Viral-mediated lysis of microbes and carbon release in the sub-Antarctic and Polar Frontal zones of the Australian Southern Ocean.

abstract：:When grown as a biofilm in laboratory flow chambers Pseudomonas aeruginosa can develop mushroom-shaped multicellular structures consisting of distinct subpopulations in the cap and stalk portions. We have previously presented evidence that formation of the cap portion of the mushroom-shaped structures in P. aeruginosa...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Barken KB,Pamp SJ,Yang L,Gjermansen M,Bertrand JJ,Klausen M,Givskov M,Whitchurch CB,Engel JN,Tolker-Nielsen T

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mqsRA operon encodes a toxin-antitoxin pair that was characterized to participate in biofilm and persister cell formation in Escherichia coli. Notably, the antitoxin MqsA possesses a C-terminal DNA-binding domain that recognizes the [5'-AACCT(N)2-4 AGGTT-3'] motif and acts as a transcriptional regulator controllin...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Zhang SP,Zhang MY,Kempher ML,Guo DD,Han JT,Tao X,Wu Y,Zhang LQ,He YX

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological role of the widespread mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) in cyanobacteria is under debate. Here, we have constructed and characterized two mutants impaired in MAA biosynthesis in the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806. We could identify shinorine as the sole MAA type of the s...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hu C,Völler G,Süßmuth R,Dittmann E,Kehr JC

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted in a massive influx of hydrocarbons into the Gulf of Mexico (the Gulf). To better understand the fate of the oil, we enriched and isolated indigenous hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from deep, uncontaminated waters from the Gulf with oil (Macondo MC252) and dispersant used durin...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Baelum J,Borglin S,Chakraborty R,Fortney JL,Lamendella R,Mason OU,Auer M,Zemla M,Bill M,Conrad ME,Malfatti SA,Tringe SG,Holman HY,Hazen TC,Jansson JK

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verticillium wilt in cotton caused by Verticillium dahliae is one of the most serious plant diseases worldwide. Because no known fungicides or cotton cultivars provide sufficient protection against this pathogen, V. dahliae causes major crop yield losses. Here, an isolated cotton endophytic bacterium, designated Bacil...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Han Q,Wu F,Wang X,Qi H,Shi L,Ren A,Liu Q,Zhao M,Tang C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ikaite tufa columns from the Ikka Fjord in south-western Greenland constitute a natural, stable environment at low temperature and with a pH ranging from neutral at the exterior to very alkaline (pH 10.4) at the interior of the column. Phylogenetic analysis of culturable organisms revealed ten different isolates repre...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Stougaard P,Jørgensen F,Johnsen MG,Hansen OC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

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：:The anterior nares are an important reservoir for opportunistic pathogens and commensal microorganisms. A barcoded Illumina paired-end sequencing method targeting the 16S ribosomal RNA V1-2 hypervariable region was developed to compare the bacterial diversity of the anterior nares across distinct human populations (vo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Camarinha-Silva A,Jáuregui R,Chaves-Moreno D,Oxley AP,Schaumburg F,Becker K,Wos-Oxley ML,Pieper DH

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Microbes perform many costly biological functions that benefit themselves, and may also benefit neighbouring cells. Losing the ability to perform such functions can be advantageous due to cost savings, but when they are essential for growth, organisms become dependent on ecological partners to compensate for those los...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Estrela S,Morris JJ,Kerr B

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reef-building corals are comprised of close associations between the coral animal, symbiotic zooxanthellae, and a diversity of associated microbes (including Bacteria, Archaea and Fungi). Together, these comprise the coral holobiont - a paradigm that emphasizes the potential contributions of each component to the over...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Rypien KL,Ward JR,Azam F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technologies for massively parallel sequencing are revolutionizing microbial ecology and are vastly increasing the scale of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene studies. Although pyrosequencing has increased the breadth and depth of possible rRNA gene sampling, one drawback is that the number of reads obtained per sample is diff...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gihring TM,Green SJ,Schadt CW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-antitoxin modules are gene pairs encoding a toxin and its antitoxin, and are found on the chromosomes of many bacteria, including pathogens. Here, we characterize the specific contribution of the TxpA and YqcG toxins in elimination of defective cells from developing Bacillus subtilis biofilms. On nutrient limita...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bloom-Ackermann Z,Steinberg N,Rosenberg G,Oppenheimer-Shaanan Y,Pollack D,Ely S,Storzi N,Levy A,Kolodkin-Gal I

