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Lehmann MM, Schuler P, Werner RA, Saurer M, Wiesenberg GLB, Cormier MA. Biochemical and biophysical drivers of the hydrogen isotopic composition of carbohydrates and acetogenic lipids. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadl3591. [PMID: 38985863 PMCID: PMC11235168 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl3591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
Abstract
The hydrogen isotopic composition (δ2H) of plant compounds is increasingly used as a hydroclimatic proxy; however, the interpretation of δ2H values is hampered by potential coeffecting biochemical and biophysical processes. Here, we studied δ2H values of water and carbohydrates in leaves and roots, and of leaf n-alkanes, in two distinct tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris) experiments. Large differences in plant performance and biochemistry resulted from (a) soil fertilization with varying nitrogen (N) species ratios and (b) knockout-induced starch deficiency. We observed a strong 2H-enrichment in sugars and starch with a decreasing performance induced by increasing NO3-/NH4+ ratios and starch deficiency, as well as from leaves to roots. However, δ2H values of cellulose and n-alkanes were less affected. We show that relative concentrations of sugars and starch, interlinked with leaf gas exchange, shape δ2H values of carbohydrates. We thus provide insights into drivers of hydrogen isotopic composition of plant compounds and into the mechanistic modeling of plant cellulose δ2H values.
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- Marco M Lehmann
- Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zuercherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zuercherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zuercherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- D-USYS-Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitaetstrasse 2, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zuercherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK
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Ladd SN, Nelson DB, Bamberger I, Daber LE, Kreuzwieser J, Kahmen A, Werner C. Metabolic exchange between pathways for isoprenoid synthesis and implications for biosynthetic hydrogen isotope fractionation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 231:1708-1719. [PMID: 34028817 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 05/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Hydrogen isotope ratios of plant lipids are used for paleoclimate reconstruction, but are influenced by both source water and biosynthetic processes. Measuring 2 H : 1 H ratios of multiple compounds produced by different pathways could allow these effects to be separated, but hydrogen isotope fractionations during isoprenoid biosynthesis remain poorly constrained. To investigate how hydrogen isotope fractionation during isoprenoid biosynthesis is influenced by molecular exchange between the cytosolic and plastidial production pathways, we paired position-specific 13 C-pyruvate labeling with hydrogen isotope measurements of lipids in Pachira aquatica saplings. We find that acetogenic compounds primarily incorporated carbon from 13 C2-pyruvate, whereas isoprenoids incorporated 13 C1- and 13 C2-pyruvate equally. This indicates that cytosolic pyruvate is primarily introduced into plastidial isoprenoids via glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and that plastidial isoprenoid intermediates are incorporated into cytosolic isoprenoids. Probably as a result of the large differences in hydrogen isotope fractionation between plastidial and cytosolic isoprenoid pathways, sterols from P. aquatica are at least 50‰ less 2 H-enriched relative to phytol than sterols in other plants. These results provide the first experimental evidence that incorporation of plastidial intermediates reduces 2 H : 1 H ratios of sterols. This suggests that relative offsets between the 2 H : 1 H ratios of sterols and phytol can trace exchange between the two isoprenoid synthesis pathways.
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- S Nemiah Ladd
- Chair of Ecosystem Physiology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 053/054, Freiburg, 79110, Germany
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- Plant Physiological Ecology, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, Basel, 4056, Switzerland
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- Chair of Ecosystem Physiology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 053/054, Freiburg, 79110, Germany
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- Chair of Ecosystem Physiology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 053/054, Freiburg, 79110, Germany
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- Chair of Ecosystem Physiology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 053/054, Freiburg, 79110, Germany
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- Plant Physiological Ecology, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, Basel, 4056, Switzerland
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- Chair of Ecosystem Physiology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 053/054, Freiburg, 79110, Germany
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Bai Y, Tian Q, Fang X, Chen C, Liu X. Responses of sedimentary δ 2H alk values to environmental changes as revealed by different plant responses to altitude and altitude-related temperatures. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 733:138087. [PMID: 32422458 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Single species-based altitudinal transects may provide a new understanding of the variabilities in sedimentary wax-derived n-alkane hydrogen isotope (δ2Halk) values caused by altitude and complex climatic change linked with the growth of mountains. We investigated Kobresia pygmaea (Kobresia), Quercus aquifolioides (Quercus) and Berberis thunbergii DC (Berberis) along three altitudinal transects on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), i.e., the southern TP, the Longmen Mountains (LM; eastern TP) and the Qilian Mountains (QL; northeastern TP). Here we present 47 plant δ2Halk values: these include 14 Kobresia, 27 Berberis and 6 Quercus samples, which are accompanied by comparisons with nine new soil δ2Halk values from the QL, and 105 previously-published δ2Halk values for surface soils along the first two transects. Our data show that altitude is the dominant factor in determining three plant δ2Halk values. However, we observed substantial differences in the δ2Halk values and their εwax-p ratios for Kobresia, Quercus and Berberis for different climatic regimes and along these three transects. Significantly, for Kobresia along the LM and QL transects, ∆δ2Halk = -84.3‰/km (r2 = 0.94; p < 0.05; n = 4) and - 65.5‰/km (r2 = 0.74; p < 0.01; n = 10), and ∆εwax-p = -80.4‰/km (r2 = 0.93; p < 0.05) and -56.7‰/km (r2 = 0.66; p < 0.01), respectively, were three or four times as large as for the soil δ2Halk values observed along these altitudinal gradients. Overall, the altitudinal lapse rate (ALR) of δ2Halk values and their εwax-p ratios varies between species, with Kobresia being the most negative and Berberis the least negative, potentially resulting from the strong response of monocotyledoneae Kobresia δ2Halk values to cooling with increasing altitude, and the relative influence of cryosphere meltwater at higher altitudes. Thus, impact of climate change on the sedimentary δ2Halk values should therefore be fully taken into account during reconstructions of paleoaltitudes.
