著者
石田 昭夫 上野 友美
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology · The Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.11, no.3, pp.67-72, 1996-12-31 (Released:2009-10-05)
参考文献数
10

非好塩性細菌である大腸菌(Escherichia coli ATCC-9637)を用いて,海水環境下での菌の増殖及び耐塩性誘導とその保持について,天然海水の代わりに組成成分の明確な人工海水を使用し検討した。2.5倍濃度の人工海水に酵母エキスを加えた培地では,この大腸菌株はほとんど増殖できないが,通常濃度の人工海水であれば十分に増殖できることが分かった。さらに,通常濃度の人工海水に酵母エキス(1%)を添加した培地で,30分間前振盪処理をすることによって,無処理では増殖の観察できない2.5倍濃度の人工海水中でも菌増殖が可能となる耐塩性が誘導された。このような耐塩性の誘導には,培地の人工海水濃度が通常の1/2~1付近が最も効果的であること,さらに酵母エキスを必要とすることが分かった。このことは,淡水性の大腸菌が河口周辺または海水環境下で酵母エキスのような有機物の存在があれば,耐塩性が誘導され,より高濃度の塩分環境に適応出来ることを示唆している。誘導された耐塩性は,有機物なしでも人工海水中に低温下で菌体が保存された場合は,少なくとも2週間はほぼ完全に保持されそれ以降次第に消失することが分かった。耐塩性の保持に有効な人工海水の成分を検討したところ,浸透圧を維持するNaClとMgイオン及びCaイオンの共存が必要であることが分かった。一方,純水中で菌体を保存した場合は,耐塩性は1週間でほぼ消失したが,平板培養法で観察した生菌数はわずかの減少しか見られないことから,耐塩性の消失と菌の死滅は別個の機構によると考えられる。
著者
Tomoko Mihara Hitoshi Koyano Pascal Hingamp Nigel Grimsley Susumu Goto Hiroyuki Ogata
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology · The Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.ME17203, (Released:2018-05-25)
被引用文献数
80

Since the discovery of the giant mimivirus, evolutionarily related viruses have been isolated or identified from various environments. Phylogenetic analyses of this group of viruses, tentatively referred to as the family “Megaviridae”, suggest that it has an ancient origin that may predate the emergence of major eukaryotic lineages. Environmental genomics has since revealed that Megaviridae represents one of the most abundant and diverse groups of viruses in the ocean. In the present study, we compared the taxon richness and phylogenetic diversity of Megaviridae, Bacteria, and Archaea using DNA-dependent RNA polymerase as a common marker gene. By leveraging existing microbial metagenomic data, we found higher richness and phylogenetic diversity in this single viral family than in the two prokaryotic domains. We also obtained results showing that the evolutionary rate alone cannot account for the observed high diversity of Megaviridae lineages. These results suggest that the Megaviridae family has a deep co-evolutionary history with diverse marine protists since the early “Big-Bang” radiation of the eukaryotic tree of life.
著者
Susumu Yoshizawa Tomonori Azuma Keiichi Kojima Keisuke Inomura Masumi Hasegawa Yosuke Nishimura Masuzu Kikuchi Gabrielle Armin Yuya Tsukamoto Hideaki Miyashita Kentaro Ifuku Takashi Yamano Adrian Marchetti Hideya Fukuzawa Yuki Sudo Ryoma Kamikawa
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions / Japanese Society for Extremophiles
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.2, pp.ME23015, 2023 (Released:2023-06-20)
参考文献数
46
被引用文献数
4

