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Cellulolytic and Xylanolytic Enzymes from Yeasts: Properties and Industrial Applications. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27123783. [PMID: 35744909 PMCID: PMC9229053 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27123783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Revised: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Lignocellulose, the main component of plant cell walls, comprises polyaromatic lignin and fermentable materials, cellulose and hemicellulose. It is a plentiful and renewable feedstock for chemicals and energy. It can serve as a raw material for the production of various value-added products, including cellulase and xylanase. Cellulase is essentially required in lignocellulose-based biorefineries and is applied in many commercial processes. Likewise, xylanases are industrially important enzymes applied in papermaking and in the manufacture of prebiotics and pharmaceuticals. Owing to the widespread application of these enzymes, many prokaryotes and eukaryotes have been exploited to produce cellulase and xylanases in good yields, yet yeasts have rarely been explored for their plant-cell-wall-degrading activities. This review is focused on summarizing reports about cellulolytic and xylanolytic yeasts, their properties, and their biotechnological applications.
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Organic matter in the global ocean, soils, and sediments stores about five times more carbon than the atmosphere. Thus, the controls on the accumulation of organic matter are critical to global carbon cycling. However, we lack a quantitative understanding of these controls. This prevents meaningful descriptions of organic matter cycling in global climate models, which are required for understanding how changes in organic matter reservoirs provide feedbacks to past and present changes in climate. Currently, explanations for organic matter accumulation remain under debate, characterized by seemingly competing hypotheses. Here, we develop a quantitative framework for organic matter accumulation that unifies these hypotheses. The framework derives from the ecological dynamics of microorganisms, the dominant consumers of organic matter. Organic matter constitutes a key reservoir in global elemental cycles. However, our understanding of the dynamics of organic matter and its accumulation remains incomplete. Seemingly disparate hypotheses have been proposed to explain organic matter accumulation: the slow degradation of intrinsically recalcitrant substrates, the depletion to concentrations that inhibit microbial consumption, and a dependency on the consumption capabilities of nearby microbial populations. Here, using a mechanistic model, we develop a theoretical framework that explains how organic matter predictably accumulates in natural environments due to biochemical, ecological, and environmental factors. Our framework subsumes the previous hypotheses. Changes in the microbial community or the environment can move a class of organic matter from a state of functional recalcitrance to a state of depletion by microbial consumers. The model explains the vertical profile of dissolved organic carbon in the ocean and connects microbial activity at subannual timescales to organic matter turnover at millennial timescales. The threshold behavior of the model implies that organic matter accumulation may respond nonlinearly to changes in temperature and other factors, providing hypotheses for the observed correlations between organic carbon reservoirs and temperature in past earth climates.
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Blonder B, Boyko V, Turchyn AV, Antler G, Sinichkin U, Knossow N, Klein R, Kamyshny A. Impact of Aeolian Dry Deposition of Reactive Iron Minerals on Sulfur Cycling in Sediments of the Gulf of Aqaba. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1131. [PMID: 28676799 PMCID: PMC5476737 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Gulf of Aqaba is an oligotrophic marine system with oxygen-rich water column and organic carbon-poor sediments (≤0.6% at sites that are not influenced by anthropogenic impact). Aeolian dust deposition from the Arabian, Sinai, and Sahara Deserts is an important source of sediment, especially at the deep-water sites of the Gulf, which are less affected by sediment transport from the Arava Desert during seasonal flash floods. Microbial sulfate reduction in sediments is inferred from the presence of pyrite (although at relatively low concentrations), the presence of sulfide oxidation intermediates, and by the sulfur isotopic composition of sulfate and solid-phase sulfides. Saharan dust is characterized by high amounts of iron minerals such as hematite and goethite. We demonstrated, that the resulting high sedimentary content of reactive iron(III) (hydr)oxides, originating from this aeolian dry deposition of desert dust, leads to fast re-oxidation of hydrogen sulfide produced during microbial sulfate reduction and limits preservation of reduced sulfur in the form of pyrite. We conclude that at these sites the sedimentary sulfur cycle may be defined as cryptic.
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- Barak Blonder
- Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the NegevBeer Sheva, Israel
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Mahmoudi N, Beaupré SR, Steen AD, Pearson A. Sequential bioavailability of sedimentary organic matter to heterotrophic bacteria. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:2629-2644. [PMID: 28371310 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Aquatic sediments harbour diverse microbial communities that mediate organic matter degradation and influence biogeochemical cycles. The pool of bioavailable carbon continuously changes as a result of abiotic processes and microbial activity. It remains unclear how microbial communities respond to heterogeneous organic matrices and how this ultimately affects heterotrophic respiration. To explore the relationships between the degradation of mixed carbon substrates and microbial activity, we incubated batches of organic-rich sediments in a novel bioreactor (IsoCaRB) that permitted continuous observations of CO2 production rates, as well as sequential sampling of isotopic signatures (δ13 C, Δ14 C), microbial community structure and diversity, and extracellular enzyme activity. Our results indicated that lower molecular weight (MW), labile, phytoplankton-derived compounds were degraded first, followed by petroleum-derived exogenous pollutants, and finally by higher MW polymeric plant material. This shift in utilization coincided with a community succession and increased extracellular enzyme activities. Thus, sequential utilization of different carbon pools induced changes at both the community and cellular level, shifting community composition, enzyme activity, respiration rates, and residual organic matter reactivity. Our results provide novel insight into the accessibility of sedimentary organic matter and demonstrate how bioavailability of natural organic substrates may affect the function and composition of heterotrophic bacterial populations.
