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Sklute EC, Leopo DA, Neat KA, Livi KJT, Dyar MD, Holden JF. Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxide reduction by the thermophilic iron-reducing bacterium Desulfovulcanus ferrireducens. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1272245. [PMID: 37928658 PMCID: PMC10622975 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1272245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023] Open
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Some thermophilic bacteria from deep-sea hydrothermal vents grow by dissimilatory iron reduction, but our understanding of their biogenic mineral transformations is nascent. Mineral transformations catalyzed by the thermophilic iron-reducing bacterium Desulfovulcanus ferrireducens during growth at 55°C were examined using synthetic nanophase ferrihydrite, akaganeite, and lepidocrocite separately as terminal electron acceptors. Spectral analyses using visible-near infrared (VNIR), Fourier-transform infrared attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR), and Mössbauer spectroscopies were complemented with x-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) using selected area electron diffraction (SAED) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analyses. The most extensive biogenic mineral transformation occurred with ferrihydrite, which produced a magnetic, visibly dark mineral with spectral features matching cation-deficient magnetite. Desulfovulcanus ferrireducens also grew on akaganeite and lepidocrocite and produced non-magnetic, visibly dark minerals that were poorly soluble in the oxalate solution. Bioreduced mineral products from akaganeite and lepidocrocite reduction were almost entirely absorbed in the VNIR spectroscopy in contrast to both parent minerals and the abiotic controls. However, FTIR-ATR and Mössbauer spectra and XRD analyses of both biogenic minerals were almost identical to the parent and control minerals. The TEM of these biogenic minerals showed the presence of poorly crystalline iron nanospheres (50-200 nm in diameter) of unknown mineralogy that were likely coating the larger parent minerals and were absent from the controls. The study demonstrated that thermophilic bacteria transform different types of Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxide minerals for growth with varying mineral products. These mineral products are likely formed through dissolution-reprecipitation reactions but are not easily predictable through chemical equilibrium reactions alone.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elizabeth C Sklute
- Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
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- Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
- Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
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Stark F, Hoffmann A, Ihle N, Loderer C, Ansorge-Schumacher MB. Extended Scope and Understanding of Zinc-Dependent Alcohol Dehydrogenases for Reduction of Cyclic α-Diketones. Chembiochem 2023; 24:e202300290. [PMID: 37167138 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Alcohol dehydrogenases (ADH) are important tools for generating chiral α-hydroxyketones. Previously, only the ADH of Thauera aromatica was known to convert cyclic α-diketones with appropriate preference. Here, we extend the spectrum of suitable enzymes by three alcohol dehydrogenases from Citrifermentans bemidjiense (CibADH), Deferrisoma camini (DecADH), and Thauera phenylacetica (ThpADH). Of these, DecADH is characterized by very high thermostability; CibADH and ThpADH convert α-halogenated cyclohexanones with increased activity. Otherwise, however, the substrate spectrum of all four ADHs is highly conserved. Structural considerations led to the conclusion that conversion of diketones requires not only the expansion of the active site into a large binding pocket, but also the circumferential modification of almost all amino acid residues that form the first shell of the binding pocket. The constellation appears to be overall highly specific for the relative positioning of the carbonyl functions and the size of the C-ring.
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- Frances Stark
- Professur für Molekulare Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Professur für Molekulare Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Professur für Molekulare Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Professur für Molekulare Biotechnologie, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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Composition and Metabolic Potential of Fe(III)-Reducing Enrichment Cultures of Methanotrophic ANME-2a Archaea and Associated Bacteria. Microorganisms 2023; 11:microorganisms11030555. [PMID: 36985129 PMCID: PMC10052568 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11030555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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The key microbial group involved in anaerobic methane oxidation is anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME). From a terrestrial mud volcano, we enriched a microbial community containing ANME-2a, using methane as an electron donor, Fe(III) oxide (ferrihydrite) as an electron acceptor, and anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate as an electron shuttle. Ferrihydrite reduction led to the formation of a black, highly magnetic precipitate. A significant relative abundance of ANME-2a in batch cultures was observed over five subsequent transfers. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that, in addition to ANME-2a, two bacterial taxa belonging to uncultured Desulfobulbaceae and Anaerolineaceae were constantly present in all enrichments. Metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of ANME-2a contained a complete set of genes for methanogenesis and numerous genes of multiheme c-type cytochromes (MHC), indicating the capability of methanotrophs to transfer electrons to metal oxides or to a bacterial partner. One of the ANME MAGs encoded respiratory arsenate reductase (Arr), suggesting the potential for a direct coupling of methane oxidation with As(V) reduction in the single microorganism. The same MAG also encoded uptake [NiFe] hydrogenase, which is uncommon for ANME-2. The MAG of uncultured Desulfobulbaceae contained genes of dissimilatory sulfate reduction, a Wood–Ljungdahl pathway for autotrophic CO2 fixation, hydrogenases, and 43 MHC. We hypothesize that uncultured Desulfobulbaceae is a bacterial partner of ANME-2a, which mediates extracellular electron transfer to Fe(III) oxide.
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Zhong YW, Zhou P, Cheng H, Zhou YD, Pan J, Xu L, Li M, Tao CH, Wu YH, Xu XW. Metagenomic Features Characterized with Microbial Iron Oxidoreduction and Mineral Interaction in Southwest Indian Ridge. Microbiol Spectr 2022; 10:e0061422. [PMID: 36286994 PMCID: PMC9769843 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00614-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR) is one of the typical representatives of deep-sea ultraslow-spreading ridges, and has increasingly become a hot spot of studying subsurface geological activities and deep-sea mining management. However, the understanding of microbial activities is still limited on active hydrothermal vent chimneys in SWIR. In this study, samples from an active black smoker and a diffuse vent located in the Longqi hydrothermal region were collected for deep metagenomic sequencing, which yielded approximately 290 GB clean data and 295 mid-to-high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). Sulfur oxidation conducted by a variety of Gammaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, and Campylobacterota was presumed to be the major energy source for chemosynthesis in Longqi hydrothermal vents. Diverse iron-related microorganisms were recovered, including iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria, iron-reducing Deferrisoma, and magnetotactic bacterium. Twenty-two bacterial MAGs from 12 uncultured phyla harbored iron oxidase Cyc2 homologs and enzymes for organic carbon degradation, indicated novel chemolithoheterotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria that affected iron biogeochemistry in hydrothermal vents. Meanwhile, potential interactions between microbial communities and chimney minerals were emphasized as enriched metabolic potential of siderophore transportation, and extracellular electron transfer functioned by multi-heme proteins was discovered. Composition of chimney minerals probably affected microbial iron metabolic potential, as pyrrhotite might provide more available iron for microbial communities. Collectively, this study provides novel insights into microbial activities and potential mineral-microorganism interactions in hydrothermal vents. IMPORTANCE Microbial activities and interactions with minerals and venting fluid in active hydrothermal vents remain unclear in the ultraslow-spreading SWIR (Southwest Indian Ridge). Understanding about how minerals influence microbial metabolism is currently limited given the obstacles in cultivating microorganisms with sulfur or iron oxidoreduction functions. Here, comprehensive descriptions on microbial composition and metabolic profile on 2 hydrothermal vents in SWIR were obtained based on cultivation-free metagenome sequencing. In particular, autotrophic sulfur oxidation supported by minerals was presumed, emphasizing the role of chimney minerals in supporting chemosynthesis. Presence of novel heterotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria was also indicated, suggesting overlooked biogeochemical pathways directed by microorganisms that connected sulfide mineral dissolution and organic carbon degradation in hydrothermal vents. Our findings offer novel insights into microbial function and biotic interactions on minerals in ultraslow-spreading ridges.
