Bioprospecting a glacial river in Iceland for bacterial biopolymer degraders
Bioprospecting a glacial river in Iceland for bacterial biopolymer degraders
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DOI:
10.1016/j.coldregions.2013.03.001
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发表时间:
2013-12
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
J. Jóelsson;Heiða Friðjónsdóttir;O. Vilhelmsson
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作者:
J. Jóelsson;Heiða Friðjónsdóttir;O. Vilhelmsson
The glacial river Jökulsá á Fjöllum, which originates in the Vatnajökull ice cap and flows through a large basaltic tephra desert on its way to discharge into the Arctic Ocean, presents a number of unique microbial habitats heretofore unexplored. We sampled river water, sediment and selected other biotopes at 12 sampling points along the river from source to mouth and generated a collection of 382 purified and confirmed reculturable psychrotrophic bacterial strains. Partial 16S rDNA sequencing yielded 19 genera and 4 non-genus specific assignments in 4 bacterial phyla, with pseudomonads and flavobacteria being particularly well represented. A large portion of the isolates produced extracellular enzymes at 15 °C, including amylase, betaglucanase, cellulase, protease and laccase.