Genomes and Genes
Summary: A phylum of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria comprised of unicellular to multicellular bacteria possessing CHLOROPHYLL a and carrying out oxygenic PHOTOSYNTHESIS. Cyanobacteria are the only known organisms capable of fixing both CARBON DIOXIDE (in the presence of light) and NITROGEN. Cell morphology can include nitrogen-fixing heterocysts and/or resting cells called akinetes. Formerly called blue-green algae, cyanobacteria were traditionally treated as ALGAE.
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- Environmental genome shotgun sequencing of the Sargasso SeaJ Craig Venter
Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, 1901 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Science 304:66-74. 2004..2 million previously unknown genes represented in these samples, including more than 782 new rhodopsin-like photoreceptors. Variation in species present and stoichiometry suggests substantial oceanic microbial diversity...
- Metabolic streamlining in an open-ocean nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteriumH James Tripp
Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Nature 464:90-4. 2010Nitrogen (N(2))-fixing marine cyanobacteria are an important source of fixed inorganic nitrogen that supports oceanic primary productivity and carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere...
- Engineering cyanobacteria to generate high-value productsDaniel C Ducat
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Trends Biotechnol 29:95-103. 2011..b>Cyanobacteria possess several advantages as organisms for bioindustrial processes, including simple input requirements, ..
- Microbial biosynthesis of alkanesAndreas Schirmer
LS9, Inc, 600 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
Science 329:559-62. 2010..Here we describe the discovery of an alkane biosynthesis pathway from cyanobacteria. The pathway consists of an acyl-acyl carrier protein reductase and an aldehyde decarbonylase, which together ..
- Ecological genomics of marine picocyanobacteriaD J Scanlan
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 73:249-99. 2009....
- Photosynthesis driven conversion of carbon dioxide to fatty alcohols and hydrocarbons in cyanobacteriaXiaoming Tan
Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Metab Eng 13:169-76. 2011....
- Genome fluctuations in cyanobacteria reflect evolutionary, developmental and adaptive traitsJohn Larsson
Department of Botany, Stockholm University, SE 106 09 Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Evol Biol 11:187. 2011b>Cyanobacteria belong to an ancient group of photosynthetic prokaryotes with pronounced variations in their cellular differentiation strategies, physiological capacities and choice of habitat...
- The tricarboxylic acid cycle in cyanobacteriaShuyi Zhang
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Science 334:1551-3. 2011It is generally accepted that cyanobacteria have an incomplete tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle because they lack 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase and thus cannot convert 2-oxoglutarate to succinyl-coenzyme A (CoA)...
- Cyanobacterial photosystem II at 2.9-A resolution and the role of quinones, lipids, channels and chlorideAlbert Guskov
Institut fur Chemie und Biochemie Kristallographie, Freie Universitat Berlin, Takustrasse 6, D 14195 Berlin, Germany
Nat Struct Mol Biol 16:334-42. 2009..The chloride position suggests a role in proton-transfer reactions because it is bound through a putative water molecule to the Mn(4)Ca cluster at a distance of 6.5 A and is close to two possible proton channels...
- Nitrogen fixation by marine cyanobacteriaJonathan P Zehr
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Trends Microbiol 19:162-73. 2011..N(2) fixation and nitrogen (N) losses through denitrification have focused research on identifying N(2)-fixing cyanobacteria and quantifying cyanobacterial N(2) fixation...
- Architecture of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving centerKristina N Ferreira
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
Science 303:1831-8. 2004..The details of the surrounding coordination sphere of the metal cluster and the implications for a possible oxygen-evolving mechanism are discussed...
- Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 ÅYasufumi Umena
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3 3 138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558 8585, Japan
Nature 473:55-60. 2011..The determination of the high-resolution structure of photosystem II will allow us to analyse and understand its functions in great detail...
- Peroxiredoxins in plants and cyanobacteriaKarl Josef Dietz
Department of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Antioxid Redox Signal 15:1129-59. 2011..In plants and cyanobacteria, there exist 2-CysPrx, 1-CysPrx, PrxQ, and type II Prx...
- Diverse taxa of cyanobacteria produce beta-N-methylamino-L-alanine, a neurotoxic amino acidPaul Alan Cox
Institute for Ethnomedicine, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kalaheo, HI 96741, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:5074-8. 2005b>Cyanobacteria can generate molecules hazardous to human health, but production of the known cyanotoxins is taxonomically sporadic...
- The genome of a motile marine SynechococcusB Palenik
Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0202, USA
Nature 424:1037-42. 2003Marine unicellular cyanobacteria are responsible for an estimated 20-40% of chlorophyll biomass and carbon fixation in the oceans. Here we have sequenced and analysed the 2.4-megabase genome of Synechococcus sp...
