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Dong L, Li MX, Li S, Yue LX, Ali M, Han JR, Lian WH, Hu CJ, Lin ZL, Shi GY, Wang PD, Gao SM, Lian ZH, She TT, Wei QC, Deng QQ, Hu Q, Xiong JL, Liu YH, Li L, Abdelshafy OA, Li WJ. Aridity drives the variability of desert soil microbiomes across north-western China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 907:168048. [PMID: 37890638 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 09/23/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023]
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Dryland covers >35 % of the terrestrial surface and the global extent of dryland increases due to the forecasted increase in aridity driven by climate change. Due to the climate change-driven aridity ecosystems, deserts provide one of the most hostile environments for microbial life and survival. Therefore, a detailed study was carried out to explore the deserts with different aridity levels (exposed to severe climate change) influence on microbial (bacteria, fungi, and protist) diversity patterns, assembly processes, and co-occurrence. The results revealed that the aridity (semi-arid, arid, and hyper-arid) patterns caused distinct changes in environmental heterogeneity in desert ecosystems. Similarly, microbial diversities were also reduced with increasing the aridity pattern, and it was found that environmental heterogeneity is highly involved in affecting microbial diversities under different ecological niches. Interestingly, it was found that certain microbes, including bacterial (Firmicutes), fungal (Sordariomycetes), and protistan (Ciliophora) abundance increased with increasing aridity levels, indicating that these microbes might possess the capability to tolerate the environmental stress conditions. Moreover, microbial community turnover analysis revealed that bacterial diversities followed homogenous selection, whereas fungi and protists were mostly driven by the dispersal limitation pattern. Co-occurrence network analysis showed that hyper-arid and arid conditions tightened the bacterial and fungal communities and had more positive associations compared to protistan. In conclusion, multiple lines of evidence were provided to shed light on the habitat specialization impact on microbial (bacteria, fungi, and protists) communities and composition under different desert ecosystems.
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- Lei Dong
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China; School of Ecology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen 518107, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China; School of Ecology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen 518107, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- School of Biology and Food Engineering, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou 510303, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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- School of Biology and Food Engineering, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou 510303, PR China
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- School of Biology and Food Engineering, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou 510303, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, PR China.
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Bartosiewicz M, Przytulska A, Birkholz A, Zopfi J, Lehmann MF. Controls and significance of priming effects in lake sediments. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2024; 30:e17076. [PMID: 38273585 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Warming and eutrophication influence carbon (C) processing in sediments, with implications for the global greenhouse-gas budget. Temperature effects on sedimentary C loss are well understood, but the mechanism of change in turnover through priming with labile organic matter (OM) is not. Evaluating changes in the magnitude of priming as a function of warming, eutrophication, and OM stoichiometry, we incubated sediments with 13 C-labeled fresh organic matter (FOM, algal/cyanobacterial) and simulated future climate scenarios (+4°C and +8°C). We investigated FOM-induced production of CH4 and microbial community changes. C loss was primed by up to 17% in dominantly allochthonous sediments (ranging from 5% to 17%), compared to up to 6% in autochthonous sediments (-9% to 6%), suggesting that refractory OM is more susceptible to priming. The magnitude of priming was dependent on sediment OM stoichiometry (C/N ratio), the ratio of fresh labile OM to microbial biomass (FOM/MB), and temperature. Priming was strongest at 4°C when FOM/MB was below 50%. Addition of FOM was associated with activation and growth of bacterial decomposers, including for example, Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, or Fibrobacteres, known for their potential to degrade insoluble and complex structural biopolymers. Using sedimentary C/N > 15 as a threshold, we show that in up to 35% of global lakes, sedimentation is dominated by allochthonous rather than autochthonous material. We then provide first-order estimates showing that, upon increase in phytoplankton biomass in these lakes, priming-enabled degradation of recalcitrant OM will release up to 2.1 Tg C annually, which would otherwise be buried for geological times.
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- Maciej Bartosiewicz
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Corona Ramírez A, Lee KS, Odriozola A, Kaminek M, Stocker R, Zuber B, Junier P. Multiple roads lead to Rome: unique morphology and chemistry of endospores, exospores, myxospores, cysts and akinetes in bacteria. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2023; 169. [PMID: 36804869 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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The production of specialized resting cells is a remarkable survival strategy developed by many organisms to withstand unfavourable environmental factors such as nutrient depletion or other changes in abiotic and/or biotic conditions. Five bacterial taxa are recognized to form specialized resting cells: Firmicutes, forming endospores; Actinobacteria, forming exospores; Cyanobacteria, forming akinetes; the δ-Proteobacterial order Myxococcales, forming myxospores; and Azotobacteraceae, forming cysts. All these specialized resting cells are characterized by low-to-absent metabolic activity and higher resistance to environmental stress (desiccation, heat, starvation, etc.) when compared to vegetative cells. Given their similarity in function, we tested the potential existence of a universal morpho-chemical marker for identifying these specialized resting cells. After the production of endospores, exospores, akinetes and cysts in model organisms, we performed the first cross-species morphological and chemical comparison of bacterial sporulation. Cryo-electron microscopy of vitreous sections (CEMOVIS) was used to describe near-native morphology of the resting cells in comparison to the morphology of their respective vegetative cells. Resting cells shared a thicker cell envelope as their only common morphological feature. The chemical composition of the different specialized resting cells at the single-cell level was investigated using confocal Raman microspectroscopy. Our results show that the different specialized cells do not share a common chemical signature, but rather each group has a unique signature with a variable conservation of the signature of the vegetative cells. Additionally, we present the validation of Raman signatures associated with calcium dipicolinic acid (CaDPA) and their variation across individual cells to develop specific sorting thresholds for the isolation of endospores. This provides a proof of concept of the feasibility of isolating bacterial spores using a Raman-activated cell-sorting platform. This cross-species comparison and the current knowledge of genetic pathways inducing the formation of the resting cells highlights the complexity of this convergent evolutionary strategy promoting bacterial survival.
