abstract：:Safe and effective nuclear waste disposal, as well as accidental radionuclide releases, necessitates our understanding of the fate of radionuclides in the environment, including their interaction with microorganisms. We examined the sorption of Pu(IV) and Pu(V) to Pseudomonas sp. strain EPS-1W, an aerobic bacterium is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boggs MA,Jiao Y,Dai Z,Zavarin M,Kersting AB

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis is an important pathogen of pigs and may cause serious disease in humans. Serotyping is an important tool for detection and epidemiological studies of S. suis Thirty-three reference serotypes and nine novel cps loci (NCLs) are recognized in S. suis To gain a better understanding of the prevalence an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Qiu X,Bai X,Lan R,Zheng H,Xu J

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal integration of heterologous metabolic pathways is optimal for industrially relevant fermentation, as plasmid-based fermentation causes extra metabolic burden and genetic instabilities. In this work, chromosomal integration was adapted for the production of mevalonate, which can be readily converted into β-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang J,Niyompanich S,Tai YS,Wang J,Bai W,Mahida P,Gao T,Zhang K

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 10 years, the number of endosymbionts described within the bacterial order Rickettsiales has constantly grown. Since 2006, 18 novel Rickettsiales genera inhabiting protists, such as ciliates and amoebae, have been described. In this work, we characterize two novel bacterial endosymbionts from Paramecium co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Szokoli F,Castelli M,Sabaneyeva E,Schrallhammer M,Krenek S,Doak TG,Berendonk TU,Petroni G

更新日期：2016-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-positive rubber degraders such as Streptomyces sp. strain K30 cleave rubber [poly(cis-1,4-isoprene)] to low-molecular-mass oligoisoprenoid products with terminal keto and aldehyde groups by the secretion of a latex clearing protein (Lcp) designated rubber oxygenase. LcpK30 is a heme b cytochrome and has a domain ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Röther W,Austen S,Birke J,Jendrossek D

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of resistance in foodborne pathogens to food preservation techniques is an issue of increasing concern, especially in minimally processed foods where safety relies on hurdle technology. In this context, mild heat can be used in combination with so-called nonthermal processes, such as high hydrostatic p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gayán E,Cambré A,Michiels CW,Aertsen A

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila proliferates in freshwater environments at temperatures ranging from 25 to 45°C. To investigate the preference of different sequence types (ST) for a specific temperature range, growth of L. pneumophila serogroup 1 (SG1) ST1 (environmental strains), ST47, and ST62 (disease-associated strains) wa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： van der Kooij D,Brouwer-Hanzens AJ,Veenendaal HR,Wullings BA

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains associated with severe disease, such as hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), carry large enterohemolysin-encoding (ehxA) plasmids, e.g., pO157 and pO103, that contribute to STEC clinical manifestations. Six ehxA subtypes (A through F) exist that phylogenetically c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lorenz SC,Monday SR,Hoffmann M,Fischer M,Kase JA

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel halophilic and metal-reducing bacterium, Orenia metallireducens strain Z6, was isolated from briny groundwater extracted from a 2.02 km-deep borehole in the Illinois Basin, IL. This organism shared 96% 16S rRNA gene similarity with Orenia marismortui but demonstrated physiological properties previously unknown...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dong Y,Sanford RA,Boyanov MI,Kemner KM,Flynn TM,O'Loughlin EJ,Chang YJ,Locke RA Jr,Weber JR,Egan SM,Mackie RI,Cann I,Fouke BW

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) are an important class of secondary metabolites known for their protection against UV radiation and other stress factors. Cyanobacteria produce a variety of MAAs, including shinorine, the active ingredient in many sunscreen creams. Bioinformatic analysis of the genome of the soil-dw...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Katoch M,Mazmouz R,Chau R,Pearson LA,Pickford R,Neilan BA

更新日期：2016-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Organophosphate pesticides used in agriculture can pose health risks to humans and wildlife. We hypothesized that dietary supplementation with Lactobacillus, a genus of commensal bacteria, would reduce absorption and toxicity of consumed organophosphate pesticides (parathion and chlorpyrifos [CP]). Several Lactobacill...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trinder M,McDowell TW,Daisley BA,Ali SN,Leong HS,Sumarah MW,Reid G

更新日期：2016-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) are a group of small molecules with a diverse ecological distribution among microorganisms. MAAs have a range of physiological functions, including protection against UV radiation, making them important from a biotechnological perspective. In the present study, we iden...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： D'Agostino PM,Javalkote VS,Mazmouz R,Pickford R,Puranik PR,Neilan BA

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Neorickettsia (formerly Ehrlichia) risticii is an obligatory intracellular bacterium of digenetic trematodes. When a horse accidentally ingests aquatic insects containing encysted trematodes infected with N. risticii, the bacterium is transmitted from trematodes to horse cells and causes an acute and often f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Xiong Q,Bekebrede H,Sharma P,Arroyo LG,Baird JD,Rikihisa Y

