abstract：:Improving access to the carbohydrate content of lignocellulose is key to reducing recalcitrance for microbial deconstruction and conversion to fuels and chemicals. Caldicellulosiruptor bescii completely solubilizes naked microcrystalline cellulose, yet this transformation is impeded within the context of the plant cel...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zurawski JV,Khatibi PA,Akinosho HO,Straub CT,Compton SH,Conway JM,Lee LL,Ragauskas AJ,Davison BH,Adams MWW,Kelly RM

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel β-(1,3)-glucanase gene designated lamC, cloned from Corallococcus sp. strain EGB, contains a fascin-like module and a glycoside hydrolase family 16 (GH16) catalytic module. LamC displays broad hydrolytic activity toward various polysaccharides. Analysis of the hydrolytic products revealed that LamC is an exo-a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhou J,Li Z,Wu J,Li L,Li D,Ye X,Luo X,Huang Y,Cui Z,Cao H

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental transport of Cryptosporidium spp. through combined sewer overflow (CSO) and the occurrence of several emerging human-pathogenic Cryptosporidium species in developing countries remain unclear. In this study, we collected 40 CSO samples and 40 raw wastewater samples from Shanghai, China, and examined t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang C,Hu Y,Wang L,Wang Y,Li N,Guo Y,Feng Y,Xiao L

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lantibiotics are antimicrobial peptides belonging to the family of ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs) and feature thioether linkages in their structures. In this study, we identified the biosynthetic gene cluster of a cinnamycin analog, named mathermycin, from Marinactinospora th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen E,Chen Q,Chen S,Xu B,Ju J,Wang H

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of the Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) to Mycoplasma conjunctivae ocular infection and the changes in their interaction over time were studied in terms of clinical outcome, molecular detection, and IgG immune response in a captive population that underwent a severe infectious keratoconjunctivitis (IK...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fernández-Aguilar X,Cabezón O,Granados JE,Frey J,Serrano E,Velarde R,Cano-Manuel FJ,Mentaberre G,Ráez-Bravo A,Fandos P,López-Olvera JR

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A rhizosphere Gram-positive bacterial isolate, Paenibacillus sp. NAIST15-1, exhibits intriguing motility behavior on hard agar medium. Paenibacillus sp. shows increased transcription of flagellar genes and hyperflagellation when transferred from liquid to solid medium. Hyperflagellated cells form wandering colonies th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kobayashi K,Kanesaki Y,Yoshikawa H

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial production of biofuels and other added-value chemicals is often limited by the intrinsic toxicity of these compounds. The phasin PhaP from the soil bacterium Azotobacter sp. strain FA8 is a polyhydroxyalkanoate granule-associated protein that protects recombinant Escherichia coli against several kinds of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mezzina MP,Álvarez DS,Egoburo DE,Díaz Peña R,Nikel PI,Pettinari MJ

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper introduces a novel method for sampling pathogens in natural environments. It uses fabric boot socks worn over walkers' shoes to allow the collection of composite samples over large areas. Wide-area sampling is better suited to studies focusing on human exposure to pathogens (e.g., recreational walking). Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jones NR,Millman C,van der Es M,Hukelova M,Forbes KJ,Glover C,Haldenby S,Hunter PR,Jackson K,O'Brien SJ,Rigby D,Strachan NJC,Williams N,Lake IR,ENIGMA Consortium.

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), produced by neurotoxigenic clostridia, is the most potent biological toxin known and the causative agent of the paralytic disease botulism. The nutritional, environmental, and genetic regulation of BoNT synthesis, activation, stability, and toxin complex (TC) formation is not well studied....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fredrick CM,Lin G,Johnson EA

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD and its reduced form NADH function as essential redox cofactors and have major roles in determining cellular metabolic features. NAD can be synthesized through the deamidated and amidated pathways, for which the key reaction involves adenylylation of nicotinic acid mononucleotide (NaMN) and nicotinamide mononucleo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang X,Zhou YJ,Wang L,Liu W,Liu Y,Peng C,Zhao ZK

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Haa1 is a transcription factor that adapts Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells to weak organic acid stresses by activating the expression of various genes. Many of these genes encode membrane proteins, such as TPO2 and YRO2 How Haa1 is activated by weak acids is not clear. Here, we show that casein kinase I isoform Hrr25 i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Collins ME,Black JJ,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the entomopathogenic bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila, cell-to-cell variation in the abundance of the Lrp transcription factor leads to virulence modulation; low Lrp levels are associated with a virulent phenotype and suppression of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in Manduca sexta insects, while cells that lack lrp ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Casanova-Torres ÁM,Shokal U,Morag N,Eleftherianos I,Goodrich-Blair H

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid-adapted strains of Escherichia coli K-12 W3110 were obtained by serial culture in medium buffered at pH 4.6 (M. M. Harden, A. He, K. Creamer, M. W. Clark, I. Hamdallah, K. A. Martinez, R. L. Kresslein, S. P. Bush, and J. L. Slonczewski, Appl Environ Microbiol 81:1932-1941, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03494-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： He A,Penix SR,Basting PJ,Griffith JM,Creamer KE,Camperchioli D,Clark MW,Gonzales AS,Chávez Erazo JS,George NS,Bhagwat AA,Slonczewski JL

