Syntrophic butyrate and propionate oxidation processes: from genomes to reaction mechanisms.

abstract：:Cyanobacteria, phototrophic organisms performing oxygenic photosynthesis, must adapt their metabolic processes to important environmental challenges, like those imposed by the succession of days and nights. Not surprisingly, certain regulatory proteins are found exclusively in this phylum. One of these unique factors,...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Cantos R,Labella JI,Espinosa J,Contreras A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual stable isotope probing has been used to infer rates of microbial biomass production and modes of carbon fixation. In order to validate this approach for assessing archaeal production, the methanogenic archaeon Methanosarcina barkeri was grown either with H2 , acetate or methanol with D2 O and 13 C-dissolved inorg...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Wu W,Meador TB,Könneke M,Elvert M,Wegener G,Hinrichs KU

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of honeybees by the microsporidian Nosema ceranae is considered to be one of the factors underlying the increased colony losses and decreased honey production seen in recent years. However, these effects appear to differ in function of the climatic zone, the distinct beekeeping practices and the honeybee spe...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Van der Zee R,Gómez-Moracho T,Pisa L,Sagastume S,García-Palencia P,Maside X,Bartolomé C,Martín-Hernández R,Higes M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As key components of the electron transfer (ET) pathways used for dissimilatory reduction of solid iron [Fe(III)] (hydr)oxides, outer membrane multihaem c-type cytochromes MtrC and OmcA of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and OmcE and OmcS of Geobacter sulfurreducens mediate ET reactions extracellularly. Both MtrC and OmcA ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Shi L,Richardson DJ,Wang Z,Kerisit SN,Rosso KM,Zachara JM,Fredrickson JK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-component systems (OCSs) and cytosolic two-component regulatory systems (TCSs) appear to share the same biological function, which consists in the transcriptional control in response to the cellular concentration of signal molecules. However, cytosolic TCSs as compared with OCSs represent a genetic and metabolic b...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Krell T,Busch A,Lacal J,Silva-Jiménez H,Ramos JL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropospheric nitrate levels are predicted to increase throughout the 21st century, with potential effects on terrestrial ecosystems, including the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS). This study considers the impacts of elevated nitrate concentrations on the abundance and composition of dominant bulk and active prokaryotic com...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Cameron KA,Stibal M,Chrismas N,Box J,Jacobsen CS

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This special issue highlights several recent discoveries in the microbial methane cycle, including the diversity and activity of methanotrophic bacteria in special habitats, distribution and contribution of the newly discovered Verrucomicrobia, metabolism of methane and related one-carbon compounds such as methanol an...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Murrell JC,Jetten MS

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus, an inhabitant of marine and estuarine environments around the world, is the leading cause of reported seafood-related deaths in the United States. Disease is caused by opaque colony-forming strains that produce capsular polysaccharide, loss of which results in an unencapsulated translucent phenotype...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Kaluskar ZM,Garrison-Schilling KL,McCarter KS,Lambert B,Simar SR,Pettis GS

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria from the Chloroflexi phylum are dominant members of phototrophic microbial mat communities in terrestrial thermal environments. Vitamins of B group are key intermediates (precursors) in the biosynthesis of indispensable enzyme cofactors driving numerous metabolic processes in all forms of life. A genomics-bas...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Rodionova IA,Li X,Plymale AE,Motamedchaboki K,Konopka AE,Romine MF,Fredrickson JK,Osterman AL,Rodionov DA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are generally described as strictly anaerobic organisms with regard to growth, several reports have shown that some SRB, particularly Desulfovibrio species, are quite resistant to O2 . For example, SRB remain viable in many aerobic environments while some even red...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Lefèvre CT,Howse PA,Schmidt ML,Sabaty M,Menguy N,Luther GW 3rd,Bazylinski DA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) in Methylocystis strain SB2 was found to be constitutively expressed in the absence of methane when the strain was grown on either acetate or ethanol. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and reverse transcription-PCR showed that the expression of pmoA dec...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Yoon S,Im J,Bandow N,Dispirito AA,Semrau JD

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, geomicrobiologists have focused their researches on the nature and origin of enigmatic reticulated filaments reported in modern and fossil samples from limestone caves and basalt lava tubes. Researchers have posed questions on these filaments concerning their nature, origin, chemistry, morpholog...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Miller AZ,Hernández-Mariné M,Jurado V,Dionísio A,Barquinha P,Fortunato E,Afonso MJ,Chaminé HI,Saiz-Jimenez C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of the role of microbes in the phytobiome, microbial communities (microbiota) have been identified and characterized based on host species, development, distribution, and condition. The microbiota in the plant rhizosphere is believed to have been established prior to seed germination and innate imm...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Kong HG,Song GC,Ryu CM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiplex PCR was developed to detect pre-CTXΦ and CTXΦ in Vibrio cholerae. A total of 115 V. cholerae were tested, of which 42 V. cholerae O1 and 18 V. cholerae O139 contained CTXΦ. Six V. cholerae O139 contained only pre-CTXΦ and three V. cholerae O1 and 23 V. cholerae O139 contained both pre-CTXΦ and CTXΦ. None o...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Mantri CK,Mohapatra SS,Colwell RR,Singh DV

