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Minireviews:

Trudy M. Wassenaar and Diane G. Newell

Genotyping of Campylobacter spp.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 1-9. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Kristian Kjærgaard, Jack K. Sørensen, Mark A. Schembri, and Per Klemm

Sequestration of Zinc Oxide by Fimbrial Designer Chelators
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 10-14. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. J. B. van der Vlugt-Bergmans, P. J. A. Meeuwsen, A. G. J. Voragen, and A. J. J. van Ooyen

Endo-Xylogalacturonan Hydrolase, a Novel Pectinolytic Enzyme
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 36-41. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masayuki Inui, Jung Hyeob Roh, Kenneth Zahn, and Hideaki Yukawa

Sequence Analysis of the Cryptic Plasmid pMG101 from Rhodopseudomonas palustris and Construction of Stable Cloning Vectors
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 54-63. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Delphine Lagarde, Laurent Beuf, and Wim Vermaas

Increased Production of Zeaxanthin and Other Pigments by Application of Genetic Engineering Techniques to Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 64-72. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sunny C. Jiang, Valerie Louis, Nipa Choopun, Anjana Sharma, Anwar Huq, and Rita R. Colwell

Genetic Diversity of Vibrio cholerae in Chesapeake Bay Determined by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Fingerprinting
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 140-147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sunny C. Jiang, Maria Matte, Glavur Matte, Anwar Huq, and Rita R. Colwell

Genetic Diversity of Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Vibrio cholerae Determined by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Fingerprinting
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 148-153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arlene A. Wise and Cheryl R. Kuske

Generation of Novel Bacterial Regulatory Proteins That Detect Priority Pollutant Phenols
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 163-169. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kim M. Wilson, Mark A. Schembri, Peter D. Baker, and Christopher P. Saint

Molecular Characterization of the Toxic Cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and Design of a Species-Specific PCR
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 332-338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Schlör, Sabine Riedl, Julia Blaß, and Joachim Reidl

Genetic Rearrangements of the Regions Adjacent to Genes Encoding Heat-Labile Enterotoxins (eltAB) of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 352-358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kevin P. O'Connell and Michael F. Thomashow

Transcriptional Organization and Regulation of a Polycistronic Cold Shock Operon in Sinorhizobium meliloti RM1021 Encoding Homologs of the Escherichia coli Major Cold Shock Gene cspA and Ribosomal Protein Gene rpsU
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 392-400. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

T. Hilton Grayson, Franck A. Atienzar, Sarah M. Alexander, Lynne F. Cooper, and Martyn L. Gilpin

Molecular Diversity of Renibacterium salmoninarum Isolates Determined by Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 435-438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

Lina M. Botero, Thamir S. Al-Niemi, and Timothy R. McDermott

Characterization of Two Inducible Phosphate Transport Systems in Rhizobium tropici
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 15-22. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. P. Roberts, P. D. Dery, I. Yucel, and J. S. Buyer

Importance of pfkA for Rapid Growth of Enterobacter cloacae during Colonization of Crop Seeds
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 87-91. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alain Bultreys and Isabelle Gheysen

Production and Comparison of Peptide Siderophores from Strains of Distantly Related Pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae and Pseudomonas viridiflava LMG 2352
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 325-331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ching-Hong Yang and David E. Crowley

Rhizosphere Microbial Community Structure in Relation to Root Location and Plant Iron Nutritional Status
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 345-351. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Julien Mercier and S. E. Lindow

Role of Leaf Surface Sugars in Colonization of Plants by Bacterial Epiphytes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 369-374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

M. Beukes, G. Bierbaum, H.-G. Sahl, and J. W. Hastings

Purification and Partial Characterization of a Murein Hydrolase, Millericin B, Produced by Streptococcus milleri NMSCC 061
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 23-28. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ana Lydia Tkalec, Dominique Fink, Françoise Blain, Guiyi Zhang-Sun, Maryse Laliberte, D. Clark Bennett, Kangfu Gu, Joseph J. F. Zimmermann, and Hongsheng Su

Isolation and Expression in Escherichia coli of cslA and cslB, Genes Coding for the Chondroitin Sulfate-Degrading Enzymes Chondroitinase AC and Chondroitinase B, Respectively, from Flavobacterium heparinum
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 29-35. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco Guillén, Carmen Muñoz, Víctor Gómez-Toribio, Angel T. Martínez, and María Jesús Martínez