Diatoms are a major phytoplankton group responsible for approximately 20% of carbon fixation on Earth. They perform photosynthesis using light-harvesting chlo­rophylls located in plastids, an organelle obtained through eukaryote-eukaryote endosymbiosis. Microbial rhodopsin, a photoreceptor distinct from chlo­rophyll-based photosystems, was recently identified in some diatoms. However, the physiological function of diatom rhodopsin remains unclear. Heterologous expression techniques were herein used to investigate the protein function and subcellular localization of diatom rhodopsin. We demonstrated that diatom rhodopsin acts as a light-driven proton pump and localizes primarily to the outermost membrane of four membrane-bound complex plastids. Using model simulations, we also examined the effects of pH changes inside the plastid due to rhodopsin-mediated proton transport on photosynthesis. The results obtained suggested the involvement of rhodopsin-mediated local pH changes in a photosynthetic CO2-concentrating mechanism in rhodopsin-possessing diatoms.
著者
Shinsuke Kawagucci Sanae Sakai Eiji Tasumi Miho Hirai Yoshihiro Takaki Takuro Nunoura Masafumi Saitoh Yuichiro Ueno Naohiro Yoshida Takazo Shibuya James Clifford Sample Tomoyo Okumura Ken Takai
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions / Japanese Society for Extremophiles
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.2, pp.ME22108, 2023 (Released:2023-06-16)
参考文献数
114
被引用文献数
1

Post-mega-earthquake geochemical and microbiological properties in subseafloor sediments of the Japan Trench accretionary wedge were investigated using core samples from Hole C0019E, which was drilled down to 851‍ ‍m below seafloor (mbsf) at a water depth of 6,890 m. Methane was abundant throughout accretionary prism sediments; however, its concentration decreased close to the plate boundary decollement. Methane isotope systematics indicated a biogenic origin. The content of mole­cular hydrogen (H2) was low throughout core samples, but markedly increased at specific depths that were close to potential faults predicted by logging-while-drilling ana­lyses. Based on isotopic systematics, H2 appeared to have been abundantly produced via a low-temperature interaction between pore water and the fresh surface of crushed rock induced by earthquakes. Subseafloor microbial cell density remained constant at approximately 105‍ ‍cells‍ ‍mL–1. Amplicon sequences revealed that predominant members at the phylum level were common throughout the units tested, which also included members frequently found in anoxic subseafloor sediments. Metabolic potential assays using radioactive isotopes as tracers revealed homoacetogenic activity in H2-enriched core samples collected near the fault. Furthermore, homoacetogenic bacteria, including Acetobacterium carbinolicum, were isolated from similar samples. Therefore, post-earthquake subseafloor microbial communities in the Japan Trench accretionary prism appear to be episodically dominated by homoacetogenic populations and potentially function due to the earthquake-induced low-temperature generation of H2. These post-earthquake microbial communities may eventually return to the steady-state communities dominated by oligotrophic heterotrophs and hydrogenotrophic and methylotrophic methanogens that are dependent on refractory organic matter in the sediment.
著者
Yusuke Okazaki Tuyen Thi Nguyen Arisa Nishihara Hisashi Endo Hiroyuki Ogata Shin-ichi Nakano Hideyuki Tamaki
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions / Japanese Society for Extremophiles
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.1, pp.ME22102, 2023 (Released:2023-03-15)
参考文献数
20
被引用文献数
1

We herein propose a fast and easy DNA and RNA co-extraction method for environmental microbial samples. It combines bead beating and phenol-chloroform phase separation followed by the separation and purification of DNA and RNA using the Qiagen AllPrep DNA/RNA mini kit. With a handling time of ~3 h, our method simultaneously extracted high-quality DNA (peak size >10–15‍ ‍kb) and RNA (RNA integrity number >6) from lake bacterioplankton filtered samples. The method is also applicable to low-biomass samples (expected DNA or RNA yield <50‍ ‍ng) and eukaryotic microbial samples, providing an easy option for more versatile eco-genomic applications.
著者
Ryosuke Nakai
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions / Japanese Society for Extremophiles
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.35, no.2, pp.ME20025, 2020 (Released:2020-06-03)
参考文献数
115
被引用文献数
1 45