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- Andrea Corona Ramírez
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
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- Department of Civil, Institute for Environmental Engineering, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Civil, Institute for Environmental Engineering, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
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Li J, Zeng W, Liu H, Zhan M, Miao H. Achieving deep autotrophic nitrogen removal in aerated biofilter driven by sponge iron: Performance and mechanism. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2022; 213:113653. [PMID: 35691384 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 06/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Different from anammox, the combination of Fe (III) reduction coupled to anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Feammox) and nitrate/nitrite dependent ferrous oxidation (NDFO) do not require to control nitrite accumulation. Furthermore, sponge iron can avoid continuous iron supplementation in practice and is a good iron source for the occurrence of Feammox and NDFO in wastewater treatment. Therefore, a biofilter using sponge iron as carrier treating low nitrogen wastewater was built. In this study, the performances of nitrogen removal were explored under different hydraulic retention times (HRT) and gas-water ratios in sponge iron biofilter. And the pathways of nitrogen removal were analyzed by activity tests. The results showed ammonia removal efficiency reached 94.1% and total inorganic nitrogen removal efficiency was up to 70.6% at HRT of 19 h and gas-water ratio of 18. Compared to nitrogen removal by adsorption under non-aeration, the activity tests showed that total inorganic nitrogen loss was caused by Feammox and NDFO after aeration. The results of microbial communities showed that appearances of nitrifier-Nitrosomonadaceae, Feammox bacteria-Clostridiaceae and NDFO bacteria-Gallionellaceae resulted in deep nitrogen removal after aeration, in which Nitrosomonadaceae and Clostridiaceae contributed to ammonia removal and Gallionellaceae contributed to nitrite/nitrate reduction to nitrogen gas. Therefore, it was feasible to achieve deep autotrophic nitrogen removal and Fe (II) and Fe (III) cycle in sponge iron biofilter.
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- Jianmin Li
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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Chakraborty A, Rattray JE, Drake SS, Matthews S, Li C, Jørgensen BB, Hubert CRJ. Metabolic responses of thermophilic endospores to sudden heat-induced perturbation in marine sediment samples. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:958417. [PMID: 36033870 PMCID: PMC9411986 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.958417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Microbially mediated processes in a given habitat tend to be catalyzed by abundant populations that are ecologically adapted to exploit specific environmental characteristics. Typically, metabolic activities of rare populations are limited but may be stimulated in response to acute environmental stressors. Community responses to sudden changes in temperature and pressure can include suppression and activation of different populations, but these dynamics remain poorly understood. The permanently cold ocean floor hosts countless low-abundance microbes including endospores of thermophilic bacteria. Incubating sediments at high temperature resuscitates viable spores, causing the proliferation of bacterial populations. This presents a tractable system for investigating changes in a microbiome's community structure in response to dramatic environmental perturbations. Incubating permanently cold Arctic fjord sediments at 50°C for 216 h with and without volatile fatty acid amendment provoked major changes in community structure. Germination of thermophilic spores from the sediment rare biosphere was tracked using mass spectrometry-based metabolomics, radiotracer-based sulfate reduction rate measurements, and high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Comparing community similarity at different intervals of the incubations showed distinct temporal shifts in microbial populations, depending on organic substrate amendment. Metabolite patterns indicated that amino acids and other sediment-derived organics were decomposed by fermentative Clostridia within the first 12–48 h. This fueled early and late phases of exponential increases in sulfate reduction, highlighting the cross-feeding of volatile fatty acids as electron donors for different sulfate-reducing Desulfotomaculia populations. The succession of germinated endospores triggered by sudden exposure to high temperature and controlled by nutrient availability offers a model for understanding the ecological response of dormant microbial communities following major environmental perturbations.
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- Anirban Chakraborty
- Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, United States
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- *Correspondence: Anirban Chakraborty
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Section for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Chen H, Ren H, Liu J, Tian Y, Lu S. Soil acidification induced decline disease of Myrica rubra: aluminum toxicity and bacterial community response analyses. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:45435-45448. [PMID: 35147885 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-19165-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The decline disease of Myrica rubra tree is commonly induced by soil acidification, which affects the yield and the quality of fruits. It is hypothesized that aluminum toxicity and microbial community changes caused by soil acidification were the main causes of decline of Myrica rubra tree. In order to explore the decline mechanism of Myrica rubra tree, soils around healthy and decline trees of Myrica rubra were collected to compare the concentrations of different aluminum forms, enzyme activities, and bacterial community structure. In this study, soil samples were collected from the five main production areas of Myrica rubra, Eastern China. The results showed that diseased soils had higher exchangeable aluminum, lower enzyme activities, and lower microbial diversity than healthy soils at various sites. The toxic Al significantly decreased bacterial diversity and altered the bacterial community structure. The diseased soils had significantly lower α-diversity indices (ACE, Chao1, and Shannon) of bacterial community. The Al toxicity deceased the relative abundance of Acidobacteria and Planctomycetes, while enhanced the relative abundance of Cyanobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Firmicutes in soils. Co-occurrence network analysis indicated that the Al toxicity simplified the bacterial network. The soil ExAl content was significantly and negatively correlated with the nodes (r = -0.69, p < 0.05) and edges (r = -0.77, p < 0.01) of the bacterial network. These results revealed that the Al toxicity altered soil bacterial community structure, resulting in the decline disease of Myrica rubra tree, while highlighted the role of Al forms in the plant growth. This finding is of considerable significance to the better management of acidification-induced soil degradation and the quality of fruits.
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- Han Chen
- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Institute of Horticulture, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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Changes in Ambient Bacterial Community in Northern Taiwan during Long-Range Transport: Asian Dust Storm and Frontal Pollution. ATMOSPHERE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos13050841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Long-range transport (LRT) can carry air pollutants to downwind areas. However, studies about the impacts of LRT on bacterial communities are few. This study investigated the influence of Asian dust storms (ADS) and frontal pollution (FP) on bacterial communities in ambient air using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP). Air samples were collected at Cape Fugui (CF) and National Taiwan University (NTU) in northern Taiwan before (or background days), during, and after LRTs from November 2013 to March 2015. The richness, H index, and evenness increased during FPs and then decreased after FPs. During and after ADS and FP, the prevalence of the phylum Proteobacteria decreased, but that of Firmicutes increased. The dominant class of Proteobacteria changed from Alphaproteobacteria on background days to Betaproteobacteria during LRTs. At the genus level, the high abundance of Ralstonia and Bacillus during FP and Clostridium during ADS were detected at both locations. Additionally, Ralstonia was dominant at CF during ADS. In conclusion, FP and ADS both changed the bacterial community. The indicator genus was Clostridium and Ralstonia for ADS as well as Bacillus and Ralstonia for FP. Given the potential health threats posed by the bioaerosols transported, people should avoid outdoor activities during LRTs.
