A novel hybrid kinase is essential for regulating the sigma(B)-mediated stress response of Bacillus cereus.

abstract：:The functioning of natural microbial ecosystems is influenced by various biotic and abiotic conditions. The careful experimental manipulation of environmental conditions can drive microbial ecosystems toward exhibiting desirable types of functionality. Such manipulations can be systematically approached by viewing the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Vandecasteele FP,Crawford RL,Hess TF

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrios belonging to the Harveyi clade are pathogenic marine bacteria affecting both vertebrates and invertebrates, thereby causing a severe threat to the aquaculture industry. In this study, the expression of haemolysin, metalloprotease, serine protease, the quorum sensing master regulator LuxR and the virulence regu...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ruwandeepika HA,Defoirdt T,Bhowmick PP,Karunasagar I,Karunasagar I,Bossier P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory roles of the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors (TFs) in fungi have been identified in diverse cellular processes such as development, nutrient utilization and various stress responses. In this study, the 22 Magnaporthe oryzae genes encoding bZIP TFs were systematically characterized. Phyloge...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Kong S,Park SY,Lee YH

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron(III) profiles of flooded paddy soil incubated in the greenhouse indicated oxidation of iron(II) in the upper 6 mm soil layer. Measurement of oxygen with a Clark-type microelectrode showed that oxygen was only responsible for the oxidation of iron(II) in the upper 3 mm. In the soil beneath, nitrate could be used a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ratering S,Schnell S

更新日期：2001-02-01 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：:Marine myoviruses (i.e. bacteriophages with a contractile tail sheath) are numerically abundant and genetically diverse. We developed a terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism assay (TRFLP) for g23, the conserved gene encoding the major capsid protein, to investigate T4-like myovirus communities at USC's Mic...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Chow CE,Fuhrman JA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous cyanobacteria are the main founders and primary producers in biological desert soil crusts (BSCs) and are likely equipped to cope with one of the harshest environmental conditions on earth including daily hydration/dehydration cycles, high irradiance and extreme temperatures. Here, we resolved and report o...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Murik O,Oren N,Shotland Y,Raanan H,Treves H,Kedem I,Keren N,Hagemann M,Pade N,Kaplan A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteorhodopsin (PR) is a light-driven proton pump that has been found in a variety of marine bacteria, including Pelagibacter ubique, a member of the ubiquitous SAR11 clade. The goals of this study were to explore the diversity of PR genes and to estimate their abundance in the North Atlantic Ocean using quantitative...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Campbell BJ,Waidner LA,Cottrell MT,Kirchman DL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 is a root-associated biocontrol agent that suppresses soil-borne fungal diseases of crops. Remarkably, the pseudomonad is also endowed with systemic and oral activity against pest insects which depends on the production of the insecticidal Fit toxin. The toxin gene (fitD) is part of a viru...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Péchy-Tarr M,Borel N,Kupferschmied P,Turner V,Binggeli O,Radovanovic D,Maurhofer M,Keel C

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioremediation of contaminated sites has been accepted as an efficient and cheaper alternative to physicochemical means of remediation in several cases. Although chemotactic behaviour of many bacteria has been studied earlier and assays have been developed to study bacterial chemotaxis in semi-solid media, this phenom...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Paul D,Singh R,Jain RK

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate oceans are inhabited by diverse and temporally dynamic bacterioplankton communities. However, the role of the environment, resources and phytoplankton dynamics in shaping marine bacterioplankton communities at different time scales remains poorly constrained. Here, we combined time series observations (time ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： El-Swais H,Dunn KA,Bielawski JP,Li WK,Walsh DA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation is crucial to the environmental survival and transmission of Vibrio cholerae, the facultative human pathogen responsible for the disease cholera. During its infectious cycle, V. cholerae experiences fluctuations in temperature within the aquatic environment and during the transition between human hos...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Townsley L,Yildiz FH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type VI secretion system (T6SS) of bacteria plays a key role in competing for specific niches by the contact-dependent killing of competitors. Recently, Rhs proteins with polymorphic C-terminal toxin-domains that inhibit or kill neighboring cells were identified. In this report, we identified a novel Rhs with an M...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ma J,Sun M,Dong W,Pan Z,Lu C,Yao H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting spore formation of some aphid-pathogenic Entomophthorales is important for the seasonal pattern of their prevalence and survival but this process is poorly understood. To explore the possible mechanism involved in the process, Pandora nouryi (obligate aphid pathogen) interacted with green peach aphid Myzus per...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Huang ZH,Feng MG