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- Ying-Wen Zhong
- School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Archaeal Biology Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, PR China
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, PR China
- College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, PR China
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- Archaeal Biology Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, PR China
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, PR China
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- School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, PR China
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- School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, PR China
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- School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, PR China
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Wang J, Li Y, Yang Z, Sun T, Yu X, Zhao Y, Tang X, Xiao H. Sex plays a role in the construction of epiphytic bacterial communities on the algal bodies and receptacles of Sargassum thunbergii. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:935222. [PMID: 35958132 PMCID: PMC9360977 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.935222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The community structures of epiphytic bacteria on the surface of macroalgae are closely related to their host algae, but there is a lack of research on the differences between the epiphytic bacterial communities of male and female algae and their reproductive tissues. In this study, high-throughput sequencing was used to compare epiphytic bacterial community structures on the intertidal macroalgae Sargassum thunbergii and their receptacles between male and female samples. The epiphytic bacteria on the male and female algal bodies and receptacles had similar community structures with a large number of shared bacteria, but the samples clearly clustered separately, and the abundances of dominant taxa, specific bacteria, and indicator species differed, indicating that epiphytic bacterial communities differed significantly between the male and female S. thunbergii and their receptacles. In addition, the abundance of many predicted functional genes was significantly different between epiphytic bacteria on male and female algal bodies and receptacles, especially metabolism-related genes, and the abundances of predicted functional genes of epiphytic bacteria were significantly higher on both types of male samples than on female samples. Our study confirmed that the sex of the host algae influenced the epiphytic bacterial community structures on algae and algal reproductive tissues, and this role was mainly related to the host metabolism. The results reveal the role of host plant sex in the formation of epiphytic bacterial communities. These findings are helpful for obtaining an in-depth understanding of the construction mechanism of algae-associated bacteria.
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- Jing Wang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- *Correspondence: Xuexi Tang,
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- Hui Xiao,
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Nixon SL, Bonsall E, Cockell CS. Limitations of microbial iron reduction under extreme conditions. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2022; 46:6645348. [PMID: 35849069 PMCID: PMC9629499 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuac033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Microbial iron reduction is a widespread and ancient metabolism on Earth, and may plausibly support microbial life on Mars and beyond. Yet, the extreme limits of this metabolism are yet to be defined. To investigate this, we surveyed the recorded limits to microbial iron reduction in a wide range of characterized iron-reducing microorganisms (n = 141), with a focus on pH and temperature. We then calculated Gibbs free energy of common microbially mediated iron reduction reactions across the pH-temperature habitability space to identify thermodynamic limits. Comparing predicted and observed limits, we show that microbial iron reduction is generally reported at extremes of pH or temperature alone, but not when these extremes are combined (with the exception of a small number of acidophilic hyperthermophiles). These patterns leave thermodynamically favourable combinations of pH and temperature apparently unoccupied. The empty spaces could be explained by experimental bias, but they could also be explained by energetic and biochemical limits to iron reduction at combined extremes. Our data allow for a review of our current understanding of the limits to microbial iron reduction at extremes and provide a basis to test more general hypotheses about the extent to which biochemistry establishes the limits to life.
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- Sophie L Nixon
- Corresponding author: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK. E-mail:
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom
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- UK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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Lu J, Guo Z, Pan Y, Li M, Chen X, He M, Wu H, Zhang J. Simultaneously enhanced removal of PAHs and nitrogen driven by Fe 2+/Fe 3+ cycle in constructed wetland through automatic tidal operation. WATER RESEARCH 2022; 215:118232. [PMID: 35247604 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The lack of dissolved oxygen and weak substrate removal capacity in constructed wetlands (CW) leads to terrible removal of nitrogen and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). In this study, automatic tidal flow CW microcosms were constructed by improving the oxygen environment (siphon and air-duct) and substrate (magnetite) to enhance purification performance and the mechanism was explored. The results showed that the addition of air-duct could improve the oxygen collection and thus improved the NH4+ removal efficiency. Additionally, nitrogen removal was improved greatly due to the simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in aerobic layer with the addition of magnetite. Mass balance indicated the microbial degradation dominated (32-62%) the removal of PAHs. Metagenomic analysis proved the existence of magnetite enhanced the number of PAHs-degrading bacteria, functional groups and metabolic pathways and thus greatly improved the microbial degradation of PAHs. Furthermore, Fe2+/Fe3+ cycle played an important role in promoting the anaerobic degradation of PAHs, which might be served as an electron conduit to establish the direct interspecies electron transfer between iron-reducing bacteria (e.g. Deltaproteobacteria bacterium) and Anaerolineae bacterium to degrade PAHs efficiently. This study provided better understanding of the simultaneous removal of PAHs and nitrogen in tidal flow CWs.
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- Jiaxing Lu
- Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Shandong Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China; College of Safety and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China.
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Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups. THE ISME JOURNAL 2022; 16:307-320. [PMID: 34331018 PMCID: PMC8692467 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01057-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Revised: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Deltaproteobacteria, now proposed to be the phyla Desulfobacterota, Myxococcota, and SAR324, are ubiquitous in marine environments and play essential roles in global carbon, sulfur, and nutrient cycling. Despite their importance, our understanding of these bacteria is biased towards cultured organisms. Here we address this gap by compiling a genomic catalog of 1 792 genomes, including 402 newly reconstructed and characterized metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from coastal and deep-sea sediments. Phylogenomic analyses reveal that many of these novel MAGs are uncultured representatives of Myxococcota and Desulfobacterota that are understudied. To better characterize Deltaproteobacteria diversity, metabolism, and ecology, we clustered ~1 500 genomes based on the presence/absence patterns of their protein families. Protein content analysis coupled with large-scale metabolic reconstructions separates eight genomic clusters of Deltaproteobacteria with unique metabolic profiles. While these eight clusters largely correspond to phylogeny, there are exceptions where more distantly related organisms appear to have similar ecological roles and closely related organisms have distinct protein content. Our analyses have identified previously unrecognized roles in the cycling of methylamines and denitrification among uncultured Deltaproteobacteria. This new view of Deltaproteobacteria diversity expands our understanding of these dominant bacteria and highlights metabolic abilities across diverse taxa.
