Identification and analysis of the bacterial endosymbiont specialized for production of the chemotherapeutic natural product ET-743.

abstract：:The hair-like cell appendages denoted as type IV pili are crucial for biofilm formation in diverse eubacteria. The protein complex responsible for type IV pilus assembly is homologous with the type II protein secretion complex. In the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, the gene Synpcc7942_2071 encodes an...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nagar E,Zilberman S,Sendersky E,Simkovsky R,Shimoni E,Gershtein D,Herzberg M,Golden SS,Schwarz R

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi are important decomposers of leaf litter in streams and may have knock-on effects on other microbes and carbon cycling. To elucidate such potential effects, we designed an experiment in outdoor experimental channels simulating sand-bottom streams in an early-successional state. We hypothesized that the presence ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Frossard A,Gerull L,Mutz M,Gessner MO

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucormycosis is an emergent, fatal fungal infection of humans and warm-blooded animals caused by species of the order Mucorales. Immune cells of the innate immune system serve as the first line of defence against inhaled spores. Alveolar macrophages were challenged with the mucoralean fungus Lichtheimia corymbifera an...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hassan MIA,Kruse JM,Krüger T,Dahse HM,Cseresnyés Z,Blango MG,Slevogt H,Hörhold F,Ast V,König R,Figge MT,Kniemeyer O,Brakhage AA,Voigt K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trophic linkage between marine bacteria and phytoplankton in the surface ocean is a key step in the global carbon cycle, with almost half of marine primary production transformed by heterotrophic bacterioplankton within hours to weeks of fixation. Early studies conceptualized this link as the passive addition and ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Durham BP,Dearth SP,Sharma S,Amin SA,Smith CB,Campagna SR,Armbrust EV,Moran MA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and the metabolic pathways of bacteria degrading steroid compounds released by eukaryotic organisms were investigated using the bile salt cholate as model substrate. Cholate-degrading bacteria could be readily isolated from freshwater environments. All isolated strains transiently released steroid deg...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Holert J,Yücel O,Suvekbala V,Kulić Z,Möller H,Philipp B

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:The Pmk1 and Mps1 MAP kinases are essential for appressorium formation and plant infection in Magnaporthe oryzae. However, their exact roles during invasive growth are not clear because pmk1 and mps1 mutants are defective in penetration. To further characterize their functions after penetration, in this study we expre...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang X,Liu W,Li Y,Li G,Xu JR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrous oxide (N(2)O) emission from soils is a major contributor to the atmospheric loading of this potent greenhouse gas. It is thought that autotrophic ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) are a significant source of soil-derived N(2)O and a denitrification pathway (i.e. reduction of NO(2) (-) to NO and N(2)O), so-calle...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Shaw LJ,Nicol GW,Smith Z,Fear J,Prosser JI,Baggs EM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignocellulose biodegradation, an essential step in terrestrial carbon cycling, generally involves removal of the recalcitrant lignin barrier that otherwise prevents infiltration by microbial polysaccharide hydrolases. However, fungi that cause brown rot of wood, a major route for biomass recycling in coniferous fores...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Yelle DJ,Wei D,Ralph J,Hammel KE

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many green algae cannot develop normally when they are grown under axenic conditions. Monostroma oxyspermum, for example, proliferates unicellularly in an aseptic culture, but develops into a normal foliaceous gametophyte in the presence of some marine bacteria. More than 1000 bacterial strains were isolated from mari...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Matsuo Y,Suzuki M,Kasai H,Shizuri Y,Harayama S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A companion study indicated that approximately 30% of cultivable soil bacteria may contain inducible prophage; however, the degree to which this cultivation-based estimate applies to autochthonous communities of soil bacteria is unknown. To estimate the prevalence of lysogeny within soil bacterial communities, inducti...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Williamson KE,Radosevich M,Smith DW,Wommack KE

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:The molecular mechanisms behind the mutagenic effect of reactive oxygen species (ROS) released by defective metabolization of xenobiotic 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT) by a still-evolving degradation pathway were studied. To this end, the genes required for biodegradation of DNT from Burkholderia cepacia R34 were implanted ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Akkaya Ö,Nikel PI,Pérez-Pantoja D,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Vibrio cholerae is a human pathogen its primary habitat are aquatic environments. In this environment, V.cholerae takes advantage of the abundance of zooplankton, whose chitinous exoskeletons provide a nutritious surface. Chitin also induces the developmental programme of natural competence in several species...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Blokesch M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high genomic G+C group of Actinobacteria possesses a variety of physiological and metabolic properties, and exhibits diverse lifestyles and ecological distribution. In recent years, Actinobacteria have been found to frequently dominate samples obtained from freshwater samples. Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses ha...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Philosof A,Sabehi G,Béjà O

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N2 -fixing (diazotrophic) community in marine ecosystems is dominated by non-cyanobacterial microorganisms. Yet, very little is known about their identity, function and ecological relevance due to a lack of cultured representatives. Here we report a novel heterotrophic diazotroph isolated from the oxygen minimum z...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez-Pérez C,Mohr W,Schwedt A,Dürschlag J,Callbeck CM,Schunck H,Dekaezemacker J,Buckner CRT,Lavik G,Fuchs BM,Kuypers MMM

