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Haavisto V, Landry Z, Pontrelli S. High-throughput profiling of metabolic responses to exogenous nutrients in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. mSystems 2024; 9:e0022724. [PMID: 38534128 PMCID: PMC11019784 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00227-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
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Cyanobacteria fix carbon dioxide and release carbon-containing compounds into the wider ecosystem, yet they are sensitive to small metabolites that may impact their growth and physiology. Several cyanobacteria can grow mixotrophically, but we currently lack a molecular understanding of how specific nutrients may alter the compounds they release, limiting our knowledge of how environmental factors might impact primary producers and the ecosystems they support. In this study, we develop a high-throughput phytoplankton culturing platform and identify how the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 responds to nutrient supplementation. We assess growth responses to 32 nutrients at two concentrations, identifying 15 that are utilized mixotrophically. Seven nutrient sources significantly enhance growth, while 19 elicit negative growth responses at one or both concentrations. High-throughput exometabolomics indicates that oxidative stress limits Synechocystis' growth but may be alleviated by antioxidant metabolites. Furthermore, glucose and valine induce strong changes in metabolite exudation in a possible effort to correct pathway imbalances or maintain intracellular elemental ratios. This study sheds light on the flexibility and limits of cyanobacterial physiology and metabolism, as well as how primary production and trophic food webs may be modulated by exogenous nutrients.IMPORTANCECyanobacteria capture and release carbon compounds to fuel microbial food webs, yet we lack a comprehensive understanding of how external nutrients modify their behavior and what they produce. We developed a high throughput culturing platform to evaluate how the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 responds to a broad panel of externally supplied nutrients. We found that growth may be enhanced by metabolites that protect against oxidative stress, and growth and exudate profiles are altered by metabolites that interfere with central carbon metabolism and elemental ratios. This work contributes a holistic perspective of the versatile response of Synechocystis to externally supplied nutrients, which may alter carbon flux into the wider ecosystem.
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- Vilhelmiina Haavisto
- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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Sperfeld M, Narváez-Barragán DA, Malitsky S, Frydman V, Yuda L, Rocha J, Segev E. Reducing the Bacterial Lag Phase Through Methylated Compounds: Insights from Algal-Bacterial Interactions. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.06.06.543872. [PMID: 38645154 PMCID: PMC11030247 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.06.543872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/23/2024]
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The bacterial lag phase is a key period for resuming growth. Despite its significance, the lag phase remains underexplored, particularly in environmental bacteria. Here, we explore the lag phase of the model marine bacterium Phaeobacter inhibens when it transitions from starvation to growth with a microalgal partner. Utilizing transcriptomics and 13 C-labeled metabolomics, our study reveals that methylated compounds, which are abundantly produced by microalgae, shorten the bacterial lag phase. Our findings underscore the significance of methyl groups as a limiting factor during the lag phase and demonstrate that methyl groups can be harvested from algal compounds and assimilated through the methionine cycle. Furthermore, we show that methylated compounds, characteristic of photosynthetic organisms, induce variable reductions in lag times among bacteria associated with algae and plants. These findings highlight the adjustability of the bacterial lag phase and emphasize the importance of studying bacteria in an environmental context. One-Sentence Summary Bacteria use algal compounds as a metabolic shortcut to transition from starvation to growth.
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Burgunter-Delamare B, Shetty P, Vuong T, Mittag M. Exchange or Eliminate: The Secrets of Algal-Bacterial Relationships. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:829. [PMID: 38592793 PMCID: PMC10974524 DOI: 10.3390/plants13060829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Revised: 03/09/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Algae and bacteria have co-occurred and coevolved in common habitats for hundreds of millions of years, fostering specific associations and interactions such as mutualism or antagonism. These interactions are shaped through exchanges of primary and secondary metabolites provided by one of the partners. Metabolites, such as N-sources or vitamins, can be beneficial to the partner and they may be assimilated through chemotaxis towards the partner producing these metabolites. Other metabolites, especially many natural products synthesized by bacteria, can act as toxins and damage or kill the partner. For instance, the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii establishes a mutualistic partnership with a Methylobacterium, in stark contrast to its antagonistic relationship with the toxin producing Pseudomonas protegens. In other cases, as with a coccolithophore haptophyte alga and a Phaeobacter bacterium, the same alga and bacterium can even be subject to both processes, depending on the secreted bacterial and algal metabolites. Some bacteria also influence algal morphology by producing specific metabolites and micronutrients, as is observed in some macroalgae. This review focuses on algal-bacterial interactions with micro- and macroalgal models from marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments and summarizes the advances in the field. It also highlights the effects of temperature on these interactions as it is presently known.
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- Bertille Burgunter-Delamare
- Matthias Schleiden Institute of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Molecular Botany, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; (P.S.); (T.V.)
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- Matthias Schleiden Institute of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Molecular Botany, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; (P.S.); (T.V.)
- Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Matthias Schleiden Institute of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Molecular Botany, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; (P.S.); (T.V.)
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- Matthias Schleiden Institute of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Molecular Botany, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; (P.S.); (T.V.)
- Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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Xu S, Huang H, Chen S, Muhammad ZUA, Wei W, Xie W, Jiang H, Hou S. Recovery of 1887 metagenome-assembled genomes from the South China Sea. Sci Data 2024; 11:197. [PMID: 38351104 PMCID: PMC10864278 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03050-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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The South China Sea (SCS) is a marginal sea characterized by strong land-sea biogeochemical interactions. SCS has a distinctive landscape with a multitude of seamounts in its basin. Seamounts create "seamount effects" that influence the diversity and distribution of planktonic microorganisms in the surrounding oligotrophic waters. Although the vertical distribution and community structure of marine microorganisms have been explored in certain regions of the global ocean, there is a lack of comprehensive microbial genomic surveys for uncultured microorganisms in SCS, particularly in the seamount regions. Here, we employed a metagenomic approach to study the uncultured microbial communities sampled from the Xianbei seamount region to the North Coast waters of SCS. A total of 1887 non-redundant prokaryotic metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were reconstructed, of which, 153 MAGs were classified as high-quality MAGs based on the MIMAG standards. The community structure and genomic information provided by this dataset could be used to analyze microbial distribution and metabolism in the SCS.
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- Shuaishuai Xu
- Department of Ocean Science & Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
- College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China
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- Department of Ocean Science & Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
- Shenzhen Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen, 518049, China
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- Department of Ocean Science & Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, 519000, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, 519000, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China.
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, 519000, China.
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- Department of Ocean Science & Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
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Euler S, Jeffrey LC, Maher DT, Johnston SG, Sugimoto R, Tait DR. Microbiome mediating methane and nitrogen transformations in a subterranean estuary. Environ Microbiol 2024; 26:e16558. [PMID: 38115223 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Subterranean estuaries (STEs) are important coastal biogeochemical reactors facilitating unique niches for microbial communities. A common approach in determining STE greenhouse gas and nutrient fluxes is to use terrestrial endmembers, not accounting for microbially mediated transformations throughout the STE. As such, the microbial ecology and spatial distribution of specialists that cycle compounds in STEs remain largely underexplored. In this study, we applied 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing with paired biogeochemical characterisations to spatially evaluate microbial communities transforming greenhouse gases and nutrients in an STE. We show that methanogens are most prevalent at the terrestrial end (up to 2.81% relative abundance) concomitant to the highest porewater methane, carbon dioxide and dissolved organic carbon concentrations (0.41 ± 0.02 μM, 273.31 ± 6.05 μM and 0.51 ± 0.02 mM, respectively). Lower ammonium concentrations corresponded with abundant nitrifying and ammonia-oxidising prokaryotes in the mixing zone (up to 11.65% relative abundance). Methane, ammonium and dissolved organic carbon concentrations all decreased by >50% from the terrestrial to the oceanic end of the 15 m transect. This study highlights the STE's hidden microbiome zonation, as well as the importance of accounting for microbial transformations mitigating nutrient and greenhouse gas fluxes to the coastal ecosystems.
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- Sebastian Euler
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
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- Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan
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- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
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Tran DQ, Milke F, Niggemann J, Simon M. The diatom Thalassiosira rotula induces distinct growth responses and colonization patterns of Roseobacteraceae, Flavobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria. Environ Microbiol 2023; 25:3536-3555. [PMID: 37705313 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/03/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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Diatoms as important phytoplankton components interact with and are colonized by heterotrophic bacteria. This colonization has been studied extensively in the past but a distinction between the bacterial colonization directly on diatom cells or on the aggregated organic material, exopolymeric substances (EPS), was little addressed. Here we show that the diatom Thalassiosira rotula and EPS were differently colonized by strains of Roseobacteraceae and Flavobacteriaceae in two and tree partner treatments and an enriched natural bacterial community as inoculum. In two partner treatments, the algae and EPS were generally less colonized than in the three partner treatments. Two strains benefitted greatly from the presence of another partner as the proportions of their subpopulations colonizing the diatom cell and the EPS were much enhanced relative to their two partner treatments. Highest proportions of bacteria colonizing the diatom and EPS occurred in the treatment inoculated with the enriched natural bacterial community. Dissolved organic carbon, amino acids and carbohydrates produced by T. rotula were differently used by the bacteria in the two and three partner treatments and most efficiently by the enriched natural bacterial community. Our approach is a valid model system to study physico-chemical bacteria-diatom interactions with increasing complexity.
