scholarly journals Diversity of cultivated aerobic poly-hydrolytic bacteria in saline alkaline soils

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitry Y. Sorokin ◽  
Tatiana V. Kolganova ◽  
Tatiana V. Khijniak ◽  
Brian E. Jones ◽  
Ilya V. Kublanov

Alkaline saline soils, known also as “soda solonchaks”, represent a natural soda habitat which differs from soda lake sediments by higher aeration and lower humidity. The microbiology of soda soils, in contrast to the more intensively studied soda lakes, remains poorly explored. In this work we investigate the diversity of culturable aerobic haloalkalitolerant bacteria with various hydrolytic activities from soda soils at different locations in Central Asia, Africa, and North America. In total, 179 pure cultures were obtained by using media with various polymers at pH 10 and 0.6 M total Na+. According to the 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, most of the isolates belonged toFirmicutesandActinobacteria. Most isolates possessed multiple hydrolytic activities, including endoglucanase, xylanase, amylase and protease. The pH profiling of selected representatives of actinobacteria and endospore-forming bacteria showed, that the former were facultative alkaliphiles, while the latter were mostly obligate alkaliphiles. The hydrolases of selected representatives from both groups were active at a broad pH range from six to 11. Overall, this work demonstrates the presence of a rich hydrolytic bacterial community in soda soils which might be explored further for production of haloalkalistable hydrolases.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Y. Sorokin ◽  
Tatiana V. Kolganova ◽  
Tatiana V. Khijniak ◽  
Brian E. Jones ◽  
Ilya V. Kublanov

Alkaline saline soils known also as “soda solonchaks” represent a natural soda habitat which differed from soda lake sediments by higher aeration and lower humidity. The microbiology of soda soils, in contrast to the more intensively studied soda lakes, remains poorly explored. In this work we present information on the diversity of culturable aerobic haloalkalitolerant bacteria with various hydrolytic activities from soda soils at different locations in Central Asia and Africa. In total, 180 isolates were obtained by using media with various polymers at pH 10 and 0.6 M total Na+. According to the 16S rRNA gene sequences analysis, most of the isolates belonged to Firmicutes and Actinobacteria. Most isolates possessed multiple hydrolytic activities, including endoglucanase, xylanase, amylase and protease. The pH profiling of selected representatives of actinobacteria and endospore-forming bacteria showed, that the former were facultative alkaliphiles, while the latter were mostly obligate alkaliphiles. The hydrolases of both groups were active at a broad pH range from 6 to 11. Overall, this work demonstrated the presence of a rich hydrolytic bacterial community in soda soils which might be explored further for production of haloalkalistable hydrolases.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Y. Sorokin ◽  
Tatiana V. Kolganova ◽  
Tatiana V. Khijniak ◽  
Brian E. Jones ◽  
Ilya V. Kublanov

Alkaline saline soils known also as “soda solonchaks” represent a natural soda habitat which differed from soda lake sediments by higher aeration and lower humidity. The microbiology of soda soils, in contrast to the more intensively studied soda lakes, remains poorly explored. In this work we present information on the diversity of culturable aerobic haloalkalitolerant bacteria with various hydrolytic activities from soda soils at different locations in Central Asia and Africa. In total, 180 isolates were obtained by using media with various polymers at pH 10 and 0.6 M total Na+. According to the 16S rRNA gene sequences analysis, most of the isolates belonged to Firmicutes and Actinobacteria. Most isolates possessed multiple hydrolytic activities, including endoglucanase, xylanase, amylase and protease. The pH profiling of selected representatives of actinobacteria and endospore-forming bacteria showed, that the former were facultative alkaliphiles, while the latter were mostly obligate alkaliphiles. The hydrolases of both groups were active at a broad pH range from 6 to 11. Overall, this work demonstrated the presence of a rich hydrolytic bacterial community in soda soils which might be explored further for production of haloalkalistable hydrolases.


