Inactivation of bacteria in freshwater by momentary decompression following high pressurization.

abstract：:Diazotrophs had not previously been identified among bacterial species in the phylum Bacteroidetes until the rapid expansion of bacterial genome sequences, which revealed the presence of nitrogen fixation (nif) genes in this phylum. We herein determined the draft genome sequences of Bacteroides graminisolvens JCM 1509...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Inoue J,Oshima K,Suda W,Sakamoto M,Iino T,Noda S,Hongoh Y,Hattori M,Ohkuma M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mining industry generates huge amounts of wastewater, containing toxic heavy metals. Treatment to remove heavy metals is necessary and recent work has been focused on finding more environmentally friendly materials for removing heavy metals from wastewater. Biosorption can be an effective process for heavy metal r...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Mohamad OA,Hao X,Xie P,Hatab S,Lin Y,Wei G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice seedlings were inoculated with Azospirillum sp. B510 and transplanted into a paddy field. Growth in terms of tiller numbers and shoot length was significantly increased by inoculation. Principal-coordinates analysis of rice bacterial communities using the 16S rRNA gene showed no overall change from B510 inoculati...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Bao Z,Sasaki K,Okubo T,Ikeda S,Anda M,Hanzawa E,Kakizaki K,Sato T,Mitsui H,Minamisawa K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of the water status (flooded or non-flooded) and presence of the nosZ gene in bradyrhizobia on the bradyrhizobial community structure in a factorial experiment that examined three temperature levels (20°C, 25°C, and 30°C) and two soil types (andosol and gray lowland soil) using microcosm in...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Saeki Y,Nakamura M,Mason MLT,Yano T,Shiro S,Sameshima-Saito R,Itakura M,Minamisawa K,Yamamoto A

更新日期：2017-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhizobial type III secretion system secretes effector proteins into host plant cells, which may either promote or inhibit symbiosis with legumes. We herein demonstrated that the type III secretion system of Bradyrhizobium sp. SUTN9-2 obstructed symbiosis with Lotus japonicus Miyakojima, L. japonicus Gifu, and Lotu...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hashimoto S,Goto K,Pyromyou P,Songwattana P,Greetatorn T,Tittabutr P,Boonkerd N,Teaumroong N,Uchiumi T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Marseilleviridae family are large DNA viruses with icosahedral particle structures that infect Acanthamoeba cells. The first Marseillevirus to be discovered was isolated in 2009. Since then, several other members of the Marseilleviridae family have been reported, including Lausannevirus, Senegalvirus, C...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Takemura M

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cyanobacteria (<2 µm, pico-cyanobacteria) are abundant in waters deeper than the oxic-anoxic zone in the halocline of a saline meromictic lake, Lake Suigetsu, Fukui, Japan. We have isolated 101 strains that were grouped into six groups by means of the phycobiliprotein composition and sequence homology of the int...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ohki K,Yamada K,Kamiya M,Yoshikawa S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HcRNAV is a small icosahedral virus that infects the shellfish-killing marine dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama, which harbors a dicistronic linear single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) genome ca. 4.4 kb in length. Its major capsid protein (MCP) gene sequence is not expressed by various strains of Escherichia coli, pos...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wada K,Kimura K,Hasegawa A,Fukuyama K,Nagasaki K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, anammox bacteria have been recognized as key players that contribute significantly to the release of large amounts of nitrogen in the global marine nitrogen cycle. In the present study, the diversity, community composition, and abundance of anammox bacteria from the sediments of four diverse...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Shehzad A,Liu J,Yu M,Qismat S,Liu J,Zhang XH

更新日期：2016-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichophyton ajelloi is a geophilic dermatophyte that specializes in the decomposition of native keratin. It exists in soil with a permanent influx of keratin matter. In the present study, two PCR-based methods were used for the identification and intra-species differentiation of T. ajelloi strains isolated from 3 typ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ciesielska A,Bohacz J,Korniłłowicz-Kowalska T,Stączek P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Terre Calde di Medolla" (TCM) (literally, "Hot Lands of Medolla") refers to a farming area in Italy with anomalously high temperatures and diffuse emissions of biogenic CO2, which has been linked to CH4 oxidation processes from a depth of 0.7 m to the surface. We herein assessed the composition of the total bacterial...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Cappelletti M,Ghezzi D,Zannoni D,Capaccioni B,Fedi S

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological flux and lifetime of methanol in anoxic marine sediments are largely unknown. We herein reported, for the first time, quantitative methanol removal rates in subsurface sediments. Anaerobic incubation experiments with radiotracers showed high rates of microbial methanol consumption. Notably, methanol oxi...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Yanagawa K,Tani A,Yamamoto N,Hachikubo A,Kano A,Matsumoto R,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2016-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) are used as quorum-sensing signaling molecules by many Gram-negative bacteria. Here, 413 bacterial strains were obtained from the roots of potato plants and screened for AHL-degrading bacteria using Chromobacterium violaceum reporter strains. Sixty one isolates degraded N-hexanoyl-L-ho...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Rashid R,Morohoshi T,Someya N,Ikeda T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil and rhizosphere environments were examined in order to determine the identity and relative abundance of bacteria that catabolize d- and l-amino acids as the sole source of carbon and nitrogen. All substrates were readily catabolized by bacteria from both environments, with most d-amino acids giving similar CFU co...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Radkov AD,McNeill K,Uda K,Moe LA