- Iron and phosphorus co-limit nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical North AtlanticMatthew M Mills
Marine Biogeochemistry, IFM GEOMAR Leibniz Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D 24105 Kiel, Germany
Nature 429:292-4. 2004..Our results support the hypothesis that aeolian mineral dust deposition promotes nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical North Atlantic...
- Cyanobacterial diversity in natural and artificial microbial mats of Lake Fryxell (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica): a morphological and molecular approachArnaud Taton
Laboratoire d Algologie, de Mycologie et de Systématique Expérimentale, Institut de Botanique B22, Universite de Liege, B 4000 Liege, Belgium
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:5157-69. 2003Currently, there is no consensus concerning the geographic distribution and extent of endemism in Antarctic cyanobacteria. In this paper we describe the phenotypic and genotypic diversity of cyanobacteria in a field microbial mat sample ..
- Cyanobacterial genomics for ecology and biotechnologyWolfgang R Hess
University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr 1, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Curr Opin Microbiol 14:608-14. 2011b>Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes that directly convert solar energy and CO(2) into organic matter by oxygenic photosynthesis, explaining their relevance for primary production in many ecosystems and the increasing interest for ..
- Segregation of nitrogen fixation and oxygenic photosynthesis in the marine cyanobacterium TrichodesmiumI Berman-Frank
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Science 294:1534-7. 2001In the modern ocean, a significant amount of nitrogen fixation is attributed to filamentous, nonheterocystous cyanobacteria of the genus Trichodesmium...
- Cyanobacteria produce a high variety of hepatotoxic peptides in lichen symbiosisUlla Kaasalainen
Department of Biosciences, Division of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014, Helsinki, Finland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:5886-91. 2012Lichens are symbiotic associations between fungi and photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria. Microcystins are potent toxins that are responsible for the poisoning of both humans and animals...
- Large-scale phylogenomic analyses indicate a deep origin of primary plastids within cyanobacteriaAlexis Criscuolo
Institut Pasteur, Departement de Microbiologie, Unite de Biologie Moleculaire du Gene chez les Extremophiles, 25 28 Rue du Dr Roux, Paris Cedex 15, France
Mol Biol Evol 28:3019-32. 2011..191 protein markers and over 30,000 aligned amino acid sites from 22 primary photosynthetic eukaryotes and 61 cyanobacteria representing a wide taxonomic sampling of this phylum...
- Inorganic carbon limitation induces transcripts encoding components of the CO(2)-concentrating mechanism in Synechococcus sp. PCC7942 through a redox-independent pathwayFiona J Woodger
Molecular Plant Physiology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, PO Box 475, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia
Plant Physiol 133:2069-80. 2003..This approach was also used to test hypotheses about sensing of Ci limitation in cyanobacteria. The transcriptional response of Synechococcus sp...
- Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic OceanS A Sañudo-Wilhelmy
Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794 5000, USA
Nature 411:66-9. 2001....
- Sponge mass mortalities in a warming Mediterranean Sea: are cyanobacteria-harboring species worse off?Emma Cebrian
Universitat de Girona, Facultat de Ciencies, Departament de Ciències Ambientals, Girona, Spain
PLoS ONE 6:e20211. 2011..A comparative ultrastructural study of injured and healthy I. fasciculata specimens showed that cyanobacteria disappeared from injured specimens, which suggests that cyanobacterial decay could be involved in I...
- Phosphonate utilization by the globally important marine diazotroph TrichodesmiumS T Dyhrman
Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
Nature 439:68-71. 2006..This adaptation may help to explain the prevalence of Trichodesmium in low phosphate, oligotrophic systems...
- Synthetic biology in cyanobacteria engineering and analyzing novel functionsThorsten Heidorn
Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, A ngstro m Laboratories, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Methods Enzymol 497:539-79. 2011b>Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes capable of using sunlight as their energy, water as an electron donor, and air as a source of carbon and, for some nitrogen-fixing strains, nitrogen...
- Three-dimensional structure of cyanobacterial photosystem I at 2.5 A resolutionP Jordan
Institut für Chemie Kristallographie, Freie Universitat Berlin, D 14195 Berlin, Takustrasse 6, Germany
Nature 411:909-17. 2001..In plants, green algae and cyanobacteria, this process is driven by the cooperation of two large protein-cofactor complexes, photosystems I and II, ..
- Genome evolution in cyanobacteria: the stable core and the variable shellTuo Shi
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:2510-5. 2008b>Cyanobacteria are the only known prokaryotes capable of oxygenic photosynthesis, the evolution of which transformed the biology and geochemistry of Earth...