Oxygen Activation during Oxidation of Methoxyhydroquinones by Laccase from Pleurotus eryngii
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 170-175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katsuichi Saito, Kazuya Kondo, Ichiro Kojima, Atsushi Yokota, and Fusao Tomita

Purification and Characterization of 2,6--D-Fructan 6-Levanbiohydrolase from Streptomyces exfoliatus F3-2
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 252-256. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ruud Jalving, Peter J. I. van de Vondervoort, Jaap Visser, and Peter J. Schaap

Characterization of the Kexin-Like Maturase of Aspergillus niger
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 363-368. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Food Microbiology:

María Fernández, Wim van Doesburg, Ger A. M. Rutten, Joey D. Marugg, Arno C. Alting, Richard van Kranenburg, and Oscar P. Kuipers

Molecular and Functional Analyses of the metC Gene of Lactococcus lactis, Encoding Cystathionine -Lyase
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 42-48. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Rhoades and S. Roller

Antimicrobial Actions of Degraded and Native Chitosan against Spoilage Organisms in Laboratory Media and Foods
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 80-86. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kellogg J. Schwab, Frederick H. Neill, Rebecca L. Fankhauser, Nicholas A. Daniels, Stephan S. Monroe, David A. Bergmire-Sweat, Mary K. Estes, and Robert L. Atmar

Development of Methods To Detect "Norwalk-Like Viruses" (NLVs) and Hepatitis A Virus in Delicatessen Foods: Application to a Food-Borne NLV Outbreak
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 213-218. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eija Hyytiä-Trees, Eija Skyttä, Mirja Mokkila, Arvo Kinnunen, Miia Lindström, Liisa Lähteenmäki, Raija Ahvenainen, and Hannu Korkeala

Safety Evaluation of Sous Vide-Processed Products with Respect to Nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum by Use of Challenge Studies and Predictive Microbiological Models
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 223-229. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elke Y. Wuytack, Johan Soons, Filip Poschet, and Chris W. Michiels

Comparative Study of Pressure- and Nutrient-Induced Germination of Bacillus subtilis Spores
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 257-261. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kerstin Mahr, Wolfgang Hillen, and Fritz Titgemeyer

Carbon Catabolite Repression in Lactobacillus pentosus: Analysis of the ccpA Region
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 277-283. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Walter, G. W. Tannock, A. Tilsala-Timisjarvi, S. Rodtong, D. M. Loach, K. Munro, and T. Alatossava

Detection and Identification of Gastrointestinal Lactobacillus Species by Using Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis and Species-Specific PCR Primers
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 297-303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shirley A. Walker and Todd R. Klaenhammer

An Explosive Antisense RNA Strategy for Inhibition of a Lactococcal Bacteriophage
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 310-319. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giancarlo Moschetti, Giuseppe Blaiotta, Francesco Villani, and Salvatore Coppola

Specific Detection of Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides with DNA Primers Identified by Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 422-424. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irene E. Pol, Hennie C. Mastwijk, Paul V. Bartels, and Eddy J. Smid

Pulsed-Electric Field Treatment Enhances the Bactericidal Action of Nisin against Bacillus cereus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 428-430. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Environmental Microbiology and Biodegradation:

Qingzhong Wu, Kevin R. Sowers, and Harold D. May

Establishment of a Polychlorinated Biphenyl-Dechlorinating Microbial Consortium, Specific for Doubly Flanked Chlorines, in a Defined, Sediment-Free Medium
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 49-53. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qiang Hu, Paul Westerhoff, and Wim Vermaas

Removal of Nitrate from Groundwater by Cyanobacteria: Quantitative Assessment of Factors Influencing Nitrate Uptake
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 133-139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrea Jesenská

Dehalogenation of Haloalkanes by Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and Other Mycobacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 219-222. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. P. Ng, R. S. W. Tsang, J. M. C. Luk, M. H. Ng, and S. W. K. Im

Two Murine Monoclonal Antibodies against Serogroup E Salmonellae
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 419-421. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alex H. Rickard, Stephen A. Leach, Clive M. Buswell, Nicola J. High, and Pauline S. Handley