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) form intracellular chain-assembled nanocrystals of magnetite or greigite termed magnetosomes. The characterization of magnetosome crystals requires electron microscopy due to their nanoscopic sizes. However, electron microscopy does not provide phylogenetic information for MTB. We have dev...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li J,Zhang H,Menguy N,Benzerara K,Wang F,Lin X,Chen Z,Pan Y

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae causes swine erysipelas, an important infectious disease in the swine industry. In Japan, the incidence of acute swine erysipelas due to E. rhusiopathiae serovar 1a has recently increased markedly. To study the genetic relatedness of the strains from the recent cases, we analyzed 34 E. rhu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ogawa Y,Shiraiwa K,Ogura Y,Ooka T,Nishikawa S,Eguchi M,Hayashi T,Shimoji Y

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Five genes encoding PhaP family proteins and one phaR gene have been identified in the genome of Burkholderia symbiont strain RPE75. PhaP proteins function as the surface proteins of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) granules, and the PhaR protein acts as a negative regulator of PhaP biosynthesis. Recently, we characterized ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jang SH,Jang HA,Lee J,Kim JU,Lee SA,Park KE,Kim BH,Jo YH,Lee BL

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminobacter sp. strain MSH1 grows on and mineralizes the groundwater micropollutant 2,6-dichlorobenzamide (BAM) and is of interest for BAM removal in drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs). The BAM-catabolic genes in MSH1 are located on plasmid pBAM1, carrying bbdA, which encodes the conversion of BAM to 2,6-dichloro...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Horemans B,Raes B,Brocatus H,T'Syen J,Rombouts C,Vanhaecke L,Hofkens J,Springael D

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe a novel clade within Ensifer meliloti and consider how geographic and ecological isolation contributed to the limited distribution of this group. Members of the genus Ensifer are best known for their ability to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with forage legumes of three related genera, Medicago L., M...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eardly B,Elia P,Brockwell J,Golemboski D,van Berkum P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently little information on nonphosphorylated sugar epimerases, which are of potential interest for producing rare sugars. We found a gene (the TM0416 gene) encoding a putative d-tagatose-3-epimerase-related protein from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima We overexpressed the TM0416 gene ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shin SM,Cao TP,Choi JM,Kim SB,Lee SJ,Lee SH,Lee DW

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrus canker, caused by Xanthomonas citri pv. citri, is a serious disease of citrus plants worldwide. Earlier phylogenetic studies using housekeeping genes revealed that X. citri pv. citri is related to many other pathovars, which can be collectively referred as Xanthomonas citri pathovars (XCPs). From the present st...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bansal K,Midha S,Kumar S,Patil PB

更新日期：2017-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium longum strain JDM301, a widely used commercial strain in China, encodes at least two MazEF-like modules and one RelBE-like toxin-antitoxin (TA) system in its chromosome, designated MazE1F1Bif, MazE2F2Bif, and RelBEBif, respectively. Bacterial TA systems play an important role in several stress response...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wei Y,Li Y,Yang F,Wu Q,Liu D,Li X,Hua H,Liu X,Wang Y,Zheng K,Tang R

更新日期：2017-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate interactions between sulfate reduction and dechlorination, we systematically evaluated the effects of different concentrations of sulfate and sulfide on reductive dechlorination by isolates, constructed consortia, and enrichments containing Dehalococcoides sp. Sulfate (up to 5 mM) did not inhibit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mao X,Polasko A,Alvarez-Cohen L

更新日期：2017-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of bioinformatic evidence, we suspected that proteins with a CYTH (CyaB thiamine triphosphatase) domain and/or a CHAD (conserved histidine α-helical domain) motif might represent polyphosphate (polyP) granule-associated proteins. We found no evidence of polyP targeting by proteins with CYTH domains. In co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tumlirsch T,Jendrossek D

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic control of gene expression is important for adjusting fluxes in order to obtain desired products and achieve appropriate cell growth, particularly when the synthesis of a desired product drains metabolites required for cell growth. For dynamic gene expression, a promoter responsive to a particular environm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yin X,Shin HD,Li J,Du G,Liu L,Chen J

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 12 comprises enzymes with a wide range of activities critical for the degradation of lignocellulose. However, the important roles of the loop regions of GH12 enzymes in substrate specificity and catalytic efficiency remain poorly understood. This study examined how the loop 3 region aff...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yang H,Shi P,Liu Y,Xia W,Wang X,Cao H,Ma R,Luo H,Bai Y,Yao B

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-positive Streptomyces bacteria produce thousands of bioactive secondary metabolites, including antibiotics. To systematically investigate genes affecting secondary metabolism, we developed a hyperactive transposase-based Tn5 transposition system and employed it to mutagenize the model species Streptomyces coelico...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xu Z,Wang Y,Chater KF,Ou HY,Xu HH,Deng Z,Tao M

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages are the source of many valuable tools for molecular biology and genetic manipulation. In Streptomyces, most DNA cloning vectors are based on serine integrase site-specific DNA recombination systems derived from phage. Because of their efficiency and simplicity, serine integrases are also used for divers...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fogg PCM,Haley JA,Stark WM,Smith MCM

