Publications by authors named "Mohit Kumar Saini"

Unlabelled: The first phototrophic member of the bacterial phylum , AP64, received all its photosynthesis genes via distant horizontal gene transfer from a purple bacterium. Here, we investigated how these acquired genes, which are tightly controlled by oxygen and light in the ancestor, are integrated into the regulatory system of its new host. grew well under aerobic and semiaerobic conditions, with almost no difference in gene expression.

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The bacterium AP64 isolated from a freshwater lake in the western Gobi Desert represents the first phototrophic member of the bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadota. This strain was originally cultured on agar plates because it did not grow in liquid medium. In contrast, the closely related species TET16 grows both on solid and in liquid media.

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Strain MS-P2 was isolated from microbial mats associated with Mushroom Spring, an alkaline siliceous hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA. The isolate grows chemoheterotrophically by oxygen-dependent respiration, and light stimulates photoheterotrophic growth under strictly oxic conditions. Strain MS-P2 synthesizes bacteriochlorophyll and the carotenoid spirilloxanthin.

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is the first and until now the sole genus in the phylum (formerly ) whose members perform chlorophyll-dependent phototrophy (i.e., chlorophototrophy).

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We report here the metagenome-assembled draft genome of an uncultured filamentous anoxygenic phototroph of the phylum (formerly ), " Roseilinea sp. strain NK_OTU-006," recovered from hot spring-associated microbial mats. The 3.

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A novel thermophilic phototrophic purple sulphur bacterium was isolated from microbial mats (56 °C) at Nakabusa hot springs, Nagano prefecture, Japan. Cells were motile, rod-shaped, stain Gram-negative and stored sulphur globules intracellularly. Bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoids of the normal spirilloxanthin series were the major pigments.

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A curved-rod-shaped bacterium was isolated from a marine (100 m depth) water sample collected from Bay of Bengal, Visakhapatnam, India. Strain NIO-S14, was Gram-stain-negative, motile and pale-yellow. NIO-S14 was able to grow aerobically and anaerobically and could utilize a number of organic substrates.

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A coccoid-shaped phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium, strain AK35T, was isolated from a coastal surface water sample collected from Visakhapatnam, India. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, motile and purple, containing bacteriochlorophyll a and the carotenoid rhodopinal as major photosynthetic pigments. Strain AK35T was able to grow photoheterotrophically and could utilize a number of organic substrates.

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