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Lever MA, Alperin MJ, Hinrichs KU, Teske A. Zonation of the active methane-cycling community in deep subsurface sediments of the Peru trench. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1192029. [PMID: 37250063 PMCID: PMC10213550 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1192029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023] Open
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The production and anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) by microorganisms is widespread in organic-rich deep subseafloor sediments. Yet, the organisms that carry out these processes remain largely unknown. Here we identify members of the methane-cycling microbial community in deep subsurface, hydrate-containing sediments of the Peru Trench by targeting functional genes of the alpha subunit of methyl coenzyme M reductase (mcrA). The mcrA profile reveals a distinct community zonation that partially matches the zonation of methane oxidizing and -producing activity inferred from sulfate and methane concentrations and carbon-isotopic compositions of methane and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC). McrA appears absent from sulfate-rich sediments that are devoid of methane, but mcrA sequences belonging to putatively methane-oxidizing ANME-1a-b occur from the zone of methane oxidation to several meters into the methanogenesis zone. A sister group of ANME-1a-b, referred to as ANME-1d, and members of putatively aceticlastic Methanothrix (formerly Methanosaeta) occur throughout the remaining methanogenesis zone. Analyses of 16S rRNA and mcrA-mRNA indicate that the methane-cycling community is alive throughout (rRNA to 230 mbsf) and active in at least parts of the sediment column (mRNA at 44 mbsf). Carbon-isotopic depletions of methane relative to DIC (-80 to -86‰) suggest mostly methane production by CO2 reduction and thus seem at odds with the widespread detection of ANME-1 and Methanothrix. We explain this apparent contradiction based on recent insights into the metabolisms of both ANME-1 and Methanothricaceae, which indicate the potential for methanogenetic growth by CO2 reduction in both groups.
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- Mark A. Lever
- Department of Marine Science, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, United States
- Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Organic Geochemistry Group, MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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Shu WS, Huang LN. Microbial diversity in extreme environments. Nat Rev Microbiol 2022; 20:219-235. [PMID: 34754082 DOI: 10.1038/s41579-021-00648-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 63.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa, survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity ecosystems offer a tremendous opportunity for studying the structure, function and evolution of natural microbial communities. Marker gene surveys have resolved patterns and ecological drivers of these extremophile assemblages, revealing a vast uncultured microbial diversity and the often predominance of archaea in the most extreme conditions. New omics studies have uncovered linkages between community function and environmental variables, and have enabled discovery and genomic characterization of major new lineages that substantially expand microbial diversity and change the structure of the tree of life. These efforts have significantly advanced our understanding of the diversity, ecology and evolution of microorganisms populating Earth's extreme environments, and have facilitated the exploration of microbiota and processes in more complex ecosystems.
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- Wen-Sheng Shu
- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
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Kurdy W, Yakovleva G, Ilinskaya O. Structure and Functional Potential of Arctic Sea Sediment Microbiota. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2022. [DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2022.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- William Kurdy
- Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of Kazan (Volga-region) Federal University
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- Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of Kazan (Volga-region) Federal University
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- Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of Kazan (Volga-region) Federal University
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Li F, Leu A, Poff K, Carlson LT, Ingalls AE, DeLong EF. Planktonic Archaeal Ether Lipid Origins in Surface Waters of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:610675. [PMID: 34589060 PMCID: PMC8473941 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.610675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Thaumarchaeota and Thermoplasmatota are the most abundant planktonic archaea in the sea. Thaumarchaeota contain tetraether lipids as their major membrane lipids, but the lipid composition of uncultured planktonic Thermoplasmatota representatives remains unknown. To address this knowledge gap, we quantified archaeal cells and ether lipids in open ocean depth profiles (0–200 m) of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Planktonic archaeal community structure and ether lipid composition in the water column partitioned into two separate clusters: one above the deep chlorophyll maximum, the other within and below it. In surface waters, Thermoplasmatota densities ranged from 2.11 × 106 to 6.02 × 106 cells/L, while Thaumarchaeota were undetectable. As previously reported for Thaumarchaeota, potential homologs of archaeal tetraether ring synthases were present in planktonic Thermoplasmatota metagenomes. Despite the absence of Thaumarchaeota in surface waters, measurable amounts of intact polar ether lipids were found there. Based on cell abundance estimates, these surface water archaeal ether lipids contributed only 1.21 × 10–9 ng lipid/Thermoplasmatota cell, about three orders of magnitude less than that reported for Thaumarchaeota cells. While these data indicate that even if some tetraether and diether lipids may be derived from Thermoplasmatota, they would only comprise a small fraction of Thermoplasmatota total biomass. Therefore, while both MGI Thaumarchaeota and MGII/III Thermoplasmatota are potential biological sources of archaeal GDGTs, the Thaumarchaeota appear to be the major contributors of archaeal tetraether lipids in planktonic marine habitats. These results extend and confirm previous reports of planktonic archaeal lipid sources, and further emphasize the need for Thermoplasmatota cultivation, to better characterize the membrane lipid constituents of marine planktonic Thermoplasmatota, and more precisely define the sources and patterns of archaeal tetraether lipid distributions in marine plankton.
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- Fuyan Li
- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mânoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
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- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mânoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
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- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mânoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
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- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
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- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
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- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mânoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
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Interactions between temperature and energy supply drive microbial communities in hydrothermal sediment. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1006. [PMID: 34433861 PMCID: PMC8387401 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02507-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Temperature and bioavailable energy control the distribution of life on Earth, and interact with each other due to the dependency of biological energy requirements on temperature. Here we analyze how temperature-energy interactions structure sediment microbial communities in two hydrothermally active areas of Guaymas Basin. Sites from one area experience advective input of thermogenically produced electron donors by seepage from deeper layers, whereas sites from the other area are diffusion-dominated and electron donor-depleted. In both locations, Archaea dominate at temperatures >45 °C and Bacteria at temperatures <10 °C. Yet, at the phylum level and below, there are clear differences. Hot seep sites have high proportions of typical hydrothermal vent and hot spring taxa. By contrast, high-temperature sites without seepage harbor mainly novel taxa belonging to phyla that are widespread in cold subseafloor sediment. Our results suggest that in hydrothermal sediments temperature determines domain-level dominance, whereas temperature-energy interactions structure microbial communities at the phylum-level and below. Lagostina et al. show that relative abundances of Bacteria and Archaea in sediments of Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, are controlled by temperature, while energy flux explains microbial community structure at the phylum-level and below. Hot diffusion-dominated and energy-depleted sediments are dominated by taxa with relatives in cold subseafloor sediments, while hot sediments with high energy supply from fluid seepage are dominated by taxa also found at hydrothermal vents and in hot springs.
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Walker AM, Leigh MB, Mincks SL. Patterns in Benthic Microbial Community Structure Across Environmental Gradients in the Beaufort Sea Shelf and Slope. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:581124. [PMID: 33584606 PMCID: PMC7876419 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.581124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The paradigm of tight pelagic-benthic coupling in the Arctic suggests that current and future fluctuations in sea ice, primary production, and riverine input resulting from global climate change will have major impacts on benthic ecosystems. To understand how these changes will affect benthic ecosystem function, we must characterize diversity, spatial distribution, and community composition for all faunal components. Bacteria and archaea link the biotic and abiotic realms, playing important roles in organic matter (OM) decomposition, biogeochemical cycling, and contaminant degradation, yet sediment microbial communities have rarely been examined in the North American Arctic. Shifts in microbial community structure and composition occur with shifts in OM inputs and contaminant exposure, with implications for shifts in ecological function. Furthermore, the characterization of benthic microbial communities provides a foundation from which to build focused experimental research. We assessed diversity and community structure of benthic prokaryotes in the upper 1 cm of sediments in the southern Beaufort Sea (United States and Canada), and investigated environmental correlates of prokaryotic community structure over a broad spatial scale (spanning 1,229 km) at depths ranging from 17 to 1,200 m. Based on hierarchical clustering, we identified four prokaryotic assemblages from the 85 samples analyzed. Two were largely delineated by the markedly different environmental conditions in shallow shelf vs. upper continental slope sediments. A third assemblage was mainly comprised of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) shared between the shallow shelf and upper slope assemblages. The fourth assemblage corresponded to sediments receiving heavier OM loading, likely resulting in a shallower anoxic layer. These sites may also harbor microbial mats and/or methane seeps. Substructure within these assemblages generally reflected turnover along a longitudinal gradient, which may be related to the quantity and composition of OM deposited to the seafloor; bathymetry and the Mackenzie River were the two major factors influencing prokaryote distribution on this scale. In a broader geographical context, differences in prokaryotic community structure between the Beaufort Sea and Norwegian Arctic suggest that benthic microbes may reflect regional differences in the hydrography, biogeochemistry, and bathymetry of Arctic shelf systems.
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- Alexis M Walker
- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
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- Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
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- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
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Microbes in marine sediments represent a large portion of the biosphere, and resolving their ecology is crucial for understanding global ocean processes. Single-gene diversity surveys have revealed several uncultured lineages that are widespread in ocean sediments and whose ecological roles are unknown, and advancements in the computational analysis of increasingly large genomic data sets have made it possible to reconstruct individual genomes from complex microbial communities. Using these metagenomic approaches to characterize sediments is transforming our view of microbial communities on the ocean floor and the biodiversity of the planet. In recent years, marine sediments have been a prominent source of new lineages in the tree of life. The incorporation of these lineages into existing phylogenies has revealed that many belong to distinct phyla, including archaeal phyla that are advancing our understanding of the origins of cellular complexity and eukaryotes. Detailed comparisons of the metabolic potentials of these new lineages have made it clear that uncultured bacteria and archaea are capable of mediating key previously undescribed steps in carbon and nutrient cycling.