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Velázquez-Ríos IO, Rincón-Rosales R, Gutiérrez-Miceli FA, Alcántara-Hernández RJ, Ruíz-Valdiviezo VM. Prokaryotic diversity across a pH gradient in the “El Chichón” crater-lake: a naturally thermo-acidic environment. Extremophiles 2022; 26:8. [DOI: 10.1007/s00792-022-01257-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Jones CB, Peiffer LB, Davis CM, Sfanos KS. Examining the Effects of 4He Exposure on the Gut-Brain Axis. Radiat Res 2021; 197:242-252. [PMID: 34752622 DOI: 10.1667/rade-20-00285.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Beyond low-Earth orbit, space radiation poses significant risks to astronaut health. Previous studies have shown that the microbial composition of the gastrointestinal (GI) microbiome changes upon exposure to high-linear energy transfer radiation. Interestingly, radiation-induced shifts in GI microbiota composition are linked to various neuropsychological disorders. Herein, we aimed to study changes in GI microbiota and behaviors of rats exposed to whole-body radiation (0, 5 or 25 cGy 4He, 250 MeV/n) at approximately 6 months of age. Fecal samples were collected 24 h prior to 4He irradiation and 24 h and 7 days postirradiation for quantitative PCR analyses to assess fecal levels of spore-forming bacteria (SFB), Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and Akkermansia. Rats were also tested in the social odor recognition memory (SORM) test at day 7 after 4He exposure. A subset of rats was euthanized 90 min after completion of the SORM test, and GI tissue from small intestine to colon were prepared for examining overall histological changes and immunohistochemical staining for serotonin (5-HT). No notable pathological changes were observed in GI tissues. Akkermansia spp. and SFB were significantly decreased in the 25 cGy group at 24 h and 7 days postirradiation compared to pre-exposure, respectively. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus spp. showed no significant changes. 5-HT production was significantly higher in the proximal small intestine and the cecum in the 25 cGy group compared to the sham group. The 25 cGy group exhibited deficits in recognition in SORM testing at day 7 postirradiation. Taken together, these results suggest a connection between GI microbiome composition, serotonin production, and neurobehavioral performance, and that this connection may be disrupted upon exposure to 25 cGy of 4He ions.
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- Carli B Jones
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.,Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Behavioral Biology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.,Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.,Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Li J, Zeng W, Liu H, Wu Y, Miao H. Performances and mechanisms of simultaneous nitrate and phosphate removal in sponge iron biofilter. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2021; 337:125390. [PMID: 34126359 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2021] [Revised: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 06/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Sponge iron is a potential material for nitrogen and phosphate removal. To explore the performances and mechanisms of nitrogen and phosphate removal by sponge iron, a sponge iron biofilter was established. The results showed that nitrate was completely removed at HRT of 48 h without external carbon source and at HRT of 3 h with C/N ratio of 5. Furthermore, it was easy to achieve partial denitrification at HRT of 1 h with C/N ratio of 3. The mechanisms of nitrate removal were chemical reduction and nitrate dependent ferrous oxidation without external carbon source and heterotrophic denitrification with external carbon source. XPS result indicated that phosphate was removed by the formation of ferric phosphate precipitation. High throughput sequencing showed that iron-oxidizing bacteria Gallionellaceae was highly enriched in biofilter, accounting for 17.83%, which indicated that it was feasible to achieve autotrophic nitrate removal by sponge iron biofilter.
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- Jianmin Li
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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Xu H, Zhao P, Ran Q, Li W, Wang P, Luo Y, Huang C, Yang X, Yin J, Zhang R. Enhanced electrokinetic remediation for Cd-contaminated clay soil by addition of nitric acid, acetic acid, and EDTA: Effects on soil micro-ecology. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 772:145029. [PMID: 33770863 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2020] [Revised: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Enhanced electrokinetic remediation (EKR) allows the rapid remediation of heavy metal-contaminated clay, but the impacts of this process on soil micro-ecology have rarely been evaluated. In this study, nitric acid, acetic acid, and EDTA were applied for enhancement of EKR and the effects on Cd removal, soil enzyme activity, and soil bacterial communities (SBCs) were determined. Nitric acid and acetic acid allowed 93.2% and 91.8% Cd removal, respectively, and EDTA treatment resulted in 40.4% removal due to the formation of negatively charged EDTA-Cd complexes, resulting in opposing directions of Cd electromigration and electroosmosis flow and slow electromigration rate caused by low voltage drop. Activities of soil beta-glucosidase, acid phosphatase, and urease, were all reduced by enhanced EKR treatment, especially nitric acid treatment, by 46.2%, 58.8% and 57.7%, respectively. The SBCs were analyzed by high-throughput sequencing and revealed significantly increased diversity for acetic acid treatment, no effect for EDTA treatment, and reduced diversity for nitric acid treatment. Compared with nitric acid and EDTA, acetic acid treatment enhanced EKR for higher Cd removal and improved biodiversity.
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- Haiyin Xu
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China; Hunan Hengkai Environmental Protection Science & Technology Investment Co. Ltd, Changsha 410205, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China.
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China; Changsha Environmental Protection College, Changsha 410004, China.
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
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Aalismail NA, Díaz-Rúa R, Ngugi DK, Cusack M, Duarte CM. Aeolian Prokaryotic Communities of the Global Dust Belt Over the Red Sea. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:538476. [PMID: 33262740 PMCID: PMC7688470 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.538476] [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: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Aeolian prokaryotic communities (APC) are important components of bioaerosols that are transported freely or attached to dust particles suspended in the atmosphere. Terrestrial and marine ecosystems are known to release and receive significant prokaryote loads into and from the surrounded atmospheric air. However, compared to terrestrial systems, there is a lack of microbial characterization of atmospheric dust over marine systems, such as the Red Sea, which receives significant terrestrial dust loads and is centrally located within the Global Dust Belt. Prokaryotic communities are likely to be particularly important in the Global Dust Belt, the area between the west coast of North Africa and Central Asia that supports the highest dust fluxes on the planet. Here we characterize the diversity and richness of the APC over the Red Sea ecosystem, the only sea fully contained within the Global Dust Belt. MiSeq sequencing was used to target 16S ribosomal DNA of two hundred and forty aeolian dust samples. These samples were collected at ∼7.5 m high above the sea level at coastal and offshore sampling sites over a 2-year period (2015–2017). The sequencing outcomes revealed that the APC in the atmospheric dust is dominated by Proteobacteria (42.69%), Firmicutes (41.11%), Actinobacteria, (7.69%), and Bacteroidetes (3.49%). The dust-associated prokaryotes were transported from different geographical sources and found to be more diverse than prokaryotic communities of the Red Sea surface water. Marine and soil originated prokaryotes were detected in APC. Hence, depending on the season, these groups may have traveled from other distant sources during storm events in the Red Sea region, where the APC structure is influenced by the origin and the concentration of aeolian dust particles. Accordingly, further studies of the impact of atmospheric organic aerosols on the recipient environments are required.
