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Gómez-Consarnau L, Sachdeva R, Gifford SM, Cutter LS, Fuhrman JA, Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA, Moran MA. Mosaic patterns of B-vitamin synthesis and utilization in a natural marine microbial community. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:2809-2823. [PMID: 29659156 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Aquatic environments contain large communities of microorganisms whose synergistic interactions mediate the cycling of major and trace nutrients, including vitamins. B-vitamins are essential coenzymes that many organisms cannot synthesize. Thus, their exchange among de novo synthesizers and auxotrophs is expected to play an important role in the microbial consortia and explain some of the temporal and spatial changes observed in diversity. In this study, we analyzed metatranscriptomes of a natural marine microbial community, diel sampled quarterly over one year to try to identify the potential major B-vitamin synthesizers and consumers. Transcriptomic data showed that the best-represented taxa dominated the expression of synthesis genes for some B-vitamins but lacked transcripts for others. For instance, Rhodobacterales dominated the expression of vitamin-B12 synthesis, but not of vitamin-B7 , whose synthesis transcripts were mainly represented by Flavobacteria. In contrast, bacterial groups that constituted less than 4% of the community (e.g., Verrucomicrobia) accounted for most of the vitamin-B1 synthesis transcripts. Furthermore, ambient vitamin-B1 concentrations were higher in samples collected during the day, and were positively correlated with chlorophyll-a concentrations. Our analysis supports the hypothesis that the mosaic of metabolic interdependencies through B-vitamin synthesis and exchange are key processes that contribute to shaping microbial communities in nature.
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- Laura Gómez-Consarnau
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.,Departamento de Oceanografía Biológica, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, 22860, Mexico
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.,Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Kraft CE, Angert ER. Competition for vitamin B1 (thiamin) structures numerous ecological interactions. QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 2018; 92:151-68. [PMID: 29562121 DOI: 10.1086/692168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Thiamin (vitamin B1) is a cofactor required for essential biochemical reactions in all living organisms, yet free thiamin is scarce in the environment. The diversity of biochemical pathways involved in the acquisition, degradation, and synthesis of thiamin indicates that organisms have evolved numerous ecological strategies for meeting this nutritional requirement. In this review we synthesize information from multiple disciplines to show how the complex biochemistry of thiamin influences ecological outcomes of interactions between organisms in environments ranging from the open ocean and the Australian outback to the gastrointestinal tract of animals. We highlight population and ecosystem responses to the availability or absence of thiamin. These include widespread mortality of fishes, birds, and mammals, as well as the thiamin-dependent regulation of ocean productivity. Overall, we portray thiamin biochemistry as the foundation for molecularly mediated ecological interactions that influence survival and abundance of a vast array of organisms.
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Sutherland WJ, Butchart SH, Connor B, Culshaw C, Dicks LV, Dinsdale J, Doran H, Entwistle AC, Fleishman E, Gibbons DW, Jiang Z, Keim B, Roux XL, Lickorish FA, Markillie P, Monk KA, Mortimer D, Pearce-Higgins JW, Peck LS, Pretty J, Seymour CL, Spalding MD, Tonneijck FH, Gleave RA. A 2018 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity. Trends Ecol Evol 2018; 33:47-58. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Jaehme M, Singh R, Garaeva AA, Duurkens RH, Slotboom DJ. PnuT uses a facilitated diffusion mechanism for thiamine uptake. J Gen Physiol 2017; 150:41-50. [PMID: 29203477 PMCID: PMC5749112 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201711850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Membrane transporters of the bacterial pyridine nucleotide uptake (Pnu) family mediate the uptake of various B-type vitamins. For example, the PnuT transporters have specificity for vitamin B1 (thiamine). It has been hypothesized that Pnu transporters are facilitators that allow passive transport of the vitamin substrate across the membrane. Metabolic trapping by phosphorylation would then lead to accumulation of the transported substrates in the cytoplasm. However, experimental evidence for such a transport mechanism is lacking. Here, to determine the mechanism of thiamine transport, we purify PnuTSw from Shewanella woodyi and reconstitute it in liposomes to determine substrate binding and transport properties. We show that the electrochemical gradient of thiamine solely determines the direction of transport, consistent with a facilitated diffusion mechanism. Further, PnuTSw can bind and transport thiamine as well as the thiamine analogues pyrithiamine and oxythiamine, but does not recognize the phosphorylated derivatives thiamine monophosphate and thiamine pyrophosphate as substrates, consistent with a metabolic trapping mechanism. Guided by the crystal structure of the homologous nicotinamide riboside transporter PnuC, we perform mutagenesis experiments, which reveal residues involved in substrate binding and gating. The facilitated diffusion mechanism of transport used by PnuTSw contrasts sharply with the active transport mechanisms used by other bacterial thiamine transporters.
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- Michael Jaehme
- Groningen Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Groningen Biomolecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Tandon P, Jin Q, Huang L. A promising approach to enhance microalgae productivity by exogenous supply of vitamins. Microb Cell Fact 2017; 16:219. [PMID: 29183381 PMCID: PMC5706373 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-017-0834-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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In order to reduce the consumption of traditional fossil fuels and their impact on the environment, strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions especially carbon dioxide needs exploration. Microalgae-based biofuels can be the best-fit plant based feed-stocks for diminishing a majority of the Universe’s energy problems. Interestingly, the eukaryotic microalgae aid in fixation of almost 50% of the global carbon in the environment. Thus, determination of parameters that will enhance microalgal growth and productivity is crucial, if they are to be used as future renewable energy sources. A large percentage of phytoplankton species are auxotroph for one or more vitamins. These species, in turn, are also dependent upon the vitamin biosynthetic pathways for processing of these vitamins. The present study serves as a base to discuss the prevalence of vitamin auxotrophy in microalgae and the methods of its acquirement from external sources such as heterotrophic bacteria. The next section of the paper sheds light on possible species-specific symbiotic interactions among microalgae and bacteria. Lastly is the discussion on how heterotrophic bacteria can act as a vitamin prototroph for an explicit microalgal vitamin auxotroph. The overall focus is placed upon harnessing these symbiotic interactions with intentions to obtain enhancements in microalgal biomass, lipid productivity, and flocculation rates. Moreover, the growth and distribution of a microalgal cell that thrives on a specific vitamin is perhaps met by growing it with the bacterial communities that nourish it. Thus, possibly by ecologically engineering a potential species-specific microalgal–bacterial consortium, it could tremendously contribute to the acceleration of photosynthetic activity, microalgal productivity, exchange of primary metabolites and other biogeochemical nutrients within the mini ecosystem. ![]()
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- Puja Tandon
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People's Republic of China
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Fuentes Flores A, Sepúlveda Cisternas I, Vásquez Solis de Ovando JI, Torres A, García-Angulo VA. Contribution of riboflavin supply pathways to Vibrio cholerae in different environments. Gut Pathog 2017; 9:64. [PMID: 29163672 PMCID: PMC5686954 DOI: 10.1186/s13099-017-0214-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background The waterborne diarrheagenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae, cause of the pandemic cholera disease, thrives in a variety of environments ranging from estuarine waters to the human intestinal tract. This species has two ways to obtain the essential micronutrient riboflavin, de novo biosynthesis and environmental uptake through the RibN importer. The way these functions interrelate to fulfill riboflavin needs in different conditions in this species is unknown. Results This study analyzed the contributions of riboflavin biosynthesis and transport to the culturability of Vibrio cholerae in river and seawater in vitro and in the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode host model. Elimination of the ribD riboflavin biosynthetic gene renders the bacteria riboflavin-auxotrophic, while a ribN mutant strain has no growth defect in minimal media. When growing in river water, deletion of ribD causes an impairment in culturability. In this condition, the ∆ribN strain has a defect to compete against a wild type strain but outcompetes the ∆ribD strain. The latter effect is inverted by the addition of riboflavin to the water. In contrast, growth in seawater causes a loss in culturability independent of riboflavin biosynthesis or transport. In the C. elegans model, only the ∆ribD strain is attenuated. Conclusion Results indicate that while riboflavin biosynthesis seems to outweigh riboflavin uptake, the latter may still provide a selective advantage to V. cholerae in some environments. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13099-017-0214-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Andrés Fuentes Flores
- Programa de Microbiología y Micología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Microbiología y Micología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Escuela de Biotecnología, Universidad Mayor, Campus Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Microbiología y Micología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Microbiología y Micología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Facultad de Medicina Norte, Pabellón L. Santiago de Chile, ZIP 8380453 Santiago, Chile
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Brodie J, Ball SG, Bouget FY, Chan CX, De Clerck O, Cock JM, Gachon C, Grossman AR, Mock T, Raven JA, Saha M, Smith AG, Vardi A, Yoon HS, Bhattacharya D. Biotic interactions as drivers of algal origin and evolution. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2017; 216:670-681. [PMID: 28857164 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Contents 670 I. 671 II. 671 III. 676 IV. 678 678 References 678 SUMMARY: Biotic interactions underlie life's diversity and are the lynchpin to understanding its complexity and resilience within an ecological niche. Algal biologists have embraced this paradigm, and studies building on the explosive growth in omics and cell biology methods have facilitated the in-depth analysis of nonmodel organisms and communities from a variety of ecosystems. In turn, these advances have enabled a major revision of our understanding of the origin and evolution of photosynthesis in eukaryotes, bacterial-algal interactions, control of massive algal blooms in the ocean, and the maintenance and degradation of coral reefs. Here, we review some of the most exciting developments in the field of algal biotic interactions and identify challenges for scientists in the coming years. We foresee the development of an algal knowledgebase that integrates ecosystem-wide omics data and the development of molecular tools/resources to perform functional analyses of individuals in isolation and in populations. These assets will allow us to move beyond mechanistic studies of a single species towards understanding the interactions amongst algae and other organisms in both the laboratory and the field.
