Geomicrobiological exploration and characterization of a novel deep-sea hydrothermal system at the TOTO caldera in the Mariana Volcanic Arc.

abstract：:Methanogenesis was characterized in hypersaline microbial mats from Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico both in situ and after long-term manipulation in a greenhouse environment. Substrate addition experiments indicate methanogenesis to occur primarily through the catabolic demethylation of non-competitive sub...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Smith JM,Green SJ,Kelley CA,Prufert-Bebout L,Bebout BM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haemolysin from enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC-Hly) and the serine protease EspPα are putative virulence factors of EHEC. We investigated the interplay between these secreted factors and demonstrate that EspPα cleaves the 107 kDa large EHEC-Hly. Degradation was observed when purified EspPα was added to ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Brockmeyer J,Aldick T,Soltwisch J,Zhang W,Tarr PI,Weiss A,Dreisewerd K,Müthing J,Bielaszewska M,Karch H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain filamentous cyanobacteria, including Aphanizomenon ovalisporum, are potentially toxic owing to the formation of the hepatotoxin cylindrospermopsin. We previously identified a gene cluster in A. ovalisporum likely to be involved in cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis, including amidinotransferase (aoaA) and polyket...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Shalev-Malul G,Lieman-Hurwitz J,Viner-Mozzini Y,Sukenik A,Gaathon A,Lebendiker M,Kaplan A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wide distribution of diverse nitrogenase (nifH) genes affiliated with those of heterotrophic bacteria in marine and estuarine waters indicates ubiquity and an ecologically relevant role for heterotrophic N2 -fixers (diazotrophs) in aquatic nitrogen (N) cycling. However, the lack of cultivated representatives curre...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Farnelid H,Harder J,Bentzon-Tilia M,Riemann L

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cereal fibres such as wheat bran are considered to offer human health benefits via their impact on the intestinal microbiota. We show here by 16S rRNA gene-based community analysis that providing amylase-pretreated wheat bran as the sole added energy source to human intestinal microbial communities in anaerobic fermen...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Duncan SH,Russell WR,Quartieri A,Rossi M,Parkhill J,Walker AW,Flint HJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role during host-pathogen interactions and are often an indication of induced host defence responses. In this study, we demonstrate for the first time that Puccinia triticina (Pt) generates ROS, including superoxide, H2 O2 and hydroxyl radicals, during wheat infection. T...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang X,Che MZ,Khalil HB,McCallum BD,Bakkeren G,Rampitsch C,Saville BJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth conditions for heterotrophic bacteria in the environment are characterized by low concentrations of carbon and energy sources and complex substrate mixtures. While mechanisms of starvation-survival in the absence of carbon substrates have been studied in considerable detail, information on the physiology of slo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ihssen J,Egli T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When bacterial lineages make the transition from free-living to permanent association with hosts, they can undergo massive gene losses, for which the selective forces within host tissues are unknown. We identified here melanogenic clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with large chromosomal deletions (66 to 270 ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hocquet D,Petitjean M,Rohmer L,Valot B,Kulasekara HD,Bedel E,Bertrand X,Plésiat P,Köhler T,Pantel A,Jacobs MA,Hoffman LR,Miller SI

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Ring-like structures, 2.0-4.8 cm in diameter, observed in photosynthetic microbial mats on the Wadden Sea island Schiermonnikoog (the Netherlands) showed to be the result of the fungus Emericellopsis sp. degrading the photoautotrophic top layer of the mat. The mats were predominantly composed of cyanobacteria and diat...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Carreira C,Staal M,Falkoski D,de Vries RP,Middelboe M,Brussaard CP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature is an important correlate of global patterns of biodiversity, yet the mechanisms driving these relationships are not well understood. Taxa-area relationships (TARs) have been intensively examined, but the effects of temperature on TARs, particularly for microbial communities, are largely undocumented. Here...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Deng Y,Ning D,Qin Y,Xue K,Wu L,He Z,Yin H,Liang Y,Buzzard V,Michaletz ST,Zhou J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xeromyces bisporus can grow on sugary substrates down to 0.61, an extremely low water activity. Its genome size is approximately 22 Mb. Gene clusters encoding for secondary metabolites were conspicuously absent; secondary metabolites were not detected experimentally. Thus, in its 'dry' but nutrient-rich environment, X...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Leong SL,Lantz H,Pettersson OV,Frisvad JC,Thrane U,Heipieper HJ,Dijksterhuis J,Grabherr M,Pettersson M,Tellgren-Roth C,Schnürer J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contaminated soils are subject to diurnal and seasonal temperature variations during on-site ex-situ bioremediation processes. We assessed how diurnal temperature variations similar to that in summer at the site from which petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soil was collected affect the soil microbial community and th...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Akbari A,Ghoshal S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rhizosphere, phosphorus (P) levels are low because of P uptake into the roots. Rhizobacteria live on carbon (C) exuded from roots, and may contribute to plant nutrition by liberating P from organic compounds such as phytates. We isolated over 300 phytate (Na-inositol hexa-phosphate; Na-IHP)-utilizing bacterial ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Unno Y,Okubo K,Wasaki J,Shinano T,Osaki M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon a wide range of stress conditions (e.g. nutrient, antibiotic, oxidative), a subpopulation of bacterial cells known as persisters survives by halting metabolism. These cells resuscitate rapidly to reconstitute infections once the stress is removed and nutrients are provided. However, how these dormant cells resusc...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Song S,Wood TK

