微生物在矿物表面吸附的研究进展

微生物在矿物表面的吸附是微生物与矿物表面深度作用的前提, 也是生物药剂在选矿中的应用的基础研究。本文综述了影响微生物在矿物表面吸附的环境因素, 微生物细胞与矿物表面之间的相互作用, 微生物细胞表面基团、表面成分及其胞外聚合物对吸附过程的影响, 并提出了今后的研究方向。     

表面自由能在环境微生物粘附研究中的应用进展

在环境领域中,对微生物粘附的利用和控制越来越受到研究者的关注。其中,微生物的表面自由能作为细胞表面重要特性,对微生物的粘附行为有重要影响。本文总结了微生物粘附过程中涉及的热动力学理论、Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek(DLVO)以及扩展DLVO理论,阐述了微生物表面自由能在该过程的重要性。基于此,介绍了接触角表征微生物表面自由能的方法体系及影响因素;分析了微生物表面自由能及其分量的分布特征、与物质组成的关系。最后根据被粘附对象的不同,总结了环境微生物表面自由能在固体基质、液体基质或者微生物相互之间粘附中的应用;指出未来研究发展的方向应关注环境微生物表面自由能的标准化表征及其在复杂环境中的应用。     

微生物-矿物相互作用及界面显微分析研究进展

微生物-矿物界面的相互作用贯穿着整个生物浸矿过程,在矿物生物浸出中至关重要,受到微生物的代谢特征、矿物表面结构和物质形态及环境条件的多重交叉影响。研究微生物-矿物界面的相互作用相关的微生物选择性吸附、矿物表面元素形态转化和钝化层、微生物铁硫氧化活性和微生物群落以及胞外物质的组成和性质等的演化,有利于了解微生物-矿物界面作用机制及其关键影响因素和影响机制,从而为优化浸出工艺提供科学的理论依据。达到这些目的,界面的(原位)显微分析手段和技术的进步也至关重要。本文对近些年来上述两方面的研究进行了综述。     

MATH法表征环境微生物细胞表面疏水性的研究进展

环境微生物的细胞表面疏水性对其生长代谢过程以及在环境领域的应用效率具有重要影响。目前用于测试细胞表面疏水性最常用的方法是碳氢吸附能力(Microbial adhesion to hydrocarbons,MATH),该方法因具有操作简便、有一定的准确度等优点在环境、生物工程、医学、食品等领域应用广泛。本文综述了MATH法在环境微生物领域中的污泥絮体性能表征、有机物降解、膜污染和破乳方面的应用,同时介绍了MATH法在实验操作、计数方法和数据分析方面的优化。最后展望了该方法今后的研究方向。     

基于分子生态学网络探究亚高山草甸退化对土壤微生物群落的影响

土壤微生物群落在草地生态系统功能中发挥着至关重要的作用，但目前尚不清楚微生物群落的分子生态网络如何响应亚高山草甸退化。以五台山4个不同退化阶段(未退化、轻度退化、中度退化和重度退化)亚高山草甸为研究对象，利用高通量测序和随机矩阵网络构建理论构建土壤微生物群落分子生态网络。探讨草地退化对亚高山草甸土壤微生物群落结构及网络的影响，不同退化程度下微生物网络结构中的关键微生物变化规律以及该过程中微生物之间的互作关系。研究结果表明，不同退化程度亚高山草甸土壤微生物(细菌、真菌和细菌-真菌)网络拓扑属性存在差异。总体上，退化增加了土壤细菌内部、真菌内部以及细菌-真菌群落间的相互作用，导致其网络结构更为复杂。未退化草甸土壤微生物网络具有较长的平均路径距离和较高的模块性，使其比退化草甸更能抵抗外界环境的变化，在应对人为干扰或者气候变化时可能具有更高的稳定性。退化草甸中的网络关键物种(模块枢纽和连接器)与未退化草甸明显不同。土壤含水量和pH与亚高山草甸土壤细菌、真菌以及整个微生物网络连通度均显著相关(P<0.05),总氮和硝氨态氮含量与土壤真菌和微生物网络连通度呈显著相关(P<0.05)。亚...     

