MerF is a novel regulator of deep-sea Pseudomonas stutzeri flagellum biogenesis and motility.

abstract：:In diseased piglets from two Dutch pig-breeding farms with neonatal diarrhoea for more than a year, culture and PCR analyses identified the involved microorganism as Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 078 harbouring toxin A (tcdA) and B (tcdB), and binary toxin genes. Isolated strains showed a 39 bp deletion in the tc...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Debast SB,van Leengoed LA,Goorhuis A,Harmanus C,Kuijper EJ,Bergwerff AA

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:As part of a study on the microbiology of chlorate reduction, several new dissimilatory chlorate-reducing bacteria were isolated from a broad diversity of environments. One of these, strain CKB, was selected for a more complete characterization. Strain CKB was enriched and isolated from paper mill waste with acetate a...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Bruce RA,Achenbach LA,Coates JD

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate oceans are inhabited by diverse and temporally dynamic bacterioplankton communities. However, the role of the environment, resources and phytoplankton dynamics in shaping marine bacterioplankton communities at different time scales remains poorly constrained. Here, we combined time series observations (time ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： El-Swais H,Dunn KA,Bielawski JP,Li WK,Walsh DA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toluene is a model compound used to study the anaerobic biotransformation of aromatic hydrocarbons. Reports indicate that toluene is transformed via fumarate addition to form benzylsuccinate or by unknown mechanisms to form hydroxylated intermediates under methanogenic conditions. We investigated the mechanism(s) of s...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Fowler SJ,Dong X,Sensen CW,Suflita JM,Gieg LM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of icebergs produced from ice-shelf disintegration has increased over the past decade in Antarctica. These drifting icebergs mix the water column, influence stratification and nutrient condition, and can affect local productivity and food web composition. Data on whether icebergs affect bacterioplankton fun...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Dinasquet J,Richert I,Logares R,Yager P,Bertilsson S,Riemann L

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：: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：:Sulphoquinovosyldiacylglycerols (SQDG) are polar sulphur-containing membrane lipids, whose presence has been related to a microbial strategy to adapt to phosphate deprivation. In this study, we have targeted the sqdB gene coding the uridine 5'-diphosphate-sulphoquinovose (UDP-SQ) synthase involved in the SQDG biosynth...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Villanueva L,Bale N,Hopmans EC,Schouten S,Damsté JS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic (As) is the most common toxic element in the environment, ranking first on the Superfund List of Hazardous Substances. Microbial redox transformations are the principal drivers of As chemical speciation, which in turn dictates As mobility and toxicity. Consequently, in order to manage or remediate environmenta...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Liu G,Liu M,Kim EH,Maaty WS,Bothner B,Lei B,Rensing C,Wang G,McDermott TR

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus sensu lato, the species group comprising Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus thuringiensis and B. cereus (sensu stricto), has previously been scrutinized regarding interspecies genetic correlation and pathogenic characteristics. So far, little attention has been paid to analysing the biological and ecological...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Jensen GB,Hansen BM,Eilenberg J,Mahillon J

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Symbiotic associations between microbes and invertebrates have resulted in some of the most unusual physiological and morphological adaptations that have evolved in the animal world. We document a new symbiosis between marine polychaetes of the genus Osedax and members of the bacterial group Oceanospirillales, known f...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Goffredi SK,Orphan VJ,Rouse GW,Jahnke L,Embaye T,Turk K,Lee R,Vrijenhoek RC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription of S-PM2 phage following infection of Synechococcus sp. WH7803, a marine cyanobacterium, was analysed by quantitative real-time PCR. Unlike the distantly related coliphage T4, there were only two (early and late) instead of three (early, middle and late) classes of transcripts during the developmenta...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Clokie MR,Shan J,Bailey S,Jia Y,Krisch HM,West S,Mann NH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

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：:The diversity of microbial eukaryotes was surveyed by environmental sequencing from tropical lagoon sites of the South Pacific, collected through the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)'s Explore21 expedition to the Solomon Islands in September 2013. The sampled lagoons presented low nutrient concentrations typi...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Kim E,Sprung B,Duhamel S,Filardi C,Kyoon Shin M