更新日期：2016-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of Streptomyces scabies, the predominant causal agent of potato common scab, encodes a potential cutinase, the protein Sub1, which was previously shown to be specifically induced in the presence of suberin. The sub1 gene was expressed in Escherichia coli and the recombinant protein Sub1 was purified and cha...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Jabloune R,Khalil M,Ben Moussa IE,Simao-Beaunoir AM,Lerat S,Brzezinski R,Beaulieu C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of different land uses on densities of Escherichia coli, enterococci, and Clostridium perfringens in the water and soil of a tropical watershed were investigated. Densities of fecal indicator bacteria (FIBs) in the watershed exhibited a clear land-use dependency in the stream water. Significantly higher concen...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Goto DK,Yan T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, degradative plasmids have been isolated from bacteria capable of degrading a variety of both natural and man-made compounds. Degradative plasmids belonging to three incompatibility (Inc) groups in Pseudomonas (IncP-1, P-7, and P-9) have been well studied in terms of their replication, mainte...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Shintani M,Takahashi Y,Yamane H,Nojiri H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies demonstrated that phylogenetically more diverse and abundant bacteria and fungi than previously considered are responsible for denitrification in terrestrial environments. We herein examined the effects of land-use types on the community composition of those denitrifying microbes based on their nitrite ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Fujimura R,Azegami Y,Wei W,Kakuta H,Shiratori Y,Ohte N,Senoo K,Otsuka S,Isobe K

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligosaline lakes in arid regions provide indispensable water resources for humans; however, information on the bacterial community composition (BCC) of this ecosystem is limited. In the present study, we explored seasonal and vertical variations in BCC in Lake Bosten, a unique oligosaline lake (1.2‰ salinity) in arid...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tang X,Xie G,Shao K,Dai J,Chen Y,Xu Q,Gao G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is a triazine herbicide that is widely used to control broadleaf weeds. Its widespread use over the last 50 years has led to the potential contamination of soils, groundwater, rivers, and lakes. Its main route of complete degradation is via biological means, which is carried out by soil microbiota using a 6-s...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Fernandes AFT,Wang P,Staley C,Aparecida Silva Moretto J,Miguel Altarugio L,Chagas Campanharo S,Guedes Stehling E,Jay Sadowsky M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small non-coding RNAs that suppress the expression of target mRNAs. The seed sequence of miRNA plays a crucial role in recognizing the 3'-untranslated region of the target mRNA. Cells infected with a simian foamy virus (SFV) isolated from an African green monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops)...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hashimoto-Gotoh A,Kitao K,Miyazawa T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) play a crucial role in the global nitrogen cycle by oxidizing ammonia to nitrite, and nitric oxide (NO) is a key intermediate in AOA for sustaining aerobic ammonia oxidation activity. We herein heterologously expressed the NO-forming, copper-containing, dissimilatory nitrite red...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kobayashi S,Hira D,Yoshida K,Toyofuku M,Shida Y,Ogasawara W,Yamaguchi T,Araki N,Oshiki M

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucose-containing oligosaccharides on the cell surface of some pathogenic bacteria are thought to be important for host-microbe interactions and to play a major role in the pathogenicity of bacterial pathogens. Here, we screened marine bacteria for glycosyltransferases using two methods: a one-pot glycosyltransferase ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kajiwara H,Toda M,Mine T,Nakada H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated biofilm formation on biodegradable plastics in freshwater samples. Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) was covered by a biofilm after an incubation in freshwater samples. A next generation sequencing analysis of the bacterial communities of biofilms that formed on PHBH films revealed t...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Morohoshi T,Oi T,Aiso H,Suzuki T,Okura T,Sato S

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Legionella genus find suitable conditions for their growth and survival in nuclear power plant cooling circuits. To limit the proliferation of Legionella pathogenic bacteria in nuclear power plant cooling circuits, and ensure that levels remain below regulatory thresholds, monochloramine treatment can b...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Jakubek D,Guillaume C,Binet M,Leblon G,DuBow M,Le Brun M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin amendment is an agricultural management strategy for controlling soil-borne plant disease. We previously reported an exponential decrease in chitin added to incubated upland soil. We herein investigated the transition of the bacterial community structure in chitin-degrading soil samples over time and the charac...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Iwasaki Y,Ichino T,Saito A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and abundance of Burkholderia species in sugarcane field soils were investigated by a 16S rRNA gene-based approach using genus-specific primers. A total of 365,721 sequences generated by the Illumina MiSeq platform were assigned to the genus Burkholderia. Nearly 58% of these sequences were placed in a pr...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tago K,Itoh H,Kikuchi Y,Hori T,Sato Y,Nagayama A,Okubo T,Navarro R,Aoyagi T,Hayashi K,Hayatsu M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO2 ([CO2]) enhance the production and emission of methane in paddy fields. In the present study, the effects of elevated [CO2], elevated temperature (ET), and no nitrogen fertilization (LN) on methanogenic archaeal and methane-oxidizing bacterial community structures in a free-a...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Liu D,Tago K,Hayatsu M,Tokida T,Sakai H,Nakamura H,Usui Y,Hasegawa T,Asakawa S

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen (N) cycles have been directly linked to the functional stability of ecosystems because N is an essential element for life. Furthermore, the supply of N to organisms regulates primary productivity in many natural ecosystems. Microbial communities have been shown to significantly contribute to N cycles because ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Isobe K,Ohte N

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosynthetic microbial communities develop and form dense cell aggregates in slightly alkaline sulfidic hot springs in the temperature range of 70-86°C at Nakabusa, Japan. Nitrogenase activity has recently been detected in the microbial communities collected. To identify possible members capable of nitrogen fixation...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nishihara A,Thiel V,Matsuura K,McGlynn SE,Haruta S

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00