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- Nojood A Aalismail
- Red Sea Research Center and Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Red Sea Research Center and Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Red Sea Research Center and Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Red Sea Research Center and Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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Wang Y, Lian J, Shen H, Ni Y, Zhang R, Guo Y, Ye W. The effects of Bidens alba invasion on soil bacterial communities across different coastal ecosystem land-use types in southern China. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0238478. [PMID: 33112879 PMCID: PMC7592744 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Environments in both biotic and abiotic ecosystems have been affected by the colonization of non-native flora. In this study, we examined the effect of Bidens alba invasion on different land-use types along a coastline in southern China. Bacterial communities in each site were determined using 16S rDNA sequencing, and soil physicochemical properties were analyzed using standard methods. Although our results indicated that B. alba invasion did not have a significant effect on the alpha diversity of bacteria, it caused significant differences in soil bacterial community composition between invaded and uninvaded soil across different land-use types. Beta diversity and several physicochemical properties in forest, orchard and waterfront environments were recorded to be more susceptible to B. alba invasion. A high proportion of the variation of bacterial communities can be explained by a combination of environmental variables, indicating that environmental selection rather than plant invasion is a more effective process in coastal microbial assemblages. By comparing topological roles of shared OTUs among invaded and uninvaded soil, keystone taxa in invaded soil were identified. Acidobacteria was the major phyla involved in the invasive process which could be driven by environmental selection. How key phyla react in our experiment should be verified by further studies.
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- Yue Wang
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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Nurul AAN, Danish-Daniel AM, Okomoda VT, Asma NA. Microbiota composition of captive bluestreak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839). Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2020; 104:7391-7407. [PMID: 32676710 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-020-10781-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The Labroides dimidiatus is one of the most traded marine ornamental fishes worldwide, yet not much is known about the microflora associated with this fish. This study is designed to investigate the bacteria composition associated with captive L. dimidiatus and its surrounding aquarium water. The fish and carriage water were obtained from well-known ornamental fish suppliers in Terengganu Malaysia. Bacteria present on the skin and in the stomach and the aquarium water were enumerated using culture-independent approaches and next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. A total of 3,238,564 valid reads and 828 total operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were obtained from the three metagenomic libraries using NGS analysis. Of all the 15 phyla identified in this study, Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria were the most prevalent in all samples. Also, 170 families belonging to 36 bacteria classes were identified. Although many of the bacteria families were common in the skin, gut, and aquarium water (39%), about 26% of the families were exclusive to the aquarium water alone. Therefore, any substantial change in the structure and abundance of microbiota (especially pathogenic bacteria) reported in this study may serve as an early sign for disease infection in the species under captivity. KEY POINTS: • Proteobacteria was the most dominant. • The microbiota was either shared or exclusively in samples.
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- Ahmad Ashyikin Noor Nurul
- Faculty of Fisheries and Food Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
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- Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
- Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, University of Agriculture Makurdi, PMB, 2373, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria.
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- Faculty of Fisheries and Food Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
- Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia.
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Nakano M. Development of a multiplex real-time PCR assay for the identification and quantification of group-specific Bacillus spp. and the genus Paenibacillus. Int J Food Microbiol 2020; 323:108573. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2020.108573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Revised: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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El Najjar P, Pfaffl M, Ouaini N, Abdel Nour A, El Azzi D. Water and sediment microbiota diversity in response to temporal variation at the outlet of the Ibrahim River (Lebanon). ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2020; 192:201. [PMID: 32107647 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-020-8139-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Bacterial diversity is an important factor controlling the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. With the critical sensitivity of the microbial community towards chemical and/or physical factors, this study aims to identify for the first time the microbiota of the Lebanese coastal Ibrahim River. Water and sediment samples were collected at the outlet of the river, between May 2016 and April 2017, covering a hydrological year. The main microbiological parameters were tested: total germs, total coliforms, fecal coliforms, Escherichia coli, and Enterococcus. A DNA extraction followed by NGS analysis was applied on both water and sediment samples, in order to investigate the bacterial diversity and the habitat specificity. The link between this microbial composition and seasonal variations was then investigated. Results showed fourteen different bacterial phyla, among which were major microorganisms, including a wide variety of pathogenic and commensal ones, frequently available in the aquatic ecosystem. Most of the detected water microbiota were mostly correlated to other freshwater samples, with the main dominance of 5 common phyla: Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, and Acidobacteria with the average of 43%, 13%, 16%, 10%, and 4% respectively. Despite this overall similarity, multiple patterns were visible, confirming the influence of the temporal variations and the discharge influence on taxonomic diversity. Sediment samples contained the highest relative abundance of Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes: with an average of 31%, 44%, and 22% respectively. Our study showed that the Ibrahim River outlet has a specific habitat clustering. The among-compartment bacterial community variation, which responded to changing environmental factors, approved the existence of a meaningful temporal heterogeneity.
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- P El Najjar
- Department of Agriculture and Food Engineering, School of Engineering, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon
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- Institute of Animal Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Agriculture and Food Engineering, School of Engineering, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon
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- Department of Agriculture and Food Engineering, School of Engineering, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon
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- Department of Agriculture and Food Engineering, School of Engineering, Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon.
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Paul C, Filippidou S, Jamil I, Kooli W, House GL, Estoppey A, Hayoz M, Junier T, Palmieri F, Wunderlin T, Lehmann A, Bindschedler S, Vennemann T, Chain PSG, Junier P. Bacterial spores, from ecology to biotechnology. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 2018; 106:79-111. [PMID: 30798805 DOI: 10.1016/bs.aambs.2018.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The production of a highly specialized cell structure called a spore is a remarkable example of a survival strategy displayed by bacteria in response to challenging environmental conditions. The detailed analysis and description of the process of sporulation in selected model organisms have generated a solid background to understand the cellular processes leading to the formation of this specialized cell. However, much less is known regarding the ecology of spore-formers. This research gap needs to be filled as the feature of resistance has important implications not only on the survival of spore-formers and their ecology, but also on the use of spores for environmental prospection and biotechnological applications.