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- Juliet Brodie
- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- UMR 8576 - UGSF - Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Université de Lille CNRS, F 59000, Lille, France
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- Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique, University Pierre et Marie Curie, University of Paris VI, CNRS, F-66650, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience and School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, 4072, Australia
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- Phycology Research Group, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, S8, 9000, Gent, Belgium
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- CNRS, Sorbonne Université, UPMC University Paris 06, Algal Genetics Group, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, F-29688, France
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- Department of Plant Biology, The Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK
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- Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, Kiel, 24105, Germany
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 440-746, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA
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Vitamin B1 (thiamin) is a cofactor for critical enzymatic processes and is scarce in surface oceans. Several eukaryotic marine algal species thought to rely on exogenous thiamin are now known to grow equally well on the precursor 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (HMP), including the haptophyte Emiliania huxleyi Because the thiamin biosynthetic capacities of the diverse and ecologically important haptophyte lineage are otherwise unknown, we investigated the pathway in transcriptomes and two genomes from 30 species representing six taxonomic orders. HMP synthase is missing in data from all studied taxa, but the pathway is otherwise complete, with some enzymatic variations. Experiments on axenic species from three orders demonstrated that equivalent growth rates were supported by 1 µM HMP or thiamin amendment. Cellular thiamin quotas were quantified in the oceanic phytoplankter E. huxleyi using the thiochrome assay. E. huxleyi exhibited luxury storage in standard algal medium [(1.16 ± 0.18) × 10-6 pmol thiamin cell-1], whereas quotas in cultures grown under more environmentally relevant thiamin and HMP supplies [(2.22 ± 0.07) × 10-7 or (1.58 ± 0.14) × 10-7 pmol thiamin cell-1, respectively] were significantly lower than luxury values and prior estimates. HMP and its salvage-related analog 4-amino-5-aminomethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (AmMP) supported higher growth than thiamin under environmentally relevant supply levels. These compounds also sustained growth of the stramenopile alga Pelagomonas calceolata Together with identification of a salvage protein subfamily (TENA_E) in multiple phytoplankton, the results indicate that salvaged AmMP and exogenously acquired HMP are used by several groups for thiamin production. Our studies highlight the potential importance of thiamin pathway intermediates and their analogs in shaping phytoplankton community structure.IMPORTANCE The concept that vitamin B1 (thiamin) availability in seawater controls the productivity and structure of eukaryotic phytoplankton communities has been discussed for half a century. We examined B1 biosynthesis and salvage pathways in diverse phytoplankton species. These comparative genomic analyses as well as experiments show that phytoplankton thought to require exogenous B1 not only utilize intermediate compounds to meet this need but also exhibit stronger growth on these compounds than on thiamin. Furthermore, oceanic phytoplankton have lower cellular thiamin quotas than previously reported, and salvage of intermediate compounds is likely a key mechanism for meeting B1 requirements under environmentally relevant scenarios. Thus, several lines of evidence now suggest that availability of specific precursor molecules could be more important in structuring phytoplankton communities than the vitamin itself. This understanding of preferential compound utilization and thiamin quotas will improve biogeochemical model parameterization and highlights interaction networks among ocean microbes.
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Helliwell KE. The roles of B vitamins in phytoplankton nutrition: new perspectives and prospects. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2017; 216:62-68. [PMID: 28656633 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2017] [Accepted: 05/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Contents 62 I. 62 II. 63 III. 63 IV. 66 V. 66 VI. 67 67 References 67 SUMMARY: B vitamins play essential roles in central metabolism. These organic water-soluble molecules act as, or as part of, coenzymes within the cell. Unlike land plants, many eukaryotic algae are auxotrophic for certain B vitamins. Recent progress in algal genetic resources and environmental chemistry have promoted a renewal of interest in the role of vitamins in governing phytoplankton dynamics, and illuminated amazing versatility in phytoplankton vitamin metabolism. Accumulating evidence demonstrates metabolic complexity in the production and bioavailability of different vitamin forms, coupled with specialized acquisition strategies to salvage and remodel vitamin precursors. Here, I describe recent advances and discuss how they redefine our view of the way in which vitamins are cycled in aquatic ecosystems and their importance in structuring phytoplankton communities.
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- Katherine E Helliwell
- The Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK
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Yang JA, Yang SH, Kim J, Kwon KK, Oh HM. Comparative genome analysis of the Flavobacteriales bacterium strain UJ101, isolated from the gut of Atergatis reticulatus. J Microbiol 2017; 55:583-591. [PMID: 28664513 DOI: 10.1007/s12275-017-7172-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Revised: 06/07/2017] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Here we report the comparative genomic analysis of strain UJ101 with 15 strains from the family Flavobacteriaceae, using the CGExplorer program. Flavobacteriales bacterium strain UJ101 was isolated from a xanthid crab, Atergatis reticulatus, from the East Sea near Korea. The complete genome of strain UJ101 is a 3,074,209 bp, single, circular chromosome with 30.74% GC content. While the UJ101 genome contains a number of annotated genes for many metabolic pathways, such as the Embden-Meyerhof pathway, the pentose phosphate pathway, the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, and the glyoxylate cycle, genes for the Entner-Douddoroff pathway are not found in the UJ101 genome. Overall, carbon fixation processes were absent but nitrate reduction and denitrification pathways were conserved. The UJ101 genome was compared to genomes from other marine animals (three invertebrate strains and 5 fish strains) and other marine animal- derived genera. Notable results by genome comparisons showed that UJ101 is capable of denitrification and nitrate reduction, and that biotin-thiamine pathway participation varies among marine bacteria; fish-dwelling bacteria, freeliving bacteria, invertebrate-dwelling bacteria, and strain UJ101. Pan-genome analysis of the 16 strains in this study included 7,220 non-redundant genes that covered 62% of the pan-genome. A core-genome of 994 genes was present and consisted of 8% of the genes from the pan-genome. Strain UJ101 is a symbiotic hetero-organotroph isolated from xanthid crab, and is a metabolic generalist with nitrate-reducing abilities but without the ability to synthesize biotin. There is a general tendency of UJ101 and some fish pathogens to prefer thiamine-dependent glycolysis to gluconeogenesis. Biotin and thiamine auxotrophy or prototrophy may be used as important markers in microbial community studies.
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- Jhung-Ahn Yang
- Departments of Marine-Bio Convergence Science, Specialized Graduate School Science & Technology Convergence, Pukyong National University, Busan, 48547, Republic of Korea
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- Marine Biotechnology Research Division, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Ansan, 15627, Republic of Korea
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- Departments of Marine-Bio Convergence Science, Specialized Graduate School Science & Technology Convergence, Pukyong National University, Busan, 48547, Republic of Korea
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- Marine Biotechnology Research Division, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Ansan, 15627, Republic of Korea
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- Departments of Marine-Bio Convergence Science, Specialized Graduate School Science & Technology Convergence, Pukyong National University, Busan, 48547, Republic of Korea.
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Biological interactions underpin the functioning of marine ecosystems, be it via competition, predation, mutualism, or symbiosis processes. Microbial phototroph-heterotroph interactions propel the engine that results in the biogeochemical cycling of individual elements and are critical for understanding and modelling global ocean processes. Unfortunately, studies thus far have focused on exponentially-growing cultures in nutrient-rich media, meaning knowledge of such interactions under in situ conditions is rudimentary at best. Here, we performed long-term phototroph-heterotroph co-culture experiments under nutrient-amended and natural seawater conditions which showed that it is not the concentration of nutrients but rather their circulation that maintains a stable interaction and a dynamic system. Using the Synechococcus-Roseobacter interaction as a model phototroph-heterotroph case study we show that whilst Synechococcus is highly specialised for carrying out photosynthesis and carbon-fixation it relies on the heterotroph to re-mineralise the inevitably leaked organic matter making nutrients circulate in a mutualistic system. In this sense we challenge the general belief that marine phototrophs and heterotrophs compete for the same scarce nutrients and niche space, but instead suggest these organisms more likely benefit from each other because of their different levels of specialization and complementarity within long-term stable-state systems.
