A new cyanobacterial genus Altericista and three species, A. lacusladogae sp. nov., A. violacea sp. nov., and A. variichlora sp. nov., described using a polyphasic approach.

Several strains of unicellular cyanobacteria from the culture collection of St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia (CALU), which were preliminary identified as Synechocystis sp.

Chloroplast history clarified by the criterion of light-harvesting complex.

Bacterial essence of mitochondria and chloroplasts was initially proclaimed in general outline. Later, the remarkable insight gave way to an elaborate hypothesis. Finally, it took shape of a theory confirmed by molecular biology data.

The ambiguity of the basic terms related to eukaryotes and the more consistent etymology based on eukaryotic signatures in Asgard archaea.

The endosymbiosis theory most widely accepted variant surmises the engulfment of a bacterial cell by an archaeal cell. For decades, this scenario was reputed to be an unconfirmed hypothesis, and only recently it has obtained an indirect proof in Asgard archaea environmental DNA encoding eukaryotic signatures - actin cytoskeleton, small GTPases, and ESCRT complex. In view of growing interest to this aspect of the endosymbiosis theory, it seemed timely to revisit the basic terms eukaryotic cell/eukaryotes/nucleated organisms.

Delftia acidovorans pseudo outbreak in portable reverse osmosis machines: Interventions to ensure safe and cost-effective hemodialysis.

Introduction: Reverse osmosis (RO), a major advance in hemodialysis (HD) safety, effectively clears most water organisms. Delftia acidovorans is an environmental water-borne pathogen that is rarely reported to cause human infections. We report a pseudo outbreak caused by colonization of RO machines with D acidovorans with no reported human infections and interventions to improve HD safety.

Testing culture purity in prokaryotes: criteria and challenges.

Reliance on pure cultures was introduced at the beginning of microbiology as a discipline and has remained significant although their adaptive properties are essentially dissimilar from those of mixed cultures and environmental populations. They are needed for (i) taxonomic identification; (ii) diagnostics of pathogens; (iii) virulence and pathogenicity studies; (iv) elucidation of metabolic properties; (v) testing sensitivity to antibiotics; (vi) full-length genome assembly; (vii) strain deposition in microbial collections; and (viii) description of new species with name validation. Depending on the specific task there are alternative claims for culture purity, i.

Draft genome of CCAP 1490/1 (CALU1027), the chlorophyll containing filamentous cyanobacterium.

is filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacterium which possesses the chlorophyll / light-harvesting complexes. Despite the growing interest in unusual green-pigmented cyanobacteria (prochlorophytes) to date only a few sequenced genome from prochlorophytes genera have been reported. This study sequenced the genome of CCAP 1490/1 (CALU1027).

CHARACTERISTICS OF A172 AND T98G CELL LINES.

During continuous cultivation cell lines can lose a number of innate characteristics or acquire new ones. In this work we compared growth and phenotypic characteristics of human glioblastoma À172 and Ò98G lines from cell culture collection of Research Institute of Influenza of Ministry of Health of Russian Federation (St. Petersburg).

[PRODUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PANEL OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES AGAINST HUMAN ENDOGLIN].

Endoglin (CD105) is the marker of endothelial and mesenchymal stem cells and the component of TGF-β, BMP-9 and BMP-10-binding receptor complexes. Its expression is significantly increased on blood vessels endothelium of ischemic tissues and growing tumors. Measurement of concentration of the soluble endoglin in the serum or urine is used as a method for diagnosing cancer and pregnancy disorders.

Consortium of the 'bichlorophyllous' cyanobacterium Prochlorothrix hollandica and chemoheterotrophic partner bacteria: culture and metagenome-based description.

'Bacterial consortium' sensu lato applies to mutualism or syntrophy-based systems consisting of unrelated bacteria. Consortia of cyanobacteria have been preferentially studied on Anabaena epibioses; non-photosynthetic satellites of other filamentous or unicellular cyanobacteria were also considered although structure-functional data are few. At the same time, information about consortia of cyanobacteria which have light-harvesting antennae distinct from standard phycobilisome was missing.

[Intracellular immunoglobulins in Namalwa and U266 cells co-cultivated with mesenchymal stromal cells].

There are contradictory data concerning the influence of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) on immunoglobulin (Ig) production. Most of them were obtained using MSC from bone marrow. Properties of MSC from other tissues are elusive.

Proposal to consistently apply the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) to names of the oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria (cyanobacteria), including those validly published under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN)/International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (ICN), and proposal to change Principle 2 of the ICNP.