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Nosema ceranae is currently one of the major pathogens of honeybees, related to the worldwide colony losses phenomenon. The genotyping of strains based on ribosomal DNA (rDNA) can be misleading if the repeated units are not identical. The analysis of cloned rDNA fragments containing the intergenic spacer (IGS) and par...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Sagastume S,Del Águila C,Martín-Hernández R,Higes M,Henriques-Gil N

更新日期：2011-01-01 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 green sulfur bacteria, the Chlorobi, are phototrophic bacteria that oxidize sulfide and deposit extracellular elemental sulfur globules [S(0)]. These are subsequently consumed after sulfide is exhausted. S(0) globules from a Chlorobaculum tepidum mutant strain were purified and used to show that the wild-type stra...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Hanson TE,Bonsu E,Tuerk A,Marnocha CL,Powell DH,Chan CS

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies in plant, soil, and human systems have shown that microbial volatiles can mediate microbe-microbe or microbe-host interactions. These previous studies have often used artificially high concentrations of volatiles compared to in situ systems and have not demonstrated the roles volatiles play in mediati...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Cosetta CM,Kfoury N,Robbat A,Wolfe BE

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Black Sea chemocline represents the largest extant habitat of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and harbours a monospecific population of Chlorobium phylotype BS-1. High-sensitivity measurements of underwater irradiance and sulfide revealed that the optical properties of the overlying water column were similar acro...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Marschall E,Jogler M,Hessge U,Overmann J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs (AAPs) was recently reported from various marine environments; however, there is little information regarding their distribution in fresh waters. We surveyed a number of freshwater systems in central Europe, by infra-red fluorometry, infra-red epifluorescence microscopy, ...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Masín M,Nedoma J,Pechar L,Koblízek M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain filamentous cyanobacteria, including Aphanizomenon ovalisporum, are potentially toxic owing to the formation of the hepatotoxin cylindrospermopsin. We previously identified a gene cluster in A. ovalisporum likely to be involved in cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis, including amidinotransferase (aoaA) and polyket...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Shalev-Malul G,Lieman-Hurwitz J,Viner-Mozzini Y,Sukenik A,Gaathon A,Lebendiker M,Kaplan A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse methylotrophic bacteria were isolated from the tongue, and supra- and subgingival plaque in the mouths of volunteers and patients with periodontitis. One-carbon compounds such as dimethylsulfide in the mouth are likely to be used as growth substrates for these organisms. Methylotrophic strains of Bacillus, Bre...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Anesti V,McDonald IR,Ramaswamy M,Wade WG,Kelly DP,Wood AP

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bathycoccus and Ostreococcus are broadly distributed marine picoprasinophyte algae. We enumerated small phytoplankton using flow cytometry and qPCR assays for phylogenetically distinct Bathycoccus clades BI and BII and Ostreococcus clades OI and OII. Among 259 photic-zone samples from transects and time-series, Ostreo...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Limardo AJ,Sudek S,Choi CJ,Poirier C,Rii YM,Blum M,Roth R,Goodenough U,Church MJ,Worden AZ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although bacterioplankton and phytoplankton are generally perceived as closely linked in marine systems, specific interactions between discrete bacterioplankton and phytoplankton populations are largely unknown. However, measurements of bacterioplankton distributions during phytoplankton blooms may indicate specific m...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Morris RM,Longnecker K,Giovannoni SJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Although Escherichia coli is an important model organism for bacterial research, few studies have explored the nature of temporal variation in E. coli strains within the intestinal tracts of host individuals. In this study the E. coli strains of 54 mountain brushtail possums were sampled on four occasions during a yea...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Blyton MD,Banks SC,Peakall R,Gordon DM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reef-building corals are comprised of close associations between the coral animal, symbiotic zooxanthellae, and a diversity of associated microbes (including Bacteria, Archaea and Fungi). Together, these comprise the coral holobiont - a paradigm that emphasizes the potential contributions of each component to the over...

journal_title：Environmental microbiology

authors： Rypien KL,Ward JR,Azam F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00