Toxin-Antitoxin systems eliminate defective cells and preserve symmetry in Bacillus subtilis biofilms.

abstract：:The type VI nanomachine is critical for Vibrio cholerae to establish infections and to thrive in niches co-occupied by competing bacteria. The genes for the type VI structural proteins are encoded in one large and two small auxiliary gene clusters. VCA0117 (VasH) - a σ54 -transcriptional activator - is strictly requir...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Seibt H,Aung KM,Ishikawa T,Sjöström A,Gullberg M,Atkinson GC,Wai SN,Shingler V

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies assessing the effects of anthropogenic inputs on the taxonomic and functional diversity of bacterioplankton communities in lotic ecosystems are limited. Here, we applied 16S rRNA gene amplicon and whole-genome shotgun sequencing to examine the microbial diversity in samples from the Kalamas River (Northwest Gr...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Meziti A,Tsementzi D,Ar Kormas K,Karayanni H,Konstantinidis KT

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial community analysis via high-throughput sequencing of amplified 16S rRNA genes is an essential microbiology tool. We found the popular primer pair 515F (515F-C) and 806R greatly underestimated (e.g. SAR11) or overestimated (e.g. Gammaproteobacteria) common marine taxa. We evaluated marine samples and mock com...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Parada AE,Needham DM,Fuhrman JA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental variation can have profound and direct effects on fitness, fecundity, and host-symbiont interactions. Replication rates of microbes within arthropod hosts, for example, are correlated with incubation temperature but less is known about the influence of host-symbiont dynamics on environmental preference. ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Truitt AM,Kapun M,Kaur R,Miller WJ

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle regulation is pivotal for proper cell division and cellular differentiation in eukaryotic cells. The central regulators that govern eukaryotic cell cycle progression are cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and their partners. Here, we report that Magnaporthe oryzae CKS1 encodes a cyclin-dependent kinase subunit...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Yue X,Que Y,Deng S,Xu L,Oses-Ruiz M,Talbot NJ,Peng Y,Wang Z

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of aerobic methane (CH4) oxidation and associated methanotroph community composition were investigated during the development of seasonal stratification in Mono Lake, California (USA). CH4 oxidation rates were measured using a tritiated CH4 radiotracer technique. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), den...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Carini S,Bano N,LeCleir G,Joye SB

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biofilm phenotype of Pseudomonas aeruginosa enables this opportunistic pathogen to develop resistance to the immune system and antimicrobial agents. Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms are generated under varying levels of shear stress, depending on the infection site. In the lung mucus of cystic fibrosis (CF) patient...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Crabbé A,De Boever P,Van Houdt R,Moors H,Mergeay M,Cornelis P

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:The aromatic hydrocarbon naphthalene, which occurs in coal and oil, can be degraded by aerobic or anaerobic microorganisms. A wide-spread electron acceptor for the latter is sulfate. Evidence for in situ naphthalene degradation stems in particular from the detection of 2-naphthoate and [5,6,7,8]-tetrahydro-2-naphthoat...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Chen G,Widdel F,Musat F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultivation-independent surveys of ribosomal RNA genes have revealed the existence of novel microbial lineages, many with no known cultivated representatives. Ribosomal RNA-based analyses, however, often do not provide significant information beyond phylogenetic affiliation. Analysis of large genome fragments recovere...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Béjà O,Suzuki MT,Koonin EV,Aravind L,Hadd A,Nguyen LP,Villacorta R,Amjadi M,Garrigues C,Jovanovich SB,Feldman RA,DeLong EF

更新日期：2000-10-01 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

abstract：:Quorum sensing, a group behaviour coordinated by a diffusible pheromone signal and a cognate receptor, is typical of bacteria that form symbioses with plants and animals. LuxIR-type N-acyl L-homoserine (AHL) quorum sensing is common in Gram-negative Proteobacteria, and many members of this group have additional quorum...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Studer SV,Schwartzman JA,Ho JS,Geske GD,Blackwell HE,Ruby EG