Coaggregation between Aquatic Bacteria Is Mediated by Specific-Growth-Phase-Dependent Lectin-Saccharide Interactions
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 431-434. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Ecology:

Yoh Takahata, Miyuki Nishijima, Toshihiro Hoaki, and Tadashi Maruyama

Distribution and Physiological Characteristics of Hyperthermophiles in the Kubiki Oil Reservoir in Niigata, Japan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 73-79. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David E. Cummings, Anthony W. March, Benjamin Bostick, Stefan Spring, Frank Caccavo, Jr., Scott Fendorf, and R. Frank Rosenzweig

Evidence for Microbial Fe(III) Reduction in Anoxic, Mining-Impacted Lake Sediments (Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho)
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 154-162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tony A. Slieman and Wayne L. Nicholson

Artificial and Solar UV Radiation Induces Strand Breaks and Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers in Bacillus subtilis Spore DNA
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 199-205. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kaare M. Nielsen, Kornelia Smalla, and Jan D. van Elsas

Natural Transformation of Acinetobacter sp. Strain BD413 with Cell Lysates of Acinetobacter sp., Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Burkholderia cepacia in Soil Microcosms
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 206-212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. T. Newby, K. L. Josephson, and I. L. Pepper

Detection and Characterization of Plasmid pJP4 Transfer to Indigenous Soil Bacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 290-296. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

T. Broman, S. Bergström, S. L. W. On, H. Palmgren, D. J. McCafferty, M. Sellin, and B. Olsen

Isolation and Characterization of Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni from Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) in the Subantarctic Region
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 449-452. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Biotechnology:

Joanne M. Santini, Lindsay I. Sly, Roger D. Schnagl, and Joan M. Macy

A New Chemolithoautotrophic Arsenite-Oxidizing Bacterium Isolated from a Gold Mine: Phylogenetic, Physiological, and Preliminary Biochemical Studies
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 92-97. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander D. Frey, James E. Bailey, and Pauli T. Kallio

Expression of Alcaligenes eutrophus Flavohemoprotein and Engineered Vitreoscilla Hemoglobin-Reductase Fusion Protein for Improved Hypoxic Growth of Escherichia coli
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 98-104. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Y.-M. Zhang, T.-Y. Wong, L.-Y. Chen, C.-S. Lin, and J.-K. Liu

Induction of a Futile Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas Pathway in Deinococcus radiodurans by Mn: Possible Role of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway in Cell Survival
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 105-112. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jun Sun, Xuan Peng, Jan Van Impe, and Jos Vanderleyden

The ntrB and ntrC Genes Are Involved in the Regulation of Poly-3-Hydroxybutyrate Biosynthesis by Ammonia in Azospirillum brasilense Sp7
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 113-117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

In Seop Kim, Kevin D. Barrow, and Peter L. Rogers

Kinetic and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Xylose Metabolism by Recombinant Zymomonas mobilis ZM4(pZB5)
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 186-193. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jayanth Sridhar, Mark A. Eiteman, and Juergen W. Wiegel

Elucidation of Enzymes in Fermentation Pathways Used by Clostridium thermosuccinogenes Growing on Inulin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 246-251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Marty-Teysset, F. de la Torre, and J.-R. Garel

Increased Production of Hydrogen Peroxide by Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus upon Aeration: Involvement of an NADH Oxidase in Oxidative Stress
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 262-267. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tsutomu Kajino, Haruo Takahashi, Masana Hirai, and Yukio Yamada

Efficient Production of Artificially Designed Gelatins with a Bacillus brevis System
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 304-309. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. H. Müller and W. Babel

A Theoretical Study on the Metabolic Requirements Resulting from -Ketoglutarate-Dependent Cleavage of Phenoxyalkanoates
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 339-344. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kevin P. O'Connell, Ann M. Gustafson, M. Deane Lehmann, and Michael F. Thomashow

Identification of Cold Shock Gene Loci in Sinorhizobium meliloti by Using a luxAB Reporter Transposon
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 401-405. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Invertebrate Microbiology:

D. John I. Thomas, J. Alun W. Morgan, John M. Whipps, and Jon R. Saunders

Plasmid Transfer between the Bacillus thuringiensis Subspecies kurstaki and tenebrionis in Laboratory Culture and Soil and in Lepidopteran and Coleopteran Larvae
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 118-124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Public Health Microbiology:

