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Acetogenic bacteria: what are the in situ consequences of their diverse metabolic versatilities?H L Drake
Lehrstuhl für Okologische Mikrobiologie, BITOK, Universitat Bayreuth, Germany
Biofactors 6:13-24. 1997..This review evaluates the metabolic versatilities of acetogens relative to both the engagement (regulation) of the acetyl-CoA pathway and the ecological roles likely played by this bacteriogical group...
Evidence for involvement of gut-associated denitrifying bacteria in emission of nitrous oxide (N(2)O) by earthworms obtained from garden and forest soilsC Matthies
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 65:3599-604. 1999..Collectively, these results indicate that gut-associated denitrifying bacteria are responsible for the in vivo emission of N(2)O by earthworms and contribute to the N(2)O that is emitted from certain terrestrial ecosystems...- Physiology of the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoaceticaHarold L Drake
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Res Microbiol 155:869-83. 2004..The purpose of this article is to highlight the diverse physiological features of this model acetogen and to examine some of the consequences of its metabolic capabilities... - Physiology of the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoaceticaHarold L Drake
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Res Microbiol 155:422-36. 2004..The purpose of this article is to highlight the diverse physiological features of this model acetogen and to examine some of the consequences of its metabolic capabilities... - Ecological consequences of the phylogenetic and physiological diversities of acetogensHarold L Drake
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 81:203-13. 2002.... - Clostridium scatologenes strain SL1 isolated as an acetogenic bacterium from acidic sedimentsK Küsel
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50:537-46. 2000..scatologenes is an acetogen that tends to lose its capacity to grow acetogenically under H2/CO2 or CO/CO2 after prolonged laboratory cultivation... - Physiological ecology of Clostridium glycolicum RD-1, an aerotolerant acetogen isolated from sea grass rootsK Küsel
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 67:4734-41. 2001.... - Clostridium uliginosum sp. nov., a novel acid-tolerant, anaerobic bacterium with connecting filamentsC Matthies
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 51:1119-25. 2001..Based on morphological, physiological and phylogenetic properties of CK55T, it is proposed that CK55T be termed Clostridium uliginosum sp. nov. (= DSM 12992T = ATCC BAA-53T)... - Trophic interaction of the aerotolerant anaerobe Clostridium intestinale and the acetogen Sporomusa rhizae sp. nov. isolated from roots of the black needlerush Juncus roemerianusAnita S Gössner
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Microbiology 152:1209-19. 2006.... - Anaerobic oxalate consumption by microorganisms in forest soilsSteven L Daniel
Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920, USA
Res Microbiol 158:303-9. 2007..2) collected from three different forest field sites. These results suggest that forest soils and their resident microbial populations have different capacities relative to anaerobic oxalate consumption... - High unique diversity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes characterized in a depth gradient in an acidic fenAchim Schmalenberger
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth 95440, Germany
Environ Microbiol 9:1317-28. 2007.... - As the worm turns: the earthworm gut as a transient habitat for soil microbial biomesHarold L Drake
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Annu Rev Microbiol 61:169-89. 2007..These observations illustrate the impact that soil macrofauna might have on terrestrial nitrogen cycle processes via their transient hosting of ingested prokaryotes... - Geminicoccus roseus gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic phototrophic Alphaproteobacterium isolated from a marine aquaculture biofilterBärbel U Foesel
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Syst Appl Microbiol 30:581-6. 2007..nov., sp. nov. is proposed for the type species (D2-3(T)=DSM 18922(T)=ATCC BAA-1445(T))... - Simultaneous biodegradation of nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds in a sequencing batch bioreactorXing Yu Liu
State Key Lab of Microbial Resources at Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
J Environ Sci (China) 19:530-5. 2007..Aromatic ring-cleaving dioxygenase activities suggested that (1) AN and NB were degraded via catechol 2,3-dioxygenase; (2) 4-NP was degraded via 1,2,4-benzentriol 1,2-dioxygenase; and (3) 2,4-DNP was degraded via an unresolved pathway... - pH gradient-induced heterogeneity of Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in coal mining-associated lake sedimentsMarco Blöthe
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:1019-29. 2008..The majority of Fe(III) reducers inhabiting the slightly acidic sediment had only minor capacities to be active under acidic conditions... - Nitrosomonas Nm143-like ammonia oxidizers and Nitrospira marina-like nitrite oxidizers dominate the nitrifier community in a marine aquaculture biofilmBärbel U Foesel
Department of Biological Sciences, Microbiology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 63:192-204. 2008.... 
