title: Two species of culturable bacteria associated with degradation of brown algae Fucus evanescens.
abstract: The heterotrophic microbial enrichment community established during degradation of brown algae Fucus evanescens was characterized. A two-species bacterial community of marine culturable gamma-proteobacteria consisted of Pseudoalteromonas and Halomonas. The first member of the community, Pseudoalteromonas sp., was highly metabolically active, had bacteriolytic and hemolytic activities, produced proteinases (gelatinase and caseinase), lipases, DNases, and fucoidanhydrolases, laminaranases, alginases, pustulanases, beta-glucosidases, beta-galactosidases, beta-N-acetylglucosaminidases, and beta-xylosidases. The second member of the community, Halomonas marina, produced only caseinase and DNase, and it did not hydrolyze algal polysaccharides. Both members of the studied bacterial community utilized a range of easily assimilable monosaccharides and other low molecular weight organic substances. The results provide an evidence of the complex metabolic interrelations between two members of this culturable community. One of them Pseudoalteromonas sp., most likely plays the major role in the initial stages of algal degradation; the other one, H. marina, resistant to the bacteriolytic activity of the former, is able to utilize the products of degradation of polysaccharides.
authors.affiliation: Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022 Vladivostok, Pr. 100 Let Vladivostoku 159, Russia. eivanova@swin.edu.au
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Ivanova
authors.forename: I Yu
authors.initials: IY
authors.lastname: Bakunina
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sawabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Y V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Alexeeva
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Zhukova
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Nicolau
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Zvaygintseva
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Mikhailov
mesh_terms: D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D020632:Halomonas / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000378:metabolism; D000459:Phaeophyceae / Q000378:metabolism*; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism; D011157:Population Dynamics; D020560:Proteobacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals; D011134:Polysaccharides