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- Nagissa Mahmoudi
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-5000, USA
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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Silburn B, Kröger S, Parker ER, Sivyer DB, Hicks N, Powell CF, Johnson M, Greenwood N. Benthic pH gradients across a range of shelf sea sediment types linked to sediment characteristics and seasonal variability. BIOGEOCHEMISTRY 2017; 135:69-88. [PMID: 32009692 PMCID: PMC6961502 DOI: 10.1007/s10533-017-0323-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2016] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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This study used microelectrodes to record pH profiles in fresh shelf sea sediment cores collected across a range of different sediment types within the Celtic Sea. Spatial and temporal variability was captured during repeated measurements in 2014 and 2015. Concurrently recorded oxygen microelectrode profiles and other sedimentary parameters provide a detailed context for interpretation of the pH data. Clear differences in profiles were observed between sediment type, location and season. Notably, very steep pH gradients exist within the surface sediments (10-20 mm), where decreases greater than 0.5 pH units were observed. Steep gradients were particularly apparent in fine cohesive sediments, less so in permeable sandier matrices. We hypothesise that the gradients are likely caused by aerobic organic matter respiration close to the sediment-water interface or oxidation of reduced species at the base of the oxic zone (NH4 +, Mn2+, Fe2+, S-). Statistical analysis suggests the variability in the depth of the pH minima is controlled spatially by the oxygen penetration depth, and seasonally by the input and remineralisation of deposited organic phytodetritus. Below the pH minima the observed pH remained consistently low to maximum electrode penetration (ca. 60 mm), indicating an absence of sub-oxic processes generating H+ or balanced removal processes within this layer. Thus, a climatology of sediment surface porewater pH is provided against which to examine biogeochemical processes. This enhances our understanding of benthic pH processes, particularly in the context of human impacts, seabed integrity, and future climate changes, providing vital information for modelling benthic response under future climate scenarios.
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- B. Silburn
- Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT UK
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- Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT UK
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- Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT UK
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- Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT UK
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- Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Argyll PA37 1QA UK
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- Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT UK
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- Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT UK
- University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ UK
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- Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT UK
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Richness and diversity of bacteria in the Nansha carbonate platform (Core MD05-2896), South China Sea. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 29:1895-905. [PMID: 23700125 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-013-1354-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2012] [Accepted: 04/15/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We explored the bacterial diversity and vertical distribution along a sediment core (MD05-2896) from the coral reefs of the Nansha carbonate platform in the South China Sea. Bacterial diversity is determined by 16S rRNA molecular survey from twelve subsamples A, obtained via cloning, sequencing and phylogenetic analyses. We estimated the species richness by parametric and nonparametric models, which identified 326 ± 40 (SE) bacteria species. The dominant bacterial groups included Planctomycetes, Deltaproteobacteria, and candidate division OP3, which constituting 23.7, 10.4, and 9.5 % of bacterial 16S rRNAclone libraries, respectively. The observed stratification of bacterial communities was correlated with C/N ratio. This study improves our understanding of the species-environment relationship in the sub-sea floor sediment.
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Orcutt BN, Sylvan JB, Knab NJ, Edwards KJ. Microbial ecology of the dark ocean above, at, and below the seafloor. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2011; 75:361-422. [PMID: 21646433 PMCID: PMC3122624 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00039-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 320] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The majority of life on Earth--notably, microbial life--occurs in places that do not receive sunlight, with the habitats of the oceans being the largest of these reservoirs. Sunlight penetrates only a few tens to hundreds of meters into the ocean, resulting in large-scale microbial ecosystems that function in the dark. Our knowledge of microbial processes in the dark ocean-the aphotic pelagic ocean, sediments, oceanic crust, hydrothermal vents, etc.-has increased substantially in recent decades. Studies that try to decipher the activity of microorganisms in the dark ocean, where we cannot easily observe them, are yielding paradigm-shifting discoveries that are fundamentally changing our understanding of the role of the dark ocean in the global Earth system and its biogeochemical cycles. New generations of researchers and experimental tools have emerged, in the last decade in particular, owing to dedicated research programs to explore the dark ocean biosphere. This review focuses on our current understanding of microbiology in the dark ocean, outlining salient features of various habitats and discussing known and still unexplored types of microbial metabolism and their consequences in global biogeochemical cycling. We also focus on patterns of microbial diversity in the dark ocean and on processes and communities that are characteristic of the different habitats.
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- Beth N. Orcutt
- Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
- Marine Environmental Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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- Marine Environmental Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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- Marine Environmental Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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- Marine Environmental Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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Modelling biological interactions in aquatic sediments as coupled reactive transport. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1029/ce060p0359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Control of biogeochemical cycling by mobility and metabolic strategies of microbes in the sediments: an integrated model study. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2003; 46:295-306. [DOI: 10.1016/s0168-6496(03)00196-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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