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Ellis KA, Cohen NR, Moreno C, Marchetti A. Cobalamin-independent Methionine Synthase Distribution and Influence on Vitamin B12 Growth Requirements in Marine Diatoms. Protist 2017; 168:32-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2016.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Revised: 08/20/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Kazamia E, Helliwell KE, Purton S, Smith AG. How mutualisms arise in phytoplankton communities: building eco-evolutionary principles for aquatic microbes. Ecol Lett 2017; 19:810-22. [PMID: 27282316 PMCID: PMC5103174 DOI: 10.1111/ele.12615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2015] [Revised: 01/03/2016] [Accepted: 04/07/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Extensive sampling and metagenomics analyses of plankton communities across all aquatic environments are beginning to provide insights into the ecology of microbial communities. In particular, the importance of metabolic exchanges that provide a foundation for ecological interactions between microorganisms has emerged as a key factor in forging such communities. Here we show how both studies of environmental samples and physiological experimentation in the laboratory with defined microbial co‐cultures are being used to decipher the metabolic and molecular underpinnings of such exchanges. In addition, we explain how metabolic modelling may be used to conduct investigations in reverse, deducing novel molecular exchanges from analysis of large‐scale data sets, which can identify persistently co‐occurring species. Finally, we consider how knowledge of microbial community ecology can be built into evolutionary theories tailored to these species’ unique lifestyles. We propose a novel model for the evolution of metabolic auxotrophy in microorganisms that arises as a result of symbiosis, termed the Foraging‐to‐Farming hypothesis. The model has testable predictions, fits several known examples of mutualism in the aquatic world, and sheds light on how interactions, which cement dependencies within communities of microorganisms, might be initiated.
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- Elena Kazamia
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EA, UK
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Monteverde DR, Gómez-Consarnau L, Suffridge C, Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA. Life's utilization of B vitamins on early Earth. GEOBIOLOGY 2017; 15:3-18. [PMID: 27477998 DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Coenzymes are essential across all domains of life. B vitamins (B1 -thiamin, B2 -riboflavin, B3 -niacin, B5 -pantothenate, B6 -pyridoxine, B7 -biotin, and B12 -cobalamin) represent the largest class of coenzymes, which participate in a diverse set of reactions including C1 -rearrangements, DNA repair, electron transfer, and fatty acid synthesis. B vitamin structures range from simple to complex heterocycles, yet, despite this complexity, multiple lines of evidence exist for their ancient origins including abiotic synthesis under putative early Earth conditions and/or meteorite transport. Thus, some of these critical coenzymes likely preceded life on Earth. Some modern organisms can synthesize their own B vitamins de novo while others must either scavenge them from the environment or establish a symbiotic relationship with a B vitamin producer. B vitamin requirements are widespread in some of the most ancient metabolisms including all six carbon fixation pathways, sulfate reduction, sulfur disproportionation, methanogenesis, acetogenesis, and photosynthesis. Understanding modern metabolic B vitamin requirements is critical for understanding the evolutionary conditions of ancient metabolisms as well as the biogeochemical cycling of critical elements such as S, C, and O.
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- D R Monteverde
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Balk L, Hägerroth PÅ, Gustavsson H, Sigg L, Åkerman G, Ruiz Muñoz Y, Honeyfield DC, Tjärnlund U, Oliveira K, Ström K, McCormick SD, Karlsson S, Ström M, van Manen M, Berg AL, Halldórsson HP, Strömquist J, Collier TK, Börjeson H, Mörner T, Hansson T. Widespread episodic thiamine deficiency in Northern Hemisphere wildlife. Sci Rep 2016; 6:38821. [PMID: 27958327 PMCID: PMC5153840 DOI: 10.1038/srep38821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 11/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Many wildlife populations are declining at rates higher than can be explained by known threats to biodiversity. Recently, thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency has emerged as a possible contributing cause. Here, thiamine status was systematically investigated in three animal classes: bivalves, ray-finned fishes, and birds. Thiamine diphosphate is required as a cofactor in at least five life-sustaining enzymes that are required for basic cellular metabolism. Analysis of different phosphorylated forms of thiamine, as well as of activities and amount of holoenzyme and apoenzyme forms of thiamine-dependent enzymes, revealed episodically occurring thiamine deficiency in all three animal classes. These biochemical effects were also linked to secondary effects on growth, condition, liver size, blood chemistry and composition, histopathology, swimming behaviour and endurance, parasite infestation, and reproduction. It is unlikely that the thiamine deficiency is caused by impaired phosphorylation within the cells. Rather, the results point towards insufficient amounts of thiamine in the food. By investigating a large geographic area, by extending the focus from lethal to sublethal thiamine deficiency, and by linking biochemical alterations to secondary effects, we demonstrate that the problem of thiamine deficiency is considerably more widespread and severe than previously reported.
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- Lennart Balk
- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, University of Vigo, Lagoas-Marcosende, ES-36310 Vigo, Spain
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- Leetown Science Center, Northern Appalachian Research Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Wellsboro, Pennsylvania 16901, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Leetown Science Center, Conte Anadromous Fish Research Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Turners Falls, Massachusetts 01376, USA
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- River Ecology and Management, Karlstad University, SE-65188 Karlstad, Sweden
- Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Freshwater Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-17893 Drottningholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Medicine Solna and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, NL-3508 TD Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Medical Products Agency, Box 26, SE-75103 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Freshwater Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-17893 Drottningholm, Sweden
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- NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington 98112, USA
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- Department of Aquatic Resources, Fisheries Research Station, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Brobacken, SE-81494 Älvkarleby, Sweden
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- Department of Disease Control and Epidemiology, National Veterinary Institute (SVA), SE-75189 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Riboflavin derivatives are essential cofactors for a myriad of flavoproteins. In bacteria, flavins importance extends beyond their role as intracellular protein cofactors, as secreted flavins are a key metabolite in a variety of physiological processes. Bacteria obtain riboflavin through the endogenous riboflavin biosynthetic pathway (RBP) or by the use of importer proteins. Bacteria frequently encode multiple paralogs of the RBP enzymes and as for other micronutrient supply pathways, biosynthesis and uptake functions largely coexist. It is proposed that bacteria shut down biosynthesis and would rather uptake riboflavin when the vitamin is environmentally available. Recently, the overlap of riboflavin provisioning elements has gained attention and the functions of duplicated paralogs of RBP enzymes started to be addressed. Results point towards the existence of a modular structure in the bacterial riboflavin supply pathways. Such structure uses subsets of RBP genes to supply riboflavin for specific functions. Given the importance of riboflavin in intra and extracellular bacterial physiology, this complex array of riboflavin provision pathways may have developed to contend with the various riboflavin requirements. In riboflavin-prototrophic bacteria, riboflavin transporters could represent a module for riboflavin provision for particular, yet unidentified processes, rather than substituting for the RBP as usually assumed.
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- Víctor Antonio García-Angulo
- a Microbiology and Mycology Program, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile , Santiago , Chile
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Baker LJ, Alegado RA, Kemp PF. Response of diatom-associated bacteria to host growth state, nutrient concentrations, and viral host infection in a model system. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2016; 8:917-927. [PMID: 27558069 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Diatoms are photosynthetic unicellular eukaryotes found ubiquitously in aquatic systems. Frequent physical associations with other microorganisms such as bacteria may influence diatom fitness. The predictability of bacterial-diatom interactions is hypothesized to depend on availability of nutrients as well as the physiological state of the host. Biotic and abiotic factors such as nutrient levels, host growth stage and host viral infection were manipulated to determine their effect on the ecological succession of bacterial communities associated with a single cell line of Chaetoceros sp. KBDT20; this was assessed using the relative abundance of bacterial phylotypes based on 16S rDNA sequences. A single bacterial family, Alteromonadaceae, dominated the attached-bacterial community (84.0%), with the most prevalent phylotypes belonging to the Alteromonas and Marinobacter genera. The taxa comprising the other 16% of the attached bacterial assemblage include Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Bacilli, Deltaproteobacteria, other Gammaproteobacteria and Flavobacteria. Nutrient concentration and host growth stage had a statistically significant effect on the phylogenetic composition of the attached bacteria. It was inferred that interactions between attached bacteria, as well as the inherent stochasticity mediating contact may also contribute to diatom-bacterial associations.
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- Lydia J Baker
- Oceanography Department, University of Hawai'i Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Oceanography Department, University of Hawai'i Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Oceanography Department, University of Hawai'i Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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Artificial Seawater Media Facilitate Cultivating Members of the Microbial Majority from the Gulf of Mexico. mSphere 2016; 1:mSphere00028-16. [PMID: 27303734 PMCID: PMC4894692 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00028-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2016] [Accepted: 04/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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High-throughput cultivation studies have been successful at bringing numerous important marine bacterioplankton lineages into culture, yet these frequently utilize natural seawater media that can hamper portability, reproducibility, and downstream characterization efforts. Here we report the results of seven experiments with a set of newly developed artificial seawater media and evaluation of cultivation success via comparison with community sequencing data from the inocula. Eighty-two new isolates represent highly important marine clades, including SAR116, OM60/NOR5, SAR92, Roseobacter, and SAR11. For many, isolation with an artificial seawater medium is unprecedented, and several organisms are also the first of their type from the Gulf of Mexico. Community analysis revealed that many isolates were among the 20 most abundant organisms in their source inoculum. This method will expand the accessibility of bacterioplankton cultivation experiments and improve repeatability by avoiding normal compositional changes in natural seawater. IMPORTANCE The difficulty in cultivating many microbial taxa vexes researchers intent on understanding the contributions of these organisms to natural systems, particularly when these organisms are numerically abundant, and many cultivation attempts recover only rare taxa. Efforts to improve this conundrum with marine bacterioplankton have been successful with natural seawater media, but that approach suffers from a number of drawbacks and there have been no comparable artificial alternatives created in the laboratory. This work demonstrates that a newly developed suite of artificial-seawater media can successfully cultivate many of the most abundant taxa from seawater samples and many taxa previously only cultivated with natural-seawater media. This methodology therefore significantly simplifies efforts to cultivate bacterioplankton and greatly improves our ability to perform physiological characterization of cultures postisolation.
