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Genomes and Genes | J W DemingSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Evidence for the microbial basis of a chemoautotrophic invertebrate community at a whale fall on the deep seafloor: bone-colonizing bacteria and invertebrate endosymbiontsJ W Deming
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
Microsc Res Tech 37:162-70. 1997....
Psychrophiles and polar regionsJody W Deming
School of Oceanography, Box 357940, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Curr Opin Microbiol 5:301-9. 2002....
Remarkably low temperature optima for extracellular enzyme activity from Arctic bacteria and sea iceA L Huston
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
Environ Microbiol 2:383-8. 2000..The detection of unusually cold-adapted EEA in environmental samples has ramifications not only to polar ecosystems and carbon cycling but also to protein evolution, biotechnology and bioremediation...
Phylogenetic diversity of numerically important Arctic sea-ice bacteria cultured at subzero temperatureK Junge
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7940, USA
Microb Ecol 43:315-28. 2002..9-99.6% sequence similarities). Overall, these findings suggest limited, heterotrophic bacterial diversity at cold temperatures and may provide insight into the recent evolution of psychrophilic bacteria...
Modelled and measured dynamics of viruses in Arctic winter sea-ice brinesLlyd E Wells
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195 7940, USA
Environ Microbiol 8:1115-21. 2006....
Bacterial incorporation of leucine into protein down to -20 degrees C with evidence for potential activity in sub-eutectic saline ice formationsKaren Junge
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, The University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
Cryobiology 52:417-29. 2006..Overall, distinguishing between intracellular and extracellular aspects of bacterial activity appears important to understanding behavior at sub-freezing temperatures...
Purification, characterization, and sequencing of an extracellular cold-active aminopeptidase produced by marine psychrophile Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34HAdrienne L Huston
University of Washington School of Oceanography, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:3321-8. 2004..In both cases, ColAP stability increased significantly in the presence of EPS, indicating the importance of considering environmentally relevant extrinsic factors when enzyme structure and function are investigated...
Bacterial Activity at -2 to -20 degrees C in Arctic wintertime sea iceKaren Junge
School of Oceanography, Astrobiology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 7940, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:550-7. 2004..Measuring activity down to -20 degrees C adds to the concept that liquid inclusions in frozen environments provide an adequate habitat for active microbial populations on Earth and possibly elsewhere...
Motility of Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H at subzero temperaturesKaren Junge
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 982195 7940, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:4282-4. 2003..The results, showing motility to -10 degrees C, indicate much lower temperatures to be permissive of motility than previously reported (5 degrees C), with implications for microbial activity in frozen environments...
Persistence of bacterial and archaeal communities in sea ice through an Arctic winterR Eric Collins
School of Oceanography, Box 357940, 1503 NE Boat St, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Environ Microbiol 12:1828-41. 2010..Overall, selection during ice formation and mortality during winter appear to play minor roles in the process of microbial succession that leads to distinctive spring and summer sea ice communities...
Production of cryoprotectant extracellular polysaccharide substances (EPS) by the marine psychrophilic bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H under extreme conditionsJoseph G Marx
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA98195, USA
Can J Microbiol 55:63-72. 2009....
The psychrophilic lifestyle as revealed by the genome sequence of Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H through genomic and proteomic analysesBarbara A Methe
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:10913-8. 2005..Comparative genome analyses suggest that the psychrophilic lifestyle is most likely conferred not by a unique set of genes but by a collection of synergistic changes in overall genome content and amino acid composition...
Depth-related influences on biodegradation rates of phenanthrene in polluted marine sediments of Puget Sound, WAYinjie J Tang
Keasling Lab, Biophysics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Biophysics Division, 717 Potter Street, Bldlg 977 MC 3224, Berkeley, CA 94720 3224, USA
Mar Pollut Bull 52:1431-40. 2006..5 mM), inhibited mineralization. Long-term storage of heavily polluted Eagle Harbor sediment as intact cores under micro-aerobic conditions also appeared to enhance anaerobic biodegradation rates (k(1) up to 0.11 day(-1))...
