The bacteria involved in organic pollutant degradation in pelagic deep-sea environments are largely unknown. In this report, the diversity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading bacteria was analyzed in deep-sea water on the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR). After enrichment with a PAH mixture (phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, and pyrene), nine bacterial consortia were obtained ...

Ectoine is a compatible solute and chemical chaperone widely used by members of the Bacteria and a few Archaea to fend-off the detrimental effects of high external osmolarity on cellular physiology and growth. Ectoine synthase (EctC) catalyzes the last step in ectoine production and mediates the ring closure of the substrate N-gamma-acetyl-L-2,4-diaminobutyric acid through a water elimination r...

I A general two-dimensional analytical solution is presented for the / problem of transport current injection from a normal conductor into a I 1 superconductor and collection back into a normal conductor. The current distribution is solved for the general case which takes in the full range from essentially point source to full-width injection and collection. The current distribution also repres...

In the present study 12 water samples of five sampling sites (Tatabánya, Dandár, Szentendre, Szent Flórián and Ciprián groundwaters) known as nutrient-depleted aquatic environments were studied using amplicon sequencing (NGS) cultivation techniques. Diversity indices cell counts determined to assess species richness in relation within samples, oligocarbophile growth capability isolated bacteria...

Acknowledgments: The physiological data were collected at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany by AAG. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NINDS) R01NS054898 (AAG), the National Science Foundation BCS-0547760 CAREER Award (AAG), Autism Speaks (AAG), and Princeton University’s Quantitative and Computational Neuroscience training gran...

The genes for polyethylene glycol (PEG) catabolism (pegB, C, D, A and E) in Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida strain 103 were shown to form a PEG-inducible operon. The pegR gene, encoding an AraC-type regulator in the downstream area of the operon, is transcribed in the reverse direction. The transcription start sites of the operon were mapped, and three putative sigma(70)-type promoter sites were id...