Novel acid resistance genes from the metagenome of the Tinto River, an extremely acidic environment.

abstract：:Atypical, strongly haemolytic porcine isolates of intestinal spirochaetes differing genetically from Brachyspira hyodysenteriae were identified and characterized. The isolates were subjected to culture and biochemical tests, antimicrobial susceptibility testing and molecular analyses. None of four species-specific pol...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Råsbäck T,Jansson DS,Johansson KE,Fellström C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroalgae are important ecosystem engineers in temperate marine waters. The function of macroalgae is intimately linked to the composition and structure of their epibiotic bacterial, communities, and evidence has emerged that bacteria can also have a negative impact on their host by causing disease. A few examples ex...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Egan S,Fernandes ND,Kumar V,Gardiner M,Thomas T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrous oxide (N2 O) is emitted during microbiological nitrogen (N) conversion processes, when N2 O production exceeds N2 O consumption. The magnitude of N2 O production vs. consumption varies with pH and controlling net N2 O production might be feasible by choice of system pH. This article reviews how pH affects enzy...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Blum JM,Su Q,Ma Y,Valverde-Pérez B,Domingo-Félez C,Jensen MM,Smets BF

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:The stimulation of bacteria capable of reducing soluble U(VI) to sparingly soluble U(IV) is a promising approach for containing U(VI) plumes. Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans is capable of mediating this activity; however, its ability to couple U(VI) reduction to growth has not been established. Monitoring the increase i...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sanford RA,Wu Q,Sung Y,Thomas SH,Amos BK,Prince EK,Löffler FE

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halophilic Bacteriovorax (Bx), formerly known as the marine Bdellovibrio, are Gram-negative, predatory bacteria found in saltwater systems. To assess their genetic diversity and geographical occurrence, the small subunit rRNA (ssu-rRNA) gene sequences were analysed from 111 marine, salt lake and estuarine isolates rec...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Pineiro SA,Stine OC,Chauhan A,Steyert SR,Smith R,Williams HN

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecteinascidin 743 (ET-743, Yondelis) is a clinically approved chemotherapeutic natural product isolated from the Caribbean mangrove tunicate Ecteinascidia turbinata. Researchers have long suspected that a microorganism may be the true producer of the anticancer drug, but its genome has remained elusive due to our inab...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schofield MM,Jain S,Porat D,Dick GJ,Sherman DH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activated sludge process relies on the formation of strong microbial flocs. The knowledge about dominant floc-forming bacteria is at present very limited, especially from a phylogenetic perspective. In this study, numerous microcolonies in the activated sludge flocs were found to be targeted by a Betaproteobacteri...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Thomsen TR,Nielsen JL,Ramsing NB,Nielsen PH

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：: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：:The frequent production of the hepatotoxin microcystin (MC) and its impact on the lifestyle of bloom-forming cyanobacteria are poorly understood. Here, we report that MC interferes with the assembly and the subcellular localization of RubisCO, in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806. Immunofluorescence, electron microscopic...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Barchewitz T,Guljamow A,Meissner S,Timm S,Henneberg M,Baumann O,Hagemann M,Dittmann E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440 encodes singular orthologues of genes crp (encoding the catabolite repression protein, Crp) and cyaA (adenylate cyclase) of Escherichia coli. The levels of cAMP formed by P. putida cells were below detection with a Dictyostelium biosensor in vivo. The cyaA(P. ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Milanesio P,Arce-Rodríguez A,Muñoz A,Calles B,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two genomes of widespread freshwater picocyanobacteria isolated by extinction dilution from a Spanish oligotrophic reservoir. Based on microscopy and genomic properties, both picocyanobacteria were tentatively designated Synechococcus lacustris Tous, formerly described as a metagenome assembled genome (MAG)...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Cabello-Yeves PJ,Picazo A,Camacho A,Callieri C,Rosselli R,Roda-Garcia JJ,Coutinho FH,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:Multiprotein bridging factors (MBFs) are evolutionarily highly conserved cofactors that link TATA-binding protein and the associated basal transcription machinery to transcription factors. The filamentous fungus, Beauveria bassiana, has a multipotential lifestyle capable of growing as a saprophyte, plant endophyte and...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ying SH,Ji XP,Wang XX,Feng MG,Keyhani NO

