Effect of low temperature and culture media on the growth and freeze-thawing tolerance of Exiguobacterium strains
| Autor: | Sophia Kathariou, Robin M. Siletzky, James M. Tiedje, Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Natalie Jefferies |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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biology Exiguobacterium undae Acclimatization Exiguobacterium antarcticum Cell Culture Techniques Temperature General Medicine Freeze thawing Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods Permafrost Exiguobacterium biology.organism_classification Cold Climate General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Culture Media food Botany Agar Microbial mat Food science General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Bacteria |
| Zdroj: | Cryobiology. 54(2) |
| ISSN: | 0011-2240 |
| Popis: | Bacteria of the genus Exiguobacterium have been repeatedly isolated from ancient permafrost sediments of the Kolyma lowland of Northeast Eurasia. Here we report that the Siberian permafrost isolates Exiguobacterium sibiricum 255-15, E. sibiricum 7-3, Exiguobacterium undae 190-11 and E. sp. 5138, as well as Exiguobacterium antarcticum DSM 14480, isolated from a microbial mat sample of Lake Fryxell (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica), were able to grow at temperatures ranging from -6 to 40 degrees C. In comparison to cells grown at 24 degrees C, the cold-grown cells of these strains tended to be longer and wider. We also investigated the effect of growth conditions (broth or surface growth, and temperature) on cryotolerance of the Exiguobacterium strains. Bacteria grown in broth at 4 degrees C showed markedly greater survival following freeze-thawing treatments (20 repeated cycles) than bacteria grown in broth at 24 degrees C. Surprisingly, significant protection to repeated freeze-thawing was also observed when bacteria were grown on agar at either 4 or 24 degrees C. |
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