细菌和藻类的粘附行为及其生态学意义

生活在水中的细菌和藻类粘附到物理和生物表面是一种普遍现象(Ｆｌｅｔｃｈｅｒ,1979ｂ;1980)。一根木头,一块洁净的玻璃板放入水中后表面很快被细菌和藻类占据。从水中捞起的植物碎屑表面布满细菌和藻类等生物。浮游甲壳动物和轮虫表面为绿藻和鞭毛藻等密集粘附后,原表面色泽被掩饰而表现为绿色。对细菌和藻类粘附行为的研究在很早以前就已开始,至今人们在这方面获得了相当多的认识,本文就其中的某些研究结果予以介绍。1　细菌和藻类的粘附过程细菌和藻类的粘附是一个分阶段进行的过程。最初的粘附是可逆的。在这个阶段,细菌和藻类与被粘附…     

肺炎链球菌粘附机制的研究现状

肺炎链球菌粘附宿主我肺炎链球菌侵袭、感染宿主细胞的先决条件。粘附过程是特异的,是细菌表面的粘附分子和宿主细胞膜受体相互作用的结果。英膜对肺炎链球菌的粘附无影响,而细胞壁（ＣＷ）在介导肺炎链附粘附宿主细胞过程中起重要作用;ＣＷ亚组人脂磷酸（ＬＴＡ）介导肺炎链球菌的粘附过程,并导致炎症反应;细菌表面的结构蛋白或分泌蛋白是细菌与宿主细胞连接的桥梁;肺炎链球菌能与宿主细胞外基质蛋白特异性结合,进而粘附宿主     

树舌液体深层发酵浸膏多糖在粘附中的作用

采用Sw1116细胞进行粘附试验,研究树舌液体深层发酵浸膏多糖(GAP)能否影响细菌对细胞的粘附。结果表明:GAP质量浓度为300μg/mL时,对大肠杆菌、沙门菌的细胞粘附抑制最为明显,粘附率分别降至(22.8±1.2)、(31.2±1.6)个细菌/细胞,对乳酸杆菌粘附有明显的促进作用,粘附率达(40.0±1.3)。说明树舌液体深层发酵浸膏多糖对大肠杆菌、沙门氏菌的细胞粘附具有抑制作用,对于乳酸杆菌的粘附有促进作用,提示该GAP具有调节肠道微生态的潜在应用价值。     

克拉玛依石油污染土壤微生物群落结构及其代谢特征

为了分析克拉玛依油区内土壤中正构烷烃含量间的差异,微生物群落生理多样性、微生物代谢活性在不同石油污染梯度土壤中的变化规律。本研究采用GC、平板稀释法、Biolog微平板技术探讨了土壤微生物群落特征在3种不同污染程度下的变化情况。研究表明,石油污染土壤烷烃含量与微生物代谢活性呈显著负相关(r=-0.783, p<0.05)。随着石油污染程度增加微生物数量呈下降趋势,不同石油污染土壤中细菌数量占决定优势,细菌>真菌>放线菌。不同石油污染土壤微生物群落对6大碳源的利用体现出差异。主成分分析(PCA)表明,清洁土壤与石油污染土壤对底物利用有明显差异。石油污染严重土样碳源利用率为"酯类>酸类>胺类>氨基酸类>单糖/糖苷/聚合糖类>醇类"。本研究成果为后期修复污染土壤时调整投入的碳源底物等提供科学帮助。     

牛膝多糖抑制大肠埃希菌细胞粘附的实验研究

目的 :研究牛膝多糖能否影响大肠埃希菌对细胞的粘附。方法 :使用 Hela细胞进行了粘附试验及粘附抑制试验。结果 :发现牛膝多糖浓度为 0 .8mg/ml时 ,对细菌的细胞粘附抑制最为明显 ,粘附率由(2 5 7.0± 5 .2 )个细菌 /细胞 降低到 (63 .6± 3 .6)个细菌 /细胞 。结论 :牛膝多糖对大肠埃希菌的细胞粘附具有抑制作用 ,提示该多糖具有调节肠道微生态的潜在应用价值     