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- Den Quoc Tran
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Kujawinski EB, Braakman R, Longnecker K, Becker JW, Chisholm SW, Dooley K, Kido Soule MC, Swarr GJ, Halloran K. Metabolite diversity among representatives of divergent Prochlorococcus ecotypes. mSystems 2023; 8:e0126122. [PMID: 37815355 PMCID: PMC10654061 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01261-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 10/11/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Approximately half of the annual carbon fixation on Earth occurs in the surface ocean through the photosynthetic activities of phytoplankton such as the ubiquitous picocyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Ecologically distinct subpopulations (or ecotypes) of Prochlorococcus are central conduits of organic substrates into the ocean microbiome, thus playing important roles in surface ocean production. We measured the chemical profile of three cultured ecotype strains, observing striking differences among them that have implications for the likely chemical impact of Prochlorococcus subpopulations on their surroundings in the wild. Subpopulations differ in abundance along gradients of temperature, light, and nutrient concentrations, suggesting that these chemical differences could affect carbon cycling in different ocean strata and should be considered in models of Prochlorococcus physiology and marine carbon dynamics.
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- Elizabeth B. Kujawinski
- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Science Department, Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
- MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Sciences and Engineering, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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Eigemann F, Rahav E, Grossart HP, Aharonovich D, Voss M, Sher D. Phytoplankton Producer Species and Transformation of Released Compounds over Time Define Bacterial Communities following Phytoplankton Dissolved Organic Matter Pulses. Appl Environ Microbiol 2023; 89:e0053923. [PMID: 37409944 PMCID: PMC10370336 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00539-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023] Open
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Phytoplankton-bacterium interactions are mediated, in part, by phytoplankton-released dissolved organic matter (DOMp). Two factors that shape the bacterial community accompanying phytoplankton are (i) the phytoplankton producer species, defining the initial composition of released DOMp, and (ii) the DOMp transformation over time. We added phytoplankton DOMp from the diatom Skeletonema marinoi and the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus MIT9312 to natural bacterial communities from the eastern Mediterranean and determined the bacterial responses over a time course of 72 h in terms of cell numbers, bacterial production, alkaline phosphatase activity, and changes in active bacterial community composition based on rRNA amplicon sequencing. Both DOMp types were demonstrated to serve the bacterial community as carbon and, potentially, phosphorus sources. Bacterial communities in diatom-derived DOM treatments maintained higher Shannon diversities throughout the experiment and yielded higher bacterial production and lower alkaline phosphatase activity compared to cyanobacterium-derived DOM after 24 h of incubation (but not after 48 and 72 h), indicating greater bacterial usability of diatom-derived DOM. Bacterial communities significantly differed between DOMp types as well as between different incubation times, pointing to a certain bacterial specificity for the DOMp producer as well as a successive utilization of phytoplankton DOM by different bacterial taxa over time. The highest differences in bacterial community composition with DOMp types occurred shortly after DOMp additions, suggesting a high specificity toward highly bioavailable DOMp compounds. We conclude that phytoplankton-associated bacterial communities are strongly shaped by the phytoplankton producer as well as the transformation of its released DOMp over time. IMPORTANCE Phytoplankton-bacterium interactions influence biogeochemical cycles of global importance. Phytoplankton photosynthetically fix carbon dioxide and subsequently release the synthesized compounds as dissolved organic matter (DOMp), which becomes processed and recycled by heterotrophic bacteria. Yet the importance of phytoplankton producers in combination with the time-dependent transformation of DOMp compounds on the accompanying bacterial community has not been explored in detail. The diatom Skeletonema marinoi and the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus MIT9312 belong to globally important phytoplankton genera, and our study revealed that DOMp of both species was selectively incorporated by the bacterial community. The producer species had the highest impact shortly after DOMp appropriation, and its effect diminished over time. Our results improve the understanding of the dynamics of organic matter produced by phytoplankton in the oceans as it is utilized and modified by cooccurring bacteria.
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- Falk Eigemann
- Water Quality Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemuende, Germany
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
- Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemuende, Germany
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- Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University Haifa, Israel
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Diaz BP, Gallo F, Moore RH, Bidle KD. Virus infection of phytoplankton increases average molar mass and reduces hygroscopicity of aerosolized organic matter. Sci Rep 2023; 13:7361. [PMID: 37147322 PMCID: PMC10163044 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33818-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023] Open
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Viral infection of phytoplankton is a pervasive mechanism of cell death and bloom termination, which leads to the production of dissolved and colloidal organic matter that can be aerosolized into the atmosphere. Earth-observing satellites can track the growth and death of phytoplankton blooms on weekly time scales but the impact of viral infection on the cloud forming potential of associated aerosols is largely unknown. Here, we determine the influence of viral-derived organic matter, purified viruses, and marine hydrogels on the cloud condensation nuclei activity of their aerosolized solutions, compared to organic exudates from healthy phytoplankton. Dissolved organic material derived from exponentially growing and infected cells of well-characterized eukaryotic phytoplankton host-virus systems, including viruses from diatoms, coccolithophores and chlorophytes, was concentrated, desalted, and nebulized to form aerosol particles composed of primarily of organic matter. Aerosols from infected phytoplankton cultures resulted in an increase in critical activation diameter and average molar mass in three out of five combinations evaluated, along with a decrease in organic kappa (hygroscopicity) compared to healthy cultures and seawater controls. The infected samples also displayed evidence of increased surface tension depression at realistic cloud water vapor supersaturations. Amending the samples with xanthan gum to simulate marine hydrogels increased variability in organic kappa and surface tension in aerosols with high organic to salt ratios. Our findings suggest that the pulses of increased dissolved organic matter associated with viral infection in surface waters may increase the molar mass of dissolved organic compounds relative to surface waters occupied by healthy phytoplankton or low phytoplankton biomass.
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- Ben P Diaz
- Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
- NASA Postdoctoral Program, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA.
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Phototroph-heterotroph interactions during growth and long-term starvation across Prochlorococcus and Alteromonas diversity. THE ISME JOURNAL 2023; 17:227-237. [PMID: 36335212 PMCID: PMC9860064 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-022-01330-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Revised: 10/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Due to their potential impact on ecosystems and biogeochemistry, microbial interactions, such as those between phytoplankton and bacteria, have been studied intensively using specific model organisms. Yet, to what extent interactions differ between closely related organisms, or how these interactions change over time, or culture conditions, remains unclear. Here, we characterize the interactions between five strains each of two globally abundant marine microorganisms, Prochlorococcus (phototroph) and Alteromonas (heterotroph), from the first encounter between individual strains and over more than a year of repeated cycles of exponential growth and long-term nitrogen starvation. Prochlorococcus-Alteromonas interactions had little effect on traditional growth parameters such as Prochlorococcus growth rate, maximal fluorescence, or lag phase, affecting primarily the dynamics of culture decline, which we interpret as representing cell mortality and lysis. The shape of the Prochlorococcus decline curve and the carrying capacity of the co-cultures were determined by the phototroph and not the heterotroph strains involved. Comparing various mathematical models of culture mortality suggests that Prochlorococcus death rate increases over time in mono-cultures but decreases in co-cultures, with cells potentially becoming more resistant to stress. Our results demonstrate intra-species differences in ecologically relevant co-culture outcomes. These include the recycling efficiency of N and whether the interactions are mutually synergistic or competitive. They also highlight the information-rich growth and death curves as a useful readout of the interaction phenotype.
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Abad N, Uranga A, Ayo B, Arrieta JM, Baña Z, Azúa I, Artolozaga I, Iriberri J, González-Rojí SJ, Unanue M. Kinetic modulation of bacterial hydrolases by microbial community structure in coastal waters. Environ Microbiol 2023; 25:548-561. [PMID: 36478509 PMCID: PMC10108013 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In this study, we hypothesized that shifts in the kinetic parameters of extracellular hydrolytic enzymes may occur as a consequence of seasonal environmental disturbances and would reflect the level of adaptation of the bacterial community to the organic matter of the ecosystem. We measured the activities of enzymes that play a key role in the bacterial growth (leucine aminopeptidase, β- and α-glucosidases) in surface coastal waters of the Eastern Cantabrian Sea and determined their kinetic parameters by computing kinetic models of distinct complexity. Our results revealed the existence of two clearly distinct enzymatic systems operating at different substrate concentrations: a high-affinity system prevailing at low substrate concentrations and a low-affinity system characteristic of high substrate concentrations. These findings could be the result of distinct functional bacterial assemblages growing concurrently under sharp gradients of high-molecular-weight compounds. We constructed an ecological network based on contemporaneous and time-delayed correlations to explore the associations between the kinetic parameters and the environmental variables. The analysis revealed that the recurring phytoplankton blooms registered throughout the seasonal cycle trigger the wax and wane of those members of the bacterial community able to synthesize and secrete specific enzymes.
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- Naiara Abad
- Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
- Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alava, Spain
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- Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
- Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology PiE-UPV/EHU, Plentzia, Spain
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- Canary Islands Oceanographic Center, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), Santa Cruz, Spain
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- Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
- Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology PiE-UPV/EHU, Plentzia, Spain
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- Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
- Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology PiE-UPV/EHU, Plentzia, Spain
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- Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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- Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
- Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology PiE-UPV/EHU, Plentzia, Spain
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- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Climate and Environmental Physics (CEP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain
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Ferrer-González FX, Hamilton M, Smith CB, Schreier JE, Olofsson M, Moran MA. Bacterial transcriptional response to labile exometabolites from photosynthetic picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda. ISME COMMUNICATIONS 2023; 3:5. [PMID: 36690682 PMCID: PMC9870897 DOI: 10.1038/s43705-023-00212-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Revised: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Dissolved primary production released into seawater by marine phytoplankton is a major source of carbon fueling heterotrophic bacterial production in the ocean. The composition of the organic compounds released by healthy phytoplankton is poorly known and difficult to assess with existing chemical methods. Here, expression of transporter and catabolic genes by three model marine bacteria (Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3, Stenotrophomonas sp. SKA14, and Polaribacter dokdonensis MED152) was used as a biological sensor of metabolites released from the picoeukaryote Micromonas commoda RCC299. Bacterial expression responses indicated that the three species together recognized 38 picoeukaryote metabolites. This was consistent with the Micromonas expression of genes for starch metabolism and synthesis of peptidoglycan-like intermediates. A comparison of the hypothesized Micromonas exometabolite pool with that of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana CCMP1335, analyzed previously with the same biological sensor method, indicated that both phytoplankton released organic acids, nucleosides, and amino acids, but differed in polysaccharide and organic nitrogen release. Future ocean conditions are expected to favor picoeukaryotic phytoplankton over larger-celled microphytoplankton. Results from this study suggest that such a shift could alter the substrate pool available to heterotrophic bacterioplankton.
