PIZZETTI, Ilaria, Frederik SCHULZ, Tomáš TYML, Bernhard M. FUCHS, Rudolf AMANN, Matthias HORN and Stefano FAZI. Chlamydial seasonal dynamics and isolation of ‘Candidatus Neptunochlamydia vexilliferae’from a Tyrrhenian coastal lake. Environmental Microbiology. Hoboken: WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2016, vol. 18, No 8, p. 2405-2417. ISSN 1462-2912. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13111.
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Original name Chlamydial seasonal dynamics and isolation of ‘Candidatus Neptunochlamydia vexilliferae’from a Tyrrhenian coastal lake.
Authors PIZZETTI, Ilaria (380 Italy), Frederik SCHULZ (40 Austria), Tomáš TYML (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Bernhard M. FUCHS (276 Germany), Rudolf AMANN (276 Germany), Matthias HORN (40 Austria) and Stefano FAZI (380 Italy).
Edition Environmental Microbiology, Hoboken, WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2016, 1462-2912.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10606 Microbiology
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 5.395
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/16:00094558
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13111
UT WoS 000383388800014
Keywords in English BAYESIAN PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE; TARGETED OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION; WATER-TREATMENT-PLANT; ABORTED BOVINE FETUS; RIBOSOMAL-RNA GENE; ORDER CHLAMYDIALES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHLAMYDIAE; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIA; FAMILY CHLAMYDIACEAE
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Changed by Changed by: Ing. Nicole Zrilić, učo 240776. Changed: 13/4/2018 14:06.
Abstract
The Chlamydiae are a phylum of obligate intracellular bacteria comprising important human and animal pathogens, yet their occurrence in the environment, their phylogenetic diversity and their host range has been largely underestimated. We investigated the seasonality of environmental chlamydiae in a Tyrrhenian coastal lake. By catalysed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization, we quantified the small planktonic cells and detected a peak in the abundance of environmental chlamydiae in early autumn with up to 5.9x10(4) cells ml(-1). Super-resolution microscopy improved the visualization and quantification of these bacteria and enabled the detection of pleomorphic chlamydial cells in their protist host directly in an environmental sample. To isolate environmental chlamydiae together with their host, we applied a high-throughput limited dilution approach and successfully recovered a Vexillifera sp., strain harbouring chlamydiae (93% 16S rRNA sequence identity to Simkania negevensis), tentatively named CandidatusNeptunochlamydia vexilliferae'. Transmission electron microscopy in combination with fluorescence in situ hybridization was used to prove the intracellular location of these bacteria representing the first strain of marine chlamydiae stably maintained alongside with their host in a laboratory culture. Taken together, this study contributes to a better understanding of the distribution and diversity of environmental chlamydiae in previously neglected marine environments.
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GBP505/12/G112, research and development projectName: ECIP - Evropské centrum ichtyoparazitologie
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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