DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES

LABORATORY OF HYPERTHERMOPHILIC
MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES

Main publications

Slobodkin, A.I., Wiegel, J., Fe (III) as an electron acceptor for H2 oxidation in thermophilic anaerobic enrichment cultures from geothermal areas, Extremophiles, 1997, vol. 1, pp. 106-109.
Slobodkin, A., Reysenbach, A.-L., Strutz, N., Dreier, M., and Wiegel, J., Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens gen. nov. and sp. nov., a thermophilic anaerobic dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterium from a continental hot spring, Int. J. System. Bacteriol., 1997, vol. 47, pp. 541-547.
Slobodkin, A.I., Reysenbach, A.-L., Mayer, F., and Wiegel, J., Isolation and characterization of the homoacetogenic thermophilic bacterium Moorella glycerinii sp. nov., Int. J. Syst. Evol. Bacteriol., 1997, vol. 47, pp. 969-974.
Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Chernykh, N.A., Kostrikina, N.A., Pikuta, E.V., and Rainey, F.A., Reduction of elemental sulfur by moderately thermophilic organotrophic bacteria and the description of Thermoanaerobacter sulfurophilus sp. nov., Microbiology, 1997, vol. 66, pp. 581-587.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Kostrikina, N.A. , Hippe, H. , Slobodkin, A.I. , and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Biodiversity of thermophilic sulfur-reducing bacteria: new substrates and new habitats, Microbiology, 1998, vol. 67, pp. 680-686
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Chernyh, N.A., Kostyukova, N.A., and Rainey, F.A., Thermococcus gorgonarius sp. nov. and Thermococcus pacificus sp. nov., new hyperthermophilic marine archaea from New Zealand hot vents, Int. J. System. Bacteriol., 1998, vol. 48, pp. 23-29
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Kostrikina, N.A., Rainey, F.A., Hippe, H., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Desulfurella kamchatkensis sp. nov. and Desulfurella propionica sp. nov., new thermophilic sulfur-reducing bacteria from Kamchatka hot vents, Int. J. System Bacteriol., 1998, vol. 48, pp. 475-479.
Bannikova, G.E., Varlamov, V.P., Miroshnichenko, M.L., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Isolation of thermostable phosphatase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus pacificus by immobilized metal affinity chromatography, Biochem. Mol. Biol. Intern., 1998, vol. 44, pp. 363-370.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Rainey, F.A., Rhode, M., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Hippeia maritima gen. nov. and sp. nov. represents a new genus of thermophilic sulfur-reducing bacteria from submarine hot vents, Int. J. System. Bacteriol., 1999, vol. 49, pp. 1033-1038.
Slobodkin, A.I., Turova, T.P., Kuznetsov, B.B., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Thermoanaerobacter siderophilus sp. nov., a novel dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing anaerobic thermophilic bacterium, Int. J. System. Bacteriol., 1999, vol. 49, pp. 1471-1478.
Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Slobodkin, A.I., Sokolova, T.G., Karpov, G.A., Kostrikina, N.A., Zavarzina, D.G., Prokof’eva, M.I., Rusanov, I.I., and Pimenov, N.V., Biodiversity of anaerobic lithotrophic prokaryotes in terrestrial hot springs of Kamchatka, Microbiology, 1999, vol. 68, pp. 398-406.
Kostyukova, A.S., Gongadze, G.M., Polosina, Y.S., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Chernyh, N.A., Obraztsova, M.V., Svetlichny, V.A., Messner, P., Sleytr, U., Jeanthone, C., and Prieur, D., Investigation of sturucture and antigenic capasities of Thermococcales cell envelopes, Extremophiles, 1999, vol. 3, pp. 239-245.
Slobodkin, A.I., Jeanthon, C., L’Haridon, S., Nazina, T.N., Miroshnichenko, M.L., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Dissimilatory reduction of Fe(III) by thermophilic bacteria and archaea in deep subsurface petroleum reservoirs of Western Siberia, Current Microbiol., 1999, vol. 39, pp. 99-102.
Slobodkin, A.I., Zavarzina, D.G., Sokolova, T.G., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, and E.A., Dissimilatory reduction of inorganic electron acceptors by thermophilic anaerobic prokaryotes, Microbiology, 1999, vol. 68, pp. 600-622.
Tourova, T.P., Kuznetsov, B.B., Kalganova, T.V.. and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Phylogenetic position of Desulfurococcus amylolyticus, Microbiology, 2000, vol. 69, pp. 447-448.