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- Christophe Paul
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Vital-IT group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of stable isotope geochemistry, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of stable isotope geochemistry, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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Alkhalili RN, Canbäck B. Identification of Putative Novel Class-I Lanthipeptides in Firmicutes: A Combinatorial In Silico Analysis Approach Performed on Genome Sequenced Bacteria and a Close Inspection of Z-Geobacillin Lanthipeptide Biosynthesis Gene Cluster of the Thermophilic Geobacillus sp. Strain ZGt-1. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E2650. [PMID: 30200662 PMCID: PMC6165006 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19092650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Revised: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Lanthipeptides are ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified polycyclic peptides. Lanthipeptides that have antimicrobial activity are known as lantibiotics. Accordingly, the discovery of novel lantibiotics constitutes a possible solution for the problem of antibiotic resistance. We utilized the publicly available genome sequences and the bioinformatic tools tailored for the detection of lanthipeptides. We designed our strategy for screening of 252 firmicute genomes and detecting class-I lanthipeptide-coding gene clusters. The designed strategy resulted in identifying 69 class-I lanthipeptide sequences, of which more than 10% were putative novel. The identified putative novel lanthipeptides have not been annotated on the original or the RefSeq genomes, or have been annotated merely as coding for hypothetical proteins. Additionally, we identified bacterial strains that have not been previously recognized as lanthipeptide-producers. Moreover, we suggest corrections for certain firmicute genome annotations, and recommend lanthipeptide records for enriching the bacteriocin genome mining tool (BAGEL) databases. Furthermore, we propose Z-geobacillin, a putative class-I lanthipeptide coded on the genome of the thermophilic strain Geobacillus sp. ZGt-1. We provide lists of putative novel lanthipeptide sequences and of the previously unrecognized lanthipeptide-producing bacterial strains, so they can be prioritized for experimental investigation. Our results are expected to benefit researchers interested in the in vitro production of lanthipeptides.
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- Rawana N Alkhalili
- Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Biology, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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Karimi B, Terrat S, Dequiedt S, Saby NPA, Horrigue W, Lelièvre M, Nowak V, Jolivet C, Arrouays D, Wincker P, Cruaud C, Bispo A, Maron PA, Bouré NCP, Ranjard L. Biogeography of soil bacteria and archaea across France. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2018; 4:eaat1808. [PMID: 29978046 PMCID: PMC6031370 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat1808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Over the last two decades, a considerable effort has been made to decipher the biogeography of soil microbial communities as a whole, from small to broad scales. In contrast, few studies have focused on the taxonomic groups constituting these communities; thus, our knowledge of their ecological attributes and the drivers determining their composition and distribution is limited. We applied a pyrosequencing approach targeting 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes in soil DNA to a set of 2173 soil samples from France to reach a comprehensive understanding of the spatial distribution of bacteria and archaea and to identify the ecological processes and environmental drivers involved. Taxonomic assignment of the soil 16S rRNA sequences indicated the presence of 32 bacterial phyla or subphyla and 3 archaeal phyla. Twenty of these 35 phyla were cosmopolitan and abundant, with heterogeneous spatial distributions structured in patches ranging from a 43- to 260-km radius. The hierarchy of the main environmental drivers of phyla distribution was soil pH > land management > soil texture > soil nutrients > climate. At a lower taxonomic level, 47 dominant genera belonging to 12 phyla aggregated 62.1% of the sequences. We also showed that the phylum-level distribution can be determined largely by the distribution of the dominant genus or, alternatively, reflect the combined distribution of all of the phylum members. Together, our study demonstrated that soil bacteria and archaea present highly diverse biogeographical patterns on a nationwide scale and that studies based on intensive and systematic sampling on a wide spatial scale provide a promising contribution for elucidating soil biodiversity determinism.
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- Battle Karimi
- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie–Plateforme GenoSol, BP 86510, F-21000 Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
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- Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Genoscope, 2, Rue Gaston Crémieux, CP5706, 91057 Evry cedex, France
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- Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Genoscope, 2, Rue Gaston Crémieux, CP5706, 91057 Evry cedex, France
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- INRA Orléans, US 1106, Unité INFOSOL, Orléans, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
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- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-21000 Dijon, France
- Corresponding author.
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Endospores and other lysis-resistant bacteria comprise a widely shared core community within the human microbiota. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 12:2403-2416. [PMID: 29899513 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0192-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Endospore-formers in the human microbiota are well adapted for host-to-host transmission, and an emerging consensus points to their role in determining health and disease states in the gut. The human gut, more than any other environment, encourages the maintenance of endospore formation, with recent culture-based work suggesting that over 50% of genera in the microbiome carry genes attributed to this trait. However, there has been limited work on the ecological role of endospores and other stress-resistant cellular states in the human gut. In fact, there is no data to indicate whether organisms with the genetic potential to form endospores actually form endospores in situ and how sporulation varies across individuals and over time. Here we applied a culture-independent protocol to enrich for endospores and other stress-resistant cells in human feces to identify variation in these states across people and within an individual over time. We see that cells with resistant states are more likely than those without to be shared among multiple individuals, which suggests that these resistant states are particularly adapted for cross-host dissemination. Furthermore, we use untargeted fecal metabolomics in 24 individuals and within a person over time to show that these organisms respond to shared environmental signals, and in particular, dietary fatty acids, that likely mediate colonization of recently disturbed human guts.
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Thermophilic endospores associated with migrated thermogenic hydrocarbons in deep Gulf of Mexico marine sediments. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 12:1895-1906. [PMID: 29599524 PMCID: PMC6052102 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0108-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2017] [Revised: 02/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Dormant endospores of thermophilic bacteria (thermospores) can be detected in cold marine sediments following high-temperature incubation. Thermospores in the cold seabed may be explained by a dispersal history originating in deep biosphere oil reservoir habitats where upward migration of petroleum fluids at hydrocarbon seeps transports viable cells into the overlying ocean. We assessed this deep-to-shallow dispersal hypothesis through geochemical and microbiological analyses of 111 marine sediments from the deep water Eastern Gulf of Mexico. GC-MS and fluorescence confirmed the unambiguous presence of thermogenic hydrocarbons in 71 of these locations, indicating seepage from deeply sourced petroleum in the subsurface. Heating each sediment to 50 °C followed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing revealed several thermospores with a cosmopolitan distribution throughout the study area, as well as thermospores that were more geographically restricted. Among the thermospores having a more limited distribution, 12 OTUs from eight different lineages were repeatedly detected in sediments containing thermogenic hydrocarbons. A subset of these were significantly correlated with hydrocarbons (p < 0.05) and most closely related to Clostridiales previously detected in oil reservoirs from around the world. This provides evidence of bacteria in the ocean being dispersed out of oil reservoirs, and suggests that specific thermospores may be used as model organisms for studying warm-to-cold transmigration in the deep sea.