不同类型表面活性剂在土壤上的吸附特征比较研究

应用平衡振荡法,研究了阴、阳和非离子表面活性剂在土壤上的吸附．结果表明,阳离子表面活性剂十六烷基三甲基溴化铵能强列吸附在6种不同性质的土壤上,吸附等温线为L型,分配常数Kd,为3．0×10^2～48×10^2L·kg^-1;阴离子表面活性剂十二烷基苯磺酸钠、非离子表面活性剂OP及Tween-20的吸附等温线随土壤类型不同而不同,有L、S等型,吸附强度远弱于阳离子表面活性剂,Kd分别大体处于5．3～39、0．13～0．44(Tween-20)和4．4～22．4L·kg^-1(OP)．阳离子表面活性剂的土壤最大吸附量与土壤阳离子交换容量呈线性相关．低浓度范围内,阴离子表面活性剂的土壤分配常数与土壤粘粒含量呈正相关．同时土壤颗粒表面的电荷特性也影响吸附．非离子表面活性剂的Kd与土壤粘粒、砂粒、粉沙含量及表面积存在经验函数关系．     

表面活性剂对土壤中多环芳烃生物有效性影响的研究进展

表面活性剂能够改变多环节烃(Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,PAHs）在土壤中的溶解度、吸附/解吸平衡和与土壤微生物的相互作用,从而改变PAHs的生物有效性,表面活性剂主要通过降低土壤-水之间的界面张力,增加PAHs的溶解度、促进PAHs的运输等方式来加强PAHs的生物有效性,但由于表面活性剂本身对微生物的毒害作用或无毒的表面活性剂优先作为微生物的生长基质,可能会对PAHs的生物有效性起到抑制作用,另外,表面活性剂对土壤中不同形态的PAHs生物有效性的影响不同,表面活性剂、PAHs和土壤微生物的类型浓度以及土壤的物理化学条件等都对PAHs的生物有效性有影响。     

三种金属硫蛋白聚合体的疏水性相互作用研究

通过分子表面的计算考察了三类金属硫蛋白（大鼠金属硫蛋白亚型Ⅱ,兔肝金属硫蛋白亚型Ⅰ和Ⅱ）二聚体短聚体中组成单元之间的疏水性相互作用。计算结果表明二聚体和三聚体中各组成单元之间均可以形成较好的几何匹配。对于二聚体而言,单体和单体之间存在一定的疏水性相互作用,但作用力 三聚体中,单体和二聚体之间的疏水残基能通过好的空间匹配形成很强的疏水性相互作用。对于这三种金属硫蛋白,二聚体中单体和单体之间的疏水性相     

土壤微生物群落构建理论与时空演变特征

土壤微生物作为陆地生态系统的重要组成部分,直接或间接地参与几乎所有的土壤生态过程,在物质循环、能量转换以及污染物降解等过程中都发挥着重要作用。对土壤微生物时空演变规律及其形成机制的研究,不仅是微生物演变和进化的基础科学问题,也是预测微生物及其所介导的生态功能对环境条件变化响应、适应和反馈的理论依据。讨论了土壤微生物群落的定义、测度方法和指标,认为群落是联系动植物宏观生态学与微生物生态学的基础,群落构建机制是宏观和微观生态学都需要研究的核心科学问题;从生态学的群落构建理论出发,阐述了包括生态位理论/中性理论、过程理论和多样性-稳定性理论在土壤微生物时空演变研究中的应用,以及微生物群落在时间和空间上的分布特征及其尺度效应;确立了以微生物群落构建理论为基础、不同时空尺度下土壤微生物群落演变特征为主要内容的微生物演变研究的基本框架。     

