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Liu X, Zhang Y, Sun H, Tan S, Zhang XH. Highly active bacterial DMSP metabolism in the surface microlayer of the eastern China marginal seas. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1135083. [PMID: 37032870 PMCID: PMC10076866 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1135083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023] Open
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The microbial cycling of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and the resulting gaseous catabolites dimethylsulfide (DMS) or methylmercaptan (MeSH) play key roles in the global sulfur cycle and potentially climate regulation. As the ocean-atmosphere boundary, the sea surface microlayer (SML) is important for the generation and emission of DMS and MeSH. However, understanding of the microbial DMSP metabolism remains limited in the SML. Here, we studied the spatiotemporal differences for DMS/DMSP, bacterial community structure and the key bacterial DMSP metabolic genes between SML and subsurface seawater (SSW) samples in the eastern China marginal seas (the East China Sea and Yellow Sea). In general, DMSPd and DMSPt concentrations, and the abundance of total, free-living and particle-associated bacteria were higher in SML than that in SSW. DMSP synthesis (~7.81-fold for dsyB, ~2.93-fold for mmtN) and degradation genes (~5.38-fold for dmdA, ~6.27-fold for dddP) detected in SML were more abundant compared with SSW samples. Free-living bacteria were the main DMSP producers and consumers in eastern Chinese marginal sea. Regionally, the bacterial community structure was distinct between the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. The abundance of DMSP metabolic genes (dsyB, dmdA, and dddP) and genera in the East China Sea were higher than those of the Yellow Sea. Seasonally, DMSP/DMS level and DMSP metabolic genes and bacteria were more abundant in SML of the East China Sea in summer than in spring. Different from those in spring, Ruegeria was the dominant DMSP metabolic bacteria. In conclusion, the DMSP synthesis and degradation showed significant spatiotemporal differences in the SML of the eastern China marginal seas, and were consistently more active in the SML than in the SSW.
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- Xiujie Liu
- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, China
- Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, China
- Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- *Correspondence: Xiao-Hua Zhang,
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Sun H, Liu J, Tan S, Zheng Y, Wang X, Liang J, Todd JD, Zhang XH. Spatiotemporal distribution of bacterial dimethylsulfoniopropionate producing and catabolic genes in the Changjiang Estuary. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:7073-7092. [PMID: 34693622 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 09/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The osmolyte dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is produced in petagram amounts by marine microorganisms. Estuaries provide natural gradients in salinity and nutrients, factors known to regulate DMSP production; yet there have been no molecular studies of DMSP production and cycling across these gradients. Here, we study the abundance, distribution and transcription of key DMSP synthesis (e.g. dsyB and mmtN) and catabolic (e.g. dddP and dmdA) genes along the salinity gradient of the Changjiang Estuary. DMSP levels did not correlate with Chl a across the salinity gradient. In contrast, DMSP concentration, abundance of bacterial DMSP producers and their dsyB and mmtN transcripts were lowest in the freshwater samples and increased abruptly with salinity in the transitional and seawater samples. Metagenomics analysis suggests bacterial DMSP-producers were more abundant than their algal equivalents and were more prominent in summer than winter samples. Bacterial DMSP catabolic genes and their transcripts followed the same trend of being greatly enhanced in transitional and seawater samples with higher DMSP levels than freshwater samples. DMSP cleavage was likely the dominant catabolic pathway, with DMSP lyase genes being ~4.3-fold more abundant than the demethylase gene dmdA. This is an exemplar study for future research on microbial DMSP cycling in estuary environments.
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- Hao Sun
- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China.,Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266071, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR47TJ, UK
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China.,Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266071, China.,Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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Sun H, Zhang Y, Tan S, Zheng Y, Zhou S, Ma QY, Yang GP, Todd JD, Zhang XH. DMSP-Producing Bacteria Are More Abundant in the Surface Microlayer than Subsurface Seawater of the East China Sea. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2020; 80:350-365. [PMID: 32335713 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-020-01507-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Microbial production and catabolism of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), generating the climatically active gases dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and methanethiol (MeSH), have key roles in global carbon and sulfur cycling, chemotaxis, and atmospheric chemistry. Microorganisms in the sea surface microlayer (SML), the interface between seawater and atmosphere, likely play an important role in the generation of DMS and MeSH and their exchange to the atmosphere, but little is known about these SML microorganisms. Here, we investigated the differences between bacterial community structure and the distribution and transcription profiles of the key bacterial DMSP synthesis (dsyB and mmtN) and catabolic (dmdA and dddP) genes in East China Sea SML and subsurface seawater (SSW) samples. Per equivalent volume, bacteria were far more abundant (~ 7.5-fold) in SML than SSW, as were those genera predicted to produce DMSP. Indeed, dsyB (~ 7-fold) and mmtN (~ 4-fold), robust reporters for bacterial DMSP production, were also far more abundant in SML than SSW. In addition, the SML had higher dsyB transcripts (~ 3-fold) than SSW samples, which may contribute to the significantly higher DMSP level observed in SML compared with SSW. Furthermore, the abundance of bacteria with dmdA and their transcription were higher in SML than SSW samples. Bacteria with dddP and transcripts were also prominent, but less than dmdA and presented at similar levels in both layers. These data indicate that the SML might be an important hotspot for bacterial DMSP production as well as generating the climatically active gases DMS and MeSH, a portion of which are likely transferred to the atmosphere.
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- Hao Sun
- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education/Institute for Advanced Ocean Study, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
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- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education/Institute for Advanced Ocean Study, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
- Institute of Marine Chemistry, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China.