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Carini P. Microbial oxidation of DMS to DMSO: a biochemical surprise with geochemical implications. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:2302-4. [PMID: 27059172 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 03/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Paul Carini
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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Grossman A. Nutrient Acquisition: The Generation of Bioactive Vitamin B 12 by Microalgae. Curr Biol 2016; 26:R319-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Helliwell KE, Lawrence AD, Holzer A, Kudahl UJ, Sasso S, Kräutler B, Scanlan DJ, Warren MJ, Smith AG. Cyanobacteria and Eukaryotic Algae Use Different Chemical Variants of Vitamin B12. Curr Biol 2016; 26:999-1008. [PMID: 27040778 PMCID: PMC4850488 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Revised: 02/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Eukaryotic microalgae and prokaryotic cyanobacteria are the major components of the phytoplankton. Determining factors that govern growth of these primary producers, and how they interact, is therefore essential to understanding aquatic ecosystem productivity. Over half of microalgal species representing marine and freshwater habitats require for growth the corrinoid cofactor B12, which is synthesized de novo only by certain prokaryotes, including the majority of cyanobacteria. There are several chemical variants of B12, which are not necessarily functionally interchangeable. Cobalamin, the form bioavailable to humans, has as its lower axial ligand 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole (DMB). Here, we show that the abundant marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus synthesizes only pseudocobalamin, in which the lower axial ligand is adenine. Moreover, bioinformatic searches of over 100 sequenced cyanobacterial genomes for B12 biosynthesis genes, including those involved in nucleotide loop assembly, suggest this is the form synthesized by cyanobacteria more broadly. We further demonstrate that pseudocobalamin is several orders of magnitude less bioavailable than cobalamin to several B12-dependent microalgae representing diverse lineages. This indicates that the two major phytoplankton groups use a different B12 currency. However, in an intriguing twist, some microalgal species can use pseudocobalamin if DMB is provided, suggesting that they are able to remodel the cofactor, whereas Synechococcus cannot. This species-specific attribute implicates algal remodelers as novel and keystone players of the B12 cycle, transforming our perception of the dynamics and complexity of the flux of this nutrient in aquatic ecosystems. Dominant marine cyanobacteria synthesize only pseudocobalamin Pseudocobalamin is orders of magnitude less bioavailable to eukaryotic algae Certain algae can remodel pseudocobalamin to a bioavailable form This implies a complex B12 cycle between microbes in the photic zone
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK; Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Centre of Molecular Biosciences, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 80/82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK.
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Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the oceans is one of the largest pools of reduced carbon on Earth, comparable in size to the atmospheric CO2 reservoir. A vast number of compounds are present in DOM, and they play important roles in all major element cycles, contribute to the storage of atmospheric CO2 in the ocean, support marine ecosystems, and facilitate interactions between organisms. At the heart of the DOM cycle lie molecular-level relationships between the individual compounds in DOM and the members of the ocean microbiome that produce and consume them. In the past, these connections have eluded clear definition because of the sheer numerical complexity of both DOM molecules and microorganisms. Emerging tools in analytical chemistry, microbiology, and informatics are breaking down the barriers to a fuller appreciation of these connections. Here we highlight questions being addressed using recent methodological and technological developments in those fields and consider how these advances are transforming our understanding of some of the most important reactions of the marine carbon cycle.
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Liu Z, Liu S. High Phosphate Concentrations Accelerate Bacterial Peptide Decomposition in Hypoxic Bottom Waters of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:676-684. [PMID: 26650147 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Despite extensive studies of the development and dynamics of hypoxia in coastal oceans, factors controlling the decomposition rates and pathways of labile organic matter (OM) in hypoxic waters are not well understood. Here we investigate peptide decomposition in a stratified water column in the hypoxic region of the northern Gulf of Mexico by conducting on-deck incubation experiments amended with tetrapeptide ala-val-phe-ala (AVFA), a fragment of RuBisCO. Our results show that decomposition efficiency of AVFA was limited by the availability of soluble reactive phosphorus (Pi) in the surface water (<0.3 μM), as it was greatly enhanced after Pi addition to the incubation water. In contrast, peptide decomposition rate in the subsurface water, enriched with Pi (0.4-1.2 μM), was twice as high as that in the surface water, concomitant with the development of fast-growing bacteria during the incubation. Consistent with the Growth Rate Hypothesis, these results indicate that a high level of Pi is crucial in stimulating the growth of bacterial strains with high RNA contents and thus faster OM decomposition in marine environments. This high decomposition potential of OM in subsurface hypoxic waters presents a positive feedback on hypoxia formation in Pi-enriched coastal subsurface waters, as a higher OM decomposition rate leads to rapid consumption of dissolved oxygen (DO).
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- Zhanfei Liu
- Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin , Port Aransas, Texas 78373, United States
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- Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin , Port Aransas, Texas 78373, United States
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Xu F, Li J, Zhu TT, Yu SS, Zuo C, Yao RS, Qian HS. A new trick (hydroxyl radical generation) of an old vitamin (B2) for near-infrared-triggered photodynamic therapy. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra23440b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A new NIR-light-triggered PDT method has been developed using an old vitamin (vitamin B2) integrated with the upconversion nanotechnology.
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- Fang Xu
- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Hefei University of Technology
- Hefei
- China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Hefei University of Technology
- Hefei
- China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Hefei University of Technology
- Hefei
- China
- Department of Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Science & Technology of China
- Hefei
- China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Hefei University of Technology
- Hefei
- China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Hefei University of Technology
- Hefei
- China
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Hefei University of Technology
- Hefei
- China
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Comprehensive Genomic Analyses of the OM43 Clade, Including a Novel Species from the Red Sea, Indicate Ecotype Differentiation among Marine Methylotrophs. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 82:1215-1226. [PMID: 26655752 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02852-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2015] [Accepted: 12/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The OM43 clade within the family Methylophilaceae of Betaproteobacteria represents a group of methylotrophs that play important roles in the metabolism of C1 compounds in marine environments and other aquatic environments around the globe. Using dilution-to-extinction cultivation techniques, we successfully isolated a novel species of this clade (here designated MBRS-H7) from the ultraoligotrophic open ocean waters of the central Red Sea. Phylogenomic analyses indicate that MBRS-H7 is a novel species that forms a distinct cluster together with isolate KB13 from Hawaii (Hawaii-Red Sea [H-RS] cluster) that is separate from the cluster represented by strain HTCC2181 (from the Oregon coast). Phylogenetic analyses using the robust 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer revealed a potential ecotype separation of the marine OM43 clade members, which was further confirmed by metagenomic fragment recruitment analyses that showed trends of higher abundance in low-chlorophyll and/or high-temperature provinces for the H-RS cluster but a preference for colder, highly productive waters for the HTCC2181 cluster. This potential environmentally driven niche differentiation is also reflected in the metabolic gene inventories, which in the case of the H-RS cluster include those conferring resistance to high levels of UV irradiation, temperature, and salinity. Interestingly, we also found different energy conservation modules between these OM43 subclades, namely, the existence of the NADH:quinone oxidoreductase complex I (NUO) system in the H-RS cluster and the nonhomologous NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (NQR) system in the HTCC2181 cluster, which might have implications for their overall energetic yields.
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Ngugi DK, Blom J, Stepanauskas R, Stingl U. Diversification and niche adaptations of Nitrospina-like bacteria in the polyextreme interfaces of Red Sea brines. ISME JOURNAL 2015; 10:1383-99. [PMID: 26657763 PMCID: PMC5029188 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2015] [Revised: 10/05/2015] [Accepted: 10/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) of the genus Nitrospina have exclusively been found in marine environments. In the brine–seawater interface layer of Atlantis II Deep (Red Sea), Nitrospina-like bacteria constitute up to one-third of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences. This is much higher compared with that reported in other marine habitats (~10% of all bacteria), and was unexpected because no NOB culture has been observed to grow above 4.0% salinity, presumably due to the low net energy gained from their metabolism that is insufficient for both growth and osmoregulation. Using phylogenetics, single-cell genomics and metagenomic fragment recruitment approaches, we document here that these Nitrospina-like bacteria, designated as Candidatus Nitromaritima RS, are not only highly diverged from the type species Nitrospina gracilis (pairwise genome identity of 69%) but are also ubiquitous in the deeper, highly saline interface layers (up to 11.2% salinity) with temperatures of up to 52 °C. Comparative pan-genome analyses revealed that less than half of the predicted proteome of Ca. Nitromaritima RS is shared with N. gracilis. Interestingly, the capacity for nitrite oxidation is also conserved in both genomes. Although both lack acidic proteomes synonymous with extreme halophiles, the pangenome of Ca. Nitromaritima RS specifically encodes enzymes with osmoregulatory and thermoprotective roles (i.e., ectoine/hydroxyectoine biosynthesis) and of thermodynamic importance (i.e., nitrate and nitrite reductases). Ca. Nitromaritima RS also possesses many hallmark traits of microaerophiles and high-affinity NOB. The abundance of the uncultured Ca. Nitromaritima lineage in marine oxyclines suggests their unrecognized ecological significance in deoxygenated areas of the global ocean.