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hopanoids are bacterial surrogates of eukaryotic membrane sterols and among earth's most abundant natural products. Their molecular fossils remain in sediments spanning more than a billion years. However, hopanoid metabolism and function are not fully understood. Burkholderia species are environmental opportunistic pa...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schmerk CL,Welander PV,Hamad MA,Bain KL,Bernards MA,Summons RE,Valvano MA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enriched sulphidogenic consortium capable of mineralizing benzene was used to study the metabolic pathway of anaerobic benzene degradation. Benzoate was detected in active cultures and benzene was confirmed to be the source of this benzoate by the addition of deuterated benzene (D6) and subsequent detection of deut...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Phelps CD,Zhang X,Young LY

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

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：: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 marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri is the monospecific symbiont of the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, and the establishment of this association involves a number of signaling pathways and transcriptional responses between both partners. We report here the first full RNA-Seq dataset representing host-asso...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Thompson LR,Nikolakakis K,Pan S,Reed J,Knight R,Ruby EG

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a growing interest in the degradation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) over the last decade, ever since its removal from polluted sites was declared an international environmental priority. Certain aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms are capable of using TNT as an N source, although very few studies have...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： González-Pérez MM,van Dillewijn P,Wittich RM,Ramos JL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In aquatic ecosystems, microplastics are a relatively new anthropogenic substrate that can readily be colonized by biofilm-forming organisms. To examine the effects of substrate type on microbial community assembly, we exposed ambient Baltic bacterioplankton to plastic substrates commonly found in marine environments ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Ogonowski M,Motiei A,Ininbergs K,Hell E,Gerdes Z,Udekwu KI,Bacsik Z,Gorokhova E

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under conditions of iron limitation Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 17400 produces two siderophores, pyoverdine, and a second siderophore quinolobactin, which itself results from the hydrolysis of the unstable molecule 8-hydroxy-4-methoxy-2-quinoline thiocarboxylic acid (thioquinolobactin). Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 1...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Matthijs S,Tehrani KA,Laus G,Jackson RW,Cooper RM,Cornelis P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally assumed that acquisition of antibiotic resistance leads to non-specific fitness costs. We have tested the alternative hypothesis that acquisition of antibiotic resistance may not always produce a general burden to the microorganisms, as measured in competition tests, but rather lead to specific changes...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Olivares J,Alvarez-Ortega C,Linares JF,Rojo F,Köhler T,Martínez JL

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerotaxis of two sulphate-reducing bacteria, the freshwater strain Desulfovibrio desulfuricans CSN (DSM 9104) and the marine strain Desulfovibrio oxyclinae N13 (DSM 11498), was studied using capillary microslides, microscopy and oxygen microsensors. The bacteria formed ring-shaped bands in oxygen diffusion gradients s...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Eschemann A,Kühl M,Cypionka H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural practices, such as mineral nitrogen fertilization, have an impact on the soil's ability to oxidize methane, but little is known about the shifts in the methanotrophic community composition associated with these practices. Therefore, the long-term effect of both mineral (NH4NO3) and organic (manure and GFT...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Seghers D,Top EM,Reheul D,Bulcke R,Boeckx P,Verstraete W,Siciliano SD

更新日期：2003-10-01 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

abstract：:Biomass production for bioenergy may change soil microbes and influence ecosystem properties. To explore the impact of different bioenergy cropping systems on soil microorganisms, the compositions and quantities of soil microbial communities (16S rRNA gene) and N-cycling functional groups (nifH, bacterial amoA, archae...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Mao Y,Yannarell AC,Davis SC,Mackie RI

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies focusing on seasonal dynamics of microbial communities in terrestrial and marine environments are common; however, little is known about seasonal dynamics in high-temperature environments. Thus, our objective was to document the seasonal dynamics of both the physicochemical conditions and the microbial communi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Briggs BR,Brodie EL,Tom LM,Dong H,Jiang H,Huang Q,Wang S,Hou W,Wu G,Huang L,Hedlund BP,Zhang C,Dijkstra P,Hungate BA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon entry of Francisella tularensis to macrophages, the Francisella-containing phagosome (FCP) is trafficked into an acidified late endosome-like phagosome with limited fusion to the lysosomes followed by rapid escape into the cytosol where the organism replicates. Although the Francisella Pathogenicity Island (FPI),...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Asare R,Abu Kwaik Y

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00