- Climate. Blooms like it hotHans W Paerl
Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC 28557, USA
Science 320:57-8. 2008
- Design and characterization of molecular tools for a Synthetic Biology approach towards developing cyanobacterial biotechnologyHsin Ho Huang
Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, Angstrom Laboratories, Uppsala University, P O Box 523, SE 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Nucleic Acids Res 38:2577-93. 2010b>Cyanobacteria are suitable for sustainable, solar-powered biotechnological applications...
- Protein-based organelles in bacteria: carboxysomes and related microcompartmentsTodd O Yeates
UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 6:681-91. 2008..The carboxysome, a prototypical bacterial microcompartment that is found in cyanobacteria and some chemoautotrophs, encapsulates ribulose-l,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) and carbonic ..
- Prochlorococcus, a marine photosynthetic prokaryote of global significanceF Partensky
Station Biologique, CNRS, INSU et Université Pierre et Marie Curie, F 29680 Roscoff
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 63:106-27. 1999..The present review critically assesses the basic knowledge acquired about Prochlorococcus both in the ocean and in the laboratory...
- CO2 concentrating mechanisms in algae: mechanisms, environmental modulation, and evolutionMario Giordano
Department of Marine Sciences, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, 60121 Ancona, Italy
Annu Rev Plant Biol 56:99-131. 2005..We discuss the diversity of CCMs, their evolutionary origins, and the role of the environment in CCM modulation...
- Cyanobacterial toxins: risk management for health protectionGeoffrey A Codd
Division of Environmental and Applied Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 203:264-72. 2005..Mass populations of toxin-producing cyanobacteria in natural and controlled waterbodies include blooms and scums of planktonic species, and mats and biofilms of ..
- Unicellular cyanobacterial distributions broaden the oceanic N2 fixation domainPia H Moisander
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Science 327:1512-4. 2010..We found that two major groups of unicellular N2-fixing cyanobacteria (UCYN) have distinct spatial distributions that differ from those of Trichodesmium, the N2-fixing ..
- Alterations in global patterns of gene expression in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in response to inorganic carbon limitation and the inactivation of ndhR, a LysR family regulatorHong liang Wang
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74075, USA
J Biol Chem 279:5739-51. 2004..We therefore suggest that ndhR be renamed ccmR to better represent its broader regulatory characteristics...
- Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific OceanJ P Zehr
Department of Ocean Sciences and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Nature 412:635-8. 2001..Here we show that there are unicellular cyanobacteria in the open ocean that are expressing nitrogenase, and are abundant enough to potentially have a significant ..
- Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects oceanic niche differentiationGabrielle Rocap
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Nature 424:1042-7. 2003..Some of these genes have obvious roles in determining the relative fitness of the ecotypes in response to key environmental variables, and hence in regulating their distribution and abundance in the oceans...
- The fast and slow kinetics of chlorophyll a fluorescence induction in plants, algae and cyanobacteria: a viewpointGeorge C Papageorgiou
National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Institute of Biology, Athens, 153 10, Greece
Photosynth Res 94:275-90. 2007..FI has been studied quite extensively in plants an algae (less so in cyanobacteria) as it affords a low resolution panoramic view of the photosynthesis process...
- A molecular assessment of the iron stress response in the two phylogenetic clades of TrichodesmiumP Dreux Chappell
MIT WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Environ Microbiol 12:13-27. 2010..However the apparent conservation of the Fe stress response in the Trichodesmium genus suggests that it is an important adaptation for their niche in the oligotrophic ocean...
- Geographical isolation in hot spring cyanobacteriaR Thane Papke
Department of Microbiology, 109 Lewis Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
Environ Microbiol 5:650-9. 2003..The genetic diversity of cyanobacteria indigenous to North American, Japanese, New Zealand and Italian springs was surveyed by (i) amplification and ..
- High rates of photobiological H2 production by a cyanobacterium under aerobic conditionsAnindita Bandyopadhyay
Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Nat Commun 1:139. 2010....
- Salt stress inhibits photosystems II and I in cyanobacteriaSuleyman I Allakhverdiev
Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region 142290, Russia
Photosynth Res 98:529-39. 2008..In this review, we summarize recent progress in research on the effects of salt stress on photosynthesis in cyanobacteria.
- Renewable energy from Cyanobacteria: energy production optimization by metabolic pathway engineeringNaira Quintana
Division of Pharmacognosy, Section of Metabolomics, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 91:471-90. 2011..paper deals with a third generation renewable energy resource which does not compete with our food resources, cyanobacteria. We discuss the current state of the art in developing different types of bioenergy (ethanol, biodiesel, ..
- Lagunamides A and B: cytotoxic and antimalarial cyclodepsipeptides from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majusculaAshootosh Tripathi
Natural Sciences and Science Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616, Singapore
J Nat Prod 73:1810-4. 2010..4 and 20.5 nM, respectively. Furthermore, these cyanobacterial compounds exhibited moderate antiswarming activities when tested against Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01...
- Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins: the influence of nitrogen versus phosphorusAndrew M Dolman
Freshwater Conservation, Brandenburg University of Technology, Bad Saarow, Germany
PLoS ONE 7:e38757. 2012..While the positive relationship between total cyanobacteria biovolume and P concentration disappeared at high P concentrations, cyanobacteria biovolume increased ..
- Chlorophyll fluorescence analysis of cyanobacterial photosynthesis and acclimationD Campbell
Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick E4L 1G7, Canada
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 62:667-83. 1998b>Cyanobacteria are ecologically important photosynthetic prokaryotes that also serve as popular model organisms for studies of photosynthesis and gene regulation...
- Diurnal expression of hetR and diazocyte development in the filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeumR El-Shehawy
Department of Botany, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Microbiology 149:1139-46. 2003..Real-time RT-PCR showed that ntcA, encoding the global nitrogen regulator in cyanobacteria, and hetR, the key regulatory gene in heterocyst differentiation, are both constitutively expressed during a ..
- Colourful coexistence of red and green picocyanobacteria in lakes and seasMaayke Stomp
Aquatic Microbiology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 127, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ecol Lett 10:290-8. 2007..These field data support the hypothesis that niche differentiation along the light spectrum promotes phytoplankton biodiversity, thus providing a colourful solution to the paradox of the plankton...
- Aquatic phototrophs: efficient alternatives to land-based crops for biofuelsG Charles Dismukes
Department of Chemistry and Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 19:235-40. 2008..the use of biofuels derived from aquatic microbial oxygenic photoautotrophs (AMOPs), more commonly known as cyanobacteria, algae, and diatoms...
- Genome erosion in a nitrogen-fixing vertically transmitted endosymbiotic multicellular cyanobacteriumLiang Ran
Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS ONE 5:e11486. 2010..The underlying mechanism and the identities of the partners in this monophyletic event remain elusive...
- Biologically active secondary metabolites from marine cyanobacteriaJoshawna K Nunnery
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 21:787-93. 2010Marine cyanobacteria are a rich source of complex bioactive secondary metabolites which derive from mixed biosynthetic pathways...
- Discovery of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in coralsMichael P Lesser
Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Science 305:997-1000. 2004..The source of this fluorescence is phycoerythrin in unicellular, nonheterocystis, symbiotic cyanobacteria within the host cells of the coral...
- Genome mining demonstrates the widespread occurrence of gene clusters encoding bacteriocins in cyanobacteriaHao Wang
Division of Microbiology, Department of Food and Environment Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
PLoS ONE 6:e22384. 2011b>Cyanobacteria are a rich source of natural products with interesting biological activities. Many of these are peptides and the end products of a non-ribosomal pathway...
- Differential gene retention in plastids of common recent originAdrian Reyes-Prieto
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Mol Biol Evol 27:1530-7. 2010..Our study demonstrates that plastid genomes in sister taxa are strongly constrained by selection but follow distinct trajectories during the earlier phases of organelle evolution...
- Iron limitation in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium reveals new insights into regulation of photosynthesis and nitrogen fixationHendrik Küpper
Universitat Konstanz, Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion, Fachbereich Biologie, D 78457 Konstanz, Germany
New Phytol 179:784-98. 2008..Trichodesmium survives short-term Fe limitation by selectively down-regulating nitrogen fixation while maintaining but re-arranging the photosynthetic apparatus...
- Combined exposure to hydrogen peroxide and light--selective effects on cyanobacteria, green algae, and diatomsMichaela Drábková
Department of Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 320, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Environ Sci Technol 41:309-14. 2007..to develop a potential tool for limiting cyanobacterial blooms and to better understand the occurrence of cyanobacteria and other phytoplankton species in relation to reactive oxygen species in surface waters...
- The smallest known genomes of multicellular and toxic cyanobacteria: comparison, minimal gene sets for linked traits and the evolutionary implicationsKarina Stucken
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
PLoS ONE 5:e9235. 2010..9 (CS-505) and 3.2 (D9) Mb, these are the smallest genomes described for free-living filamentous cyanobacteria. We observed remarkable gene order conservation (synteny) between these genomes despite the difference in ..
- The high light-inducible polypeptides in Synechocystis PCC6803. Expression and function in high lightQ He
Department of Plant Biology, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California 94305, USA
J Biol Chem 276:306-14. 2001..Hence, the Hli polypeptides are critical for survival when Synechocystis PCC6803 is absorbing excess excitation energy and may allow the cells to cope more effectively with the production of reactive oxygen species...
