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Understanding and predicting synthetic lethal genetic interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using domain genetic interactionsBo Li
School of Computing, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
BMC Syst Biol 5:73. 2011..Synthetic lethal genetic interactions among proteins have been widely used to define functional relationships between proteins and pathways. However, the molecular mechanism of synthetic lethal genetic interactions is still unclear...
Pellicle formation in Shewanella oneidensisYili Liang
School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, PR China
BMC Microbiol 10:291. 2010..The goal of this work was to understand basic requirements and mechanism of pellicle formation in S. oneidensis...
Genomic and microarray analysis of aromatics degradation in Geobacter metallireducens and comparison to a Geobacter isolate from a contaminated field siteJessica E Butler
Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
BMC Genomics 8:180. 2007..Geobacter metallireducens metabolizes many aromatic compounds, but the enzymes involved are not well known...
Knock-out of SO1377 gene, which encodes the member of a conserved hypothetical bacterial protein family COG2268, results in alteration of iron metabolism, increased spontaneous mutation and hydrogen peroxide sensitivity in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1Weimin Gao
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
BMC Genomics 7:76. 2006....
Architecture of thermal adaptation in an Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain isolated from 3 million year old permafrost: a genome and transcriptome approachDebora F Rodrigues
Michigan State University, NASA Astrobiology Institute and Center for Microbial Ecology, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
BMC Genomics 9:547. 2008..We used Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain 255-15, a psychrotrophic bacterium from 3 million year old Siberian permafrost that grows from -5 degrees C to 39 degrees C to study its thermal adaptation...
Constructing gene co-expression networks and predicting functions of unknown genes by random matrix theoryFeng Luo
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 8:299. 2007....
Spatial scaling of functional gene diversity across various microbial taxaJizhong Zhou
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:7768-73. 2008..0475-0.0959). However, the z values are several times lower than those commonly observed in plants and animals. These results suggest that the turnover in space of microorganisms may be, in general, lower than that of plants and animals...
How sulphate-reducing microorganisms cope with stress: lessons from systems biologyJizhong Zhou
Stephenson Research and Technology Center, 101 David L Boren Blvd, Institut for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 9:452-66. 2011....
Reproducibility and quantitation of amplicon sequencing-based detectionJizhong Zhou
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
ISME J 5:1303-13. 2011..However, great caution should be taken in experimental design and data interpretation when the amplicon sequencing-based detection approach is used for quantitative analysis of the β-diversity of microbial communities...
GeoChip-based analysis of functional microbial communities during the reoxidation of a bioreduced uranium-contaminated aquiferJoy D Van Nostrand
Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Environ Microbiol 11:2611-26. 2009..This biostimulation approach may potentially offer an effective means for the bioremediation of U(VI)-contaminated sites...
Dynamics of microbial community composition and function during in situ bioremediation of a uranium-contaminated aquiferJoy D Van Nostrand
University of Oklahoma, 101 David L Boren Blvd, SRTC 2022, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:3860-9. 2011....
GeoChip 3.0 as a high-throughput tool for analyzing microbial community composition, structure and functional activityZhili He
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, 101 David L Boren Boulevard, Norman, OK 73019, USA
ISME J 4:1167-79. 2010..As expected, GeoChip 3.0 is a high-throughput powerful tool for studying microbial community functional structure, and linking microbial communities to ecosystem processes and functioning...
Functional gene array-based analysis of microbial community structure in groundwaters with a gradient of contaminant levelsPatricia J Waldron
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
Environ Sci Technol 43:3529-34. 2009..This study provides an overall picture of microbial community structure in contaminated environments with functional gene arrays by showing that diversity and heterogeneity can vary greatly in relation to contamination...
Development of a common oligonucleotide reference standard for microarray data normalization and comparison across different microbial communitiesYuting Liang
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 76:1088-94. 2010..The developed CORS provides a useful approach for microarray data normalization and comparison for studies of complex microbial communities...
Metagenomic analysis reveals a marked divergence in the structure of belowground microbial communities at elevated CO2Zhili He
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Ecol Lett 13:564-75. 2010..This study provides insights into potential activity of microbial community and associated feedback responses of terrestrial ecosystems to eCO2...
Microarray-based characterization of microbial community functional structure and heterogeneity in marine sediments from the Gulf of MexicoLiyou Wu
Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:4516-29. 2008....
Hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress responses in Desulfovibrio vulgaris HildenboroughAifen Zhou
Virtual Institute of Microbial Stress and Survival, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Environ Microbiol 12:2645-57. 2010..In addition, a conceptual cellular model of D. vulgaris responses to H(2)O(2) stress was constructed to illustrate that this bacterium may employ a complicated molecular mechanism to defend against the H(2)O(2)-induced stresses...
The phylogenetic composition and structure of soil microbial communities shifts in response to elevated carbon dioxideZhili He
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
ISME J 6:259-72. 2012..This study provides insights into our understanding of shifts in the richness, composition and structure of soil microbial communities under eCO(2) and environmental factors shaping the microbial community structure...
Metagenomic insights into evolution of a heavy metal-contaminated groundwater microbial communityChristopher L Hemme
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
ISME J 4:660-72. 2010....
Elevated carbon dioxide alters the structure of soil microbial communitiesYe Deng
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 78:2991-5. 2012..The results suggest that the soil microbial community composition and structure significantly altered under conditions of eCO(2), which was closely associated with soil and plant properties...
Microbial functional gene diversity with a shift of subsurface redox conditions during In Situ uranium reductionYuting Liang
School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Appl Environ Microbiol 78:2966-72. 2012..Microbial functional genes thus could be very useful for tracking microbial community structure and dynamics during bioremediation...
Functional characterization of Crp/Fnr-type global transcriptional regulators in Desulfovibrio vulgaris HildenboroughAifen Zhou
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 78:1168-77. 2012..vulgaris. DVU3111 is implicated in responses to NaCl and chromate stresses, DVU2547 in nitrite stress responses, and DVU2097 in air stress responses...
Microarray-based whole-genome hybridization as a tool for determining procaryotic species relatednessLiyou Wu
Department of Botany and Microbiology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Stephenson Research and Technology Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
ISME J 2:642-55. 2008..These results suggest that CGA-based DNA-DNA hybridization could serve as a powerful, high-throughput format for determining species relatedness among microorganisms...
Probing regulon of ArcA in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 by integrated genomic analysesHaichun Gao
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
BMC Genomics 9:42. 2008..Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 contains a gene encoding a putative ArcA homolog with ~81% amino acid sequence identity to the E. coli ArcA protein but not a full-length arcB gene...
Responses of microbial community functional structures to pilot-scale uranium in situ bioremediationMeiying Xu
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
ISME J 4:1060-70. 2010....
Correlation of genomic and physiological traits of thermoanaerobacter species with biofuel yieldsChristopher L Hemme
Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:7998-8008. 2011..The availability of whole-genome sequence and comparative genomic analyses will aid in engineering and optimizing Thermoanaerobacter strains for viable CBP strategies...
Development of functional gene microarrays for microbial community analysisZhili He
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 23:49-55. 2012..In this review, we first summarize currently reported FGAs, and then focus on the FGA development. We will also discuss several key issues of FGA technology as well as challenges and directions in future FGA development...
Assimilatory nitrate utilization by bacteria on the West Florida Shelf as determined by stable isotope probing and functional microarray analysisBoris Wawrik
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 79:400-11. 2012..e. nirS, nirK, narG, nosZ, napA, and nrfA was detected. These data directly implicate several bacterial populations in nitrate uptake, but suggest a more complex pattern for N flow than traditionally implied...
Global transcriptional, physiological, and metabolite analyses of the responses of Desulfovibrio vulgaris hildenborough to salt adaptationZhili He
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 76:1574-86. 2010..A conceptual model that links the observed results to currently available knowledge is proposed to increase our understanding of the mechanisms of D. vulgaris adaptation to elevated NaCl levels...
The tricarboxylic acid cycle in Shewanella oneidensis is independent of Fur and RyhB controlYunfeng Yang
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
BMC Microbiol 10:264. 2010..This down-regulation is mediated by a Fur-regulated small regulatory RNA named RyhB. It is unclear in the γ-proteobacterium S. oneidensis whether TCA is also regulated by Fur and RyhB...
Empirical evaluation of a new method for calculating signal-to-noise ratio for microarray data analysisZhili He
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:2957-66. 2008..This study provides general guidance for users to select appropriate SNR thresholds for different samples under different hybridization conditions...
Design and analysis of mismatch probes for long oligonucleotide microarraysYe Deng
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
BMC Genomics 9:491. 2008..One of most effective approaches to estimating nonspecific hybridizations in oligonucleotide microarrays is the utilization of mismatch probes; however, this approach has not been used for longer oligonucleotide probes...