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China.
- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China.
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Gwinn JK, Robertson A, Kiene RP. Effect of Salinity on DMSP Production in Gambierdiscus belizeanus (Dinophyceae). JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2019; 55:1401-1411. [PMID: 31523812 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is produced by many species of marine phytoplankton and has been reported to provide a variety of beneficial functions including osmoregulation. Dinoflagellates are recognized as major DMSP producers; however, accumulation has been shown to be highly variable in this group. We explored the effect of hyposaline transfer in Gambierdiscus belizeanus between ecologically relevant salinities (36 and 31) on DMSP accumulation, Chl a, cell growth, and cell volume, over 12 d. Our results showed that G. belizeanus maintained an intracellular DMSP content of 16.3 pmol cell-1 and concentration of 139 mM in both salinities. Although this intracellular concentration was near the median reported for other dinoflagellates, the cellular content achieved by G. belizeanus was the highest reported of any dinoflagellate thus far, owing mainly to its large size. DMSP levels were not significantly affected by salinity treatment but did change over time during the experiment. Salinity, however, did have a significant effect on the ratio of DMSP:Chl a, suggesting that salinity transfer of G. belizeanus induced a physiological response other than DMSP adjustment. A survey of DMSP content in a variety of Gambierdiscus species and strains revealed relatively high DMSP concentrations (1.0-16.4 pmol cell-1 ) as well as high intrageneric and intraspecific variation. We conclude that, although DMSP may not be involved in long-term (3-12 d) osmoregulation in this species, G. belizeanus and other Gambierdiscus species may be important contributors to DMSP production in tropical benthic microalgal communities due to their large size and high cellular content.
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- Jessica K Gwinn
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, 36688, USA
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama, 36528, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, 36688, USA
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama, 36528, USA
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, 36688, USA
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama, 36528, USA
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van Ginneken V. Some Mechanism Seaweeds Employ to Cope with Salinity Stress in the Harsh Euhaline Oceanic Environment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.4236/ajps.2018.96089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Aguilar C, Raina JB, Motti CA, Fôret S, Hayward DC, Lapeyre B, Bourne DG, Miller DJ. Transcriptomic analysis of the response of Acropora millepora to hypo-osmotic stress provides insights into DMSP biosynthesis by corals. BMC Genomics 2017; 18:612. [PMID: 28806970 PMCID: PMC5557254 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-3959-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is a small sulphur compound which is produced in prodigious amounts in the oceans and plays a pivotal role in the marine sulfur cycle. Until recently, DMSP was believed to be synthesized exclusively by photosynthetic organisms; however we now know that corals and specific bacteria can also produce this compound. Corals are major sources of DMSP, but the molecular basis for its biosynthesis is unknown in these organisms. RESULTS Here we used salinity stress, which is known to trigger DMSP production in other organisms, in conjunction with transcriptomics to identify coral genes likely to be involved in DMSP biosynthesis. We focused specifically on both adults and juveniles of the coral Acropora millepora: after 24 h of exposure to hyposaline conditions, DMSP concentrations increased significantly by 2.6 fold in adult corals and 1.2 fold in juveniles. Concomitantly, candidate genes enabling each of the necessary steps leading to DMSP production were up-regulated. CONCLUSIONS The data presented strongly suggest that corals use an algal-like pathway to generate DMSP from methionine, and are able to rapidly change expression of the corresponding genes in response to environmental stress. However, our data also indicate that DMSP is unlikely to function primarily as an osmolyte in corals, instead potentially serving as a scavenger of ROS and as a molecular sink for excess methionine produced as a consequence of proteolysis and osmolyte catabolism in corals under hypo-osmotic conditions.
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- Catalina Aguilar
- AIMS@JCU, and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Queensland, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Queensland, Australia
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- Climate Change Cluster (C3), Faculty of Science, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 4810, Queensland, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Queensland, Australia.,Evolution and Ecology, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Evolution and Ecology, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Laboratoire d'excellence CORAIL, Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement (CRIOBE), Moorea, B.P. 1013, Papeete, French Polynesia
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- AIMS@JCU, and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Queensland, Australia. .,Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 4810, Queensland, Australia. .,College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Queensland, Australia.
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- AIMS@JCU, and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Queensland, Australia. .,ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Queensland, Australia.
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Rousseau H, Rousseau-Gueutin M, Dauvergne X, Boutte J, Simon G, Marnet N, Bouchereau A, Guiheneuf S, Bazureau JP, Morice J, Ravanel S, Cabello-Hurtado F, Ainouche A, Salmon A, Wendel JF, Ainouche ML. Evolution of DMSP (dimethylsulfoniopropionate) biosynthesis pathway: Origin and phylogenetic distribution in polyploid Spartina (Poaceae, Chloridoideae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2017; 114:401-414. [PMID: 28694102 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Revised: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 07/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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DMSP (dimethylsulfoniopropionate) is an ecologically important sulfur metabolite commonly produced by marine algae and by some higher plant lineages, including the polyploid salt marsh genus Spartina (Poaceae). The molecular mechanisms and genes involved in the DMSP biosynthesis pathways are still unknown. In this study, we performed comparative analyses of DMSP amounts and molecular phylogenetic analyses to decipher the origin of DMSP in Spartina that represents one of the major source of terrestrial DMSP in coastal marshes. DMSP content was explored in 14 Spartina species using 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (UPLC-MS). Putative genes encoding the four enzymatic steps of the DMSP biosynthesis pathway in Spartina were examined and their evolutionary dynamics were studied. We found that the hexaploid lineage containing S. alterniflora, S. foliosa and S. maritima and their derived hybrids and allopolyploids are all able to produce DMSP, in contrast to species in the tetraploid clade. Thus, examination of DMSP synthesis in a phylogenetic context implicated a single origin of this physiological innovation, which occurred in the ancestor of the hexaploid Spartina lineage, 3-6MYA. Candidate genes specific to the Spartina DMSP biosynthesis pathway were also retrieved from Spartina transcriptomes, and provide a framework for future investigations to decipher the molecular mechanisms involved in this plant phenotypic novelty that has major ecological impacts in saltmarsh ecosystems.