- Nitrogen fixation and hydrogen metabolism in cyanobacteriaHermann Bothe
Botanical Institute, The University of Cologne, Zülpicher Str 47b, D 50923 Cologne, Germany
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 74:529-51. 2010This review summarizes recent aspects of (di)nitrogen fixation and (di)hydrogen metabolism, with emphasis on cyanobacteria. These organisms possess several types of the enzyme complexes catalyzing N(2) fixation and/or H(2) formation or ..
- Biomagnification of cyanobacterial neurotoxins and neurodegenerative disease among the Chamorro people of GuamPaul Alan Cox
Institute for Ethnobotany, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kalaheo, HI 96741, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:13380-3. 2003..Free-living cyanobacteria produce 0.3 microg/g BMAA, but produce 2-37 microg/g as symbionts in the coralloid roots of cycad trees...
- Biosynthetic origin of natural products isolated from marine microorganism-invertebrate assemblagesT Luke Simmons
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:4587-94. 2008..Examples are given from the literature as well as recent proof-of-concept experiments from the authors' laboratories...
- High rates of N2 fixation by unicellular diazotrophs in the oligotrophic Pacific OceanJoseph P Montoya
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Nature 430:1027-32. 2004..Large colonial cyanobacteria in the genus Trichodesmium and the heterocystous endosymbiont Richelia have traditionally been considered the ..
- Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marinaWesley D Swingley
Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19W8, Sapporo 060 0819, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:2005-10. 2008..These features clearly show that the genus Acaryochloris is a fitting candidate for understanding genome expansion, gene acquisition, ecological adaptation, and photosystem modification in the cyanobacteria.
- Colorful niches of phototrophic microorganisms shaped by vibrations of the water moleculeMaayke Stomp
Aquatic Microbiology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ISME J 1:271-82. 2007..This suggests that vibrations of the water molecule have played a major role in the ecology and evolution of phototrophic microorganisms...
- Diversity of phototrophic bacteria in microbial mats from Arctic hot springs (Greenland)Guus Roeselers
Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, NL 2628 BC Delft, The Netherlands
Environ Microbiol 9:26-38. 2007..Specific oligonucleotide primers for cyanobacteria, purple sulfur bacteria, green sulfur bacteria and Choroflexus/Roseiflexus-like green non-sulfur bacteria were ..
- Genetic tools for cyanobacteriaO A Koksharova
MSU DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 58:123-37. 2002b>Cyanobacteria are oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria that have been used increasingly to study diverse biological processes, including photosynthesis and its regulation; cell differentiation and N2 fixation; metabolism of nitrogen, carbon, ..
- Marine benthic cyanobacteria contain apoptosis-inducing activity synergizing with daunorubicin to kill leukemia cells, but not cardiomyocytesLinn Oftedal
Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway
Mar Drugs 8:2659-72. 2010The potential of marine benthic cyanobacteria as a source of anticancer drug candidates was assessed in a screen for induction of cell death (apoptosis) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells...
- Unicellular cyanobacterium symbiotic with a single-celled eukaryotic algaAnne W Thompson
Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Science 337:1546-50. 2012....
- Carotenoids provide the major antioxidant defence in the globally significant N2-fixing marine cyanobacterium TrichodesmiumDovi Kelman
The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
Environ Microbiol 11:1897-908. 2009..We examined total antioxidative potential of various diazotrophic and non-diazotrophic cyanobacteria. We focused on Trichodesmium spp...
- Engineered cyanobacteria: teaching an old bug new tricksAnne M Ruffing
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Bioeng Bugs 2:136-49. 2011b>Cyanobacteria have played an important role in the development of the Earth and have long been studied as model organisms for photosynthesis and the circadian rhythm...
- Effects of amino acids on microcystin production of the Microcystis aeruginosaRuihua Dai
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
J Hazard Mater 161:730-6. 2009..Our experiment demonstrated that the possible reason of such phenomenon was that different amino acids had different effects on the process of metabolism through the free dissolved amino acids within the cells...
- The orange carotenoid protein in photoprotection of photosystem II in cyanobacteriaDiana Kirilovsky
Commissariat a l Energie Atomique CEA, Institut de Biologie et Technologies de Saclay iBiTec S, France
Biochim Biophys Acta 1817:158-66. 2012..In this review we describe results leading to the discovery of this process in cyanobacteria (qE(cya)), which is mechanistically distinct from its counterpart in plants, and recent progress in the ..
- Distribution and activity of diazotrophs in the Eastern Equatorial AtlanticRachel A Foster
Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Environ Microbiol 11:741-50. 2009..The distribution of the diazotroph groups, especially the three strains of symbiotic cyanobacteria, was different, and appeared largely controlled by riverine inputs and upwelling.