Generation and validation of a Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 clone set for protein expression and phage displayHaichun Gao
Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2983. 2008..g., mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis), and facilitates a wide variety of integrated studies, including protein expression, purification, and functional analyses of proteins both in vivo and in vitro...
Microarray-based evaluation of whole-community genome DNA amplification methodsJian Wang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Stimulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:4241-5. 2011..For pure-culture DNA, REPLI-g and Templiphi showed less bias than Bst. For community DNA, REPLI-g showed the least bias and highest number of genes, while Bst had the highest success rate and was suitable for low-quality DNA...
Applications of functional gene microarrays for profiling microbial communitiesZhili He
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 23:460-6. 2012..We also discuss challenges and future directions of FGA applications...
Molecular ecological network analysesYe Deng
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 13:113. 2012....
Microbial gene functions enriched in the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea oil plumeZhenmei Lu
College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
ISME J 6:451-60. 2012..Together, these results suggest that the indigenous marine microbial communities could have a significant role in biodegradation of oil spills in deep-sea environments...
Microarray-based analysis of changes in diversity of microbial genes involved in organic carbon decomposition following land use/cover changesYuguang Zhang
Institute of Forestry Ecology, Environment and Protection, Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
FEMS Microbiol Lett 266:144-51. 2007..cluster analysis demonstrated that primitive forest soil was clustered more closely to soil from the spruce plantation established in 1960s...
GeoChip: a comprehensive microarray for investigating biogeochemical, ecological and environmental processesZhili He
Department of Botany and Microbiology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
ISME J 1:67-77. 2007..It is particularly useful for providing direct linkages of microbial genes/populations to ecosystem processes and functions...
Functional gene differences in soil microbial communities from conventional, low-input, and organic farmlandsKai Xue
Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 79:1284-92. 2013....
Microarray-based functional gene analysis of soil microbial communities during ozonation and biodegradation of crude oilYuting Liang
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Chemosphere 75:193-9. 2009..These changes demonstrate the feasibility of an integrated ozonation and biodegradation treatment to remove recalcitrant soil contaminants...
Field and laboratory studies on the bioconversion of coal to methane in the San Juan BasinBoris Wawrik
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 81:26-42. 2012..These data suggest that coal methanogenesis is unlikely to be limited by methanogen biomass, but rather the activation and degradation of coal constituents...
Development of highly fluorescent silica nanoparticles chemically doped with organic dye for sensitive DNA microarray detectionAihua Liu
Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Anal Bioanal Chem 401:2003-11. 2011..1 pM, enhancing microarray hybridization sensitivity over tenfold. This promising technology may be potentially applied to other binding events such as specific interactions between proteins...
Shifts of functional gene representation in wheat rhizosphere microbial communities under elevated ozoneXinyu Li
State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
ISME J 7:660-71. 2013..This study provides new insight into our understanding of the influence of eO(3) and wheat cultivars on soil microbial communities...
Assessing the microbial community and functional genes in a vertical soil profile with long-term arsenic contaminationJinbo Xiong
State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
PLoS ONE 7:e50507. 2012..This study provides new insights about the heterogeneity of microbial community metabolic potential and future biodiversity preservation for arsenic bioremediation management...
Use of functional gene arrays for elucidating in situ biodegradationJoy D Van Nostrand
Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma Norman, OK, USA Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma Norman, OK, USA
Front Microbiol 3:339. 2012..This review provides an overview of FGA development with a focus on the GeoChip and highlights specific GeoChip studies involving in situ bioremediation...
Sequencing of multiple clostridial genomes related to biomass conversion and biofuel productionChristopher L Hemme
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
J Bacteriol 192:6494-6. 2010..The sequenced strains significantly increase the number of noncommensal/nonpathogenic clostridial species and provide a key foundation for future studies of biomass conversion, cellulosome composition, and clostridial systems biology...
Global transcriptome analysis of the cold shock response of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and mutational analysis of its classical cold shock proteinsHaichun Gao
Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
J Bacteriol 188:4560-9. 2006..Mutational analyses confirmed that the small cold shock proteins, So1648 and So2787, are involved in the cold shock response of S. oneidensis. The analyses also indicated that So1648 may function only at very low temperatures...
Metal reduction and iron biomineralization by a psychrotolerant Fe(III)-reducing bacterium, Shewanella sp. strain PV-4Yul Roh
Institute for Environmental Genomics, and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:3236-44. 2006..The genome size of this strain is about 4.5 Mb. Strain PV-4 is sensitive to a variety of commonly used antibiotics except ampicillin and can acquire exogenous DNA (plasmid pCM157) through conjugation...