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- Hélène Rousseau
- UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35 042 Rennes Cedex, France
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- UMR IGEPP, INRA, Agrocampus Ouest, Université de Rennes 1, BP35327, F-35653 Le Rheu Cedex, France
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- EA 2219 Géoarchitecture, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 6 av. le Gorgeu - CS93837, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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- UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35 042 Rennes Cedex, France
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- Plateforme technologique de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire, Résonance Paramagnétique Electronique et Spectrométrie de Masse, 6, av. Victor Le Gorgeu, CS93837, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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- Plateau de Profilage Métabolique et Métabolomique (P2M2), Centre de Recherche Angers Nantes BIA, INRA de Rennes, F-35653 Le Rheu, France
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- UMR IGEPP, INRA, Agrocampus Ouest, Université de Rennes 1, BP35327, F-35653 Le Rheu Cedex, France
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- UMR CNRS 6226, Groupe Ingénierie Chimique & Molécules pour le Vivant (ICMV), Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
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- UMR CNRS 6226, Groupe Ingénierie Chimique & Molécules pour le Vivant (ICMV), Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
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- UMR IGEPP, INRA, Agrocampus Ouest, Université de Rennes 1, BP35327, F-35653 Le Rheu Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale, UMR 5168 CNRS-CEA-UMR 1417 INRA-Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35 042 Rennes Cedex, France
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- UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35 042 Rennes Cedex, France
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- UMR CNRS 6553 Ecobio, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35 042 Rennes Cedex, France.
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Kettles NL, Kopriva S, Malin G. Insights into the regulation of DMSP synthesis in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana through APR activity, proteomics and gene expression analyses on cells acclimating to changes in salinity, light and nitrogen. PLoS One 2014; 9:e94795. [PMID: 24733415 PMCID: PMC3986220 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2013] [Accepted: 03/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Despite the importance of dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) in the global sulphur cycle and climate regulation, the biological pathways underpinning its synthesis in marine phytoplankton remain poorly understood. The intracellular concentration of DMSP increases with increased salinity, increased light intensity and nitrogen starvation in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. We used these conditions to investigate DMSP synthesis at the cellular level via analysis of enzyme activity, gene expression and proteome comparison. The activity of the key sulphur assimilatory enzyme, adenosine 5′-phosphosulphate reductase was not coordinated with increasing intracellular DMSP concentration. Under all three treatments coordination in the expression of sulphur assimilation genes was limited to increases in sulphite reductase transcripts. Similarly, proteomic 2D gel analysis only revealed an increase in phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase following increases in DMSP concentration. Our findings suggest that increased sulphur assimilation might not be required for increased DMSP synthesis, instead the availability of carbon and nitrogen substrates may be important in the regulation of this pathway. This contrasts with the regulation of sulphur metabolism in higher plants, which generally involves up-regulation of several sulphur assimilatory enzymes. In T. pseudonana changes relating to sulphur metabolism were specific to the individual treatments and, given that little coordination was seen in transcript and protein responses across the three growth conditions, different patterns of regulation might be responsible for the increase in DMSP concentration seen under each treatment.
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- Nicola Louise Kettles
- Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
- John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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Tassi F, Capecchiacci F, Giannini L, Vougioukalakis GE, Vaselli O. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air from Nisyros Island (Dodecanese Archipelago, Greece): Natural versus anthropogenic sources. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2013; 180:111-121. [PMID: 23747819 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2013] [Revised: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 05/04/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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This study presents the chemical composition of VOCs in air and gas discharges collected at Nisyros Island (Dodecanese Archipelago, Greece). The main goals are i) to discriminate between natural and anthropogenic VOC sources and ii) to evaluate their impact on local air quality. Up to 63 different VOCs were recognized and quantitatively determined in 6 fumaroles and 19 air samples collected in the Lakki caldera, where fumarolic emissions are located, and the outer ring of the island, including the Mandraki village and the main harbor. Air samples from the crater area show significant concentrations of alkanes, alkenes, cyclic, aromatics, and S- and O-bearing heterocycles directly deriving from the hydrothermal system, as well as secondary O-bearing compounds from oxidation of primary VOCs. At Mandraki village, C6H6/Σ(methylated aromatics) and Σ(linear)/Σ(branched) alkanes ratios <1 allow to distinguish an anthropogenic source related to emissions from outlet pipes of touristic and private boats and buses.
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- F Tassi
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Via La Pira 4, 50121 Florence, Italy.
