Kirsten Küsel

Summary

Affiliation: University of Bayreuth
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in acidic sediments: isolation of Acidiphilium cryptum JF-5 capable of coupling the reduction of Fe(III) to the oxidation of glucose
    K Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Appl Environ Microbiol 65:3633-40. 1999
  2. ncbi Clostridium scatologenes strain SL1 isolated as an acetogenic bacterium from acidic sediments
    K Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, Germany
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 50:537-46. 2000
  3. ncbi Microbial reduction of Fe(III) and turnover of acetate in Hawaiian soils
    Kirsten Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    FEMS Microbiol Ecol 40:73-81. 2002
  4. ncbi Physiological ecology of Clostridium glycolicum RD-1, an aerotolerant acetogen isolated from sea grass roots
    K Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Appl Environ Microbiol 67:4734-41. 2001
  5. ncbi Microbial processes associated with roots of bulbous rush coated with iron plaques
    K Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Microb Ecol 46:302-11. 2003
  6. ncbi Trophic interaction of the aerotolerant anaerobe Clostridium intestinale and the acetogen Sporomusa rhizae sp. nov. isolated from roots of the black needlerush Juncus roemerianus
    Anita S Gössner
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Microbiology 152:1209-19. 2006
  7. ncbi Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in the presence of oxygen under low pH conditions
    Kirsten Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Environ Microbiol 4:414-21. 2002
  8. ncbi pH gradient-induced heterogeneity of Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in coal mining-associated lake sediments
    Marco Blöthe
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Appl Environ Microbiol 74:1019-29. 2008
  9. ncbi Does iron cycling trigger generation of acidity in groundwaters of Western Australia?
    Stefan Peiffer
    Department of Hydrology, University of Bayreuth, Universitsitsstrasse 30, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Environ Sci Technol 43:6548-52. 2009
  10. ncbi Compaction of forest soil by logging machinery favours occurrence of prokaryotes
    Silvia Schnurr-Pütz
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
    FEMS Microbiol Ecol 58:503-16. 2006

Collaborators

  • Harold L Drake
  • E Stackebrandt
  • Joel E Kostka
  • A Chabbi
  • Achim Schmalenberger
  • Stefan Peiffer
  • Anna Louise Reysenbach
  • M F DeFlaun
  • D L Balkwill
  • J K Fredrickson
  • M L Miroshnichenko
  • C Jeanthon
  • P Schumann
  • G Furgani
  • Marco Blöthe
  • Silvia Schnurr-Pütz
  • Anita S Gössner
  • B J Tindall
  • E A Bonch-Osmolovskaya
  • D Hormisch
  • N A Kostrikina
  • H Moussard
  • S Spring
  • S L'haridon
  • R M Kroppenstedt
  • P Willumsen
  • J Sikorski
  • A Niggemyer
  • F von Wintzingerode
  • Z Katona
  • A Szentirmai
  • S Forst
  • J S Hogan
  • Denise M Akob
  • F Sztaricskai
  • S L Wolf
  • Kathrin Göschel
  • E Böszörményi
  • A Máthé-Fodor
  • M G Klein
  • A Fodor
  • Erland Bååth
  • George Acker
  • Georg Guggenberger
  • Sonja Trenz
  • Daria Schulz
  • Charles R Lovell
  • G W Kohring
  • F Giffhorn
  • I Brost
  • A Banta
  • W H Holzapfel
  • H Hippe
  • U B Gobel
  • R F Rosenzweig
  • R Pukall
  • U Karlson
  • W Wackernagel
  • R A Siddiqui
  • M Rohde

