is to study subtle mutations, such as singl...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hooven TA,Bonakdar M,Chamby AB,Ratner AJ

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is a leading cause of severe pneumonia in foals. Standard treatment is dual antimicrobial therapy with a macrolide and rifampin, but the emergence of macrolide- and rifampin-resistant R. equi isolates is an increasing problem. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of macrolide and/or...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Willingham-Lane JM,Berghaus LJ,Berghaus RD,Hart KA,Giguère S

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Acylation of epsilon amino groups of lysyl side chains is a widespread modification of proteins and small molecules in cells of all three domains of life. Recently, we showed that Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus anthracis encode the GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) SatA that can acetylate and inactivate streptot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burckhardt RM,Escalante-Semerena JC

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A cup of coffee is the final product of a complex chain of operations. Wet postharvest processing of coffee is one of these operations, which involves a fermentation that inevitably has to be performed on-farm. During wet coffee processing, the interplay between microbial activities and endogenous bean metabolism resu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang SJ,De Bruyn F,Pothakos V,Torres J,Falconi C,Moccand C,Weckx S,De Vuyst L

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrolytic extracellular enzymes degrading host tissues potentially play a role in bacterial pathogenesis. Flavobacterium psychrophilum is an important bacterial pathogen of salmonid fish reared in freshwater throughout the world. Diversity among isolates has been described at the phenotypic, serological, and genomic ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rochat T,Pérez-Pascual D,Nilsen H,Carpentier M,Bridel S,Bernardet JF,Duchaud E

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans is a key cariogenic bacterium responsible for the initiation of tooth decay. Biofilm formation is a crucial virulence property. We discovered a putative glycosyltransferase, SMU_833, in S. mutans capable of modulating dynamic interactions between two key biofilm matrix components, glucan and extra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rainey K,Michalek SM,Wen ZT,Wu H

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroalgae (or seaweeds) are considered potential biomass feedstocks for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals. Their sugar composition is different from that of lignocellulosic biomasses, and in green species, including Ulva lactuca, the major sugars are l-rhamnose and d-glucose. C. beijerinckii DSM 6423 ut...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Diallo M,Simons AD,van der Wal H,Collas F,Houweling-Tan B,Kengen SWM,López-Contreras AM

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Poultry are considered a major reservoir and source of human campylobacteriosis, but the roles of environmental reservoirs, including wild birds, have not been assessed in depth. In this study, we isolated and characterized Campylobacter jejuni from western jackdaws (n = 91, 43%), mallard ducks (n = 82, 76%), and phea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kovanen S,Rossi M,Pohja-Mykrä M,Nieminen T,Raunio-Saarnisto M,Sauvala M,Fredriksson-Ahomaa M,Hänninen ML,Kivistö R

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus plantarum is a versatile bacterium that occupies a wide range of environmental niches. In this study, we found that a bifunctional aldehyde-alcohol dehydrogenase-encoding gene, adhE, was responsible for L. plantarum being able to utilize mannitol and sorbitol through cross-regulation by two DNA-binding r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yang X,Teng K,Su R,Li L,Zhang T,Fan K,Zhang J,Zhong J

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical El Tor strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 harboring variant ctxB genes of cholera toxin (CT) have gradually become a major cause of recent cholera epidemics. Vibrio mimicus occasionally produces CT, encoded by ctxAB on CTXФ genome; toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), a major intestinal colonization factor; and also the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Neogi SB,Chowdhury N,Awasthi SP,Asakura M,Okuno K,Mahmud ZH,Islam MS,Hinenoya A,Nair GB,Yamasaki S

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Using bacteria to transform reactive corrosion products into stable compounds represents an alternative to traditional methods employed in iron conservation. Two environmental Aeromonas strains (CA23 and CU5) were used to transform ferric iron corrosion products (goethite and lepidocrocite) into stable ferrous iron-be...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kooli WM,Junier T,Shakya M,Monachon M,Davenport KW,Vaideeswaran K,Vernudachi A,Marozau I,Monrouzeau T,Gleasner CD,McMurry K,Lienhard R,Rufener L,Perret JL,Sereda O,Chain PS,Joseph E,Junier P

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The facultative anaerobe Thauera aromatica strain AR-1 uses 3,5-dihydroxybenzoate (3,5-DHB) as a sole carbon and energy source under anoxic conditions using an unusual oxidative strategy to overcome aromatic ring stability. A 25-kb gene cluster organized in four main operons encodes the anaerobic degradation pathway f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pacheco-Sánchez D,Molina-Fuentes Á,Marín P,Díaz-Romero A,Marqués S

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00