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Toda K, Kuwahara H, Ohira SI. On-site measurement of trace-level sulfide in natural waters by vapor generation and microchannel collection. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2011; 45:5622-5628. [PMID: 21671649 DOI: 10.1021/es2006226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Aqueous sulfide plays an important role in the environment even at low concentrations. However, it is unstable, which means field samples cannot be transported to the laboratory for analysis without fixation. In this work, a novel method was developed to determine trace levels of sulfide on site. This method is based on vapor generation and collection in a special microchannel device followed by fluorescence measurement (VG-μGAS). The microchannel scrubber gave a high enrichment factor, and a high sensitivity was achieved, which allowed measurement of nanomolar (nM) levels of sulfide. The theoretical approach to vapor generation for several compounds is discussed to evaluate the applicability of the method to these analytes, and compounds having a low Henry's law constant (<1 M atm(-1)) are suitable to measure by VG-μGAS. Under optimized conditions, concentrations of 1.0-100 nM of sulfide could be measured. The sulfide contents of hot spring, aquarium, pond, and seawater were successfully measured by this method. Nanomolar levels of sulfide could be measured on site without loss of analyte, and results were obtained instantly in the field, both of which are advantageous for effective field surveys. The method was also applied to field measurements of aqueous sulfide in the Ariake Sea and Lake Baikal.
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- Kei Toda
- Department of Chemistry, Kumamoto University, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan.
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Ichihara K, Mineur F, Shimada S. ISOLATION AND TEMPORAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF FRESHWATER-INDUCED GENES IN ULVA LIMNETICA (ULVALES, CHLOROPHYTA) 1. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 2011; 47:584-590. [PMID: 27021988 DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2011.01001.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The macroalga Ulva limnetica K. Ichihara et S. Shimada is the only known Ulva species to be distributed exclusively in freshwater and is restricted to freshwater bodies in the Ryuku archipelago. Molecular phylogenetic analysis suggests that U. limnetica originally evolved from marine forms of Ulva. The mechanisms of adaptation to freshwater in Ulva spp. are poorly understood. In this study, we isolated genes potentially involved in adaptation or tolerance to freshwater conditions in U. limnetica, using suppression subtractive hybridization between mRNAs of samples cultured in freshwater and seawater conditions. A total of 219 genes, up-regulated by the exposure of the macroalga to freshwater, were isolated. Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) revealed 39 clones, including malate dehydrogenase, soluble starch synthase, triosephosphate isomerase, plastid ribosomal protein, DnaJ-like protein, and chloroplast ascorbate peroxidase (APX), which were specifically or preferentially expressed in freshwater conditions. These 39 clones were also analyzed for their temporal transcriptional response to freshwater conditions. A large majority of these up-regulated genes showed a transient peak of expression after 1-4 h, followed in the next 24 h by a decrease to a stable level (over the 7 d of the experiment). After the initial response peak, the level of expression either remained higher than in the control (long-term response) or returned to a level similar to pretreatment level. A few genes showed a more delayed response (i.e., after several days) to freshwater exposure. Finally, we discussed the possible contributions of the freshwater-induced genes in the acquisition of freshwater adaptation or tolerance of U. limnetica.
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- Kensuke Ichihara
- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, JapanSchool of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UKDivision of the Natural/Applied Sciences, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
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- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, JapanSchool of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UKDivision of the Natural/Applied Sciences, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
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- Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, JapanSchool of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UKDivision of the Natural/Applied Sciences, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
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Welsh D, Viaroli P, Hamilton W, Lenton T. Is DMSP synthesis in chlorophycean macro-algae linked to aerial dispersal? ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1999.9522827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- D.T. Welsh
- a Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali , Università degli Studi di Parma , Viale delle Scienze, I-43100 , Parma , Italy
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- a Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali , Università degli Studi di Parma , Viale delle Scienze, I-43100 , Parma , Italy
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- b Department of Zoology , University of Oxford , South Parks Road, Oxford , OX1 3PS , U.K
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- c Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Edinburgh Research Station, Bush Estate, Penicuick , Midlothian , EH26 0QB , Scotland
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This review describes volatiles released into the air by bacteria growing on defined media. Their occurrence, function, and biosynthesis are discussed, and a total of 308 references are cited. An effort has been made to organize the compounds according to their biosynthetic origin.
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- Stefan Schulz
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany.
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Chudek J, Foster R, Moore D, Reed R. Identification and quantification of Methylated Osmolytes in algae using Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1080/00071618700650201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Diversity of Organic Osmotic Compounds and Osmotic Adaptation in Cyanobacteria and Algae. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6112-7_35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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Misheer N, Kindness A, Jonnalagadda SB. Seaweeds along KwaZulu-Natal coast of South Africa-3: elemental uptake by Ulva lactuca (Sea lettuce). JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART A, TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2006; 41:1249-59. [PMID: 16760099 DOI: 10.1080/10934520600623158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The elemental uptake by Ulva lactuca (Sea lettuce), a marine macro-algae (chlorophyta, green alga) grown richly along KwaZulu-Natal coastline. The total elemental concentrations of seven important elements, namely manganese, iron, arsenic, boron, titanium, zinc and mercury, selected based on their abundance in U. lactuca were investigated for one year cycle (June 2002 to May 2003). The four selected sampling sites, Zinkwasi, Ballito, Treasure Beach and Park Ryrie are spread over 150 km wide along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline from North to South. The Ulva lectuca possess good manganese and arsenic accumulating ability and an excellent bio-indicator for most of the metals studied. A typical U. lectuca sample at Zinkwasi (in winter) recorded Mn (25.3 +/- 1.16 ppm), Fe (21.0 +/- 0.85 ppm), As (6.2 +/- 0.30 ppm), B (935 +/- 14 ppb), Ti (863 +/- 34 ppb), Zn (421 +/- 21 ppb), and Hg (61.3 +/- 1.2 ppb). The general trend found at all sites was high elemental concentrations in winter and a decrease in concentrations from winter to spring and summer. Iron uptake was lowest in summer and autumn at all sites. Ulva lactuca recorded highest mercury levels (>400 ppb) during the spring season at the Treasure Beach site near Durban.
