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  • Clostridium perfringens sporulation and gliding motility

    Creator:
    Huang, I-Hsiu
    Abstract:
    Clostridium perfringens type A isolates, an anaerobic enterotoxigenic spore forming bacterium, are the third leading cause of food-borne disease in the United States. Factors that contribute to the virulence of C. perfringens include the ability of the bacterium to form heat resistant spores and to produce an enterotoxin (CPE). Although...
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    . Also many thanks to my committee members, Dr. Luiz Bermudez, Dr. Claudia Hase, Dr. Emily Ho, Dr. Dan

  • Molecular basis for Clostridium perfringens spore resistance to heat and other environmental stress factors

    Creator:
    Raju, Deepa
    Abstract:
    Clostridium perfringens type A isolates producing enterotoxin (CPE) are an important cause of both food poisoning (FP) and non food borne gastrointestinal diseases (NFBGID) in both humans and animals. C. perfringens type A food poisoning is caused by isolates carrying the CPE encoding gene (cpe) on the chromosome while the...
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    thanks to my committee members, Dr. Dan Rockey, Dr. Luiz Bermudez, Dr. J. Antonio Torres and Dr. Taifo

  • Distribution of Ceratomyxa shasta (Myxozoa) and habitat preference of the polychaete host, Manayunkia speciosa in the Klamath River

    Creator:
    Stocking, Richard W.
    Abstract:
    Ceratomyxa shasta is a myxozoan parasite of salmonids and requires the freshwater polychaete, Manayunkia speciosa to complete its life cycle. The parasite’s distribution is currently limited to the Pacific Northwest region of North America and has been reported to cause substantial losses of both wild and hatchery salmonids. The spatial...
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    Masters Thesis

  • An investigation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism through a genomic analysis of the genus Nitrobacter

    Creator:
    Starkenburg, Shawn R.
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    The chemolithoautotrophic nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) participate in the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen by catalyzing and conserving energy from the oxidation of nitrite (NO₂-) to nitrate (NO₃-) via a nitrite oxidoreductase (NXR). The main objective of this work was to comparatively annotate and analyze the genome sequences of Nitrobacter winogradskyi...
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    Dissertation
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    , Peter Bottomley and Dan Arp. Despite his taxing schedule, Dan always maintained an open door policy

  • Control of alkane monooxygenase activity and expression in Pseudomonas butanovora

    Creator:
    Doughty, David M.
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    The regulation of monooxygenase enzymes has been demonstrated in bacteria that grow on methane and long chain-length alkanes (>C10). Less is known about monooxygenase regulation in short chain alkane oxidizing bacteria that grow on intermediate chain-length alkanes C2-C10. This dissertation focuses on the regulation of butane monooxygenase (BMO) expression and...
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    members: Dan, Peter, Dr. Lynda Ciuffetti, Dr. Mark Dolan, and Dr. Kermit Cromack for their time and

  • Analysis of chlamydial and host proteins associated with infection

    Creator:
    Chu, Hencelyn
    Abstract:
    Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacteria that infect a variety of eukaryotic hosts and affect normal host processes. Within host cells, their developmental cycle takes place inside non-acidified vacuoles termed inclusions. An inclusion membrane composed primarily of secreted chlamydial synthesized proteins called Incs encloses the inclusion. At this location, Incs have...
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    . _____________________________________________________________________ Hencelyn G. Chu, Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Dan Rockey for