856 results on '"Proteobacteria classification"'
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852. Geomicrobiology of subglacial ice above Lake Vostok, Antarctica.
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Priscu JC, Adams EE, Lyons WB, Voytek MA, Mogk DW, Brown RL, McKay CP, Takacs CD, Welch KA, Wolf CF, Kirshtein JD, and Avci R
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- Antarctic Regions, Bacteria classification, Bacteria genetics, Bacterial Physiological Phenomena, DNA, Bacterial genetics, DNA, Bacterial isolation & purification, DNA, Ribosomal genetics, DNA, Ribosomal isolation & purification, Fresh Water chemistry, Genes, rRNA, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Minerals analysis, Pressure, Proteobacteria classification, Proteobacteria genetics, Proteobacteria isolation & purification, Proteobacteria physiology, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S genetics, Temperature, Water Microbiology, Bacteria isolation & purification, Fresh Water microbiology, Ice
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Data from ice 3590 meters below Vostok Station indicate that the ice was accreted from liquid water associated with Lake Vostok. Microbes were observed at concentrations ranging from 2.8 x 10(3) to 3.6 x 10(4) cells per milliliter; no biological incorporation of selected organic substrates or bicarbonate was detected. Bacterial 16S ribosomal DNA genes revealed low diversity in the gene population. The phylotypes were closely related to extant members of the alpha- and beta-Proteobacteria and the Actinomycetes. Extrapolation of the data from accretion ice to Lake Vostok implies that Lake Vostok may support a microbial population, despite more than 10(6) years of isolation from the atmosphere.
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- 1999
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853. Ubiquity and diversity of dissimilatory (per)chlorate-reducing bacteria.
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Coates JD, Michaelidou U, Bruce RA, O'Connor SM, Crespi JN, and Achenbach LA
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- Anaerobiosis, Animals, Cytochromes metabolism, DNA, Ribosomal genetics, Molecular Weight, Oxidation-Reduction, Oxidoreductases isolation & purification, Phylogeny, Proteobacteria classification, Proteobacteria genetics, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S genetics, Soil Pollutants, Swine, Chlorates metabolism, Oxidoreductases metabolism, Perchlorates metabolism, Proteobacteria metabolism, Soil Microbiology
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Environmental contamination with compounds containing oxyanions of chlorine, such as perchlorate or chlorate [(per)chlorate] or chlorine dioxide, has been a constantly growing problem over the last 100 years. Although the fact that microbes reduce these compounds has been recognized for more than 50 years, only six organisms which can obtain energy for growth by this metabolic process have been described. As part of a study to investigate the diversity and ubiquity of microorganisms involved in the microbial reduction of (per)chlorate, we enumerated the (per)chlorate-reducing bacteria (ClRB) in very diverse environments, including pristine and hydrocarbon-contaminated soils, aquatic sediments, paper mill waste sludges, and farm animal waste lagoons. In all of the environments tested, the acetate-oxidizing ClRB represented a significant population, whose size ranged from 2.31 x 10(3) to 2.4 x 10(6) cells per g of sample. In addition, we isolated 13 ClRB from these environments. All of these organisms could grow anaerobically by coupling complete oxidation of acetate to reduction of (per)chlorate. Chloride was the sole end product of this reductive metabolism. All of the isolates could also use oxygen as a sole electron acceptor, and most, but not all, could use nitrate. The alternative electron donors included simple volatile fatty acids, such as propionate, butyrate, or valerate, as well as simple organic acids, such as lactate or pyruvate. Oxidized-minus-reduced difference spectra of washed whole-cell suspensions of the isolates had absorbance maxima close to 425, 525, and 550 nm, which are characteristic of type c cytochromes. In addition, washed cell suspensions of all of the ClRB isolates could dismutate chlorite, an intermediate in the reductive metabolism of (per)chlorate, into chloride and molecular oxygen. Chlorite dismutation was a result of the activity of a single enzyme which in pure form had a specific activity of approximately 1,928 micromol of chlorite per mg of protein per min. Analyses of the 16S ribosomal DNA sequences of the organisms indicated that they all belonged to the alpha, beta, or gamma subclass of the Proteobacteria. Several were closely related to members of previously described genera that are not recognized for the ability to reduce (per)chlorate, such as the genera Pseudomonas and Azospirllum. However, many were not closely related to any previously described organism and represented new genera within the Proteobacteria. The results of this study significantly increase the limited number of microbial isolates that are known to be capable of dissimilatory (per)chlorate reduction and demonstrate the hitherto unrecognized phylogenetic diversity and ubiquity of the microorganisms that exhibit this type of metabolism.
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- 1999
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854. Analyses of spatial distributions of sulfate-reducing bacteria and their activity in aerobic wastewater biofilms.