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- Natasha Misheer
- School of Chemistry, Westville Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Yoch DC. Dimethylsulfoniopropionate: its sources, role in the marine food web, and biological degradation to dimethylsulfide. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:5804-15. [PMID: 12450799 PMCID: PMC134419 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.12.5804-5815.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Duane C Yoch
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208, USA.
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Ansede JH, Pellechia PJ, Yoch DC. Nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of [1-13C]dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and [1-13C]acrylate metabolism by a DMSP lyase-producing marine isolate of the alpha-subclass of Proteobacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 2001; 67:3134-9. [PMID: 11425733 PMCID: PMC92992 DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.7.3134-3139.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The prominence of the alpha-subclass of Proteobacteria in the marine bacterioplankton community and their role in dimethylsulfide (DMS) production has prompted a detailed examination of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) metabolism in a representative isolate of this phylotype, strain LFR. [1-(13)C]DMSP was synthesized, and its metabolism and that of its cleavage product, [1-(13)C]acrylate, were studied using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. [1-(13)C]DMSP additions resulted in the intracellular accumulation and then disappearance of both [1-(13)C]DMSP and [1-(13)C]beta-hydroxypropionate ([1-(13)C]beta-HP), a degradation product. Acrylate, the immediate product of DMSP cleavage, apparently did not accumulate to high enough levels to be detected, suggesting that it was rapidly beta-hydroxylated upon formation. When [1-(13)C]acrylate was added to cell suspensions of strain LFR it was metabolized to [1-(13)C]beta-HP extracellularly, where it first accumulated and was then taken up in the cytosol where it subsequently disappeared, indicating that it was directly decarboxylated. These results were interpreted to mean that DMSP was taken up and metabolized by an intracellular DMSP lyase and acrylase, while added acrylate was beta-hydroxylated on (or near) the cell surface to beta-HP, which accumulated briefly and was then taken up by cells. Growth on acrylate (versus that on glucose) stimulated the rate of acrylate metabolism eightfold, indicating that it acted as an inducer of acrylase activity. DMSP, acrylate, and beta-HP all induced DMSP lyase activity. A putative model is presented that best fits the experimental data regarding the pathway of DMSP and acrylate metabolism in the alpha-proteobacterium, strain LFR.
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- J H Ansede
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 29208, USA
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Thomas D, Becker A, Surdin-Kerjan Y. Reverse methionine biosynthesis from S-adenosylmethionine in eukaryotic cells. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:40718-24. [PMID: 11013242 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m005967200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The intracellular ratio between methionine and its activated form S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) is of crucial importance for the one-carbon metabolism. AdoMet recycling into methionine was believed to be largely achieved through the methyl and the thiomethyladenosine cycles. We show here that in yeast, AdoMet recycling actually occurs mainly through the direct AdoMet-dependent remethylation of homocysteine. Compelling evidences supporting this result were obtained owing to the identification and functional characterization of two new genes, SAM4 and MHT1, that encode the yeast AdoMet-homocysteine methyltransferase and S-methylmethionine-homocysteine methyltransferase, respectively. Homologs of the Sam4 and Mht1 proteins exist in other eucaryotes, indicating that such enzymes would be universal and not restricted to the bacterial or fungal kingdoms. New pathways for AdoMet or S-methylmethionine-dependent methionine synthesis are presented.
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- D Thomas
- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS 91 198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Ansede JH, Pellechia PJ, Yoch DC. Metabolism of acrylate to beta-hydroxypropionate and its role in dimethylsulfoniopropionate lyase induction by a salt marsh sediment bacterium, Alcaligenes faecalis M3A. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:5075-81. [PMID: 10543825 PMCID: PMC91683 DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.11.5075-5081.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/1999] [Accepted: 08/31/1999] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is degraded to dimethylsulfide (DMS) and acrylate by the enzyme DMSP lyase. DMS or acrylate can serve as a carbon source for both free-living and endophytic bacteria in the marine environment. In this study, we report on the mechanism of DMSP-acrylate metabolism by Alcaligenes faecalis M3A. Suspensions of citrate-grown cells expressed a low level of DMSP lyase activity that could be induced to much higher levels in the presence of DMSP, acrylate, and its metabolic product, beta-hydroxypropionate. DMSP was degraded outside the cell, resulting in an extracellular accumulation of acrylate, which in suspensions of citrate-grown cells was then metabolized at a low endogenous rate. The inducible nature of acrylate metabolism was evidenced by both an increase in the rate of its degradation over time and the ability of acrylate-grown cells to metabolize this molecule at about an eight times higher rate than citrate-grown cells. Therefore, acrylate induces both its production (from DMSP) and its degradation by an acrylase enzyme. (1)H and (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance analyses were used to identify the products resulting from [1-(13)C]acrylate metabolism. The results indicated that A. faecalis first metabolized acrylate to beta-hydroxypropionate outside the cell, which was followed by its intracellular accumulation and subsequent induction of DMSP lyase activity. In summary, the mechanism of DMSP degradation to acrylate and the subsequent degradation of acrylate to beta-hydroxypropionate in the aerobic beta-Proteobacterium A. faecalis has been described.
