Distribution of denitrification and nitrogen fixation genes in Hyphomicrobium, spp. and other budding bacteria

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-186

  Fesefeldt, A ^a   Kloos, K ^b,d   Bothe, H ^b   Lemmer, H ^c   Gliesche, C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Bayrisches Landesamt F W   (Germany)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Biofilm; Denitrification; Fixation; Hyphomicrobium; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DNA PROBE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; GERMANY; HYPHOMICROBIUM; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMOA; HIRSCHIA BALTICA; HYPHOMICROBIUM; HYPHOMICROBIUM AESTUARII; HYPHOMICROBIUM DENITRIFICANS; HYPHOMICROBIUM FACILE; HYPHOMICROBIUM ZAVARZINII; HYPHOMONAS OCEANITIS; OCEANITIS; PEDOMICROBIUM FERRUGINEUM;

EID: 0031967850     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjm-44-2-181     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Aa, K., and Olsen, R.A. 1996. The use of various substrates and substrate concentrations by a Hyphomicrobium sp. isolated from soil: effect on growth rate and growth yield. Microb. Ecol. 31: 67-76.
2. Attwood, M.M., and Harder, W. 1972. A rapid and specific enrichment procedure for Hyphomicrobium spp. Antonie Leeuwenhoek, 38: 369-378.
3. Benedict, R.G., and Carlson, D.A. 1971. Aerobic heterotrophic bacteria in activated sludge. Water Res. 5: 1023-1030.
4. Bradford, M.M. 1976. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal. Biochem. 72: 248-254.
5. Chen, Y., Fan, C., Zheng, J., He, K., Chen, Y., and Zhao, S. 1992. A new subspecies of the genus Hyphomicrobium. Acta Microbiol. Sin. 32: 161-166.
6. Claus, G., and Kutzner, H.J. 1985. Denitrification of nitric acid with methanol as carbon source. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 22: 378-381.
7. Fesefeldt, A., Poetsch, M., and Gliesche, C.G. 1997. Development of a species-specific gene probe for Hyphomicrobium facilis using the inverse polymerase chain reaction. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63: 335-337.
8. Gliesche, C.G., Menzel, M., and Fesefeldt, A. 1997. A rapid method for creating species-specific gene probes for methylotrophic bacteria. J. Microbiol. Methods, 28: 25-34.
9. Hanson, R.S. 1992. Introduction. In Methane and methanol utilizers. Edited by J.C. Murrell and H. Dalton. Plenum Press, New York. pp. 1-21.
10. Hirsch, P. 1989. Genus Hyphomicrobium Stutzer and Hartleb 1898, 76AL*. In Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 3. Edited by J.T. Staley, M.P. Bryant, N. Pfennig, and J.G. Holt. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore. pp. 1895-1904.
11. Holm, N.C., Gliesche, C.G., and Hirsch, P. 1996. Diversity and structure of Hyphomicrobium populations in a sewage treatment plant and its adjacent receiving lake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62: 522-528.
12. Kloos, K., Fesefeldt, A., Gliesche, C.G., and Bothe, H. 1995. DNA-probing indicates the occurrence of denitrification and nitrogen fixation genes in Hyphomicrobium: distribution of denitrifying and nitrogen fixing isolates of Hyphomicrobium in a sewage treatment plant. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 18: 205-213.
13. Linne von Berg, K.-H., and Bothe, H. 1992. The distribution of denitrifying bacteria in soils monitored by DNA-probing. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 86: 331-340.
14. Martin, B., Humbert, O., Camara, M., Guenzi, E., Walker, J. Mitchell, T., Andrew, P., Prudhomme, M., Alloing, G., Hakenbeck, R., Morrison, D.A., Boulnois, G.J., and Claverys, J.-P. 1992. A highly conserved repeated DNA element located in the chromosome of Streptococus pneumoniae. Nucleic Acids Res. 20: 3479-3483.
15. Meyers, A.J., and Meyers, C.D. 1986. Hyphomicrobium-mediated sludge bulking in an industrial wastewater treatment system. In Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, 23-28 March, Washington, D.C. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. p. 257, Abstr. N-93.
16. Neef, A., Zaglauer, A., Meier, H., Amann, R., Lemmer, H., and Schleifer, K.-H. 1996. Population analysis in a denitrifying sand filter: conventional and in situ identification of Paracoccus spp. in methanol-fed biofilms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62: 4329-4339.
17. Nyberg, U., Aspegren, H., Andersson, B., Jansen, J.C., and Villadsen, I.S. 1992. Full-scale application of nitrogen removal with methanol as carbon source. Water Sci. Technol. 26: 1077-1086.
18. Poindexter, J.S. 1992. Dimorphic prosthecate bacteria: the genera Caulobacter, Asticcacaulis, Hyphomicrobium, Pedomicrobium, Hyphomonas, and Thiodendron. In The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria: ecophysiology, isolation, identification, applications. 2nd ed. Edited by H. Balows, G. Trüper, M. Dworkin, W. Harder, and K.-H. Schleifer. Springer, New York. pp. 2176-2196.
19. Sambrook, J.E., Fritsch, F., and Maniatis, T. 1989. Molecular cloning. Vols. 1-3. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
20. Schmider, F., and Ottow, J.C.G. 1986. Charakterisierung der denitrifizierenden Mikroflora in den verschiedenen Reinigungsstufen einer biologischen Kläranlage. Arch. Hydrobiol. 106: 497-512.
21. Sperl, G.T., and Hoare, D.S. 1971. Denitrification with methanol: a selective enrichment for Hyphomicrobium species. J. Bacteriol. 108: 733-736.
22. Stanley, P.M., Ordal, E.J., and Staley, J.T. 1979. High numbers of prosthecate bacteria in pulp mill waste aeration lagoons. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 37: 1007-1011.
23. Timmermans, P., and Van Haute, A. 1983. Denitrification with methanol - fundamental study of the growth and denitrification capacity of Hyphomicrobium sp. Water Res. 17: 1249-1255.
24. Urakami, T., Sasaki, J., Suzuki, K.-I., and Komagata, K. 1995. Characterization and description of Hyphomicrobium denitrificans sp.nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 45: 528-532.
25. Vedenina, J.Y., Chernykh, N.A., Lebedinskii, A.V., and Andreev, L.V. 1990. Correlations of characteristics in subgroups of the genus Hyphomicrobium. Mikrobiologiya, 59: 895-902. (English translation, pp. 617-622.)
26. Zhao, S., Fan, C., Hu, X., Chen, J., and Feng, H. 1993. The microbial production of polyhydroxybutyrate from methanol. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 39/40: 191-199.
27. Zimmer, W., Penteado Stephan, M., and Bothe, H. 1984. Denitrification by Azospirillum brasilense Sp7. Arch. Microbiol. 138: 206-211.