Use of microarrays with different probe sizes for monitoring gene expressionZhili He
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6038, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:5154-62. 2005..The results demonstrated that 70-mer oligonucleotides can provide the performance most comparable to the performance obtained with PCR-generated probes...
Selection of optimal oligonucleotide probes for microarrays using multiple criteria, global alignment and parameter estimationXingyuan Li
PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, 549 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 33:6114-23. 2005..The program was used to design probes for both whole-genome and highly homologous sequence data. CommOligo and CommOligo_PE are freely available to academic users upon request...
Functional genomic analysis of three nitrogenase isozymes in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustrisYasuhiro Oda
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195-7242, USA
J Bacteriol 187:7784-94. 2005....
Global transcriptional profiling of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 during Cr(VI) and U(VI) reductionRizlan Bencheikh-Latmani
Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0202, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:7453-60. 2005..This study sheds light on the multifaceted response of MR-1 to U(VI) and Cr(VI) under anaerobic conditions and suggests that the same electron transport pathway can be used for more than one electron acceptor...
Impacts on microbial communities and cultivable isolates from groundwater contaminated with high levels of nitric acid-uranium wasteMatthew W Fields
Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Pearson Hall, Room 32, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 53:417-28. 2005....
Improving solubility of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and Clostridium thermocellum JW-20 proteins expressed into Esherichia coliIrina Kataeva
Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
J Proteome Res 4:1942-51. 2005..A suggestion has been made that the Wilkinson-Harrison model is not applicable to C. thermocellum proteins because it did not account for the peculiarities of protein sequences from thermophiles...
Cellular response of Shewanella oneidensis to strontium stressSteven D Brown
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:890-900. 2006....
Microbial diversity and heterogeneity in sandy subsurface soilsJizhong Zhou
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:1723-34. 2004..Finally, the overall diversity of the subsurface samples was much lower than that of the corresponding surface soil samples...
Effects of a strong static magnetic field on bacterium Shewanella oneidensis: an assessment by using whole genome microarrayWeimin Gao
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Bioelectromagnetics 26:558-63. 2005..Among these genes, 21 were upregulated while other 44 were downregulated, compared with control...
Global molecular and morphological effects of 24-hour chromium(VI) exposure on Shewanella oneidensis MR-1Karuna Chourey
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:6331-44. 2006....
Global profiling of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: expression of hypothetical genes and improved functional annotationsEugene Kolker
BIATECH, 19310 North Creek Parkway, Suite 115, Bothell, WA 98011, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:2099-104. 2005..We propose that this integrative approach offers a valuable means to undertake the enormous challenge of characterizing the rapidly growing number of hypothetical proteins with each newly sequenced genome...
Transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of the Fur modulon in the metal-reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensisXiu Feng Wan
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P O Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 6038, USA
J Bacteriol 186:8385-400. 2004....
Global transcriptome analysis of the heat shock response of Shewanella oneidensisHaichun Gao
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
J Bacteriol 186:7796-803. 2004..Finally, a putative regulatory site with high conservation to the Escherichia coli sigma32-binding consensus sequence was identified upstream of a number of heat-inducible genes...
Transcriptional and proteomic analysis of a ferric uptake regulator (fur) mutant of Shewanella oneidensis: possible involvement of fur in energy metabolism, transcriptional regulation, and oxidative stressDorothea K Thompson
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 68:881-92. 2002..These results suggest a possible regulatory role of S. oneidensis MR-1 Fur in energy metabolism that extends the traditional model of Fur as a negative regulator of iron acquisition systems...
Microbial genomics--challenges and opportunities: the 9th International Conference on Microbial GenomesJizhong Zhou
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
J Bacteriol 184:4327-33. 2002
Development and evaluation of microarray-based whole-genome hybridization for detection of microorganisms within the context of environmental applicationsLiyou Wu
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
Environ Sci Technol 38:6775-82. 2004..The results suggest that CGA hybridization has potential as a specific, sensitive, and quantitative tool for detection and identification of microorganisms in environmental samples...
Empirical establishment of oligonucleotide probe design criteriaZhili He
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6038, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:3753-60. 2005....
PRIMEGENS: robust and efficient design of gene-specific probes for microarray analysisDong Xu
Protein Informatics Group, Life Sciences Division Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Bioinformatics 18:1432-7. 2002..The PCR amplification results indicate that this method is very efficient and reliable for designing specific probes for microarray analysis...