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Wunder LC, Aromokeye DA, Yin X, Richter-Heitmann T, Willis-Poratti G, Schnakenberg A, Otersen C, Dohrmann I, Römer M, Bohrmann G, Kasten S, Friedrich MW. Iron and sulfate reduction structure microbial communities in (sub-)Antarctic sediments. THE ISME JOURNAL 2021; 15:3587-3604. [PMID: 34155335 PMCID: PMC8630232 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01014-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Permanently cold marine sediments are heavily influenced by increased input of iron as a result of accelerated glacial melt, weathering, and erosion. The impact of such environmental changes on microbial communities in coastal sediments is poorly understood. We investigated geochemical parameters that shape microbial community compositions in anoxic surface sediments of four geochemically differing sites (Annenkov Trough, Church Trough, Cumberland Bay, Drygalski Trough) around South Georgia, Southern Ocean. Sulfate reduction prevails in Church Trough and iron reduction at the other sites, correlating with differing local microbial communities. Within the order Desulfuromonadales, the family Sva1033, not previously recognized for being capable of dissimilatory iron reduction, was detected at rather high relative abundances (up to 5%) while other members of Desulfuromonadales were less abundant (<0.6%). We propose that Sva1033 is capable of performing dissimilatory iron reduction in sediment incubations based on RNA stable isotope probing. Sulfate reducers, who maintain a high relative abundance of up to 30% of bacterial 16S rRNA genes at the iron reduction sites, were also active during iron reduction in the incubations. Thus, concurrent sulfate reduction is possibly masked by cryptic sulfur cycling, i.e., reoxidation or precipitation of produced sulfide at a small or undetectable pool size. Our results show the importance of iron and sulfate reduction, indicated by ferrous iron and sulfide, as processes that shape microbial communities and provide evidence for one of Sva1033's metabolic capabilities in permanently cold marine sediments.
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- Lea C Wunder
- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Instituto Antártico Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
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- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
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Interaction between Microbes, Minerals, and Fluids in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Systems. MINERALS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/min11121324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the late 1970s widened the limits of life and habitability. The mixing of oxidizing seawater and reduction of hydrothermal fluids create a chemical disequilibrium that is exploited by chemosynthetic bacteria and archaea to harness energy by converting inorganic carbon into organic biomass. Due to the rich variety of chemical sources and steep physico-chemical gradients, a large array of microorganisms thrive in these extreme environments, which includes but are not restricted to chemolithoautotrophs, heterotrophs, and mixotrophs. Past research has revealed the underlying relationship of these microbial communities with the subsurface geology and hydrothermal geochemistry. Endolithic microbial communities at the ocean floor catalyze a number of redox reactions through various metabolic activities. Hydrothermal chimneys harbor Fe-reducers, sulfur-reducers, sulfide and H2-oxidizers, methanogens, and heterotrophs that continuously interact with the basaltic, carbonate, or ultramafic basement rocks for energy-yielding reactions. Here, we briefly review the global deep-sea hydrothermal systems, microbial diversity, and microbe–mineral interactions therein to obtain in-depth knowledge of the biogeochemistry in such a unique and geologically critical subseafloor environment.
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Glodowska M, Schneider M, Eiche E, Kontny A, Neumann T, Straub D, Kleindienst S, Kappler A. Microbial transformation of biogenic and abiogenic Fe minerals followed by in-situ incubations in an As-contaminated vs. non-contaminated aquifer. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 281:117012. [PMID: 33813189 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Fe(III) minerals play a crucial role for arsenic (As) mobility in aquifers as they usually represent the main As-bearing phases. Microbial reductive dissolution of As-bearing Fe(III) minerals is responsible for the release of As and the resulting groundwater contamination in many sites worldwide. So far, in most studies mainly abiogenic iron minerals have been considered. Yet, biogenic minerals that possess different properties to their abiogenic counterparts are also present in the environment. In some environments they dominate the iron mineral inventory but so far, it is unclear what this means for the As mobility. We, therefore, performed an in-situ aquifer Fe(III) minerals exposure experiment i) to evaluate how different biogenic and abiogenic Fe(III) minerals are transformed in a strongly reducing, As-contaminated aquifer (25 m) compared to As-free moderately reducing aquifer (32 m) and ii) to assess which microbial taxa are involved in these Fe(III) minerals transformations. We found that higher numbers of bacteria and archaea were associated with the minerals incubated in the As-contaminated compared to the non-contaminated aquifer and that all Fe(III) minerals were mainly colonized by Fe(III)-reducing bacteria, with Geobacter being the most abundant taxon. Additionally, fermenting microorganisms were abundant on minerals incubated in the As-contaminated aquifer, while methanotrophs were identified on the minerals incubated in the As-free moderately reducing aquifer, implying involvement of these microorganisms in Fe(III) reduction. We observed that biogenic Fe(III) minerals generally tend to become more reduced and when incubated in the As-contaminated aquifer sorbed more As than the abiogenic ones. Most of abiogenic and biogenic Fe(III) minerals were transformed into magnetite while biogenic more crystalline mixed phases were not subjected to visible transformation. This in-situ Fe(III) minerals incubation approach shows that biogenic minerals are more prone to be colonized by (Fe(III)-reducing) microorganisms and bind more As, although ultimately produce similar minerals during Fe(III) reduction.
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- Martyna Glodowska
- Geomicrobiology, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Germany; Microbial Ecology, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Germany; Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University, the Netherlands.
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Applied Geosciences, KIT, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Applied Geosciences, KIT, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Applied Geosciences, KIT, Germany
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- Technical University of Berlin, Institute for Applied Geosciences, Berlin, Germany
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- Microbial Ecology, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Germany; Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC), University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Microbial Ecology, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Geomicrobiology, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Christakis CA, Barkay T, Boyd ES. Expanded Diversity and Phylogeny of mer Genes Broadens Mercury Resistance Paradigms and Reveals an Origin for MerA Among Thermophilic Archaea. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:682605. [PMID: 34248899 PMCID: PMC8261052 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.682605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Mercury (Hg) is a highly toxic element due to its high affinity for protein sulfhydryl groups, which upon binding, can destabilize protein structure and decrease enzyme activity. Prokaryotes have evolved enzymatic mechanisms to detoxify inorganic Hg and organic Hg (e.g., MeHg) through the activities of mercuric reductase (MerA) and organomercury lyase (MerB), respectively. Here, the taxonomic distribution and evolution of MerAB was examined in 84,032 archaeal and bacterial genomes, metagenome assembled genomes, and single-cell genomes. Homologs of MerA and MerB were identified in 7.8 and 2.1% percent of genomes, respectively. MerA was identified in the genomes of 10 archaeal and 28 bacterial phyla previously unknown to code for this functionality. Likewise, MerB was identified in 2 archaeal and 11 bacterial phyla previously unknown to encode this functionality. Surprisingly, homologs of MerB were identified in a number of genomes (∼50% of all MerB-encoding genomes) that did not encode MerA, suggesting alternative mechanisms to detoxify Hg(II) once it is generated in the cytoplasm. Phylogenetic reconstruction of MerA place its origin in thermophilic Thermoprotei (Crenarchaeota), consistent with high levels of Hg(II) in geothermal environments, the natural habitat of this archaeal class. MerB appears to have been recruited to the mer operon relatively recently and likely among a mesophilic ancestor of Euryarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota. This is consistent with the functional dependence of MerB on MerA and the widespread distribution of mesophilic microorganisms that methylate Hg(II) at lower temperature. Collectively, these results expand the taxonomic and ecological distribution of mer-encoded functionalities, and suggest that selection for Hg(II) and MeHg detoxification is dependent not only on the availability and type of mercury compounds in the environment but also the physiological potential of the microbes who inhabit these environments. The expanded diversity and environmental distribution of MerAB identify new targets to prioritize for future research.