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McHugh TA, Compson Z, van Gestel N, Hayer M, Ballard L, Haverty M, Hines J, Irvine N, Krassner D, Lyons T, Musta EJ, Schiff M, Zint P, Schwartz E. Climate controls prokaryotic community composition in desert soils of the southwestern United States. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2017; 93:4111145. [DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fix116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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- Theresa A. McHugh
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5620, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO 81501, USA
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5620, USA
- Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5620, USA
- Texas Tech University Climate Science Center, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5620, USA
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- Northland Preparatory Academy, Flagstaff, AZ 86004, USA
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- Northland Preparatory Academy, Flagstaff, AZ 86004, USA
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- Coconino High School, Flagstaff, AZ 86004, USA
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5620, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640, USA
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Hoshino T, Hamada Y. Estimation of the influence of sequencing errors and distribution of random-sequence tags on quantitative sequencing. J Biosci Bioeng 2017; 124:359-364. [PMID: 28457659 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2017.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Revised: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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To simultaneously sequence and quantify target DNA, quantitative sequencing (qSeq) employs stochastic labeling of target DNA molecules with random-sequence tags (RSTs). This recently developed approach allows parallel quantification of hundreds of microorganisms in natural habitats in a single sequencing run. Yet, no study has addressed to what extent sequencing errors affect quantification and how many sequence reads are needed for quantification. Here, we addressed those issues by using numerical simulations and experimental data from second-generation sequencing of various RSTs. We found that heterogeneous distribution of observed RSTs affected the number of sequence reads required to quantitate target genes, whereas the effect of sequencing errors is smaller than of the RSTs distribution. Because of the heterogeneous RSTs distribution, 15-fold more sequence reads than the number of observed RSTs should be obtained to retrieve almost all RSTs needed for quantification; in that case, quantification error is estimated to be within 5%.
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- Tatsuhiko Hoshino
- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Nankoku, Kochi 783-8502, Japan; Geobiotechnology Group, Research and Development Center for Submarine Resources, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Nankoku, Kochi 783-8502, Japan.
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- Fault Mechanics Research Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Nankoku, Kochi 783-8502, Japan
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Filippidou S, Wunderlin T, Junier T, Jeanneret N, Dorador C, Molina V, Johnson DR, Junier P. A Combination of Extreme Environmental Conditions Favor the Prevalence of Endospore-Forming Firmicutes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1707. [PMID: 27857706 PMCID: PMC5094177 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 10/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Environmental conditions unsuitable for microbial growth are the rule rather than the exception in most habitats. In response to this, microorganisms have developed various strategies to withstand environmental conditions that limit active growth. Endospore-forming Firmicutes (EFF) deploy a myriad of survival strategies in order to resist adverse conditions. Like many bacterial groups, they can form biofilms and detect nutrient scarcity through chemotaxis. Moreover, within this paraphyletic group of Firmicutes, ecophysiological optima are diverse. Nonetheless, a response to adversity that delimits this group is the formation of wet-heat resistant spores. These strategies are energetically demanding and therefore might affect the biological success of EFF. Therefore, we hypothesize that abundance and diversity of EFF should be maximized in those environments in which the benefits of these survival strategies offsets the energetic cost. In order to address this hypothesis, geothermal and mineral springs and drillings were selected because in these environments of steep physicochemical gradients, diversified survival strategies may become a successful strategy.We collected 71 samples from geothermal and mineral environments characterized by none (null), single or multiple limiting environmental factors (temperature, pH, UV radiation, and specific mineral composition). To measure success, we quantified EFF gene copy numbers (GCN; spo0A gene) in relation to total bacterial GCN (16S rRNA gene), as well as the contribution of EFF to community composition. The quantification showed that relative GCN for EFF reached up to 20% at sites characterized by multiple limiting environmental factors, whereas it corresponded to less than 1% at sites with one or no limiting environmental factor. Pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA gene supports a higher contribution of EFF at sites with multiple limiting factors. Community composition suggested a combination of phylotypes for which active growth could be expected, and phylotypes that are most likely in the state of endospores, in all the sites. In summary, our results suggest that diversified survival strategies, including sporulation and metabolic adaptations, explain the biological success of EFF in geothermal and natural springs, and that multiple extreme environmental factors favor the prevalence of EFF.
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- Sevasti Filippidou
- Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, University of NeuchâtelNeuchâtel, Switzerland; Vital-IT group, Swiss Institute of BioinformaticsLausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Laboratorio de Complejidad Microbiana y Ecología Funcional and Departamento de Biotecnología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Recursos Biológicos, Universidad de AntofagastaAntofagasta, Chile; Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, CeBiB, University of ChileSantiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas. Universidad de Playa Ancha Valparaíso, Chile
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Bueche M, Junier P. Effect of organic carbon and metal accumulation on the bacterial communities in sulphidogenic sediments. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 23:10443-10456. [PMID: 26780045 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-6056-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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A unique geochemical setting in Lake Cadagno, Switzerland, has led to the accumulation of insoluble metal sulphides in the sedimentary record as the result of past airborne pollution. This offers an exceptional opportunity to study the effect of these metals on the bacterial communities in sediments, and in particular to investigate further the link between metal contamination and an increase in the populations of endospore-forming bacteria observed previously in other metal-contaminated sediments. A decrease in organic carbon and total bacterial counts was correlated with an increase in the numbers of endospores in the oldest sediment samples, showing the first environmental evidence of a decrease in nutrient availability as a trigger of sporulation. Proteobacteria and Firmicutes were the two dominant bacterial phyla throughout the sediment, the former in an area with high sulphidogenic activity, and the latter in the oldest samples. Even though the dominant Firmicutes taxa were stable along the sediment core and did not vary with changes in metal contamination, the prevalence of some molecular species like Clostridium sp. was positively correlated with metal sulphide concentration. However, this cannot be generalized to all endospore-forming species. Overall, the community composition supports the hypothesis of sporulation as the main mechanism explaining the dominance of endospore formers in the deepest part of the sediment core, while metal contamination in the form of insoluble metal sulphide deposits appears not to be linked with sporulation as a mechanism of metal tolerance in this sulphidogenic ecosystem.