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotics have been proposed as supplements in re-feeding programmes for malnourished children. A review of paediatric literature showed that growth promotion by antibiotics, when it was observed, was mostly mediated by its anti-infective properties. Despite the widespread use of antibiotics as growth promoters in a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Brüssow H

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:The release of abiotic methane from marine seeps into the atmosphere is a major source of this potent greenhouse gas. Methanotrophic microorganisms in methane seeps use methane as carbon and energy source, thus significantly mitigating global methane emissions. Here, we investigated microbial methane oxidation at the ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Taubert M,Grob C,Crombie A,Howat AM,Burns OJ,Weber M,Lott C,Kaster AK,Vollmers J,Jehmlich N,von Bergen M,Chen Y,Murrell JC

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although bacterioplankton and phytoplankton are generally perceived as closely linked in marine systems, specific interactions between discrete bacterioplankton and phytoplankton populations are largely unknown. However, measurements of bacterioplankton distributions during phytoplankton blooms may indicate specific m...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Morris RM,Longnecker K,Giovannoni SJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：: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：:Although truffles are cultivated since decades, their life cycle and the conditions stimulating ascocarp formation still remain mysterious. A role for bacteria in the development of several truffle species has been suggested but few is known regarding the natural bacterial communities of Périgord Black truffle. Thus, ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Antony-Babu S,Deveau A,Van Nostrand JD,Zhou J,Le Tacon F,Robin C,Frey-Klett P,Uroz S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate acidophilic members of the thaumarchaeotal genus Candidatus Nitrosotalea play an important role in nitrification in acidic soils, but their evolutionary and physiological adaptations to acidic environments are still poorly understood, with only a single member of this genus (Ca. N. devanaterra) having its gen...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Herbold CW,Lehtovirta-Morley LE,Jung MY,Jehmlich N,Hausmann B,Han P,Loy A,Pester M,Sayavedra-Soto LA,Rhee SK,Prosser JI,Nicol GW,Wagner M,Gubry-Rangin C

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cosmopolitan coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi is characterized by a strongly differentiated haplodiplontic life cycle consisting of a diploid phase, generally bearing coccoliths (calcified) but that can be also non-calcified, and a non-calcified biflagellated haploid phase. Given most studies have focused on the ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Frada MJ,Bidle KD,Probert I,de Vargas C

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic bacteria associated with freshwater ecosystems can pose significant health risks particularly where recreational water use is popular. Common water quality assessments involve quantifying indicator Escherichia coli within the water column but neglect to consider physical and geochemical factors and contribu...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： VanMensel D,Chaganti SR,Droppo IG,Weisener CG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of microbial eukaryotes was surveyed by environmental sequencing from tropical lagoon sites of the South Pacific, collected through the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)'s Explore21 expedition to the Solomon Islands in September 2013. The sampled lagoons presented low nutrient concentrations typi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Kim E,Sprung B,Duhamel S,Filardi C,Kyoon Shin M

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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 ascidian Cystodytes dellechiajei (Della Valle, 1877) (phylum Chordata, class Ascidiacea, family Polycitoridae) is a colonial tunicate that inhabits benthic rock environments in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Its life cycle has two phases, the adult sessile colony and the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

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

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel hydrothermal activities accompanying effluent white smokers and elemental sulfur chimney structures at the north-east lava dome of the TOTO caldera depression in the Mariana Volcanic Arc have been explored and characterized by geochemical and microbiological surveys. White smoker hydrothermal fluids were observe...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nakagawa T,Takai K,Suzuki Y,Hirayama H,Konno U,Tsunogai U,Horikoshi K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrient scarcity is a common condition in nature, but the resulting extremely low growth rates (below 0.025 h(-1) ) are an unexplored research area in Bacillus subtilis. To understand microbial life in natural environments, studying the adaptation of B. subtilis to near-zero growth conditions is relevant. To this end...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Overkamp W,Ercan O,Herber M,van Maris AJ,Kleerebezem M,Kuipers OP

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here it is reported the first detection of DV-chl a together with the usual chl a in the marine dinoflagellate Alexandrium ostenfeldii from the Baltic Sea. Growth response and photosynthetic parameters were examined at two irradiances (80 and 240 μmol photons m(-2) s(-1)) and temperatures (15 °C and 19 °C) in a diviny...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Rodríguez F,Garrido JL,Sobrino C,Johnsen G,Riobó P,Franco J,Aamot I,Ramilo I,Sanz N,Kremp A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00