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
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Wen Z, Shang Y, Song K, Liu G, Hou J, Lyu L, Tao H, Li S, He C, Shi Q, He D. Composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in lakes responds to the trophic state and phytoplankton community succession. WATER RESEARCH 2022; 224:119073. [PMID: 36113235 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Revised: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Dissolved organic matter (DOM), a heterogeneous mixture of diverse compounds with different molecular weights, is crucial for the lake carbon cycle. The properties and concentration of DOM in lakes are closely related to anthropogenic activities, terrigenous input, and phytoplankton growth. Thus, the lake's trophic state, along with the above factors, has an important effect on DOM. We determined the DOM sources and molecular composition in six lakes along a trophic gradient during and after phytoplankton bloom by combining optical techniques and the Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS). CDOM pools in eutrophic lakes may be more biologically refractory than in oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes. Molecular formulas of DOM were positively correlated with the TSI (trophic state index) value (R2 = 0.73), with the nitrogen-containing compounds (CHON) being the most abundant formulas in all studied lakes. Eutrophication modified the molecular formulas of DOM to have less CHO% and more heteroatom S-containing compounds (CHOS% and CHNOS%), and this was the synactic result of the anthropogenic perturbation and phytoplankton proliferation. In eutrophic lakes, summer DOM showed higher molecular lability than in autumn, which was related to the seasonal phytoplankton community succession. Although the phytoplankton-derived DOM is highly bioavailable, we detected a simpler and more fragile phytoplankton community ecosystem in autumn, which may be accompanied by a lower phytoplankton production and metabolic activity. Therefore, we concluded that the lake eutrophication increased the allochthonous DOM accumulation along with sewage and nutrient input, and subsequently increased its release with phytoplankton bloom. Eutrophication and phytoplankton growth are accompanied by more highly unsaturated compounds, O3S+O5S compounds, and carboxylic-rich alicyclic compounds (CRAMs), which are the biotransformation product of phytoplankton-derived DOM. Eutrophication may be a potential source of refractory DOM compounds for biodegradation and photodegradation. Our results can clarify the potential role of water organic matter in the future global carbon cycle processes, considering the increasing worldwide eutrophication of inland waters.
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- Zhidan Wen
- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China.
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China; School of Environment and Planning, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China.
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China
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- Department of Ocean Science and Hong Kong Branch of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
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Srinivas S, Berger M, Brinkhoff T, Niggemann J. Impact of Quorum Sensing and Tropodithietic Acid Production on the Exometabolome of Phaeobacter inhibens. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:917969. [PMID: 35801100 PMCID: PMC9253639 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.917969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Microbial interactions shape ecosystem diversity and chemistry through production and exchange of organic compounds, but the impact of regulatory mechanisms on production and release of these exometabolites is largely unknown. We studied the extent and nature of impact of two signaling molecules, tropodithietic acid (TDA) and the quorum sensing molecule acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) on the exometabolome of the model bacterium Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395, a member of the ubiquitous marine Roseobacter group. Exometabolomes of the wild type, a TDA and a QS (AHL-regulator) negative mutant were analyzed via Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS). Based on a total of 996 reproducibly detected molecular masses, exometabolomes of the TDA and QS negative mutant were ∼70% dissimilar to each other, and ∼90 and ∼60% dissimilar, respectively, to that of the wild type. Moreover, at any sampled growth phase, 40–60% of masses detected in any individual exometabolome were unique to that strain, while only 10–12% constituted a shared “core exometabolome.” Putative annotation revealed exometabolites of ecological relevance such as vitamins, amino acids, auxins, siderophore components and signaling compounds with different occurrence patterns in the exometabolomes of the three strains. Thus, this study demonstrates that signaling molecules, such as AHL and TDA, extensively impact the composition of bacterial exometabolomes with potential consequences for species interactions in microbial communities.
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- Sujatha Srinivas
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Raina JB, Lambert BS, Parks DH, Rinke C, Siboni N, Bramucci A, Ostrowski M, Signal B, Lutz A, Mendis H, Rubino F, Fernandez VI, Stocker R, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW, Seymour JR. Chemotaxis shapes the microscale organization of the ocean's microbiome. Nature 2022; 605:132-138. [PMID: 35444277 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04614-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit microscale chemical hotspots has been widely theorized to affect ocean-basin scale biogeochemistry1-3, but has never been examined comprehensively in situ among natural microbial communities. Here, using a field-based microfluidic platform to quantify the behavioural responses of marine bacteria and archaea, we observed significant levels of chemotaxis towards microscale hotspots of phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic matter (DOM) at a coastal field site across multiple deployments, spanning several months. Microscale metagenomics revealed that a wide diversity of marine prokaryotes, spanning 27 bacterial and 2 archaeal phyla, displayed chemotaxis towards microscale patches of DOM derived from ten globally distributed phytoplankton species. The distinct DOM composition of each phytoplankton species attracted phylogenetically and functionally discrete populations of bacteria and archaea, with 54% of chemotactic prokaryotes displaying highly specific responses to the DOM derived from only one or two phytoplankton species. Prokaryotes exhibiting chemotaxis towards phytoplankton-derived compounds were significantly enriched in the capacity to transport and metabolize specific phytoplankton-derived chemicals, and displayed enrichment in functions conducive to symbiotic relationships, including genes involved in the production of siderophores, B vitamins and growth-promoting hormones. Our findings demonstrate that the swimming behaviour of natural prokaryotic assemblages is governed by specific chemical cues, which dictate important biogeochemical transformation processes and the establishment of ecological interactions that structure the base of the marine food web.
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- Jean-Baptiste Raina
- Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.,Center for Environmental Genomics, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia
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- Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia
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- Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia
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- Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia
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- Metabolomics Australia, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Metabolomics Australia, Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.,Centre for Microbiome Research, School of Biomedical Sciences, Translational Research Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia
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- Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia.
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Zhang J, Liu J, Liu D, Chen X, Shi Q, He C, Li G. Temperature Rise Increases the Bioavailability of Marine Synechococcus-Derived Dissolved Organic Matter. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:838707. [PMID: 35572654 PMCID: PMC9097602 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.838707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Synechococcus is one group of main primary producers and plays a key role in oceanic carbon fixation and transformation. To explore how the temperature rise affects the bioavailability of Synechococcus-derived dissolved organic matter (SOM) and whether this effect would be altered by the involvement of heterotrophic bacteria, we compared the optical and molecular properties of the SOM of axenic Synechococcus sp. PCC7002 culture (Syn) to that with associated heterotrophic bacteria (SynB) under 15, 18, and 21°C growth temperatures at exponential and decay growth phases. Our results showed that the temperature rise increased the bioavailability of the SOM of both Syn and SynB cultures by lowering the proportion of the hydrogen-poor and double-bond structure-rich humus-like components and highly unsaturated substances, as indicated by the increase of spectral slope ratio (S R ) and biological index (BIX) and decrease of humification index (HIX). Moreover, the involvement of heterotrophic bacteria modified the Synechococcus-derived SOM, together with its intracellular dissolved organic matter (DOM) excludes, lowering the SOM bioavailability. Our results indicated that the warming in climate change scenario may enhance the bioavailability of the Synechococcus-derived SOM although it may be tempered by the involvement of heterotrophic bacteria, providing an insight for preservation of the organic carbon pool in global oceans.
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- Jiajie Zhang
- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
- Joint Lab for Ocean Research and Education at Dalhousie University, Shandong University and Xiamen University, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
- Joint Lab for Ocean Research and Education at Dalhousie University, Shandong University and Xiamen University, Qingdao, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai, China
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- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
- Joint Lab for Ocean Research and Education at Dalhousie University, Shandong University and Xiamen University, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
- Joint Lab for Ocean Research and Education at Dalhousie University, Shandong University and Xiamen University, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Moran MA, Kujawinski EB, Schroer WF, Amin SA, Bates NR, Bertrand EM, Braakman R, Brown CT, Covert MW, Doney SC, Dyhrman ST, Edison AS, Eren AM, Levine NM, Li L, Ross AC, Saito MA, Santoro AE, Segrè D, Shade A, Sullivan MB, Vardi A. Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:508-523. [PMID: 35365785 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-022-01090-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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One-quarter of photosynthesis-derived carbon on Earth rapidly cycles through a set of short-lived seawater metabolites that are generated from the activities of marine phytoplankton, bacteria, grazers and viruses. Here we discuss the sources of microbial metabolites in the surface ocean, their roles in ecology and biogeochemistry, and approaches that can be used to analyse them from chemistry, biology, modelling and data science. Although microbial-derived metabolites account for only a minor fraction of the total reservoir of marine dissolved organic carbon, their flux and fate underpins the central role of the ocean in sustaining life on Earth.