This taxonomic note was motivated by the recent proposal [Oren & Garrity (2014) Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 64, 309-310] to exclude the oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria (cyanobacteria) from the wording of General Consideration 5 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), which entails unilateral coverage of these prokaryotes by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN; formerly the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, ICBN). On the basis of key viewpoints, approaches and rules in the systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature of prokaryotes it is reciprocally proposed to apply the ICNP to names of cyanobacteria including those validly published under the ICBN/ICN. For this purpose, a change to Principle 2 of the ICNP is proposed to enable validation of cyanobacterial names published under the ICBN/ICN rules.

Characteristics of mesenchymal stromal cells isolated from patients with breast cancer.

Mesenchymal stromal cells were isolated from the adipose tissue obtained during surgery for breast cancer and cultured under conditions of normal or low oxygen concentrations. In patients that had received a course of radiation and polychemotherapy prior to surgery, the proliferative potential of mesenchymal stromal cells was irreversibly disturbed. In patients receiving no therapy prior to surgery, the morphological, growth, phenotypic, and differentiation characteristics of mesenchymal stromal cells did not differ from the corresponding parameters of mesenchymal stromal cells from healthy donors.

[Influence of mesenchymal stromal cells on B-cell line growth and immunoglobulin synthesis].

A number of publications contain contradictory data about influence of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) on B-lymphocyte growth, differentiation and production of immunoglobulins (Ig). The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of MSC derived from adipose tissue of healthy donors and cancer patients on the proliferation and Ig synthesis of lymphoblastoid cell line Namalva and myeloma cell line U266. Co-cultivation of Namalva cells with MSC stimulated their proliferation, decreased the doubling time and the minimal effective seeding dose and therefore made cloning of these lymphoblastoid cells possible.

Cyanobacteria of the genus prochlorothrix.

Green cyanobacteria differ from the blue-green cyanobacteria by the possession of a chlorophyll-containing light-harvesting antenna. Three genera of the green cyanobacteria namely Acaryochloris, Prochlorococcus, and Prochloron are unicellular and inhabit marine environments. Prochlorococcus marinus attracts most attention due to its prominent role in marine primary productivity.

[Baeocytes in the cyanobacterium Pleurocapsa sp.: characterization of the differentiated cells produced by multiple fission].

Electron microscopy of cyanobacteria Pleurocapsa sp. CALU 1126 revealed that multiple fission proceeds by successive binary fissions. The cultivation conditions were determined when the number of baeocytes (products of multiple fission) was comparable with that of macrocytes (products of binary fission), and cell sorting was achieved for the first time.

[Chromatin morphology and cytokinesis in pleurocapsalean cyanobacteria].

By means of differential interference contrast (DIC) and fluorescence microscopy, chromatin morphology and cytokinesis have been described in the cyanobacterium Pleurocapsa sp. CALU 1126 capable of multiple fission (multiple reproduction of the mother cell, the macrocyte, with formation of unique reproductive cells, the baeocytes). Two kinds of chromatin behavior have been revealed in the cell cycle: 1) the formation of numerous chromatin areas before their compartmentalization by multiple fission; 2) chromatin condensation in the phase of binary fission, and chromatin decondensation in growth period.

Association of chlorophyll a/b-binding Pcb proteins with photosystems I and II in Prochlorothrix hollandica.

Action spectra for photosystem II (PSII)-driven oxygen evolution and of photosystem I (PSI)-mediated H(2) photoproduction and photoinhibition of respiration were used to determine the participation of chlorophyll (Chl) a/b-binding Pcb proteins in the functions of pigment apparatus of Prochlorothrix hollandica. Comparison of the in situ action spectra with absorption spectra of PSII and PSI complexes isolated from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803 revealed a shoulder at 650 nm that indicated presence of Chl b in the both photosystems of P. hollandica.

[Isolation and characterization of a unicellular manganese-oxidizing bacterium from a freshwater lake in northwestern Russia].

A unicellular manganese-oxidizing bacterium (strain L7), isolated from Lake Ladoga, is identified as "Siderocapsa" sp. according to its morphology. However, this bacterium belongs to the phylogenetic cluster of Pseudomonas putida.

Study of Molecular Karyotypes in Amoeboaphelidium protococcarum,the Endotrophic Parasite of Chlorophycean alga Scenedesmus.

On the basis of the pulsed field gel electrophoresis(PFGE) technique, molecular karyotypes in Amoeboaphelidiumprotococcarum (the endotrophic parasite of chlorophycean algae, whichcombines protozoon- and fungus-type characters) were determined. Molecularkaryotypes in the strains X1, X5, and X31, which differ in the host range andoriginate from Western, Central, and Eastern Euro-Asia respectively,demonstrate the intrageneric polymorphism-from 7 to 13 chDNA bands-with theestimated molecular size of 0.3-2.