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Modulation of the intestinal microbial ecosystem (IME) is a useful target to establish probiotic efficacy in a healthy population. We conducted a randomized, double-blind, crossover, and placebo-controlled intervention study to determine the impact of Bifidobacterium bifidum strain Bb on the IME of adult hea...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gargari G,Taverniti V,Balzaretti S,Ferrario C,Gardana C,Simonetti P,Guglielmetti S

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Raman spectroscopy and phase-contrast microscopy were used to examine calcium dipicolinate (CaDPA) levels and rates of nutrient and nonnutrient germination of multiple individual Bacillus subtilis spores treated with cold atmospheric plasma (CAP). Major results for this work include the following: (i) >5 log...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang S,Doona CJ,Setlow P,Li YQ

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In the plant-beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440, three genes have been identified that encode posttranscriptional regulators of the CsrA/RsmA family. Their regulatory roles in the motile and sessile lifestyles of P. putida have been investigated by generating single-, double-, and triple-null mut...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huertas-Rosales Ó,Ramos-González MI,Espinosa-Urgel M

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Salmonella is recognized as one of the most significant enteric foodborne bacterial pathogens. In recent years, the resistance of pathogens to biocides and other environmental stresses, especially when they are embedded in biofilm structures, has led to the search for and development of novel antimicrobial s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karampoula F,Giaouris E,Deschamps J,Doulgeraki AI,Nychas GJ,Dubois-Brissonnet F

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Endosymbiosis is a unique form of interaction between organisms, with one organism dwelling inside the other. One of the most widespread endosymbionts is Wolbachia pipientis, a maternally transmitted bacterium carried by insects, crustaceans, mites, and filarial nematodes. Although candidate proteins that co...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Christensen S,Pérez Dulzaides R,Hedrick VE,Momtaz AJ,Nakayasu ES,Paul LN,Serbus LR

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The l-isoaspartyl protein carboxyl methyltransferase (PCM) repairs protein damage resulting from spontaneous conversion of aspartyl or asparaginyl residues to isoaspartate and increases long-term stationary-phase survival of Escherichia coli under stress. In the course of studies intended to examine PCM func...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： VandenBerg KE,Ahn S,Visick JE

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Copper sulfate (CuSO4) has been widely used as an algicide to control harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) in freshwater lakes. However, there are increasing concerns about this application, due mainly to the general toxicity of CuSO4 to other aquatic species and its long-term persistence in the environ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang BH,Ding ZG,Li HQ,Mou XZ,Zhang YQ,Yang JY,Zhou EM,Li WJ

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Rhizobia are best known for nodulating legume roots and fixing atmospheric nitrogen for the host in exchange for photosynthates. However, the majority of the diverse strains of rhizobia do not form nodules on legumes, often because they lack key loci that are needed to induce nodulation. Nonnodulating rhizob...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gano-Cohen KA,Stokes PJ,Blanton MA,Wendlandt CE,Hollowell AC,Regus JU,Kim D,Patel S,Pahua VJ,Sachs JL

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mechanistic studies of many processes in Agrobacterium tumefaciens have been hampered by a lack of genetic tools for characterization of essential genes. In this study, we used a Tn7-based method for inducible control of transcription from an engineered site on the chromosome. We demonstrate that this method...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Figueroa-Cuilan W,Daniel JJ,Howell M,Sulaiman A,Brown PJ

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Our goal was to develop a robust tagging method that can be used to track bacterial strains in vivo To address this challenge, we adapted two existing systems: a modular plasmid-based reporter system (pCS26) that has been used for high-throughput gene expression studies in Salmonella and Escherichia coli and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shivak DJ,MacKenzie KD,Watson NL,Pasternak JA,Jones BD,Wang Y,DeVinney R,Wilson HL,Surette MG,White AP

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:By combining genomics and isotope imaging analysis using high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS), we examined the function and evolution of Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of the protist Barbulanympha from the hindguts of the wood-eating cockroach Cryptocercus punctulatus In particular, we inv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tai V,Carpenter KJ,Weber PK,Nalepa CA,Perlman SJ,Keeling PJ

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:High-throughput sequencing (HTS) is revolutionizing environmental surveys of microbial diversity in the three domains of life by providing detailed information on which taxa are present in microbial assemblages. However, it is still unclear how the relative abundance of specific taxa gathered by HTS correlat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Giner CR,Forn I,Romac S,Logares R,de Vargas C,Massana R

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) was detected in 2003 and rapidly became the predominant MRSA clade in the Netherlands. Studies have shown that transmissions are difficult to identify, since this MRSA variant represents a genetically homogenous clade when current typ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bosch T,Witteveen S,Haenen A,Landman F,Schouls LM

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Avian and possum fecal droppings may negatively impact roof-harvested rainwater (RHRW) water quality due to the presence of zoonotic pathogens. This study was aimed at evaluating the performance characteristics of a possum feces-associated (PSM) marker by screening 210 fecal and wastewater samples from possu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ahmed W,Hamilton KA,Gyawali P,Toze S,Haas CN