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- Mary Ann Moran
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St George's, Bermuda.,School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Departments of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA.,Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Genetics, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA.,Helmholtz-Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Marine and Environmental Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology and Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Departments of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, and Center of Microbiome Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Olofsson M, Ferrer-González FX, Uchimiya M, Schreier JE, Holderman NR, Smith CB, Edison AS, Moran MA. Growth-stage-related shifts in diatom endometabolome composition set the stage for bacterial heterotrophy. ISME COMMUNICATIONS 2022; 2:28. [PMID: 37938663 PMCID: PMC9723723 DOI: 10.1038/s43705-022-00116-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2021] [Revised: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Phytoplankton-derived metabolites fuel a large fraction of heterotrophic bacterial production in the global ocean, yet methodological challenges have limited our understanding of the organic molecules transferred between these microbial groups. In an experimental bloom study consisting of three heterotrophic marine bacteria growing together with the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana, we concurrently measured diatom endometabolites (i.e., potential exometabolite supply) by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and bacterial gene expression (i.e., potential exometabolite uptake) by metatranscriptomic sequencing. Twenty-two diatom endometabolites were annotated, with nine increasing in internal concentration in the late stage of the bloom, eight decreasing, and five showing no variation through the bloom progression. Some metabolite changes could be linked to shifts in diatom gene expression, as well as to shifts in bacterial community composition and their expression of substrate uptake and catabolism genes. Yet an overall low match indicated that endometabolome concentration was not a good predictor of exometabolite availability, and that complex physiological and ecological interactions underlie metabolite exchange. Six diatom endometabolites accumulated to higher concentrations in the bacterial co-cultures compared to axenic cultures, suggesting a bacterial influence on rates of synthesis or release of glutamate, arginine, leucine, 2,3-dihydroxypropane-1-sulfonate, glucose, and glycerol-3-phosphate. Better understanding of phytoplankton metabolite production, release, and transfer to assembled bacterial communities is key to untangling this nearly invisible yet pivotal step in ocean carbon cycling.
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- Malin Olofsson
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 57, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
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Prochlorococcus Exudate Stimulates Heterotrophic Bacterial Competition with Rival Phytoplankton for Available Nitrogen. mBio 2022; 13:e0257121. [PMID: 35012332 PMCID: PMC8749424 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02571-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus numerically dominates the phytoplankton community of the nutrient-limited open ocean, establishing itself as the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth. This ecological success has been attributed to lower cell quotas for limiting nutrients, superior resource acquisition, and other advantages associated with cell size reduction and genome streamlining. In this study, we tested the prediction that Prochlorococcus outcompetes its rivals for scarce nutrients and that this advantage leads to its numerical success in nutrient-limited waters. Strains of Prochlorococcus and its sister genus Synechococcus grew well in both mono- and cocultures when nutrients were replete. However, in nitrogen-limited medium, Prochlorococcus outgrew Synechococcus but only when heterotrophic bacteria were also present. In the nitrogen-limited medium, the heterotroph Alteromonas macleodii outcompeted Synechococcus for nitrogen but only if stimulated by the exudate released by Prochlorococcus or if a proxy organic carbon source was provided. Genetic analysis of Alteromonas suggested that it outcompetes Synechococcus for nitrate and/or nitrite, during which cocultured Prochlorococcus grows on ammonia or other available nitrogen species. We propose that Prochlorococcus can stimulate antagonism between heterotrophic bacteria and potential phytoplankton competitors through a metabolic cross-feeding interaction, and this stimulation could contribute to the numerical success of Prochlorococcus in nutrient-limited regions of the ocean. IMPORTANCE In nutrient-poor habitats, competition for limited resources is thought to select for organisms with an enhanced ability to scavenge nutrients and utilize them efficiently. Such adaptations characterize the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic organism in the nutrient-limited open ocean. In this study, the competitive superiority of Prochlorococcus over a rival cyanobacterium, Synechococcus, was captured in laboratory culture. Critically, this outcome was achieved only when key aspects of the open ocean were simulated: a limited supply of nitrogen and the presence of heterotrophic bacteria. The results indicate that Prochlorococcus promotes its numerical dominance over Synechococcus by energizing the heterotroph's ability to outcompete Synechococcus for available nitrogen. This study demonstrates how interactions between trophic groups can influence interactions within trophic groups and how these interactions likely contribute to the success of the most abundant photosynthetic microorganism.
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Stock W, Willems A, Mangelinckx S, Vyverman W, Sabbe K. Selection constrains lottery assembly in the microbiomes of closely related diatom species. ISME COMMUNICATIONS 2022; 2:11. [PMID: 37938731 PMCID: PMC9723743 DOI: 10.1038/s43705-022-00091-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2021] [Revised: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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It is generally recognised that interactions between microalgae and bacteria play an important role in the functioning of marine ecosystems. In this context, increasing attention is paid to the processes that shape microalga-associated microbiomes. In recent years, conflicting evidence has been reported with respect to the relative importance of selective vs neutral processes in the assembly process. Whereas some studies report strong selection imposed by the host, others propose a more neutral, lottery-like assembly model according to which the chance of bacteria becoming part of the microbiome is proportional to their abundance in the environment and not driven by the selectional pressure created by the host. In the present study, we investigated to what degree selective vs neutral assembly processes constrain taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional variation within and between microbiomes associated with 69 isolates belonging to the Cylindrotheca closterium benthic marine diatom complex. The diatom cultures were initiated from non-axenic clonal isolates from different marine environments and geographic locations, and were then reared in a common garden (lab) environment. An important environmental imprint, likely due to in situ lottery dynamics, was apparent in the diatom microbiomes. However, microbiome assembly was also phylogenetically and functionally constrained through selective filtering related to the host microhabitat. Randomised microbiome assembly simulations revealed evidence for phylogenetic overdispersion in the observed microbiomes, reflecting an important role in the assembly process for competition between bacteria on the one hand and predominantly genetically driven differences between the hosts on the other hand. Our study thus shows that even between closely related diatom strains, host selection affects microbiome assembly, superimposing the predominantly stochastically driven recruitment process.
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- Willem Stock
- Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 - S8, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium.
- Phycology Research Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 - S8, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- SynBioC, Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 - S8, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 - S8, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
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Marine viruses and climate change: Virioplankton, the carbon cycle, and our future ocean. Adv Virus Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aivir.2022.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Dissolved exometabolites mediate algal interactions in aquatic ecosystems, but microalgal exometabolomes remain understudied. We conducted an untargeted metabolomic analysis of nonpolar exometabolites exuded from four phylogenetically and ecologically diverse eukaryotic microalgal strains grown in the laboratory, freshwater Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, brackish Desmodesmus sp., marine Phaeodactylum tricornutum, and marine Microchloropsis salina, to identify released metabolites based on relative enrichment in the exometabolomes compared to cell pellet metabolomes. Exudates from the different taxa were distinct, but we did not observe clear phylogenetic patterns. We used feature-based molecular networking to explore the identities of these metabolites, revealing several distinct di- and tripeptides secreted by each of the algae, lumichrome, a compound that is known to be involved in plant growth and bacterial quorum sensing, and novel prostaglandin-like compounds. We further investigated the impacts of exogenous additions of eight compounds selected based on exometabolome enrichment on algal growth. Of these compounds, five (lumichrome, 5′-S-methyl-5′-thioadenosine, 17-phenyl trinor prostaglandin A2, dodecanedioic acid, and aleuritic acid) impacted growth in at least one of the algal cultures. Two of these compounds (dodecanedioic acid and aleuritic acid) produced contrasting results, increasing growth in some algae and decreasing growth in others. Together, our results reveal new groups of microalgal exometabolites, some of which could alter algal growth when provided exogenously, suggesting potential roles in allelopathy and algal interactions. IMPORTANCE Microalgae are responsible for nearly half of primary production on earth and play an important role in global biogeochemical cycling as well as in a range of industrial applications. Algal exometabolites are important mediators of algal-algal and algal-bacterial interactions that ultimately affect algal growth and physiology. In this study, we characterize exometabolomes across marine and freshwater algae to gain insights into the diverse metabolites they release into their environments (“exudates”). We observe that while phylogeny can play a role in exometabolome content, environmental conditions or habitat origin (freshwater versus marine) are also important. We also find that several of these compounds can influence algal growth (as measured by chlorophyll production) when provided exogenously, highlighting the importance of characterization of these novel compounds and their role in microalgal ecophysiology.
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Widner B, Kido Soule MC, Ferrer-González FX, Moran MA, Kujawinski EB. Quantification of Amine- and Alcohol-Containing Metabolites in Saline Samples Using Pre-extraction Benzoyl Chloride Derivatization and Ultrahigh Performance Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC MS/MS). Anal Chem 2021; 93:4809-4817. [PMID: 33689314 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Dissolved metabolites serve as nutrition, energy, and chemical signals for microbial systems. However, the full scope and magnitude of these processes in marine systems are unknown, largely due to insufficient methods, including poor extraction of small, polar compounds using common solid-phase extraction resins. Here, we utilized pre-extraction derivatization and ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-ESI-MS/MS) to detect and quantify targeted dissolved metabolites in seawater and saline culture media. Metabolites were derivatized with benzoyl chloride by their primary and secondary amine and alcohol functionalities and quantified using stable isotope-labeled internal standards (SIL-ISs) produced from 13C6-labeled benzoyl chloride. We optimized derivatization, extraction, and sample preparation for field and culture samples and evaluated matrix-derived biases. We have optimized this quantitative method for 73 common metabolites, of which 50 cannot be quantified without derivatization due to low extraction efficiencies. Of the 73 metabolites, 66 were identified in either culture media or seawater and 45 of those were quantified. This derivatization method is sensitive (detection limits = pM to nM), rapid (∼5 min per sample), and high throughput.
