Enzymatic Degradation of p-Nitrophenyl Esters, Polyethylene Terephthalate, Cutin, and Suberin by Sub1, a Suberinase Encoded by the Plant Pathogen Streptomyces scabies.

abstract：:Changes in the bacterial community in soil-water suspensions during the enrichment period of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T degraders were examined using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of the 16S rRNA gene. The nucleotide sequences of almost all major bands at the degradation of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T correspon...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Huong NL,Itoh K,Suyama K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea is often associated with marked alterations in the intestinal microbiota, termed dysbiosis; however, limited information is currently available on the intestinal microbiota in captive golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) with diarrhea. We herein characterized the fecal microbiota in diarrhea an...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Zhu H,Zeng D,Wang Q,Wang N,Zeng B,Niu L,Ni X

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The splicing of a bacterial group II subclass B intron B.me.I1 from Bacillus megaterium chromosomes was investigated. RT-PCR and nucleic acid hybridization methods were used to understand the role of the intron-encoded protein (IEP) in the splicing of B.me.I1. An in vivo assay showed that the splicing occurred in the ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Chien MF,Tosa S,Huang CC,Endo G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the prokaryotic community structure of the anaerobic ciliate, Metopus sp. using rRNA sequencing, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Metopus sp. was physically separated from anaerobic granular sludge in a domestic waste...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Hirakata Y,Oshiki M,Kuroda K,Hatamoto M,Kubota K,Yamaguchi T,Harada H,Araki N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic and molecular analyses showed the presence of endobacteria inside the mycelia of four out of twelve nitrous oxide (N(2)O)-producing fungal isolates identified as Mortierella elongata. The 16S rRNA gene was successfully amplified with DNA extracted directly from the endobacterium-containing fungal strains a...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Sato Y,Narisawa K,Tsuruta K,Umezu M,Nishizawa T,Tanaka K,Yamaguchi K,Komatsuzaki M,Ohta H

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:In order to understand the relationships between understory bamboo and soil properties, we compared microbial community structures in the soil of a Betula ermanii boreal forest with Sasa kurilensis present and removed using high-throughput DNA sequencing. The presence of understory S. kurilensis strongly affected soil...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kong B,Chen L,Kasahara Y,Sumida A,Ono K,Wild J,Nagatake A,Hatano R,Hara T

更新日期：2017-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant viruses of 'Megaviridae' have the ability to widely disperse around the globe. We herein examined 'Megaviridae' communities in four distinct aquatic environments (coastal and offshore seawater, brackish water, and hot spring freshwater), which are distantly located from each other (between 74 and 1,765 km), usin...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Li Y,Endo H,Gotoh Y,Watai H,Ogawa N,Blanc-Mathieu R,Yoshida T,Ogata H

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrifiers can produce and consume nitrous oxide (N(2)O). While little N(2)O is emitted from rice paddy soil, the same soil produces N(2)O when the land is drained and used for upland crop cultivation. In this study, we collected soils from two types of fields each at three locations in Japan; one type of field had ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Tago K,Ishii S,Nishizawa T,Otsuka S,Senoo K

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Symbioses have played pivotal roles in biological, ecological, and evolutionary diversification. Symbiotic bacteria affect the biology of hosts in a number of ways. Esteya vermicola, an endoparasitic nematophagous fungus, has high infectivity in the pine wood nematode (PWN), which causes devastating ecological damage ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wang R,Dong L,Chen Y,Qu L,Wang Q,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth inhibition due to continuous cropping of asparagus is a major problem; the yield of asparagus in replanted fields is low compared to that in new fields, and missing plants occur among young seedlings. Although soil-borne disease and allelochemicals are considered to be involved in this effect, this is still con...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Urashima Y,Sonoda T,Fujita Y,Uragami A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a nitrogen-fixing tree, black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), on the distribution of bacterial species were examined in a Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) and black locust-dominated area. DNA was extracted from the soil at depths of 0-5 and 5-10 cm, collected at the border between a Japanese black ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Taniguchi T,Kataoka R,Tamai S,Yamanaka N,Futai K

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:A Gram-positive marine bacterium, Exiguobacterium sp. SBH81, was isolated as a hydrophilic organic-solvent tolerant bacterium, and exhibited high tolerance to various types of toxic hydrophilic organic solvents, including acetonitrile, at relatively high concentrations (up to 6% [v/v]) under the growing conditions. In...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kongpol A,Kato J,Tajima T,Vangnai AS

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：: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：:Ultra-small microorganisms are ubiquitous in Earth's environments. Ultramicrobacteria, which are defined as having a cell volume of <0.1 μm3, are often numerically dominant in aqueous environments. Cultivated representatives among these bacteria, such as members of the marine SAR11 clade (e.g., "Candidatus Pelagibacte...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Nakai R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean plants host endosymbiotic dinitrogen (N2)-fixing bacteria from the genus Bradyrhizobium. Under oxygen-limiting conditions, Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens and Bradyrhizobium japonicum perform denitrification by sequentially reducing nitrate (NO3-) to nitrous oxide (N2O) or N2. The anaerobic reduction of NO3- to ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Siqueira AF,Sugawara M,Arashida H,Minamisawa K,Sánchez C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of ferrihydrite to methanogenic microbial communities obtained from a thermophilic anaerobic digester suppressed methanogenesis in a dose-dependent manner. The amount of reducing equivalents consumed by the reduction of iron was significantly smaller than that expected from the decrease in the production ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Yamada C,Kato S,Ueno Y,Ishii M,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The inhibitory effects of ammonia on two different degradation pathways of methanogenic acetate were evaluated using a pure culture (Methanosaeta thermophila strain PT) and defined co-culture (Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus strain TM and Thermacetogenium phaeum strain PB), which represented aceticlastic and sy...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Kato S,Sasaki K,Watanabe K,Yumoto I,Kamagata Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branched nonylphenol (BNP), a degradation product of nonylphenol polyethoxylates, exerts estrogenic effects on various organisms. The genes underlying BNP degradation by Sphingobium amiense DSM 16289T were analyzed by complete genome sequencing and compared with those of the versatile BNP-degrading Sphingobium cloacae...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Ootsuka M,Nishizawa T,Hasegawa M,Kurusu Y,Ohta H

更新日期：2018-12-28 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 present study aimed to reveal the eukaryotic diets of two economically important marine sediment-inhabiting worms, Sipunculus nudus (peanut worm) and Urechis unicinctus (spoon worm), using clone libraries and phylogenetic analyses of 18S rRNA genes. Fungal rDNA was also targeted and analyzed to reveal mycobiomes. ...

journal_title：Microbes and environments

authors： Wang Y,Shi T,Huang G,Gong J

更新日期：2018-09-29 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