组织工程中细胞与生物材料相互作用研究进展

种子细胞、生物材料和生长因子是组织工程三要素。生物材料模拟体内细胞外基质,为细胞提供良好的生长附着环境,维持细胞的活力和功能。材料表面的理化性质和表面改性分子直接影响细胞的粘附、增殖、迁移和分化等细胞行为,进而影响细胞功能和组织再生效果。材料表面修饰分子是细胞表面粘附和生长的直接接触位置,因此细胞与生物材料表面修饰分子的相互作用是组织工程的关键。文中重点介绍表面修饰分子对细胞表型及功能的影响,为组织工程关键问题的研究提供参考。     

Calcite precipitation by marine bacteria∗

At the most fundamental level, inter- and intramolecular forces delineate the interface between a microorganism and a mineral surface. A new technique, termed biological force microscopy (BFM), is described that can be used to directly probe the dynamics of the mineral-microbe interface. BFM quantifies attractive and repulsive forces in the nano-Newton range between living microbial cells and mineral surfaces in aqueous solution. Native bacterial cells are linked to a force-sensor that is used in a force microscope to measure bacteria-mineral interactions as a function of the distance between the mineral surface and the cells on the sensor. The magnitudes and ranges of the measured forces reflect the chemical and structural intricacies of the mineral-microbe interface. BFM is presented with potential applications to studies assessing the role that microbes or biomolecules play in geochemical and mineralogical processes.     

Lateral and Perpendicular Interaction Forces Involved in Mobile and Immobile Adhesion of Microorganisms on Model Solid Surfaces

Gliding and near-surface swimming of microorganisms are described as a mobile form of microbial adhesion that need not necessarily be reversible. It is argued that the reversibility of microbial adhesion depends on the depth of the secondary interaction minimum, calculated from the forces between an organism and a substratum acting in a direction perpendicular to the substratum surface. The mobility of adhering microorganisms depends on lateral interactions between the organisms. On ideally homogeneous and smooth model surfaces, only mobile adhesion occurs because the multibody, lateral interactions are weak compared with the thermal or Brownian motion energy of the organisms. Minor chemical or structural heterogeneities, which exist on all real-life surfaces, yield a lateral interaction on adhering microorganisms. This causes their immobilization, which helps to explain the physicochemical nature of microbial gliding or near-surface swimming. Moreover, these lateral interaction energies are one order of magnitude smaller than the Lifshitz-Van der Waals, electrostatic, and acid-base forces acting perpendicular to substratum surfaces that are responsible for adhesion. Received: 2 April 1998 / Accepted: 26 May 1998     

The effect of subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics on the adhesion of enterobacteria

It is impossible to determine rigidly a net result of the influence of antibiotics on the interaction between parasite and host cells, as many factors participating in this process are not studied. Adhesion of microorganisms is one of the essential mechanisms of the above interaction. Antibiotics with a different mechanism of action in the subinhibitory concentrations affecting viability of microbes either slightly or nowise have been studied for their effect on adhesion on a model of the intestine section of human embryos and experimental animals. Most of antibiotics influenced differently adhesion of the microorganisms, that also depended on the species attribution of the latter. The accelerated selection of resistance during a successive passage via the suggested adhesion system was observed. The data obtained elucidated certain mechanisms of the effect of antibiotics on the microbial populations at the initial phase of the infectious process and under the primary contamination of mucosa.     

植物与土壤微生物在调控生态系统养分循环中的作用

陆地生态系统的地上、地下是相互联系的。植物与土壤微生物作为陆地生态系统中的重要组成部分, 它们之间的相互作用是生态系统地上、地下结合的重要纽带。该文首先介绍了植物在养分循环中对营养元素的吸收、积累和归还等作用, 阐述了土壤微生物对养分有效性及土壤质量具有重要的作用。其次, 重点综述了植物与土壤微生物之间相互依存、相互竞争的关系。植物通过其凋落物与分泌物为土壤微生物提供营养, 土壤微生物作为分解者提供植物可吸收的营养元素, 比如共生体菌根真菌即可使植物根与土壤真菌达到互惠。然而, 植物的养分吸收与微生物的养分固持同时存在, 因而两者之间存在对养分的竞争。通过植物多样性对土壤微生物多样性的影响分析, 以及土壤微生物直接或间接作用于植物多样性和生产力的分析, 探讨了植物物种多样性与土壤微生物多样性之间的内在联系。针对当前植物与土壤微生物对养分循环的调控机制的争论, 提出植物凋落物是调节植物与土壤微生物养分循环的良好媒介, 植物与土壤微生物的共同作用对维持整个生态系统的稳定性具有重要意义。也指出了目前在陆地生态系统地上、地下研究中存在的不足和亟待解决的问题。     