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- Brittany Widner
- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, United States
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, United States
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, United States
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Ofaim S, Sulheim S, Almaas E, Sher D, Segrè D. Dynamic Allocation of Carbon Storage and Nutrient-Dependent Exudation in a Revised Genome-Scale Model of Prochlorococcus. Front Genet 2021; 12:586293. [PMID: 33633777 PMCID: PMC7900632 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.586293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Microbial life in the oceans impacts the entire marine ecosystem, global biogeochemistry and climate. The marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, an abundant component of this ecosystem, releases a significant fraction of the carbon fixed through photosynthesis, but the amount, timing and molecular composition of released carbon are still poorly understood. These depend on several factors, including nutrient availability, light intensity and glycogen storage. Here we combine multiple computational approaches to provide insight into carbon storage and exudation in Prochlorococcus. First, with the aid of a new algorithm for recursive filling of metabolic gaps (ReFill), and through substantial manual curation, we extended an existing genome-scale metabolic model of Prochlorococcus MED4. In this revised model (iSO595), we decoupled glycogen biosynthesis/degradation from growth, thus enabling dynamic allocation of carbon storage. In contrast to standard implementations of flux balance modeling, we made use of forced influx of carbon and light into the cell, to recapitulate overflow metabolism due to the decoupling of photosynthesis and carbon fixation from growth during nutrient limitation. By using random sampling in the ensuing flux space, we found that storage of glycogen or exudation of organic acids are favored when the growth is nitrogen limited, while exudation of amino acids becomes more likely when phosphate is the limiting resource. We next used COMETS to simulate day-night cycles and found that the model displays dynamic glycogen allocation and exudation of organic acids. The switch from photosynthesis and glycogen storage to glycogen depletion is associated with a redistribution of fluxes from the Entner–Doudoroff to the Pentose Phosphate pathway. Finally, we show that specific gene knockouts in iSO595 exhibit dynamic anomalies compatible with experimental observations, further demonstrating the value of this model as a tool to probe the metabolic dynamic of Prochlorococcus.
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- Shany Ofaim
- Bioinformatics Program and Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.,Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Bioinformatics Program and Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.,Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.,Department of Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, SINTEF Industry, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.,K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Bioinformatics Program and Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.,Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.,Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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Tong S, Xu D, Wang Y, Zhang X, Li Y, Wu H, Ye N. Influence of ocean acidification on thermal reaction norms of carbon metabolism in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2021; 164:105233. [PMID: 33310685 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Under the present CO2 condition, the efficiency of biological pump mediating carbon sequestration is predicted to decline in the future because respiration tends to be more sensitive to rising temperature than is photosynthesis. However, it remains unknown whether the impacts of global warming on metabolic rates of phytoplankton can be modulated by elevated CO2 induced ocean acidification. Here we show that in the model diatom species Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Ea (activation energy) of photosynthesis (~0.5 eV) was significantly lower than that of respiration (1.8 eV), while CO2 concentration had no effect on the Ea value. Eh (deactivation energy) of respiration was increased to 2.5 eV, that was equivalent to Eh of photosynthesis in high CO2-grown cells and 28.4% higher than that in low CO2-grown ones. The respiration to photosynthesis ratio (R/P) was consistently higher in high CO2 condition, which increased with temperature at the beginning and subsequently decreased in both CO2 conditions. The ratio of R/P in high CO2 to R/P in low CO2 gradually increased with temperature above the optimal temperature. Our results imply that ocean acidification will aggravate the negative impacts or offset the alleviating effects of warming on the R/P ratio depending on the temperature range in Phaeodactylum tricornutum.
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- Shanying Tong
- School of Life Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China; Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, China.
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- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China; Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.
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Viral Lysis Alters the Optical Properties and Biological Availability of Dissolved Organic Matter Derived from Prochlorococcus Picocyanobacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:AEM.02271-20. [PMID: 33218998 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02271-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Phytoplankton contribute almost half of the world's total primary production. The exudates and viral lysates of phytoplankton are two important forms of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in aquatic environments and fuel heterotrophic prokaryotic metabolism. However, the effect of viral infection on the composition and biological availability of phytoplankton-released DOM is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the optical characteristics and microbial utilization of the exudates and viral lysates of the ecologically important unicellular picophytoplankton Prochlorococcus Our results showed that Prochlorococcus DOM produced by viral lysis (Pro-vDOM) with phages of three different morphotypes (myovirus P-HM2, siphovirus P-HS2, and podovirus P-SSP7) had higher humic-like fluorescence intensities, lower absorption coefficients, and higher spectral slopes than DOM exuded by Prochlorococcus (Pro-exudate). The results indicate that viral infection altered the composition of Prochlorococcus-derived DOM and might contribute to the pool of oceanic humic-like DOM. Incubation with Pro-vDOM resulted in a greater dissolved organic carbon (DOC) degradation rate and lower absorption spectral slope and heterotrophic bacterial growth rate than incubation with Pro-exudate, suggesting that Pro-vDOM was more bioavailable than Pro-exudate. In addition, the stimulated microbial community succession trajectories were significantly different between the Pro-exudate and Pro-vDOM treatments, indicating that viral lysates play an important role in shaping the heterotrophic bacterial community. Our study demonstrated that viral lysis altered the chemical composition and biological availability of DOM derived from Prochlorococcus, which is the numerically dominant phytoplankton in the oligotrophic ocean.IMPORTANCE The unicellular picocyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the numerically dominant phytoplankton in the oligotrophic ocean, contributing to the vast majority of marine primary production. Prochlorococcus releases a significant fraction of fixed organic matter into the surrounding environment and supports a vital portion of heterotrophic bacterial activity. Viral lysis is an important biomass loss process of Prochlorococcus However, little is known about whether and how viral lysis affects Prochlorococcus-released dissolved organic matter (DOM). Our paper shows that viral infection alters the optical properties (such as the absorption coefficients, spectral slopes, and fluorescence intensities) of released DOM and might contribute to a humic-like DOM pool and carbon sequestration in the ocean. Meanwhile, viral lysis also releases various intracellular labile DOM, including amino acids, protein-like DOM, and lower-molecular-weight DOM, increases the bioavailability of DOM, and shapes the successive trajectory of the heterotrophic bacterial community. Our study highlights the importance of viruses in impacting the DOM quality in the ocean.
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Kearney SM, Thomas E, Coe A, Chisholm SW. Microbial diversity of co-occurring heterotrophs in cultures of marine picocyanobacteria. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOME 2021; 16:1. [PMID: 33902739 PMCID: PMC8067657 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-020-00370-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 11/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND The cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are responsible for around 10% of global net primary productivity, serving as part of the foundation of marine food webs. Heterotrophic bacteria are often co-isolated with these picocyanobacteria in seawater enrichment cultures that contain no added organic carbon; heterotrophs grow on organic carbon supplied by the photolithoautotrophs. For examining the selective pressures shaping autotroph/heterotroph interactions, we have made use of unialgal enrichment cultures of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus maintained for hundreds to thousands of generations in the lab. We examine the diversity of heterotrophs in 74 enrichment cultures of these picocyanobacteria obtained from diverse areas of the global oceans. RESULTS Heterotroph community composition differed between clades and ecotypes of the autotrophic 'hosts' but there was significant overlap in heterotroph community composition across these cultures. Collectively, the cultures were comprised of many shared taxa, even at the genus level. Yet, observed differences in community composition were associated with time since isolation, location, depth, and methods of isolation. The majority of heterotrophs in the cultures are rare in the global ocean, but enrichment conditions favor the opportunistic outgrowth of these rare bacteria. However, we found a few examples, such as bacteria in the family Rhodobacteraceae, of heterotrophs that were ubiquitous and abundant in cultures and in the global oceans. We found their abundance in the wild is also positively correlated with that of picocyanobacteria. CONCLUSIONS Particular conditions surrounding isolation have a persistent effect on long-term culture composition, likely from bottlenecking and selection that happen during the early stages of enrichment for the picocyanobacteria. We highlight the potential for examining ecologically relevant relationships by identifying patterns of distribution of culture-enriched organisms in the global oceans.
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- Sean M. Kearney
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 15 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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Loftus SE, Hunt DE, Johnson ZI. Reused cultivation water from a self-inhibiting alga does not inhibit other algae but alters their microbiomes. ALGAL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2020.102067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Lesser MP, Slattery M. Will coral reef sponges be winners in the Anthropocene? GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2020; 26:3202-3211. [PMID: 32052520 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Recent observations have shown that increases in climate change-related coral mortality cause changes in shallow coral reef community structure through phase shifts to alternative taxa. As a result, sponges have emerged as a potential candidate taxon to become a "winner," and therefore a numerically and functionally dominant member of many coral reef communities. But, in order for this to occur, there must be sufficient trophic resources to support larger populations of these active filter-feeding organisms. Globally, climate change is causing an increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and a decrease in salinity, which can lead to an intensification in the stratification of shallow nearshore waters (0-200 m), that affects both the mixed layer depth (MLD) and the strength and duration of internal waves. Specifically, climate change-driven increases in SSTs for tropical waters are predicted to cause increased stratification, and more stabilized surface waters. This causes a shallowing of the MLD which prevents nutrients from reaching the euphotic zone, and is predicted to decrease net primary production (NPP) up to 20% by the end of the century. Lower NPP would subsequently affect multiple trophic levels, including shallow benthic filter-feeding communities, as the coupling between water column productivity and the benthos weakens. We argue here that sponge populations may actually be constrained, rather than promoted, by climate change due to decreases in their primary trophic resources, caused by bottom-up forcing, secondary to physical changes in the water column (i.e., stratification and changes in the MLD resulting in lower nutrients and NPP). As a result, we predict sponge-dominated tropical reefs will be rare, or short-lived, if they occur at all into the future in the Anthropocene.