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- Brett J Baker
- Department of Marine Science and Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, Texas 78373, USA;
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- Department of Marine Science and Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, Texas 78373, USA;
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- Department of Marine Science and Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, Texas 78373, USA;
- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China;
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Lai D, Hedlund BP, Xie W, Liu J, Phelps TJ, Zhang C, Wang P. Impact of Terrestrial Input on Deep-Sea Benthic Archaeal Community Structure in South China Sea Sediments. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:572017. [PMID: 33224115 PMCID: PMC7674655 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.572017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Archaea are widespread in marine sediments and play important roles in the cycling of sedimentary organic carbon. However, factors controlling the distribution of archaea in marine sediments are not well understood. Here we investigated benthic archaeal communities over glacial-interglacial cycles in the northern South China Sea and evaluated their responses to sediment organic matter sources and inter-species interactions. Archaea in sediments deposited during the interglacial period Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 1 (Holocene) were significantly different from those in sediments deposited in MIS 2 and MIS 3 of the Last Glacial Period when terrestrial input to the South China Sea was enhanced based on analysis of the long-chain n-alkane C31. The absolute archaeal 16S rRNA gene abundance in subsurface sediments was highest in MIS 2, coincident with high sedimentation rates and high concentrations of total organic carbon. Soil Crenarchaeotic Group (SCG; Nitrososphaerales) species, the most abundant ammonia-oxidizing archaea in soils, increased dramatically during MIS 2, likely reflecting transport of terrestrial archaea during glacial periods with high sedimentation rates. Co-occurrence network analyses indicated significant association of SCG archaea with benthic deep-sea microbes such as Bathyarchaeota and Thermoprofundales in MIS 2 and MIS 3, suggesting potential interactions among these archaeal groups. Meanwhile, Thermoprofundales abundance was positively correlated with total organic carbon (TOC), along with n-alkane C31 and sedimentation rate, indicating that Thermoprofundales may be particularly important in processing of organic carbon in deep-sea sediments. Collectively, these results demonstrate that the composition of heterotrophic benthic archaea in the South China Sea may be influenced by terrestrial organic input in tune with glacial-interglacial cycles, suggesting a plausible link between global climate change and microbial population dynamics in deep-sea marine sediments.
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- Dengxun Lai
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.,School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, United States
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, United States.,Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, United States
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China.,Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Archaea Geo-Omics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.,Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.,Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China.,Shanghai Sheshan National Geophysical Observatory, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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Macrofaunal control of microbial community structure in continental margin sediments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:15911-15922. [PMID: 32576690 PMCID: PMC7376573 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917494117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Through a process called "bioturbation," burrowing macrofauna have altered the seafloor habitat and modified global carbon cycling since the Cambrian. However, the impact of macrofauna on the community structure of microorganisms is poorly understood. Here, we show that microbial communities across bioturbated, but geochemically and sedimentologically divergent, continental margin sites are highly similar but differ clearly from those in nonbioturbated surface and underlying subsurface sediments. Solid- and solute-phase geochemical analyses combined with modeled bioturbation activities reveal that dissolved O2 introduction by burrow ventilation is the major driver of archaeal community structure. By contrast, solid-phase reworking, which regulates the distribution of fresh, algal organic matter, is the main control of bacterial community structure. In nonbioturbated surface sediments and in subsurface sediments, bacterial and archaeal communities are more divergent between locations and appear mainly driven by site-specific differences in organic carbon sources.
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Tschoeke DA, Coutinho FH, Leomil L, Cavalcanti G, Silva BS, Garcia GD, Dos Anjos LC, Nascimento LB, Moreira LS, Otsuki K, Cordeiro RC, Rezende CE, Thompson FL, Thompson CC. New bacterial and archaeal lineages discovered in organic rich sediments of a large tropical Bay. Mar Genomics 2020; 54:100789. [PMID: 32563694 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2020.100789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Revised: 06/02/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The nutrient and oxygen gradient present in marine sediments promotes high levels of microbial diversity. We applied metagenomics and biogeochemical tools to analyze microbial communities in different sediment depths (0-4 m below sea floor, mbsf) from Guanabara Bay, Brazil, a brackish tropical ecosystem with a history of massive anthropogenic impacts, and a largely unknown sediment microbial diversity. Methanogens (e.g. Methanosarcinales, Methanomicrobiales) were more abundant at 1 mbsf, while sulphate-reducing microbes (Desulfurococcales, Thermoprotales, and Sulfolobales) were more abundant at deeper layers (4 mbsf; corresponding to 3 K Radiocarbon years before present, Holocene Epoch). Taxonomic analyzes and functional gene identification associated with anaerobic methane oxidation (e.g. monomethylamine methyltransferase (mtmB), trimethylamine methyltransferase (mttB) and CO dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase delta subunit) and sulfate reduction indicated the dominance of Campylobacteria (Sulfurimonas) at deeper sediment layers. Gene sequences related to assimilation of inorganic sulfur increased with depth, while organic sulfur related sequences decrease, accompanying the clear reduction in the concentration of sulfur, organic carbon and chla torwards deeper layers. Analyzes of metagenome assembled genomes also led to the discovery of a novel order within the phylum Acidobacteriota, named Guanabacteria. This novel order had several in silico phenotyping features that differentiate it from closely related phylogenetic neighbors (e.g. Acidobacteria, Aminicenantes, and Thermoanaerobaculum), including several genes (carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, CO dehydrogenase/CO-methylating acetyl-CoA synthase complex subunit beta, heterodisulfide reductase, sulfite exporter TauE/SafE family protein, sulfurtransferase) that relevant for the S and C cycles. Furthermore, the recovered Bathyarchaeota genome SS9 illustrates the methanogenic potential in deeper sediment layer.
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- Diogo A Tschoeke
- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Núcleo Professor Rogerio Valle de Produção Sustentável-SAGE/COPPE, Centro de Gestão Tecnológica-CT2, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Programa de Engenharia Biomédica, COPPE, CT, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Evolutionary Genomics Group, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain
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- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Núcleo Professor Rogerio Valle de Produção Sustentável-SAGE/COPPE, Centro de Gestão Tecnológica-CT2, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Núcleo Professor Rogerio Valle de Produção Sustentável-SAGE/COPPE, Centro de Gestão Tecnológica-CT2, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Núcleo Professor Rogerio Valle de Produção Sustentável-SAGE/COPPE, Centro de Gestão Tecnológica-CT2, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Departamento de Ensino de Graduação, Campus UFRJ - Macaé Professor Aloisio Teixeira, Macaé, RJ, Brazil
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- Programa de Geoquímica, Departamento de Geoquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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- Programa de Geoquímica, Departamento de Geoquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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- Programa de Geoquímica, Departamento de Geoquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Núcleo Professor Rogerio Valle de Produção Sustentável-SAGE/COPPE, Centro de Gestão Tecnológica-CT2, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Programa de Geoquímica, Departamento de Geoquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, UENF, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Núcleo Professor Rogerio Valle de Produção Sustentável-SAGE/COPPE, Centro de Gestão Tecnológica-CT2, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Núcleo Professor Rogerio Valle de Produção Sustentável-SAGE/COPPE, Centro de Gestão Tecnológica-CT2, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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Mukherji S, Ghosh A, Bhattacharyya C, Mallick I, Bhattacharyya A, Mitra S, Ghosh A. Molecular and culture-based surveys of metabolically active hydrocarbon-degrading archaeal communities in Sundarban mangrove sediments. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2020; 195:110481. [PMID: 32203775 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.110481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2019] [Revised: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Archaea remain important players in global biogeochemical cycles worldwide, including in the highly productive mangrove estuarine ecosystems. In the present study, we have explored the diversity, distribution, and function of the metabolically active fraction of the resident archaeal community of the Sundarban mangrove ecosystem, using both culture-independent and culture-dependent approaches. To evaluate the diversity and distribution pattern of the active archaeal communities, RNA based analysis of the 16S rRNA gene was performed on an Illumina platform. The active Crenarchaeal community was observed to remain constant while active Euryarchaeal community underwent considerable change across the sampling sites depending on varying anthropogenic factors. Haloarchaea were the predominant group in hydrocarbon polluted sediments, leading us to successfully isolate eleven p-hydroxybenzoic acid degrading haloarchaeal species. The isolates could also survive in benzoic acid, naphthalene, and o-phthalate. Quantitative estimation of p-hydroxybenzoic acid degradation was studied on select isolates, and their ability to reduce COD of polluted saline waters of Sundarban was also evaluated. To our knowledge, this is the first ever study combining culture-independent (Next Generation sequencing and metatranscriptome) and culture-dependent analyses for an assessment of archaeal function in the sediment of Sundarban.
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- Shayantan Mukherji
- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12- C.I.T. Road, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12- C.I.T. Road, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12- C.I.T. Road, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12- C.I.T. Road, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 700019, India
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- Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Leeds, Thoresby Place, Leeds, LS1 3EX, W. Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P1/12- C.I.T. Road, Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India.
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Yu T, Zhang M, Kang D, Zhao S, Ding A, Lin Q, Xu D, Hong Y, Wang L, Zheng P. Characteristics of Microbial Communities and Their Correlation With Environmental Substrates and Sediment Type in the Gas-Bearing Formation of Hangzhou Bay, China. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2421. [PMID: 31708895 PMCID: PMC6819322 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Shallow gas is a kind of natural gas buried in shallow strata, generally, with methane as the main component, endowing it a potential energy resource while also a potential risk to the safety of ground engineering and environment. Microbial activity is usually regarded as an important driving force to generate shallow gas via metabolizing the environmental substrates. Therefore, the research on the microbial communities will be helpful to reveal the distribution of shallow gas in the gas-bearing formation. In this study, 30 sediment samples below the seabed in Hangzhou Bay (China) from depths of 1.5 m to 55 m were collected to investigate their microbial community, environmental characteristics and sediment type (clay or sand). It turned out that the presence of shallow gas had a good correlation with the distribution of archaea rather than bacteria, with the dominant microbe of Bathyarchaeota, Thaumarchaeota, and Euryarchaeota in the formation. Methanosarcinaceae and ANME-1a with the capacity of methane metabolism occupied high proportions. The correlation analysis and redundancy analysis (RDA) suggested that ammonium was a key environmental substrate to indicate the microbial community in the formation. The sediment type was proposed to shape environmental substrates in the formation, thus further affecting the microbial communities. The clay strata were demonstrated to have an important role in the generation and distribution of shallow gas, and more attention should be paid in terms of its resource discovery and engineering safety assessment.