Biomineralization of metal-containing ores and concentrates

Biomining is the use of microorganisms to extract metals from sulfide and/or iron-containing ores and mineral concentrates. The iron and sulfide is microbially oxidized to produce ferric iron and sulfuric acid, and these chemicals convert the insoluble sulfides of metals such as copper, nickel and zinc to soluble metal sulfates that can be readily recovered from solution. Although gold is inert to microbial action, microbes can be used to recover gold from certain types of minerals because as they oxidize the ore, they open its structure, thereby allowing gold-solubilizing chemicals such as cyanide to penetrate the mineral. Here, we review a strongly growing microbially-based metal extraction industry, which uses either rapid stirred-tank or slower irrigation technology to recover metals from an increasing range of minerals using a diversity of microbes that grow at a variety of temperatures.     

High resolution characterization of ectomycorrhizal fungal-mineral interactions in axenic microcosm experiments

Microcosms with Pinus sylvestris seedlings in symbiosis with the fungus mycorrhizal Paxillus involutus were established, and atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to characterise plant photosynthate-driven fungal interactions with mineral surfaces. Comparison of images of the same area of the minerals before and after mycorrhizal fungal colonization showed extensive growth of hyphae on three different mineral surfaces – hornblende, biotite and chlorite. A layer of biological exudate, or biolayer, covered the entire mineral surface and was composed of globular features of diameter 10–80 nm, and the morphology of the biolayer differed among mineral types. Similar-sized components were found on the fungal hyphae, but with a more elongated profile. Biolayer and hyphae surfaces both appeared to be hydrophobic with the hyphal surfaces yielding higher maximal adhesive interactions and a wider range of values: the mean (± SE) adhesive forces were 2.63 ± 0.03 and 3.46 ± 0.18 nN for biolayer and hypha, respectively. The highest adhesion forces are preferentially localized at the hyphal surface above the Spitzenkörper region and close to the tip, with a mean interaction force in this locality of 5.24 ± 0.49 nN. Biolayer thickness was between 10 and 40 nm. The underlying mineral was easily broken up by the tip, in contrast to the native mineral. These observations of mineral surfaces colonised by mycorrhizal fungus demonstrate how fungal hyphae are able to form a layer of organic exudates, or biolayer, and its role in hyphal attachment and potential weathering of ferromagnesian silicates, which may supply nutrients to the plant.     

影响引人微生物根部定殖的因素

从外界引入的各类有益微生物如生防菌(BCA)和根际促生菌或增产菌(PGPR,YIB)到种子表面随其生根发芽而蔓延或直接到根表沿根分布定殖．外来微生物在根际定殖的过程为与根尖接触,沿根分布,最后在根际建立自己的种群．定殖的位点以PGPR为例,是表皮细胞间隙,或侧根、根毛基部．外来微生物在根际定殖动态变化的原因,由于根际生物的和非生物的因素引起的．生物因子除去外来微生物本身的生理特性,还有根际土著微生物与外来微生物的相互作用,更重要的是植物基因型对微生物定殖的影响．非生物因子包括土壤环境、土壤结构和含水量,土壤温度和土壤pH值均能影响外来微生物在根部的定殖．     

