Spatial and temporal variations in chitinolytic gene expression and bacterial biomass production during chitin degradation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3574-3585

  Baty III, A M ^a   Eastburn, C C ^a   Techkarnjanaruk, S ^a   Goodman, A E ^a   Geesey, G G ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOMASS; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; LAMINAR FLOW; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ALTEROMONAS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; CHITIN; CHITINASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; SEAWATER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033870598     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.8.3574-3585.2000     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. In situ settling behavior of marine snow
2. Production of heterotrophic bacteria inhabiting macroscopic organic aggregates (marine snow) from surface waters
3. Microbial control of oceanic carbon flux: The plot thickens
4. Size distribution and activity of marine microheterotrophs
5. The cooperative binding behavior of sodium dodecyl sulfate to crosslinked chitosan films
6. Differentiation of chitinase-active and nonchitinase-active subpopulations of a marine bacterium during chitin degradation
7. Determination of bacterioplankton biomass, net production and growth efficiency in the Southern Ocean
8. Do bacterial communities transcend darwinism?
9. Major role of bacteria in biogeochemical fluxes in the ocean's interior
10. Regulation of the alginate biosynthesis gene algC in Pseudomonas aeruginosa during biofilm development in continuous culture
11. Production and fate of bacteria in the oceans
12. Production and vertical flux of attached bacteria in the Hudson River Plume of the New York Bight as studied with floating sediment traps
13. Highly active microbial communities in the ice and snow cover of high mountain lakes
14. Influence of method on the apparent size distribution of bacterioplankton cells: Epifluorescence microscopy compared to scanning electron microscopy
15. Bacterioplankton secondary production estimates for coastal waters of British Columbia, Antarctica, and California
16. Thymidine incorporation as a measure of heterotrophic bacterioplankton production in marine surface waters: Evaluation and field results
17. Direct determination of carbon and nitrogen contents of natural bacterial assemblages in marine environments
18. The ecology of chitin degradation
19. Physiology of microbial degradation of chitin and chitosan
20. Activity and distribution of attached bacteria in Chesapeake Bay
21. Utilization of surface localized substrate by non-adhesive marine bacteria
22. Responses of marine bacteria under starvation conditions at a solid-water interface
23. Role of bacteria in copepod fecal pellet decomposition: Colonization, growth rates and remineralization
24. Downward flux of particulate organic matter in the ocean: A particle decomposition paradox
25. Extracellular enzymatic activity and secondary production in free-living and marine snow associated bacteria
26. Improved broad host range plasmids for DNA cloning in gram-negative bacteria
27. Estimates of bacterial growth from changes in uptake rates and biomass
28. Particle counter determination of bacterial biomass in seawater
29. Relationships between biovolume and carbon and nitrogen content of bacterioplankton
30. Relationships between biovolume and biomass of naturally derived marine bacterioplankton
31. Fluid properties
32. Use of a modified Robbins device to directly compare the adhesion of Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62A to surfaces
33. Adhesion and growth of bacteria at surfaces in oligotrophic habitats
34. Selective sorption of bacteria from seawater
35. Role of chitin-binding proteins in the specific attachment of the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi to chitin
36. The relationship between biomass and volume of bacteria
37. Initiation of biofilm formation in Pseudomonas fluorescens WCS365 proceeds via multiple, convergent signaling pathways: A genetic analysis
38. The chelating properties of chitosan fibers
39. Structure and function of chitin binding proteins
40. Review of chitin and chitosan as fiber and film formers
41. Advances in estimating bacterial biomass and growth in aquatic systems
42. Thinking about bacterial populations as multicellular organisms
43. Interactions between the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans and poly(vinyl chloride)
44. Genetic control of bacterial adhesion
45. Bacterial carbon dynamics on marine snow
46. Intense hydrolytic erzyme activity on marine aggregates and implications for rapid particle dissolution
47. Use of green fluorescent protein to tag and investigate gene expression in marine bacteria
48. Multiple genes involved in chitin degradation from the marine bacteria Pseudoalteromonas sp. strain S91
49. Use of a promoterless lacZ gene insertion to investigate chitinase gene expression in the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. strain S9
50. Microcultural study of the bacterial size changes and microcolony and ultramicrocolony formation by heterotrophic bacteria in seawater
51. Biogeochemical significance of attached and free living bacteria and the flux of particles in the NE Atlantic Ocean
52. Influence of interfaces on microbial activity
53. Growth rates of marine bacterial isolates on particulate organic substrates solubilized by freely released extracellular enzyme
54. Determination of bacteria number and biomass in the marine environment
55. Chitin utilization by marine bacteria. A physiological function for bacterial adhesion to immobilized carbohydrates
56. Induction of gene expression in Escherichia coil after pilus-mediated adherence