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- Tao Yu
- Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Offshore Geotechnics and Material of Zhejiang Province, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Environmental Science, College of Resources and Environmental Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Offshore Geotechnics and Material of Zhejiang Province, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Offshore Geotechnics and Material of Zhejiang Province, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Environmental & Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Dutta A, Sar P, Sarkar J, Dutta Gupta S, Gupta A, Bose H, Mukherjee A, Roy S. Archaeal Communities in Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Underneath the Deccan Traps, India. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1362. [PMID: 31379755 PMCID: PMC6646420 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Archaeal community structure and potential functions within the deep, aphotic, oligotrophic, hot, igneous provinces of ∼65 Myr old basalt and its Archean granitic basement was explored through archaeal 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing from extracted environmental DNA of rocks. Rock core samples from three distinct horizons, basaltic (BS), transition (weathered granites) (TZ) and granitic (GR) showed limited organic carbon (4–48 mg/kg) and varied concentrations (<1.0–5000 mg/kg) of sulfate, nitrate, nitrite, iron and metal oxides. Quantitative PCR estimated the presence of nearly 103–104 archaeal cells per gram of rock. Archaeal communities within BS and GR horizons were distinct. The absence of any common OTU across the samples indicated restricted dispersal of archaeal cells. Younger, relatively organic carbon- and Fe2O3-rich BS rocks harbor Euryarchaeota, along with varied proportions of Thaumarchaeota and Crenarchaeota. Extreme acid loving, thermotolerant sulfur respiring Thermoplasmataceae, heterotrophic, ferrous-/H-sulfide oxidizing Ferroplasmaceae and Halobacteriaceae were more abundant and closely interrelated within BS rocks. Samples from the GR horizon represent a unique composition with higher proportions of Thaumarchaeota and uneven distribution of Euryarchaeota and Bathyarchaeota affiliated to Methanomicrobia, SAGMCG-1, FHMa11 terrestrial group, AK59 and unclassified taxa. Acetoclastic methanogenic Methanomicrobia, autotrophic SAGMCG-1 and MCG of Thaumarcheaota could be identified as the signature groups within the organic carbon lean GR horizon. Sulfur-oxidizing Sulfolobaceae was relatively more abundant in sulfate-rich amygdaloidal basalt and migmatitic gneiss samples. Methane-oxidizing ANME-3 populations were found to be ubiquitous, but their abundance varied greatly between the analyzed samples. Changes in diversity pattern among the BS and GR horizons highlighted the significance of local rock geochemistry, particularly the availability of organic carbon, Fe2O3 and other nutrients as well as physical constraints (temperature and pressure) in a niche-specific colonization of extremophilic archaeal communities. The study provided the first deep sequencing-based illustration of an intricate association between diverse extremophilic groups (acidophile-halophile-methanogenic), capable of sulfur/iron/methane metabolism and thus shed new light on their potential role in biogeochemical cycles and energy flow in deep biosphere hosted by hot, oligotrophic igneous crust.
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- Avishek Dutta
- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India.,School of Bioscience, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India.,Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Ministry of Earth Sciences, Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory, Karad, India.,CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
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Mamuad LL, Kim SH, Biswas AA, Yu Z, Cho KK, Kim SB, Lee K, Lee SS. Rumen fermentation and microbial community composition influenced by live Enterococcus faecium supplementation. AMB Express 2019; 9:123. [PMID: 31363877 PMCID: PMC6667549 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-019-0848-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Supplementation of appropriate probiotics can improve the health and productivity of ruminants while mitigating environmental methane production. Hence, this study was conducted to determine the effects of Enterococcus faecium SROD on in vitro rumen fermentation, methane concentration, and microbial population structure. Ruminal samples were collected from ruminally cannulated Holstein–Friesian cattle, and 40:60 rice straw to concentrate ratio was used as substrate. Fresh culture of E. faecium SROD at different inclusion rates (0, 0.1%, 0.5%, and 1.0%) were investigated using in vitro rumen fermentation system. Addition of E. faecium SROD had a significant effect on total gas production with the greatest effect observed with 0.1% supplementation; however, there was no significant influence on pH. Supplementation of 0.1% E. faecium SROD resulted in the highest propionate (P = 0.005) but the lowest methane concentration (P = 0.001). In addition, acetate, butyrate, and total VFA concentrations in treatments were comparatively higher than control. Bioinformatics analysis revealed the predominance of the bacterial phyla Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes and the archaeal phylum Euryarchaeota. At the genus level, Prevotella (15–17%) and Methanobrevibacter (96%) dominated the bacterial and archaeal communities of the in vitro rumen fermenta, respectively. Supplementation of 0.1% E. faecium SROD resulted in the highest quantities of total bacteria and Ruminococcus flavefaciens, whereas 1.0% E. faecium SROD resulted in the highest contents of total fungi and Fibrobacter succinogenes. Overall, supplementation of 0.1% E. faecium SROD significantly increased the propionate and total volatile fatty acids concentrations but decreased the methane concentration while changing the microbial community abundance and composition.
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Wemheuer F, von Hoyningen-Huene AJE, Pohlner M, Degenhardt J, Engelen B, Daniel R, Wemheuer B. Primary Production in the Water Column as Major Structuring Element of the Biogeographical Distribution and Function of Archaea in Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Pacific Ocean. ARCHAEA (VANCOUVER, B.C.) 2019; 2019:3717239. [PMID: 31015799 PMCID: PMC6421829 DOI: 10.1155/2019/3717239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Revised: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Information on environmental conditions shaping archaeal communities thriving at the seafloor of the central Pacific Ocean is limited. The present study was conducted to investigate the diversity, composition, and function of both entire and potentially active archaeal communities within Pacific deep-sea sediments. For this purpose, sediment samples were taken along the 180° meridian of the central Pacific Ocean. Community composition and diversity were assessed by Illumina tag sequencing targeting archaeal 16S rRNA genes and transcripts. Archaeal communities were dominated by Candidatus Nitrosopumilus (Thaumarchaeota) and other members of the Nitrosopumilaceae (Thaumarchaeota), but higher relative abundances of the Marine Group II (Euryarchaeota) were observed in the active compared to the entire archaeal community. The composition of the entire and the active archaeal communities was strongly linked to primary production (chlorophyll content), explaining more than 40% of the variance. Furthermore, we found a strong correlation of the entire archaeal community composition to latitude and silicic acid content, while the active community was significantly correlated with primary production and ferric oxide content. We predicted functional profiles from 16S rRNA data to assess archaeal community functions. Latitude was significantly correlated with functional profiles of the entire community, whereas those of the active community were significantly correlated with nitrate and chlorophyll content. The results of the present study provide first insights into benthic archaeal communities in the Pacific Ocean and environmental conditions shaping their diversity, distribution, and function. Additionally, they might serve as a template for further studies investigating archaea colonizing deep-sea sediments.
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- Franziska Wemheuer
- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Applied Marine and Estuarine Ecology, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Paleomicrobiology Group, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Paleomicrobiology Group, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Paleomicrobiology Group, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Cui H, Su X, Chen F, Holland M, Yang S, Liang J, Su P, Dong H, Hou W. Microbial diversity of two cold seep systems in gas hydrate-bearing sediments in the South China Sea. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2019; 144:230-239. [PMID: 30732863 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2019.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Revised: 12/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Cold seep is a unique habitat for microorganisms in deep marine sediments, and microbial communities and biogeochemical processes are still poorly understood, especially in relation to hydrate-bearing geo-systems. In this study, two cold seep systems were sampled and microbial diversity was studied at Site GMGS2-08 in the northern part of the South China Sea (SCS) during the GMGS2 gas hydrate expedition. The current cold seep system was composed of a sulfate methane transition zone (SMTZ) and an upper gas hydrate zone (UGHZ). The buried cold seep system was composed of an authigenic carbonate zone (ACZ) and a lower gas hydrate zone (LGHZ). These drill core samples provided an excellent opportunity for analyzing the microbial abundance and diversity based on quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Compared to previous studies, the high relative abundance of ANME-1b, a clade of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME), may perform anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in collaboration with ANME-2c and Desulfobacteraceae in the SMTZ, and the high relative abundances of Hadesarchaea, ANME-1b archaea and Aerophobetes bacteria were found in the gas hydrate zone (GHZ) at Site GMGS2-08. ANME-1b, detected in the GHZ, might mainly mediate the AOM process, and the process might occur in a wide depth range within the LGHZ. Moreover, bacterial communities were significantly different between the GHZ and non-GHZ sediments. In the ACZ, archaeal communities were different between the two samples from the upper and the lower layers, while bacterial communities shared similarities. Overall, this new record of cold seep microbial diversity at Site GMGS2-08 showed the complexity of the interaction between biogeochemical reactions and environmental conditions.
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- Hongpeng Cui
- School of Ocean Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China; State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Ocean Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China; State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China.
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- Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guangzhou, 510075, China
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- Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guangzhou, 510075, China
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- Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guangzhou, 510075, China.
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- Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guangzhou, 510075, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China; Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, OH, 45056, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
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Zhou Z, Pan J, Wang F, Gu JD, Li M. Bathyarchaeota: globally distributed metabolic generalists in anoxic environments. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2018; 42:639-655. [PMID: 29790926 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuy023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Bathyarchaeota, formerly known as the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal Group, is a phylum of global generalists that are widespread in anoxic sediments, which host relatively high abundance archaeal communities. Until now, 25 subgroups have been identified in the Bathyarchaeota. The distinct bathyarchaeotal subgroups diverged to adapt to marine and freshwater environments. Based on the physiological and genomic evidence, acetyl-coenzyme A-centralized heterotrophic pathways of energy conservation have been proposed to function in Bathyarchaeota; these microbes are able to anaerobically utilize (i) detrital proteins, (ii) polymeric carbohydrates, (iii) fatty acids/aromatic compounds, (iv) methane (or short chain alkane) and methylated compounds, and/or (v) potentially other organic matter. Furthermore, bathyarchaeotal members have wide metabolic capabilities, including acetogenesis, methane metabolism, and dissimilatory nitrogen and sulfur reduction, and they also have potential interactions with anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea, acetoclastic methanogens and heterotrophic bacteria. These results have not only demonstrated multiple and important ecological functions of this archaeal phylum, but also paved the way for a detailed understanding of the evolution and metabolism of archaea as such. This review summarizes the recent findings pertaining to the ecological, physiological and genomic aspects of Bathyarchaeota, highlighting the vital role of this phylum in global carbon cycling.