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- Matthieu Bueche
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, PO box 158, CH-2000, Neuchatel, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, PO box 158, CH-2000, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
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Caselli E, D’Accolti M, Vandini A, Lanzoni L, Camerada MT, Coccagna M, Branchini A, Antonioli P, Balboni PG, Di Luca D, Mazzacane S. Impact of a Probiotic-Based Cleaning Intervention on the Microbiota Ecosystem of the Hospital Surfaces: Focus on the Resistome Remodulation. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0148857. [PMID: 26886448 PMCID: PMC4757022 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2015] [Accepted: 01/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background Contamination of hospital surfaces by clinically-relevant pathogens represents a major concern in healthcare facilities, due to its impact on transmission of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and to the growing drug resistance of HAI-associated pathogens. Routinely used chemical disinfectants show limitations in controlling pathogen contamination, due to their inefficacy in preventing recontamination and selection of resistant strains. Recently we observed that an innovative approach, based on a cleanser added with spores of non-pathogenic probiotic Bacilli, was effective in stably counteracting the growth of several pathogens contaminating hospital surfaces. Methods Here, we wanted to study the impact of the Bacillus-based cleanser on the drug-resistance features of the healthcare pathogens population. In parallel, the ability of cleanser-derived Bacilli to infect hospitalized patients was also investigated. Results Collected data showed that Bacilli spores can germinate on dry inanimate surfaces, generating the bacterial vegetative forms which counteract the growth of pathogens and effectively substitute for them on treated surfaces. Strikingly, this procedure did not select resistant species, but conversely induced an evident decrease of antibiotic resistance genes in the contaminating microbial population. Also importantly, all the six HAI-positive patients hosted in the treated areas resulted negative for probiotic Bacilli, thus adding evidences to their safety-to-use. Conclusions These results indicate that this probiotic-based procedure is active not only in controlling surface microbial contamination but also in lowering drug-resistant species, suggesting that it may have relevant clinical and therapeutical implications for the management of HAIs.
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- Elisabetta Caselli
- Section of Microbiology and Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Section of Microbiology and Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- Architecture and Urban Planning (XXX cycle), Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- Architecture and Urban Planning (XXX cycle), Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Infection Prevention Control and Risk Management, S. Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy
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- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Section of Microbiology and Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- CIAS Interdepartmental Research Center for pollution control in high sterility rooms, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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Wunderlin T, Junier T, Paul C, Jeanneret N, Junier P. Physical Isolation of Endospores from Environmental Samples by Targeted Lysis of Vegetative Cells. J Vis Exp 2016:e53411. [PMID: 26863128 DOI: 10.3791/53411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Endospore formation is a survival strategy found among some bacteria from the phylum Firmicutes. During endospore formation, these bacteria enter a morpho-physiological resting state that enhances survival under adverse environmental conditions. Even though endospore-forming Firmicutes are one of the most frequently enriched and isolated bacterial groups in culturing studies, they are often absent from diversity studies based on molecular methods. The resistance of the spore core is considered one of the factors limiting the recovery of DNA from endospores. We developed a method that takes advantage of the higher resistance of endospores to separate them from other cells in a complex microbial community using physical, enzymatic and chemical lysis methods. The endospore-only preparation thus obtained can be used for re-culturing or to perform downstream analysis such as tailored DNA extraction optimized for endospores and subsequent DNA sequencing. This method, applied to sediment samples, has allowed the enrichment of endospores and after sequencing, has revealed a large diversity of endospore-formers in freshwater lake sediments. We expect that the application of this method to other samples will yield a similar outcome.
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Neuchatel;
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Under-detection of endospore-forming Firmicutes in metagenomic data. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2015; 13:299-306. [PMID: 25973144 PMCID: PMC4427659 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2015.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2014] [Revised: 04/06/2015] [Accepted: 04/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Microbial diversity studies based on metagenomic sequencing have greatly enhanced our knowledge of the microbial world. However, one caveat is the fact that not all microorganisms are equally well detected, questioning the universality of this approach. Firmicutes are known to be a dominant bacterial group. Several Firmicutes species are endospore formers and this property makes them hardy in potentially harsh conditions, and thus likely to be present in a wide variety of environments, even as residents and not functional players. While metagenomic libraries can be expected to contain endospore formers, endospores are known to be resilient to many traditional methods of DNA isolation and thus potentially undetectable. In this study we evaluated the representation of endospore-forming Firmicutes in 73 published metagenomic datasets using two molecular markers unique to this bacterial group (spo0A and gpr). Both markers were notably absent in well-known habitats of Firmicutes such as soil, with spo0A found only in three mammalian gut microbiomes. A tailored DNA extraction method resulted in the detection of a large diversity of endospore-formers in amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA and spo0A genes. However, shotgun classification was still poor with only a minor fraction of the community assigned to Firmicutes. Thus, removing a specific bias in a molecular workflow improves detection in amplicon sequencing, but it was insufficient to overcome the limitations for detecting endospore-forming Firmicutes in whole-genome metagenomics. In conclusion, this study highlights the importance of understanding the specific methodological biases that can contribute to improve the universality of metagenomic approaches. Endospore formers were under-detected by profile analysis of sporulation genes in metagenomes. Endospore formers were absent even from those habitats known to harbor them. A tailored DNA extraction method improved detection in amplicon sequencing. Ameliorated DNA extraction did not improve shotgun classification. Endospore-formers represent an undetectable community fraction by metagenomic approaches.