Marisol Goñi-Urriza, Michèle Capdepuy, Corinne Arpin, Nathalie Raymond, Pierre Caumette, and Claudine Quentin

Impact of an Urban Effluent on Antibiotic Resistance of Riverine Enterobacteriaceae and Aeromonas spp.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 125-132. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hee-Mock Oh, Seog June Lee, Min-Ho Jang, and Byung-Dae Yoon

Microcystin Production by Microcystis aeruginosa in a Phosphorus-Limited Chemostat
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 176-179. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, Melinda A. Wolfert, Timothy R. Desmarais, and Carol J. Palmer

Sources of Escherichia coli in a Coastal Subtropical Environment
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 230-237. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sílvia Bofill-Mas, Sonia Pina, and Rosina Girones

Documenting the Epidemiologic Patterns of Polyomaviruses in Human Populations by Studying Their Presence in Urban Sewage
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 238-245. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cheryl D. Norton and Mark W. LeChevallier

A Pilot Study of Bacteriological Population Changes through Potable Water Treatment and Distribution
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 268-276. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Norman F. Neumann, Lyndon L. Gyürek, Leslie Gammie, Gordon R. Finch, and Miodrag Belosevic

Comparison of Animal Infectivity and Nucleic Acid Staining for Assessment of Cryptosporidium parvum Viability in Water
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 406-412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Birte Fonnesbech Vogel, Hanne Marie Holt, Peter Gerner-Smidt, Anemone Bundvad, Per Søgaard, and Lone Gram

Homogeneity of Danish Environmental and Clinical Isolates of Shewanella algae
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 443-448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mycology:

Steven Y. Newell, Linda K. Blum, Richard E. Crawford, Ting Dai, and Michele Dionne

Autumnal Biomass and Potential Productivity of Salt Marsh Fungi from 29° to 43° North Latitude along the United States Atlantic Coast
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 180-185. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raymond J. St. Leger, Steven E. Screen, and Bijan Shams-Pirzadeh

Lack of Host Specialization in Aspergillus flavus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 320-324. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nancy P. Keller, Coran M. H. Watanabe, Hemant S. Kelkar, Thomas H. Adams, and Craig A. Townsend

Requirement of Monooxygenase-Mediated Steps for Sterigmatocystin Biosynthesis by Aspergillus nidulans
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 359-362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raymond F. Sullivan and James F. White, Jr.

Phoma glomerata as a Mycoparasite of Powdery Mildew
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 425-427. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Methods:

Georgios T. Papageorgiou, Laura Mocé-Llivina, Christina G. Christodoulou, Francisco Lucena, Dina Akkelidou, Eleni Ioannou, and Juan Jofre

A Simple Methodological Approach for Counting and Identifying Culturable Viruses Adsorbed to Cellulose Nitrate Membrane Filters
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 194-198. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandra Z. Worden, Sallie W. Chisholm, and Brian J. Binder

In Situ Hybridization of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus (Marine Cyanobacteria) spp. with rRNA-Targeted Peptide Nucleic Acid Probes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 284-289. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Schwiertz, Gwenaelle Le Blay, and Michael Blaut

Quantification of Different Eubacterium spp. in Human Fecal Samples with Species-Specific 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 375-382. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Cyril Guyard, Brigitte Quatannens, Sonia Pavan, Marc Lange, and Annick Mercenier

Use of Green Fluorescent Protein To Tag Lactic Acid Bacterium Strains under Development as Live Vaccine Vectors
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 383-391. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stacie E. Cowan, Eric Gilbert, Artem Khlebnikov, and J. D. Keasling

Dual Labeling with Green Fluorescent Proteins for Confocal Microscopy
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 413-418. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeremy F. Alley and Lewis R. Brown

Use of Sublimation To Prepare Solid Microbial Media with Water-Insoluble Substrates
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 439-442. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Wayne Jackson, Karen Osborne, Gary Barnes, Carol Jolliff, Dianna Zamani, Bruce Roll, Amy Stillings, David Herzog, Shelly Cannon, and Scott Loveland

Multiregional Evaluation of the SimPlate Heterotrophic Plate Count Method Compared to the Standard Plate Count Agar Pour Plate Method in Water
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2000 66: 453-454. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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