- Optimization of variable fluorescence measurements of phytoplankton communities with cyanobacteriaStefan G H Simis
Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Marine Research Centre, Erik Palménin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
Photosynth Res 112:13-30. 2012..fluorescence matrices of phytoplankton communities were simulated from laboratory-grown algae and cyanobacteria cultures, to define the optical configurations of theoretical fluorometers that either minimize or maximize ..
- Regulation of nitrate assimilation in cyanobacteriaYoshitake Ohashi
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo, Chikusa, Nagoya 464 8601, Japan
J Exp Bot 62:1411-24. 2011Nitrate assimilation by cyanobacteria is inhibited by the presence of ammonium in the growth medium. Both nitrate uptake and transcription of the nitrate assimilatory genes are regulated...
- Compartmentalized function through cell differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteriaEnrique Flores
Instituto de Bioqumica Vegetal y Fotosntesis, CSIC and Universidad de Sevilla, Amrico Vespucio 49, E41092 Seville, Spain
Nat Rev Microbiol 8:39-50. 2010Within the wide biodiversity that is found in the bacterial world, Cyanobacteria represents a unique phylogenetic group that is responsible for a key metabolic process in the biosphere - oxygenic photosynthesis - and that includes ..
- Accumulation of free and covalently bound microcystins in tissues of Lymnaea stagnalis (Gastropoda) following toxic cyanobacteria or dissolved microcystin-LR exposureEmilie Lance
UMR CNRS Ecobio 6553, University of Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 265 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
Environ Pollut 158:674-80. 2010..7 to 66.7% were bound. After depuration, up to 15.3 microg g(-1) DW of bound MCs were detected in snails previously exposed to toxic cyanobacteria, representing a potential source of MCs transfer through the food web.
- Detection of the neurotoxin BMAA within cyanobacteria isolated from freshwater in ChinaAifeng Li
Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences and Ecology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, PR China
Toxicon 55:947-53. 2010..BMAA was detected within the majority of cyanobacterial isolates surveyed in both free and symbiotic cyanobacteria, living in freshwater as well as marine environments...
- Variation in the response of juvenile and adult gastropods (Lymnaea stagnalis) to cyanobacterial toxin (microcystin-LR)Claudia Gerard
UMR Ecobio 6553, Equipe de Physiologie et Ecophysiologie, Universite de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu, Avenue du General Leclerc, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
Environ Toxicol 20:592-6. 2005Owing to the increasing public health problem related to the proliferation of toxin-producing cyanobacteria in aquatic ecosystems, we have investigated the response of the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis exposed to 33 microg/L microcystin-..
- Horizontal gene transfer in cyanobacterial signature genesShailaja Yerrapragada
Human Genome Sequencing Center Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Methods Mol Biol 532:339-66. 2009..diverse cyanobacterial genomes identified an updated list of 183 signature genes that are widely found in cyanobacteria but absent in non-cyanobacterial species...
- Comparative study of microcystin-LR-induced behavioral changes of two fish species, Danio rerio and Leucaspius delineatusDaniela Baganz
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Biogeochemical Regulation, Muggelseedamm 301, 12587 Berlin, Germany
Environ Toxicol 19:564-70. 2004....
- Visualizing the spatial distribution of secondary metabolites produced by marine cyanobacteria and sponges via MALDI-TOF imagingEduardo Esquenazi
Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Mol Biosyst 4:562-70. 2008Marine cyanobacteria and sponges are prolific sources of natural products with therapeutic applications...
- 2,2'-beta-hydroxylase (CrtG) is involved in carotenogenesis of both nostoxanthin and 2-hydroxymyxol 2'-fucoside in Thermosynechococcus elongatus strain BP-1Masako Iwai
Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278 8510, Japan
Plant Cell Physiol 49:1678-87. 2008..Ketocarotenoids, such as echinenone and 4-ketomyxol, which are unique carotenoids in cyanobacteria, were absent, and genes coding for both beta-carotene ketolases, crtO and crtW, were absent in the genome...
- Emerging patterns of marine nitrogen fixationJill A Sohm
Department of Biological Sciences and Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 9:499-508. 2011..However, many questions remain about marine N(2) fixation, including the role of temperature, fixed nitrogen species, CO(2) and physical forcing in controlling N(2) fixation, as well as the potential for heterotrophic N(2) fixation...
- Is the 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer region a good tool for use in molecular systematics and population genetics? A case study in cyanobacteriaS L Boyer
Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 20700 North Park Boulevard, University Heights, OH 44118, USA
Mol Biol Evol 18:1057-69. 2001..We review current knowledge of the numbers and kinds of 16S-23S ITS regions present across bacterial groups and plastids, and we discuss broad patterns congruent with higher-level systematics of prokaryotes...