Zavarzina, D.G., Zhilina, T.N., Tourova, T.P., Kostrikina, N.A., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Thermanaerovibrio velox, sp. nov, a new anaerobic, thermophilic, organotrophic bacterium, reducing elemental sulfur, and emendation of genus Thermanaerovibrio, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 2000, vol. 50, pp. 1287-1295.
Prokofeva, M.I., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Kuznetsov, B.B., Turova, T.P., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Acidilobus aceticus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a new acidophilic anaerobic hyperthermophilic archaeum from continental hot vents of Kamchatka, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 2000, vol. 50, pp. 2001-2008.
Kil, Y.V., Baitin, D.M., Masui, R., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Kuramitsu, S., and Lanzov, V.A., Efficient strand transfer by the RaDA recombinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Desulfurococcus amylolyticus, J.Bacteriol., 2000, vol. 182, pp. 130-134.
Sokolova, T.G., Gonzales, J., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Turova T.P., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Robb, F., Carboxydobrachium pacificum gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic thermophilic CO-utilizing marine bacterium from Okinawa еrough, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 2001, vol. 51, pp. 141-149.
Slobodkin, A.I., Campbell, B., Cary, C.S., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Jeanthon, C., Evidence for the presence of thermophilic Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in deep-sea hydrothermal vents at 13°N (East Pacifc Rise) (East Pacific Rise), FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 2001, vol. 36, pp. 235-243.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Hippe, H., Stackebrandt, E., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Jeanthon, C., Nazina, T.N., Belyaev, S.S., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Isolation and characterization of Thermococcus sibiricus sp. nov. from a Western Siberia high-temperature oil reservoir, Extremophiles, 2001, vol. 5, pp. 85-91.
Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Thermophilic microorganisms in marine hydrothermal systems of the World Ocean, In: Biology of hydrothermal systems of the World Ocean, Gebruk, A., Ed., Moscow, Nauka, 2002, pp. 131-140 (in Russian).
Alain, K., Marteinsson, V.T., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Prieur, D., and Birrien, J.-L., Marinitoga piezophila sp. nov., a rod-shaped thermo-piezophilic bacterium isolated under high hydrostatic pressure frim a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, vol. 52, pp. 1331-1339.
Zavarzina, D.G., Tourova, T.P., Kuznetsov, B.B., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Slobodkin, A.I., Thermovenabulum ferriorganovorum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic anaerobic endospore-forming bacterium, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, vol. 52, pp. 1737-1743.
L’Haridon, S., Miroshnichenko, M. L., Hippe, H., Fardeau, M.-L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Stackebrandt, E., and Jeanthon, C., Thermosipho geolei sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a continental petroleum reservoir in Western Siberia, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2001, vol. 52, pp. 1327-1334.
L'Haridon, S., Miroshnichenko, M. L., Hippe, H., Fardeau, M. L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Stackebrandt, E., and Jeanthon, C., Petrotoga olearia sp. nov. and Petrotoga sibirica sp. nov., two thermophilic bacteria isolated from a continental petroleum reservoir in Western Siberia, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, vol. 52, pp. 1715-1722.
Sokolova, T.G., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Tourova, T.P., Kolganova, T.V., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Carboxydocella thermoautotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novelanaerobic CO-utilizing thermophile from a Kamchatkan hot spring, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, vol. 52, pp. 1961-1967.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Kostrikina, N.A., L'Haridon, S., Jeanthon, S., Hippe, S., Stackebrandt, E., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Nautilia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfur-reducing epsilon proteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, vol. 52, pp. 1299-1304.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Pimenov, N.V, Tourova, T.P., Antipov, A.N., Spring, S., Stackebrandt, E., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Caldithrix abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., a nitrate-reducing, thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium isolated from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent, represents a novel bacterial lineage, Intern. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, vol. 53, pp. 323-329.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., L'Haridon, S., Jeanthon, C., Antipov, A.N., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Tindall, B., Schumann, P., Spring, S., Stackebrandt, E., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Oceanithermus profundus gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic facultatively chemolithoheterotrophic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, Intern. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, pp. 747-752.
Gavrilov, S.N., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Slobodkin, A.I., Physiology of organotrophic and lithotrophic growth of the thermophilic iron-reducing bacteria Thermoterrabacterium ferrireducens and Thermoanaerobacter siderophilus, Microbiology, 2003, vol. 72, pp. 161-167.
