Isolation of UVC-Tolerant Bacteria from the Hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 325-335

  Paulino Lima, Ivan Gláucio ^a,e   Azua Bustos, Armando ^b,d   Vicuña, Rafael ^b,d   González Silva, Carlos ^c   Salas, Loreto ^b   Teixeira, Lia ^a   Rosado, Alexandre ^a   da Costa Leitao, Alvaro Augusto ^a   Lage, Claudia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ARTURO PRAT   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873487734     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0121-z     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Azúa-Bustos A, González-Silva C, Mancilla RA, Salas L, Gómez-Silva B, McKay CP, Vicuña R (2011) Hypolithic cyanobacteria supported mainly by fog in the coastal range of the Atacama Desert. Microb Ecol 61: 568-581.
2. Catling DC, Claire MW, Zahnle KJ, Quinn RC, Clark BC, Hecht MH, Kounaves S (2010) Atmospheric origins of perchlorate on Mars and in the Atacama. J Geophys Res 115: E00E11.
3. Cockell CS (2001) The Martian and extraterrestrial UV radiation environment. Part II: further considerations on materials and design criteria for artificial ecosystems. Acta Astronaut 49: 631-640.
4. Cockell CS, McKay CP, Warren-Rhodes K, Horneck G (2008) Ultraviolet radiation-induced limitation to epilithic microbial growth in arid deserts-dosimetric experiments in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. J Photochem Photobiol B Biol 90: 79-87.
5. Connon SA, Lester ED, Shafaat HS, Obenhuber DC, Ponce A (2007) Bacterial diversity in hyperarid Atacama Desert soils. J Geophys Res Biogeosci 112: G04S17. doi: 10. 1029/2006JG000311.
6. Dávila AF, Gómez-Silva B, de los Rios A, Ascaso C, Olivares H, McKay CP, Wierzchos J (2008) Facilitation of endolithic microbial survival in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert by mineral deliquescence. J Geophys Res 113: G01028.
7. Demergasso C, Chong G, Galleguillos P, Escudero L, Martínez-Alonso M, Esteve I (2003) Tapetes microbianos del Salar De Llamará, norte de Chile. Rev Chil Hist Nat 76: 485-499, Spanish.
8. DeWitt SK, Adelbeg EA (1962) The occurrence of a genetic transposition in a strain of Escherichia coli. Genetics 47: 577-585.
9. Dose K, Bieger-Dose A, Ernst B, Feister U, Gómez-Silva B, Klein A, Risi S, Stridde C (2001) Survival of microorganisms under the extreme conditions of the Atacama Desert. Orig Life Evol Biosph 31: 287-303.
10. Drees KP, Neilson JW, Betancourt JL, Quade J, Henderson DA, Pryor BM, Maier RM (2006) Bacterial community structure in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Appl Environ Microbiol 72: 7902-7908.
11. Gorbushina AA (2007) Life on the rocks. Environ Microbiol 9: 1613-1631.
12. Hartley A, Chong G, Houston J, Mather A (2005) 150 million years of climatic stability: evidence from the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. J Geol Soc Lond 162: 421-424.
13. Houston J, Hartley AJ (2003) The central Andean west-slope rainshadow and its potential contribution to the origin of hyper-aridity in the Atacama Desert. Int J Climatol 23: 1453-1464. doi: 10. 1002/joc. 938.
14. Jacobs JL, Carroll TL, Sundin GW (2005) The role of pigmentation, ultraviolet radiation tolerance, and leaf colonization strategies in the epiphytic survival of phyllosphere bacteria. Microb Ecol 49: 104-113.
15. Kuhlman KR, Allenbach LB, Ball CL, Fusco WG, La Duc MT, Kuhlman GM, Anderson RC, Stuecker T, Erickson IK, Benardini J, Crawford RL (2005) Enumeration, isolation, and characterization of ultraviolet (UV-C) resistant bacteria from rock varnish in the Whipple Mountains, California. Icarus 174: 585-595.
16. McKay CP, Friedmann EI, Gómez-Silva B, Cáceres L, Andersen DT, Landheim R (2003) Temperature and moisture conditions for life in the extreme arid region of the Atacama Desert: four years of observations including the El Niño of 1997-1998. Astrobiology 3: 393-406.
17. Meunier D, Sternberg R, Mettetal F, Buch A, Coscia D, Szopa C, Rodier C, Coll P, Cabanec M, Raulin F (2007) A laboratory pilot for in situ analysis of refractory organic matter in Martian soil by gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Adv Space Res 39: 337-344.
18. Myasnik M, Manasherob R, Ben-Dov E, Zaritsky A, Margalith Y, Barak Z (2001) Comparative sensitivity to UV-B radiation of two Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies and other Bacillus sp. Curr Microbiol 43: 140-143.
19. Navarro-González R, Rainey FA, Molina P, Bagaley DR, Hollen BJ, de la Rosa J, Small AM, Quinn RC, Grunthaner FJ, Cáceres L, Gomez-Silva B, McKay CP (2003) Mars-like soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the dry limit of microbial life. Science 302: 1018-1021.
20. Nicholson WL, Munakata N, Horneck G, Melosh HJ, Setlow P (2000) Resistance of Bacillus endospores to extreme terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 64: 548-572.
21. Nicholson WL, Schuerger AC, Setlow P (2005) The solar UV environment and bacterial spore UV resistance: considerations for Earth-to-Mars transport by natural processes and human spaceflight. Mutat Res 571: 249-264.
22. Phoenix VR, Bennett PC, Engel AS, Tyler SW, Ferris FG (2006) Chilean high-altitude hot-spring sinters: a model system for UV screening mechanisms by early Precambrian Cyanobacteria. Geobiology 4: 15-28.
23. Schuerger AC, Mancinelli RL, Kern RG, Rothschild LJ, McKay CP (2003) Survival of endospores of Bacillus subtilis on spacecraft surfaces under simulated Martian environments: implications for the forward contamination of Mars. Icarus 165: 253-276.
24. Skelley AM, Scherer JR, Aubrey AD, Grover WH, Ivester RH, Ehrenfreund P, Grunthaner FJ, Bada JL, Mathies RA (2005) Development and evaluation of a microdevice for amino acid biomarker detection and analysis on Mars. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102(4): 1041-1046.
25. Thompson RD (1975) The climatology of the arid world. University of Reading, Department of Geography, Geographical Papers, No. 35, p 39.
26. Warren-Rhodes KA, Rhodes KL, Pointing SB, Ewing SA, Lacap DC, Gómez-Silva B, Amundson R, Friedmann EI, McKay CP (2006) Hypolithic cyanobacteria, dry limit of photosynthesis, and microbial ecology in the hyperarid Atacama Desert. Microb Ecol 52: 389-398.