Phylogenetic Analysis of a Biofilm Bacterial Population in a Water Pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.
From: Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, 06400 Mexico, D.F. Mexico.
FEMS microbiology ecology
- Publish Date: Oct 2006
- ISSN: 0168-6496
- Volume: 58
- Issue: 1
- Pages: 145-54
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): López Miguel A, Zavala-Díaz de la Serna F Javier, Jan-Roblero Janet, et al. Phylogenetic Analysis of a Biofilm Bacterial Population in a Water Pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico.. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. Oct 2006;58:145-54
Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the bacterial diversity associated with a corrosive biofilm in a steel pipeline from the Gulf of Mexico used to inject marine water into the oil reservoir. Several aerobic and heterotrophic bacteria were isolated and identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Metagenomic DNA was also extracted to perform a denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of ribosomal genes and to construct a 16S rRNA gene metagenomic library. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis profiles and ribosomal libraries exhibited a limited bacterial diversity. Most of the species detected in the ribosomal library or isolated from the pipeline were assigned to Proteobacteria (Halomonas spp., Idiomarina spp., Marinobacter aquaeolei, Thalassospira sp., Silicibacter sp. and Chromohalobacter sp.) and Bacilli (Bacillus spp. and Exiguobacterium spp.). This is the first report that associates some of these bacteria with a corrosive biofilm. It is relevant that no sulfate-reducing bacteria were isolated or detected by a PCR-based method. The diversity and relative abundance of bacteria from water pipeline biofilms may contribute to an understanding of the complexity and mechanisms of metal corrosion during marine water injection in oil secondary recovery.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Bacteria, Biofilms, DNA, Bacterial, Mexico, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Water Microbiology
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