• Journal of Microbiology
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.10-13
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• 1999

The bacterial abundance, proportion of respiring bacteria, and bacterial community of southern Lake Baikal were analyzed at 1 m and 400m depths during winter. The total bacterial numbers were 5.1${\times}$105 cells ml-1 at 1 m and 2.5${\times}$105 cells ml-1 at 400 m depth, which are about half and quarter of the numbers of other lakes. The proportion of respiring bacteria was as low as 2.5% at 1 m and 1.4% at 400 m depth. Considering the amount of organic carbon which need to be degraded and low proportion of respiring bacteria, the bacteria could be assumed to have high activities. The EUB/DAPI ratios were 77 and 89% at 1 m and 400 m depths, respectively. Of the bacterial community, the other group was dominant at both depths, and gamma group of protebacteria followed next. But the beta group of proteobacteria and Cytophaga-Flavobacterium groups occupied very small proportions.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.80-84
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• 2001

Vertical and temporal variations of active and total bacterial abundance were monthly estimated in Lake Soyang from April 1999 to January 2000. The number of total and respiring bacteria was determined directly under microscope by AODC and CTC methods, respectively. The number of total and active bacteria varied from $2.1{\times}10^5 to 3.1{\times}10^6 $,$cells{\cdot}ml^{-1}$ and $1.8{\times}10^4 to 8.0{\times}10^5 $,$cells{\cdot}ml^{-1}$, respectively. The proportions of respiring bacteria to total cell ranged from 3.7 to 44.2% : The proportions was the highest in November 1999 and the lowest in December 2000. The specific activity of${\beta}$-glucosidase divided by total bacteria was$1.6{\times}10^5\;amol{\cdot}cell^{-1}{\cdot}hr^{-1}$in August and$1.4{\times}10^5\;amol{\times}cell^{-1}{\times}hr^{-1}$in September while the specific activity divided by CTC active bacteria was about$3.6{\times}10^5\;amol{\cdot}cell^{-1}{\cdot}hr^{-1},\;24.0{\times}10^5\;amol{cdot}cell^{-1}{cdot}hr^{-1}$. The specific activity of active bacteria in September was 6.7 times higher than that of August. By these data of active bacteria, the new information of aquatic ecosystem was unveiled.

• The Microorganisms and Industry
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.23-33
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• 1992

The general characteristics of campylobacters and related organisms (e.g., species of the genera Helicobacter and Wolinella, Bacteroides ureolyticus, and Bacteroides gracilis) are as follows: slender, non-sporeforming, gram-negative, vibroid bacteria (helical- or spiral- shpaed; except that B. ureolyticus and B. gracilis are straight-rod), 0.2-0.5 .mu.m in width and 0.5 .mu.m in length. (Smibert, 1984; Penner, 1988). The species of genus Campylobacter and related organisms are chemoorganotrophs; however, they neither oxidize nor ferment carbohydrates and instead obtain energy from amino acids, the salts of tricarboxylic acids (TCA) cycle intermediates, the salts of organic acids, or, in some species, H$\_$2/. With regard to their oxygen responses for growth, they all are microaeophilic i.e., they are capable of oxygen-dependent growth (respiring with oxygen as a terminal electron acceptor) but can not grow in the presence of a level of oxygen equivalent to that present in an air atmosphere (21% oxygen). This review will take interests in how these microorganisms response to oxygen for growth and what repiratory types they have.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.75-85
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• 2012

Although, microbial arsenic mobilization by dissimilatory arsenate-reducing bacteria (DARB) and the practical use to the removal technology of arsenic from contaminated soil are expected, most previous research mainly has been focused on the geochemical circulation of arsenic. Therefore, in this review we summarized the previously reported DARB to grasp the characteristic for bioremediation of arsenic. Evidence of microbial growth on arsenate is presented based on isolate analyses, after which a summary of the physiology of the following arsenate-respiring bacteria is provided: Chrysiogenes arsenatis strain BAL-$1^T$, Sulfurospirillum barnesii, Desulfotomaculum strain Ben-RB, Desulfotomaculum auripigmentum strains OREX-4, GFAJ-1, Bacillus sp., Desulfitobacterium hafniense DCB-$2^T$, strain SES-3, Citrobacter sp. (TSA-1 and NC-1), Sulfurospirillum arsenophilum sp. nov., Shewanella sp., Chrysiogenes arsenatis BAL-$1^T$, Deferribacter desulfuricans. Among the DARB, Citrobacter sp. NC-1 is superior to other dissimilatory arsenate-reducing bacteria with respect to arsenate reduction, particularly at high concentrations as high as 60 mM. A gram-negative anaerobic bacterium, Citrobacter sp. NC-1, which was isolated from arsenic contaminated soil, can grow on glucose as an electron donor and arsenate as an electron acceptor. Strain NC-1 rapidly reduced arsenate at 5 mM to arsenite with concomitant cell growth, indicating that arsenate can act as the terminal electron acceptor for anaerobic respiration (dissimilatory arsenate reduction). To characterize the reductase systems in strain NC-1, arsenate and nitrate reduction activities were investigated with washed-cell suspensions and crude cell extracts from cells grown on arsenate or nitrate. These reductase activities were induced individually by the two electron acceptors. Tungstate, which is a typical inhibitory antagonist of molybdenum containing dissimilatory reductases, strongly inhibited the reduction of arsenate and nitrate in anaerobic growth cultures. These results suggest that strain NC-1 catalyzes the reduction of arsenate and nitrate by distinct terminal reductases containing a molybdenum cofactor. This may be advantageous during bioremediation processes where both contaminants are present. Moreover, a brief explanation of arsenic extraction from a model soil artificially contaminated with As (V) using a novel DARB (Citrobacter sp. NC-1) is given in this article. We conclude with a discussion of the importance of microbial arsenate reduction in the environment. The successful application and use of DARB should facilitate the effective bioremediation of arsenic contaminated sites.