2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (Pt_8) ◽  
pp. 2432-2440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana N. Zhilina ◽  
Daria G. Zavarzina ◽  
Ekaterina N. Detkova ◽  
Ekaterina O. Patutina ◽  
Boris B. Kuznetsov

Two strains of haloalkaliphilic homoacetogenic bacteria capable of iron reduction, Z-7101T and Z-7102, were isolated from soda lake Tanatar III (Altai, Russia). Cells of both strains were flexible, motile, Gram-negative, spore-forming rods. The strains were mesophilic and obligately alkaliphilic: the pH range for growth was 8.5–10.2 (pHopt 9.8). Growth depended on carbonate and chloride ions. The strains were able to grow chemolithoautotrophically on H2+CO2, producing acetate as the only metabolic product. In medium with carbonates as the only potential electron acceptor, the following substrates were utilized for chemo-organotrophic growth: pyruvate, lactate, ethanol, 1-propanol, ethylene glycol and 1-butanol. Strain Z-7101T was able to reduce nitrate, selenate, thiosulfate and anthraquinone 2,6-disulfonate with ethanol as an electron donor. It was also able to reduce synthesized ferrihydrite to siderite with molecular hydrogen or organic compounds, including acetate and formate, as electron donors. It was able to reduce S0 with acetate or formate as electron donors. The DNA G+C content of strain Z-7101T was 34.6 mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strains Z-7101T and Z-7102 were members of the order Halanaerobiales and family Halobacteroidaceae, clustering with Fuchsiella alkaliacetigena Z-7100T (98.9–98.4 % similarity). DNA–DNA hybridization was 63.0 % between strain Z-7101T and F. alkaliacetigena Z-7100T. Based on morphological and physiological differences from F. alkaliacetigena Z-7100T and the results of phylogenetic analysis and DNA–DNA hybridization, it is proposed to assign strains Z-7101T and Z-7102 ( = DSM 26052 = VKM B-2790) to the novel species Fuchsiella ferrireducens sp. nov. The type strain is strain Z-7101T ( = DSM 26031T = VKM B-2766T).


2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-382
Author(s):  
Pınar Çağlayan

As an extreme environment, soda lakes harbor various haloalkaliphilic microorganisms. Salda Lake is one of the natural soda lake (pH˃9) in Turkey. Haloalkaliphiles are unique microorganisms in their ability to live in high alkaline and high saline conditions, and play an important role in biodegradation and bioremediation of hydrocarbons. Hence, the aims of this study were to isolate haloalkaliphilic bacteria from water sample of Salda Lake, to identify these isolates by both conventional and molecular methods, to screen their industrially important enzymes, and to investigate their antimicrobial resistance profiles. Six isolates were identified as Bacillus horneckiae, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus paramycoides, Bacillus pumilus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Bacillus haynesii according to 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis. The industrially important enzymes (amylase, cellulase, pullulanase, lipase, urease, protease, caseinase, oxidase, catalase) were produced by haloalkaliphilic isolates. These enzymes maybe used in alkaline and saline industrial processes. Although Bacillus subtilis was susceptible to all antibiotics, other isolates showed resistance to at least one antibiotic. The resistance against antibiotics were found as ampicillin/sulbactam 83%, amoxycillin/clavulanic acid 83%, ampicillin 67%, mupirocin 67%, chloramphenicol 50%, tetracycline 50%, imipenem 50%, meropenem 50%, cefadroxil 17%. These bacteria may have develope resistance to antibiotics that entering their natural environment in different ways.


2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (Pt_12) ◽  
pp. 4456-4461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria G. Zavarzina ◽  
Tatyana N. Zhilina ◽  
Boris B. Kuznetsov ◽  
Tatyana V. Kolganova ◽  
Georgy A. Osipov ◽  
...  

