Vibrio fischeri

Ulitzer and Hastings, 1979 Riendeau and Meighen, 1980). The chemical structure of the autoinducer of P. (Vibrio) fischeri was determined by Eberhard et al. (1981) to be an acylhomoserine lactone (1), shown below. The autoinducer of Vibrio harveyi was found to be another acylhomoserine lactone (2) by Cao and Meighen (1989). 

Baldwin, T. O., et al. (1989). The complete nucleotide sequence of the lux regulon of Vibrio fischeri and the luxABN region of bacterial bioluminescence. ]. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 4 326-341. 

Boylan, M., etal. (1989). Lux C, D and E genes of the Vibrio fischeri luminescence operon code for the reductase, transferase and synthetase enzymes involved in aldehyde biosynthesis. Photochem. Photobiol. 49 681-688. 

Cho, K. W., Lee, H. J., and Shim, S. C. (1986). Regeneration of the monooxy-genating intermediate by hydrogen peroxide in bacterial biolumines-cent reaction of Vibrio fischeri. Han guk Saenghwa Hakhoechi 19 151-154. 

Cho, K. W., Colepicolo, P., and Hastings, J. W. (1989). Autoinduction and aldehyde chain-length effects on the bioluminescent emission from the yellow protein associated with luciferase in Vibrio fischeri strain Y-lb. Photochetn. Photobiol. 50 671-677. 

Daubner, S. C., and Baldwin, T. O. (1989). Interaction between luciferase from various species of bioluminescent bacteria and the Yellow Fluorescent Protein of Vibrio fischeri strain Y-l. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 161 1191-1198. 

Eckstein, J. W., et al. (1990). A time-dependent bacterial bioluminescence emission spectrum in an in vitro single turnover system energy transfer alone cannot account for the yellow emission of Vibrio fischeri Y-l. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87 1466-1470. 

Foran, D. R., and Brown, W. M. (1988). Nucleotide sequence of the LuxA and LuxB genes of the bioluminescent marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri. Nucleic Acids Res. 16 111. 

Kaplan, H. B., and Greenberg, E. P. (1985). Diffusion of autoinducer is involved in regulation of the Vibrio fischeri luminescence system. J. Bac-teriol. 163 1210-1214. 

Karatani, H., and Hastings, J. W. (1993). Two active forms of the accessory yellow fluorescence protein of the luminous bacterium Vibrio fischeri strain Yl. J. Photochem. Photobiol., B 18 227-232. 

Macheroux, P., et al. (1987). Purification of the yellow fluorescent protein from Vibrio fischeri and identity of the flavin chromophore. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 146 101-106. 

Miyamoto, C., Boylan, M., Cragg, L., and Meighen, E. (1989). Comparison of the lux systems in Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio fischeri. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 3 193-199. 

Petushkov, V. N., Gibson, B. G., and Lee, J. (1995). The yellow bioluminescence bacterium, Vibrio fischeri Yl, contains a bioluminescence active riboflavin protein in addition to the yellow fluorescence FMN protein. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 211 774-779. 

Schaefer, A. L., Hanzelka, B. L., Parsek, M. R., and Greenberg, E. P. (2000). Detection, purification, and structural elucidation of the acylhomoser-ine lactone inducer of Vibrio fischeri luminescence and other related molecules. Method. Enzymol. 305 288-301. 

Visser, A. J. W. G., et al. (1997). Time-dissolved fluorescence study of the dissociation of FMN from the yellow fluorescence protein from Vibrio fischeri. Photochem. Photobiol. 65 570-575. 

Farre M, Ferrer I, Ginebreda A, Figueras M, Olivella L, Tirapu L, Vilanova M, Barcelo D (2001) Determination of drugs in surface water and wastewater samples by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry methods and preliminary results including toxicity studies with Vibrio fischeri. J Chromatogr A 938 187-197... 

TTXs Vibrio fischeri-like Xanthid crab (Atergatis floridus) 35, 31... 

Croni MT et al. (2000) Structure-toxicity relationships for aliphatic compounds encompassing a variety of mechanisms of toxic action to Vibrio fischeri. SAR QSAR Environ Res 11(3-4) 301-312... 

Bioluminescence can be used for spedfic detection of separated bioactive compounds on layers (BioTLC) [46]. After development and drying the mobile phase by evaporation, the layer is coated with microorganisms by immersion of the plate. Single bioactive substances in multicomponent samples are located as zones of differing luminescence. The choice of the luminescent cells determines the specificity of detection. A specific example is the use of the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri with the BioTLC format. The bioluminescence of the bacteria cells on the layer is reduced by toxic substances, which are detected as dark zones on a fluorescent background. BioTLC kits are available from ChromaDex, Inc. (Santa Ana, CA). 

Drzyzga O, Jannsen S, Blotevogel KH (1995) Toxicity of diphenylamine and some of its nitrated and aminated derivatives to the luminescent bacterium vibrio fischeri. Environ Safety 31(12) 149-152... 

As the mere disappearance of the parent pollutants cannot be considered as complete degradation and in some opportunities degradation-intermediates can be even more toxic than their parent compounds, a global estimation of toxicity was necessary to determine the reduction of toxic potential in the fungal-treated sludge. The standardized tests of acute immobilization of Daphnia magna and bioluminescence inhibition of Vibrio fischeri were accordingly applied. 

The thermophilic enzyme DszD from Paenibacillus All-2 has been cloned into E. coli and characterized [172], The sequence of this enzyme showed 30% similarity to the major flavin reductase of Vibrio fischeri. The optimum activity was reported to be at 45°C in resting cell cultures and 55°C in cell-free extracts. 

The bacterial bioluminescent reaction is also catalyzed by a luciferase (EC 1.14.14.3) isolated from marine bacteria. The four most studied types are Vibrio harveyi, Vibrio fischeri, Photobacterium phosphoreum and Photobacterium leiognathi18, 19. In these different luminescent bacteria the... 

Vibrio fischeri has recently been reclassified as Photobacterium fischeri. 

Ecotoxicity assessment of water samples was carried out, in parallel to chemical analysis, using three standardized bioassays based on the micro-crustacean Daphnia magna, the algae Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, and the bioluminescent bacteria Vibrio fischeri. 

Ocampo-Duque W, Sierra J, Ferre-Huguet N, Schuhmacher M, Domingo JL (2008) Estimating the environmental impact of micro-pollutants in the low Ebro River (Spain) an approach based on screening toxicity with Vibrio fischeri. Chemosphere 72 715-721... 

ISO 11348-2 (1994) Water quality determination of the inhibitory effect of water samples on the light emission of Vibrio fischeri (luminescent bacteria test), draft, September (revised). International Organization for Standardization, Geneva... 

A-octanoyl-L-homoserine lactone, OHL or C8-HSL Vibrio fischeri Ralslonia solanacearum Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Bioluminescence. Swimming motiliy, cell aggregation, biofilm maturation... 

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