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- Michael P Lesser
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Department of BioMolecular Science, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA
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Meador TB, Schoffelen N, Ferdelman TG, Rebello O, Khachikyan A, Könneke M. Carbon recycling efficiency and phosphate turnover by marine nitrifying archaea. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaba1799. [PMID: 32426487 PMCID: PMC7209981 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Thaumarchaeotal nitrifiers are among the most abundant organisms in the ocean, but still unknown is the carbon (C) yield from nitrification and the coupling of these fluxes to phosphorus (P) turnover and release of metabolites from the cell. Using a dual radiotracer approach, we found that Nitrosopumilus maritimus fixed roughly 0.3 mol C, assimilated 2 mmol P, and released ca. 10-2 mol C and 10-5 mol P as dissolved organics (DOC and DOP) per mole ammonia respired. Phosphate turnover may influence assimilation fluxes by nitrifiers in the euphotic zone, which parallel those of the dark ocean. Collectively, marine nitrifiers assimilate up to 2 Pg C year-1 and 0.05 Pg P year-1 and thereby recycle roughly 5% of mineralized C and P into marine biomass. Release of roughly 50 Tg DOC and 0.2 Tg DOP by thaumarchaea each year represents a small but fresh input of reduced substrates throughout the ocean.
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- Travis B. Meador
- MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Dept. of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Corresponding author.
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- Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Dept. of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
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- MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Dept. of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Molecular characterization of water extractable Euglena gracilis cellular material composition using asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:4143-4153. [PMID: 32306068 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02650-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Revised: 03/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) and high-resolution Orbitrap mass spectrometry (HRMS) were used to separate and characterize cellular fractions of the dark- and light-grown Euglena gracilis cellular material. Biological replicates analyzed by HRMS shared 21-73% of commonly detected m/z values. Greater variability in shared features was found in light-grown cellular fractions (p < 0.05), likely due to small variations in growth stage. Significant differences in molecular composition were observed between AF4 cellular fractions, with dark cell fractions showing a propensity towards carbohydrate-like and tannin-like compounds, and higher double-bond equivalent (DBE) and modified aromatic index (AImod) were associated with light-grown cell fractions. Fractionation and high-resolution mass spectrometry aided characterization demonstrated the power of the AF4 to selectively cater to certain compounds/cellular entities with distinct compositional classes and double-bond equivalents and aromaticity index characteristics. Graphical abstract.
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Fu H, Uchimiya M, Gore J, Moran MA. Ecological drivers of bacterial community assembly in synthetic phycospheres. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:3656-3662. [PMID: 32015111 PMCID: PMC7035482 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917265117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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In the nutrient-rich region surrounding marine phytoplankton cells, heterotrophic bacterioplankton transform a major fraction of recently fixed carbon through the uptake and catabolism of phytoplankton metabolites. We sought to understand the rules by which marine bacterial communities assemble in these nutrient-enhanced phycospheres, specifically addressing the role of host resources in driving community coalescence. Synthetic systems with varying combinations of known exometabolites of marine phytoplankton were inoculated with seawater bacterial assemblages, and communities were transferred daily to mimic the average duration of natural phycospheres. We found that bacterial community assembly was predictable from linear combinations of the taxa maintained on each individual metabolite in the mixture, weighted for the growth each supported. Deviations from this simple additive resource model were observed but also attributed to resource-based factors via enhanced bacterial growth when host metabolites were available concurrently. The ability of photosynthetic hosts to shape bacterial associates through excreted metabolites represents a mechanism by which microbiomes with beneficial effects on host growth could be recruited. In the surface ocean, resource-based assembly of host-associated communities may underpin the evolution and maintenance of microbial interactions and determine the fate of a substantial portion of Earth's primary production.
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- He Fu
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602;
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Barton S, Jenkins J, Buckling A, Schaum CE, Smirnoff N, Raven JA, Yvon-Durocher G. Evolutionary temperature compensation of carbon fixation in marine phytoplankton. Ecol Lett 2020; 23:722-733. [PMID: 32059265 PMCID: PMC7078849 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Accepted: 01/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The efficiency of carbon sequestration by the biological pump could decline in the coming decades because respiration tends to increase more with temperature than photosynthesis. Despite these differences in the short‐term temperature sensitivities of photosynthesis and respiration, it remains unknown whether the long‐term impacts of global warming on metabolic rates of phytoplankton can be modulated by evolutionary adaptation. We found that respiration was consistently more temperature dependent than photosynthesis across 18 diverse marine phytoplankton, resulting in universal declines in the rate of carbon fixation with short‐term increases in temperature. Long‐term experimental evolution under high temperature reversed the short‐term stimulation of metabolic rates, resulting in increased rates of carbon fixation. Our findings suggest that thermal adaptation may therefore have an ameliorating impact on the efficiency of phytoplankton as primary mediators of the biological carbon pump.
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- Samuel Barton
- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK
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- Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries, Section Oceanography, Hamburg University, 22767, Hamburg, Germany
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- Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Geoffrey Pope Building University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK
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- Division of Plant Science, University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK.,Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia.,School of Biology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK
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Duan Z, Tan X, Parajuli K, Zhang D, Wang Y. Characterization of Microcystis morphotypes: Implications for colony formation and intraspecific variation. HARMFUL ALGAE 2019; 90:101701. [PMID: 31806163 DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2019.101701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2019] [Revised: 10/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Groundworks on Microcystis colony formation and morphological variation are critical to understanding the whole eco-cycle of Microcystis blooms. In this study, we tested the cell adhesion effect, an important pathway for colony formation, among Microcystis colonies of different morphotypes, and examined the potential linkage between cell properties and morphological plasticity. Results showed that cell adhesion significantly contributed to the aggregation of Microcystis colonies, but such adhesion only occurred in colonies belonging to the same morphotype. This suggests that Microcystis cannot form large colonies through a direct adhesion effect among different morphotypes, possibly due to substantial differences in the chemical structures and compositions of their extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). Cell functional features also varied substantially with morphotypes, implying high intraspecific variation in competitive and defensive strategies of Microcystis. Our results offer new insights into colony formation of Microcystis and substantiate the importance of fundamental chemical characteristics of EPS in determining the morphological plasticity.
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- Zhipeng Duan
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB Wageningen, Netherlands.
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China.
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- School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Denistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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Mishra S, Roy M, Mohanty K. Microalgal bioenergy production under zero-waste biorefinery approach: Recent advances and future perspectives. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 292:122008. [PMID: 31466819 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2019] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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In view of the globalization and energy consumption, an economic and sustainable biorefinery model is essential to address the energy security and climate change. From this perspective, renewable biofuel production from microalgae along with a wide range of value-added co-products define its potential as a biorefinery feedstock. However, economic viability of microalgal biorefinery at its current state is not considered sustainable. Reduce, recycle, and reuse of waste derived from algal bioenergy conversion process will lead to an energy efficient and sustainable zero-waste microalgal biorefinery. This review focuses on three major aspects of zero-waste microalgal biorefinery approach; (1) recent advances on microalgal bioenergy conversion processes (chemical, biochemical and thermochemical); (2) mitigation and transformation of liquid and solid waste and (3) techno-economic analysis (TEA) and lifecycle assessment (LCA). In addition, the study also focuses on the challenges and future perspectives for an advanced microalgal biorefinery model.
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- Sanjeev Mishra
- Centre for Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India
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- Centre for Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India
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- Centre for Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India; Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India.
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Bayer B, Hansman RL, Bittner MJ, Noriega-Ortega BE, Niggemann J, Dittmar T, Herndl GJ. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea release a suite of organic compounds potentially fueling prokaryotic heterotrophy in the ocean. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:4062-4075. [PMID: 31336026 PMCID: PMC6899801 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2019] [Revised: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Ammonia‐oxidizing archaea (AOA) constitute a considerable fraction of microbial biomass in the global ocean, comprising 20%–40% of the ocean's prokaryotic plankton. However, it remains enigmatic to what extent these chemolithoautotrophic archaea release dissolved organic carbon (DOC). A combination of targeted and untargeted metabolomics was used to characterize the exometabolomes of three model AOA strains of the Nitrosopumilus genus. Our results indicate that marine AOA exude a suite of organic compounds with potentially varying reactivities, dominated by nitrogen‐containing compounds. A significant fraction of the released dissolved organic matter (DOM) consists of labile compounds, which typically limit prokaryotic heterotrophic activity in open ocean waters, including amino acids, thymidine and B vitamins. Amino acid release rates corresponded with ammonia oxidation activity and the three Nitrosopumilus strains predominantly released hydrophobic amino acids, potentially as a result of passive diffusion. Despite the low contribution of DOC released by AOA (~0.08%–1.05%) to the heterotrophic prokaryotic carbon demand, the release of physiologically relevant metabolites could be crucial for microbes that are auxotrophic for some of these compounds, including members of the globally abundant and ubiquitous SAR11 clade.
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- Barbara Bayer
- Division of Bio-Oceanography, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Centre of Functional Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- Division of Bio-Oceanography, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Centre of Functional Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.,International Atomic Energy Agency - Environment Laboratories, Radioecology Laboratory, 98000, Monaco, Monaco
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- Division of Bio-Oceanography, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Centre of Functional Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria
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- ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, University of Oldenburg, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany
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- ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, University of Oldenburg, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany
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- ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, University of Oldenburg, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Division of Bio-Oceanography, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Centre of Functional Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria.,Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University, 1790, AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
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Microbial transformation of virus-induced dissolved organic matter from picocyanobacteria: coupling of bacterial diversity and DOM chemodiversity. ISME JOURNAL 2019; 13:2551-2565. [PMID: 31227815 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0449-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Picocyanobacteria make up half of the ocean's primary production, and they are subjected to frequent viral infection. Viral lysis of picocyanobacteria is a major driving force converting biologically fixed carbon into dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Viral-induced dissolved organic matter (vDOM) released from picocyanobacteria provides complex organic matter to bacterioplankton in the marine ecosystem. In order to understand how picocyanobacterial vDOM are transformed by bacteria and the impact of this process on bacterial community structure, viral lysate of picocyanobacteria was incubated with coastal seawater for 90 days. The transformation of vDOM was analyzed by ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry and the shift of bacterial populations analyzed using high-throughput sequencing technology. Addition of picocyanobacterial vDOM introduced abundant nitrogen components into the coastal water, which were largely degraded during the 90 days' incubation period. However, some DOM signatures were accumulated and the total assigned formulae number increased over time. In contrast to the control (no addition of vDOM), bacterial community enriched with vDOM changed markedly with increased biodiversity indices. The network analysis showed that key bacterial species formed complex relationship with vDOM components, suggesting the potential correspondence between bacterial populations and DOM molecules. We demonstrate that coastal bacterioplankton are able to quickly utilize and transform lysis products of picocyanobacteria, meanwhile, bacterial community varies with changing chemodiverisity of DOM. vDOM released from picocyanobacteria generated a complex labile DOM pool, which was converted to a rather stable DOM pool after microbial processing in the time frame of days to weeks.