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- Zhichao Zhou
- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China.,Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.,State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China
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Zhou Z, Liu Y, Lloyd KG, Pan J, Yang Y, Gu JD, Li M. Genomic and transcriptomic insights into the ecology and metabolism of benthic archaeal cosmopolitan, Thermoprofundales (MBG-D archaea). ISME JOURNAL 2018; 13:885-901. [PMID: 30514872 PMCID: PMC6461988 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0321-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Revised: 10/07/2018] [Accepted: 11/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Marine Benthic Group D (MBG-D) archaea, discovered by 16S rRNA gene survey decades ago, are ecologically important, yet understudied and uncultured sedimentary archaea. In this study, a comprehensive meta-analysis based on the 16S rRNA genes of MBG-D archaea showed that MBG-D archaea are one of the most frequently found archaeal lineages in global sediment with widespread distribution and high abundance, including 16 subgroups in total. Interestingly, some subgroups show significant segregations toward salinity and methane seeps. Co-occurrence analyses indicate significant non-random association of MBG-D archaea with Lokiarchaeota (in both saline and freshwater sediments) and Hadesarchaea, suggesting potential interactions among these archaeal groups. Meanwhile, based on four nearly complete metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) and corresponding metatranscriptomes reconstructed from mangrove and intertidal mudflat sediments, we provide insights on metabolic potentials and ecological functions of MBG-D archaea. MBG-D archaea appear to be capable of transporting and assimilating peptides and generating acetate and ethanol through fermentation. Metatranscriptomic analysis suggests high expression of genes for acetate and amino acid utilization and for peptidases, especially the M09B-type extracellular peptidase (collagenase) showing high expression levels in all four mangrove MAGs. Beyond heterotrophic central carbon metabolism, the MBG-D genomes include genes that might encode two autotrophic pathways: Wood–Ljundahl (WL) pathways using both H4MPT and H4folate as C1 carriers, and an incomplete dicarboxylate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle with alternative bypasses from pyruvate to malate/oxaloacetate during dicarboxylation. These findings reveal MBG-D archaea as an important ubiquitous benthic sedimentary archaeal group with specific mixotrophic metabolisms, so we proposed the name Thermoprofundales as a new Order within the Class Thermoplasmata. Globally, Thermoprofundales and other benthic archaea might synergistically transform benthic organic matter, possibly playing a vital role in sedimentary carbon cycle.
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- Zhichao Zhou
- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.,Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China.
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Selivanova EA, Poshvina DV, Khlopko YA, Gogoleva NE, Plotnikov AO. Diversity of Prokaryotes in Planktonic Communities of Saline Sol-Iletsk lakes (Orenburg Oblast, Russia). Microbiology (Reading) 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026261718040161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Yu T, Liang Q, Niu M, Wang F. High occurrence of Bathyarchaeota (MCG) in the deep-sea sediments of South China Sea quantified using newly designed PCR primers. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2017; 9:374-382. [PMID: 28419783 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota, which is composed of a large number of diverse lineages, is widespread and abundant in marine sediments. Environmental factors that control the distribution, abundance and evolution of this largely diversified archaeal phylum are currently unclear. In this study, a new pair of specific primers that target the major marine subgroups of bathyarchaeotal 16S rRNA genes was designed and evaluated to investigate the distribution and abundance of Bathyarchaeota in marine sediments. The abundance of Bathyarchaeota along two sediment cores from the deep-sea sediments of South China Sea (SCS, each from the Dongsha and Shenhu area) was determined. A strong correlation was found between the bathyarchaeotal abundance and the content of total organic carbon (TOC), suggesting an important role of Bathyarchaeota in organic matter remineralisation in the sediments of SCS. Furthermore, diversity analysis revealed that subgroups Bathy-2, Bathy-8 and Bathy-10 were dominant bathyarchaeotal members of the deep-sea sediments in the SCS. Bathy-8 was found predominantly within the reducing and deeper sediment layers, while Bathy-10 occurred preferentially in the oxidizing and shallower sediment layers. Our study lays a foundation for the further understanding of the ecological functions and niche differentiation of the important but not well-understood sedimentary archaeal group.
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- Tiantian Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Mineral Resources, Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Guangzhou, 510070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Rajput A, Kumar M. Computational Exploration of Putative LuxR Solos in Archaea and Their Functional Implications in Quorum Sensing. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:798. [PMID: 28515720 PMCID: PMC5413776 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2017] [Accepted: 04/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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LuxR solos are unexplored in Archaea, despite their vital role in the bacterial regulatory network. They assist bacteria in perceiving acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) and/or non-AHLs signaling molecules for establishing intraspecies, interspecies, and interkingdom communication. In this study, we explored the potential LuxR solos of Archaea from InterPro v62.0 meta-database employing taxonomic, probable function, distribution, and evolutionary aspects to decipher their role in quorum sensing (QS). Our bioinformatics analyses showed that putative LuxR solos of Archaea shared few conserved domains with bacterial LuxR despite having less similarity within proteins. Functional characterization revealed their ability to bind various AHLs and/or non-AHLs signaling molecules that involve in QS cascades alike bacteria. Further, the phylogenetic study indicates that Archaeal LuxR solos (with less substitution per site) evolved divergently from bacteria and share distant homology along with instances of horizontal gene transfer. Moreover, Archaea possessing putative LuxR solos, exhibit the correlation between taxonomy and ecological niche despite being the inhabitant of diverse habitats like halophilic, thermophilic, barophilic, methanogenic, and chemolithotrophic. Therefore, this study would shed light in deciphering the role of the putative LuxR solos of Archaea to adapt varied habitats via multilevel communication with other organisms using QS.
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- Akanksha Rajput
- Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchChandigarh, India
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- Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchChandigarh, India
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Stagars MH, Mishra S, Treude T, Amann R, Knittel K. Microbial Community Response to Simulated Petroleum Seepage in Caspian Sea Sediments. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:764. [PMID: 28503173 PMCID: PMC5409227 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Anaerobic microbial hydrocarbon degradation is a major biogeochemical process at marine seeps. Here we studied the response of the microbial community to petroleum seepage simulated for 190 days in a sediment core from the Caspian Sea using a sediment-oil-flow-through (SOFT) system. Untreated (without simulated petroleum seepage) and SOFT sediment microbial communities shared 43% bacterial genus-level 16S rRNA-based operational taxonomic units (OTU0.945) but shared only 23% archaeal OTU0.945. The community differed significantly between sediment layers. The detection of fourfold higher deltaproteobacterial cell numbers in SOFT than in untreated sediment at depths characterized by highest sulfate reduction rates and strongest decrease of gaseous and mid-chain alkane concentrations indicated a specific response of hydrocarbon-degrading Deltaproteobacteria. Based on an increase in specific CARD-FISH cell numbers, we suggest the following groups of sulfate-reducing bacteria to be likely responsible for the observed decrease in aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbon concentration in SOFT sediments: clade SCA1 for propane and butane degradation, clade LCA2 for mid- to long-chain alkane degradation, clade Cyhx for cycloalkanes, pentane and hexane degradation, and relatives of Desulfobacula for toluene degradation. Highest numbers of archaea of the genus Methanosarcina were found in the methanogenic zone of the SOFT core where we detected preferential degradation of long-chain hydrocarbons. Sequencing of masD, a marker gene for alkane degradation encoding (1-methylalkyl)succinate synthase, revealed a low diversity in SOFT sediment with two abundant species-level MasD OTU0.96.
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- Marion H Stagars
- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyBremen, Germany
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- Department of Marine Biogeochemistry, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research KielKiel, Germany
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- Department of Marine Biogeochemistry, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research KielKiel, Germany.,Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los AngelesCA, USA.,Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los AngelesCA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyBremen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyBremen, Germany
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Wurzbacher C, Fuchs A, Attermeyer K, Frindte K, Grossart HP, Hupfer M, Casper P, Monaghan MT. Shifts among Eukaryota, Bacteria, and Archaea define the vertical organization of a lake sediment. MICROBIOME 2017; 5:41. [PMID: 28388930 PMCID: PMC5385010 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-017-0255-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2016] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Lake sediments harbor diverse microbial communities that cycle carbon and nutrients while being constantly colonized and potentially buried by organic matter sinking from the water column. The interaction of activity and burial remained largely unexplored in aquatic sediments. We aimed to relate taxonomic composition to sediment biogeochemical parameters, test whether community turnover with depth resulted from taxonomic replacement or from richness effects, and to provide a basic model for the vertical community structure in sediments. METHODS We analyzed four replicate sediment cores taken from 30-m depth in oligo-mesotrophic Lake Stechlin in northern Germany. Each 30-cm core spanned ca. 170 years of sediment accumulation according to 137Cs dating and was sectioned into layers 1-4 cm thick. We examined a full suite of biogeochemical parameters and used DNA metabarcoding to examine community composition of microbial Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryota. RESULTS Community β-diversity indicated nearly complete turnover within the uppermost 30 cm. We observed a pronounced shift from Eukaryota- and Bacteria-dominated upper layers (<5 cm) to Bacteria-dominated intermediate layers (5-14 cm) and to deep layers (>14 cm) dominated by enigmatic Archaea that typically occur in deep-sea sediments. Taxonomic replacement was the prevalent mechanism in structuring the community composition and was linked to parameters indicative of microbial activity (e.g., CO2 and CH4 concentration, bacterial protein production). Richness loss played a lesser role but was linked to conservative parameters (e.g., C, N, P) indicative of past conditions. CONCLUSIONS By including all three domains, we were able to directly link the exponential decay of eukaryotes with the active sediment microbial community. The dominance of Archaea in deeper layers confirms earlier findings from marine systems and establishes freshwater sediments as a potential low-energy environment, similar to deep sea sediments. We propose a general model of sediment structure and function based on microbial characteristics and burial processes. An upper "replacement horizon" is dominated by rapid taxonomic turnover with depth, high microbial activity, and biotic interactions. A lower "depauperate horizon" is characterized by low taxonomic richness, more stable "low-energy" conditions, and a dominance of enigmatic Archaea.