An obligately alkaliphilic, anaerobic, thermo- and halotolerant, spore-forming bacterium was isolated from sediments of soda lake Magadi (Kenya) and designated strain Z-1001T. Cells of strain Z-1001T were straight, Gram-positive rods, slowly motile. Strain Z-1001T was found to be an obligate anaerobe. It grew within a pH range from 7.5 to 10.7 with an optimum at 9.25–9.5 (at 40 °C), a temperature range from 20 to 57 °C with an optimum at 45–50 °C, and a NaCl concentration range from 0 to 1.55 M with an optimum at 1.2–1.4 M. Peptides, such as meat and yeast extracts, peptone and tryptone, were fermented by Z-1001T. Carbohydrates did not support growth. With yeast extract as an electron donor, strain Z-1001T reduced S 2 O 3 2 − , NO 3 − , AsO 4 3 − , Fe(III) citrate and anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate (AQDS) as electron acceptors. The isolate was able to grow oligotrophically with a very small amount of yeast extract: 0.03 g l−1. The main fatty acids were C16 : 0, C16 : 1ω7c , C18 : 0 and C18 : 1ω9. The DNA G+C content of the isolate was 35.6 mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain Z-1001T is a member of family Natranaerobiaceae , clustering with the type strain of Natranaerobius thermophilus (95.8–96.0 % sequence similarity). On the basis of physiological and phylogenetic data it is proposed that strain Z-1001T ( = DSM 24923T = VKM B-2666T) represents a novel genus and species, Natranaerobaculum magadiense gen. nov., sp. nov.


2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1612-1618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena V. Pikuta ◽  
Damien Marsic ◽  
Takashi Itoh ◽  
Asim K. Bej ◽  
Jane Tang ◽  
...  

A hyperthermophilic, sulfur-reducing, organo-heterotrophic archaeon, strain OGL-20PT, was isolated from ‘black smoker’ chimney material from the Rainbow hydrothermal vent site on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (36.2°N, 33.9°W). The cells of strain OGL-20PT have an irregular coccoid shape and are motile with a single flagellum. Growth was observed within a pH range of 5.0−8.5 (optimum pH 7.0), an NaCl concentration range of 1–5 % (w/v) (optimum 3 %) and a temperature range of 55–94 °C (optimum 83–85 °C). The novel isolate is strictly anaerobic and obligately dependent upon elemental sulfur as an electron acceptor, but it does not reduce sulfate, sulfite, thiosulfate, Fe(III) or nitrate. Proteolysis products (peptone, bacto-tryptone, Casamino acids and yeast extract) are utilized as substrates during sulfur reduction. Strain OGL-20PT is resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin and gentamicin, but sensitive to tetracycline and rifampicin. The G+C content of the DNA is 52.9 mol%. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain OGL-20PT is closely related to Thermococcus coalescens and related species, but no significant homology by DNA–DNA hybridization was observed between those species and the new isolate. On the basis of physiological and molecular properties of the new isolate, we conclude that strain OGL-20PT represents a new separate species within the genus Thermococcus, for which we propose the name Thermococcus thioreducens sp. nov. The type strain is OGL-20PT (=JCM 12859T=DSM 14981T=ATCC BAA-394T).


2004 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1921-1926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Quillaguamán ◽  
Osvaldo Delgado ◽  
Bo Mattiasson ◽  
Rajni Hatti-Kaul

A moderately halophilic, aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium (strain LV4T) was isolated from saline soil around the lake Laguna Verde in the Bolivian Andes. The organism is a heterotroph, able to utilize various carbohydrates as a carbon source. It showed tryptophan deaminase, oxidase and catalase activity, but was unable to produce indole or H2S; nitrate was not reduced. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 56·1 mol%. The pH range for growth was 5–10, temperature range was 0–45 °C and the range of NaCl concentrations was 0–25 % (w/v). On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain LV4T was found to be closely related to Chromohalobacter canadensis DSM 6769T and Pseudomonas beijerinckii DSM 7218T; however, its DNA–DNA relatedness with these type strains was low. Strain LV4T resembled other Chromohalobacter species with respect to various physiological, biochemical and nutritional characteristics but also exhibited differences. Thus, a novel species, Chromohalobacter sarecensis sp. nov., is proposed, with LV4T (=CCUG 47987T=ATCC BAA-761T) as the type strain.


