Search
Search Results
-
Anoxygenic phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria: tool for bioremediation of hazardous environmental pollutants
The extraordinary metabolic flexibility of anoxygenic phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) has been exploited in the development of various...
-
Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria of the Meromictic Lake Bol’shie Khruslomeny (Oleniy Island, Kandalaksha Gulf, Murmansk Oblast, Russia)
Abstract —The composition and structure of the anoxygenic phototrophic bacterial (APB) community in the water column of meromictic Lake Bol’shie...
-
Present Understanding of Biodiversity of Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria in the Relic Lake Mogilnoe (Kildin Island, Murmansk Oblast, Russia)
Abstract —The relic Lake Mogilnoe, separated from the Barents Sea by a sand and pebble dam, is located in the high Arctic on the Kildin island...
-
Neotabrizicola shimadae gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium harbouring photosynthetic genes in the family Rhodobacteraceae, isolated from a terrestrial hot spring
A bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium, designated as strain N10 T , was isolated from a terrestrial hot spring in Nagano Prefecture, Japan....
-
Remembering Jan Amesz (1934–2001): a great gentleman, a major discoverer, and an internationally renowned biophysicist of both oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesisa
We present here the research contributions of Jan Amesz (1934–2001) on deciphering the details of the early physico-chemical steps in oxygenic...
-
The Utilization of Agro-Based Wastes by Marine Phototrophic Microbes
Purple Non-Sulphur Bacteria (PNSB) is known as photosynthetic bacteria that are able to tolerate various habitats including marine sediment and...
-
Filamentous Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria in Microbial Communities of the Kulunda Steppe Soda Lakes (Altai Krai, Russia)
Abstract —Soda lakes are relic ecosystems inhabited by unique microorganisms, which are doubly extremophilic: both haloalkaliphilic and natronophilic....
-
Carbonic Anhydrase in Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria
Abstract —The genes encoding carbonic anhydrase (CA) were found in all anoxygenic purple bacteria. The genes of α- and β-CA were found in purple...
-
Recent progress in the use of purple non-sulfur bacteria as probiotics in aquaculture
The use of probiotics in aquaculture is widely recognized as an ecological and cost-effective approach to raising healthy, pathogen-tolerant aquatic...
-
Genomic basis for the unique phenotype of the alkaliphilic purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodobaca bogoriensis
Although several species of purple sulfur bacteria inhabit soda lakes, Rhodobaca bogoriensis is the first purple nonsulfur bacterium cultured from...
-
Allochromatium tepidum, sp. nov., a hot spring species of purple sulfur bacteria
We describe a new species of purple sulfur bacteria ( Chromatiaceae , anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria) isolated from a microbial mat in the sulfidic...
-
Photoferrotrophy and phototrophic extracellular electron uptake is common in the marine anoxygenic phototroph Rhodovulum sulfidophilum
Photoferrotrophy allows anoxygenic phototrophs to use reduced iron as an electron donor for primary productivity. Recent work shows that freshwater...
-
Genomic insights into the coupling of a Chlorella-like microeukaryote and sulfur bacteria in the chemocline of permanently stratified Lake Cadagno
Meromictic Lake Cadagno is a permanently stratified system with a persistent microbial bloom within the oxic-anoxic boundary called the chemocline....
-
Relations between Hydrogen and Sulfur Metabolism in Purple Sulfur Bacteria
Abstract —The review considers the role of purple sulfur bacteria in the global cycles of hydrogen and sulfur, as well as the ecology and physiology...
-
Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum “Eremiobacterota”, is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph
The previously uncultured phylum “ Candidatus Eremiobacterota” is globally distributed and often abundant in oligotrophic environments. Although it...
-
A Metagenomic and Amplicon Sequencing Combined Approach Reveals the Best Primers to Study Marine Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs
Studies based on protein-coding genes are essential to describe the diversity within bacterial functional groups. In the case of aerobic anoxygenic...
-
Release of Photosynthetically Fixed Carbon as Dissolved Organic Matter by Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria
Abstract —Dissolved organic matter (DOM) release by anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria belonging to diverse taxonomic groups is a ubiquitous process,...
-
A comparative look at structural variation among RC–LH1 ‘Core’ complexes present in anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria
All purple photosynthetic bacteria contain RC–LH1 ‘Core’ complexes. The structure of this complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides , Rhodopseudomonas...
-
Anaerobic 3-methylhopanoid production by an acidophilic photosynthetic purple bacterium
Bacterial lipids are well-preserved in ancient rocks and certain ones have been used as indicators of specific bacterial metabolisms or environmental...
-
High-resolution structure and biochemical properties of the LH1–RC photocomplex from the model purple sulfur bacterium, Allochromatium vinosum
The mesophilic purple sulfur phototrophic bacterium Allochromatium ( Alc .) vinosum (bacterial family Chromatiaceae ) has been a favored model for...