A Model Sheet Mineral System to Study Fungal Bioweathering of Mica

The general objective of this research was to examine fungal interactions with silicate minerals within the context of their roles in bioweathering. To achieve this, we used muscovite, a phyllosilicate mineral (KAl₂[(OH)₂|AlSi₃O₁₀]), in the form of a mineral sheet model system for ease of experimental manipulation and microscopic examination. It was found that test fungal species successfully colonized and degraded the surface of muscovite sheets in both laboratory and field experiments. After colonization by the common soil fungus Aspergillus niger, a network of hyphae covered the surface of the muscovite, and mineral dissolution or degradation was clearly evidenced by a network of fungal “footprints” that reflected coverage by the mycelium. For natural soil incubations, microorganisms associated with muscovite sheet material included biofilms of fungi and bacteria on the surface, while mineral encrustation or adhesion to microbial structures was also observed. Our results show that muscovite sheet is a good model mineral system for examination of microbial colonization and degradation, and this was demonstrated using laboratory and field systems, providing more evidence for the bioweathering significance of fungal activities in the context of silicate degradation and soil formation and development. The approach is also clearly applicable to other rock and mineral-based substrates and a variety of free-living and symbiotic microbial systems.     

The effect of parent material and soil development on nutrient cycling in temperate ecosystems

The parent material of a soil determines the original supply of those nutrient elements that are released by weathering and influences the balance between nutrient loss and retention. Organic acids and exudates produced by microorganisms and plants enhance the weathering of minerals and the release of nutrients. Nutrients may be stored in organic cycles or as ions adsorbed to clay and organic matter. Nutrients are lost mainly by leaching, both as dissolved ions and when associated with soluble organic components. Soil formation evidently affects these processes and modifies the environment at different depths as soil horizons develop. Strong interactions between mineral and organic colloids occur where most residues are added below ground, as in grasslands, or mixed with mineral soil by faunal activity, as in some forests. These systems tend to be nutrient conserving. The addition of organic residues to the soil surface often results in slow decomposition, the tie-up of many nutrients in biologically resistant humic materials, and the generation of organic acids that are active in leaching and chelation. These soils tend to lose nutrients by leaching and become strongly acidic with time. Leaching is strongest in uplands with net downward flows to deep water tables, and may be dampened or obviated in lowlands with strong upward fluxes due to artesian pressure or capillary rise from a water table that is close to the surface. Pedogenic features such as clayeyB horizons or duripans may alter water flow. Simonson's concepts that all basic soil-forming processes occur to some degree in all soils are critical to developing models describing soil formation and nutrient cycles.     

The possible role of soluble salts in chemical evolution

Summary A model is proposed for a prebiotic environment in which concentration, condensation, and chemical evolution of biomolecules could have taken place. The main reactions expected of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and some of their precursors in this environment are examined.The model is based on our previously developed concept of a fluctuating system in which hydration and dehydration processes take place in a cyclic manner. In the present model, however, high concentrations of soluble salts, such as chlorides and sulfates, are taken into account, whereas previously a more or less salt-free system had been assumed. Thus the preponderance of surfaces of soluble salts is implied, even though sparingly soluble minerals, such as clay minerals or quartz, are also present.During the dehydration stage biomolecules tend to leave the solution and concentrate at certain microenvironments, such as in micelles and aggregates, at the liquid-gas surface and, possibly, at the emerging solid surfaces. Moreover, in these brines, and especially during the last stages of dehydration, high temperatures are attainable, which may enhance certain reactions between the organic molecules, and result in a net increase of condensation over degradation.In the dehydrated state, solid-state condensation and synthesis reactions are possible in which the surface of soluble salts may serve as a catalyst. Several reports in the literature support this hypothesis. Hydration brings about dissolution of the minerals and redistribution of the biomolecules. In such a system, evolutionary processes like those postulated by White (1980) and by Lahav and White (1980) are possible. Moreover, since several soluble salts of known geological occurrence are optically active in their crystalline state, the involvement of the model system in the selection and evolution of chiral organic compounds should also be considered. In addition, organic molecules in the above microenvironments are also expected to undergo selective interactions based on factors such as molecular pattern and chiral recognition and hydrophobicity. The proposed system emphasizes the need to develop the theoretical background and experimental methods for the study of interactions among biomolecules in the presence of high salt concentrations and solid surfaces of soluble salts, as well as interactions between the biomolecules and these surfaces.