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- Christian Wurzbacher
- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, Berlin, 12587 Germany
- Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, Berlin, 14195 Germany
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 100, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118, Oldenburg, 26129 Germany
- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, Stechlin, 16775 Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, Stechlin, 16775 Germany
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18d, Uppsala, 75236 Sweden
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, Stechlin, 16775 Germany
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – Molecular Biology of the Rhizosphere, Nussallee 13, Bonn, 53115 Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, Stechlin, 16775 Germany
- Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam University, Maulbeerallee 2, Potsdam, 14469 Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, Berlin, 12587 Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, Stechlin, 16775 Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, Berlin, 12587 Germany
- Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, Berlin, 14195 Germany
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Distribution of Bathyarchaeota Communities Across Different Terrestrial Settings and Their Potential Ecological Functions. Sci Rep 2017; 7:45028. [PMID: 28322330 PMCID: PMC5359579 DOI: 10.1038/srep45028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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High abundance and widespread distribution of the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota in marine environment have been recognized recently, but knowledge about Bathyarchaeota in terrestrial settings and their correlation with environmental parameters is fairly limited. Here we reported the abundance of Bathyarchaeota members across different ecosystems and their correlation with environmental factors by constructing 16S rRNA clone libraries of peat from the Dajiuhu Peatland, coupling with bioinformatics analysis of 16S rRNA data available to date in NCBI database. In total, 1456 Bathyarchaeota sequences from 28 sites were subjected to UniFrac analysis based on phylogenetic distance and multivariate regression tree analysis of taxonomy. Both phylogenetic and taxon-based approaches showed that salinity, total organic carbon and temperature significantly influenced the distribution of Bathyarchaeota across different terrestrial habitats. By applying the ecological concept of 'indicator species', we identify 9 indicator groups among the 6 habitats with the most in the estuary sediments. Network analysis showed that members of Bathyarchaeota formed the "backbone" of archaeal community and often co-occurred with Methanomicrobia. These results suggest that Bathyarchaeota may play an important ecological role within archaeal communities via a potential symbiotic association with Methanomicrobia. Our results shed light on understanding of the biogeography, potential functions of Bathyarchaeota and environment conditions that influence Bathyarchaea distribution in terrestrial settings.
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Chernitsyna SM, Mamaeva EV, Lomakina AV, Pogodaeva TV, Galach’yants YP, Bukin SV, Pimenov NV, Khlystov OM, Zemskaya TI. Phylogenetic diversity of microbial communities of the Posolsk Bank bottom sediments, Lake Baikal. Microbiology (Reading) 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026261716060060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Yao XF, Zhang JM, Tian L, Guo JH. The effect of heavy metal contamination on the bacterial community structure at Jiaozhou Bay, China. Braz J Microbiol 2016; 48:71-78. [PMID: 27751665 PMCID: PMC5220637 DOI: 10.1016/j.bjm.2016.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 07/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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In this study, determination of heavy metal parameters and microbiological characterization of marine sediments obtained from two heavily polluted sites and one low-grade contaminated reference station at Jiaozhou Bay in China were carried out. The microbial communities found in the sampled marine sediments were studied using PCR-DGGE (denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis) fingerprinting profiles in combination with multivariate analysis. Clustering analysis of DGGE and matrix of heavy metals displayed similar occurrence patterns. On this basis, 17 samples were classified into two clusters depending on the presence or absence of the high level contamination. Moreover, the cluster of highly contaminated samples was further classified into two sub-groups based on the stations of their origin. These results showed that the composition of the bacterial community is strongly influenced by heavy metal variables present in the sediments found in the Jiaozhou Bay. This study also suggested that metagenomic techniques such as PCR-DGGE fingerprinting in combination with multivariate analysis is an efficient method to examine the effect of metal contamination on the bacterial community structure.
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- Xie-Feng Yao
- Institute of Vegetable Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, China
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- First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China; Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao, China
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- First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China; Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao, China.
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- Nanjing Agricultural University, College of Plant Protection, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing, China.
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Lauer A, Sørensen KB, Teske A. Phylogenetic Characterization of Marine Benthic Archaea in Organic-Poor Sediments of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean (ODP Site 1225). Microorganisms 2016; 4:microorganisms4030032. [PMID: 27681926 PMCID: PMC5039592 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms4030032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Revised: 07/16/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sequencing surveys of microbial communities in marine subsurface sediments have focused on organic-rich, continental margins; the database for organic-lean deep-sea sediments from mid-ocean regions is underdeveloped. The archaeal community in subsurface sediments of ODP Site 1225 in the eastern equatorial Pacific (3760 m water depth; 1.1 and 7.8 m sediment depth) was analyzed by PCR, cloning and sequencing, and by denaturant gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of 16S rRNA genes. Three uncultured archaeal lineages with different depth distributions were found: Marine Group I (MG-I) within the Thaumarchaeota, its sister lineage Marine Benthic Group A (MBG-A), the phylum-level archaeal lineage Marine Benthic Group B (also known as Deep-Sea Archaeal Group or Lokiarchaeota), and the Deep-Sea Euryarchaeotal Group 3. The MG-I phylotypes included representatives of sediment clusters that are distinct from the pelagic members of this phylum. On the scale from fully oxidized, extremely organic carbon-depleted sediments (for example, those the South Pacific Gyre) to fully reduced, organic carbon-rich marine subsurface sediments (such as those of the Peru Margin), Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1225 falls into the non-extreme organic carbon-lean category, and harbors archaeal communities from both ends of the spectrum.
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- Antje Lauer
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
- Biology Department, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA 93311-1022, USA.
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
- Ramboll, Copenhagen DK-2300, Denmark.
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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Walsh EA, Kirkpatrick JB, Pockalny R, Sauvage J, Spivack AJ, Murray RW, Sogin ML, D'Hondt S. Relationship of Bacterial Richness to Organic Degradation Rate and Sediment Age in Subseafloor Sediment. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:4994-9. [PMID: 27287321 PMCID: PMC4968545 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00809-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Subseafloor sediment hosts a large, taxonomically rich, and metabolically diverse microbial ecosystem. However, the factors that control microbial diversity in subseafloor sediment have rarely been explored. Here, we show that bacterial richness varies with organic degradation rate and sediment age. At three open-ocean sites (in the Bering Sea and equatorial Pacific) and one continental margin site (Indian Ocean), richness decreases exponentially with increasing sediment depth. The rate of decrease in richness with increasing depth varies from site to site. The vertical succession of predominant terminal electron acceptors correlates with abundance-weighted community composition but does not drive the vertical decrease in richness. Vertical patterns of richness at the open-ocean sites closely match organic degradation rates; both properties are highest near the seafloor and decline together as sediment depth increases. This relationship suggests that (i) total catabolic activity and/or electron donor diversity exerts a primary influence on bacterial richness in marine sediment and (ii) many bacterial taxa that are poorly adapted for subseafloor sedimentary conditions are degraded in the geologically young sediment, where respiration rates are high. Richness consistently takes a few hundred thousand years to decline from near-seafloor values to much lower values in deep anoxic subseafloor sediment, regardless of sedimentation rate, predominant terminal electron acceptor, or oceanographic context. IMPORTANCE Subseafloor sediment provides a wonderful opportunity to investigate the drivers of microbial diversity in communities that may have been isolated for millions of years. Our paper shows the impact of in situ conditions on bacterial community structure in subseafloor sediment. Specifically, it shows that bacterial richness in subseafloor sediment declines exponentially with sediment age, and in parallel with organic-fueled oxidation rate. This result suggests that subseafloor diversity ultimately depends on electron donor diversity and/or total community respiration. This work studied how and why biological richness changes over time in the extraordinary ecosystem of subseafloor sediment.
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- Emily A Walsh
- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
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- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
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- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
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- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
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- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
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Bukin SV, Pavlova ON, Manakov AY, Kostyreva EA, Chernitsyna SM, Mamaeva EV, Pogodaeva TV, Zemskaya TI. The Ability of Microbial Community of Lake Baikal Bottom Sediments Associated with Gas Discharge to Carry Out the Transformation of Organic Matter under Thermobaric Conditions. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:690. [PMID: 27242716 PMCID: PMC4861714 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The ability to compare the composition and metabolic potential of microbial communities inhabiting the subsurface sediment in geographically distinct locations is one of the keys to understanding the evolution and function of the subsurface biosphere. Prospective areas for study of the subsurface biosphere are the sites of hydrocarbon discharges on the bottom of the Lake Baikal rift, where ascending fluxes of gas-saturated fluids and oil from deep layers of bottom sediments seep into near-surface sediment. The samples of surface sediments collected in the area of the Posolskaya Bank methane seep were cultured for 17 months under thermobaric conditions (80°C, 5 MPa) with the addition of complementary organic substrate, and a different composition for the gas phase. After incubation, the presence of intact cells of microorganisms, organic matter transformation and the formation of oil biomarkers was confirmed in the samples, with the addition of Baikal diatom alga Synedra acus detritus, and gas mixture CH4:H2:CO2. Taxonomic assignment of the 16S rRNA sequence data indicates that the predominant sequences in the enrichment were Sphingomonas (55.3%), Solirubrobacter (27.5%) and Arthrobacter (16.6%). At the same time, in heat-killed sediment and in sediment without any additional substrates, which were cultivated in a CH4 atmosphere, no geochemical changes were detected, nor the presence of intact cells and 16S rRNA sequences of Bacteria and Archaea. This data may suggest that the decomposition of organic matter under culturing conditions could be performed by microorganisms from low-temperature sediment layers. One possible explanation of this phenomenon is migration of the representatives of the deep thermophilic community through fault zones in the near surface sediment layers, together with gas-bearing fluids.