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- J H Ansede
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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Rouillon A, Surdin-Kerjan Y, Thomas D. Transport of sulfonium compounds. Characterization of the s-adenosylmethionine and s-methylmethionine permeases from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:28096-105. [PMID: 10497160 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.40.28096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We report here the characterization and the molecular analysis of the two high affinity permeases that mediate the transport of S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) and S-methylmethionine (SMM) across the plasma membrane of yeast cells. Mutant cells unable to use AdoMet as a sulfur source were first isolated and demonstrated to lack high affinity AdoMet transport capacities. Functional complementation cloning allowed us to identify the corresponding gene (SAM3), which encodes an integral membrane protein comprising 12 putative membrane spanning regions and belonging to the amino acid permease family. Among amino acid permease members, the closest relative of Sam3p is encoded by the YLL061w open reading frame. Disruption of YLL061w was shown to specifically lead to cells unable to use SMM as a sulfur source. Accordingly, transport assays demonstrated that YLL061w disruption mutation impaired the high affinity SMM permease, and YLL061w was therefore renamed MMP1. Further study of sam3Delta and mmp1Delta mutant cells showed that in addition to high affinity permeases, both sulfonium compounds are transported into yeast cells by low affinity transport systems that appear to be carrier-facilitated diffusion.
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- A Rouillon
- Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Kocsis MG, Nolte KD, Rhodes D, Shen TL, Gage DA, Hanson AD. Dimethylsulfoniopropionate biosynthesis in Spartina alterniflora1. Evidence that S-methylmethionine and dimethylsulfoniopropylamine are intermediates. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 117:273-81. [PMID: 9576797 PMCID: PMC35012 DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.1.273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/1997] [Accepted: 02/01/1998] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The osmoprotectant 3-dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) occurs in Gramineae and Compositae, but its synthesis has been studied only in the latter. The DMSP synthesis pathway was therefore investigated in the salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora Loisel. Leaf tissue metabolized supplied [35S]methionine (Met) to S-methyl-l-Met (SMM), 3-dimethylsulfoniopropylamine (DMSP-amine), and DMSP. The 35S-labeling kinetics of SMM and DMSP-amine indicated that they were intermediates and, consistent with this, the dimethylsulfonium moiety of SMM was shown by stable isotope labeling to be incorporated as a unit into DMSP. The identity of DMSP-amine, a novel natural product, was confirmed by both chemical and mass-spectral methods. S. alterniflora readily converted supplied [35S]SMM to DMSP-amine and DMSP, and also readily converted supplied [35S]DMSP-amine to DMSP; grasses that lack DMSP did neither. A small amount of label was detected in 3-dimethylsulfoniopropionaldehyde (DMSP-ald) when [35S]SMM or [35S]DMSP-amine was given. These results are consistent with the operation of the pathway Met --> SMM --> DMSP-amine --> DMSP-ald --> DMSP, which differs from that found in Compositae by the presence of a free DMSP-amine intermediate. This dissimilarity suggests that DMSP synthesis evolved independently in Gramineae and Compositae.
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- M G Kocsis
- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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Trossat C, Rathinasabapathi B, Weretilnyk EA, Shen TL, Huang ZH, Gage DA, Hanson AD. Salinity promotes accumulation of 3-dimethylsulfoniopropionate and its precursor S-methylmethionine in chloroplasts. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 116:165-71. [PMID: 9449841 PMCID: PMC35154 DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.1.165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/1997] [Accepted: 10/06/1997] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Wollastonia biflora (L.) DC. plants accumulate the osmoprotectant 3-dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), particularly when salinized. DMSP is known to be synthesized in the chloroplast from S-methylmethionine (SMM) imported from the cytosol, but the sizes of the chloroplastic and extrachloroplastic pools of these compounds are unknown. We therefore determined DMSP and SMM in mesophyll protoplasts and chloroplasts. Salinization with 30% (v/v) artificial seawater increased protoplast DMSP levels from 4.6 to 6.0 mumol mg-1 chlorophyll (Chl), and chloroplast levels from 0.9 to 1.9 mumol mg-1 Chl. The latter are minimum values because intact chloroplasts leaked DMSP during isolation. Correcting for this leakage, it was estimated that in vivo about one-half of the DMSP is chloroplastic and that stromal DMSP concentrations in control and salinized plants are about 60 and 130 mM, respectively. Such concentrations would contribute significantly to chloroplast osmoregulation and could protect photosynthetic processes from stress injury. SMM levels were measured using a novel mass-spectrometric method. About 40% of the SMM was located in the chloroplast in unsalinized W. biflora plants, as was about 80% in salinized plants; the chloroplastic pool in both cases was approximately 0.1 mumol mg-1 Chl. In contrast, > or = 85% of the SMM was extrachloroplastic in pea (Pisum sativum L.) and spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.), which lack DMSP. DMSP synthesis may be associated with enhanced accumulation of SMM in the chloroplasm.