Subbotina, I.V., Chernyh, N.A., Sokolova, T.G., Kublanov, I.V., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Lebedinsky, A.V., Oligonucleotide probes for the detection of representatives of the genus Thermoanaerobacter, Microbiology, 2003, vol. 72, pp. 377-382.
Perevalova, A.A., Lebedinsky, A.V., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Chernyh, N.A., Detection of hyperthermophilic archaea of the genus Desulfurococcus by hybridization with oligonucleotide probes, Microbiology, 2003, vol. 72, pp. 383-389.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., L'Haridon, S., Nersessian, O., Antipov, A.N., Kostrikina, N.A., Tindall, B., Schumann, P., Spring, S., Stackebrandt, E., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Jeanthon, C., Vulcanithermus medioatlanticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Thermaceae from a deep-sea hot vent, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, vol. 53, pp. 1143-1148.
Slobodkin, A.I., Tourova, T.P., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Jeanthon, C., and Jones, B.E., Tepidibacter thalassicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately thermophilic, anaerobic fermentative bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, vol. 53, pp. 1131-1134.
Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Lebedinsky, A.V., Chernyh, N.A., Nazina, T.N., Ivoilov, V.S., Belyaev, S.S., Boulygina, E.S., Lysov, Yu.P., Perov, A.N., Mirzabekov, A.D., Hippe, H., Stackebrandt, E., L'Haridon, S., and Jeanthon, C., Radioisotopic, Culture-Based and Oligonucleotide Microchip Analyses of Thermophilic Microbial Communities in a Continental High-Temperature Petroleum Reservoir, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2003, vol. 69, pp. 6143-6151.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Slobodkin, A.I., Kostrikina, N.A., L'Haridon, S., Nercessian, O., Spring, S., Stackebrandt, E., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Jeanthon, C., Deferribacter abyssi sp. nov. - a new anaerobic thermophilic bacterium from the deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, vol. 53, pp. 1637-1641.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Thermophilic microbial communities of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, Microbiology, 2004, vol. 73, pp. 5-18.
Slobodkin, A.I., Chistyakova, N.I., and Rusakov, V.S., High-Temperature Microbial sulfate reduction can be accompanied by magnetite formation, Microbiology, 2004, vol. 73, pp. 553-557.
Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Studies of thermophilic microorganisms at the Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Microbiology, 2004, vol. 73, pp. 644-658.
Slobodkina, G.B., Slobodkin, A.I., Tourova, T.P., Kostrikina, N.A., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Detection of a culturable hyperthermophilic archaeon of the genus Sulfophobococcus in an anaerobic digestor operated in a thermophilic regime, Microbiology, 2004, vol. 73, pp. 716-720.
Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Sokolova, T.G., and Slobodkin A.I., Thermophilic microbial communities: new physiological groups, new habitats, In: proceedings of Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology: Collected articles, on the Institute 70th anniversary, vol. 13, Moscow, Nauka, 2004, pp. 29-40 (in Russian).
Miroshnichenko, M.L., L'Haridon, S. , Schumann, P., Spring, S., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Jeanthon, C., Stackebrandt, E.,Caminibacter profundus sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent represents a novel thermophilic bacterium of the Nautiliales ord. nov. within the class "Epsilonproteobacteria" Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, vol. 54, pp. 41–45.
Slobodkina, G.B., Chernyh, N.A., Slobodkin, A.I., Subbotina, I.V., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Lebedinsky, A.V., PCR-based detection of hyperthermophilic Archaea of the family Thermococcaceae, Appl. Environm. Microbiol., 2004, vol. 70, pp. 5701-5703.
Sokolova, T.G., Jeanthon, C., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh, N.A., Lebedinsky, A.V., Stackebrandt, E., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., The first evidence of anaerobic CO oxidation coupled with H2 production by a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, Extremophiles, 2004, vol. 8, pp. 317-323.
Nercessian, O., Prokofeva, M., Lebedinsky, A., L’Haridon, S., Cary, C., Prieur, D., and Jeanthon, C., Design pf 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for detecting cultured and uncultured archaeal lineages in high-temperature environments, Environment. Microbiol., 2004, vol. 6, pp. 170-182.
Tsiroulnikov, K., Rezai, H., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Nedkov, P., Gousterova, A., Cueff, V., Godfroy, A., Barbier, G., Metro, F., Chobert, J.-M., Clayette, P., Dormont, D., Grosclaude, J., and Haertle, T., Hydrolysis of amyloid prion protein and nonpathogenic meat and bone meal by anaerobic thermophilic prokaryotes and Streptomyces subspecies, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2004, vol. 52, pp. 6353-6380.
