1. Mg-rich calcite-producing marine bacterium Pseudovibrio sp. isolated from an ascidian in coral reefs at Okinawa, Japan.
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Yasumoto-Hirose, Mina, Yasumoto, Ko, Iijima, Mariko, Nishino, Tomohiko, Ikemoto, Eiko, Nishijima, Miyuki, Numako, Chiya, Matsuyama, Tohey, Shizuri, Yoshikazu, Kogure, Kazuhiro, and Watabe, Shugo
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MARINE bacteria ,INDUCTIVELY coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry ,CORAL reefs & islands ,CORALS - Abstract
Since the beginning of the last century, bacteria, including cyanobacteria, have been known to be involved in the extracellular formation and precipitation of CaCO
3 . It is also known that some marine bacteria form calcite granules in Ca-containing artificial media. However, a detailed analysis of these granules has not yet been performed. The objective of the present study was to isolate marine bacteria that form CaCO3 granules in a culture medium to analyze the structure of the granules in detail. Pseudovibrio sp. 01OK 105-5-5, belonging to the class Alphaproteobacteria, was isolated from an ascidian in a coral reef at On-na, Okinawa, Japan. It produced extracellular granules of CaCO3 in a Ca-containing artificial medium. X-ray diffraction analysis, infrared spectroscopy, and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry demonstrated that the extracellular granules contained Mg-rich calcite-like crystal polymorphs. This crystal form of CaCO3 was similar to that of Mg-rich calcite found in the skeletons of many marine invertebrates. This bacterium provides a promising tool for studying the mechanisms involved in the formation of Mg-rich biogenic calcite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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