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- C Trossat
- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611, USA
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Yoch DC, Ansede JH, Rabinowitz KS. Evidence for Intracellular and Extracellular Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) Lyases and DMSP Uptake Sites in Two Species of Marine Bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 1997; 63:3182-8. [PMID: 16535674 PMCID: PMC1389229 DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.8.3182-3188.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The kinetics of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) uptake and dimethylsulfide (DMS) production from DMSP in two bacterial species, Alcaligenes sp. strain M3A, an isolate from estuarine surface sediments, and Pseudomonas doudoroffii, from seawater, were investigated. In Alcaligenes cells induced for DMSP lyase (DL) activity, DMS production occurred without DMSP uptake. In DL-induced suspensions of P. doudoroffii, uptake of DMSP preceded the production of DMS, indicating an intracellular location of DL; intracellular DMSP levels reached ca. 7 mM. DMSP uptake rates in noninduced cells showed saturation at three concentrations (K(inft) [transport] values, 3.4, 127, and 500 (mu)M). In DL-induced cells of P. doudoroffii, DMSP uptake rates increased ca. threefold (V(infmax), 0.022 versus 0.065 (mu)mol of DMSP taken up min(sup-1) mg of cell protein(sup-1)), suggesting that the uptake binding proteins were inducible. DMSP uptake and DL activity in P. doudoroffii were both inhibited by CN(sup-), 2,4-dinitrophenol, and membrane-impermeable thiol-binding reagents, further indicating active uptake of DMSP by cell surface components. The respiratory inhibitors had limited or no effect on DL activity by the Alcaligenes sp. Of the structural analogs of DMSP tested for their effect on DMSP metabolism, glycine betaine (GBT), but not methyl-3-mercaptopropionic acid (MMPA), inhibited DMSP uptake by P. doudoroffii, suggesting that GBT shares a binding protein with DMSP and that MMPA is taken up at a separate site. Two models of DMSP uptake, induction, and DL location found in marine bacteria are presented.
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de Souza MP, Yoch DC. Comparative Physiology of Dimethyl Sulfide Production by Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Lyase in Pseudomonas doudoroffii and Alcaligenes sp. Strain M3A. Appl Environ Microbiol 1995; 61:3986-91. [PMID: 16535162 PMCID: PMC1388598 DOI: 10.1128/aem.61.11.3986-3991.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) lyase enzymatically cleaves DMSP, an algal metabolite, to produce acrylate, a proton, and dimethyl sulfide (DMS), the most abundant volatile sulfur compound emitted from oceans. The physiology of DMS production by DMSP lyase was studied in vivo in an Alcaligenes-like organism, strain M3A, a salt marsh bacterial isolate, and in a marine strain, Pseudomonas doudoroffii. Enzymes from both strains were induced at optimum rates by 1 mM DMSP and vigorous aeration. P. doudoroffii was very sensitive to continued aeration and lost activity rapidly; the enzyme was more stable when aeration ceased. In addition to DMSP, acrylate and several of its analogs acted as inducers of DMSP lyase in Alcaligenes sp. strain M3A but not in P. doudoroffii. Turnover of DMSP by P. doudoroffii was enhanced by 3.5% NaCl or seawater, whereas the Alcaligenes sp. strain M3A enzyme was not salt dependent and salt did not greatly affect its activity. The pH profile showed two peaks of DMSP lyase activity (6.5 and 8.8) for Alcaligenes sp. strain M3A and a single peak at pH 8 for P. doudoroffii. Enzyme activity in both organisms was inhibited by methyl-3-mercaptopropionate and homocysteine. Cyanide, azide and p-chloromercuribenzoate inhibited only the P. doudoroffii DMSP lyase. The apparent K(infm) values for DMSP for cell cultures of Alcaligenes sp. strain M3A and P. doudoroffii were ca. 2 mM and <20 (mu)M, respectively. The differences in the physiology of DMSP metabolism in these two bacterial isolates may enable them to exist in diverse ecological niches.
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Nishiguchi MK, Somero GN. Temperature- and concentration-dependence of compatibility of the organic osmolyte beta-dimethylsulfoniopropionate. Cryobiology 1992; 29:118-24. [PMID: 1295491 DOI: 10.1016/0011-2240(92)90011-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The effects of the organic osmolyte beta-dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) on the structural stability of three model proteins were examined to determine whether DMSP, like the structurally similar solute dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), is compatible with native protein structure at low, but not elevated, temperatures. DMSP stabilized phosphofructokinase under conditions of cold-induced denaturation. Thus, DMSP, like DMSO, may be an effective protein cryoprotectant. However, DMSP was not an effective stabilizer of protein structure under conditions of heat denaturation. Whereas low (0.2 M) concentrations of DMSP stabilized lactate dehydrogenase against inactivation at 50 degrees C, higher DMSP concentrations were ineffective. DMSP favored the denaturation of glutamate dehydrogenase at all DMSP concentrations tested. DMSP may be a compatible osmotic solute only under conditions of moderate temperature and low, yet physiological, concentrations. The mechanistic basis of DMSP's temperature- and concentration-dependent effects and the possible roles played by adaptation temperature and severity of osmotic stress in the evolutionary selection of organic osmolytes are discussed.