采用多级连续培养系统研究水域中微生物对轻质柴油和废油的降解

采用多级连续培养系统研究了轻质柴油和污水的油(简称废油)在水域中的降解。前者是在恒温2℃和纯菌混合下培养的,后者在室温和土壤悬浮液接种下培养的,应用 Gc一2305气相色谱仪测定水中烷烃。用日立635型高压液相色谱仪测定水中的芳烃,显著地表明细菌对烷烃的降解较快,对芳烃的降解较幔。随着水的流动油从一个容器流入了下一个容器出现了连续的变化。但要去除水域中油的全部组分是不可能的。同时观察到不同油品在水中被微生物乳化和降解的速度。凝聚和吸附的行为。是研究水环境中降解较为的装置和方法。     

不动杆菌属(Acinetobacter)细菌降解石油烃的研究进展

不动杆菌属细菌分布广泛,作为重要的石油烃降解者,在乳化和降解石油烃、降低石油烃生物毒性等方面有重要作用。本文概述了不动杆菌属细菌对烷烃、芳香烃等石油烃组分的降解,总结了该属细菌中已发现的烷烃氧化酶和芳香烃氧化酶,综述了该属细菌所分泌的表面活性剂的类型和乳化机理,讨论了固定化对该属细菌降解石油烃的影响,展望了该属细菌降解石油烃的应用前景。基于此,作者认为探索不动杆菌属细菌降解石油烃的详细机理和途径、发现关键酶、寻找遗传工具、构建基因工程菌、发掘环境友好的固定化材料,应是未来的研究重点及热点。     

铜绿假单胞菌对长链烷烃的摄取模式*

研究了一株铜绿假单胞菌(CGMCC 1.1785)摄取长链烷烃的模式。铜绿假单胞菌1.1785能够以固态的长链烷烃为唯一碳源生长,在培养过程中产生表面活性代谢物。烃与水相的界面面积是细菌生长重要的影响因素,说明传质限制的存在。由于该菌不能够利用鼠李糖脂增溶的烃作为碳源,因此添加鼠李糖脂能够强化烃摄取的主要原因是烃界面的扩大。细胞表面疏水性从开始的急剧升高到后来的不断下降,说明在不同生长阶段细胞对烃的摄取模式是不同的。由此认为,铜绿假单胞菌1.1785既没有通过表面活性剂介导模式获取烃,也并非完全通过直接接     

遗传学研究在医学微生物学方面的贡献

<正> 1.遗传学实验研究能客观评价某些因子在感染过程特定阶段中的意义。如,利用遗传学方法曾发现普通的细菌纤毛虽然与粘附力有关,但无助于细菌侵入细胞内。固此可以假定:志贺氏菌粘附于上皮细胞并开始侵入过程的上皮细胞表面的受体与其菌毛受体不同。标记细菌的研究证明:福氏志贺氏菌O抗原(抗原3.1)脂多糖的主要结构不仅参于与吞噬细胞的相互作用,而且也参于细菌粘附于上皮细胞的过程。各种生化型的R突变株在上皮细胞组织培养中并不留下痕迹,而在有着正常抗原结构的痢疾菌株侵入的上皮细胞内呈现明显的示踪标记,这表明假设的侵入因子也参于粘附过程。以前称为型特异性成分的脂多糖第二侧链,在侵入上皮细胞过程中不具重要作用,虽曾报导它对机体的体液和细胞防预因子有很大的抵     

烫伤创面绿脓杆菌定植动态的实验研究

本文从细菌以多细胞生理活动观点出发,以认识定植稳定过程为目的。进行了实验大白鼠烫伤创面绿脓杆菌定植与抗定植动态观察。通过用铁浸染色法对细菌群体结构定量化研究,用糖包被负染法对群体结构内部结构观察,对粘附在组织表面细菌数量的测定,反映结构与粘附力的关系。进一步结合电镜观察及细菌生长状态的分析,证明了烫伤创面上绿脓杆菌群体结构的形成是细菌分裂繁殖所致。通过群体结构,糖包被,粘附力及生长状态的动态观察,表现出与定植的稳定程度呈平行关系,显示其重要性。联系抗定植力研究,表明定植与抗定植的一致性。最后分析了定植三个主要条件,和稳定性定植的三要素。     