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Loftus SE, Johnson ZI. Reused Cultivation Water Accumulates Dissolved Organic Carbon and Uniquely Influences Different Marine Microalgae. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2019; 7:101. [PMID: 31157215 PMCID: PMC6528441 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Reusing growth medium (water supplemented with nutrients) for microalgae cultivation is required for economical and environmentally sustainable production of algae bioproducts (fuels, feed, and food). However, reused medium often contains microbes and dissolved organic matter that may affect algae growth. While the accumulation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in reused medium has been demonstrated, it is unclear whether DOC concentrations affect algae growth or subsequent rates of algal DOC release. To address these questions, lab-scale experiments were conducted with three marine microalgae strains, Navicula sp. SFP, Staurosira sp. C323, and Chlorella sp. D046, grown in medium reused up to four times. Navicula sp. and Chlorella sp. grew similarly in reused medium as in fresh medium, while Staurosira sp. became completely inhibited in reused medium. Across the three algae, there was no broad trend between initial DOC concentration in reused medium and algae growth response. Navicula sp. released less DOC overall in reused medium than in fresh medium, but DOC release rates did not decrease proportionally with increased DOC concentrations. Net DOC accumulation was much lower than gross DOC released by Navicula sp. and Staurosira sp., indicating the majority of released DOC was degraded. Additionally, biodegradation experiments with reused media showed no further net decrease in DOC, suggesting the accumulated DOC was recalcitrant to the associated bacteria. Overall, these results suggest that taxa-specific factors may be responsible for algae growth response in reused medium, and that DOC release and accumulation are insensitive to prior cultivation rounds. Choosing an algae strain that is uninhibited by accumulated DOC is therefore critical to ensure successful water reuse in the algae industry.
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- Sarah E. Loftus
- Duke University Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Beaufort, NC, United States
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- Duke University Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Beaufort, NC, United States
- Department of Biology, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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Severin T, Erdner DL. The Phytoplankton Taxon-Dependent Oil Response and Its Microbiome: Correlation but Not Causation. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:385. [PMID: 30915045 PMCID: PMC6421335 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Phytoplankton strongly interact with their associated bacteria, both attached (PA), and free-living (FL), and bacterial community structures can be specific to phytoplankton species. Similarly, responses to environmental stressors can vary by taxon, as exemplified by observed shifts in phytoplankton community structure from diatoms to phytoflagellates after the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. Here, we assess the extent to which associated bacteria influence the phytoplankton taxon-specific oil response by exposing xenic and axenic strains of three phytoplankton species to oil and/or dispersant. The dinoflagellates Amphidinium carterae and Peridinium sociale, and the diatom Skeletonema sp., all harbored significantly distinct bacterial communities that reflected their host oil response. Oil degrading bacteria were detected in both PA and FL communities of the oil resistant dinoflagellates, but their FL bacteria were more efficient in lipid hydrolysis, a proxy for oil degradation capability. Inversely, the growth rate and photosynthetic parameters of the diatom Skeletonema sp. was the most impacted by dispersed oil compared to the dinoflagellates, and oil-degrading bacteria were not significantly associated to its microbiome, even in the dispersed oil treatment. Moreover, the FL bacteria of Skeletonema did not show significant oil degradation. Yet, the lack of consistent significant differences in growth or photosynthetic parameters between the xenic and axenic cultures after oil exposure suggest that, physiologically, the associated bacteria do not modify the phytoplankton oil response. Instead, both oil resistance and phycosphere composition appear to be species-specific characteristics that are not causally linked. This study explores one aspect of what is undoubtedly a complex suite of interactions between phytoplankton and their associated bacteria; future analyses would benefit from studies of genes and metabolites that mediate algal-bacterial exchanges.
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- Tatiana Severin
- Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, United States
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- Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, United States
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Bunse C, Israelsson S, Baltar F, Bertos-Fortis M, Fridolfsson E, Legrand C, Lindehoff E, Lindh MV, Martínez-García S, Pinhassi J. High Frequency Multi-Year Variability in Baltic Sea Microbial Plankton Stocks and Activities. Front Microbiol 2019; 9:3296. [PMID: 30705671 PMCID: PMC6345115 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Marine bacterioplankton are essential in global nutrient cycling and organic matter turnover. Time-series analyses, often at monthly sampling frequencies, have established the paramount role of abiotic and biotic variables in structuring bacterioplankton communities and productivities. However, fine-scale seasonal microbial activities, and underlying biological principles, are not fully understood. We report results from four consecutive years of high-frequency time-series sampling in the Baltic Proper. Pronounced temporal dynamics in most investigated microbial variables were observed, including bacterial heterotrophic production, plankton biomass, extracellular enzyme activities, substrate uptake rate constants of glucose, pyruvate, acetate, amino acids, and leucine, as well as nutrient limitation bioassays. Spring blooms consisting of diatoms and dinoflagellates were followed by elevated bacterial heterotrophic production and abundances. During summer, bacterial productivity estimates increased even further, coinciding with an initial cyanobacterial bloom in early July. However, bacterial abundances only increased following a second cyanobacterial bloom, peaking in August. Uptake rate constants for the different measured carbon compounds varied seasonally and inter-annually and were highly correlated to bacterial productivity estimates, temperature, and cyanobacterial abundances. Further, we detected nutrient limitation in response to environmental conditions in a multitude of microbial variables, such as elevated productivities in nutrient bioassays, changes in enzymatic activities, or substrate preferences. Variations among biotic variables often occurred on time scales of days to a few weeks, yet often spanning several sampling occasions. Such dynamics might not have been captured by sampling at monthly intervals, as compared to more predictable transitions in abiotic variables such as temperature or nutrient concentrations. Our study indicates that high resolution analyses of microbial biomass and productivity parameters can help out in the development of biogeochemical and food web models disentangling the microbial black box.
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- Carina Bunse
- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems - EEMiS, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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Zoccarato L, Grossart HP. Relationship Between Lifestyle and Structure of Bacterial Communities and Their Functionality in Aquatic Systems. ADVANCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16775-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Multiple processes acting from local to large geographical scales shape bacterial communities associated with Phormidium (cyanobacteria) biofilms in French and New Zealand rivers. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14416. [PMID: 30258224 PMCID: PMC6158260 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32772-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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River biofilms dominated by Phormidium (cyanobacteria) are receiving increased attention worldwide because of a recent expansion in their distribution and their ability to produce neurotoxins leading to animal mortalities. Limited data are available on the composition and structure of bacterial communities (BCs) associated with Phormidium biofilms despite the important role they potentially play in biofilm functioning. By using a high-throughput sequencing approach, we compared the BCs associated with Phormidium biofilms in several sampling sites of the Tarn River (France) and in eight New Zealand rivers. The structure of the BCs from both countries displayed spatial and temporal variations but were well conserved at the order level and 28% of the OTUs containing 90% of the reads were shared by these BCs. This suggests that micro-environmental conditions occurring within thick Phormidium biofilms strongly shape the associated BCs. A strong and significant distance-decay relationship (rp = 0.7; P = 0.001) was found in BCs from New Zealand rivers but the Bray-Curtis dissimilarities between French and New Zealand BCs are in the same order of magnitude of those found between New Zealand BCs. All these findings suggest that local environmental conditions seem to have more impact on BCs than dispersal capacities of bacteria.
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Ma X, Coleman ML, Waldbauer JR. Distinct molecular signatures in dissolved organic matter produced by viral lysis of marine cyanobacteria. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:3001-3011. [PMID: 30047191 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Revised: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a central role in the microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of aquatic environments, yet little is known about how the mechanism of DOM release from its ultimate source, primary producer biomass, affects the molecular composition of the inputs to the dissolved pool. Here we used a model marine phytoplankton, the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus WH7803, to compare the composition of DOM released by three mechanisms: exudation, mechanical cell lysis and infection by the lytic phage S-SM1. A broad, untargeted analytical approach reveals the complexity of this freshly sourced DOM, and comparative analysis between DOM produced by the different mechanisms suggests that exudation and viral lysis are sources of unsaturated, oxygen-rich and possibly novel biomolecules. Furthermore, viral lysis of WH7803 by S-SM1 releases abundant peptides derived from specific proteolysis of the major light-harvesting protein phycoerythrin, raising the possibility that phage infection of these abundant cyanobacteria could be a significant source of high molecular weight dissolved organic nitrogen compounds.
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- Xiufeng Ma
- Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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Mühlenbruch M, Grossart HP, Eigemann F, Voss M. Mini-review: Phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides in the marine environment and their interactions with heterotrophic bacteria. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:2671-2685. [PMID: 30028074 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Revised: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Within the wealth of molecules constituting marine dissolved organic matter, carbohydrates make up the largest coherent and quantifiable fraction. Their main sources are from primary producers, which release large amounts of photosynthetic products - mainly polysaccharides - directly into the surrounding water via passive and active exudation. The organic carbon and other nutrients derived from these photosynthates enrich the 'phycosphere' and attract heterotrophic bacteria. The rapid uptake and remineralization of dissolved free monosaccharides by heterotrophic bacteria account for the barely detectable levels of these compounds. By contrast, dissolved combined polysaccharides can reach high concentrations, especially during phytoplankton blooms. Polysaccharides are too large to be taken up directly by heterotrophic bacteria, instead requiring hydrolytic cleavage to smaller oligo- or monomers by bacteria with a suitable set of exoenzymes. The release of diverse polysaccharides by various phytoplankton taxa is generally interpreted as the deposition of excess organic material. However, these molecules likely also fulfil distinct, yet not fully understood functions, as inferred from their active modulation in terms of quality and quantity when phytoplankton becomes nutrient limited or is exposed to heterotrophic bacteria. This minireview summarizes current knowledge regarding the exudation and composition of phytoplankton-derived exopolysaccharides and acquisition of these compounds by heterotrophic bacteria.