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Wastewater treatment plants effluents are considered as hotspots for the dispersion of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) into natural ecosystems. The bacterial resistome (ARG collection in a metagenome) analyses have provided clues on antibacterial resistance dynamics. However, viruses and vesicles are frequently ign...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Maestre-Carballa L,Lluesma Gomez M,Angla Navarro A,Garcia-Heredia I,Martinez-Hernandez F,Martinez-Garcia M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragilariopsis is a dominating psychrophilic diatom genus in polar sea ice. The two species Fragilariopsis cylindrus and Fragilariopsis curta are able to grow and divide below freezing temperature of sea water and above average sea water salinity. Here we show that antifreeze proteins (AFPs), involved in cold adaptati...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bayer-Giraldi M,Uhlig C,John U,Mock T,Valentin K

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Biological membranes have evolved different mechanisms to modify their composition in response to chemical stimuli in a process called 'homeoviscous adaptation'. Among these mechanisms, modifications in the ratio of saturated/unsaturated fatty acids and in cis/trans fatty acid isomers, cyclopropanation and changes in ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bernal P,Muñoz-Rojas J,Hurtado A,Ramos JL,Segura A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial symbionts of insects have been proposed for blocking transmission of vector-borne pathogens. However, in many vector models the ecology of symbionts and their capability of cross-colonizing different hosts, an important feature in the symbiotic control approach, is poorly known. Here we show that the acetic ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Crotti E,Damiani C,Pajoro M,Gonella E,Rizzi A,Ricci I,Negri I,Scuppa P,Rossi P,Ballarini P,Raddadi N,Marzorati M,Sacchi L,Clementi E,Genchi M,Mandrioli M,Bandi C,Favia G,Alma A,Daffonchio D

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of S. Enteritidis PT4 was studied on a free-range breeding chicken farm which had been depopulated following identification of the organism in breeding birds. The site was sampled periodically for 26 months after depopulation and the organism was found to persist in litter, dried faeces and feed, but n...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Davies RH,Breslin M

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：: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：:Cyanobacteria are important primary producers in many marine ecosystems and their abundances and growth rates depend on their ability to assimilate various nitrogen sources. To examine the diversity of nitrate-utilizing marine cyanobacteria, we developed PCR primers specific for cyanobacterial assimilatory nitrate red...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Jenkins BD,Zehr JP,Gibson A,Campbell L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The depolymerase enzyme (DpoL1) encoded by the T7-like phage L1 efficiently degrades amylovoran, an important virulence factor and major component of the extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) of its host, the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora. Mass spectrometry analysis of hydrolysed EPS revealed that DpoL1 cleaves the ga...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Born Y,Fieseler L,Klumpp J,Eugster MR,Zurfluh K,Duffy B,Loessner MJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Butyrate-producing bacteria play an important role in the human colon, supplying energy to the gut epithelium and regulating host cell responses. In order to explore the diversity and culturability of this functional group, we designed degenerate primers to amplify butyryl-CoA:acetate CoA-transferase sequences from fa...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Louis P,Young P,Holtrop G,Flint HJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects and nematodes represent the most species-rich animal taxa and they occur together in a variety of associations. Necromenic nematodes of the genus Pristionchus are found on scarab beetles with more than 30 species known from worldwide samplings. However, little is known about the dynamics and succession of nema...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Meyer JM,Baskaran P,Quast C,Susoy V,Rödelsperger C,Glöckner FO,Sommer RJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 47 kb genomic island (GEI) bracketed by 50 bp direct repeats, containing 52 annotated genes, was found to delete spontaneously from the genome of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. The island contains genes for site-specific recombinases and transposases, rubredoxin:oxygen oxidoreductase-1 (Roo1) and hybrid clust...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Johnston S,Lin S,Lee P,Caffrey SM,Wildschut J,Voordouw JK,da Silva SM,Pereira IA,Voordouw G

更新日期：2009-04-01 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

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 actinomycete Amycolatopsis japonicum produces the complexing agent ethylenediamine-disuccinate ([S,S]-EDDS), which is an isomer of the widely industrially applied ethylenediamine-tetraacetate (EDTA). In contrast to EDTA, [S,S]-EDDS is readily biodegradable and is therefore an alternative with a favourable environm...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Spohn M,Wohlleben W,Stegmann E

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to assess the genetic structure of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici (Ggt) populations and test the hypothesis of an association between disease level in the field with changes in pathogen populations. A long-term wheat monoculture experiment, established since 1994, generated different take-...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Lebreton L,Lucas P,Dugas F,Guillerm AY,Schoeny A,Sarniguet A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00