Search results for "biologia generale"
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Aromatic aminoacids and Calcium Dependent Antibiotic:Relation of primary metabolism to antibiotic production in Actinomycetes
2007
Greenhouse gas as a nutrient: methanotrophic activity in soils of hydrothermal systems
2012
Methane is the most abundant hydrocarbon in the atmosphere and a significant contributor to the radiative forcing with a global warming potential about 21 times that of CO2. Methane is released to the atmosphere by a wide number of sources, both natural and anthropogenic, with the latter being twice as large as the former. Significant amounts of geological methane, produced within the Earth’s crust (e.g. volcanic/geothermal areas), are currently released into the atmosphere (48 Tg CH4/y). Microbial oxidation in soils by methanotrophic bacteria contributes to the removal of CH4 from the atmosphere for about 3-9%. Methanotrophs belong to the Gamma- and Alpha-proteobacteria and to the recently…
Exploring methanotrophic activity in geothermal soils from Pantelleria Island (Italy)
2012
Methane is released to the atmosphere by a wide number of natural (geological and biological) and anthropogenic sources, and is the second most important greenhouse gas after CO2. Microbial oxidation in soils by methanotrophic bacteria contributes to the removal of CH4 from the atmosphere and methanotrophic activity was also detected in volcanic/geothermal areas where degassing of endogenous gases occurs. Our aim is to describe the methanotrophs at the main exhalative area of Le Favare site at Pantelleria Island, where high CH4 consumption (up to 950 ng/g/ per h) was measured. Total soil bacterial diversity was analysed by TTGE of amplified 16S rRNA genes and the diversity of proteobacteria…
Microbiology meets geochemistry: geothermal flux shapes different microbial communities at the same exhalative area
2015
Volcanic/geothermal areas are sites of complex interactions between geosphere and biosphere. Pantelleria island (Southern Mediterranean Sea) hosts a high enthalpy geothermal system characterized by high CH4 and low H2S fluxes. Two sites, FAV1 and FAV2, located a few meters apart at the main exhalative area of the island (Favara Grande), recorded similar physical conditions (soil temperature 60°C, soil gas composition enriched in CH4, H2 and CO2). However, while high methanotrophic activity (59.2 nmol g-1 h-1) and high diversity of methanotrophs was detected at FAV2, FAV1 was not active and appeared deprived of methanotrophs (1). Our aim was to investigate the main factors influencing methan…
Characterization of the regulatory genes for the production of the glycopeptide antibiotic A40926 by Nonomuraea ATCC 39727
2009
Regulation of physiological differentiation in Nonomuraea sp. ATCC 39727
2014
The Actinomycete Nonomuraea produces the glycopeptide A40926, precursor of dalbavancin, a novel lipoglycopeptide homologous to vancomycin that could be used against emerging resistant Gram-positive bacteria. The A40926 biosynthetic gene cluster (dbv), which consists of 37 genes, encodes two regulators, Dbv3 (LuxR-like) and Dbv4 (StrR-like), as well as the response regulator (Dbv6) and the sensor-kinase (Dbv22) of a putative two-component system. Previous work demonstrated a positive role of Dbv4 in antibiotic production by activating the transcription of 13 dbv genes; up to now no role was assigned to Dbv3, Dbv6 and Dbv22. In addition, an IclR-like protein is thought to be involved in dbv4 …
AEROBIC 1,2-DICHLOROETHANE DEGRADERS IN CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER
2022
Characterization of two Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) small orfs from the major locus of histidine biosynthesis.
2009
Corrigendum to Soil microbial biomass and bacterial diversity in southern European regions vulnerable to desertification [Ecol. Indicat. 145 (2022) 1…
2023
The authors regret the incorrect publication of legend for Table 1 and Table 3 in black/white in the original article. The complete legend for Table 1 and Table 3 with colours, indicating degree of significance, are presented below.