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- Yan Bai
- CAS Center of Excellence for Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100101, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Continental Collision and Plateau Uplift, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100101, China.
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- Yan an University, Yan'an 716000, China
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- CAS Center of Excellence for Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100101, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Continental Collision and Plateau Uplift, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100101, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Center of Excellence for Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100101, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Center of Excellence for Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100101, China
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Distinctions in heterotrophic and autotrophic-based metabolism as recorded in the hydrogen and carbon isotope ratios of normal alkanes. Oecologia 2018; 187:1053-1075. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-018-4189-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Pedentchouk N, Turich C. Carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions of n-alkanes as a tool in petroleum exploration. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1144/sp468.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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AbstractCompound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) of individual organic compounds is a powerful but underutilized tool in petroleum exploration. When integrated with other organic geochemical methodologies it can provide evidence of fluid histories including source, maturity, charge history and reservoir processes that can support field development planning and exploration efforts. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a review of the methodologies used for generating carbon and hydrogen isotope data for mid- and high-molecular-weight n-alkanes.We discuss the factors that control stable carbon and hydrogen isotope compositions of n-alkanes and related compounds in sedimentary and petroleum systems and review current and future applications of this methodology for petroleum exploration. We discuss basin-specific case studies that demonstrate the usefulness of CSIA either when addressing particular aspects of petroleum exploration (e.g. charge evaluation, source rock–oil correlation, and investigation of maturity and in-reservoir processes) or when this technique is used to corroborate interpretations from integrated petroleum systems analysis, providing unique insights which may not be revealed when using other methods. CSIA of n-alkanes and related n-alkyl structures can provide independent data to strengthen petroleum systems concepts from generation and expulsion of fluids from source rock, to charge history, connectivity, and in-reservoir processes.
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- Nikolai Pedentchouk
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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Ladd SN, Sachs JP. Hydrogen isotope response to changing salinity and rainfall in Australian mangroves. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2015; 38:2674-2687. [PMID: 26013204 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Revised: 05/19/2015] [Accepted: 05/19/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Hydrogen isotope ratios ((2) H/(1) H, δ(2) H) of leaf waxes covary with those in precipitation and are therefore a useful paleohydrologic proxy. Mangroves are an exception to this relationship because their δ(2) H values are also influenced by salinity. The mechanisms underlying this response were investigated by measuring leaf lipid δ(2) H and leaf and xylem water δ(2) H and δ(18) O values from three mangrove species over 9.5 months in a subtropical Australian estuary. Net (2) H/(1) H fractionation between surface water and leaf lipids decreased by 0.5-1.0‰ ppt(-1) for n-alkanes and 0.4-0.8‰ ppt(-1) for isoprenoids. Xylem water was (2) H depleted relative to surface water, reflecting (2) H discrimination of 4-10‰ during water uptake at all salinities and opportunistic uptake of freshwater at high salinity. However, leaf water (2) H enrichment relative to estuary water was insensitive to salinity and identical for all species. Therefore, variations in leaf and xylem water δ(2) H values cannot explain the salinity-dependent (2) H depletion in leaf lipids, nor the 30‰ range in leaf lipid δ(2) H values among species. Biochemical changes in direct response to salt stress, such as increased compatible solute production or preferential use of stored carbohydrates, and/or the timing of lipid production and subsequent turnover rates, are more likely causes.
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- S Nemiah Ladd
- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 355315, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 355315, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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Life form-specific gradients in compound-specific hydrogen isotope ratios of modern leaf waxes along a North American Monsoonal transect. Oecologia 2015; 179:981-97. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3432-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2013] [Accepted: 08/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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