Possible Impact of a Primordial Oil Slick on Atmospheric and Chemical Evolution

Low molecular weight liquid hydrocarbons from various sources, could have formed an oil layer covering the primeval ocean (present already 4.0–4.4 × 10⁹ yr ago), preventing water from evaporating into the atmosphere. Water from other sources, precipitated by cold traps at higher altitude in the atmosphere, becomes trapped in the ocean. In a thereby more dry and presumably reducing atmosphere (before 3.9 × 10⁹ yr ago) even more hydrocarbons, as well as reactive molecules will form. An oil layer can possibly act as a dry solvent for reactions, where the reactive molecules can produce monomers and condensing agents. Monomers and eventual polymers formed could become strongly concentrated at the oil-water interface, favouring molecular interactions at high mobility and low dilution, without exposure to the destructive action of UV-light. Increased water leakiness of the oil layer due to accumulation of polar molecules within, would lead to photo-oxidation of liquid hydrocarbons, and subsequent emulsification at the oil-water interface, forming cellular structures. The atmosphere would then have lost its reducing character.     

Bacterial influence on partitioning rate during the biodegradation of styrene in a biphasic aqueous-organic system

The degradation by a consortium of slightly-halophile marine bacteria of styrene initially dissolved in silicone oil was monitored in batch reactors stirred at 75, 125 and 500 rpm, respectively. In the 75 and 125 rpm cases, the styrene biodegradation rate was higher than the rate of spontaneous partitioning of styrene from the oil to the water, determined under abiotic conditions. Abiotic transfer tests carried out after biodegradation runs revealed that bacterial activity had resulted in a significant increase in the rate of styrene partitioning between the two liquid phases. Even though bacterial adsorption was noticeable at the oil-water interface, this effect appeared to be due to the release by the bacteria of chemicals in the aqueous phase. Similarity with observations made with Triton X-100 suggested that the chemicals released may have been biosurfactants or solubilizing agents.     

The SC3 hydrophobin self-assembles into a membrane with distinct mass transfer properties

Hydrophobins are a class of small proteins that fulfill a wide spectrum of functions in fungal growth and development. They do so by self-assembling into an amphipathic membrane at hydrophilic-hydrophobic interfaces. The SC3 hydrophobin of Schizophyllum commune is the best-studied hydrophobin. It assembles at the air-water interface into a membrane consisting of functional amyloid fibrils that are called rodlets. Here we examine the dynamics of SC3 assembly at an oil-water and air-water interface and the permeability characteristics of the assembled layer. Hydrophobin assembled at an oil-water interface is a dynamic system capable of emulsifying oil. It accepts soluble-state SC3 oligomers from water in a unidirectional process and sloughs off SC3 vesicles back into the water phase enclosing a portion of the oil phase in their hydrophobic interior. The assembled layer is impermeable to solutes >200 Da from either the water phase or the oil phase; however, due to the emulsification process, oil and the hydrophobic marker molecules in the oil phase can be transferred into the water phase, thus giving the impression that the assembled layer is permeable to the marker molecules. By contrast, the layer assembled at an air-water interface is permeable to water vapor from either the hydrophobic or hydrophilic side.     

Physical and metabolic interactions of Pseudomonas sp. strain JA5-B45 and Rhodococcus sp. strain F9-D79 during growth on crude oil and effect of a chemical surfactant on them