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Braun F, Hamelin J, Bonnafous A, Delgenès N, Steyer JP, Patureau D. Similar PAH fate in anaerobic digesters inoculated with three microbial communities accumulating either volatile fatty acids or methane. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0125552. [PMID: 25874750 PMCID: PMC4398385 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Urban sludge produced on wastewater treatment plants are often contaminated by organic pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Their removal under methanogenic conditions was already reported, but the factors influencing this removal remain unclear. Here, we determined the influence of microbial communities on PAH removal under controlled physico-chemical conditions. Twelve mesophilic anaerobic digesters were inoculated with three microbial communities extracted from ecosystems with contrasting pollution histories: a PAH contaminated soil, a PCB contaminated sediment and a low contaminated anaerobic sludge. These anaerobic digesters were operated during 100 days in continuous mode. A sterilised activated sludge, spiked with 13 PAH at concentrations usually encountered in full-scale wastewater treatment plants, was used as substrate. The dry matter and volatile solid degradation, the biogas production rate and composition, the volatile fatty acids (VFA) production and the PAH removals were monitored. Bacterial and archaeal communities were compared in abundance (qPCR), in community structure (SSCP fingerprinting) and in dominant microbial species (454-pyrosequencing). The bioreactors inoculated with the community extracted from low contaminated anaerobic sludge showed the greater methane production. The PAH removals ranged from 10 % to 30 %, respectively, for high and low molecular weight PAH, whatever the inoculums tested, and were highly correlated with the dry matter and volatile solid removals. The microbial community structure and diversity differed with the inoculum source; this difference was maintained after the 100 days of digestion. However, the PAH removal was not correlated to these diverse structures and diversities. We hence obtained three functional stable consortia with two contrasted metabolic activities, and three different pictures of microbial diversity, but similar PAH and matter removals. These results confirm that PAH removal depends on the molecule type and on the solid matter removal. But, as PAH elimination is similar whether the solid substrate is degraded into VFA or into methane, it seems that the fermentative communities are responsible for their elimination.
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- Florence Braun
- INRA, UR0050, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, Avenue des Etangs, Narbonne, F-11100, France
- ADEME, French Environment and Energy Management Agency, 20 avenue du Grésillé-BP 90406, F-49004, Angers, Cedex 01, France
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- INRA, UR0050, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, Avenue des Etangs, Narbonne, F-11100, France
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- INRA, UR0050, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, Avenue des Etangs, Narbonne, F-11100, France
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- INRA, UR0050, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, Avenue des Etangs, Narbonne, F-11100, France
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- INRA, UR0050, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, Avenue des Etangs, Narbonne, F-11100, France
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- INRA, UR0050, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement, Avenue des Etangs, Narbonne, F-11100, France
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Kawai M, Uchiyama I, Takami H, Inagaki F. Low frequency of endospore-specific genes in subseafloor sedimentary metagenomes. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2015; 7:341-350. [PMID: 25472775 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2014] [Revised: 11/04/2014] [Accepted: 11/23/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Spore formation is considered to be one of the microbial strategies for long-term survival in subseafloor sedimentary habitats. However, our knowledge of the genetic and physiological characteristics of subseafloor microbes is limited. Here, we studied the distribution and frequency of genes that are related to endospore formation in 10 subseafloor sedimentary metagenomes from Site C9001 off Japan and Site 1229 off Peru. None or very low frequencies of endospore-specific genes (e.g. dpaA, dpaB, sspA, spo0A, spoIIGA, spoIIM, spoIIIAB, spoIVA, spoIVB, yabP, yunB, spoVM) were observed in the subseafloor metagenomes. Based on the number of universally conserved single copy genes, the frequency ratio of putative endospore-formers was estimated to be < 10%, which is consistent with the frequency of Clostridia-derived genomes (2-4%) but is lower than previous estimates based on the concentration of dipicolinic acid. Conceivable explanations for this discrepancy are as follows: the efficiency of lysis and DNA extraction of subseafloor endospore cells may have been lower than those of vegetative cells, conversion factor of dipicolinic acid content per cell may differ, and/or sporulation-related genes and other functional strategies for long-term survival in the deep subseafloor biosphere are evolutionarily distinct from known spore-forming gene repertoires.
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- Mikihiko Kawai
- Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Monobe B200, Nankoku, Kochi, 783-8502, Japan
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Weller C, Wu M. A generation-time effect on the rate of molecular evolution in bacteria. Evolution 2015; 69:643-52. [PMID: 25564727 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Molecular evolutionary rate varies significantly among species and a strict global molecular clock has been rejected across the tree of life. Generation time is one primary life-history trait that influences the molecular evolutionary rate. Theory predicts that organisms with shorter generation times evolve faster because of the accumulation of more DNA replication errors per unit time. Although the generation-time effect has been demonstrated consistently in plants and animals, the evidence of its existence in bacteria is lacking. The bacterial phylum Firmicutes offers an excellent system for testing generation-time effect because some of its members can enter a dormant, nonreproductive endospore state in response to harsh environmental conditions. It follows that spore-forming bacteria would--with their longer generation times--evolve more slowly than their nonspore-forming relatives. It is therefore surprising that a previous study found no generation-time effect in Firmicutes. Using a phylogenetic comparative approach and leveraging on a large number of Firmicutes genomes, we found sporulation significantly reduces the genome-wide spontaneous DNA mutation rate and protein evolutionary rate. Contrary to the previous study, our results provide strong evidence that the evolutionary rates of bacteria, like those of plants and animals, are influenced by generation time.
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- Cory Weller
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904
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Wunderlin T, Junier T, Roussel-Delif L, Jeanneret N, Junier P. Stage 0 sporulation gene A as a molecular marker to study diversity of endospore-forming Firmicutes. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2013; 5:911-924. [PMID: 24249300 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2013] [Revised: 07/25/2013] [Accepted: 08/12/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In this study, we developed and validated a culture-independent method for diversity surveys to specifically detect endospore-forming Firmicutes. The global transcription regulator of sporulation (spo0A) was identified as a gene marker for endospore-forming Firmicutes. To enable phylogenetic classification, we designed a set of primers amplifying a 602 bp fragment of spo0A that we evaluated in pure cultures and environmental samples. The amplification was positive for 35 strains from 11 genera, yet negative for strains from Alicyclobacillus and Sulfobacillus. We also evaluated various DNA extraction methods because endospores often result in reduced yields. Our results demonstrate that procedures utilizing increased physical force improve DNA extraction. An optimized DNA extraction method on biomass pre-extracted from the environmental sample source (indirect DNA extraction) followed by amplification with the aforementioned primers for spo0A was then tested in sediments from two different sources. Specifically, we validated our culture-independent diversity survey methodology on a set of 8338 environmental spo0A sequences obtained from the sediments of Lakes Geneva (Switzerland) and Baikal (Russia). The phylogenetic affiliation of the environmental sequences revealed a substantial number of new clades within endospore-formers. This novel culture-independent approach provides a significant experimental improvement that enables exploration of the diversity of endospore-forming Firmicutes.
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- Tina Wunderlin
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, CH-2000, Switzerland
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