Analysis of a ferric uptake regulator (Fur) mutant of Desulfovibrio vulgaris HildenboroughKelly S Bender
Department of Biochemistry, 117 Schweitzer Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:5389-400. 2007..Both the physiological and transcriptional data implicate a global regulatory role for Fur in the sulfate-reducing bacterium D. vulgaris...
Response of Desulfovibrio vulgaris to alkaline stressSergey Stolyar
University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 616 NE North Lake Place, Box 355014, Seattle, WA 98195 2700, USA
J Bacteriol 189:8944-52. 2007....
Function of periplasmic hydrogenases in the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris HildenboroughSean M Caffrey
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
J Bacteriol 189:6159-67. 2007..In contrast, growth with 5% hydrogen is associated with a low intracellular hydrogen concentration, requiring the lower activity, higher affinity [NiFeSe] hydrogenase...
Molecular diversity of 16S rRNA and gyrB genes in copper minesHuaqun Yin
School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, China
Arch Microbiol 189:101-10. 2008..Moreover, our results also indicated that gyrB sequence analysis may be very useful for differentiating very closely related species in the study of microbial communities...
Transcriptome of a Nitrosomonas europaea mutant with a disrupted nitrite reductase gene (nirK)Catherine Mee-Hie Cho
Department of Environmental Sciences, Geology 2207, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:4450-4. 2006..Relationships of differentially regulated genes to the nirK mutant phenotype are discussed...
Biphenyl-utilizing bacteria and their functional genes in a pine root zone contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)Mary Beth Leigh
Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
ISME J 1:134-48. 2007....
Functional microarray analysis of nitrogen and carbon cycling genes across an Antarctic latitudinal transectEtienne Yergeau
Center for Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute for Ecology NIOO KNAW, Heteren, The Netherlands
ISME J 1:163-79. 2007....
Salt stress in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough: an integrated genomics approachAindrila Mukhopadhyay
Virtual Institute of Microbial Stress and Survival, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
J Bacteriol 188:4068-78. 2006..vulgaris responded similarly to the two stresses. Integration of data from multiple methods allowed us to develop a conceptual model for the salt stress response in D. vulgaris that can be compared to those in other microorganisms...
Characterization of the Shewanella oneidensis Fur gene: roles in iron and acid tolerance responseYunfeng Yang
Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
BMC Genomics 9:S11. 2008..In many bacterial species, coordinate regulation of iron homeostasis depends on the protein product of a Fur gene. Fur also plays roles in virulence, acid tolerance, redox-stress responses, flagella chemotaxis and metabolic pathways...
Transcriptional response of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough to oxidative stress mimicking environmental conditionsPatricia M Pereira
Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Arch Microbiol 189:451-61. 2008..vulgaris as a consequence of oxidative damage to their metal clusters...
Shewanella loihica sp. nov., isolated from iron-rich microbial mats in the Pacific OceanHaichun Gao
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1911-6. 2006..nov. is proposed. The type strain is PV-4(T) (=ATCC BAA-1088(T)=DSM 17748(T))...
Assessment of data processing to improve reliability of microarray experiments using genomic DNA referenceYunfeng Yang
Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
BMC Genomics 9:S5. 2008..Conflicting results have been reported with regard to the reliability of microarray results using this method. To explain it, we hypothesize that data processing is a critical element that impacts the data quality...
Unravelling microbial communities with DNA-microarrays: challenges and future directionsMichael Wagner
Department of Microbial Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, A 1090, Wien, Austria
Microb Ecol 53:498-506. 2007..Finally, we outline scenarios for an innovative combination of microarrays with other molecular tools for structure-function analysis of complex microbial communities...
Development and evaluation of 50-mer oligonucleotide arrays for detecting microbial populations in Acid Mine Drainages and bioleaching systemsHuaqun Yin
School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University Changsha, Hunan, 410083 China
J Microbiol Methods 70:165-78. 2007....
Diversity of functional genes for methanotrophs in sediments associated with gas hydrates and hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of MexicoTingfen Yan
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 57:251-9. 2006....
Microbial communities in contaminated sediments, associated with bioremediation of uranium to submicromolar levelsErick Cardenas
Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:3718-29. 2008..Spatial differences in community structure within the treatment zone were likely related to the hydraulic pathway and to electron donor metabolism during biostimulation...