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- David Kamanda Ngugi
- Red Sea Research Centre, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
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- Red Sea Research Centre, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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Proteorhodopsin light-enhanced growth linked to vitamin-B1 acquisition in marine Flavobacteria. ISME JOURNAL 2015; 10:1102-12. [PMID: 26574687 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2015] [Revised: 09/11/2015] [Accepted: 09/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Proteorhodopsins (PR) are light-driven proton pumps widely distributed in bacterioplankton. Although they have been thoroughly studied for more than a decade, it is still unclear how the proton motive force (pmf) generated by PR is used in most organisms. Notably, very few PR-containing bacteria show growth enhancement in the light. It has been suggested that the presence of specific functions within a genome may define the different PR-driven light responses. Thus, comparing closely related organisms that respond differently to light is an ideal setup to identify the mechanisms involved in PR light-enhanced growth. Here, we analyzed the transcriptomes of three PR-harboring Flavobacteria strains of the genus Dokdonia: Dokdonia donghaensis DSW-1(T), Dokdonia MED134 and Dokdonia PRO95, grown in identical seawater medium in light and darkness. Although only DSW-1(T) and MED134 showed light-enhanced growth, all strains expressed their PR genes at least 10 times more in the light compared with dark. According to their genomes, DSW-1(T) and MED134 are vitamin-B1 auxotrophs, and their vitamin-B1 TonB-dependent transporters (TBDT), accounted for 10-18% of all pmf-dependent transcripts. In contrast, the expression of vitamin-B1 TBDT was 10 times lower in the prototroph PRO95, whereas its vitamin-B1 synthesis genes were among the highest expressed. Our data suggest that light-enhanced growth in DSW-1(T) and MED134 derives from the use of PR-generated pmf to power the uptake of vitamin-B1, essential for central carbon metabolism, including the TCA cycle. Other pmf-generating mechanisms available in darkness are probably insufficient to power transport of enough vitamin-B1 to support maximum growth of these organisms.
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Rodriguez IB, Ho TY. Influence of Co and B 12 on the growth and nitrogen fixation of Trichodesmium. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:623. [PMID: 26150813 PMCID: PMC4471368 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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We investigated the influence of varying cobalt (Co) and B12 concentrations to growth and nitrogen fixation of Trichodesmium, a major diazotroph in the tropical and subtropical oligotrophic ocean. Here we show that sufficient inorganic Co, 20 pmol L-1, sustains the growth of Trichodesmium either with or without an additional B12 supply. We also found that in these culture conditions, nitrogen levels fixed by Trichodesmium were higher in treatments with insufficient B12 than in treatments with higher B12 availability. Under limited inorganic Co availability, ranging from 0.2 to 2 pmol L-1, Trichodesmium growth was significantly compromised in cultures without B12. In these low Co concentrations, addition of 400 pmol L-1 of B12 supported phytoplankton growth indicating that B12 supply augmented for the low Co concentrations. Our study demonstrates that Trichodesmium has an absolute Co requirement, which is not replaceable with Zn, and that B12 supply alleviates stress in cases where Co is limiting. These results show that the interlocking availabilities of Co and B12 may influence the growth and nitrogen fixation of Trichodesmium in the ocean.
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- Irene B Rodriguez
- Research Center for Environmental Changes - Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan
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- Research Center for Environmental Changes - Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan
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Monteverde DR, Gómez-Consarnau L, Cutter L, Chong L, Berelson W, Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA. Vitamin B1 in marine sediments: pore water concentration gradient drives benthic flux with potential biological implications. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:434. [PMID: 26029181 PMCID: PMC4428219 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Vitamin B1, or thiamin, can limit primary productivity in marine environments, however the major marine environmental sources of this essential coenzyme remain largely unknown. Vitamin B1 can only be produced by organisms that possess its complete synthesis pathway, while other organisms meet their cellular B1 quota by scavenging the coenzyme from exogenous sources. Due to high bacterial cell density and diversity, marine sediments could represent some of the highest concentrations of putative B1 producers, yet these environments have received little attention as a possible source of B1 to the overlying water column. Here we report the first dissolved pore water profiles of B1 measured in cores collected in two consecutive years from Santa Monica Basin, CA. Vitamin B1 concentrations were fairly consistent between the two years ranging from 30 pM up to 770 pM. A consistent maximum at ~5 cm sediment depth covaried with dissolved concentrations of iron. Pore water concentrations were higher than water column levels and represented some of the highest known environmental concentrations of B1 measured to date, (over two times higher than maximum water column concentrations) suggesting increased rates of cellular production and release within the sediments. A one dimensional diffusion-transport model applied to the B1 profile was used to estimate a diffusive benthic flux of ~0.7 nmol m−2 d−1. This is an estimated flux across the sediment-water interface in a deep sea basin; if similar magnitude B-vitamin fluxes occur in shallow coastal waters, benthic input could prove to be a significant B1-source to the water column and may play an important role in supplying this organic growth factor to auxotrophic primary producers.
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- Danielle R Monteverde
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Gómez-Consarnau L, Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA. Beyond the iron age: the ecological relevance of non-ferrous bioactive trace metals and organic growth factors in aquatic systems. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:218. [PMID: 25852674 PMCID: PMC4367431 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Accepted: 03/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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- Laura Gómez-Consarnau
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA ; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Tseng CH, Chiang PW, Lai HC, Shiah FK, Hsu TC, Chen YL, Wen LS, Tseng CM, Shieh WY, Saeed I, Halgamuge S, Tang SL. Prokaryotic assemblages and metagenomes in pelagic zones of the South China Sea. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:219. [PMID: 25879764 PMCID: PMC4373125 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1434-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 03/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Prokaryotic microbes, the most abundant organisms in the ocean, are remarkably diverse. Despite numerous studies of marine prokaryotes, the zonation of their communities in pelagic zones has been poorly delineated. By exploiting the persistent stratification of the South China Sea (SCS), we performed a 2-year, large spatial scale (10, 100, 1000, and 3000 m) survey, which included a pilot study in 2006 and comprehensive sampling in 2007, to investigate the biological zonation of bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA tag and shotgun metagenome sequencing. RESULTS Alphaproteobacteria dominated the bacterial community in the surface SCS, where the abundance of Betaproteobacteria was seemingly associated with climatic activity. Gammaproteobacteria thrived in the deep SCS, where a noticeable amount of Cyanobacteria were also detected. Marine Groups II and III Euryarchaeota were predominant in the archaeal communities in the surface and deep SCS, respectively. Bacterial diversity was higher than archaeal diversity at all sampling depths in the SCS, and peaked at mid-depths, agreeing with the diversity pattern found in global water columns. Metagenomic analysis not only showed differential %GC values and genome sizes between the surface and deep SCS, but also demonstrated depth-dependent metabolic potentials, such as cobalamin biosynthesis at 10 m, osmoregulation at 100 m, signal transduction at 1000 m, and plasmid and phage replication at 3000 m. When compared with other oceans, urease at 10 m and both exonuclease and permease at 3000 m were more abundant in the SCS. Finally, enriched genes associated with nutrient assimilation in the sea surface and transposase in the deep-sea metagenomes exemplified the functional zonation in global oceans. CONCLUSIONS Prokaryotic communities in the SCS stratified with depth, with maximal bacterial diversity at mid-depth, in accordance with global water columns. The SCS had functional zonation among depths and endemically enriched metabolic potentials at the study site, in contrast to other oceans.
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- Ching-Hung Tseng
- Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Optimisation and Pattern Recognition Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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- Optimisation and Pattern Recognition Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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- Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Genomic and proteomic characterization of "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis": an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:1173-8. [PMID: 25587132 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416223112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Thaumarchaeota are among the most abundant microbial cells in the ocean, but difficulty in cultivating marine Thaumarchaeota has hindered investigation into the physiological and evolutionary basis of their success. We report here a closed genome assembled from a highly enriched culture of the ammonia-oxidizing pelagic thaumarchaeon CN25, originating from the open ocean. The CN25 genome exhibits strong evidence of genome streamlining, including a 1.23-Mbp genome, a high coding density, and a low number of paralogous genes. Proteomic analysis recovered nearly 70% of the predicted proteins encoded by the genome, demonstrating that a high fraction of the genome is translated. In contrast to other minimal marine microbes that acquire, rather than synthesize, cofactors, CN25 encodes and expresses near-complete biosynthetic pathways for multiple vitamins. Metagenomic fragment recruitment indicated the presence of DNA sequences >90% identical to the CN25 genome throughout the oligotrophic ocean. We propose the provisional name "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis" str. CN25 for this minimalist marine thaumarchaeon and suggest it as a potential model system for understanding archaeal adaptation to the open ocean.