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- Sergei V Bukin
- Laboratory of Hydrocarbon Microbiology, Limnological Institute, Russian Academy of Science Irkutsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Hydrocarbon Microbiology, Limnological Institute, Russian Academy of Science Irkutsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Clathrate Compounds, Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Petroleum Geochemistry, Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Russian Academy of Science Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Hydrocarbon Microbiology, Limnological Institute, Russian Academy of Science Irkutsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Hydrocarbon Microbiology, Limnological Institute, Russian Academy of Science Irkutsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Hydrochemistry and Atmosphere Chemistry, Limnological Institute, Russian Academy of Science Irkutsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Hydrocarbon Microbiology, Limnological Institute, Russian Academy of Science Irkutsk, Russia
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Lee YY, Kim TG, Cho KS. Performances of microbial fuel cells fed with rejected wastewater from BioCH4 and BioH2 processes treating molasses wastewater. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART A, TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2016; 51:318-324. [PMID: 26756976 DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2015.1109394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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An integrated process involving conventional anaerobic digestion and microbial fuel cells (MFCs) has attracted attention recently to produce sustainable energy and to treat wastewater efficiently. To evaluate the possibility of CH4-producing process (BioCH4)-MFC or H2-producing process (BioH2)-MFC integrating systems, the MFC performances were investigated using rejected wastewater from a BioCH4 reactor (RWCH4) or BioH2 reactor (RWH2) treating molasses wastewater. When RWCH4 or RWH2 was fed into a single-chamber MFC reactor (designated as AC-MFCCH4 and AC-MFCH2, respectively) at different hydraulic retention times (HRT) of 1-7 d, both MFC systems showed maximum electricity production efficiencies at a HRT of 3 d. In the AC-MFCCH4 reactor, the average current density and average power density were 60.5 mA·m(-2) and 8.8 mW·m(-2), respectively. The AC-MFCH2 reactor generated an average current density of 71.4 mA·m(-2) and an average power density of 12.0 mW·m(-2). The COD removal rates were 45.7% in the AC-MFCCH4 reactor and 90.3% in the AC-MFCH2 reactor. There were no significant differences of the eubacterial community structures between the MFC systems, where Proteobacteria was remarkably dominant in both MFC systems. However, the archaeal community structures were significantly different where Methanothrix (89.3%) was remarkably dominant in the AC-MFCCH4 system, while Methanothrix (52.5%) and Methanosarcina (33.5%) were abundant in the AC-MFCH2 system. These findings demonstrate that the utilization of MFCs after the BioCH4 or BioH2 process is advantageous for energy recovery as well as COD removal from molasses wastewater.
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- Yun-Yeong Lee
- a Department of Environmental Science and Engineering , Ewha Womans University , Seoul , Republic of Korea
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- a Department of Environmental Science and Engineering , Ewha Womans University , Seoul , Republic of Korea
- b Present address for Tae G. Kim, Ecological Information Management Team , National Institute of Ecology , Choongnam, 325-813, 33657 , Republic of Korea
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- a Department of Environmental Science and Engineering , Ewha Womans University , Seoul , Republic of Korea
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Nunoura T, Takaki Y, Shimamura S, Kakuta J, Kazama H, Hirai M, Masui N, Tomaru H, Morono Y, Imachi H, Inagaki F, Takai K. Variance and potential niche separation of microbial communities in subseafloor sediments off Shimokita Peninsula, Japan. Environ Microbiol 2015; 18:1889-906. [PMID: 26486095 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2015] [Revised: 08/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Subseafloor pelagic sediments with high concentrations of organic matter form habitats for diverse microorganisms. Here, we determined depth profiles of genes for SSU rRNA, mcrA, dsrA and amoA from just beneath the seafloor to 363.3 m below the seafloor (mbsf) using core samples obtained from the forearc basin off the Shimokita Peninsula. The molecular profiles were combined with data on lithostratigraphy, depositional age, sedimentation rate and pore-water chemistry. The SSU rRNA gene tag structure and diversity changed at around the sulfate-methane transition zone (SMTZ), whereas the profiles varied further with depth below the SMTZ, probably in connection with the variation in pore-water chemistry. The depth profiles of diversity and abundance of dsrA, a key gene for sulfate reduction, suggested the possible niche separations of sulfate-reducing populations, even below the SMTZ. The diversity and abundance patterns of mcrA, a key gene for methanogenesis/anaerobic methanotrophy, suggested a stratified distribution and separation of anaerobic methanotrophy and hydrogenotrophic or methylotrophic methanogensis below the SMTZ. This study provides novel insights into the relationships between the composition and function of microbial communities and the chemical environment in the nutrient-rich continental margin subseafloor sediments, which may result in niche separation and variability in subseafloor microbial populations.
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- Takuro Nunoura
- Marine Functional Biology Group, Research and Development Center for Marine Biosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- Marine Functional Biology Group, Research and Development Center for Marine Biosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan.,Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- Marine Functional Biology Group, Research and Development Center for Marine Biosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Nankoku, Kochi, Japan
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Inageku, Japan
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- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Nankoku, Kochi, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Nankoku, Kochi, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan
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Lee YY, Kim TG, Cho KS. Isolation and characterization of a novel electricity-producing yeast, Candida sp. IR11. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2015; 192:556-563. [PMID: 26092068 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.06.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2015] [Revised: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 06/05/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A novel iron-reducing yeast, Candida sp. IR11, was isolated from an anodic biofilm in a MFC reactor fed glucose as a feedstock. 200-250 mV of voltage was produced in the air-cathode MFC inoculated with a pure culture of the strain IR11 where glucose was supplied as a feedstock. When the strain IR11 was inoculated into a conventional MFC treating rejected wastewater from an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket, maximum power density and coulombic efficiency were enhanced from 15.2 ± 0.36 to 20.6 ± 1.52 mW m(-2) and from 14.4 ± 0.45% to 21.9 ± 0.71%, respectively. In addition, the inoculation with IR11 improved COD removal from 79.1 ± 1.53% to 91.3 ± 5.29%. The quantitative PCR results showed that the strain IR11 successfully attached the anodic biofilm of the MFC reactors. These results indicate that Candida sp. IR11 is a promising biocatalyst for the enhancement of MFC performance.
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- Yun-Yeong Lee
- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea.
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Devereux R, Mosher JJ, Vishnivetskaya TA, Brown SD, Beddick DL, Yates DF, Palumbo AV. Changes in northern Gulf of Mexico sediment bacterial and archaeal communities exposed to hypoxia. GEOBIOLOGY 2015; 13:478-493. [PMID: 25939270 DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Biogeochemical changes in marine sediments during coastal water hypoxia are well described, but less is known about underlying changes in microbial communities. Bacterial and archaeal communities in Louisiana continental shelf (LCS) hypoxic zone sediments were characterized by pyrosequencing 16S rRNA V4-region gene fragments obtained by PCR amplification of community genomic DNA with bacterial- or archaeal-specific primers. Duplicate LCS sediment cores collected during hypoxia had higher concentrations of Fe(II), and dissolved inorganic carbon, phosphate, and ammonium than cores collected when overlying water oxygen concentrations were normal. Pyrosequencing yielded 158,686 bacterial and 225,591 archaeal sequences from 20 sediment samples, representing five 2-cm depth intervals in the duplicate cores. Bacterial communities grouped by sampling date and sediment depth in a neighbor-joining analysis using Chao-Jaccard shared species values. Redundancy analysis indicated that variance in bacterial communities was mainly associated with differences in sediment chemistry between oxic and hypoxic water column conditions. Gammaproteobacteria (26.5%) were most prominent among bacterial sequences, followed by Firmicutes (9.6%), and Alphaproteobacteria (5.6%). Crenarchaeotal, thaumarchaeotal, and euryarchaeotal lineages accounted for 57%, 27%, and 16% of archaeal sequences, respectively. In Thaumarchaeota Marine Group I, sequences were 96-99% identical to the Nitrosopumilus maritimus SCM1 sequence, were highest in surficial sediments, and accounted for 31% of archaeal sequences when waters were normoxic vs. 13% of archaeal sequences when waters were hypoxic. Redundancy analysis showed Nitrosopumilus-related sequence abundance was correlated with high solid-phase Fe(III) concentrations, whereas most of the remaining archaeal clusters were not. In contrast, crenarchaeotal sequences were from phylogenetically diverse lineages, differed little in relative abundance between sampling times, and increased to high relative abundance with sediment depth. These results provide further evidence that marine sediment microbial community composition can be structured according to sediment chemistry and suggest the expansion of hypoxia in coastal waters may alter sediment microbial communities involved in carbon and nitrogen cycling.
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- Gulf Ecology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FL, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Gulf Ecology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FL, USA
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- Gulf Ecology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FL, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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Influence of DNA extraction method, 16S rRNA targeted hypervariable regions, and sample origin on microbial diversity detected by 454 pyrosequencing in marine chemosynthetic ecosystems. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 80:4626-39. [PMID: 24837380 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00592-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) opens up exciting possibilities for improving our knowledge of environmental microbial diversity, allowing rapid and cost-effective identification of both cultivated and uncultivated microorganisms. However, library preparation, sequencing, and analysis of the results can provide inaccurate representations of the studied community compositions. Therefore, all these steps need to be taken into account carefully. Here we evaluated the effects of DNA extraction methods, targeted 16S rRNA hypervariable regions, and sample origins on the diverse microbes detected by 454 pyrosequencing in marine cold seep and hydrothermal vent sediments. To assign the reads with enough taxonomic precision, we built a database with about 2,500 sequences from Archaea and Bacteria from deep-sea marine sediments, affiliated according to reference publications in the field. Thanks to statistical and diversity analyses as well as inference of operational taxonomic unit (OTU) networks, we show that (i) while DNA extraction methods do not seem to affect the results for some samples, they can lead to dramatic changes for others; and (ii) the choice of amplification and sequencing primers also considerably affects the microbial community detected in the samples. Thereby, very different proportions of pyrosequencing reads were obtained for some microbial lineages, such as the archaeal ANME-1, ANME-2c, and MBG-D and deltaproteobacterial subgroups. This work clearly indicates that the results from sequencing-based analyses, such as pyrosequencing, should be interpreted very carefully. Therefore, the combination of NGS with complementary approaches, such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)/catalyzed reporter deposition (CARD)-FISH or quantitative PCR (Q-PCR), would be desirable to gain a more comprehensive picture of environmental microbial communities.
