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APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 97, Issue 5, Pages 2173-2182Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4043-y
Keywords
Iodide-oxidizing process; Molecular iodine; Roseovarius spp.; Minimum inhibitory concentration; Growth inhibition
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- Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation
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Microbial activities in brine, seawater, or estuarine mud are involved in iodine cycle. To investigate the effects of the microbiologically induced iodine on other bacteria in the environment, a total of 13 bacteria that potentially participated in the iodide-oxidizing process were isolated from water or biofilm at a location containing 131 mu g ml(-1) iodide. Three distinct strains were further identified as Roseovarius spp. based on 16 S rRNA gene sequences after being distinguished by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Morphological characteristics of these three Roseovarius spp. varied considerably across and within strains. Iodine production increased with Roseovarius spp. growth when cultured in Marine Broth with 200 mu g ml(-1) iodide (I-). When 10(6) CFU/ml Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Bacillus pumilus were exposed to various concentrations of molecular iodine (I-2), the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were 0.5, 1.0, and 1.0 mu g ml(-1), respectively. However, fivefold increases in the MICs for Roseovarius spp. were obtained. In co-cultured Roseovarius sp. IOB-7 and E. coli in Marine Broth containing iodide (I-), the molecular iodine concentration was estimated to be 0.76 mu g ml(-1) after 24 h and less than 50 % of E. coli was viable compared to that co-cultured without iodide. The growth inhibition of E. coli was also observed in co-cultures with the two other Roseovarius spp. strains when the molecular iodine concentration was assumed to be 0.52 mu g ml(-1).
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