Ultra-small microorganisms are ubiquitous in Earth’s environments. Ultramicrobacteria, which are defined as having a cell volume of <0.1 μm3, are often numerically dominant in aqueous environments. Cultivated representatives among these bacteria, such as members of the marine SAR11 clade (e.g., “Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique”) and freshwater Actinobacteria and Betaproteobacteria, possess highly streamlined, small genomes and unique ecophysiological traits. Many ultramicrobacteria may pass through a 0.2-μm-pore-sized filter, which is commonly used for filter sterilization in various fields and processes. Cultivation efforts focusing on filterable small microorganisms revealed that filtered fractions contained not only ultramicrocells (i.e., miniaturized cells because of external factors) and ultramicrobacteria, but also slender filamentous bacteria sometimes with pleomorphic cells, including a special reference to members of Oligoflexia, the eighth class of the phylum Proteobacteria. Furthermore, the advent of culture-independent “omics” approaches to filterable microorganisms yielded the existence of candidate phyla radiation (CPR) bacteria (also referred to as “Ca. Patescibacteria”) and ultra-small members of DPANN (an acronym of the names of the first phyla included in this superphyla) archaea. Notably, certain groups in CPR and DPANN are predicted to have minimal or few biosynthetic capacities, as reflected by their extremely small genome sizes, or possess no known function. Therefore, filtered fractions contain a greater variety and complexity of microorganisms than previously expected. This review summarizes the broad diversity of overlooked filterable agents remaining in “sterile” (<0.2-μm filtered) environmental samples.
著者
Motoko Igisu Masayuki Miyazaki Sanae Sakai Satoshi Nakagawa Hiroyuki D. Sakai Ken Takai
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions / Japanese Society for Extremophiles
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.4, pp.ME23052, 2023 (Released:2023-10-18)
参考文献数
29

Infrared spectroscopy is used for the chemical characterization of prokaryotes. However, its application has been limited to cell aggregates and lipid extracts because of the relatively low spatial resolution of diffraction. We herein report optical photothermal infrared (O-PTIR) spectroscopy of prokaryotes for a domain-level diagnosis at the single-cell level. The technique provided infrared spectra of individual bacterial as well as archaeal cells, and the resulting aliphatic CH3/CH2 intensity ratios showed domain-specific signatures, which may reflect distinctive cellular lipid compositions; however, there was interference by other cellular components. These results suggest the potential of O-PTIR for a domain-level diagnosis of single prokaryotic cells in natural environments.
著者
Yu Nakajima Takashi Tsukamoto Yohei Kumagai Yoshitoshi Ogura Tetsuya Hayashi Jaeho Song Takashi Kikukawa Makoto Demura Kazuhiro Kogure Yuki Sudo Susumu Yoshizawa
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology · The Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.33, no.1, pp.89-97, 2018 (Released:2018-03-29)
参考文献数
43
被引用文献数
17

Light-driven ion-pumping rhodopsins are widely distributed among bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes in the euphotic zone of the aquatic environment. H+-pumping rhodopsin (proteorhodopsin: PR), Na+-pumping rhodopsin (NaR), and Cl−-pumping rhodopsin (ClR) have been found in marine bacteria, which suggests that these genes evolved independently in the ocean. Putative microbial rhodopsin genes were identified in the genome sequences of marine Cytophagia. In the present study, one of these genes was heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli cells and the rhodopsin protein named Rubricoccus marinus halorhodopsin (RmHR) was identified as a light-driven inward Cl− pump. Spectroscopic assays showed that the estimated dissociation constant (Kd,int.) of this rhodopsin was similar to that of haloarchaeal halorhodopsin (HR), while the Cl−-transporting photoreaction mechanism of this rhodopsin was similar to that of HR, but different to that of the already-known marine bacterial ClR. This amino acid sequence similarity also suggested that this rhodopsin is similar to haloarchaeal HR and cyanobacterial HRs (e.g., SyHR and MrHR). Additionally, a phylogenetic analysis revealed that retinal biosynthesis pathway genes (blh and crtY) belong to a phylogenetic lineage of haloarchaea, indicating that these marine Cytophagia acquired rhodopsin-related genes from haloarchaea by lateral gene transfer. Based on these results, we concluded that inward Cl−-pumping rhodopsin is present in genera of the class Cytophagia and may have the same evolutionary origins as haloarchaeal HR.
著者
Yu Nakajima Keiichi Kojima Yuichiro Kashiyama Satoko Doi Ryosuke Nakai Yuki Sudo Kazuhiro Kogure Susumu Yoshizawa
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions / Japanese Society for Extremophiles
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.35, no.4, pp.ME20085, 2020 (Released:2020-12-05)
参考文献数
36
被引用文献数
14