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The close relation between Lactococcus and Methanosaeta is a keystone for stable methane production from molasses wastewater in a UASB reactor. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 99:8271-83. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6725-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Revised: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ravin NV, Mardanov AV, Skryabin KG. Metagenomics as a tool for the investigation of uncultured microorganisms. RUSS J GENET+ 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795415050063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lazar CS, Biddle JF, Meador TB, Blair N, Hinrichs KU, Teske AP. Environmental controls on intragroup diversity of the uncultured benthic archaea of the miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal group lineage naturally enriched in anoxic sediments of the White Oak River estuary (North Carolina, USA). Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:2228-38. [PMID: 25331558 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sediments of the White Oak River (WOR) estuary are situated on the coast of North Carolina harbour, one of the most diverse known populations of uncultured Archaea, specifically the miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal group (MCG). In order to constrain the environmental factors influencing the uncultured archaeal groups in the WOR estuary, biogeochemical profiles as well as archaeal 16S rRNA genes from sediment pushcores were analysed. The relative fraction of MCG Archaea in clone libraries decreased at shallow sediment depths (27% of the total MCG). A LINKTREE analysis of the MCG intragroup diversity reinforced the observation that the MCG subgroup 6 was found predominantly within sulfide-depleted shallow sediment layers; other subgroups (especially MCG-1 and MCG-5/8) occurred preferentially in deeper, more strongly reducing sediment layers. The available evidence from this study and published MCG distribution patterns indicates that the MCG-6 subgroup is a specialized MCG lineage that, in contrast to other MCG subgroups, prefers suboxic sediment horizons with minimal or no free sulfide. Collectively, our results reveal the habitat preferences of different MCG subgroups in the WOR sediments and suggest that physiological adaptations to distinct sedimentary geochemical niches evolved in different MCG subgroups.
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.,Organic Geochemistry Group, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, 19958, USA
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- Organic Geochemistry Group, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Organic Geochemistry Group, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28334, Germany
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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Aoki M, Ehara M, Saito Y, Yoshioka H, Miyazaki M, Saito Y, Miyashita A, Kawakami S, Yamaguchi T, Ohashi A, Nunoura T, Takai K, Imachi H. A long-term cultivation of an anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial community from deep-sea methane-seep sediment using a continuous-flow bioreactor. PLoS One 2014; 9:e105356. [PMID: 25141130 PMCID: PMC4139340 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2014] [Accepted: 07/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in marine sediments is an important global methane sink, but the physiological characteristics of AOM-associated microorganisms remain poorly understood. Here we report the cultivation of an AOM microbial community from deep-sea methane-seep sediment using a continuous-flow bioreactor with polyurethane sponges, called the down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) bioreactor. We anaerobically incubated deep-sea methane-seep sediment collected from the Nankai Trough, Japan, for 2,013 days in the bioreactor at 10°C. Following incubation, an active AOM activity was confirmed by a tracer experiment using 13C-labeled methane. Phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that phylogenetically diverse Archaea and Bacteria grew in the bioreactor. After 2,013 days of incubation, the predominant archaeal components were anaerobic methanotroph (ANME)-2a, Deep-Sea Archaeal Group, and Marine Benthic Group-D, and Gammaproteobacteria was the dominant bacterial lineage. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis showed that ANME-1 and -2a, and most ANME-2c cells occurred without close physical interaction with potential bacterial partners. Our data demonstrate that the DHS bioreactor system is a useful system for cultivating fastidious methane-seep-associated sedimentary microorganisms.
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- Masataka Aoki
- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
- Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Institute for Geo-resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
- Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
- Department of Construction Systems Engineering, Anan National College of Technology, Anan, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Social and Environmental Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Research and Development Center for Marine Biosciences, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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Sawulski P, Clipson N, Doyle E. Effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on microbial community structure and PAH ring hydroxylating dioxygenase gene abundance in soil. Biodegradation 2014; 25:835-47. [PMID: 25095739 DOI: 10.1007/s10532-014-9703-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2014] [Accepted: 07/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Development of successful bioremediation strategies for environments contaminated with recalcitrant pollutants requires in-depth knowledge of the microorganisms and microbial processes involved in degradation. The response of soil microbial communities to three polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, phenanthrene (3-ring), fluoranthene (4-ring) and benzo(a)pyrene (5-ring), was examined. Profiles of bacterial, archaeal and fungal communities were generated using molecular fingerprinting techniques (TRFLP, ARISA) and multivariate statistical tools were employed to interpret the effect of PAHs on community dynamics and composition. The extent and rate of PAH removal was directly related to the chemical structure, with the 5-ring PAH benzo(a)pyrene degraded more slowly than phenathrene or fluoranthene. Bacterial, archaeal and fungal communities were all significantly affected by PAH amendment, time and their interaction. Based on analysis of clone libraries, Actinobacteria appeared to dominate in fluoranthene amended soil, although they also represented a significant portion of the diversity in phenanthrene amended and unamended soils. In addition there appeared to be more γ-Proteobacteria and less Bacteroidetes in soil amended with either PAH compared to the control. The soil bacterial community clearly possessed the potential to degrade PAHs as evidenced by the abundance of PAH ring hydroxylating (PAH-RHDα) genes from both gram negative (GN) and gram positive (GP) bacteria in PAH-amended and control soils. Although the dioxygenase gene from GP bacteria was less abundant in soil than the gene associated with GN bacteria, significant (p < 0.001) increases in the abundance of the GP PAH-RHDα gene were observed during phenanthrene and fluoranthene degradation, whereas there was no significant difference in the abundance of the GN PAH-RHDα gene during the course of the experiment. Few studies to-date have examined the effect of pollutants on more than one microbial community in soil. The current study provides information on the response of soil bacterial, archaeal and fungal communities during the degradation of three priority pollutants and contributes to a knowledge base that can inform the development of effective bioremediation strategies for contaminated sites.
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- Przemyslaw Sawulski
- Environmental Microbiology Group, School of Biology and Environmental Science and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Tomova I, Dimitrova D, Stoilova-Disheva M, Lyutskanova D, Kambourova M. Archaeal Diversity at Two Hot Springs, Rupi Basin, Bulgaria. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 2014. [DOI: 10.5504/bbeq.2011.0120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Kawai M, Futagami T, Toyoda A, Takaki Y, Nishi S, Hori S, Arai W, Tsubouchi T, Morono Y, Uchiyama I, Ito T, Fujiyama A, Inagaki F, Takami H. High frequency of phylogenetically diverse reductive dehalogenase-homologous genes in deep subseafloor sedimentary metagenomes. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:80. [PMID: 24624126 PMCID: PMC3939436 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Marine subsurface sediments on the Pacific margin harbor diverse microbial communities even at depths of several hundreds meters below the seafloor (mbsf) or more. Previous PCR-based molecular analysis showed the presence of diverse reductive dehalogenase gene (rdhA) homologs in marine subsurface sediment, suggesting that anaerobic respiration of organohalides is one of the possible energy-yielding pathways in the organic-rich sedimentary habitat. However, primer-independent molecular characterization of rdhA has remained to be demonstrated. Here, we studied the diversity and frequency of rdhA homologs by metagenomic analysis of five different depth horizons (0.8, 5.1, 18.6, 48.5, and 107.0 mbsf) at Site C9001 off the Shimokita Peninsula of Japan. From all metagenomic pools, remarkably diverse rdhA-homologous sequences, some of which are affiliated with novel clusters, were observed with high frequency. As a comparison, we also examined frequency of dissimilatory sulfite reductase genes (dsrAB), key functional genes for microbial sulfate reduction. The dsrAB were also widely observed in the metagenomic pools whereas the frequency of dsrAB genes was generally smaller than that of rdhA-homologous genes. The phylogenetic composition of rdhA-homologous genes was similar among the five depth horizons. Our metagenomic data revealed that subseafloor rdhA homologs are more diverse than previously identified from PCR-based molecular studies. Spatial distribution of similar rdhA homologs across wide depositional ages indicates that the heterotrophic metabolic processes mediated by the genes can be ecologically important, functioning in the organic-rich subseafloor sedimentary biosphere.
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- Mikihiko Kawai
- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Nankoku, Japan ; Microbial Genome Research Group, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokosuka, Japan
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- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Nankoku, Japan ; Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan
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- Comparative Genomics Laboratory, Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics Mishima, Japan
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- Microbial Genome Research Group, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokosuka, Japan
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- Microbial Genome Research Group, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokosuka, Japan
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- Microbial Genome Research Group, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokosuka, Japan
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- Microbial Genome Research Group, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokosuka, Japan
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- Microbial Genome Research Group, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokosuka, Japan
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- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Nankoku, Japan ; Geobio-Engineering and Technology Group, Submarine Resources Research Project, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Nankoku, Japan
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- National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences Okazaki, Japan ; Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Okazaki, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology Yokohama, Japan
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- Comparative Genomics Laboratory, Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics Mishima, Japan
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- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Nankoku, Japan ; Geobio-Engineering and Technology Group, Submarine Resources Research Project, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Nankoku, Japan
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- Microbial Genome Research Group, Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Yokosuka, Japan
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Crenarchaeal heterotrophy in salt marsh sediments. ISME JOURNAL 2014; 8:1534-43. [PMID: 24553469 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2013] [Revised: 12/21/2013] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Mesophilic Crenarchaeota (also known as Thaumarchaeota) are ubiquitous and abundant in marine habitats. However, very little is known about their metabolic function in situ. In this study, salt marsh sediments from New Jersey were screened via stable isotope probing (SIP) for heterotrophy by amending with a single (13)C-labeled compound (acetate, glycine or urea) or a complex (13)C-biopolymer (lipids, proteins or growth medium (ISOGRO)). SIP incubations were done at two substrate concentrations (30-150 μM; 2-10 mg ml(-1)), and (13)C-labeled DNA was analyzed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) analysis of 16S rRNA genes. To test for autotrophy, an amendment with (13)C-bicarbonate was also performed. Our SIP analyses indicate salt marsh crenarchaea are heterotrophic, double within 2-3 days and often compete with heterotrophic bacteria for the same organic substrates. A clone library of (13)C-amplicons was screened to find matches to the (13)C-TRFLP peaks, with seven members of the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeal Group and seven members from the Marine Group 1.a Crenarchaeota being discerned. Some of these crenarchaea displayed a preference for particular carbon sources, whereas others incorporated nearly every (13)C-substrate provided. The data suggest salt marshes may be an excellent model system for studying crenarchaeal metabolic capabilities and can provide information on the competition between crenarchaea and other microbial groups to improve our understanding of microbial ecology.