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we developed and validated a culture-independent method for diversity surveys to specifically detect endospore-forming Firmicutes. The global transcription regulator of sporulation (spo0A) was identified as a gene marker for endospore-forming Firmicutes. To enable phylogenetic classification, we designe...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Wunderlin T,Junier T,Roussel-Delif L,Jeanneret N,Junier P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase in the areal extent of the subtropical gyres over the past decade has been attributed to a global tendency towards increased water-column stratification. Here, we examine how vertical stratification governs the community structure of the picophytoplankton that dominate these vast marine ecosystems. We ana...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Bouman HA,Ulloa O,Barlow R,Li WK,Platt T,Zwirglmaier K,Scanlan DJ,Sathyendranath S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bumblebees are ecologically and economically important as pollinators of crop and wild plants, especially in temperate systems. Species, such as the buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), are reared commercially to pollinate high-value crops. Their highly specific gut microbiota, characterized by low diversity, ma...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Newbold LK,Oliver AE,Cuthbertson L,Walkington SE,Gweon HS,Heard MS,van der Gast CJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Bacterial consortium' sensu lato applies to mutualism or syntrophy-based systems consisting of unrelated bacteria. Consortia of cyanobacteria have been preferentially studied on Anabaena epibioses; non-photosynthetic satellites of other filamentous or unicellular cyanobacteria were also considered although structure-...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Velichko N,Chernyaeva E,Averina S,Gavrilova O,Lapidus A,Pinevich A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine cyanobacteria are important contributors to primary production in the ocean and their viruses (cyanophages) affect the ocean microbial communities. Despite reports of lysogeny in marine cyanobacteria, a genome sequence of such temperate cyanophages remains unknown although genomic analysis indicate potential fo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Flores-Uribe J,Philosof A,Sharon I,Fridman S,Larom S,Béjà O

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microorganisms responsible for anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) coupled to denitrification have not been clearly elucidated. Three recent publications suggested it can be achieved by a denitrifying bacterium with or without the involvement of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea. A key factor limiting the progress...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Hu S,Zeng RJ,Burow LC,Lant P,Keller J,Yuan Z

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-living bacteria such as Pseudomonas putida are frequently exposed to temperature shifts and non-optimal growth conditions. We compared the transcriptome and metabolome of the cold adaptation of P. putida KT2440 and isogenic cold-sensitive transposon mutants carrying transposons in their cbrA, cbrB, pcnB, vacB, an...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Dethlefsen S,Jäger C,Klockgether J,Schomburg D,Tümmler B

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial adenylate cyclase two-hybrid (BACTH) system has been widely used to characterize protein-protein interactions in the prokaryotic world. This system relies on the interaction-mediated reconstitution of adenylate cyclase activity in Escherichia coli by bringing together two complementary fragments of the c...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Ouellette SP,Gauliard E,Antosová Z,Ladant D

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrrolysine (Pyl), the 22nd canonical amino acid, is only decoded and synthesized by a limited number of organisms in the domains Archaea and Bacteria. Pyl is encoded by the amber codon UAG, typically a stop codon. To date, all known Pyl-decoding archaea are able to carry out methylotrophic methanogenesis. The functio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Guan Y,Haroon MF,Alam I,Ferry JG,Stingl U

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is an efficient colonizer of the rhizosphere of plants of agronomical and basic interest. We have demonstrated that KT2440 can protect the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana against infection by the phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. P. putida extracellular haem-peroxidase (P...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Matilla MA,Ramos JL,Bakker PA,Doornbos R,Badri DV,Vivanco JM,Ramos-González MI

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the release of anthropogenic-derived CO2 into the atmosphere will be mainly absorbed by the oceans, with a concomitant drop in pH, a process termed ocean acidification. As such, there is considerable interest in how changes in increased CO2 and lower pH will affect marine biota, such as bac...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Oliver AE,Newbold LK,Whiteley AS,van der Gast CJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential element but in excess is highly toxic and therefore cytoplasmic levels must be tightly controlled. Member of the genus Burkholderia are highly resistant to various heavy metals and are often isolated from acidic soils where copper bioavailability is high. In this study, we employed transposon se...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Higgins S,Gualdi S,Pinto-Carbó M,Eberl L

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rumen microbiota plays important roles in nutrient metabolism and absorption of the host. However, it is poorly understood how host genetic variation shapes the community structure of the rumen microbiota and its metabolic phenotype. Here, we used sika deer (Cervus nippon) and elk (Cervus elaphus) to produce the f...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Li Z,Wright AG,Si H,Wang X,Qian W,Zhang Z,Li G

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibians are in decline as a result of habitat destruction, climate change and infectious diseases. Tadpoles are thought susceptible to infections because they are dependent on only an innate immune system (e.g. macrophages). This is because the frog adaptive immune system does not function until later stages of the...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Chambouvet A,Valigurová A,Pinheiro LM,Richards TA,Jirků M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodes poised at potentials low enough to serve as an electron donor for microbial respiration, but high enough to avoid the production of hydrogen, have been proposed as an alternative to the use of soluble electron donors for stimulating the bioremediation of chlorinated contaminants and/or metals. However, this...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Strycharz SM,Gannon SM,Boles AR,Franks AE,Nevin KP,Lovley DR

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus and free-living amoebae are common inhabitants of soil. Mechanisms of A. fumigatus to circumvent the amoeba's digestion may facilitate overcoming the vertebrate macrophage defence mechanisms. We performed co-culture experiments using A. fumigatus conidia and the amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii. A...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology reports

authors： Van Waeyenberghe L,Baré J,Pasmans F,Claeys M,Bert W,Haesebrouck F,Houf K,Martel A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00