Identification of a microorganism that links its growth to the reductive dechlorination of 2,3,5,6-chlorobiphenyl.

abstract：:Petrochemical and geological evidence suggest that petroleum in most reservoirs is anaerobically biodegraded to some extent. However, the conditions for this metabolism and the cultivation of the requisite microorganisms are rarely established. Here, we report on microbial hydrocarbon metabolism in two distinct oilfie...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gieg LM,Davidova IA,Duncan KE,Suflita JM

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi can improve iron (Fe) acquisition of their host plants. Here, we report a characterization of two components of the high-affinity reductive Fe uptake system of Rhizophagus irregularis, the ferric reductase (RiFRE1) and the high affinity Fe permeases (RiFTR1-2). In the extraradical myc...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tamayo E,Knight SAB,Valderas A,Dancis A,Ferrol N

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the rate of settlement of zoospores of the green alga Enteromorpha is stimulated by mixed microbial biofilms and that the number of zoospores settling is positively correlated with the number of bacteria in the biofilm. In the present study the specificity of this relationship has been...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Patel P,Callow ME,Joint I,Callow JA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents comparative geochemical, microbiological and molecular analyses of Greenland GISP2 ice core samples representing different depths, ages, deposition climates, in situ temperatures, and gas and ionic compositions. Our goal was to determine whether specific organisms, preserved at different depths, co...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Miteva V,Teacher C,Sowers T,Brenchley J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using DNA obtained from the metagenome of an anaerobic digestor in a waste water treatment plant, we constructed a gene library cloned in the wide host-range cosmid pLAFR3. One cosmid enabled Rhizobium leguminosarum to grow on ethanol as sole carbon and energy source, this being due to the presence of a gene, termed a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wexler M,Bond PL,Richardson DJ,Johnston AW

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosema ceranae is currently one of the major pathogens of honeybees, related to the worldwide colony losses phenomenon. The genotyping of strains based on ribosomal DNA (rDNA) can be misleading if the repeated units are not identical. The analysis of cloned rDNA fragments containing the intergenic spacer (IGS) and par...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sagastume S,Del Águila C,Martín-Hernández R,Higes M,Henriques-Gil N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that control the production of microcystins (hepatotoxins) during cyanobacterial blooms, and the function of these metabolites remain largely unknown. In an attempt to provide answers to these questions, we compared the fitness of microcystin (MC)-producing and non-MC-producing Planktothrix agardhii strain...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Briand E,Yéprémian C,Humbert JF,Quiblier C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection of suitable genotypes from diverse seed banks may help phytoplankton populations to cope with environmental changes. This study examines whether the high genotypic diversity found in the Baltic cyst pool of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium ostenfeldii is coupled to phenotypic variability that could aid s...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Kremp A,Oja J,LeTortorec AH,Hakanen P,Tahvanainen P,Tuimala J,Suikkanen S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable carbon isotope signatures of diagnostic lipid biomarkers have suggested that Roseiflexus spp., the dominant filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria inhabiting microbial mats of alkaline siliceous hot springs, may be capable of fixing bicarbonate via the 3-hydroxypropionate pathway, which has been character...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Klatt CG,Bryant DA,Ward DM

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The APSES protein family comprises a conserved class of fungus-specific transcriptional regulators. Some members have been identified in partial ascomycetes. In this study, the APSES protein StuA (AoStuA) of the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora was characterized. Compared with the wild-type (WT) strain...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Xie M,Wang Y,Tang L,Yang L,Zhou D,Li Q,Niu X,Zhang KQ,Yang J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MerF, a proposed bacterial mercury transporter, was surprisingly found to play key roles in the flagellum biogenesis and motility but not mercuric resistance of the deep-sea bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri 273 in our previous study. However, the mechanism behind this interesting discovery has not been elucidated. Here,...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zheng R,Wu S,Sun C

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sulfate-reducing culture N47 can utilize naphthalene or 2-methylnaphthalene as the sole carbon source and electron donor. Here we show that the initial reaction in the naphthalene degradation pathway is a methylation to 2-methylnaphthalene which then undergoes the subsequent oxidation to the central metabolite 2-n...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Safinowski M,Meckenstock RU

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well recognized that a dynamic biofilm develops upon plant biomass in the herbivore gastrointestinal tract, but this component of the microbiome has not previously been specifically sampled, or directly compared with the biodiversity present in the planktonic fraction of digesta. In this study, the digesta colle...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Larue R,Yu Z,Parisi VA,Egan AR,Morrison M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalase family of Beauveria bassiana (fungal entomopathogen) consists of catA (spore-specific), catB (secreted), catP (peroxisomal), catC (cytoplasmic) and catD (secreted peroxidase/catalase), which were distinguished in phylogeny and structure and functionally characterized by constructing single-gene disrupted ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang ZL,Zhang LB,Ying SH,Feng MG

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The annual dynamics of three different ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) ecotypes (amoA gene) and of the SAGMGC-1 (Nitrosotalea-like aquatic Thaumarchaeota) group (16S rRNA gene) were studied by newly designed specific primers and quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis in a deep oligotrophic high mountain lake ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Restrepo-Ortiz CX,Auguet JC,Casamayor EO