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Dynamics in microbial communities: unraveling mechanisms to identify principles. ISME JOURNAL 2014; 9:1488-95. [PMID: 25526370 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2014] [Revised: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 11/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Diversity begets higher-order properties such as functional stability and robustness in microbial communities, but principles that inform conceptual (and eventually predictive) models of community dynamics are lacking. Recent work has shown that selection as well as dispersal and drift shape communities, but the mechanistic bases for assembly of communities and the forces that maintain their function in the face of environmental perturbation are not well understood. Conceptually, some interactions among community members could generate endogenous dynamics in composition, even in the absence of environmental changes. These endogenous dynamics are further perturbed by exogenous forcing factors to produce a richer network of community interactions and it is this 'system' that is the basis for higher-order community properties. Elucidation of principles that follow from this conceptual model requires identifying the mechanisms that (a) optimize diversity within a community and (b) impart community stability. The network of interactions between organisms can be an important element by providing a buffer against disturbance beyond the effect of functional redundancy, as alternative pathways with different combinations of microbes can be recruited to fulfill specific functions.
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Helliwell KE, Collins S, Kazamia E, Purton S, Wheeler GL, Smith AG. Fundamental shift in vitamin B12 eco-physiology of a model alga demonstrated by experimental evolution. ISME JOURNAL 2014; 9:1446-55. [PMID: 25526368 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2014] [Revised: 10/26/2014] [Accepted: 10/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A widespread and complex distribution of vitamin requirements exists over the entire tree of life, with many species having evolved vitamin dependence, both within and between different lineages. Vitamin availability has been proposed to drive selection for vitamin dependence, in a process that links an organism's metabolism to the environment, but this has never been demonstrated directly. Moreover, understanding the physiological processes and evolutionary dynamics that influence metabolic demand for these important micronutrients has significant implications in terms of nutrient acquisition and, in microbial organisms, can affect community composition and metabolic exchange between coexisting species. Here we investigate the origins of vitamin dependence, using an experimental evolution approach with the vitamin B(12)-independent model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In fewer than 500 generations of growth in the presence of vitamin B(12), we observe the evolution of a B(12)-dependent clone that rapidly displaces its ancestor. Genetic characterization of this line reveals a type-II Gulliver-related transposable element integrated into the B(12)-independent methionine synthase gene (METE), knocking out gene function and fundamentally altering the physiology of the alga.
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL, London, UK
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- 1] Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK [2] Marine Biological Association of UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Heal KR, Carlson LT, Devol AH, Armbrust EV, Moffett JW, Stahl DA, Ingalls AE. Determination of four forms of vitamin B12 and other B vitamins in seawater by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2014; 28:2398-2404. [PMID: 25303468 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.7040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2014] [Revised: 09/01/2014] [Accepted: 09/03/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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RATIONALE Vitamin B(12) is an essential nutrient for more than half of surveyed marine algae species, but methods for directly measuring this important cofactor in seawater are limited. Current mass spectrometry methods do not quantify all forms of B(12), potentially missing a significant portion of the B(12) pool. METHODS We present a method to measure vitamins B(1), B(2), B(6), B(7) and four forms of B(12) dissolved in seawater. The method entails solid-phase extraction, separation by ultra-performance liquid chromatography, and detection by triple-quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry using stable-isotope-labeled internal standards. We demonstrated the use of this method in the environment by analyzing B(12) concentrations at different depths in the Hood Canal, part of the Puget Sound estuarine system in Washington State. RESULTS Recovery of vitamin B(12) forms during the preconcentration steps was >71% and the limits of detection were <0.275 pM in seawater. Standard addition calibration curves in three different seawater matrices were used to determine analytical response and to quantify samples from the environment. Hydroxocobalamin was the main form of B(12) in seawater at our field site. CONCLUSIONS We developed a method for quantifying four forms of B(12) in seawater by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry with the option of simultaneous analysis of vitamins B(1), B(2), B(6), and B(7). We validated the method and demonstrated its application in the field.
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- Katherine R Heal
- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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The B vitamins nicotinamide (B3) and riboflavin (B2) stimulate metamorphosis in larvae of the deposit-feeding polychaete Capitella teleta: implications for a sensory ligand-gated ion channel. PLoS One 2014; 9:e109535. [PMID: 25390040 PMCID: PMC4229104 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Accepted: 09/08/2014] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Marine sediments can contain B vitamins, presumably incorporated from settled, decaying phytoplankton and microorganisms associated with decomposition. Because B vitamins may be advantageous for the energetically intensive processes of metamorphosis, post-metamorphic growth, and reproduction, we tested several B vitamins to determine if they would stimulate larvae of the deposit-feeding polychaete Capitella teleta to settle and metamorphose. Nicotinamide and riboflavin individually stimulated larvae of C. teleta to settle and metamorphose, generally within 1–2 hours at nicotinamide concentrations as low as 3 µM and riboflavin concentrations as low as 50 µM. More than 80% of the larvae metamorphosed within 30 minutes at a nicotinamide concentration of 7 µM. The pyridine channel agonist pyrazinecarboxamide also stimulated metamorphosis at very low concentrations. In contrast, neither lumichrome, thiamine HCl, pyridoxine HCl, nor vitamin B12 stimulated larvae of C. teleta to metamorphose at concentrations as high as 500 µM. Larvae also did not metamorphose in response to either nicotinamide or pyrazinecarboxamide in calcium-free seawater or with the addition of 4-acetylpyridine, a competitive inhibitor of the pyridine receptor. Together, these results suggest that larvae of C. teleta are responding to nicotinamide and riboflavin via a chemosensory pyridine receptor similar to that previously reported to be present on crayfish chela and involved with food recognition. Our data are the first to implicate B vitamins as possible natural chemical settlement cues for marine invertebrate larvae.
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The microbial mechanisms and key metabolites that shape the composition of the human gut microbiota are largely unknown, impeding efforts to manipulate dysbiotic microbial communities toward stability and health. Vitamins, which by definition are not synthesized in sufficient quantities by the host and can mediate fundamental biological processes in microbes, represent an attractive target for reshaping microbial communities. Here, we discuss how vitamin B12 (cobalamin) impacts diverse host-microbe symbioses. Although cobalamin is synthesized by some human gut microbes, it is a precious resource in the gut and is likely not provisioned to the host in significant quantities. However, this vitamin may make an unrecognized contribution in shaping the structure and function of human gut microbial communities.
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- Patrick H Degnan
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06516, USA.
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McRose D, Guo J, Monier A, Sudek S, Wilken S, Yan S, Mock T, Archibald JM, Begley TP, Reyes-Prieto A, Worden AZ. Alternatives to vitamin B1 uptake revealed with discovery of riboswitches in multiple marine eukaryotic lineages. ISME JOURNAL 2014; 8:2517-29. [PMID: 25171333 PMCID: PMC4260697 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Revised: 05/30/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Vitamin B1 (thiamine pyrophosphate, TPP) is essential to all life but scarce in ocean surface waters. In many bacteria and a few eukaryotic groups thiamine biosynthesis genes are controlled by metabolite-sensing mRNA-based gene regulators known as riboswitches. Using available genome sequences and transcriptomes generated from ecologically important marine phytoplankton, we identified 31 new eukaryotic riboswitches. These were found in alveolate, cryptophyte, haptophyte and rhizarian phytoplankton as well as taxa from two lineages previously known to have riboswitches (green algae and stramenopiles). The predicted secondary structures bear hallmarks of TPP-sensing riboswitches. Surprisingly, most of the identified riboswitches are affiliated with genes of unknown function, rather than characterized thiamine biosynthesis genes. Using qPCR and growth experiments involving two prasinophyte algae, we show that expression of these genes increases significantly under vitamin B1-deplete conditions relative to controls. Pathway analyses show that several algae harboring the uncharacterized genes lack one or more enzymes in the known TPP biosynthesis pathway. We demonstrate that one such alga, the major primary producer Emiliania huxleyi, grows on 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (a thiamine precursor moiety) alone, although long thought dependent on exogenous sources of thiamine. Thus, overall, we have identified riboswitches in major eukaryotic lineages not known to undergo this form of gene regulation. In these phytoplankton groups, riboswitches are often affiliated with widespread thiamine-responsive genes with as yet uncertain roles in TPP pathways. Further, taxa with ‘incomplete' TPP biosynthesis pathways do not necessarily require exogenous vitamin B1, making vitamin control of phytoplankton blooms more complex than the current paradigm suggests.