Methods to enhance crude oil biodegradation by mixed bacterial cultures, for example, (bio)surfactant addition, are complicated by the diversity of microbial populations within a given culture. The physical and metabolic interactions between Rhodococcus sp. strain F9-D79 and Pseudomonas sp. strain JA5-B45 were examined during growth on Bow River crude oil. The effects of a nonionic chemical surfactant, Igepal CO-630 (nonylphenol ethoxylate), also were evaluated. Strain F9-D79 grew attached to the oil-water interface and produced a mycolic acid-containing capsule. Crude oil emulsification and surface activity were associated with the cellular fraction. Strain JA5-B45 grew in the aqueous phase and was unable to emulsify oil, but cell-free supernatants mediated kerosene-water emulsion formation. In coculture, stable emulsions were formed and strain JA5-B45 had an affinity for the capsule produced by strain F9-D79. Igepal CO-630 inhibited F9-D79 cells from adhering to the interface, and cells grew dispersed in the aqueous phase as 0.5-microm cocci rather than 2.5-microm rods. The surfactant increased total petroleum hydrocarbon removal by strain JA5-B45 from 4 to 22% and included both saturated compounds and aromatics. In coculture, TPH removal increased from 13 to 40% following surfactant addition. The culture pH normally increased from 7.0 to between 7.5 and 8.5, although addition of Igepal CO-630 to F9-D79 cultures resulted in a drop to pH 5.5. We suggest a dual role for the nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactant in the coculture: (i) to improve hydrocarbon uptake by strain JA5-B45 through emulsification and (ii) to prevent strain F9-D79 from adhering to the oil-water interface, indirectly increasing hydrocarbon availability. These varied effects on hydrocarbon biodegradation could explain some of the known diversity of surfactant effects.     

Rapid exchange of pancreatic lipase between triacylglycerol droplets

Two types of experiments were performed to study the reversibility of interfacial adsorption of pancreatic lipase (PL) to fat droplets during lipolysis. Lipolysis was measured in olive oil/gum arabic emulsions containing radiolabeled triolein in the presence of bile salts and lecithin at rate-limiting concentrations of porcine PL (PPL) or human PL (HPL). The lipolysis rate in a labeled emulsion, i.e. release of [(14)C]oleic acid, was immediately reduced by around 50% upon dilution with an equal amount of an unlabeled emulsion. Further, lipolysis was rapidly and completely suppressed when a non-exchanging lipase inhibitor was present in the second emulsion. These results indicate hopping of lipase between emulsion droplets. Alternative explanations were excluded. Hopping of PL between triolein droplets stabilized with gum arabic at supramicellar bile salt concentrations was observed only in the presence, not in the absence, of lecithin. Displacement from a trioctanoin-water interface of active HPL by an inactive mutant (S152G) was studied in the presence of bile salts by measuring HPL distribution between the water phase and the oil-water interface. Colipase was limiting for HPL binding to the oil-water interface (colipase to lipase molar ratio: 0.5) and, thus, for lipolysis. Upon adding S152G, which has the same affinity for colipase, inactive and active HPL were found to compete for binding at the oil-water interface. When equal amounts of HPL and HPL S152G were used, the lipolysis rate dropped to half the maximum rate recorded with HPL alone, suggesting that half the active HPL was rapidly desorbed from the oil-water interface. Therefore, under various conditions, PL does not remain irreversibly adsorbed to the oil-water interface, but can exchange rapidly between oil droplets, via an equilibrium between soluble and lipid-bound PL.     

Physical and Metabolic Interactions of Pseudomonas sp. Strain JA5-B45 and Rhodococcus sp. Strain F9-D79 during Growth on Crude Oil and Effect of a Chemical Surfactant on Them

Methods to enhance crude oil biodegradation by mixed bacterial cultures, for example, (bio)surfactant addition, are complicated by the diversity of microbial populations within a given culture. The physical and metabolic interactions between Rhodococcus sp. strain F9-D79 and Pseudomonas sp. strain JA5-B45 were examined during growth on Bow River crude oil. The effects of a nonionic chemical surfactant, Igepal CO-630 (nonylphenol ethoxylate), also were evaluated. Strain F9-D79 grew attached to the oil-water interface and produced a mycolic acid-containing capsule. Crude oil emulsification and surface activity were associated with the cellular fraction. Strain JA5-B45 grew in the aqueous phase and was unable to emulsify oil, but cell-free supernatants mediated kerosene-water emulsion formation. In coculture, stable emulsions were formed and strain JA5-B45 had an affinity for the capsule produced by strain F9-D79. Igepal CO-630 inhibited F9-D79 cells from adhering to the interface, and cells grew dispersed in the aqueous phase as 0.5-μm cocci rather than 2.5-μm rods. The surfactant increased total petroleum hydrocarbon removal by strain JA5-B45 from 4 to 22% and included both saturated compounds and aromatics. In coculture, TPH removal increased from 13 to 40% following surfactant addition. The culture pH normally increased from 7.0 to between 7.5 and 8.5, although addition of Igepal CO-630 to F9-D79 cultures resulted in a drop to pH 5.5. We suggest a dual role for the nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactant in the coculture: (i) to improve hydrocarbon uptake by strain JA5-B45 through emulsification and (ii) to prevent strain F9-D79 from adhering to the oil-water interface, indirectly increasing hydrocarbon availability. These varied effects on hydrocarbon biodegradation could explain some of the known diversity of surfactant effects.     