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Okabe S, Itoh T, Satoh H, and Watanabe Y
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- Aerobiosis, Desulfovibrio classification, Desulfovibrio isolation & purification, Electrochemistry methods, Microelectrodes, Oligonucleotide Probes, Oxidation-Reduction, Proteobacteria genetics, Proteobacteria physiology, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S genetics, Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria genetics, Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria physiology, Biofilms, Proteobacteria classification, Sewage microbiology, Sulfates metabolism, Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria classification
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The vertical distribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in aerobic wastewater biofilms grown on rotating disk reactors was investigated by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) with 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes. To correlate the vertical distribution of SRB populations with their activity, the microprofiles of O(2), H(2)S, NO(2)(-), NO(3)(-), NH(4)(+), and pH were measured with microelectrodes. In addition, a cross-evaluation of the FISH and microelectrode analyses was performed by comparing them with culture-based approaches and biogeochemical measurements. In situ hybridization revealed that a relatively high abundance of the probe SRB385-stained cells (approximately 10(9) to 10(10) cells per cm(3) of biofilm) were evenly distributed throughout the biofilm, even in the oxic surface. The probe SRB660-stained Desulfobulbus spp. were found to be numerically important members of SRB populations (approximately 10(8) to 10(9) cells per cm(3)). The result of microelectrode measurements showed that a high sulfate-reducing activity was found in a narrow anaerobic zone located about 150 to 300 microm below the biofilm surface and above which an intensive sulfide oxidation zone was found. The biogeochemical measurements showed that elemental sulfur (S(0)) was an important intermediate of the sulfide reoxidation in such thin wastewater biofilms (approximately 1,500 microm), which accounted for about 75% of the total S pool in the biofilm. The contribution of an internal Fe-sulfur cycle to the overall sulfur cycle in aerobic wastewater biofilms was insignificant (less than 1%) due to the relatively high sulfate reduction rate.
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- 1999
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855. Identification of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria with monoclonal antibodies recognizing the nitrite oxidoreductase.
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Bartosch S, Wolgast I, Spieck E, and Bock E
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- Antibodies, Bacterial immunology, Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, Gram-Negative Chemolithotrophic Bacteria isolation & purification, Gram-Negative Chemolithotrophic Bacteria metabolism, Immunoblotting, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Microscopy, Electron, Oxidation-Reduction, Phylogeny, Proteobacteria isolation & purification, Proteobacteria metabolism, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S genetics, Antibodies, Monoclonal immunology, Gram-Negative Chemolithotrophic Bacteria classification, Nitrite Reductases immunology, Nitrites metabolism, Proteobacteria classification, Sewage microbiology
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Immunoblot analyses performed with three monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) that recognized the nitrite oxidoreductase (NOR) of the genus Nitrobacter were used for taxonomic investigations of nitrite oxidizers. We found that these MAbs were able to detect the nitrite-oxidizing systems (NOS) of the genera Nitrospira, Nitrococcus, and Nitrospina. The MAb designated Hyb 153-2, which recognized the alpha subunit of the NOR (alpha-NOR), was specific for species belonging to the genus Nitrobacter. In contrast, Hyb 153-3, which recognized the beta-NOR, reacted with nitrite oxidizers of the four genera. Hyb 153-1, which also recognized the beta-NOR, bound to members of the genera Nitrobacter and Nitrococcus. The molecular masses of the beta-NOR of the genus Nitrobacter and the beta subunit of the NOS (beta-NOS) of the genus Nitrococcus were identical (65 kDa). In contrast, the molecular masses of the beta-NOS of the genera Nitrospina and Nitrospira were different (48 and 46 kDa). When the genus-specific reactions of the MAbs were correlated with 16S rRNA sequences, they reflected the phylogenetic relationships among the nitrite oxidizers. The specific reactions of the MAbs allowed us to classify novel isolates and nitrite oxidizers in enrichment cultures at the genus level. In ecological studies the immunoblot analyses demonstrated that Nitrobacter or Nitrospira cells could be enriched from activated sludge by using various substrate concentrations. Fluorescence in situ hybridization and electron microscopic analyses confirmed these results. Permeated cells of pure cultures of members of the four genera were suitable for immunofluorescence labeling; these cells exhibited fluorescence signals that were consistent with the location of the NOS.
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- 1999
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856. Selective medium for primary isolation of members of the tribe Proteeae.
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Urbanová E
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- Bacterial Infections microbiology, Cross Infection microbiology, Female, Food Microbiology, Humans, Male, Morganella growth & development, Morganella isolation & purification, Proteobacteria classification, Proteobacteria growth & development, Proteus growth & development, Proteus isolation & purification, Providencia growth & development, Providencia isolation & purification, Species Specificity, Culture Media chemistry, Proteobacteria isolation & purification
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A selective Proteeae medium (SPM) for isolation and preliminary detection of species of genera Proteus, Morganella, and Providencia was evaluated. The SPM contains tryptose phosphate agar with phenolphthalein monophosphate (as substrate for phosphatase activity), bile salts and polymyxin B (as inhibitors). The selectivity of the SPM was tested by the ecometric method of quality assurance of culture media. Fourteen reference cultures of enterobacteria and fifty-four strains of Proteeae were tested for their absolute growth index (AGI). Ninety-five percent of tested Proteeae strains display an AGI above 2.5. The detected phosphatase activity proved to be able to discriminate colonies of members of the tribe Proteeae. The ability of SPM for primary isolation of members of Proteeae was tested on food and clinical material and 94 strains were isolated. In addition, the SPM was employed in routine practice of clinical microbiology. From 1016 clinical samples (stool, urine, vaginal and urethral swabs), 57 strains of Proteeae were detected by the SPM in contrast to 35 strains by the routine procedure. The difference amounts to nearly 40%.
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- 1999
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