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During fermentative growth in natural and industrial environments, Saccharomyces cerevisiae must redistribute the available nitrogen from multiple exogenous sources to amino acids in order to suitably fulfill anabolic requirements. To exhaustively explore the management of this complex resource, we developed an advanc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Crépin L,Truong NM,Bloem A,Sanchez I,Dequin S,Camarasa C

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) is a specialized secretion apparatus that is commonly used by many plant and animal pathogenic bacteria to deliver proteins, termed effectors, to the interior of the host cells. These effectors suppress host defenses and interfere with signal transduction pathways to promote infect...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jiménez-Guerrero I,Pérez-Montaño F,Medina C,Ollero FJ,López-Baena FJ

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergosterol, a fungus-specific sterol enriched in cell plasma membranes, is an effective antifungal drug target. However, current knowledge of the ergosterol biosynthesis process in the saprophytic human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus remains limited. In this study, we found that two endoplasmic reticulum-locali...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Long N,Xu X,Zeng Q,Sang H,Lu L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae killer strains secrete a protein toxin active on nonkiller strains of the same (or other) yeast species. Different killer toxins, K1, K2, K28, and Klus, have been described. Each toxin is encoded by a medium-size (1.5- to 2.3-kb) M double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) located in the cytoplasm. M dsRNAs...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rodríguez-Cousiño N,Esteban R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Race 1 isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (FOL) are characterized by the presence of AVR1 in their genomes. The product of this gene, Avr1, triggers resistance in tomato cultivars carrying resistance gene I In FOL race 2 and race 3 isolates, AVR1 is absent, and hence they are virulent on tomato cultivar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Biju VC,Fokkens L,Houterman PM,Rep M,Cornelissen BJC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SAR11 bacteria are small, heterotrophic, marine alphaproteobacteria found throughout the oceans. They thrive at the low nutrient concentrations typical of open ocean conditions, although the adaptations required for life under those conditions are not well understood. To illuminate this issue, we used cryo-electron to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhao X,Schwartz CL,Pierson J,Giovannoni SJ,McIntosh JR,Nicastro D

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm-associated bacteria are less sensitive to antibiotics than free-living (planktonic) cells. Furthermore, with variations in the concentration of antibiotics throughout a biofilm, microbial cells are often exposed to levels below inhibitory concentrations and may develop resistance. This, as well as the irrespon...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Algburi A,Comito N,Kashtanov D,Dicks LMT,Chikindas ML

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cydia pomonella granulovirus (CpGV) is an important biocontrol agent for the codling moth (CM) in organic and integrated apple production worldwide. Previously, Z chromosome-linked dominant resistance in at least 38 CM field populations in Europe was reported, threatening organic apple production. Growers responded by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jehle JA,Schulze-Bopp S,Undorf-Spahn K,Fritsch E

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase (FDH; EC 1.2.1.2) is an industrial enzyme widely used for NADH regeneration. However, enzyme inactivation caused by the oxidation of cysteine residues is a flaw of native FDH. In this study, we relieved the oxidation of the free cysteine of FDH from Candida boidinii (CboFDH) throug...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zheng J,Yang T,Zhou J,Xu M,Zhang X,Rao Z

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 W3110 grows in the presence of membrane-permeant organic acids that can depress cytoplasmic pH and accumulate in the cytoplasm. We conducted experimental evolution by daily diluting cultures in increasing concentrations of benzoic acid (up to 20 mM) buffered at external pH 6.5, a pH at which perm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Creamer KE,Ditmars FS,Basting PJ,Kunka KS,Hamdallah IN,Bush SP,Scott Z,He A,Penix SR,Gonzales AS,Eder EK,Camperchioli DW,Berndt A,Clark MW,Rouhier KA,Slonczewski JL

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pervasive environmental stressors on coral reefs are attributed with shifting the competitive balance in favor of alternative dominants, such as macroalgae. Previous studies have demonstrated that macroalgae compete with corals via a number of mechanisms, including the production of potent primary and secondary metabo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morrow KM,Bromhall K,Motti CA,Munn CB,Bourne DG

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Various Listeria monocytogenes strains may contaminate a single food product, potentially resulting in simultaneous exposure of consumers to multiple strains. However, due to bias in strain recovery, L. monocytogenes strains isolated from foods by selective enrichment (SE) might not always represent those that can bet...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zilelidou E,Karmiri CV,Zoumpopoulou G,Mavrogonatou E,Kletsas D,Tsakalidou E,Papadimitriou K,Drosinos E,Skandamis P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The axy43A gene encoding the intracellular trifunctional xylanolytic enzyme from Paenibacillus curdlanolyticus B-6 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli Recombinant PcAxy43A consisting of a glycoside hydrolase family 43 and a family 6 carbohydrate-binding module exhibited endo-xylanase, β-xylosidase, and arabin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Teeravivattanakit T,Baramee S,Phitsuwan P,Waeonukul R,Pason P,Tachaapaikoon C,Sakka K,Ratanakhanokchai K

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00