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary metabolites (SMs) are crucial for fungi and vary in function from beneficial antibiotics to pathogenicity factors. To generate diversified SMs that enable different functions, SM-coding regions rapidly evolve in fungal genomes. However, the driving force and genetic mechanism of fungal SM diversification in ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhong Z,Lin L,Zheng H,Bao J,Chen M,Zhang L,Tang W,Ebbole DJ,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial degradation of polysaccharides is central to marine carbon cycling, but little is known about the bacterial taxa that degrade specific marine polysaccharides. Here, bacterial growth and community dynamics were studied during the degradation of the polysaccharides chitin, alginate and agarose in microcosm...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wietz M,Wemheuer B,Simon H,Giebel HA,Seibt MA,Daniel R,Brinkhoff T,Simon M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria are a heterologous group of motile prokaryotes, ubiquitous in aquatic habitats and cosmopolitan in distribution. Here, we studied the diversity of magnetotactic bacteria in a seawater pond within an intertidal zone at Huiquan Bay in the China Sea. The pond is composed of a permanently submerged ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Pan H,Zhu K,Song T,Yu-Zhang K,Lefèvre C,Xing S,Liu M,Zhao S,Xiao T,Wu LF

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are thin layers of bacteria embedded within a slime matrix that live on surfaces. They are ubiquitous in nature and responsible for many medical and dental infections, industrial fouling and are also evident in ancient fossils. A biofilm structure is shaped by growth, detachment and response to mechanical for...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fabbri S,Li J,Howlin RP,Rmaile A,Gottenbos B,De Jager M,Starke EM,Aspiras M,Ward MT,Cogan NG,Stoodley P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia ruckeri is the causative agent of enteric redmouth in fish and one of the major bacterial pathogens causing losses in salmonid aquaculture. Previously typing methods, including restriction enzyme analysis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) have indicated a clonal po...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bastardo A,Ravelo C,Romalde JL

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex ecology of free-living amoebae (FLA) and their role in spreading pathogenic microorganisms through water systems have recently raised considerable interest. In this study, we investigated the presence of FLA and amoebae-resisting bacteria (ARB) at various stages of a drinking water plant fed with river wat...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Thomas V,Loret JF,Jousset M,Greub G

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 produces intracellular gas vesicles to enable upward flotation in water columns. It also uses flagellar rotation to swim through liquid and swarm across semi-solid surfaces. Flotation and motility can be co-regulated with production of a β-lactam antibiotic (carbapenem carboxylate) and a linear...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Quintero-Yanes A,Lee CM,Monson R,Salmond G

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seafloor microorganisms impact global carbon cycling by mineralizing vast quantities of organic matter (OM) from pelagic primary production, which is predicted to increase in the Arctic because of diminishing sea ice cover. We studied microbial interspecies-carbon-flow during anaerobic OM degradation in arctic marine ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Müller AL,Pelikan C,de Rezende JR,Wasmund K,Putz M,Glombitza C,Kjeldsen KU,Jørgensen BB,Loy A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular signatures of new, as yet uncultured mollicute-like organisms (MLOs) have been detected in total rRNA and DNA extracted from tissues, gut contents and casts of four species of the earthworm family Lumbricidae. The MLO 16S rRNA sequences exhibited low identity to those of known Mollicutes species and formed a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nechitaylo TY,Timmis KN,Golyshin PN

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antarctic endolithic microecosystems harbour distinct biofilms. The lithic substrate and the microorganisms comprising these films are intimately linked, leading to complex mineral-microbe interactions. Hence, the microhabitats and microenvironments of these microecosystems are not only determined by the physicochemic...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： de los Ríos A,Wierzchos J,Sancho LG,Ascaso C

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the plasmid-encoded rulAB (resistance to ultraviolet radiation) determinant on responses of Pseudomonas syringae to ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation and the distribution of rulAB among pathovars of P. syringae were determined. The cloned rulAB determinant and the native rulAB+ plasmid pPSR1 both conferred ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sundin GW,Murillo J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) induce the synthesis of a myriad of secondary metabolites, including aflatoxins. It raises significant concern as it is a potent environmental contaminant. In Aspergillus flavus., antioxidant enzymes link ROS stress response with coordinated gene regulation of aflatoxin biosynthesis. In t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhu Z,Yang M,Bai Y,Ge F,Wang S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylotrophy is a metabolic capability possessed by microorganisms that allows them to build biomass and to obtain energy from organic substrates containing no carbon-carbon bonds (C1 compounds, such as methane, methanol, etc.). This phenomenon in microbial physiology has been a subject of study for over 100 years, e...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Chistoserdova L

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siderophores are chelators with extremely strong affinity for ferric iron and are best known for their capacity to feed microorganisms with this metal. Despite their preference for iron, they can also chelate numerous other metals with variable affinities. There is also increasing evidence that metals other than iron ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schalk IJ,Hannauer M,Braud A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities in natural ecosystems are subject to strong ecological rules. The study of local communities along a regional metacommunity can reveal patterns of community assembly, and disentangle the underlying ecological processes. In particular, we seek drivers of community assembly at the regional scale us...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ortiz-Álvarez R,Cáliz J,Camarero L,Casamayor EO

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00