2002
Molecular analysis of a bacterial chitinolytic community in an upland pasture
METCALFE, AC, Martin KRSEK, GW GOODAY, JI PROSSER, EMH WELLINGTON et. al.Základní údaje
Originální název
Molecular analysis of a bacterial chitinolytic community in an upland pasture
Autoři
METCALFE, AC, Martin KRSEK, GW GOODAY, JI PROSSER a EMH WELLINGTON
Vydání
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, WASHINGTON, AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY, 2002, 0099-2240
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 3.691
UT WoS
000178380900046
Změněno: 8. 1. 2016 11:11, doc. Ing. Martin Krsek, CSc., MSc
Anotace
V originále
The effects of agricultural-improvement treatments on the chitinolytic activity and diversity of a microbial community were investigated within an upland pasture. The treatments of interest were lime and treated sewage sludge, both commonly applied to pasture land to improve fertility. Burial of chitin-containing litter bags at the field site resulted in enrichment of bacteria according to 16S rRNA fingerprinting. Chitinolytic-activity measurements showed that the highest activity occurred in those bags recovered from sludge-amended plots, which correlated well with increased counts of actinobacteria in samples from these chitin bags. Our findings suggest that sewage sludge increases the fertility of the soil in terms of chitinase activity. Ten clone libraries were constructed from family 18 subgroup A chitinases, PCR amplified from litter bags buried in soil in July 2000 or in September 2000, in a separate study. Analysis of these libraries by restriction fragment length polymorphism and sequencing showed that they were dominated by actinobacterium-like chitinase sequences. This suggests that actinobacteria have an important chitinolytic function in this soil ecosystem. Our findings showed that sludge application increased chitinolytic activity but decreased the diversity of chitinases present.