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Giguere AT, Taylor AE, Myrold DD, Mellbye BL, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Bottomley PJ. Nitrite-oxidizing activity responds to nitrite accumulation in soil. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2018; 94:4817529. [DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Andrew T Giguere
- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501, USA
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501, USA
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Taylor AE, Bottomley PJ, Semprini L. Contrasting growth properties of Nocardioides JS614 on threedifferent vinyl halides. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 102:1859-1867. [PMID: 29297101 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-017-8723-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Revised: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 12/16/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ethene (ETH)-grown inocula of Nocardioides JS614 grow on vinyl chloride (VC), vinyl fluoride (VF), or vinyl bromide (VB) as the sole carbon and energy source, with faster growth rates and higher cell yields on VC and VF than on VB. However, whereas acetate-grown inocula of JS614 grow on VC and VF after a lag period, growth on VB did not occur unless supplemental ethene oxide (EtO) was present in the medium. Despite inferior growth on VB, the maximum rate of VB consumption by ETH-grown cells was ~ 50% greater than the rates of VC and VF consumption, but Br- release during VB consumption was non-stoichiometric with VB consumption (~ 66%) compared to 100% release of Cl- and F- during VC and VF consumption. Evidence was obtained for VB turnover-dependent toxicity of cell metabolism in JS614 with both acetate-dependent respiration and growth being significantly reduced by VB turnover, but no VC or VF turnover-dependent toxicity of growth was detected. Reduced growth rate and cell yield of JS614 on VB probably resulted from a combination of inefficient metabolic processing of the highly unstable VB epoxide (t0.5 = 45 s), accompanied by growth inhibitory effects of VB metabolites on acetate-dependent metabolism. The exact role(s) of EtO in promoting growth of alkene repressed JS614 on VB remains unresolved, with evidence of EtO inducing epoxide consuming activity prior to an increase in alkene oxidizing activity and supplementing reductant supply when VB is the growth substrate.
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- Anne E Taylor
- Department of Chemical Biological and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA. .,Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA. .,Department of Crop and Soil Science, 3017 ALS Building, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA.
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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- Department of Chemical Biological and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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Rice MC, Norton JM, Valois F, Bollmann A, Bottomley PJ, Klotz MG, Laanbroek HJ, Suwa Y, Stein LY, Sayavedra-Soto L, Woyke T, Shapiro N, Goodwin LA, Huntemann M, Clum A, Pillay M, Kyrpides N, Varghese N, Mikhailova N, Markowitz V, Palaniappan K, Ivanova N, Stamatis D, Reddy TBK, Ngan CY, Daum C. Complete genome of Nitrosospira briensis C-128, an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium from agricultural soil. Stand Genomic Sci 2016; 11:46. [PMID: 27471578 PMCID: PMC4964001 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-016-0168-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2015] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Nitrosospira briensis C-128 is an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium isolated from an acid agricultural soil. N. briensis C-128 was sequenced with PacBio RS technologies at the DOE-Joint Genome Institute through their Community Science Program (2010). The high-quality finished genome contains one chromosome of 3.21 Mb and no plasmids. We identified 3073 gene models, 3018 of which are protein coding. The two-way average nucleotide identity between the chromosomes of Nitrosospira multiformis ATCC 25196 and Nitrosospira briensis C-128 was found to be 77.2 %. Multiple copies of modules encoding chemolithotrophic metabolism were identified in their genomic context. The gene inventory supports chemolithotrophic metabolism with implications for function in soil environments.
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- Queens College in The City University of New York, Flushing, NY USA
- The Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, NM USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA
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Taylor AE, Taylor K, Tennigkeit B, Palatinszky M, Stieglmeier M, Myrold DD, Schleper C, Wagner M, Bottomley PJ. Inhibitory effects of C2 to C10 1-alkynes on ammonia oxidation in two Nitrososphaera species. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:1942-8. [PMID: 25576608 PMCID: PMC4345366 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03688-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 12/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A previous study showed that ammonia oxidation by the Thaumarchaeota Nitrosopumilus maritimus (group 1.1a) was resistant to concentrations of the C8 1-alkyne, octyne, which completely inhibits activity by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. In this study, the inhibitory effects of octyne and other C2 to C10 1-alkynes were evaluated on the nitrite production activity of two pure culture isolates from Thaumarchaeota group 1.1b, Nitrososphaera viennensis strain EN76 and Nitrososphaera gargensis. Both N. viennensis and N. gargensis were insensitive to concentrations of octyne that cause complete and irreversible inactivation of nitrite production by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. However, octyne concentrations (≥20 μM) that did not inhibit N. maritimus partially inhibited nitrite production in N. viennensis and N. gargensis in a manner that did not show the characteristics of irreversible inactivation. In contrast to previous studies with an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea, octyne inhibition of N. viennensis was: (i) fully and immediately reversible, (ii) not competitive with NH4 (+), and (iii) without effect on the competitive interaction between NH4 (+) and acetylene. Both N. viennensis and N. gargensis demonstrated the same overall trend in regard to 1-alkyne inhibition as previously observed for N. maritimus, being highly sensitive to ≤C5 alkynes and more resistant to longer-chain length alkynes. Reproducible differences were observed among N. maritimus, N. viennensis, and N. gargensis in regard to the extent of their resistance/sensitivity to C6 and C7 1-alkynes, which may indicate differences in the ammonia monooxygenase binding and catalytic site(s) among the Thaumarchaeota.