- Temporal variations in the dynamics of potentially microcystin-producing strains in a bloom-forming Planktothrix agardhii (Cyanobacterium) populationEnora Briand
MNHN, USM505 EA4105 Ecosystèmes et interactions toxiques, 57 rue Cuvier, case 39, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:3839-48. 2008..of these two subpopulations, we performed a 2-year survey of a perennial bloom of Planktothrix agardhii (cyanobacteria)...
- Toxicology and detection methods of the alkaloid neurotoxin produced by cyanobacteria, anatoxin-aJoana Osswald
Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research CIIMAR, Rua dos Bragas, 289, 4050 123 Porto, Portugal
Environ Int 33:1070-89. 2007..One of the consequences is the proliferation of cyanobacteria, microphytoplankton organisms that are capable to produce toxins called cyanotoxins...
- Characterization of cyanobacterial carotenoid ketolase CrtW and hydroxylase CrtR by complementation analysis in Escherichia coliTakuya Makino
School of Fisheries Sciences, Kitasato University, Sanriku cho, Ofunato, 022 0101 Japan
Plant Cell Physiol 49:1867-78. 2008..b>Cyanobacteria are known to utilize the carotenoid ketolase CrtW and/or CrtO, and the carotenoid hydroxylase CrtR...
- Use of degenerate oligonucleotides for amplification of the nifH gene from the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium thiebautiiJ P Zehr
New England Biolabs, Inc, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915
Appl Environ Microbiol 55:2522-6. 1989Trichodesmium spp. are marine filamentous, nonheterocystous, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria which are an important component of marine ecosystems...
- Temporal patterns of nitrogenase gene (nifH) expression in the oligotrophic North Pacific OceanMatthew J Church
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 71:5362-70. 2005..Five of the nifH phylotypes grouped with sequences from unicellular and filamentous cyanobacteria, and one of the phylotypes clustered with gamma-proteobacteria...
- Human fatalities from cyanobacteria: chemical and biological evidence for cyanotoxinsW W Carmichael
Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glen Highway, Dayton, OH 45435, USA
Environ Health Perspect 109:663-8. 2001..5 microg/L microcystin was in the water used for dialysis treatments. This is 19.5 times the level set as a guideline for safe drinking water supplies by the World Health Organization...
- Microbial community gene expression within colonies of the diazotroph, Trichodesmium, from the Southwest Pacific OceanIan Hewson
Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
ISME J 3:1286-300. 2009..The majority of mRNAs were from the co-occurring microorganisms and not Trichodesmium, including other cyanobacteria, heterotrophic bacteria, eukaryotes and phage...
- The DpsA protein of Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC7942 is a DNA-binding hemoprotein. Linkage of the Dps and bacterioferritin protein familiesM M Pena
Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Ohio 43403 0212, USA
J Biol Chem 270:22478-82. 1995..Last, the evolutionary link between the Dps protein family and the bacterioferritins is discussed...
- A mechanism for slow release of biomagnified cyanobacterial neurotoxins and neurodegenerative disease in GuamSusan J Murch
Institute for Ethnobotany, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kalaheo, HI 96741, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:12228-31. 2004As root symbionts of cycad trees, cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc produce beta-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), a neurotoxic nonprotein amino acid...
- The evolutionary diversification of cyanobacteria: molecular-phylogenetic and paleontological perspectivesAkiko Tomitani
The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo, Kyoto 606 8501, Japan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:5442-7. 2006b>Cyanobacteria have played a significant role in Earth history as primary producers and the ultimate source of atmospheric oxygen. To date, however, how and when the group diversified has remained unclear...
- The photorespiratory glycolate metabolism is essential for cyanobacteria and might have been conveyed endosymbiontically to plantsMarion Eisenhut
Institut für Biowissenschaften, Pflanzenphysiologie, Universitat Rostock, Albert Einstein Strasse 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:17199-204. 2008..2PG) metabolism is essential for photosynthesis in higher plants but thought to be superfluous in cyanobacteria because of their ability to concentrate CO(2) internally and thereby inhibit photorespiration...
- Transfer of a cyanobacterial neurotoxin within a temperate aquatic ecosystem suggests pathways for human exposureSara Jonasson
Departments of Botany and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9252-7. 2010beta-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a neurotoxic nonprotein amino acid produced by most cyanobacteria, has been proposed to be the causative agent of devastating neurodegenerative diseases on the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean...
- Increased production of zeaxanthin and other pigments by application of genetic engineering techniques to Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803D Lagarde
Thallia Pharmaceuticals S A L Orée d Ecully, 69132 Ecully cedex, France
Appl Environ Microbiol 66:64-72. 2000..In this way, by a combination of overexpression and deletion of particular genes, the carotenoid content of cyanobacteria can be altered significantly.
- Ecology: a niche for cyanobacteria containing chlorophyll dMichael Kuhl
Marine Biological Laboratory, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 3000 Helsingør, Denmark
Nature 433:820. 2005..light-harvesting pigment instead of chlorophyll a, the form commonly found in plants, algae and other cyanobacteria; this means that it depends on far-red light for photosynthesis...