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- Christos A. Christakis
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
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Zeng X, Alain K, Shao Z. Microorganisms from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. MARINE LIFE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 3:204-230. [PMID: 37073341 PMCID: PMC10077256 DOI: 10.1007/s42995-020-00086-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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With a rich variety of chemical energy sources and steep physical and chemical gradients, hydrothermal vent systems offer a range of habitats to support microbial life. Cultivation-dependent and independent studies have led to an emerging view that diverse microorganisms in deep-sea hydrothermal vents live their chemolithoautotrophic, heterotrophic, or mixotrophic life with versatile metabolic strategies. Biogeochemical processes are mediated by microorganisms, and notably, processes involving or coupling the carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, nitrogen, and metal cycles in these unique ecosystems. Here, we review the taxonomic and physiological diversity of microbial prokaryotic life from cosmopolitan to endemic taxa and emphasize their significant roles in the biogeochemical processes in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. According to the physiology of the targeted taxa and their needs inferred from meta-omics data, the media for selective cultivation can be designed with a wide range of physicochemical conditions such as temperature, pH, hydrostatic pressure, electron donors and acceptors, carbon sources, nitrogen sources, and growth factors. The application of novel cultivation techniques with real-time monitoring of microbial diversity and metabolic substrates and products are also recommended. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42995-020-00086-4.
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- Xiang Zeng
- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, 361005 China
- LIA/IRP 1211 MicrobSea, Sino-French International Laboratory of Deep-Sea Microbiology, 29280 Plouzané, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes LM2E UMR6197, Univ Brest, CNRS, IFREMER, F-29280 Plouzané, France
- LIA/IRP 1211 MicrobSea, Sino-French International Laboratory of Deep-Sea Microbiology, 29280 Plouzané, France
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, 361005 China
- LIA/IRP 1211 MicrobSea, Sino-French International Laboratory of Deep-Sea Microbiology, 29280 Plouzané, France
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Molecular characterization of bacteria and archaea in a bioaugmented zero-water exchange shrimp pond. SN APPLIED SCIENCES 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s42452-021-04392-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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AbstractIn the zero-water exchange shrimp culture pond maintained with the application of indigenous bioaugmentor, low levels of total ammonia–nitrogen were reported, indicating the relevance of indigenous microbial communities. Sediments (0–5 cm layer) were sampled from the pond (85th day) and the bacterial and archaeal communities; specifically, the ammonia oxidizers (ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, ammonia-oxidizing archaea, and anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria) in the sediment metagenome of the pond were analysed using the 16S rRNA and functional genes. Bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA genes showed the relative abundance of Delta-Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes groups performing sulphur respiration and organic matter degradation, archaeal groups of anaerobic sulphur respiring Crenarchaeotae, and chemolithoautotrophic ammonia oxidizers belonging to Thaumarchaeota. The presence of these diverse bacterial and archaeal communities denotes their significant roles in the cycling the carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur thereby bringing out efficient bioremediation in the bioaugmented zero-water exchange shrimp culture pond. Similarly, the functional gene-specific study showed the predominance of Nitrosomonas sp. (ammonia-oxidizing bacteria), Nitrosopumilus maritimus (ammonia-oxidizing archaea), and Candidatus Kuenenia (anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria) in the system, which points to their importance in the removal of accumulated ammonia. Thus, this study paves the way for understanding the microbial communities, specifically the ammonia oxidizers responsible for maintaining healthy and optimal environmental conditions in the bioaugmented zero-water exchange shrimp culture pond.
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Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, Hahn MW, Kuever J, Hugenholtz P. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016. [DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 696] [Impact Index Per Article: 174.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The class
Deltaproteobacteria
comprises an ecologically and metabolically diverse group of bacteria best known for dissimilatory sulphate reduction and predatory behaviour. Although this lineage is the fourth described class of the phylum
Proteobacteria
, it rarely affiliates with other proteobacterial classes and is frequently not recovered as a monophyletic unit in phylogenetic analyses. Indeed, one branch of the class
Deltaproteobacteria
encompassing Bdellovibrio-like predators was recently reclassified into a separate proteobacterial class, the
Oligoflexia
. Here we systematically explore the phylogeny of taxa currently assigned to these classes using 120 conserved single-copy marker genes as well as rRNA genes. The overwhelming majority of markers reject the inclusion of the classes
Deltaproteobacteria
and
Oligoflexia
in the phylum
Proteobacteria
. Instead, the great majority of currently recognized members of the class
Deltaproteobacteria
are better classified into four novel phylum-level lineages. We propose the names Desulfobacterota phyl. nov. and Myxococcota phyl. nov. for two of these phyla, based on the oldest validly published names in each lineage, and retain the placeholder name SAR324 for the third phylum pending formal description of type material. Members of the class
Oligoflexia
represent a separate phylum for which we propose the name Bdellovibrionota phyl. nov. based on priority in the literature and general recognition of the genus Bdellovibrio. Desulfobacterota phyl. nov. includes the taxa previously classified in the phylum
Thermodesulfobacteria
, and these reclassifications imply that the ability of sulphate reduction was vertically inherited in the
Thermodesulfobacteria
rather than laterally acquired as previously inferred. Our analysis also indicates the independent acquisition of predatory behaviour in the phyla Myxococcota and Bdellovibrionota, which is consistent with their distinct modes of action. This work represents a stable reclassification of one of the most taxonomically challenging areas of the bacterial tree and provides a robust framework for future ecological and systematic studies.
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- David W Waite
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- University of Vienna, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, Vienna, Austria
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- University of Vienna, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, Vienna, Austria
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Research Department for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondsee, Austria
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- Department of Microbiology, Bremen Institute for Materials Testing, Bremen, Germany
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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Tang X, Li L, Wu C, Khan MI, Manzoor M, Zou L, Shi J. The response of arsenic bioavailability and microbial community in paddy soil with the application of sulfur fertilizers. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2020; 264:114679. [PMID: 32380397 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Revised: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Arsenic (As) has been recognized as one of the most toxic metalloids present in the surface soil contaminating food chain and posing threat to human life. Sulfur (S) fertilizer is often supplied in paddy soil for rice growth, but its impact on As mobility and related bacteria remains poorly understood. In this study, a pot experiment was set up with two different types of sulfur treatments (element sulfur and Na2SO4) to evaluate the effect of sulfur fertilizers on As speciation in porewater, As fractions in soil, As accumulation in rice plants. Besides, rhizosphere bacterial composition and functional genes that might influence As mobility were also studied. The results revealed that the addition of 150 mg/kg Na2SO4 decreased As(III) and As(V) concentrations in soil porewater at maturation stage by 77% and 64%, respectively. With the same sulfur content, Na2SO4 was more effective than element sulfur. The addition of sulfur fertilizers promoted rice growth and reduced As accumulation in shoots, further reduced As translocation from root to above-ground parts by 39-59%. The addition of sulfur fertilizers had little effect on genes involved in As metabolism. However, the relative abundance of Fe(III) and sulfate reduction related genera increased with the addition of 150 mg/kg Na2SO4, consistent with the increase of Fe(III) reducing bacteria Geobacteraceae and sulfate reducing gene dsrA. The phenomenon likely influenced the decrease of As concentrations in soil porewater and rice uptake. The outcomes indicate that promoting Fe- and S- reducing bacteria in the rhizosphere by sulfur fertilizers may be one way to reduce As risk in the soil-rice system.
