RESEARCH ARTICLE
Microbial Diversity of Acidic Hot Spring (Kawah Hujan B) in Geothermal Field of Kamojang Area, West Java-Indonesia
Pingkan Aditiawati1, Heni Yohandini2, 3, Fida Madayanti2, Akhmaloka2, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 3
First Page: 58
Last Page: 66
Publisher ID: TOMICROJ-3-58
DOI: 10.2174/1874285800903010058
Article History:
Received Date: 18/3/2009Revision Received Date: 24/3/2009
Acceptance Date: 25/3/2009
Electronic publication date: 24/4/2009
Collection year: 2009

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Abstract
Microbial communities in an acidic hot spring, namely Kawah Hujan B, at Kamojang geothermal field, West Java-Indonesia was examined using culture dependent and culture independent strategies. Chemical analysis of the hot spring water showed a characteristic of acidic-sulfate geothermal activity that contained high sulfate concentrations and low pH values (pH 1.8 to 1.9). Microbial community present in the spring was characterized by 16S rRNA gene combined with denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis. The majority of the sequences recovered from culture-independent method were closely related to Crenarchaeota and Proteobacteria phyla. However, detail comparison among the member of Crenarchaeota showing some sequences variation compared to that the published data especially on the hypervariable and variable regions. In addition, the sequences did not belong to certain genus. Meanwhile, the 16S Rdna sequences from culture-dependent samples revealed mostly close to Firmicute and gamma Proteobacteria.