Microbial rhodopsins, comprising a protein moiety (rhodopsin apoprotein) bound to the light-absorbing chromophore retinal, function as ion pumps, ion channels, or light sensors. However, recent genomic and metagenomic surveys showed that some rhodopsin-possessing prokaryotes lack the known genes for retinal biosynthesis. Since rhodopsin apoproteins cannot absorb light energy, rhodopsins produced by prokaryotic strains lacking genes for retinal biosynthesis are hypothesized to be non-functional in cells. In the present study, we investigated whether Aurantimicrobium minutum KNCT, which is widely distributed in terrestrial environments and lacks any previously identified retinal biosynthesis genes, possesses functional rhodopsin. We initially measured ion transport activity in cultured cells. A light-induced pH change in a cell suspension of rhodopsin-possessing bacteria was detected in the absence of exogenous retinal. Furthermore, spectroscopic analyses of the cell lysate and HPLC-MS/MS analyses revealed that this strain contained an endogenous retinal. These results confirmed that A. minutum KNCT possesses functional rhodopsin and, hence, produces retinal via an unknown biosynthetic pathway. These results suggest that rhodopsin-possessing prokaryotes lacking known retinal biosynthesis genes also have functional rhodopsins.
著者
Shawn E. McGlynn
出版者
日本微生物生態学会 / 日本土壌微生物学会 / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / 植物微生物研究会
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.ME16166, (Released:2017-03-17)
被引用文献数
93

Anaerobic methane oxidation in archaea is often presented to operate via a pathway of “reverse methanogenesis”. However, if the cumulative reactions of a methanogen are run in reverse there is no apparent way to conserve energy. Recent findings suggest that chemiosmotic coupling enzymes known from their use in methylotrophic and acetoclastic methanogens—in addition to unique terminal reductases—biochemically facilitate energy conservation during complete CH4 oxidation to CO2. The apparent enzyme modularity of these organisms highlights how microbes can arrange their energy metabolisms to accommodate diverse chemical potentials in various ecological niches, even in the extreme case of utilizing “reverse” thermodynamic potentials.
著者
今中 忠行
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions / Japanese Society for Extremophiles
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.13, no.3, pp.171-175, 1998-09-30 (Released:2009-10-05)
参考文献数
11

It has been understood as a common sense that petroleum can be oxidized by the microorganisms in the presence of molecular oxygen. In contrast, we isolated an extremely interesting bacterium strain HD-1 which could assimilate petroleum under anaerobic condition. The bacterium could grow on CO2 as a sole carbon source, and produced n-alkane/alkene, major components of petroleum.
著者
Yu Nakajima Takashi Tsukamoto Yohei Kumagai Yoshitoshi Ogura Tetsuya Hayashi Jaeho Song Takashi Kikukawa Makoto Demura Kazuhiro Kogure Yuki Sudo Susumu Yoshizawa
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology · The Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.ME17197, (Released:2018-03-16)
被引用文献数
17

