Evolving metabolism of 2,4-dinitrotoluene triggers SOS-independent diversification of host cells.

abstract：:Bacteria in the SAR11 clade are highly abundant in marine surface waters, but currently little is known about the carbon compounds that support these large heterotrophic populations. To better understand the carbon requirements of these organisms, we conducted a multiphasic exploration of carbohydrate utilization amon...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Schwalbach MS,Tripp HJ,Steindler L,Smith DP,Giovannoni SJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role during host-pathogen interactions and are often an indication of induced host defence responses. In this study, we demonstrate for the first time that Puccinia triticina (Pt) generates ROS, including superoxide, H2 O2 and hydroxyl radicals, during wheat infection. T...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wang X,Che MZ,Khalil HB,McCallum BD,Bakkeren G,Rampitsch C,Saville BJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wide-spread abundance in soil and water, coupled with high toxicity have put arsenic at the top of the list of environmental contaminants. Early studies demonstrated that both concentration and the valence state of inorganic arsenic (arsenite, As(III) vs. arsenate As(V)) can be modulated by microbes. Using genetics, t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Tokmina-Lukaszewska M,Shi Z,Tripet B,McDermott TR,Copié V,Bothner B,Wang G

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Many bacterial pathogens rely on quorum sensing to control virulence gene expression. Based on numerous experiments conducted under well-defined conditions, quorum sensing interference is considered as a promising strategy to tackle infections and thus might have the potential to (partially) replace antibiotics. Despi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Liu Y,Qin Q,Defoirdt T

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:The bacterial metabolite and transition metal chelator pyridine-2,6-dithiocarboxylic acid (PDTC), promotes a novel and effective means of dechlorination of the toxic and carcinogenic pollutant, carbon tetrachloride. Pyridine-2,6-dithiocarboxylic acid has been presumed to act as a siderophore in the Pseudomonas strains...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Lewis TA,Leach L,Morales S,Austin PR,Hartwell HJ,Kaplan B,Forker C,Meyer JM

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To cope with life in hypersaline environments, halophilic archaeal proteins are enriched in acidic amino acids. This strategy does not, however, offer a response to transient changes in salinity, as would post-translational modifications. To test this hypothesis, N-glycosylation of the Haloferax volcanii S-layer glyco...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Guan Z,Naparstek S,Calo D,Eichler J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ikaite tufa columns from the Ikka Fjord in south-western Greenland constitute a natural, stable environment at low temperature and with a pH ranging from neutral at the exterior to very alkaline (pH 10.4) at the interior of the column. Phylogenetic analysis of culturable organisms revealed ten different isolates repre...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Stougaard P,Jørgensen F,Johnsen MG,Hansen OC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raphidiopsis raciborskii is an invasive bloom-forming cyanobacteria with the flexibility to utilize atmospheric and fixed nitrogen. Since nitrogen-fixation has a high requirement for iron as an ezyme cofactor, we hypothesize that iron availability would determine the success of the species under nitrogen-fixing condit...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： D'Agostino PM,Yeung ACY,Poljak A,David Waite T,Neilan BA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage predation is one of the key forces that shape genetic diversity in bacterial genomes. Phages are also believed to act as modulators of the microbiota composition and, consequently, as agents that drive bacterial speciation in complex bacterial communities. Very little is known about the occurrence and genetic va...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Lugli GA,Milani C,Turroni F,Tremblay D,Ferrario C,Mancabelli L,Duranti S,Ward DV,Ossiprandi MC,Moineau S,van Sinderen D,Ventura M

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) induce the synthesis of a myriad of secondary metabolites, including aflatoxins. It raises significant concern as it is a potent environmental contaminant. In Aspergillus flavus., antioxidant enzymes link ROS stress response with coordinated gene regulation of aflatoxin biosynthesis. In t...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zhu Z,Yang M,Bai Y,Ge F,Wang S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When bacterial lineages make the transition from free-living to permanent association with hosts, they can undergo massive gene losses, for which the selective forces within host tissues are unknown. We identified here melanogenic clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with large chromosomal deletions (66 to 270 ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hocquet D,Petitjean M,Rohmer L,Valot B,Kulasekara HD,Bedel E,Bertrand X,Plésiat P,Köhler T,Pantel A,Jacobs MA,Hoffman LR,Miller SI

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metarhizium robertsii occupies a wide array of ecological niches and has diverse lifestyle options (saprophyte, insect pathogen and plant symbiont), that renders it an unusually effective model for studying genetic mechanisms for fungal adaptation. Here over 20,000 M. robertsii T-DNA mutants were screened in order to ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Zeng G,Chen X,Zhang X,Zhang Q,Xu C,Mi W,Guo N,Zhao H,You Y,Dryburgh FJ,Bidochka MJ,St Leger RJ,Zhang L,Fang W

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:The bacteria in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster of different life stages was quantified by 454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. The sequence reads were dominated by 5 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at ≤ 97% sequence identity that could be assigned to Acetobacter pomorum, A. tropicalis, Lactobacillus...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wong CN,Ng P,Douglas AE

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：: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

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：:Cultures of the non-heterocystous cyanobacterium, Leptolyngbya nodulosa, could be grown indefinitely in media devoid of combined nitrogen. Acetylene reduction assays showed that these cultures fixed nitrogen in the dark period of a diurnal cycle under micro-oxygenic or anaerobic conditions. Addition of DCMU to culture...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Li Z,Yu J,Kim KR,Brand J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the extent of parasite diversity requires the application of appropriate molecular tools, especially given the growing evidence of multiple parasite co-occurrence. Here, we compared the performance of a next-generation sequencing technology (Ion PGM ™ System) in 12 Bombus terrestris specimens that were PCR-i...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bartolomé C,Jabal-Uriel C,Buendía-Abad M,Benito M,Ornosa C,De la Rúa P,Martín-Hernández R,Higes M,Maside X

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Actinobacteria are highly abundant in pelagic freshwater habitats and also occur in estuarine environments such as the Baltic Sea. Because of gradients in salinity and other environmental variables estuaries offer natural systems for examining factors that determine Actinobacteria distribution. We studied abundance an...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Holmfeldt K,Dziallas C,Titelman J,Pohlmann K,Grossart HP,Riemann L

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The O-antigen is a highly diverse structure expressed on the outer surface of Gram-negative bacteria. The products responsible for O-antigen synthesis are encoded in the wbe region, which exhibits extensive genetic diversity. While heterogeneous O-antigens are observed within Vibrio species, characterization of these ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Wildschutte H,Preheim SP,Hernandez Y,Polz MF

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that control the production of microcystins (hepatotoxins) during cyanobacterial blooms, and the function of these metabolites remain largely unknown. In an attempt to provide answers to these questions, we compared the fitness of microcystin (MC)-producing and non-MC-producing Planktothrix agardhii strain...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Briand E,Yéprémian C,Humbert JF,Quiblier C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel hydrothermal activities accompanying effluent white smokers and elemental sulfur chimney structures at the north-east lava dome of the TOTO caldera depression in the Mariana Volcanic Arc have been explored and characterized by geochemical and microbiological surveys. White smoker hydrothermal fluids were observe...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Nakagawa T,Takai K,Suzuki Y,Hirayama H,Konno U,Tsunogai U,Horikoshi K

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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