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Meng J, Xu J, Qin D, He Y, Xiao X, Wang F. Genetic and functional properties of uncultivated MCG archaea assessed by metagenome and gene expression analyses. ISME JOURNAL 2013; 8:650-659. [PMID: 24108328 PMCID: PMC3930316 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2013] [Revised: 07/30/2013] [Accepted: 08/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The Miscellaneous Crenarchaeota group (MCG) Archaea is one of the predominant archaeal groups in anoxic environments and may have significant roles in the global biogeochemical cycles. However, no isolate of MCG has been cultivated or characterized to date. In this study, we investigated the genetic organization, ecophysiological properties and evolutionary relationships of MCG archaea with other archaeal members using metagenome information and the result of gene expression experiments. A comparison of the gene organizations and similarities around the 16S rRNA genes from all available MCG fosmid and cosmid clones revealed no significant synteny among genomic fragments, demonstrating that there are large genetic variations within members of the MCG. Phylogenetic analyses of large-subunit+small-subunit rRNA, concatenated ribosomal protein genes and topoisomerases IB gene (TopoIB) all demonstrate that MCG constituted a sister lineage to the newly proposed archaeal phylum Aigarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota. Genes involved in protocatechuate degradation and chemotaxis were found in a MCG fosmid 75G8 genome fragment, suggesting that this MCG member may have a role in the degradation of aromatic compounds. Moreover, the expression of a putative 4-carboxymuconolactone decarboxylase was observed when the sediment was supplemented with protocatechuate, further supporting the hypothesis that this MCG member degrades aromatic compounds.
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- Jun Meng
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.,3Present Address: Department of Marine Science, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China. .,Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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Jørgensen SL, Thorseth IH, Pedersen RB, Baumberger T, Schleper C. Quantitative and phylogenetic study of the Deep Sea Archaeal Group in sediments of the Arctic mid-ocean spreading ridge. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:299. [PMID: 24109477 PMCID: PMC3790079 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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In marine sediments archaea often constitute a considerable part of the microbial community, of which the Deep Sea Archaeal Group (DSAG) is one of the most predominant. Despite their high abundance no members from this archaeal group have so far been characterized and thus their metabolism is unknown. Here we show that the relative abundance of DSAG marker genes can be correlated with geochemical parameters, allowing prediction of both the potential electron donors and acceptors of these organisms. We estimated the abundance of 16S rRNA genes from Archaea, Bacteria, and DSAG in 52 sediment horizons from two cores collected at the slow-spreading Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, using qPCR. The results indicate that members of the DSAG make up the entire archaeal population in certain horizons and constitute up to ~50% of the total microbial community. The quantitative data were correlated to 30 different geophysical and geochemical parameters obtained from the same sediment horizons. We observed a significant correlation between the relative abundance of DSAG 16S rRNA genes and the content of organic carbon (p < 0.0001). Further, significant co-variation with iron oxide, and dissolved iron and manganese (all p < 0.0000), indicated a direct or indirect link to iron and manganese cycling. Neither of these parameters correlated with the relative abundance of archaeal or bacterial 16S rRNA genes, nor did any other major electron donor or acceptor measured. Phylogenetic analysis of DSAG 16S rRNA gene sequences reveals three monophyletic lineages with no apparent habitat-specific distribution. In this study we support the hypothesis that members of the DSAG are tightly linked to the content of organic carbon and directly or indirectly involved in the cycling of iron and/or manganese compounds. Further, we provide a molecular tool to assess their abundance in environmental samples and enrichment cultures.
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- Steffen L Jørgensen
- Department of Biology, Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen , Bergen, Norway
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Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. The impact of genomics on research in diversity and evolution of archaea. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2013; 77:799-812. [PMID: 22860902 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297912080019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Since the definition of archaea as a separate domain of life along with bacteria and eukaryotes, they have become one of the most interesting objects of modern microbiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. Sequencing and analysis of archaeal genomes were especially important for studies on archaea because of a limited availability of genetic tools for the majority of these microorganisms and problems associated with their cultivation. Fifteen years since the publication of the first genome of an archaeon, more than one hundred complete genome sequences of representatives of different phylogenetic groups have been determined. Analysis of these genomes has expanded our knowledge of biology of archaea, their diversity and evolution, and allowed identification and characterization of new deep phylogenetic lineages of archaea. The development of genome technologies has allowed sequencing the genomes of uncultivated archaea directly from enrichment cultures, metagenomic samples, and even from single cells. Insights have been gained into the evolution of key biochemical processes in archaea, such as cell division and DNA replication, the role of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of archaea, and new relationships between archaea and eukaryotes have been revealed.
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- A V Mardanov
- Laboratory of Molecular Cloning, Centre Bioengineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. 60-let Oktyabrya 7-1, 117312 Moscow, Russia
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Callac N, Rommevaux-Jestin C, Rouxel O, Lesongeur F, Liorzou C, Bollinger C, Ferrant A, Godfroy A. Microbial colonization of basaltic glasses in hydrothermal organic-rich sediments at Guaymas Basin. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:250. [PMID: 23986754 PMCID: PMC3753459 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2013] [Accepted: 08/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Oceanic basalts host diverse microbial communities with various metabolisms involved in C, N, S, and Fe biogeochemical cycles which may contribute to mineral and glass alteration processes at, and below the seafloor. In order to study the microbial colonization on basaltic glasses and their potential biotic/abiotic weathering products, two colonization modules called AISICS ("Autonomous in situ Instrumented Colonization System") were deployed in hydrothermal deep-sea sediments at the Guaymas Basin for 8 days and 22 days. Each AISICS module contained 18 colonizers (including sterile controls) filled with basaltic glasses of contrasting composition. Chemical analyses of ambient fluids sampled through the colonizers showed a greater contribution of hydrothermal fluids (maximum temperature 57.6°C) for the module deployed during the longer time period. For each colonizer, the phylogenetic diversity and metabolic function of bacterial and archaeal communities were explored using a molecular approach by cloning and sequencing. Results showed large microbial diversity in all colonizers. The bacterial distribution was primarily linked to the deployment duration, as well as the depth for the short deployment time module. Some 16s rRNA sequences formed a new cluster of Epsilonproteobacteria. Within the Archaea the retrieved diversity could not be linked to either duration, depth or substrata. However, mcrA gene sequences belonging to the ANME-1 mcrA-guaymas cluster were found sometimes associated with their putative sulfate-reducers syntrophs depending on the colonizers. Although no specific glass alteration texture was identified, nano-crystals of barite and pyrite were observed in close association with organic matter, suggesting a possible biological mediation. This study gives new insights into the colonization steps of volcanic rock substrates and the capability of microbial communities to exploit new environmental conditions.
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- Nolwenn Callac
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes UMR 6197, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UEB, IUEM Plouzané, France ; Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes UMR 6197, Ifremer Plouzané, France ; Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes UMR 6197, CNRS Plouzané, France ; Domaines Océaniques UMR6538, IUEM, Université de Bretagne Occidentale Plouzané, France
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Hoshino T, Inagaki F. A comparative study of microbial diversity and community structure in marine sediments using poly(A) tailing and reverse transcription-PCR. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:160. [PMID: 23785366 PMCID: PMC3684792 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 05/31/2013] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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To obtain a better understanding of metabolically active microbial communities, we tested a molecular ecological approach using poly(A) tailing of environmental 16S rRNA, followed by full-length complementary DNA (cDNA) synthesis and sequencing to eliminate potential biases caused by mismatching of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primer sequences. The RNA pool tested was extracted from marine sediments of the Yonaguni Knoll IV hydrothermal field in the southern Okinawa Trough. The sequences obtained using the poly(A) tailing method were compared statistically and phylogenetically with those obtained using conventional reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) with published domain-specific primers. Both methods indicated that Deltaproteobacteria are predominant in sediment (>85% of the total sequence read). The poly(A) tailing method indicated that Desulfobacterales were the predominant Deltaproteobacteria, while most of the sequences in libraries constructed using RT-PCR were derived from Desulfuromonadales. This discrepancy may have been due to low coverage of Desulfobacterales by the primers used. A comparison of library diversity indices indicated that the poly(A) tailing method retrieves more phylogenetically diverse sequences from the environment. The four archaeal 16S rRNA sequences that were obtained using the poly(A) tailing method formed deeply branching lineages that were related to Candidatus "Parvarchaeum" and the ancient archaeal group. These results clearly demonstrate that poly(A) tailing followed by cDNA sequencing is a powerful and less biased molecular ecological approach for the study of metabolically active microbial communities.
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- Tatsuhiko Hoshino
- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Nankoku, Kochi, Japan ; Geobio-Engineering and Technology Group, Submarine Resources Research Project, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Nankoku, Kochi, Japan
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Yagi H, Ninomiya F, Funabashi M, Kunioka M. Thermophilic anaerobic biodegradation test and analysis of eubacteria involved in anaerobic biodegradation of four specified biodegradable polyesters. Polym Degrad Stab 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2013.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Composition, diversity, and stability of microbial assemblages in seasonal lake ice, miquelon lake, central alberta. BIOLOGY 2013; 2:514-32. [PMID: 24832796 PMCID: PMC3960880 DOI: 10.3390/biology2020514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2012] [Revised: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The most familiar icy environments, seasonal lake and stream ice, have received little microbiological study. Bacteria and Eukarya dominated the microbial assemblage within the seasonal ice of Miquelon Lake, a shallow saline lake in Alberta, Canada. The bacterial assemblages were moderately diverse and did not vary with either ice depth or time. The closest relatives of the bacterial sequences from the ice included Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Cyanobacteria. The eukaryotic assemblages were less conserved and had very low diversity. Green algae relatives dominated the eukaryotic gene sequences; however, a copepod and cercozoan were also identified, possibly indicating the presence of complete microbial loop. The persistence of a chlorophyll a peak at 25–30 cm below the ice surface, despite ice migration and brine flushing, indicated possible biological activity within the ice. This is the first study of the composition, diversity, and stability of seasonal lake ice.
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