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- Xianjin Tang
- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (38040), Pakistan
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, 44400, Pakistan
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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- Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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Price KA, Garrison CE, Richards N, Field EK. A Shallow Water Ferrous-Hulled Shipwreck Reveals a Distinct Microbial Community. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1897. [PMID: 32973699 PMCID: PMC7466744 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Shipwrecks act as artificial reefs and provide a solid surface in aquatic systems for many different forms of life to attach to, especially microbial communities, making them a hotspot of biogeochemical cycling. Depending on the microbial community and surrounding environment, they may either contribute to the wreck’s preservation or deterioration. Even within a single wreck, preservation and deterioration processes may vary, suggesting that the microbial community may also vary. This study aimed to identify the differences through widespread sampling of the microbial communities associated with the Pappy Lane shipwreck (NC shipwreck site #PAS0001), a shallow water ferrous-hulled shipwreck in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina to determine if there are differences across the wreck as well as from its surrounding environment. Loose shipwreck debris, drilled shipcores, surrounding sediment, and seawater samples were collected from the Pappy Lane shipwreck to characterize the microbial communities on and around the shipwreck. Results indicated that the shipwreck samples were more similar to each other than the surrounding sediment and aquatic environments suggesting they have made a specialized niche associated with the shipwreck. There were differences between the microbial community across the shipwreck, including between visibly corroded and non-corroded shipwreck debris pieces. Relative abundance estimates for neutrophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB), an organism that may contribute to deterioration through biocorrosion, revealed they are present across the shipwreck and at highest abundance on the samples containing visible corrosion products. Zetaproteobacteria, a known class of marine iron-oxidizers, were also found in higher abundance on shipwreck samples with visible corrosion. A novel Zetaproteobacteria strain, Mariprofundus ferrooxydans O1, was isolated from one of the shipwreck pieces and its genome analyzed to elucidate the functional potential of the organism. In addition to iron oxidation pathways, the isolate has the genomic potential to perform carbon fixation in both high and low oxygen environments, as well as perform nitrogen fixation, contributing to the overall biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and metals in the shipwreck ecosystem. By understanding the microbial communities associated with shallow water ferrous-hulled shipwrecks, better management strategies and preservation plans can be put into place to preserve these artificial reefs and non-renewable cultural resources.
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- Kyra A Price
- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Program in Maritime Studies, Department of History, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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- Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States
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Lateral Gene Transfer Drives Metabolic Flexibility in the Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Archaeal Family Methanoperedenaceae. mBio 2020; 11:mBio.01325-20. [PMID: 32605988 PMCID: PMC7327174 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01325-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is an important biological process responsible for controlling the flux of methane into the atmosphere. Members of the archaeal family Methanoperedenaceae (formerly ANME-2d) have been demonstrated to couple AOM to the reduction of nitrate, iron, and manganese. Here, comparative genomic analysis of 16 Methanoperedenaceae metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), recovered from diverse environments, revealed novel respiratory strategies acquired through lateral gene transfer (LGT) events from diverse archaea and bacteria. Comprehensive phylogenetic analyses suggests that LGT has allowed members of the Methanoperedenaceae to acquire genes for the oxidation of hydrogen and formate and the reduction of arsenate, selenate, and elemental sulfur. Numerous membrane-bound multiheme c-type cytochrome complexes also appear to have been laterally acquired, which may be involved in the direct transfer of electrons to metal oxides, humic substances, and syntrophic partners.IMPORTANCE AOM by microorganisms limits the atmospheric release of the potent greenhouse gas methane and has consequent importance for the global carbon cycle and climate change modeling. While the oxidation of methane coupled to sulfate by consortia of anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea and bacteria is well documented, several other potential electron acceptors have also been reported to support AOM. In this study, we identify a number of novel respiratory strategies that appear to have been laterally acquired by members of the Methanoperedenaceae, as they are absent from related archaea and other ANME lineages. Expanding the known metabolic potential for members of the Methanoperedenaceae provides important insight into their ecology and suggests their role in linking methane oxidation to several global biogeochemical cycles.
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Zhang X, Li X, Zhao X, Chen X, Zhou B, Weng L, Li Y. Bioelectric field accelerates the conversion of carbon and nitrogen in soil bioelectrochemical systems. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2020; 388:121790. [PMID: 31818651 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Soil bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) utilize indigenous microorganisms to generate biocurrent/electric fields that stimulate the degradation of organic pollutants, exhibiting great potential in the removal of petroleum hydrocarbons from soils. In this study, a horizontal bioelectric field was constructed to investigate the conversion of carbon and nitrogen in a soil BES. After 182 days, the degradation rates of total petroleum hydrocarbons, alkanes, and aromatics were promoted by 52 %, 38% and 136%, respectively. Meanwhile, the bioelectric field accelerated NH4+-N production near the cathode, whereas NH4+-N consumption near the anode indicated that the bioelectric field promoted the cathode-dominated ammoniation process and the anode-dominated denitrification process. Additionally, a distinctive microbial community was formed under the bioelectric field, and the improved degradation on the cathode and the anode relied on special functional bacteria (typically, cathode, Alcanivorax; anode, Marinobacter). The dramatic enrichment in anodic denitrifying bacteria, including Pontibacillus, Sediminimonas, Georgenia, etc., explained the enhanced denitrification process under the bioelectric field. This study simultaneously clarified the carbon and nitrogen conversion processes and corresponding bacterial community occurring under the bioelectric field for the first time, helping to form regulation strategies in the practical application of soil BESs and providing a new perspective for removing petroleum hydrocarbons from soils.
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- Xiaolin Zhang
- Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Key Laboratory of Original Agro-Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, MARA/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, Tianjin 300191, China
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- Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Key Laboratory of Original Agro-Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, MARA/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, Tianjin 300191, China.
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- Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Key Laboratory of Original Agro-Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, MARA/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, Tianjin 300191, China
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- Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Key Laboratory of Original Agro-Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, MARA/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, Tianjin 300191, China
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- Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Key Laboratory of Original Agro-Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, MARA/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, Tianjin 300191, China
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- Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Key Laboratory of Original Agro-Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, MARA/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, Tianjin 300191, China
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- Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Key Laboratory of Original Agro-Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, MARA/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment and Agro-Product Safety, Tianjin 300191, China; College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
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Kapili BJ, Barnett SE, Buckley DH, Dekas AE. Evidence for phylogenetically and catabolically diverse active diazotrophs in deep-sea sediment. ISME JOURNAL 2020; 14:971-983. [PMID: 31907368 PMCID: PMC7082343 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0584-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Diazotrophic microorganisms regulate marine productivity by alleviating nitrogen limitation. However, we know little about the identity and activity of diazotrophs in deep-sea sediments, a habitat covering nearly two-thirds of the planet. Here, we identify candidate diazotrophs from Pacific Ocean sediments collected at 2893 m water depth using 15N-DNA stable isotope probing and a novel pipeline for nifH sequence analysis. Together, these approaches detect an unexpectedly diverse assemblage of active diazotrophs, including members of the Acidobacteria, Firmicutes, Nitrospirae, Gammaproteobacteria, and Deltaproteobacteria. Deltaproteobacteria, predominately members of the Desulfobacterales and Desulfuromonadales, are the most abundant diazotrophs detected, and display the most microdiversity of associated nifH sequences. Some of the detected lineages, including those within the Acidobacteria, have not previously been shown to fix nitrogen. The diazotrophs appear catabolically diverse, with the potential for using oxygen, nitrogen, iron, sulfur, and carbon as terminal electron acceptors. Therefore, benthic diazotrophy may persist throughout a range of geochemical conditions and provide a stable source of fixed nitrogen over geologic timescales. Our results suggest that nitrogen-fixing communities in deep-sea sediments are phylogenetically and catabolically diverse, and open a new line of inquiry into the ecology and biogeochemical impacts of deep-sea microorganisms.