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The ability to sense and adapt to temperature fluctuation is critical to the aquatic survival, transmission, and infectivity of Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the disease cholera. Little information is available on the physiological changes that occur when V. cholerae experiences temperature shifts....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Townsley L,Sison Mangus MP,Mehic S,Yildiz FH

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a carbon and energy reserve polymer in various prokaryotic species. We determined that, when grown with mannitol as the sole carbon source, Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens produces a homopolymer composed only of 3-hydroxybutyrate units (PHB). Conditions of oxygen limitation (such as microoxi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quelas JI,Mesa S,Mongiardini EJ,Jendrossek D,Lodeiro AR

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Microbes can produce molecular hydrogen (H2) via fermentation, dinitrogen fixation, or direct photolysis, yet the H2 dynamics in cyanobacterial communities has only been explored in a few natural systems and mostly in the laboratory. In this study, we investigated the diel in situ H2 dynamics in a hot spring...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Revsbech NP,Trampe E,Lichtenberg M,Ward DM,Kühl M

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG is a lactic acid bacterium widely marketed by the food industry. Its genomic analysis led to the identification of a gene cluster encoding mucus-binding SpaCBA pili, which is located in a genomic island enriched in insertion sequence (IS) elements. In the present study, we analyzed...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Douillard FP,Ribbera A,Xiao K,Ritari J,Rasinkangas P,Paulin L,Palva A,Hao Y,de Vos WM

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:We previously isolated the transaminase KES23458 from Pseudomonas sp. strain AAC as a promising biocatalyst for the production of 12-aminododecanoic acid, a constituent building block of nylon-12. Here, we report the subsequent characterization of this transaminase. It exhibits activity with a broad substrat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilding M,Peat TS,Newman J,Scott C

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Raw sausages are perishable foodstuffs; reducing their salt content raises questions about a possible increased spoilage of these products. In this study, we evaluated the influence of salt reduction (from 2.0% to 1.5% [wt/wt]), in combination with two types of packaging (modified atmosphere [50% mix of CO2-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fougy L,Desmonts MH,Coeuret G,Fassel C,Hamon E,Hézard B,Champomier-Vergès MC,Chaillou S

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM) of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, harbor numerous ice-covered bodies of water that provide year-round liquid water oases for isolated food webs dominated by the microbial loop. Single-cell microbial eukaryotes (protists) occupy major trophic positions within this truncated ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li W,Podar M,Morgan-Kiss RM

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A structurally novel chitinase, Tc-ChiD, was identified from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus chitonophagus, which can grow on chitin as the sole organic carbon source. The gene encoding Tc-ChiD contains regions corresponding to a signal sequence, two chitin-binding domains, and a putative catalyt...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Horiuchi A,Aslam M,Kanai T,Atomi H

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Stress-induced abdominal dysfunction is an attractive target for probiotics. To investigate the effects of the probiotic Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota on abdominal dysfunction, a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted with healthy medical students undertaking an authorized nationwide exami...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kato-Kataoka A,Nishida K,Takada M,Kawai M,Kikuchi-Hayakawa H,Suda K,Ishikawa H,Gondo Y,Shimizu K,Matsuki T,Kushiro A,Hoshi R,Watanabe O,Igarashi T,Miyazaki K,Kuwano Y,Rokutan K

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The use of a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) technique has identified the intraspecific genetic diversity of U.S. Flavobacterium psychrophilum, an important pathogen of salmonids worldwide. Prior to this analysis, little U.S. F. psychrophilum genetic information was known; this is of importance when consid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Vliet D,Wiens GD,Loch TP,Nicolas P,Faisal M

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mycoplasmas are minimal, wall-less bacteria but have retained the ability to secrete complex carbohydrate polymers that constitute a glycocalyx. In members of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster, which are important ruminant pathogens, the glycocalyx includes both cell-attached and cell-free polysaccharides. Thi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaurivaud P,Baranowski E,Pau-Roblot C,Sagné E,Citti C,Tardy F

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In the summer of 2010, Vibrio parahaemolyticus caused an outbreak in Maryland linked to the consumption of oysters. Strains isolated from both stool and oyster samples were indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). However, the oysters contained other potentially pathogenic V. parahaemoly...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haendiges J,Jones J,Myers RA,Mitchell CS,Butler E,Toro M,Gonzalez-Escalona N

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Clostridium perfringens type A is a common source of foodborne illness (FBI) in humans. Vegetative cells sporulate in the small intestinal tract and produce the major pathogenic factor C. perfringens enterotoxin. Although sporulation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of FBI, the mechanisms inducing s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yasugi M,Okuzaki D,Kuwana R,Takamatsu H,Fujita M,Sarker MR,Miyake M

更新日期：2016-05-02 00:00:00