- Role of oxidative stress and mitochondrial changes in cyanobacteria-induced apoptosis and hepatotoxicityWen Xing Ding
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
FEMS Microbiol Lett 220:1-7. 2003Microcystins produced by cyanobacteria are potent and specific hepatotoxins; however, the mechanisms of microcystin-induced hepatotoxicity have not been fully elucidated...
- FTIR STUDY OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN SENSORY RHODOPSINSKenneth J Rothschild; Fiscal Year: 2010..SRI and SRII from archaebacteria, which control phototaxis, Anabaena sensory rhodopsin (ASR) from freshwater cyanobacteria, which functions as photochromic sensors, some forms of proteorhodopsin (PR) found in marine bacteria, which ..
- Problems in Membrane Protein Crystallography: Hetero-Oligomeric Cytochrome b6fWILLIAM CRAMER; Fiscal Year: 2009..b6f complex cannot be isolated from transformable unicellular cyanobacteria because the b6f dimer is monomerized and rendered inactive and non-crystallizable upon extraction from the ..
- Problems in Membrane Protein Crystallography: Hetero-Oligomeric Cytochrome b6fWilliam A Cramer; Fiscal Year: 2010..b6f complex cannot be isolated from transformable unicellular cyanobacteria because the b6f dimer is monomerized and rendered inactive and non-crystallizable upon extraction from the ..
- STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC CYTOCHROME COMPLEXWILLIAM CRAMER; Fiscal Year: 1993..iv) Inhibitor-resistant mutants to the inhibitor NQNO will be isolated from the cyanobacteria, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 and 7942, and their loci determined by sequencing petD and petB genes...
- The mechanism of signal transduction in photoreceptorsHartmut Luecke; Fiscal Year: 2006..retinylidene proteins found in phylogenetically diverse microorganisms, including haloarchaea, proteobacteria, cyanobacteria, fungi, and algae...
- STRUCTURES OF ANTIBIOTICS AND RELATED COMPOUNDSKENNETH RINEHART; Fiscal Year: 1999..immunomodulatory, and cytotoxic activities will also be sought and identified in extensive collections of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), insects, and plant species...
- Biosynthesis of Microbial IsoprenoidsDavid E Cane; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- ANTICANCER AGENTS FROM CYANOPHYTES AND MARINE ORGANISMSRichard Moore; Fiscal Year: 1993The main goal of this research is to discover new natural products from blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) and marine animals possessing algal symbionts that will be useful as drugs in the treatment of cancer or its prevention and/or as ..
- ANTITUMOR AGENTS FROM BLUE-GREEN ALGAERichard Moore; Fiscal Year: 2002The long term goal of this research is to discover new antitumor drugs from blue-green algae (cyanobacteria)...
- PHARMACOPHORE INTERACTIONS WITH TUBULIN OF CRYPTOPHYCINSGunda Georg; Fiscal Year: 2001..Suitable candidates will be selected and used to study the ligand-protein interactions in fluorescent, photoaffinity and electrophilic labeling studies. ..
- CATALASE AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC WATER OXIDASEG Dismukes; Fiscal Year: 1993..is so complex that only a single type of enzymatic site has been identified in nature, from the most primitive cyanobacteria to present day plants...
- Structural Biology of the S. elongatus Circadian ClockMartin Egli; Fiscal Year: 2010..The endogenous circadian system in cyanobacteria exerts pervasive control over cellular processes including global gene expression...
- Zebrafish Embryos as a Model for Cyanobacterial ToxinsJohn Berry; Fiscal Year: 2007b>Cyanobacteria, or "blue-green algae," particularly in freshwater habitats, are recognized to produce an array of potently toxic compounds...
- Specificity/Regulation of Cyanobacterial ABC TransportersNicole Koropatkin; Fiscal Year: 2007..particularly carbon dioxide, is through manipulation of the natural carbon-sequestering mechanisms of aquatic cyanobacteria. One significant factor limiting carbon sequestration in these organisms is the low bioavailability of iron...
- Studies of redox-active sites in Photosystem IIVictor S Batista; Fiscal Year: 2010..metalloprotein complex found in the thylakoid membrane of green-plant chloroplasts and internal membranes of cyanobacteria. PSII establishes the membrane pH-gradient necessary for ATP synthesis, producing dioxygen by oxidation of ..
- DEVELOPMENTAL GENOME REARRANGEMENT OF NIF GENESJames Golden; Fiscal Year: 2002..This multicellular growth pattern, the distinct phylogeny of cyanobacteria, and the suspected antiquity of heterocyst development make this an interesting model system...