scholarly journals The cyanobacterium Mastigocladus fulfills the nitrogen demand of a terrestrial hot spring microbial mat

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2290-2303 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Estrella Alcamán ◽  
Camila Fernandez ◽  
Antonio Delgado ◽  
Birgitta Bergman ◽  
Beatriz Díez
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spring ◽  
Microbial Mat ◽  
Terrestrial Hot Spring ◽  
Nitrogen Demand

Diverse Thermlus Species Inhabit a Single Hot Spring Microbial Mat

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Nold ◽  
David M. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spring ◽  
Microbial Mat

Manganese oxide deposition in a hot spring microbial mat

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. G. Ferris ◽  
W. S. Fyfe ◽  
T. J. Beveridge
Keyword(s):  
Manganese Oxide ◽  
Hot Spring ◽  
Microbial Mat ◽  
Oxide Deposition

In situ silicification of an Icelandic hot spring microbial mat: implications for microfossil formation

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 2021-2026 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Schultze-Lam ◽  
F. G. Ferris ◽  
K. O. Konhauser ◽  
R. G. Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Hot Spring ◽  
Microbial Mat ◽  
Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Exceptional Preservation ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Nucleation Sites

Transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive x-ray analysis revealed that filamentous phototrophic bacteria resembling Chloroflexus aurantiacus underwent rapid silicification in an Icelandic hot spring microbial mat. The mineralization associated with the cells occurred both extracellularly, within and on the external sheaths of the bacteria, and intracellularly, within the cytoplasm. The exceptional preservation of the bacterial sheaths is due to the presence of distinct mineral nucleation sites. This results in the production of silica casts of the bacteria, which bear a striking resemblance to microbial remains in ancient microfossil assemblages.

scholarly journals Desulfosoma caldarium gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium from a terrestrial hot spring

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 732-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Baena ◽  
Natalia Perdomo ◽  
Catalina Carvajal ◽  
Carolina Díaz ◽  
Bharat K. C. Patel
Keyword(s):  
Gene Sequence ◽  
Hot Spring ◽  
Sequence Similarity ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Terminal Electron Acceptor ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
Colombian Andes ◽  
Gene Sequence Analysis ◽  
Lactate Degradation ◽  
Terrestrial Hot Spring

A thermophilic, sulfate-reducing bacterium, designated strain USBA-053T, was isolated from a terrestrial hot spring located at a height of 2500 m in the Colombian Andes (5° 45′ 33.29″ N 73° 6′ 49.89″ W), Colombia. Cells of strain USBA-053T were oval- to rod-shaped, Gram-negative and motile by means of a single polar flagellum. The strain grew autotrophically with H2 as the electron donor and heterotrophically on formate, propionate, butyrate, valerate, isovalerate, lactate, pyruvate, ethanol, glycerol, serine and hexadecanoic acid in the presence of sulfate as the terminal electron acceptor. The main end products from lactate degradation, in the presence of sulfate, were acetate, CO2 and H2S. Strain USBA-053T fermented pyruvate in the absence of sulfate and grew optimally at 57 °C (growth temperature ranged from 50 °C to 62 °C) and pH 6.8 (growth pH ranged from 5.7 to 7.7). The novel strain was slightly halophilic and grew in NaCl concentrations ranging from 5 to 30 g l−1, with an optimum at 25 g l−1 NaCl. Sulfate, thiosulfate and sulfite were used as electron acceptors, but not elemental sulfur, nitrate or nitrite. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 56±1 mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain USBA-053T was a member of the class Deltaproteobacteria, with Desulfacinum hydrothermale MT-96T as the closest relative (93 % gene sequence similarity). On the basis of physiological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis, it is suggested that strain USBA-053T represents a new genus and novel species for which the name Desulfosoma caldarium gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of the type species is USBA-053T ( = KCTC 5670T = DSM 22027T).

scholarly journals The Genome Sequence of the Crenarchaeon Acidilobus saccharovorans Supports a New Order, Acidilobales, and Suggests an Important Ecological Role in Terrestrial Acidic Hot Springs

2010 ◽  
Vol 76 (16) ◽  
pp. 5652-5657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Mardanov ◽  
Vitali A. Svetlitchnyi ◽  
Alexey V. Beletsky ◽  
Maria I. Prokofeva ◽  
Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genome Sequence ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
Hot Spring ◽  
Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle ◽  
Proton Translocation ◽  
New Order ◽  
Organic Substrates ◽  
Transfer Chain ◽  
Terrestrial Hot Spring

ABSTRACT Acidilobus saccharovorans is an anaerobic, organotrophic, thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon isolated from a terrestrial hot spring. We report the complete genome sequence of A. saccharovorans, which has permitted the prediction of genes for Embden-Meyerhof and Entner-Doudoroff pathways and genes associated with the oxidative tricarboxylic acid cycle. The electron transfer chain is branched with two sites of proton translocation and is linked to the reduction of elemental sulfur and thiosulfate. The genomic data suggest an important role of the order Acidilobales in thermoacidophilic ecosystems whereby its members can perform a complete oxidation of organic substrates, closing the anaerobic carbon cycle.

Brockia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium from a terrestrial hot spring

2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (Pt_2) ◽  
pp. 479-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna A. Perevalova ◽  
Ilya V. Kublanov ◽  
R. V. Baslerov ◽  
Gengxin Zhang ◽  
Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spring ◽  
Sequence Similarity ◽  
Optimal Growth ◽  
Thermophilic Bacterium ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Type ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Terrestrial Hot Spring

A novel thermophilic bacterium, strain Kam1851T, was isolated from a terrestrial hot spring of the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Cells of strain Kam1851T were spore-forming rods with a Gram-positive type of cell wall. Growth was observed between 46 and 78 °C, and pH 5.5–8.5. The optimal growth (doubling time, 6.0 h) was at 60–65 °C and pH 6.5. The isolate was an obligate anaerobe growing in pre-reduced medium only. It grew on mineral medium with molecular hydrogen or formate as electron donors, and elemental sulfur, thiosulfate or polysulfide as electron acceptors. The main cellular fatty acids were C16 : 0 (34.2 %), iso-C16 : 0 (18 %), C18 : 0 (12.8 %) and iso-C17 : 0 (11.1 %). The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain Kam1851T was 63 mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain Kam1851T belonged to the order Thermoanaerobacterales , but it was not closely related to representatives of any genera with validly published names. The most closely related strains, which had no more than 89.2 % sequence similarity, were members of the genera Ammonifex and Caldanaerobacter . On the basis of its phylogenetic position and novel phenotypic features, isolate Kam1851T is proposed to represent a novel species in a new genus, Brockia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov.; the type strain of Brockia lithotrophica is Kam1851T ( = DSM 22653T = VKM B-2685T).

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