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida strain KT2440 has been erased of various determinants of resistance to antibiotics encoded in its extant chromosome. To this end, we employed a coherent genetic platform that allowed the precise deletion of multiple genomic segments in a large variety of Gram-negativ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez-García E,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine fish larvae are immature upon hatching, and share their environment with high numbers of bacteria. The microbial communities associated with developing fish larvae might be structured by other factors than those important in developing terrestrial animals. Here, we analysed the beta (β)-diversity of the microbi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bakke I,Coward E,Andersen T,Vadstein O

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi have been observed to exhibit resistance to high levels of ionizing radiation despite sharing most DNA repair mechanisms with other eukaryotes. Radioresistance, in fact, is such a common feature in fungi that it is difficult to identify species that exhibit widely different radiosensitivities, which in turn has ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Romsdahl J,Schultzhaus Z,Chen A,Liu J,Ewing A,Hervey J,Wang Z

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic bacteria reductively dechlorinate polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in aquatic sediments, but these microorganisms remain uncultured and, until now, unidentified. Through denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of 16S rDNA from a highly enriched ortho-PCB dechlorinating culture, the growth of a single ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Cutter LA,Watts JE,Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymicrobial bronchopulmonary infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) cause progressive lung damage and death. Although the arrival of Pseudomonas aeruginosa often heralds a more rapid rate of pulmonary decline, there is significant inter-individual variation in the rate of decline, the causes of which remain poorly under...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Klepac-Ceraj V,Lemon KP,Martin TR,Allgaier M,Kembel SW,Knapp AA,Lory S,Brodie EL,Lynch SV,Bohannan BJ,Green JL,Maurer BA,Kolter R

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nostoc flagelliforme is well known for its strong ecological adaptability in inhabiting desert biological soil crusts. However, the mechanism of its recovery from quiescent to active state after prolonged dormancy remains poorly characterized. Especially how exoproteome be related to the adaptive strategies and partic...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang B,Yang J,Xu C,Yi L,Wan C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene abundance and gene expression of six diazotroph populations from the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic in June 2007 were examined using nifH gene quantitative polymerase chain reaction (q PCR) methods. Of all the diazotrophs, Trichodesmium spp. was the most abundant with the highest number of gene copies in the Gul...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Foster RA,Subramaniam A,Zehr JP

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:A meromictic lake ecosystem (Mahoney Lake, BC, Canada) was investigated to elucidate the significance of chemocline bacteria in the total carbon cycle under natural conditions. In this lake, primary production by oxygenic phototrophs was insufficient to support the observed net secondary production of the calanoid cop...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Overmann J,Hall KJ,Northcote TG,Beatty JT

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An organism's metabolic activity leaves an extracellular footprint and dynamic changes in this exometabolome inform about nutrient uptake, waste disposal and signalling activities. Using non-targeted mass spectrometry, we report exometabolome dynamics of hypoxia-induced, non-replicating mycobacteria that are thought t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zimmermann M,Kuehne A,Boshoff HI,Barry CE 3rd,Zamboni N,Sauer U

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria (AAnPB) are ecologically important microorganisms, widespread in oceanic photic zones. However, the key environmental drivers underpinning AAnPB abundance and diversity are still largely undefined. The temporal patterns in AAnPB dynamics at three oceanographic reference station...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bibiloni-Isaksson J,Seymour JR,Ingleton T,van de Kamp J,Bodrossy L,Brown MV

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prochlorococcus, an abundant phototroph in the oceans, are infected by members of three families of viruses: myo-, podo- and siphoviruses. Genomes of myo- and podoviruses isolated on Prochlorococcus contain DNA replication machinery and virion structural genes homologous to those from coliphages T4 and T7 respectively...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sullivan MB,Krastins B,Hughes JL,Kelly L,Chase M,Sarracino D,Chisholm SW

更新日期：2009-11-01 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

abstract：:Cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico are often dominated by mussels of the genus Bathymodiolus that harbour symbiotic bacteria in their gills. In this study, we analysed symbiont diversity, abundance and metabolic potential in three mussel species from the northern Gulf of Mexico: Bathymodiolus heckerae from the West Flor...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Duperron S,Sibuet M,MacGregor BJ,Kuypers MM,Fisher CR,Dubilier N

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the putative role of phenazines and rhamnolipid-biosurfactants, antagonistic metabolites produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PNA1, was tested in the biological control of Pythium splendens on bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) and Pythium myriotylum on cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium L Schott). A rhamnolipid-...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Perneel M,D'hondt L,De Maeyer K,Adiobo A,Rabaey K,Höfte M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has generally been accepted that the formation of granules in anaerobic wastewater treatment systems requires a hydraulic upflow pattern. To evaluate this hypothesis, we operated an anaerobic migrating blanket reactor (AMBR) without a hydraulic upflow pattern, using a synthetic wastewater containing acetate, propio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Angenent LT,Sung S,Raskin L

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00