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmenaquinol : fumarate reductase (Mfr) is a newly recognized type of fumarate reductase present in some epsilon-proteobacteria, where the active site subunit (MfrA) is localized in the periplasm, but for which a physiological role has not been identified. We show that the Campylobacter jejuni mfrABE operon is tra...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Guccione E,Hitchcock A,Hall SJ,Mulholland F,Shearer N,van Vliet AH,Kelly DJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quorum sensing, a group behaviour coordinated by a diffusible pheromone signal and a cognate receptor, is typical of bacteria that form symbioses with plants and animals. LuxIR-type N-acyl L-homoserine (AHL) quorum sensing is common in Gram-negative Proteobacteria, and many members of this group have additional quorum...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Studer SV,Schwartzman JA,Ho JS,Geske GD,Blackwell HE,Ruby EG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) deposition affects myriad aspects of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function, and microbial communities may be particularly sensitive to anthropogenic N inputs. However, our understanding of N deposition effects on microbial communities is far from complete, especially for drylands where data are com...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： McHugh TA,Morrissey EM,Mueller RC,Gallegos-Graves V,Kuske CR,Reed SC

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During adaptation to environments, bacteria employ two-component signal transduction systems, which contain histidine kinases and response regulators, to sense and respond to exogenous and cellular stimuli in an accurate spatio-temporal manner. Although the protein phosphorylation process between histidine kinase and ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang FF,Deng CY,Cai Z,Wang T,Wang L,Wang XZ,Chen XY,Fang RX,Qian W

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ADP ribosylation factor (Arf) and the coat protein complex I (COPI) are involved in vesicle transport. Together with GTPase-activating proteins (ArfGAPs) and guanine exchange factors (ArfGEFs) that regulate the activity of Arf, they govern vesicle formation, COPI trafficking and the maintenance of the Golgi comple...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang S,Liu X,Li L,Yu R,He J,Zhang H,Zheng X,Wang P,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are important marine primary producers. We explored their distributions and covariance along a physico-chemical gradient from coastal to open ocean waters in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. An inter-annual pattern was delineated in the dynamic transition zone where u...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sudek S,Everroad RC,Gehman AL,Smith JM,Poirier CL,Chavez FP,Worden AZ

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Insects and nematodes represent the most species-rich animal taxa and they occur together in a variety of associations. Necromenic nematodes of the genus Pristionchus are found on scarab beetles with more than 30 species known from worldwide samplings. However, little is known about the dynamics and succession of nema...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Meyer JM,Baskaran P,Quast C,Susoy V,Rödelsperger C,Glöckner FO,Sommer RJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics that allow one Campylobacter jejuni genotype to succeed over another under the influence of bacteriophage predation have been examined in experimental broiler chickens following the observation that this succession appeared to occur in naturally colonized broiler chicken flocks. Examination of thre...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Scott AE,Timms AR,Connerton PL,El-Shibiny A,Connerton IF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes of the dimethyl sulfoxide reductase (DMSOR) family catalyse two-electron redox reactions pivotal to the dissimilatory metabolism of a variety of organic and inorganic compounds. The draft genome of the obligately anaerobic bacterium Desulfuribacillus stibiiarsenatis MLFW-2T contains 14 genes that are predicted...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Abin CA,Hollibaugh JT

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the oil in low temperature, non-uplifted reservoirs is biodegraded due to millions of years of microbial activity, including via methanogenesis from crude oil. To evaluate stimulating additional methanogenesis in already heavily biodegraded oil reservoirs, oil sands samples were amended with nutrients and elec...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： de Rezende JR,Oldenburg TBP,Korin T,Richardson WDL,Fustic M,Aitken CM,Bowler BFJ,Sherry A,Grigoryan A,Voordouw G,Larter SR,Head IM,Hubert CRJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Black Sea is the largest anoxic water basin on Earth and its stratified water column comprises an upper oxic, middle suboxic and a lower permanently anoxic, sulfidic zone. The abundance of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in water samples was determined by quantifying the copy number of the dsrA gene coding for the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Neretin LN,Abed RM,Schippers A,Schubert CJ,Kohls K,Kuypers MM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi can be highly efficient biogeochemical agents and accumulators of soluble and particulate forms of metals. This work aims to understand some of the physico-chemical mechanisms involved in toxic metal transformations focusing on the speciation of metals accumulated by fungi and mycorrhizal associations. The amorp...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fomina M,Charnock J,Bowen AD,Gadd GM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine Crenarchaeota represent an abundant component of the oceanic microbiota that play an important role in the global nitrogen cycle. Here we report the association of the colonial ascidian Cystodytes dellechiajei with putative ammonia-oxidizing Crenarchaeota that could actively be involved in nitrification inside ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez-García M,Stief P,Díaz-Valdés M,Wanner G,Ramos-Esplá A,Dubilier N,Antón J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00