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Microbiology | 2001

The Role of Cell-Surface Lectins in the Aggregation of Azospirilla

V. E. Nikitina; E. G. Ponomareva; S. A. Alen'kina; S. A. Konnova

The mutant strain Azospirillum brasilenseSp7.2.3 with impaired lectin activity exhibited poorer cell aggregation than its parent strain A. brasilenseSp7(S) both in the exponential and stationary growth phases. The pretreatment of bacterial cells with the specific haptens (L-fucose and D-galactose) of a lectin located at the cell surface of the mutant strain was found to inhibit the aggregation of azospirilla. The specific binding of the A. brasilenseSp7(S) lectin to the extracellular polysaccharide-containing complexes of this strain was revealed by dot immunoblotting on nitrocellulose membrane filters. The interaction of the lectins of A. brasilense75, A. brasilenseSp7, and A. lipoferum59b with the polysaccharide-containing complexes that were isolated from these strains was not specific. No interstrain cross-interaction between the exopolysaccharides and lectins of azospirilla was found. A coflocculation of A. brasilenseSp7 cells with Bacillus polymyxa1460 cells was shown. The involvement of autogenous lectins in the aggregation of bacterial cells is discussed.


Microbiology | 2010

Phenol oxidase activity in bacteria of the genus Azospirillum

V. E. Nikitina; E. P. Vetchinkina; E. G. Ponomareva; Yu. V. Gogoleva

Phenol oxidase activity was detected for the first time in a number of strains belonging to various Azospirillum species. Both extracellular and intracellular activities of laccase, Mn-peroxidase, lignin peroxidase, and tyrosinase were observed. Extracellular enzymes were found to have higher activity. Significant differences in phenol oxidase activities were observed between species and strains.


Microbiology | 2009

Hemagglutinating activity and motility of the bacterium Azospirillum brasilense in the presence of various nitrogen sources

A. V. Shelud’ko; E. G. Ponomareva; O. E. Varshalomidze; E. P. Vetchinkina; E. I. Katsy; V. E. Nikitina

Hemagglutinating activity of the Azospirillum brasilense strain Sp245 grown in liquid media and the swarming motility of those bacteria grown in semisolid media vary significantly depending on the nitrogen source. In media with nitrate or nitrite, an increase in the hemagglutinating activity and a decrease in the swarming circles’ diameter of Sp245 were observed, compared to bacteria grown in the presence of ammonium or N2. A ∼67-kDa hemagglutinin exhibiting affinity to the O-specific polysaccharide, an acidic D-rhamnan (OPS-I), was isolated from the surface of Sp245 cells. Introduction of the hemagglutinin into the media resulted in a decrease in the Sp245 cell motility while not affecting its mutants lacking the acidic D-rhamnan or the Sp245.5 mutant with a different OPS structure. Cells of strain Sp245.5 demonstrated hemagglutinating activity two times higher than that of the parent Sp245 strain and formed “diffuse” colonies, rather than distinct swarming circles Sp245 formed when grown in a semisolid medium. The data obtained demonstrate that intercellular contacts mediated by the interaction between the surface hemagglutinin and OPS-I, which is sensitive to environmental factors, affect the collective motility of cells.


Microbiology | 2013

Biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles by Azospirillum brasilense

M. A. Kupryashina; E. P. Vetchinkina; A. M. Burov; E. G. Ponomareva; V. E. Nikitina

Plant-associated nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria Azospirillum brasilense were shown to reduce the gold of chloroauric acid to elemental gold, resulting in formation of gold nanoparticles. Extracellular phenoloxidizing enzymes (laccases and Mn peroxidases) were shown to participate in reduction of Au+3 (HAuCl4) to Au0. Transmission electron microscopy revealed accumulation of colloidal gold nanoparticles of diverse shape in the culture liquid of A. brasilense strains Sp245 and Sp7. The size of the electron-dense nanospheres was 5 to 50 nm, and the size of nanoprisms varied from 5 to 300 nm. The tentative mechanism responsible for formation of gold nanoparticles is discussed.