Detail Information

Publications23

  1. ncbi Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in acidic sediments: isolation of Acidiphilium cryptum JF-5 capable of coupling the reduction of Fe(III) to the oxidation of glucose
    K Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Appl Environ Microbiol 65:3633-40. 1999
    ....
  2. ncbi Clostridium scatologenes strain SL1 isolated as an acetogenic bacterium from acidic sediments
    K 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...
  3. ncbi Microbial reduction of Fe(III) and turnover of acetate in Hawaiian soils
    Kirsten Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    FEMS Microbiol Ecol 40:73-81. 2002
    ....
  4. ncbi Physiological ecology of Clostridium glycolicum RD-1, an aerotolerant acetogen isolated from sea grass roots
    K Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Appl Environ Microbiol 67:4734-41. 2001
    ....
  5. ncbi Microbial processes associated with roots of bulbous rush coated with iron plaques
    K Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Microb Ecol 46:302-11. 2003
    ..Thus, as result of the microbial turnover of organic root exudates, pH and CO2 levels might be elevated at the root surface and favor Juncus plants to colonize acidic habitats...
  6. ncbi Trophic interaction of the aerotolerant anaerobe Clostridium intestinale and the acetogen Sporomusa rhizae sp. nov. isolated from roots of the black needlerush Juncus roemerianus
    Anita S Gössner
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Microbiology 152:1209-19. 2006
    ....
  7. ncbi Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in the presence of oxygen under low pH conditions
    Kirsten Küsel
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Environ Microbiol 4:414-21. 2002
    ..cryptum JF-5 are not constitutive...
  8. ncbi pH gradient-induced heterogeneity of Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in coal mining-associated lake sediments
    Marco 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...
  9. ncbi Does iron cycling trigger generation of acidity in groundwaters of Western Australia?
    Stefan Peiffer
    Department of Hydrology, University of Bayreuth, Universitsitsstrasse 30, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
    Environ Sci Technol 43:6548-52. 2009
    ..The model proposes that part of the alkalinity generated during weathering is stared as calcite in the landscape, which leads to spatial separation of acidity and alkalinity...
  10. ncbi Compaction of forest soil by logging machinery favours occurrence of prokaryotes
    Silvia 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...
  11. ncbi High unique diversity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes characterized in a depth gradient in an acidic fen
    Achim Schmalenberger
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth 95440, Germany
    Environ Microbiol 9:1317-28. 2007
    ....
  12. ncbi Ecological consequences of the phylogenetic and physiological diversities of acetogens
    Harold L Drake
    Department of Ecological Microbiology, BITOEK, University of Bayreuth, Germany
    Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 81:203-13. 2002
    ....
  13. ncbi Mycobacterium fluoranthenivorans sp. nov., a fluoranthene and aflatoxin B1 degrading bacterium from contaminated soil of a former coal gas plant
    D Hormisch
    Saarland University, Applied Microbiology, Saarbruecken, Germany
    Syst Appl Microbiol 27:653-60. 2004
    ..nov. The type strain of Mycobacterium fluoranthenivorans is FA4T (DSM 44556T = CIP 108203T)...
  14. ncbi Pseudomonas kilonensis sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from agricultural soil
    J Sikorski
    Genetik, Fachbereich Biologie, University of Oldenburg, Germany
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 51:1549-55. 2001
    ..Strains of group B are therefore considered to be members of a new species, for which the name Pseudomonas kilonensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is strain 520-20T (= DSM 13647T = CFBP 5372T)...
  15. ncbi Salana multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from an anaerobic bioreactor and capable of selenate reduction
    F von Wintzingerode
    , , , Berlin, Germany
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 51:1653-61. 2001
    ..nov., sp. nov. The type strain of the novel species is Se-3111T (= DSM 13521T = NRRL B-24118T)...
  16. ncbi Xenorhabdus antibiotics: a comparative analysis and potential utility for controlling mastitis caused by bacteria
    G Furgani
    Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
    J Appl Microbiol 104:745-58. 2008
    ..These antibiotics are active against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and were tested against mastitis isolates from dairy cows...
  17. ncbi Nautilia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfur-reducing epsilon-proteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
    M L Miroshnichenko
    Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:1299-304. 2002
    ..nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is strain 525T (= DSM 13520T)...
  18. ncbi Desulfurobacterium atlanticum sp. nov., Desulfurobacterium pacificum sp. nov. and Thermovibrio guaymasensis sp. nov., three thermophilic members of the Desulfurobacteriaceae fam. nov., a deep branching lineage within the Bacteria
    A-L Reysenbach
    UMR 6197, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, , IFREMER Centre de Brest, BP 70, 29280 Plouzan, France
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:2843-52. 2006
    ..It is therefore proposed that this lineage represents a new family, Desulfurobacteriaceae fam. nov., within the order Aquificales...
  19. ncbi Isolation and characterization of a novel As(V)-reducing bacterium: implications for arsenic mobilization and the genus Desulfitobacterium
    A Niggemyer
    Program in Environmental Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 67:5568-80. 2001
    ....
  20. ncbi Isolation and characterization of a Geobacillus thermoleovorans strain from an ultra-deep South African gold mine
    M F DeFlaun
    GeoSyntec Consultants, 3131 Princeton Pike, Building 1B, Suite 205, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
    Syst Appl Microbiol 30:152-64. 2007
    ..thermoleovorans DSM 5366(T) (99.6%), however, certain phenotypic characteristics of GE-7 were distinct from this and other previously described strains of G. thermoleovorans...
  21. ncbi Vulcanibacillus modesticaldus gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, nitrate-reducing bacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents
    M L Miroshnichenko
    UMR 6197, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, , , 29280 Plouzan, France
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1047-53. 2006
    ..nov. is proposed. The type species is Vulcanibacillus modesticaldus sp. nov., with the type strain BRT (=DSM 14931T=JCM 12998T)...
  22. ncbi Mycobacterium frederiksbergense sp. nov., a novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading Mycobacterium species
    P Willumsen
    Department of Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology, National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 51:1715-22. 2001
    ..nov. This novel species is phylogenetically closely related to Mycobacterium diernhoferi, Mycobacterium neoaurum and Mycobacterium hodleri. The type strain of M. frederiksbergense is strain FAn9T (= DSM 44346T = NRRL B-24126T)...
  23. ncbi Thermodesulfatator indicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic chemolithoautotrophic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from the Central Indian Ridge
    H Moussard
    UMR 6539, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Institut Universitaire Europeen de la Mer, 29280 Plouzane, France
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:227-33. 2004
    ..The type strain is CIR29812T (=DSM 15286T=JCM 11887T)...