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halogenated organic compounds, also termed organohalogens, were initially considered to be of almost exclusively anthropogenic origin. However, over 5000 naturally synthesized organohalogens are known today. This has also fuelled the hypothesis that the natural and ancient origin of organohalogens could have primed de...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Atashgahi S,Häggblom MM,Smidt H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the forthcoming decades, it is widely believed that the dominance of colonial and filamentous bloom-forming cyanobacteria (e.g. Microcystis, Planktothrix, Anabaena and Cylindrospermopsis) will increase in freshwater systems as a combined result of anthropogenic nutrient input into freshwater bodies and climate chan...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gerphagnon M,Macarthur DJ,Latour D,Gachon CM,Van Ogtrop F,Gleason FH,Sime-Ngando T

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reconstructed the complete 2.4 Mb-long genome of a previously uncultivated epsilonproteobacterium, Candidatus Sulfuricurvum sp. RIFRC-1, via assembly of short-read shotgun metagenomic data using a complexity reduction approach. Genome-based comparisons indicate the bacterium is a novel species within the Sulfuricur...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Handley KM,Bartels D,O'Loughlin EJ,Williams KH,Trimble WL,Skinner K,Gilbert JA,Desai N,Glass EM,Paczian T,Wilke A,Antonopoulos D,Kemner KM,Meyer F

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 produces intracellular gas vesicles to enable upward flotation in water columns. It also uses flagellar rotation to swim through liquid and swarm across semi-solid surfaces. Flotation and motility can be co-regulated with production of a β-lactam antibiotic (carbapenem carboxylate) and a linear...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Quintero-Yanes A,Lee CM,Monson R,Salmond G

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of individual bacterioplankton species in the re-mineralization of algal biomass are poorly understood. Evidence from molecular data had indicated that a spring diatom bloom in the German Bight of the North Sea in 2009 was followed by a rapid succession of uncultivated bacterioplankton species, including mem...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hahnke RL,Bennke CM,Fuchs BM,Mann AJ,Rhiel E,Teeling H,Amann R,Harder J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) function in post-transcriptional control of gene expression and control a variety of processes including metabolic reactions, stress responses and pathogenesis in response to environmental signals. A variety of approaches have been used previously to identify 44 sRNAs in the opp...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Gómez-Lozano M,Marvig RL,Molin S,Long KS

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although plants introduced for site restoration are pre-selected for specific traits (e.g. trace element bioaccumulation, rapid growth in poor soils), the in situ success of these plants likely depends on the recruitment of appropriate rhizosphere microorganisms from their new environment. We introduced three willow (...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bell TH,Cloutier-Hurteau B,Al-Otaibi F,Turmel MC,Yergeau E,Courchesne F,St-Arnaud M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous sulphide-oxidizing Beggiatoa spp. often occur in large numbers in the coastal seabed without forming visible mats on the sediment surface. We studied the diversity, population structure and the nitrate-storing capability of such bacteria in the Danish Limfjorden and the German Wadden Sea. Their distributio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Mussmann M,Schulz HN,Strotmann B,Kjaer T,Nielsen LP,Rosselló-Mora RA,Amann RI,Jørgensen BB

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae has eight regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS) and RGS-like proteins (MoRgs1 to MoRgs8) that exhibit both distinct and shared regulatory functions in the growth, differentiation and pathogenicity of the fungus. We found MoRgs7 with a unique RGS-seven transmembrane (7-TM) dom...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Yin Z,Zhang X,Wang J,Yang L,Feng W,Chen C,Gao C,Zhang H,Zheng X,Wang P,Zhang Z

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen is frequently limiting microbial growth in the environment. As a response, many filamentous cyanobacteria differentiate heterocysts, cells devoted to N2 fixation. Heterocyst differentiation is under the control of the master regulator HetR. Through the characterization of the HetR-dependent transcriptome in N...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Brenes-Álvarez M,Mitschke J,Olmedo-Verd E,Georg J,Hess WR,Vioque A,Muro-Pastor AM

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:Substrate supply and protist grazing are two of the most important forces that determine the composition and properties of bacterial assemblages. General ecological theory predicts that the relative importance of these factors is changing with the environmental productivity. In the present study, the interplay between...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Corno G,Jürgens K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drylands are the largest terrestrial biome on Earth and a ubiquitous feature is desert pavement terrain, comprising rocks embedded in the mineral soil surface. Quartz and other translucent rocks are common and microbial communities termed hypoliths develop as biofilms on their ventral surfaces. In extreme deserts thes...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Chan Y,Lacap DC,Lau MC,Ha KY,Warren-Rhodes KA,Cockell CS,Cowan DA,McKay CP,Pointing SB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phages carrying the stx2 gene were detected in a range of sewage samples using a plaque hybridization-based method. After detection, phages were isolated and propagated with a laboratory strain of Escherichia coli as host for characterization purposes. Although it was not possible to conduct propagation or transductio...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Muniesa M,Serra-Moreno R,Jofre J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00