The strain WBS, an anaerobic, psychro- and halotolerant bacterium belonging to the genus Fusibacter, was isolated from littoral bottom sediments of White Sea, Arctic, Russia. Fusibacter bizertensis WBS grew at temperatures between 8 32 °C (optimum growth 18–20 °C), pH 5.2 8.3 7.2), NaCl concentrations 0 70 g L−1 L−1). It reduced sulfate, thiosulfate, elemental sulfur into sulfide, and, probably...

Lightsticks baits are discharged into the ocean after their use in longline fishing. The traditional Brazilian community of Costa dos Coqueiros, Bahia, uses lightsticks as a medicine for rheumatism, vitiligo, and mycoses. It may affect marine life when its content leak ocean. This study assessed toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) constituents on mysids Promysis atlantica. internal solutio...

The chemosensory system of bacteria controls their motility and behaviour in different environments. In the present study, we report the identification of the first chemotaxis operon in Desulfovibrio gigas. Amino acid sequence analysis revealed seven coding regions for polypeptides with a high similarity to chemotaxis proteins from other organisms. D. gigas chemotaxis operon has a similar genet...

Two strains of obligate chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria were isolated from soda-lake sediments by enrichment culture with thiocyanate and nitrate at pH 9.9. The isolates were capable of growth with thiocyanate or thiosulfate as electron donor, either aerobically or anaerobically, and with nitrate or nitrite as electron acceptor. Cyanate was identified as an intermediate of thioc...

A 3,373-base-pair DNA segment from a clone fortuitously isolated from Saccharopolyspora erythraea by hybridization to an oligodeoxynucleotide probe was sequenced. Computer-assisted analysis of the nucleotide sequence reveals three closely linked Streptomyces open reading frames plus a fourth converging on the others. The deduced product of one of them, ORF2, shows considerable similarity to bov...

A microbial fuel cell (MFC) has been developed for removal of sulfur-based pollutants and can be used for simultaneous wastewater treatment and electricity generation. This fuel cell uses an activated carbon cloth+carbon fibre veil composite anode, air-breathing dual cathodes and the sulfate-reducing species Desulfovibrio desulfuricans. 1.16gdm(-3) sulfite and 0.97gdm(-3) thiosulfate were remov...

The use of Trypticase soy agar modified by the addition of 0.05% ferric ammonium citrate and 0.01% sodium thiosulfate for the determination of indole, phenylpyruvic acid, anthranilate, kynurenine, and hydrogen sulfide reactions is described.