Old acetogens, new lightHarold L Drake
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1125:100-28. 2008....- Anaerobic consumers of monosaccharides in a moderately acidic fenAlexandra Hamberger
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95445 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:3112-20. 2008.... - Corynebacterium glutamicum contains 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthases that display novel biochemical featuresYa Jun Liu
Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road Jia 3, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, People s Republic of China
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:5497-503. 2008..glutamicum subsp. flavum. Both Co2+ and Mn2+ significantly stimulated the NCgl0950 DAHP synthase's activity, whereas Mn2+ was much more stimulatory than Co2+ to the NCgl2098 DAHP synthase's activity... - Nitrous oxide reductase genes (nosZ) of denitrifying microbial populations in soil and the earthworm gut are phylogenetically similarMarcus A Horn
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, D 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1019-26. 2006..Thus, the phylogenies of nosZ from gut and soil were not dissimilar, indicating that gut denitrifiers are soil derived... - In vivo emission of dinitrogen by earthworms via denitrifying bacteria in the gutMarcus A Horn
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95445 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1013-8. 2006.... - Dechloromonas denitrificans sp. nov., Flavobacterium denitrificans sp. nov., Paenibacillus anaericanus sp. nov. and Paenibacillus terrae strain MH72, N2O-producing bacteria isolated from the gut of the earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosaMarcus A Horn
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:1255-65. 2005..nov., Flavobacterium denitrificans sp. nov. and Paenibacillus anaericanus sp. nov., respectively. MH72 is considered a new strain of Paenibacillus terrae... - Tolerance and metabolic response of acetogenic bacteria toward oxygenArno Karnholz
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 68:1005-9. 2002..Cell extracts of S. silvacetica, M. thermoacetica, and C. magnum contained peroxidase and NADH oxidase activities; catalase and superoxide dismutase activities were not detected... - Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in the presence of oxygen under low pH conditionsKirsten Küsel
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Environ Microbiol 4:414-21. 2002..cryptum JF-5 are not constitutive... - Influence of nitrate on oxalate- and glyoxylate-dependent growth and acetogenesis by Moorella thermoaceticaCorinna Seifritz
, BITOK, , 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Arch Microbiol 178:457-64. 2002..In this regard, enzymes of known pathways for the assimilation of two-carbon compounds were not detected in glyoxylate- or oxalate-grown cells... - Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis by moderately acid-tolerant methanogens of a methane-emitting acidic peatMarcus A Horn
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:74-83. 2003.... - N2O-producing microorganisms in the gut of the earthworm Aporrectodea caliginosa are indicative of ingested soil bacteriaJulian Ihssen
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:1655-61. 2003..The results of this study suggest that most of the N(2)O emitted by earthworms is due to the activation of ingested denitrifiers and other nitrate-dissimilating bacteria in the gut lumen... - The earthworm gut: an ideal habitat for ingested N2O-producing microorganismsMarcus A Horn
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:1662-9. 2003.... - Nitrite as an energy-conserving electron sink for the acetogenic bacterium Moorella thermoaceticaCorinna Seifritz
Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Curr Microbiol 46:329-33. 2003..Glyoxylate-dependent growth by Moorella thermoautotrophica was not observed in the undefined medium containing nitrite... - Acidovorax-like symbionts in the nephridia of earthwormsAndreas Schramm
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, D 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Environ Microbiol 5:804-9. 2003..Given the close phylogenetic relationship of the symbionts to proteolytic, free-living Acidovorax species, they may indeed play a role in protein degradation during nitrogen excretion by earthworms... - Oxalate metabolism by the acetogenic bacterium Moorella thermoaceticaSteven L Daniel
Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920, USA
FEMS Microbiol Lett 231:39-43. 2004..These results suggest that oxalate metabolism by M. thermoacetica requires a utilizable electron acceptor and that CoA-level intermediates are not involved... - Lactovum miscens gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerotolerant, psychrotolerant, mixed-fermentative anaerobe from acidic forest soilCarola Matthies
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Res Microbiol 155:847-54. 2004..Based on the collective properties of anNAG3, it is proposed that anNAG3 be termed Lactovum miscens... - Microarray and functional gene analyses of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in low-sulfate, acidic fens reveal cooccurrence of recognized genera and novel lineagesAlexander Loy
Department of Microbial Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Conservation Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:6998-7009. 2004..These dsrAB sequences had no features indicative of pseudogenes and likely represent novel, deeply branching, sulfate- or sulfite-reducing prokaryotes that are specialized colonists of low-sulfate habitats... - Carbon metabolism of the moderately acid-tolerant acetogen Clostridium drakei isolated from peatAnita S Gössner
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Lett 287:236-42. 2008..drakei, the type strain of which was originally isolated from an acidic coal mine pond, occurs in moderately acidic habitats... - Catabolic pathway for the production of skatole and indoleacetic acid by the acetogen Clostridium drakei, Clostridium scatologenes, and swine manureTerence R Whitehead
Fermentation Biotechnology Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, 1815 N University St, Peoria, Illinois 61604, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:1950-3. 2008..Microorganisms in swine manure produced skatole and other oxidation products from tryptophan, but IAA yielded only skatole. A catabolic mechanism for the synthesis of skatole is proposed... - Compaction of forest soil by logging machinery favours occurrence of prokaryotesSilvia Schnurr-Pütz
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 58:503-16. 2006..These results indicate that compaction of forest soil alters the structure and function of the soil microbial community and favours occurrence of prokaryotes...