Cultivable Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria from Extremely Alkaline-Saline Soils

Ferredoxins from Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

Two ferredoxins have been purified from N2-fixing Mycobacterium flavum. Ferredoxin I had a minimum molecular weight (by amino acid analysis) of 11 230 and contained 7.4 mol Fe and 7.0 mol S2per mol. The ratio of the absorbance at 400 nm to that at 275 nm was 0.7. Ferredoxin I1 had a minimum molecular weight of 13478 and contained 3.4 mol Fe and 3.2 mol S2per mol. The ratio of the absorbance at ...

Antarctic Soils Bacteria Isolated from Fuel-Contaminated Free-Living Heterotrophic Nitrogen-Fixing

Isolation of obligately alkaliphilic magnetotactic bacteria from extremely alkaline environments.

Large numbers of magnetotactic bacteria were discovered in mud and water samples collected from a number of highly alkaline aquatic environments with pH values of ≈ 9.5. These bacteria were helical in morphology and biomineralized chains of bullet-shaped crystals of magnetite and were present in all the highly alkaline sites sampled. Three strains from different sites were isolated and cultured...

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

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 a...

Complementary functioning of two components from nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

Use of alternate substrates (acetylene, azide, cyanide) for estimating N(2) fixation confirmed that recombined fractions from different bacteria are functional but restricted in complementarity.