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- Marco Mühlenbruch
- Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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- Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Neuglobsow, Germany.,Potsdam University, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany
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Choi DH, An SM, Yang EC, Lee H, Shim J, Jeong J, Noh JH. Daily variation in the prokaryotic community during a spring bloom in shelf waters of the East China Sea. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2018; 94:5053805. [PMID: 30011002 PMCID: PMC6061848 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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To understand prokaryotic responses during a spring bloom in offshore shelf waters, prokaryotic parameters were measured daily at a station located in the middle of the East China Sea over a six-week period from March 25 to May 19. The site experienced a phytoplankton bloom in late April, triggering changes in prokaryotic abundance and production after a lag of approximately one week. Before the bloom, changes in prokaryotic composition were small. Both during the bloom and in the post-bloom period, successive changes among bacterial groups were apparent. A SAR11 group became more dominant during the bloom period, and diverse groups belonging to the Flavobacteriia occurred dominantly during both the bloom and post-bloom periods. However, bacterial community changes at the species level during the bloom and post-bloom periods occurred rapidly in a time scale of a few days. Especially, NS5, NS4 and Formosa bacteria belonging to Flavobacteriia and bacteria belonging to Halieaceae and Arenicellaceae families of Gammaproteobacteria showed a successive pattern with large short-term variation during the period. The changes in prokaryotic composition were found to be related to phytoplankton biomass and composition, as well as seawater temperature and variations in nutrients.
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- Dong Han Choi
- Marine Ecosystem and Biological Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Haeyang-ro, Yeongdo-gu, Busan 49111, Republic of Korea.,Department of Marine Biology, Korea University of Science and Technology, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Marine Ecosystem and Biological Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Haeyang-ro, Yeongdo-gu, Busan 49111, Republic of Korea
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- Marine Ecosystem and Biological Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Haeyang-ro, Yeongdo-gu, Busan 49111, Republic of Korea
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- Marine Ecosystem and Biological Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Haeyang-ro, Yeongdo-gu, Busan 49111, Republic of Korea
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- Operational Oceanography Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Haeyang-ro, Yeongdo-gu, Busan 49111, Republic of Korea
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- Operational Oceanography Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Haeyang-ro, Yeongdo-gu, Busan 49111, Republic of Korea
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- Marine Ecosystem and Biological Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Haeyang-ro, Yeongdo-gu, Busan 49111, Republic of Korea.,Department of Marine Biology, Korea University of Science and Technology, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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Zinser ER. Cross-protection from hydrogen peroxide by helper microbes: the impacts on the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus and other beneficiaries in marine communities. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2018; 10:399-411. [PMID: 29411546 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Revised: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 01/27/2017] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Hydrogen peroxide (HOOH) is a reactive oxygen species, derived from molecular oxygen, that is capable of damaging microbial cells. Surprisingly, the HOOH defence systems of some aerobes in the oxygenated marine environments are critically depleted, relative to model aerobes. For instance, the gene encoding catalase is absent in the numerically dominant photosynthetic cyanobacterium, Prochlorococcus. Accordingly, Prochlorococcus is highly susceptible to HOOH when exposed as pure cultures. Pure cultures do not exist in the marine environment, however. Catalase-positive community members can remove HOOH from the seawater medium, thus lowering the threat to Prochlorococcus and any other member that likewise lacks their own catalase. This cross-protection may constitute a loosely defined symbiosis, whereby the catalase-positive helper cells may benefit through the acquisition of nutrients released by the beneficiaries such as Prochlorococcus. Other members of the community that may be helped by the catalase-positive cells may include some lineages of Synechococcus - the sister genus of Prochlorococcus - as well as some lineages of SAR11 and ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria. The co-occurrence of catalase-positive and -negative members suggests that cross-protection from HOOH-mediated oxidative stress may play an important role in the construction of the marine microbial community.
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- Erik R Zinser
- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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Luria CM, Amaral-Zettler LA, Ducklow HW, Repeta DJ, Rhyne AL, Rich JJ. Seasonal Shifts in Bacterial Community Responses to Phytoplankton-Derived Dissolved Organic Matter in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2117. [PMID: 29163409 PMCID: PMC5675858 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2017] [Accepted: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bacterial consumption of dissolved organic matter (DOM) drives much of the movement of carbon through the oceanic food web and the global carbon cycle. Understanding complex interactions between bacteria and marine DOM remains an important challenge. We tested the hypothesis that bacterial growth and community succession would respond differently to DOM additions due to seasonal changes in phytoplankton abundance in the environment. Four mesocosm experiments were conducted that spanned the spring transitional period (August-December 2013) in surface waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). Each mesocosm consisted of nearshore surface seawater (50 L) incubated in the laboratory for 10 days. The addition of DOM, in the form of cell-free exudates extracted from Thalassiosira weissflogii diatom cultures led to changes in bacterial abundance, production, and community composition. The timing of each mesocosm experiment (i.e., late winter vs. late spring) influenced the magnitude and direction of bacterial changes. For example, the same DOM treatment applied at different times during the season resulted in different levels of bacterial production and different bacterial community composition. There was a mid-season shift from Collwelliaceae to Polaribacter having the greatest relative abundance after incubation. This shift corresponded to a modest but significant increase in the initial relative abundance of Polaribacter in the nearshore seawater used to set up experiments. This finding supports a new hypothesis that starting community composition, through priority effects, influenced the trajectory of community succession in response to DOM addition. As strong inter-annual variability and long-term climate change may shift the timing of WAP phytoplankton blooms, and the corresponding production of DOM exudates, this study suggests a mechanism by which different seasonal successional patterns in bacterial communities could occur.
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- Catherine M. Luria
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
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- Marine Biological Laboratory, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States
- Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Utrecht University, Den Burg, Netherlands
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Marine Biology, and Environmental Science, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, United States
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- School of Marine Sciences, Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Walpole, ME, United States
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Goldberg SJ, Nelson CE, Viviani DA, Shulse CN, Church MJ. Cascading influence of inorganic nitrogen sources on DOM production, composition, lability and microbial community structure in the open ocean. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:3450-3464. [PMID: 28618153 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Revised: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 05/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Nitrogen frequently limits oceanic photosynthesis and the availability of inorganic nitrogen sources in the surface oceans is shifting with global change. We evaluated the potential for abrupt increases in inorganic N sources to induce cascading effects on dissolved organic matter (DOM) and microbial communities in the surface ocean. We collected water from 5 m depth in the central North Pacific and amended duplicate 20 liter polycarbonate carboys with nitrate or ammonium, tracking planktonic carbon fixation, DOM production, DOM composition and microbial community structure responses over 1 week relative to controls. Both nitrogen sources stimulated bulk phytoplankton, bacterial and DOM production and enriched Synechococcus and Flavobacteriaceae; ammonium enriched for oligotrophic Actinobacteria OM1 and Gammaproteobacteria KI89A clades while nitrate enriched Gammaproteobacteria SAR86, SAR92 and OM60 clades. DOM resulting from both N enrichments was more labile and stimulated growth of copiotrophic Gammaproteobacteria (Alteromonadaceae and Oceanospirillaceae) and Alphaproteobacteria (Rhodobacteraceae and Hyphomonadaceae) in weeklong dark incubations relative to controls. Our study illustrates how nitrogen pulses may have direct and cascading effects on DOM composition and microbial community dynamics in the open ocean.
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- S J Goldberg
- Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1950 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, Department of Oceanography and Sea Grant College Program, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1950 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1950 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1950 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1950 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Landa M, Burns AS, Roth SJ, Moran MA. Bacterial transcriptome remodeling during sequential co-culture with a marine dinoflagellate and diatom. ISME JOURNAL 2017; 11:2677-2690. [PMID: 28731474 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 06/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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In their role as primary producers, marine phytoplankton modulate heterotrophic bacterial activities through differences in the types and amounts of organic matter they release. This study investigates the transcriptional response of bacterium Ruegeria pomeroyi, a member of the Roseobacter clade known to affiliate with diverse phytoplankton groups in the ocean, during a shift in phytoplankton taxonomy. The bacterium was initially introduced into a culture of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense, and then experienced a change in phytoplankton community composition as the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana gradually outcompeted the dinoflagellate. Samples were taken throughout the 30-day experiment to track shifts in bacterial gene expression informative of metabolic and ecological interactions. Transcriptome data indicate fundamental differences in the exometabolites released by the two phytoplankton. During growth with the dinoflagellate, gene expression patterns indicated that the main sources of carbon and energy for R. pomeroyi were dimethysulfoniopropionate (DMSP), taurine, methylated amines, and polyamines. During growth with the diatom, dihydroxypropanesulfonate (DHPS), xylose, ectoine, and glycolate instead appeared to fuel the bulk of bacterial metabolism. Expression patterns of genes for quorum sensing, gene transfer agent, and motility suggest that bacterial processes related to cell communication and signaling differed depending on which phytoplankton species dominated the co-culture. A remodeling of the R. pomeroyi transcriptome implicating more than a quarter of the genome occurred through the change in phytoplankton regime.
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- Marine Landa
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Cross-study analysis of factors affecting algae cultivation in recycled medium for biofuel production. ALGAL RES 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2017.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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