Microbiology | 2016

Changes in cell surface properties and biofilm formation efficiency in Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 mutants in the putative genes of lipid metabolism mmsB1 and fabG1

E. M. Shumilova; A. V. Shelud’ko; Yu. A. Filip’echeva; S. S. Evstigneeva; E. G. Ponomareva; L. P. Petrova; E. I. Katsy

The previously obtained insertion mutants of Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 in the genes mmsB1 and fabG1 (strains SK039 and Sp245.1610, respectively) were characterized by impaired flagellation and motility. The putative products of expression of these genes are 3-hydroxyisobutyrate dehydrogenase and 3-oxoacyl-[acyl-carrier protein] reductase, respectively. In the present work, A. brasilense strains Sp245, SK039, and Sp245.1610 were found to have differences in the content of 3-hydroxyhexadecanoic, hexadecanoic, 3-hydroxytetradecanoic, hexadecenoic, octadecenoic, and nonadecanoic acids in their lipopolysaccharide preparations, as well as in cell hydrophobicity and hemagglutination activity and dynamics of cell aggregation, in biomass amount, and in the relative content of lipopolysaccharide antigens in mature biofilms formed on hydrophilic or hydrophobic surfaces.


Microbiology | 2015

Ligninolytic activity of bacteria of the genera Azospirillum and Niveispirillum

M. A. Kupryashina; S. V. Petrov; E. G. Ponomareva; V. E. Nikitina

Capacity of associative soil bacteria of the genera Azospirillum and Niveispirillum for degradation of lignin model compounds was demonstrated. Lignin and Mn peroxidases were detected in the culture liquid of the type strains of these genera. The data on involvement of nonspecific bacterial peroxidases in lignin degradation were obtained.


Microbiology | 2018

Phenol Oxidase Activity of Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 Mutants with Modified Motility and Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 Phase Variants with Different Plasmid Composition

E. G. Ponomareva; M. A. Kupryashina; A. V. Shelud’ko; L. P. Petrova; E. P. Vetchinkina; E. I. Katsy; V. E. Nikitina

Herein, we reveal the alteration in phenol oxidase enzymes complex production from Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 omegon mutants with polar and lateral flagella dysfunction and from A. brasilense Sp7 phase variants with different plasmid composition. The enzymatic activities for various laccases, tyrosinases, Mnperoxidases, and lignin peroxidases as well as the isomorphic composition of intracellular laccases and tyrosinases were estimated for the studied variants and the parent strains. It was noted that various genetic events correlating with phenotypic heterogeneity in A. brasilense populations affect their phenol oxidase activity level.


Microbiology | 2013

Tyrosinases of motile Azospirillum strains

E. P. Vetchinkina; E. G. Ponomareva; Yu. V. Gogoleva; V. E. Nikitina

A number of motile strains of Azospirillum brasilense, A. lipoferum, and A. irakense, were found to possess tyrosinase activity both on the surface of and inside the cells. A. brasilense Sp245, Sp7, and A. irakense KBC-1 each possessed two forms of tyrosinase of different molecular masses; A. lipoferum 43, A. lipoferum 59b, and A. irakense KA-3 each had a single tyrosinase form of approximately the same molecular mass; and A. brasilense Sp107 possessed a single form of tyrosinase different from all the other forms.


Microbiology | 1996

Role of lectins of the cell surface of azospirilla in association with wheat roots

V. E. Nikitina; S. A. Alen'kina; E. G. Ponomareva; N. N. Savenkova


Chemistry. Biology. Ecology | 2017

Analysis of Protease Effect on Biofilm Structure of Azospirillum Brasilense Strain Sp245 and Its Flagellation-Defective mmsB1 and fabG1 Mutants

E. I. Katsy; E. M. Telesheva; D. N. Sinyakin; A. V. Shelud’ko; Yu. A. Filip’echeva; E. G. Ponomareva; L. P. Petrova

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V. E. Nikitina

Russian Academy of Sciences

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A. V. Shelud’ko

Russian Academy of Sciences

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E. I. Katsy

Russian Academy of Sciences

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E. P. Vetchinkina

Russian Academy of Sciences

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L. P. Petrova

Russian Academy of Sciences

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M. A. Kupryashina

Russian Academy of Sciences

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E. M. Shumilova

Russian Academy of Sciences

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S. A. Alen'kina

Russian Academy of Sciences

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S. S. Evstigneeva

Russian Academy of Sciences

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Yu. V. Gogoleva

Russian Academy of Sciences

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