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- Darcy McRose
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- 1] Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [2] Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- 1] Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [2] Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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- 1] Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA [2] Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Aquatic metagenomes implicate Thaumarchaeota in global cobalamin production. ISME JOURNAL 2014; 9:461-71. [PMID: 25126756 PMCID: PMC4303638 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2014] [Revised: 07/02/2014] [Accepted: 07/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Cobalamin (vitamin B12) is a complex metabolite and essential cofactor required by many branches of life, including most eukaryotic phytoplankton. Algae and other cobalamin auxotrophs rely on environmental cobalamin supplied from a relatively small set of cobalamin-producing prokaryotic taxa. Although several Bacteria have been implicated in cobalamin biosynthesis and associated with algal symbiosis, the involvement of Archaea in cobalamin production is poorly understood, especially with respect to the Thaumarchaeota. Based on the detection of cobalamin synthesis genes in available thaumarchaeotal genomes, we hypothesized that Thaumarchaeota, which are ubiquitous and abundant in aquatic environments, have an important role in cobalamin biosynthesis within global aquatic ecosystems. To test this hypothesis, we examined cobalamin synthesis genes across sequenced thaumarchaeotal genomes and 430 metagenomes from a diverse range of marine, freshwater and hypersaline environments. Our analysis demonstrates that all available thaumarchaeotal genomes possess cobalamin synthesis genes, predominantly from the anaerobic pathway, suggesting widespread genetic capacity for cobalamin synthesis. Furthermore, although bacterial cobalamin genes dominated most surface marine metagenomes, thaumarchaeotal cobalamin genes dominated metagenomes from polar marine environments, increased with depth in marine water columns, and displayed seasonality, with increased winter abundance observed in time-series datasets (e.g., L4 surface water in the English Channel). Our results also suggest niche partitioning between thaumarchaeotal and cyanobacterial ribosomal and cobalamin synthesis genes across all metagenomic datasets analyzed. These results provide strong evidence for specific biogeographical distributions of thaumarchaeotal cobalamin genes, expanding our understanding of the global biogeochemical roles played by Thaumarchaeota in aquatic environments.
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Carbonetto B, Rascovan N, Álvarez R, Mentaberry A, Vázquez MP. Structure, composition and metagenomic profile of soil microbiomes associated to agricultural land use and tillage systems in Argentine Pampas. PLoS One 2014; 9:e99949. [PMID: 24923965 PMCID: PMC4055693 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Agriculture is facing a major challenge nowadays: to increase crop production for food and energy while preserving ecosystem functioning and soil quality. Argentine Pampas is one of the main world producers of crops and one of the main adopters of conservation agriculture. Changes in soil chemical and physical properties of Pampas soils due to different tillage systems have been deeply studied. Still, not much evidence has been reported on the effects of agricultural practices on Pampas soil microbiomes. The aim of our study was to investigate the effects of agricultural land use on community structure, composition and metabolic profiles on soil microbiomes of Argentine Pampas. We also compared the effects associated to conventional practices with the effects of no-tillage systems. Our results confirmed the impact on microbiome structure and composition due to agricultural practices. The phyla Verrucomicrobia, Plactomycetes, Actinobacteria, and Chloroflexi were more abundant in non cultivated soils while Gemmatimonadetes, Nitrospirae and WS3 were more abundant in cultivated soils. Effects on metabolic metagenomic profiles were also observed. The relative abundance of genes assigned to transcription, protein modification, nucleotide transport and metabolism, wall and membrane biogenesis and intracellular trafficking and secretion were higher in cultivated fertilized soils than in non cultivated soils. We also observed significant differences in microbiome structure and taxonomic composition between soils under conventional and no- tillage systems. Overall, our results suggest that agronomical land use and the type of tillage system have induced microbiomes to shift their life-history strategies. Microbiomes of cultivated fertilized soils (i.e. higher nutrient amendment) presented tendencies to copiotrophy while microbiomes of non cultivated homogenous soils appeared to have a more oligotrophic life-style. Additionally, we propose that conventional tillage systems may promote copiotrophy more than no-tillage systems by decreasing soil organic matter stability and therefore increasing nutrient availability.
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- Belén Carbonetto
- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología de Rosario (INDEAR), Predio CCT Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
- * E-mail: (MPV); (BC)
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología de Rosario (INDEAR), Predio CCT Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Fisiología y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología de Rosario (INDEAR), Predio CCT Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
- * E-mail: (MPV); (BC)
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Beier S, Rivers AR, Moran MA, Obernosterer I. The transcriptional response of prokaryotes to phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic matter in seawater. Environ Microbiol 2014; 17:3466-80. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2013] [Accepted: 02/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Sara Beier
- UPMC University Paris 06; UMR 7621, LOMIC, UMS 2348, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls/mer F-66650 France
- CNRS; UMR 7621, LOMIC, Observatoire Océanologique Banyuls/mer F-66650 France
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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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- UPMC University Paris 06; UMR 7621, LOMIC, UMS 2348, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls/mer F-66650 France
- CNRS; UMR 7621, LOMIC, Observatoire Océanologique Banyuls/mer F-66650 France
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Hahnke RL, Bennke CM, Fuchs BM, Mann AJ, Rhiel E, Teeling H, Amann R, Harder J. Dilution cultivation of marine heterotrophic bacteria abundant after a spring phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea. Environ Microbiol 2014; 17:3515-26. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Richard L. Hahnke
- Department of Microbiology; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Bremen Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Bremen Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Bremen Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Bremen Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM); Carl-von-Ossietzky-University; Oldenburg Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Bremen Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Bremen Germany
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- Department of Microbiology; Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Bremen Germany
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Helliwell KE, Scaife MA, Sasso S, Araujo APU, Purton S, Smith AG. Unraveling vitamin B12-responsive gene regulation in algae. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 165:388-97. [PMID: 24627342 PMCID: PMC4012597 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.234369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Photosynthetic microalgae play a vital role in primary productivity and biogeochemical cycling in both marine and freshwater systems across the globe. However, the growth of these cosmopolitan organisms depends on the bioavailability of nutrients such as vitamins. Approximately one-half of all microalgal species requires vitamin B12 as a growth supplement. The major determinant of algal B12 requirements is defined by the isoform of methionine synthase possessed by an alga, such that the presence of the B12-independent methionine synthase (METE) enables growth without this vitamin. Moreover, the widespread but phylogenetically unrelated distribution of B12 auxotrophy across the algal lineages suggests that the METE gene has been lost multiple times in evolution. Given that METE expression is repressed by the presence of B12, prolonged repression by a reliable source of the vitamin could lead to the accumulation of mutations and eventually gene loss. Here, we probe METE gene regulation by B12 and methionine/folate cycle metabolites in both marine and freshwater microalgal species. In addition, we identify a B12-responsive element of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii METE using a reporter gene approach. We show that complete repression of the reporter occurs via a region spanning -574 to -90 bp upstream of the METE start codon. A proteomics study reveals that two other genes (S-Adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase and Serine hydroxymethyltransferase2) involved in the methionine-folate cycle are also repressed by B12 in C. reinhardtii. The strong repressible nature and high sensitivity of the B12-responsive element has promising biotechnological applications as a cost-effective regulatory gene expression tool.
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Discovery of a SAR11 growth requirement for thiamin's pyrimidine precursor and its distribution in the Sargasso Sea. ISME JOURNAL 2014; 8:1727-38. [PMID: 24781899 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2013] [Revised: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Vitamin traffic, the production of organic growth factors by some microbial community members and their use by other taxa, is being scrutinized as a potential explanation for the variation and highly connected behavior observed in ocean plankton by community network analysis. Thiamin (vitamin B1), a cofactor in many essential biochemical reactions that modify carbon-carbon bonds of organic compounds, is distributed in complex patterns at subpicomolar concentrations in the marine surface layer (0-300 m). Sequenced genomes from organisms belonging to the abundant and ubiquitous SAR11 clade of marine chemoheterotrophic bacteria contain genes coding for a complete thiamin biosynthetic pathway, except for thiC, encoding the 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (HMP) synthase, which is required for de novo synthesis of thiamin's pyrimidine moiety. Here we demonstrate that the SAR11 isolate 'Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique', strain HTCC1062, is auxotrophic for the thiamin precursor HMP, and cannot use exogenous thiamin for growth. In culture, strain HTCC1062 required 0.7 zeptomoles per cell (ca. 400 HMP molecules per cell). Measurements of dissolved HMP in the Sargasso Sea surface layer showed that HMP ranged from undetectable (detection limit: 2.4 pM) to 35.7 pM, with maximum concentrations coincident with the deep chlorophyll maximum. In culture, some marine cyanobacteria, microalgae and bacteria exuded HMP, and in the Western Sargasso Sea, HMP profiles changed between the morning and evening, suggesting a dynamic biological flux from producers to consumers.
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Direct exchange of vitamin B12 is demonstrated by modelling the growth dynamics of algal-bacterial cocultures. ISME JOURNAL 2014; 8:1418-27. [PMID: 24522262 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Revised: 12/22/2013] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The growth dynamics of populations of interacting species in the aquatic environment is of great importance, both for understanding natural ecosystems and in efforts to cultivate these organisms for industrial purposes. Here we consider a simple two-species system wherein the bacterium Mesorhizobium loti supplies vitamin B12 (cobalamin) to the freshwater green alga Lobomonas rostrata, which requires this organic micronutrient for growth. In return, the bacterium receives photosynthate from the alga. Mathematical models are developed that describe minimally the interdependence between the two organisms, and that fit the experimental observations of the consortium. These models enable us to distinguish between different mechanisms of nutrient exchange between the organisms, and provide strong evidence that, rather than undergoing simple lysis and release of nutrients into the medium, M. loti regulates the levels of cobalamin it produces, resulting in a true mutualism with L. rostrata. Over half of all microalgae are dependent on an exogenous source of cobalamin for growth, and this vitamin is synthesised only by bacteria; it is very likely that similar symbiotic interactions underpin algal productivity more generally.