Light-driven ion-pumping rhodopsins are widely distributed among bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes in the euphotic zone of the aquatic environment. H+-pumping rhodopsin (proteorhodopsin: PR), Na+-pumping rhodopsin (NaR), and Cl–-pumping rhodopsin (ClR) have been found in marine bacteria, which suggests that these genes evolved independently in the ocean. Putative microbial rhodopsin genes were identified in the genome sequences of marine Cytophagia. In the present study, one of these genes was heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli cells and the rhodopsin protein named Rubricoccus marinus halorhodopsin (RmHR) was identified as a light-driven inward Cl– pump. Spectroscopic assays showed that the estimated dissociation constant (Kd,int.) of this rhodopsin was similar to that of haloarchaeal halorhodopsin (HR), while the Cl–-transporting photoreaction mechanism of this rhodopsin was similar to that of HR, but different to that of the already-known marine bacterial ClR. This amino acid sequence similarity also suggested that this rhodopsin is similar to haloarchaeal HR and cyanobacterial HRs (e.g., SyHR and MrHR). Additionally, a phylogenetic analysis revealed that retinal biosynthesis pathway genes (blh and crtY) belong to a phylogenetic lineage of haloarchaea, indicating that these marine Cytophagia acquired rhodopsin-related genes from haloarchaea by lateral gene transfer. Based on these results, we concluded that inward Cl–-pumping rhodopsin is present in genera of the class Cytophagia and may have the same evolutionary origins as haloarchaeal HR.
著者
Satoshi Hiraoka Ching-chia Yang Wataru Iwasaki
出版者
日本微生物生態学会 / 日本土壌微生物学会 / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / 植物微生物研究会
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.ME16024, (Released:2016-07-05)
被引用文献数
2 70

Metagenomic approaches are now commonly used in microbial ecology to study microbial communities in more detail, including many strains that cannot be cultivated in the laboratory. Bioinformatic analyses make it possible to mine huge metagenomic datasets and discover general patterns that govern microbial ecosystems. However, the findings of typical metagenomic and bioinformatic analyses still do not completely describe the ecology and evolution of microbes in their environments. Most analyses still depend on straightforward sequence similarity searches against reference databases. We herein review the current state of metagenomics and bioinformatics in microbial ecology and discuss future directions for the field. New techniques will allow us to go beyond routine analyses and broaden our knowledge of microbial ecosystems. We need to enrich reference databases, promote platforms that enable meta- or comprehensive analyses of diverse metagenomic datasets, devise methods that utilize long-read sequence information, and develop more powerful bioinformatic methods to analyze data from diverse perspectives.
著者
Ryo Matsuzaki Yusuke Takashima Iwane Suzuki Masanobu Kawachi Hisayoshi Nozaki Seiichi Nohara Yousuke Degawa
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions / Japanese Society for Extremophiles
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.36, no.2, pp.ME21011, 2021 (Released:2021-06-16)
参考文献数
31
被引用文献数
1

Chionaster nivalis is frequently detected in thawing snowpacks and glaciers. However, the taxonomic position of this species above the genus level remains unclear. We herein conducted molecular analyses of C. nivalis using the ribosomal RNA operon sequences obtained from more than 200 cells of this species isolated from a field-collected material. Our molecular phylogenetic analyses revealed that C. nivalis is a sister to Bartheletia paradoxa, which is an orphan basal lineage of Agaricomycotina. We also showed that C. nivalis sequences were contained in several previously examined meta-amplicon sequence datasets from snowpacks and glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica.
著者
Hideaki Sasaki Susumu Shirato Tomoya Tahara Kenji Sato Hiroyuki Takenaka
出版者
日本微生物生態学会 / 日本土壌微生物学会 / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / 植物微生物研究会
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.ME13035, (Released:2013-11-19)
被引用文献数
2 20

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident released large amounts of radioactive substances into the environment and contaminated the soil of Tohoku and Kanto districts in Japan. Removal of radioactive material from the environment is an urgent problem, and soil purification using plants is being considered. In this study, we investigated the ability of 12 seed plant species and a cyanobacterium to accumulate radioactive material. The plants did not accumulate radioactive material at high levels, but high accumulation was observed in the terrestrial cyanobacterium Nostoc commune. In Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture, N. commune accumulated 415,000 Bq/kg dry weight 134Cs and 607,000 Bq kg-1 dry weight 137Cs. The concentration of cesium in N. commune tended to be high in areas where soil radioactivity was high. A cultivation experiment confirmed that N. commune absorbed radioactive cesium from polluted soil. These data demonstrated that radiological absorption using N. commune might be suitable for decontaminating polluted soil.
著者
Arisa Nishihara Katsumi Matsuura Marcus Tank Shawn E. McGlynn Vera Thiel Shin Haruta
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology · The Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.ME18041, (Released:2018-11-23)
被引用文献数
21