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- Bennett J Kapili
- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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Vuillemin A, Horn F, Friese A, Winkel M, Alawi M, Wagner D, Henny C, Orsi WD, Crowe SA, Kallmeyer J. Metabolic potential of microbial communities from ferruginous sediments. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:4297-4313. [PMID: 29968357 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Revised: 05/22/2018] [Accepted: 06/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Ferruginous (Fe-rich, SO4 -poor) conditions are generally restricted to freshwater sediments on Earth today, but were likely widespread during the Archean and Proterozoic Eons. Lake Towuti, Indonesia, is a large ferruginous lake that likely hosts geochemical processes analogous to those that operated in the ferruginous Archean ocean. The metabolic potential of microbial communities and related biogeochemical cycling under such conditions remain largely unknown. We combined geochemical measurements (pore water chemistry, sulfate reduction rates) with metagenomics to link metabolic potential with geochemical processes in the upper 50 cm of sediment. Microbial diversity and quantities of genes for dissimilatory sulfate reduction (dsrAB) and methanogenesis (mcrA) decrease with increasing depth, as do rates of potential sulfate reduction. The presence of taxa affiliated with known iron- and sulfate-reducers implies potential use of ferric iron and sulfate as electron acceptors. Pore-water concentrations of acetate imply active production through fermentation. Fermentation likely provides substrates for respiration with iron and sulfate as electron donors and for methanogens that were detected throughout the core. The presence of ANME-1 16S and mcrA genes suggests potential for anaerobic methane oxidation. Overall our data suggest that microbial community metabolism in anoxic ferruginous sediments support coupled Fe, S and C biogeochemical cycling.
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- Aurèle Vuillemin
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3: Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Paleontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3: Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3: Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3: Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3: Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3: Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany.,University of Potsdam, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Potsdam, Germany
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- Research Center for Limnology (LIPI), Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Division of Inland Waterways Dynamics, Cibinong-Bogor, Indonesia
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- Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Paleontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.,Geobio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.,Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3: Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
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Monitoring of microbial dynamics in a drinking water distribution system using the culture-free, user-friendly, MYcrobiota platform. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14727. [PMID: 30283052 PMCID: PMC6170421 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32987-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Drinking water utilities currently rely on a range of microbiological detection techniques to evaluate the quality of their drinking water (DW). However, microbiota profiling using culture-free 16S rRNA gene next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides an opportunity for improved monitoring of the microbial ecology and quality of DW. Here, we evaluated the utility of a previously validated microbiota profiling platform (MYcrobiota) to investigate the microbial dynamics of a full-scale, non-chlorinated DW distribution system (DWDS). In contrast to conventional methods, we observed spatial and temporal bacterial genus changes (expressed as operational taxonomic units - OTUs) within the DWDS. Further, a small subset of bacterial OTUs dominated with abundances that shifted across the length of the DWDS, and were particularly affected by a post-disinfection step. We also found seasonal variation in OTUs within the DWDS and that many OTUs could not be identified, even though MYcrobiota is specifically designed to reduce potential PCR sequencing artefacts. This suggests that our current knowledge about the microbial ecology of DW communities is limited. Our findings demonstrate that the user-friendly MYcrobiota platform facilitates culture-free, standardized microbial dynamics monitoring and has the capacity to facilitate the introduction of microbiota profiling into the management of drinking water quality.
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Fortney NW, He S, Converse BJ, Boyd ES, Roden EE. Investigating the Composition and Metabolic Potential of Microbial Communities in Chocolate Pots Hot Springs. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2075. [PMID: 30245673 PMCID: PMC6137239 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Accepted: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Iron (Fe) redox-based metabolisms likely supported life on early Earth and may support life on other Fe-rich rocky planets such as Mars. Modern systems that support active Fe redox cycling such as Chocolate Pots (CP) hot springs provide insight into how life could have functioned in such environments. Previous research demonstrated that Fe- and Si-rich and slightly acidic to circumneutral-pH springs at CP host active dissimilatory Fe(III) reducing microorganisms. However, the abundance and distribution of Fe(III)-reducing communities at CP is not well-understood, especially as they exist in situ. In addition, the potential for direct Fe(II) oxidation by lithotrophs in CP springs is understudied, in particular when compared to indirect oxidation promoted by oxygen producing Cyanobacteria. Here, a culture-independent approach, including 16S rRNA gene amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing, was used to determine the distribution of putative Fe cycling microorganisms in vent fluids and sediment cores collected along the outflow channel of CP. Metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of organisms native to sediment and planktonic microbial communities were screened for extracellular electron transfer (EET) systems putatively involved in Fe redox cycling and for CO2 fixation pathways. Abundant MAGs containing putative EET systems were identified as part of the sediment community at locations where Fe(III) reduction activity has previously been documented. MAGs encoding both putative EET systems and CO2 fixation pathways, inferred to be FeOB, were also present, but were less abundant components of the communities. These results suggest that the majority of the Fe(III) oxides that support in situ Fe(III) reduction are derived from abiotic oxidation. This study provides new insights into the interplay between Fe redox cycling and CO2 fixation in sustaining chemotrophic communities in CP with attendant implications for other neutral-pH hot springs.
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- Nathaniel W. Fortney
- Department of Geoscience, NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Geoscience, NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Geoscience, NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
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- Department of Geoscience, NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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Stable Isotope Probing for Microbial Iron Reduction in Chocolate Pots Hot Spring, Yellowstone National Park. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.02894-17. [PMID: 29602784 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02894-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2018] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Chocolate Pots hot springs (CP) is a circumneutral-pH Fe-rich geothermal feature located in Yellowstone National Park. Previous Fe(III)-reducing enrichment culture studies with CP sediments identified close relatives of known dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacterial (FeRB) taxa, including Geobacter and Melioribacter However, the abundances and activities of such organisms in the native microbial community are unknown. Here, we used stable isotope probing experiments combined with 16S rRNA gene amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing to gain an understanding of the in situ Fe(III)-reducing microbial community at CP. Fe-Si oxide precipitates collected near the hot spring vent were incubated with unlabeled and 13C-labeled acetate to target active FeRB. We searched reconstructed genomes for homologs of genes involved in known extracellular electron transfer (EET) systems to identify the taxa involved in Fe redox transformations. Known FeRB taxa containing putative EET systems (Geobacter, Ignavibacteria) increased in abundance under acetate-amended conditions, whereas genomes related to Ignavibacterium and Thermodesulfovibrio that contained putative EET systems were recovered from incubations without electron donor. Our results suggest that FeRB play an active role in Fe redox cycling within Fe-Si oxide-rich deposits located at the hot spring vent.IMPORTANCE The identification of past near-surface hydrothermal environments on Mars emphasizes the importance of using modern Earth environments, such as CP, to gain insight into potential Fe-based microbial life on other rocky worlds, as well as ancient Fe-rich Earth ecosystems. By combining stable carbon isotope probing techniques and DNA sequencing technology, we gained insight into the pathways of microbial Fe redox cycling at CP. The results suggest that microbial Fe(III) oxide reduction is prominent in situ, with important implications for the generation of geochemical and stable Fe isotopic signatures of microbial Fe redox metabolism within Fe-rich circumneutral-pH thermal spring environments on Earth and Mars.