Surface-active compounds and their role in the access to hydrocarbons in Gordonia strains

Three new bacterial strains (M22, BS25 and BS29) belonging to the Gordonia genus were isolated from a site chronically contaminated by diesel. Those Gordonia strains were able to grow using a wide range of straight and branched aliphatic hydrocarbons as carbon and energy sources and to produce at least two classes of surface-active compounds. Emulsifying agents were released in the culture medium when bacteria grew both on hydrocarbons and water-soluble substrates. Cell-bound biosurfactants, which reduce the surface tension, were produced on hydrocarbons; however, their production was significantly lower on water soluble substrates. The relationship of growth phase, surface-active compound production and cell-surface properties was analyzed in kinetic experiments on hydrocarbons. Gordonia sp. BS29 synthesized, and released extracellularly, bioemulsans during the exponential phase with n-hexadecane as carbon and energy source. The production of biosurfactants started in the exponential phase and their concentration increased during the following linear growth. Furthermore, the adhesion of bacterial cells to hydrocarbons decreased during growth. Our results led us to hypothesize a change in the mode by which Gordonia cells access the substrate during growth on hydrocarbons.     

Adhesion to the hydrocarbon phase increases phenanthrene degradation by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Pseudomonas fluorescens</Emphasis> LP6a

Microbial adhesion is an important factor that can influence biodegradation of poorly water soluble hydrocarbons such as phenanthrene. This study examined how adhesion to an oil–water interface, as mediated by 1-dodecanol, enhanced phenanthrene biodegradation by Pseudomonas fluorescens LP6a. Phenanthrene was dissolved in heptamethylnonane and added to the aerobic aqueous growth medium to form a two phase mixture. 1-Dodecanol was non-toxic and furthermore could be biodegraded slowly by this strain. The alcohol promoted adhesion of the bacterial cells to the oil–water interface without significantly changing the interfacial or surface tension. Introducing 1-dodecanol at concentrations from 217 to 4,100 mg l⁻¹ increased phenanthrene biodegradation by about 30% after 120 h incubation. After 100 h incubation, cultures initially containing 120 or 160 mg l⁻¹ 1-dodecanol had mineralized >10% of the phenanthrene whereas those incubated without 1-dodecanol had mineralized only 4.5%. The production and accumulation of putative phenanthrene metabolites in the aqueous phase of cultures likewise increased in response to the addition of 1-dodecanol. The results suggest that enhanced adhesion of bacterial cells to the oil–water interface was the main factor responsible for enhanced biodegradation of phenanthrene to presumed polar metabolites and to CO₂.     

Stabilization of Oil-Water Emulsions by Hydrophobic Bacteria

Formation of oil-water emulsions during bacterial growth on hydrocarbons is often attributed to biosurfactants. Here we report the ability of certain intact bacterial cells to stabilize oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions without changing the interfacial tension, by inhibition of droplet coalescence as observed in emulsion stabilization by solid particles like silica.     

Stabilization of oil-water emulsions by hydrophobic bacteria

Formation of oil-water emulsions during bacterial growth on hydrocarbons is often attributed to biosurfactants. Here we report the ability of certain intact bacterial cells to stabilize oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions without changing the interfacial tension, by inhibition of droplet coalescence as observed in emulsion stabilization by solid particles like silica.