Nitrogenase activity and nifH expression in a marine intertidal microbial mat

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 315-324

  Steppe, T F ^a,b   Paerl, H W ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL MAT; NITROGEN FIXATION;

BEAUFORT; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

CYANOBACTERIA;

NITROGENASE; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NITROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

EID: 24344494008     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-004-0245-x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. 2 fixation in an intertidal marine cyanobacterial mat community Mar Chem 16 369 377
2. Bebout, BM (1992) Interactions of nitrogen and carbon cycling in microbial mats and stromatolites. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3. BM Bebout MW Fitzpatrick HW Paerl 1993 Identification of the sources of energy for nitrogen fixation and physiological characterization of nitrogen-fixing members of a marine microbial mat community Appl Environ Microbiol 59 1495 1503
4. BM Bebout HW Paerl JE Bauer DE Canfield DJ Des Marais 1994 Nitrogen cycling in microbial mat communities: the quantitative importance of N-fixation and other sources of N for primary production LJ Stal P Caumette Microbial Mats: Structure, Development, and Environmental Significance Springer-Verlag Berlin 265 278
5. BM Bebout HW Paerl KM Crocker LE Prufert 1987 Diel interactions of oxygenic photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) in a marine microbial mat community Appl Environ Microbiol 53 2353 2362
6. 2 fixation by non-heterocystous cyanobacteria FEMS Microbiol Rev 19 139 185
7. Y Cohen RW Castenholz HO Halverson 1984 Microbial Mats: Stromatolites Alan Liss New York
8. G Gerdes WE Krumbein 1994 Pertidal potential stromatolites: a synopsis J Bertrand-Sarfatti C Monty Phanerozoic Stromatolites II Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht 101 129
9. Felsenstein, J (1995) Phylip [Phylogeny Inference Package (3.57)]. University of Washington
10. K Jones 1982 Nitrogen fixation in the temperate estuarine intertidal sediments of the River Lune Limnol Oceanogr 27 455 460
11. K Jones 1992 Diurnal nitrogen fixation in tropical marine cyanobacteria: a comparison between adjacent communities of non-heterocystous Lyngbya sp. and heterocystous Calothrix sp. B Phycol J 27 107 118
12. P Macheroux S Hill S Austin T Eydmann T Jones 1998 Electron donation to the flavoprotein NifL, a redox-sensing transcriptional regulator Biochem J 332 413 419
13. 2 fixing microbial consortia associated with the ice cover of Lake Bonney, Antarctica Microb Ecol 36 231 238
14. JB Olson RW Litaker HW Paerl 1999 Ubiquity of heterotrophic diazotrophs in marine microbial mats Aquat Microb Ecol 19 29 36
15. HW Paerl M Fitzpatrick BM Bebout 1996 Seasonal nitrogen fixation dynamics in a marine microbial mat: potential roles of cyanobacteria and microheterotrophs Limnol Oceanogr 41 419 427
16. HW Paerl JL Pinckney TF Steppe 2000 Cyanobacterial-bacterial mat consortia: examining the functional unit of microbial survival and growth in extreme environments Environ Microbiol 2 11 25
17. HW Paerl LE Prufert WW Ambrose 1991 Contemporaneous nitrogen fixation and oxygenic photosynthesis in the non-heterocystous mat-forming cyanobacterium Lyngbya aestuarii Appl Environ Microbiol 57 3086 3092
18. JL Pinckney HW Paerl M Fitzpatrick 1995 Impacts of seasonality and nutrients on microbial mat community structure and function Mar Ecol Prog Ser 123 207 216
19. JR Postgate 1982 The Fundamentals of Nitrogen Fixation Cambridge University Press Cambridge, UK
20. JR Postgate HM Kent RL Robson 1988 Nitrogen fixation by Desulfovibrio JA Cole SJ Ferguson The Nitrogen and Sulphur Cycles Cambridge University Press Cambridge, UK 457 471
21. 2S, and pH profiles of a microbial mat Limnol Oceanogr 28 1062 1074
22. GW Skyring RM Lynch GD Smith 1988 Acetylene reduction and hydrogen metabolism by a cyanobacterial-sulfate-reducing bacterial mat ecosystem GeoMicrobiol 6 25 32
23. L Stal P Caumette 1994 Microbial Mats: Structure, Development, and Environmental Significance Springer-Verlag Berlin
24. LJ Stal S Grossberger WE Krumbein 1984 Nitrogen fixation associated with the cyanobacterial mat of a marine laminated microbial ecosystem Mar Biol 82 217 224
25. LJ Stal WE Krumbein 1985 Nitrogenase activity in the non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp grown under alternating light-dark cycles Arch Microbiol 143 67 71
26. LJ Stal WE Krumbein 1987 Temporal separation of nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis in the filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Oscillatoria sp. Arch Microbiol 149 76 80
27. LJ Stal H van Gemerden WE Krumbein 1985 Structure and development of a benthic marine microbial mat FEMS Microb Ecol 31 111 126
28. LJ Stal 1995 Physiological ecology of cyanobacteria in microbial mats and other communities Tansley Rev 84 New Phytol 131 1 32
29. 2 fixation: a strategy for meeting nitrogen requirements of marine and terrestrial cyanobacterial mats FEMS Microbiol Ecol 21 149 156
30. 2 fixation by sulfate-reducing bacteria in a marine intertidal microbial mat Aquat Microb Ecol 28 1 2
31. TF Steppe JL Pinckney J Dyble HW Paerl 2001 Diazotrophy in modern marine Bahamian Stromatolies Microb Ecol 41 36 44
32. H van Gemerden 1993 Microbial mats: a joint venture Mar Geol 113 3 25
33. M Villbrandt LJ Stal WE Krumbein 1990 Interactions between nitrogen fixation and oxygenic photosynthesis in a marine cyanobacterial mat FEMS Microbiol Ecol 74 59 72
34. JP Zehr LA [tmp] McReynolds 1989 Use of degenerate oligonucleotides for amplification of the nifH gene from Trichodesmium thiebautii Appl Environ Microbiol 55 2522 2526
35. JP Zehr J Mellon S Braun W Litaker T Steppe HW Paerl 1995 Diversity of heterotrophic nitrogen fixation genes in a marine cyanobacterial mat Appl Environ Microbiol 61 2527 2532