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Marshall IP, Karst SM, Nielsen PH, Jørgensen BB. Metagenomes from deep Baltic Sea sediments reveal how past and present environmental conditions determine microbial community composition. Mar Genomics 2018; 37:58-68. [DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2017.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Revised: 08/07/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Harding T, Roger AJ, Simpson AGB. Adaptations to High Salt in a Halophilic Protist: Differential Expression and Gene Acquisitions through Duplications and Gene Transfers. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:944. [PMID: 28611746 PMCID: PMC5447177 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Accepted: 05/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The capacity of halophiles to thrive in extreme hypersaline habitats derives partly from the tight regulation of ion homeostasis, the salt-dependent adjustment of plasma membrane fluidity, and the increased capability to manage oxidative stress. Halophilic bacteria, and archaea have been intensively studied, and substantial research has been conducted on halophilic fungi, and the green alga Dunaliella. By contrast, there have been very few investigations of halophiles that are phagotrophic protists, i.e., protozoa. To gather fundamental knowledge about salt adaptation in these organisms, we studied the transcriptome-level response of Halocafeteria seosinensis (Stramenopiles) grown under contrasting salinities. We provided further evolutionary context to our analysis by identifying genes that underwent recent duplications. Genes that were highly responsive to salinity variations were involved in stress response (e.g., chaperones), ion homeostasis (e.g., Na+/H+ transporter), metabolism and transport of lipids (e.g., sterol biosynthetic genes), carbohydrate metabolism (e.g., glycosidases), and signal transduction pathways (e.g., transcription factors). A significantly high proportion (43%) of duplicated genes were also differentially expressed, accentuating the importance of gene expansion in adaptation by H. seosinensis to high salt environments. Furthermore, we found two genes that were lateral acquisitions from bacteria, and were also highly up-regulated and highly expressed at high salt, suggesting that this evolutionary mechanism could also have facilitated adaptation to high salt. We propose that a transition toward high-salt adaptation in the ancestors of H. seosinensis required the acquisition of new genes via duplication, and some lateral gene transfers (LGTs), as well as the alteration of transcriptional programs, leading to increased stress resistance, proper establishment of ion gradients, and modification of cell structure properties like membrane fluidity.
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- Tommy Harding
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, NS, Canada
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- Department of Biology and Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie UniversityHalifax, NS, Canada
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Vuillemin A, Friese A, Alawi M, Henny C, Nomosatryo S, Wagner D, Crowe SA, Kallmeyer J. Geomicrobiological Features of Ferruginous Sediments from Lake Towuti, Indonesia. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1007. [PMID: 27446046 PMCID: PMC4928248 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Lake Towuti is a tectonic basin, surrounded by ultramafic rocks. Lateritic soils form through weathering and deliver abundant iron (oxy)hydroxides but very little sulfate to the lake and its sediment. To characterize the sediment biogeochemistry, we collected cores at three sites with increasing water depth and decreasing bottom water oxygen concentrations. Microbial cell densities were highest at the shallow site-a feature we attribute to the availability of labile organic matter (OM) and the higher abundance of electron acceptors due to oxic bottom water conditions. At the two other sites, OM degradation and reduction processes below the oxycline led to partial electron acceptor depletion. Genetic information preserved in the sediment as extracellular DNA (eDNA) provided information on aerobic and anaerobic heterotrophs related to Nitrospirae, Chloroflexi, and Thermoplasmatales. These taxa apparently played a significant role in the degradation of sinking OM. However, eDNA concentrations rapidly decreased with core depth. Despite very low sulfate concentrations, sulfate-reducing bacteria were present and viable in sediments at all three sites, as confirmed by measurement of potential sulfate reduction rates. Microbial community fingerprinting supported the presence of taxa related to Deltaproteobacteria and Firmicutes with demonstrated capacity for iron and sulfate reduction. Concomitantly, sequences of Ruminococcaceae, Clostridiales, and Methanomicrobiales indicated potential for fermentative hydrogen and methane production. Such first insights into ferruginous sediments showed that microbial populations perform successive metabolisms related to sulfur, iron, and methane. In theory, iron reduction could reoxidize reduced sulfur compounds and desorb OM from iron minerals to allow remineralization to methane. Overall, we found that biogeochemical processes in the sediments can be linked to redox differences in the bottom waters of the three sites, like oxidant concentrations and the supply of labile OM. At the scale of the lacustrine record, our geomicrobiological study should provide a means to link the extant subsurface biosphere to past environments.
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- Aurèle Vuillemin
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3 Geomicrobiology, Potsdam Germany
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3 Geomicrobiology, Potsdam Germany
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3 Geomicrobiology, Potsdam Germany
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- Research Center for Limnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences Cibinong, Indonesia
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- Research Center for Limnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences Cibinong, Indonesia
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3 Geomicrobiology, Potsdam Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British ColumbiaVancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British ColumbiaVancouver, BC, Canada
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Section 5.3 Geomicrobiology, Potsdam Germany
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Hoshino T, Kuratomi T, Morono Y, Hori T, Oiwane H, Kiyokawa S, Inagaki F. Ecophysiology of Zetaproteobacteria Associated with Shallow Hydrothermal Iron-Oxyhydroxide Deposits in Nagahama Bay of Satsuma Iwo-Jima, Japan. Front Microbiol 2016; 6:1554. [PMID: 26793184 PMCID: PMC4707226 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Previous studies of microbial communities in deep-sea hydrothermal ferric deposits have demonstrated that members of Zetaproteobacteria play significant ecological roles in biogeochemical iron-cycling. However, the ecophysiological characteristics and interaction between other microbial members in the habitat still remain largely unknown. In this study, we investigated microbial communities in a core sample obtained from shallow hydrothermal iron-oxyhydroxide deposits at Nagahama Bay of Satsuma Iwo-Jima, Japan. Scanning electron microscopic observation showed numerous helical stalk structures, suggesting the occurrence of iron-oxidizing bacteria. Analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated the co-occurrence of iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria and iron-reducing bacteria such as the genera Deferrisoma and Desulfobulbus with strong correlations on the sequence abundance. CARD-FISH indicated that the numbers of Zetaproteobacteria were not always consistent to the frequency of stalk structures. In the stalk-abundant layers with relatively small numbers of Zetaproteobacteria cells, accumulation of polyphosphate was observed inside Zetaproteobacteria cells, whereas no polyphosphate grains were observed in the topmost layers with fewer stalks and abundant Zetaproteobacteria cells. These results suggest that Zetaproteobacteria store intracellular polyphosphates during active iron oxidation that contributes to the mineralogical growth and biogeochemical iron cycling.