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- M K Nishiguchi
- Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla 92093-0202
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Kelly DP, Smith NA. Organic Sulfur Compounds in the Environment Biogeochemistry, Microbiology, and Ecological Aspects. ADVANCES IN MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-7612-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Chrominski A, Weber DJ, Smith BN, Hegerhorst DF, Horrocks RD, Burgener KW. Is dimethylsulfonium propionate an osmoprotectant of terrestrial glycophytes? Naturwissenschaften 1989. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00366227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sciuto S, Chillemi R, Morrone R, Patti A, Piattelli M. Dragendorff-positive compounds in some Mediterranean red algae. BIOCHEM SYST ECOL 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-1978(89)90035-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Dickson DMJ, Kirst GO. OSMOTIC ADJUSTMENT IN MARINE EUKARYOTIC ALGAE: THE ROLE OF INORGANIC IONS, QUATERNARY AMMONIUM, TERTIARY SULPHONIUM AND CARBOHYDRATE SOLUTES: I. DIATOMS AND A RHODOPHYTE. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 1987; 106:645-655. [PMID: 33874080 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1987.tb00165.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The unicellular marine algae, Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin, Cyclotella cryptica Reimann and Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing (Bacillariophyceae) and Porphyridium aerugineum Geitler (Rhodophyceae) synthesized and accumulated glycine betaine and proline in response to increases of the NaCl concentration (150 to 1000 mol m-3 NaCl) of the growth medium. C. cryptica and C. meneghiniana also synthesized and accumulated homarine (N-methyl picolinic acid betaine). Both P. tricornutum and P. aerugineum synthesized increasing amounts of intracellular glycerol and P. aerugineum also formed the heteroside, floridoside [O-α-D-galactopyranosyl (1 → 2)-glycerol], in response to the elevated salinities. No major low molecular weight carbohydrates were found in Cyclotella. Sucrose was not detected in the algal extracts. Only P. tricornutum synthesized the tertiary sulphonium compound, β-dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP), and the quantity of this solute in the alga was dependent on the amount of NaCl in the medium. Intracellular K+ concentrations in the algae were three to six times greater than those of Na+ . Increases of the salinity of the media led to the uptake and accumulation of K+ by the cells, and smaller increases of Na+ and Cl-1 and loss of intracellular NO3 - . The inorganic cations Na+ and K+ , with their accompanying anions, and the estimated organic solutes could largely account for the osmotic balance of P. tricornutum and P. aerugineum.
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- D M J Dickson
- Universität Bremen, Fachbereich Biologie, NW2, Leobenerstrasse, D-2800 Bremen 33, Federal Republic of Germany
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- Universität Bremen, Fachbereich Biologie, NW2, Leobenerstrasse, D-2800 Bremen 33, Federal Republic of Germany
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Dacey JW, Wakeham SG. Oceanic Dimethylsulfide: Production During Zooplankton Grazing on Phytoplankton. Science 1986; 233:1314-6. [PMID: 17843360 DOI: 10.1126/science.233.4770.1314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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About half the biogenic sulfur flux to the earth's atmosphere each year arises from the oceans. Dimethylsulfide (DMS), which constitutes about 90% of this marine sulfur flux, is presumed to originate from the decomposition of dimethylsulfoniopropionate produced by marine organisms, particularly phytoplankton. The rate of DMS release by phytoplankton is greatly increased when the phytoplankton are subjected to grazing by zooplankton. DMS production associated with such grazing may be the major mechanism of DMS production in many marine settings.
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Dickson DM, Kirst GO. The role of β-dimethylsulphoniopropionate, glycine betaine and homarine in the osmoacclimation of Platymonas subcordiformis. PLANTA 1986; 167:536-543. [PMID: 24240370 DOI: 10.1007/bf00391230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/1985] [Accepted: 11/21/1985] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The tertiary sulphonium compound, β-dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) and the quaternary ammonium compounds glycine betaine and homarine are important osmotica in Platymonas subcordiformis cells. Following hypersaline stresses the compounds were accumulated after a lag period of 3 h and equilibrium concentrations were reached 6 h later. In contrast to these organic solutes, mannitol was synthesised immediately and equilibrium concentrations were reached within 90 min. Hyposaline stresses induced losses of the organic solutes from the cells. The ions K(+), Na(+), Cl(-) and the above organic solutes can account for the osmotic balance of the cells.
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- D M Dickson
- Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Bremen, NW 2, Leobenerstrasse, D-2800, Bremen 33, Federal Republic of Germany
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Ecophysiological adaptations of coastal halophytes from foredunes and salt marshes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00044777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Reed RH. Transient breakdown in the selective permeability of the plasma membrane ofChlorella emersonii in response to hyperosmotic shock: Implications for cell water relations and osmotic adjustment. J Membr Biol 1984. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01870734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dickson DM, Wyn Jones RG, Davenport J. Osmotic adaptation in Ulva lactuca under fluctuating salinity regimes. PLANTA 1982; 155:409-415. [PMID: 24271972 DOI: 10.1007/bf00394469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/1982] [Accepted: 05/06/1982] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A study has been made of the osmotic responses of the green intertidal alga, Ulva lactuca, under two fluctuating salinity regimes; sinusoidal and square-wave fluctuations between 30 and 100% sea water in a 12 h cycle. These regimes closely resemble the tidal fluctuation of salinity encountered by the alga in its natural estuarine habitat. Data on changes in the inorganic ions, potassium, sodium, chloride and sulphate; in the organic solute, dimethylsulphoniopropionate; in the total sugar levels and estimated osmotic and turgor pressures under the two salinity regimes are reported. Significant differences in the solute responses under these different conditions were detected. In general, better control of ion fluxes appeared to be exercised under the sinusoidal conditions which also buffered changes in dimethylsulphoniopropionate levels. Influxes of potassium were highly light-dependent. Chloride levels conspicuously failed to reach the steady-state levels in the 6-h-hyper-osmotic part of either the abrupt or gradual cycle. The possible significance of these data, which may better reflect osmotic changes in the natural environment, and some of the problems encountered, particularly in accounting for charge balance under some conditions, are discussed.
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- D M Dickson
- Department of Biochemistry and Soil Science, University College of North Wales, LL57 2UW, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
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