Microarrays for bacterial detection and microbial community analysisJizhong Zhou
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 6038, USA
Curr Opin Microbiol 6:288-94. 2003..However, more rigorous and systematic assessment and development are needed to realize the full potential of microarrays for microbial detection and community analysis...
Current production and metal oxide reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 wild type and mutantsOrianna Bretschger
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:7003-12. 2007..Overall, these data suggest a very complex picture of electron transfer to solid and soluble substrates by S. oneidensis MR-1...
A computational study of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: structural prediction and functional inference of hypothetical proteinsChristal Yost
The Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6480, USA
OMICS 7:177-91. 2003..This method, which uses a suite of computational tools that are freely available to academic users, can be used to annotate hypothetical proteins in general...
Microarray transcription profiling of a Shewanella oneidensis etrA mutantAlex S Beliaev
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6038, USA
J Bacteriol 184:4612-6. 2002..This is the first microarray study indicating a possible involvement of EtrA in the regulation of gene expression in S. oneidensis MR-1...
Transcriptome profiling of Shewanella oneidensis gene expression following exposure to acidic and alkaline pHAdam B Leaphart
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA
J Bacteriol 188:1633-42. 2006..oneidensis modulates multiple transporters, cell envelope components, and pathways of amino acid consumption and central intermediary metabolism as part of its transcriptome response to changing external pH conditions...
Microarray-based analysis of subnanogram quantities of microbial community DNAs by using whole-community genome amplificationLiyou Wu
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6038, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:4931-41. 2006....
Transcriptome analysis applied to survival of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 exposed to ionizing radiationXiaoyun Qiu
Center for Microbial Ecology, PSSB 540, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Bacteriol 188:1199-204. 2006..Instead, a combination of oxidative stress, protein damage, and prophage-mediated cell lysis during irradiation and recovery might underlie this organism's great sensitivity to IR...
Improvement of oligonucleotide probe design criteria for functional gene microarrays in environmental applicationsJost Liebich
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1688-91. 2006....
A high-throughput percentage-of-binding strategy to measure binding energies in DNA-protein interactions: application to genome-scale site discoveryXiaohu Wang
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 36:4863-71. 2008....
AggA is required for aggregation and increased biofilm formation of a hyper-aggregating mutant of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1Wim De Windt
Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology LabMET, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B 9000 Gent, Belgium
Microbiology 152:721-9. 2006..By complementing this mutation with the vector pCM62, expressing the aggA gene, this effect could be nullified and biofilm formation was restored to at least the level of the MR-1 wild-type...
Transcript profiles of Nitrosomonas europaea during growth and upon deprivation of ammonia and carbonateXueming Wei
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
FEMS Microbiol Lett 257:76-83. 2006..Compared to heterotrophic bacteria, N. europaea downregulates a greater proportion of its genes and fewer genes appear to be associated with the adaptation to starvation...
Microarray-based analysis of microbial community RNAs by whole-community RNA amplificationHaichun Gao
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:563-71. 2007..This is one of the first demonstrations that microarray-based technology can be used to successfully detect the activities of microbial communities from real environmental samples in a high-throughput fashion...
Comparative analysis of differentially expressed genes in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 following exposure to UVC, UVB, and UVA radiationXiaoyun Qiu
Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Bacteriol 187:3556-64. 2005..Our data suggested that activation of prophages appears the major lethal factor in MR-1 following UVC or UVB irradiation, whereas oxidative damage contributes greatly to the high UVA sensitivity in MR-1...
Transcriptome analysis of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in response to elevated salt conditionsYongqing Liu
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
J Bacteriol 187:2501-7. 2005..The data also suggested an important role for metabolic adjustment in salt stress adaptation in S. oneidensis...
Detection of genes involved in biodegradation and biotransformation in microbial communities by using 50-mer oligonucleotide microarraysSung-Keun Rhee
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6038, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:4303-17. 2004....
A dynamically growing self-organizing tree (DGSOT) for hierarchical clustering gene expression profilesFeng Luo
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75252, USA
Bioinformatics 20:2605-17. 2004..Furthermore, the biological functionality enrichment in the clusters is considerably high and the hierarchical structure of the clusters is more reasonable. AVAILABILITY: DGSOT is available upon request from the authors...
Evaluation of 50-mer oligonucleotide arrays for detecting microbial populations in environmental samplesSonia M Tiquia
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Biotechniques 36:664-70, 672, 674-5. 2004..These results suggest that the 50-mer oligonucleotide array can be used as a specific and quantitative parallel tool for the detection of microbial populations in environmental samples...