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- Tatsuhiko Hoshino
- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology, Kochi Institute for Core Sample ResearchNankoku, Japan; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology, Research and Development Center for Submarine ResourcesNankoku, Japan
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- Department Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan
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- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology, Kochi Institute for Core Sample ResearchNankoku, Japan; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology, Research and Development Center for Submarine ResourcesNankoku, Japan
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- Environmental Management Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan
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- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology, Kochi Institute for Core Sample ResearchNankoku, Japan; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Technology, Research and Development Center for Submarine ResourcesNankoku, Japan
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Pérez-Rodríguez I, Rawls M, Coykendall DK, Foustoukos DI. Deferrisoma palaeochoriense sp. nov., a thermophilic, iron(III)-reducing bacterium from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 66:830-836. [PMID: 26610851 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.000798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A novel thermophilic, anaerobic, mixotrophic bacterium, designated strain MAG-PB1T, was isolated from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent system in Palaeochori Bay off the coast of the island of Milos, Greece. The cells were Gram-negative, rugose, short rods, approximately 1.0 μm long and 0.5 μm wide. Strain MAG-PB1T grew at 30-70 °C (optimum 60 °C), 0-50 g NaCl l- 1 (optimum 15-20 g l- 1) and pH 5.5-8.0 (optimum pH 6.0). Generation time under optimal conditions was 2.5 h. Optimal growth occurred under chemolithoautotrophic conditions with H2 as the energy source and CO2 as the carbon source. Fe(III), Mn(IV), arsenate and selenate were used as electron acceptors. Peptone, tryptone, Casamino acids, sucrose, yeast extract, d-fructose, α-d-glucose and ( - )-d-arabinose also served as electron donors. No growth occurred in the presence of lactate or formate. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 66.7 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that this organism is closely related to Deferrisoma camini, the first species of a recently described genus in the Deltaproteobacteria. Based on the 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic analysis and on physiological, biochemical and structural characteristics, the strain was found to represent a novel species, for which the name Deferrisoma palaeochoriense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MAG-PB1T ( = JCM 30394T = DSM 29363T).
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- Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, 20015, USA.,Department of Oceanic, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
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- US Geological Survey, National Fish Health Research Laboratory, Leetown Science Center, Kearneysville, WV 25430, USA
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- Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, 20015, USA
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Geelhoed JS, Henstra AM, Stams AJM. Carboxydotrophic growth of Geobacter sulfurreducens. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 100:997-1007. [PMID: 26481622 PMCID: PMC4703632 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-7033-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2015] [Revised: 09/14/2015] [Accepted: 09/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
This study shows that Geobacter sulfurreducens grows on carbon monoxide (CO) as electron donor with fumarate as electron acceptor. Geobacter sulfurreducens was tolerant to high CO levels, with up to 150 kPa in the headspace tested. During growth, hydrogen was detected in very slight amounts (∼5 Pa). In assays with cell-free extract of cells grown with CO and fumarate, production of hydrogen from CO was not observed, and hydrogenase activity with benzyl viologen as electron acceptor was very low. Taken together, this suggested that CO is not utilized via hydrogen as intermediate. In the presence of CO, reduction of NADP+ was observed at a rate comparable to CO oxidation coupled to fumarate reduction in vivo. The G. sulfurreducens genome contains a single putative carbon monoxide dehydrogenase-encoding gene. The gene is part of a predicted operon also comprising a putative Fe–S cluster-binding subunit (CooF) and a FAD–NAD(P) oxidoreductase and is preceded by a putative CO-sensing transcription factor. This cluster may be involved in a novel pathway for CO oxidation, but further studies are necessary to ascertain this. Similar gene clusters are present in several other species belonging to the Deltaproteobacteria and Firmicutes, for which CO utilization is currently not known.
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- Jeanine S Geelhoed
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Dreijenplein 10, 6703 HB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Korringaweg 7, 4401 NT, Yerseke, The Netherlands.
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Dreijenplein 10, 6703 HB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2EF, Nottingham, UK
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Dreijenplein 10, 6703 HB, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Zeng X, Zhang Z, Li X, Jebbar M, Alain K, Shao Z. Caloranaerobacter ferrireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic, iron (III)-reducing bacterium isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal sulfide deposits. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1714-1718. [DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.000165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A thermophilic, anaerobic, iron-reducing bacterium (strain DY22619T) was isolated from a sulfide sample collected from an East Pacific Ocean hydrothermal field at a depth of 2901 m. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, motile rods (2–10 µm in length, 0.5 µm in width) with multiple peritrichous flagella. The strain grew at 40–70 °C inclusive (optimum 60 °C), at pH 4.5–8.5 inclusive (optimum pH 7.0) and with sea salts concentrations of 1–10 % (w/v) (optimum 3 % sea salts) and NaCl concentrations of 1.5–5.0 % (w/v) (optimum 2.5 % NaCl). Under optimal growth conditions, the generation time was around 55 min. The isolate was an obligate chemoorganoheterotroph, utilizing complex organic compounds, amino acids, carbohydrates and organic acids including peptone, tryptone, beef extract, yeast extract, alanine, glutamate, methionine, threonine, fructose, mannose, galactose, glucose, palatinose, rhamnose, turanose, gentiobiose, xylose, sorbose, pyruvate, tartaric acid, α-ketobutyric acid, α-ketovaleric acid, galacturonic acid and glucosaminic acid. Strain DY22619T was strictly anaerobic and facultatively dependent on various forms of Fe(III) as an electron acceptor: insoluble forms and soluble forms. It did not reduce sulfite, sulfate, thiosulfate or nitrate. The genomic DNA G+C content was 29.0 mol%. Phylogenetic 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses revealed that the closest relative of strain DY22619T was
Caloranaerobacter azorensis
MV1087T, sharing 97.41 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity. On the basis of physiological distinctness and phylogenetic distance, the isolate is considered to represent a novel species of the genus
Caloranaerobacter
, for which the name Caloranaerobacter
http://dx.doi.org/10.1601/nm.4081
ferrireducens sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is DY22619T ( = JCM 19467T = DSM 27799T = MCCC1A06455T).
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- Xiang Zeng
- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, the Third Institute of Oceanography SOA, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, the Third Institute of Oceanography SOA, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, the Third Institute of Oceanography SOA, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
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- Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO, UEB), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM)–UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Place Nicolas Copernic, F-29280 Plouzané, France
- CNRS, IUEM–UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Place Nicolas Copernic, F-29280 Plouzané, France
- Ifremer, UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Technopôle Pointe du diable, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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- Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO, UEB), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM)–UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Place Nicolas Copernic, F-29280 Plouzané, France
- CNRS, IUEM–UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Place Nicolas Copernic, F-29280 Plouzané, France
- Ifremer, UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Technopôle Pointe du diable, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, the Third Institute of Oceanography SOA, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, PR China
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Parks JM, Johs A, Podar M, Bridou R, Hurt RA, Smith SD, Tomanicek SJ, Qian Y, Brown SD, Brandt CC, Palumbo AV, Smith JC, Wall JD, Elias DA, Liang L. The Genetic Basis for Bacterial Mercury Methylation. Science 2013; 339:1332-5. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1230667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 600] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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