Laurent Toffin, Adeline Bidault, Patricia Pignet, Brian J. Tindall, Alexander Slobodkin, Chiaki Kato, and Daniel Prieur, Shewanella profunda sp. nov., isolated from deep marine sediment of the Nankai Trough, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol, 2004, vol. 54, pp. 1943 - 1949.
Sokolova, T.G., Gonzalez, J.M., Kostrikina, N.A., Cher nyh, N.A., Slepova, T.V., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Robb, F.T., Thermosinus carboxydovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic thermophilic carbon monoxide oxidizing hydrogenogenic bacterium from ahot spring of Yellowstone National Park, Int. J. Syst. Ecol. Microbiol., 2004, vol. 54, pp. 2353-2359.
Perevalova, A.A., Svetlichny, V.A., Kublanov, I.V., Chernyh, N.A., Kostrikina, N.A., Tourova, T.P., Kuznetsov, B.B., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya E.A., Desulfurococcus fermentans sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon from a Kamchatka hot spring, and emended description of the genus Desulfurococcus, Intern. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, vol. 55, pp. 995-999.
Prokofeva, M.I., Kublanov, I.V., Nercessian, O., Tourova, T.P., Kolganova, T.P., Lebedinsky, A.V., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Jeanthon, C., Cultivated anaerobic acidophilic/acidotolerant thermophiles from terrestrial and deep-sea hydrothermal habitats, Extremophiles, 2005, vol. 9, pp. 437-448.
Slobodkina, G.B., Chernykh, N.A., Lopatin, S.A., Il’ina, A.V., Bannikova, G.E., Ankenbauer, W., El’darov, M.A., Varlamov, V.P., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Isolation and characterization of thermostable DNA polymerase of the hyperthermophilic archaeum Thermococcus litoralis Sh1AM, Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology, 2005, vol. 41, pp. 34-42.
Slobodkin, A.I., Thermophilic microbial metal reduction, Microbiology, 2005, vol. 74, pp. 581-595.
Sokolova, T.G., Kostrikina, N.A., Chernyh N.A., Tourova T.P., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Thermincola carboxydophila gen.nov., sp.nov., a new anaerobic carboxydotrophic hydrogenogenic bacterium from a hot spring of Lake Baikal area, Int. J. Syst. Environm. Microbiol., 2005, vol. 55, pp. 2069-2073.
Khizhniak, T.V., Slobodkin, A.I., Coker, V., Renshaw, J.C., Livens, F.R., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Birkeland, N.-K., Medvedeva-Lyalikova, N.N., and Lloyd, J.R., Reduction of uranium (VI) during growth of the thermophilic bacterium Thermoterrabacterium ferrirdeucens, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 2005, vol. 71, pp. 6423-6426.
Miroshnichenko, M.L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Recent developments in the thermophilic microbiology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, Extremophiles, 2006, vol. 10, pp. 85-96.
Fedosov, D.V., Podkopaeva, D.A., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Lebedinsky, A.V., and Grabovich, M.Yu., Investigation of the catabolism of acetate and peptides in the new anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Caldithrix abyssi, Microbiology, 2006, vol. 75, pp. 154-159.
L'Haridon, S., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Kostrikina, N.A., Tindall, B., Spring, S., Schumann, P., Stackbrandt, E., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., and Jeanthon C., Vulcanibacillus modesticaldus gen.nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic nitrate-reducing bacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, vol. 56, pp. 1047 – 1053.
Prokofeva, M.I., Rusanov, I.I., Pimenov, N.V., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Organotrophic activity in Kamchatka hot springs with low pH, Microbiology, 2006, vol. 75, pp. 284-286.
Slepova, T.V., Sokolova, T.G., Lysenko, A.M., Tourova, T.P., Kolganova, T.V., Kamzolkina, O.V., Karpov, G.A., and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Carboxydocella sporoproducens sp. nov., a novel anaerobic CO-utilizing/H2-producing thermophilic bacterium from a Kamchatka hot spring. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, vol. 56, pp. 797-800.
Pimenov, N.V. and Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., In situ activity studies in thermal environments. In: Oren, A. and Rainey, F., Eds., Methods in Microbiology, Elsevier, 2006, vol. 35, pp. 27-52.