2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 2819-2823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya ◽  
Sarah Bowerman ◽  
Jimmie C. Lara ◽  
Mary E. Lidstrom ◽  
Ludmila Chistoserdova

A novel obligate methylamine utilizer (strain JLW8T), isolated from Lake Washington sediment, was characterized taxonomically. The isolate was an aerobic, Gram-negative bacterium. Cells were rod-shaped and motile by means of a single flagellum. Reproduction was by binary fission and no resting bodies were formed. Growth was observed within a pH range of 5–8.5, with optimum growth at pH 7.5. It utilized methylamine as a single source of energy, carbon and nitrogen. Methylamine was oxidized via methylamine dehydrogenase and formaldehyde was assimilated via the ribulose monophosphate cycle. The cellular fatty acid profile was dominated by C16 : 0 ω7c and C16 : 0 and the major phospholipid was phosphatidylethanolamine. The DNA G+C content was 54 mol%. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that the new isolate was closely related (97–98 % similarity) to a broad group of sequences from uncultured or uncharacterized Betaproteobacteria, but only distantly related (93–96 % similarity) to known methylotrophs of the family Methylophilaceae. Strain JLW8T (=ATCC BAA-1282T=DSM 17540T) is proposed as the type strain of a novel species in a new genus within the family Methylophilaceae, Methylotenera mobilis gen. nov., sp. nov.


2005 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 473-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena V. Pikuta ◽  
Damien Marsic ◽  
Asim Bej ◽  
Jane Tang ◽  
Paul Krader ◽  
...  

A novel, psychrotolerant, facultative anaerobe, strain FTR1T, was isolated from Pleistocene ice from the permafrost tunnel in Fox, Alaska. Gram-positive, motile, rod-shaped cells were observed with sizes 0·6–0·7×0·9–1·5 μm. Growth occurred within the pH range 6·5–9·5 with optimum growth at pH 7·3–7·5. The temperature range for growth of the novel isolate was 0–28 °C and optimum growth occurred at 24 °C. The novel isolate does not require NaCl; growth was observed between 0 and 5 % NaCl with optimum growth at 0·5 % (w/v). The novel isolate was a catalase-negative chemoorganoheterotroph that used as substrates sugars and some products of proteolysis. The metabolic end products were acetate, ethanol and CO2. Strain FTR1T was sensitive to ampicillin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, rifampicin, kanamycin and gentamicin. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed 99·8 % similarity between strain FTR1T and Carnobacterium alterfunditum, but DNA–DNA hybridization between them demonstrated 39±1·5 % relatedness. On the basis of genotypic and phenotypic characteristics, it is proposed that strain FTR1T (=ATCC BAA-754T=JCM 12174T=CIP 108033T) be assigned to the novel species Carnobacterium pleistocenium sp. nov.


2004 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 2241-2244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne M. Santini ◽  
Illo C. A. Streimann ◽  
Rachel N. vanden Hoven

A strictly anaerobic arsenate-respiring bacterium isolated from a gold mine in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, belonging to the genus Bacillus is described. Cells are Gram-positive, motile rods capable of respiring with arsenate and nitrate as terminal electron acceptors using a variety of substrates, including acetate as the electron donor. Reduction of arsenate to arsenite is catalysed by a membrane-bound arsenate reductase that displays activity over a broad pH range. Synthesis of the enzyme is regulated; maximal activity is obtained when the organism is grown with arsenate as the terminal electron acceptor and no activity is detectable when it is grown with nitrate. Mass of the catalytic subunit was determined to be approximately 87 kDa based on ingel activity stains. The closest phylogenetic relative, based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, is Bacillus arseniciselenatis, but DNA–DNA hybridization experiments clearly show that strain JMM-4T represents a novel Bacillus species, for which the name Bacillus macyae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JMM-4T (=DSM 16346T=JCM 12340T).


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