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Noble AE, Moran DM, Allen AE, Saito MA. Dissolved and particulate trace metal micronutrients under the McMurdo Sound seasonal sea ice: basal sea ice communities as a capacitor for iron. Front Chem 2013; 1:25. [PMID: 24790953 PMCID: PMC3982526 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2013.00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Dissolved and particulate metal concentrations are reported from three sites beneath and at the base of the McMurdo Sound seasonal sea ice in the Ross Sea of Antarctica. This dataset provided insight into Co and Mn biogeochemistry, supporting a previous hypothesis for water column mixing occurring faster than scavenging. Three observations support this: first, Mn-containing particles with Mn/Al ratios in excess of the sediment were present in the water column, implying the presence of bacterial Mn-oxidation processes. Second, dissolved and labile Co were uniform with depth beneath the sea ice after the winter season. Third, dissolved Co:PO(3-) 4 ratios were consistent with previously observed Ross Sea stoichiometry, implying that over-winter scavenging was slow relative to mixing. Abundant dissolved Fe and Mn were consistent with a winter reserve concept, and particulate Al, Fe, Mn, and Co covaried, implying that these metals behaved similarly. Elevated particulate metals were observed in proximity to the nearby Islands, with particulate Fe/Al ratios similar to that of nearby sediment, consistent with a sediment resuspension source. Dissolved and particulate metals were elevated at the shallowest depths (particularly Fe) with elevated particulate P/Al and Fe/Al ratios in excess of sediments, demonstrating a sea ice biomass source. The sea ice biomass was extremely dense (chl a >9500 μg/L) and contained high abundances of particulate metals with elevated metal/Al ratios. A hypothesis for seasonal accumulation of bioactive metals at the base of the McMurdo Sound sea ice by the basal algal community is presented, analogous to a capacitor that accumulates iron during the spring and early summer. The release and transport of particulate metals accumulated at the base of the sea ice by sloughing is discussed as a potentially important mechanism in providing iron nutrition during polynya phytoplankton bloom formation and could be examined in future oceanographic expeditions.
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- Abigail E. Noble
- Stanley Watson Biogeochemistry Laboratory, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWoods Hole, MA, USA
- Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA, USA
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- Stanley Watson Biogeochemistry Laboratory, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWoods Hole, MA, USA
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- Microbial and Environmental Genomics Group, J. Craig Venter InstituteSan Diego, CA, USA
- Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, CA, USA
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- Stanley Watson Biogeochemistry Laboratory, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWoods Hole, MA, USA
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Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA, Gómez-Consarnau L, Suffridge C, Webb EA. The role of B vitamins in marine biogeochemistry. ANNUAL REVIEW OF MARINE SCIENCE 2013; 6:339-367. [PMID: 24050603 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-120710-100912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The soluble B vitamins (B1, B7, and B12) have long been recognized as playing a central metabolic role in marine phytoplankton and bacteria; however, the importance of these organic external metabolites in marine ecology has been largely disregarded, as most research has focused on inorganic nutrients and trace metals. Using recently available genomic data combined with culture-based surveys of vitamin auxotrophy (i.e., vitamin requirements), we show that this auxotrophy is widespread in the marine environment and occurs in both autotrophs and heterotrophs residing in oligotrophic and eutrophic environments. Our analysis shows that vitamins originate from the activities of some bacteria and algae and that taxonomic changes observed in marine phytoplankton communities could be the result of their specific vitamin requirements and/or vitamin availability. Dissolved vitamin concentration measurements show that large areas of the world ocean are devoid of B vitamins, suggesting that vitamin limitation could be important for the efficiency of carbon and nitrogen fixation in those regions.
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Bonnet S, Tovar-Sánchez A, Panzeca C, Duarte CM, Ortega-Retuerta E, Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA. Geographical gradients of dissolved Vitamin B12 in the Mediterranean Sea. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:126. [PMID: 23772225 PMCID: PMC3677149 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2012] [Accepted: 05/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Most eukaryotic phytoplankton require vitamin B12 to grow. However, the cycling of this organic growth factor has received substantially less attention than other bioactive substances such as trace metals in the marine environment. This is especially true in the Mediterranean Sea, where direct measurements of dissolved vitamins have never been reported. We report here the first direct measurements of dissolved vitamin B12 across longitudinal gradients in Mediterranean waters. The range of vitamin B12 concentrations measured over the whole transect was 0.5-6.2 pM, which is slightly higher than the range (undetectable-4 pM) of ambient concentrations measured in other open ocean basins in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The concentrations measured in the western basin were significantly higher (p < 0.05) than those of the eastern basin. They were positively correlated with chlorophyll concentrations in the most western part of the basin, and did not show any significant correlation with any other biological variables in other regions of the sampling transect.
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- S. Bonnet
- IRD, MIO, UM 110 - IRD Centre of Noumea, Aix-Marseille University, University of South Toulon Var, CNRS/INSUNoumea, New Caledonia, France
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- Department of Global Change Research, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios AvanzadosEsporles Balearic Islands, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Global Change Research, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios AvanzadosEsporles Balearic Islands, Spain
- The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western AustraliaCrawley, WA, Australia
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- Departament Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSICBarcelona, Spain
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- Departament Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSICBarcelona, Spain
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii thermal tolerance enhancement mediated by a mutualistic interaction with vitamin B12-producing bacteria. ISME JOURNAL 2013; 7:1544-55. [PMID: 23486253 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2012] [Revised: 02/06/2013] [Accepted: 02/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Temperature is one of the most important environmental factors affecting the growth and survival of microorganisms and in light of current global patterns is of particular interest. Here, we highlight studies revealing how vitamin B12 (cobalamin)-producing bacteria increase the fitness of the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii following an increase in environmental temperature. Heat stress represses C. reinhardtii cobalamin-independent methionine synthase (METE) gene expression coinciding with a reduction in METE-mediated methionine synthase activity, chlorosis and cell death during heat stress. However, in the presence of cobalamin-producing bacteria or exogenous cobalamin amendments C. reinhardtii cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase METH-mediated methionine biosynthesis is functional at temperatures that result in C. reinhardtii death in the absence of cobalamin. Artificial microRNA silencing of C. reinhardtii METH expression leads to nearly complete loss of cobalamin-mediated enhancement of thermal tolerance. This suggests that methionine biosynthesis is an essential cellular mechanism for adaptation by C. reinhardtii to thermal stress. Increased fitness advantage of METH under environmentally stressful conditions could explain the selective pressure for retaining the METH gene in algae and the apparent independent loss of the METE gene in various algal species. Our results show that how an organism acclimates to a change in its abiotic environment depends critically on co-occurring species, the nature of that interaction, and how those species interactions evolve.
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Barada LP, Cutter L, Montoya JP, Webb EA, Capone DG, Sañudo-Wilhelmy SA. The distribution of thiamin and pyridoxine in the western tropical North Atlantic Amazon River plume. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:25. [PMID: 23471170 PMCID: PMC3590742 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2012] [Accepted: 01/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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B-vitamins are recognized as essential organic growth factors for many organisms, although little is known about their abundance and distribution in marine ecosystems. Despite their metabolic functions regulating important enzymatic reactions, the methodology to directly measure different B-vitamins in aquatic environments has only recently been developed. Here, we present the first direct measurements of two B-vitamins, thiamin (B1), and pyridoxine (B6), in the Amazon River plume-influenced western tropical North Atlantic (WTNA) Ocean, an area known to have high productivity, carbon (C) and dinitrogen (N2) fixation, and C sequestration. The vitamins B1 and B6 ranged in concentrations from undetectable to 230 and 40 pM, respectively. Significantly higher concentrations were measured in the surface plume water at some stations and variation with salinity was observed, suggesting a possible riverine influence on those B-vitamins. The influences of vitamins B1 and B6 on biogeochemical processes such as C and N2 fixation were investigated using a linear regression model that indicated the availability of those organic factors could affect these rates in the WTNA. In fact, significant increases in C fixation and N2 fixation were observed with increasing vitamin B1 concentrations at some low and mesohaline stations (stations 9.1 and 1; p value <0.017 and <0.03, respectively). N2 fixation was also found to have a significant positive correlation with B1 concentrations at station 1 (p value 0.029), as well as vitamin B6 at station 9.1 (p value <0.017). This work suggests that there can be a dynamic interplay between essential biogeochemical rates (C and N2 fixation) and B-vitamins, drawing attention to potential roles of B-vitamins in ecosystem dynamics, community structure, and global biogeochemistry.
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- Laila P Barada
- Marine Environmental Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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