The phylum Aquificae comprises chemolithoautotrophic thermophilic to hyperthermophilic bacteria, in which the nitrogenase reductase gene (nifH) has been reported. However, nitrogen-fixing activity has not yet been demonstrated in members of this deeply branching bacterial phylum. We isolated two thermophilic diazotrophic strains from chemosynthetic microbial communities in slightly alkaline hot springs (≥70°C) in Nakabusa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. A phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA genes identified these strains as members of the genus Hydrogenobacter within Aquificae. Their NifH sequences showed 96.5 and 97.4% amino acid sequence identities to that from Hydrogenobacter thermophilus TK-6. Nitrogenase activity, measured by acetylene reduction, was confirmed in both strains at 70°C. These novel strains grew under semi-aerobic conditions by using CO2 as the sole carbon source and N2 as the sole nitrogen source in media containing hydrogen and/or thiosulfate. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of active nitrogen fixation in thermophilic bacteria at 70°C and in the phylum Aquificae.
著者
Katharina Lührig Björn Canbäck Catherine J. Paul Tomas Johansson Kenneth M. Persson Peter Rådström
出版者
日本微生物生態学会 / 日本土壌微生物学会 / Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology / 植物微生物研究会
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.30, no.1, pp.99-107, 2015 (Released:2015-03-24)
参考文献数
44
被引用文献数
8 43

Next-generation sequencing of the V1–V2 and V3 variable regions of the 16S rRNA gene generated a total of 674,116 reads that described six distinct bacterial biofilm communities from both water meters and pipes. A high degree of reproducibility was demonstrated for the experimental and analytical work-flow by analyzing the communities present in parallel water meters, the rare occurrence of biological replicates within a working drinking water distribution system. The communities observed in water meters from households that did not complain about their drinking water were defined by sequences representing Proteobacteria (82–87%), with 22–40% of all sequences being classified as Sphingomonadaceae. However, a water meter biofilm community from a household with consumer reports of red water and flowing water containing elevated levels of iron and manganese had fewer sequences representing Proteobacteria (44%); only 0.6% of all sequences were classified as Sphingomonadaceae; and, in contrast to the other water meter communities, markedly more sequences represented Nitrospira and Pedomicrobium. The biofilm communities in pipes were distinct from those in water meters, and contained sequences that were identified as Mycobacterium, Nocardia, Desulfovibrio, and Sulfuricurvum. The approach employed in the present study resolved the bacterial diversity present in these biofilm communities as well as the differences that occurred in biofilms within a single distribution system, and suggests that next-generation sequencing of 16S rRNA amplicons can show changes in bacterial biofilm communities associated with different water qualities.
著者
Yusuke Takashima Kensuke Seto Yousuke Degawa Yong Guo Tomoyasu Nishizawa Hiroyuki Ohta Kazuhiko Narisawa
出版者
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology · The Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology
雑誌
Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.ME18081, (Released:2018-12-08)
被引用文献数
30

Endofungal bacteria are widespread within the phylum Mucoromycota, and these include Burkholderiaceae-related endobacteria (BRE). However, the prevalence of BRE in Mortierellomycotinan fungi and their phylogenetic divergence remain unclear. Therefore, we examined the prevalence of BRE in diverse species of Mortierella. We surveyed 238 isolates of Mortierella spp. mainly obtained in Japan that were phylogenetically classified into 59 species. BRE were found in 53 isolates consisting of 22 species of Mortierella. Among them, 20 species of Mortierella were newly reported as the fungal hosts of BRE. BRE in a Glomeribacter-Mycoavidus clade in the family Burkholderiaceae were separated phylogenetically into three groups. These groups consisted of a group containing Mycoavidus cysteinexigens, which is known to be associated with M. elongata, and two other newly distinguishable groups. Our results demonstrated that BRE were harbored by many species of Mortierella and those that associated with isolates of Mortierella spp. were more phylogenetically divergent than previously reported.