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- A E Taylor
- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics Division, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Department of Biology I, Biocenter LMU Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics Division, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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Vajrala N, Bottomley PJ, Stahl DA, Arp DJ, Sayavedra-Soto LA. Cycloheximide prevents thede novopolypeptide synthesis required to recover from acetylene inhibition inNitrosopumilus maritimus. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2014; 88:495-502. [DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2013] [Revised: 02/11/2014] [Accepted: 02/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Neeraja Vajrala
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology; Oregon State University; Corvallis OR USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; University of Washington; Seattle WA USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology; Oregon State University; Corvallis OR USA
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Zeglin LH, Bottomley PJ, Jumpponen A, Rice CW, Arango M, Lindsley A, McGowan A, Mfombep P, Myrold DD. Altered precipitation regime affects the function and composition of soil microbial communities on multiple time scales. Ecology 2014; 94:2334-45. [PMID: 24358718 DOI: 10.1890/12-2018.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Climate change models predict that future precipitation patterns will entail lower-frequency but larger rainfall events, increasing the duration of dry soil conditions. Resulting shifts in microbial C cycling activity could affect soil C storage. Further, microbial response to rainfall events may be constrained by the physiological or nutrient limitation stress of extended drought periods; thus seasonal or multiannual precipitation regimes may influence microbial activity following soil wet-up. We quantified rainfall-driven dynamics of microbial processes that affect soil C loss and retention, and microbial community composition, in soils from a long-term (14-year) field experiment contrasting "Ambient" and "Altered" (extended intervals between rainfalls) precipitation regimes. We collected soil before, the day following, and five days following 2.5-cm rainfall events during both moist and dry periods (June and September 2011; soil water potential = -0.01 and -0.83 MPa, respectively), and measured microbial respiration, microbial biomass, organic matter decomposition potential (extracellular enzyme activities), and microbial community composition (phospholipid fatty acids). The equivalent rainfall events caused equivalent microbial respiration responses in both treatments. In contrast, microbial biomass was higher and increased after rainfall in the Altered treatment soils only, thus microbial C use efficiency (CUE) was higher in Altered than Ambient treatments (0.70 +/- 0.03 > 0.46 +/- 0.10). CUE was also higher in dry (September) soils. C-acquiring enzyme activities (beta-glucosidase, cellobiohydrolase, and phenol oxidase) increased after rainfall in moist (June), but not dry (September) soils. Both microbial biomass C:N ratios and fungal:bacterial ratios were higher at lower soil water contents, suggesting a functional and/or population-level shift in the microbiota at low soil water contents, and microbial community composition also differed following wet-up and between seasons and treatments. Overall, microbial activity may directly (C respiration) and indirectly (enzyme potential) reduce soil organic matter pools less in drier soils, and soil C sequestration potential (CUE) may be higher in soils with a history of extended dry periods between rainfall events. The implications include that soil C loss may be reduced or compensated for via different mechanisms at varying time scales, and that microbial taxa with better stress tolerance or growth efficiency may be associated with these functional shifts.
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- L H Zeglin
- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA.
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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- Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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Taylor AE, Zeglin LH, Wanzek TA, Myrold DD, Bottomley PJ. Dynamics of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria populations and contributions to soil nitrification potentials. ISME J 2012; 6:2024-32. [PMID: 22695861 PMCID: PMC3475378 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2012] [Revised: 03/28/2012] [Accepted: 03/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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It is well known that the ratio of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) ranges widely in soils, but no data exist on what might influence this ratio, its dynamism, or how changes in relative abundance influences the potential contributions of AOA and AOB to soil nitrification. By sampling intensively from cropped-to-fallowed and fallowed-to-cropped phases of a 2-year wheat/fallow cycle, and adjacent uncultivated long-term fallowed land over a 15-month period in 2010 and 2011, evidence was obtained for seasonal and cropping phase effects on the soil nitrification potential (NP), and on the relative contributions of AOA and AOB to the NP that recovers after acetylene inactivation in the presence and absence of bacterial protein synthesis inhibitors. AOB community composition changed significantly (P0.0001) in response to cropping phase, and there were both seasonal and cropping phase effects on the amoA gene copy numbers of AOA and AOB. Our study showed that the AOA:AOB shifts were generated by a combination of different phenomena: an increase in AOA amoA abundance in unfertilized treatments, compared with their AOA counterparts in the N-fertilized treatment; a larger population of AOB under the N-fertilized treatment compared with the AOB community under unfertilized treatments; and better overall persistence of AOA than AOB in the unfertilized treatments. These data illustrate the complexity of the factors that likely influence the relative contributions of AOA and AOB to nitrification under the various combinations of soil conditions and NH(4)(+)-availability that exist in the field.
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- Anne E Taylor
- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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Bottomley PJ, Taylor AE, Myrold DD. A consideration of the relative contributions of different microbial subpopulations to the soil N cycle. Front Microbiol 2012; 3:373. [PMID: 23109931 PMCID: PMC3478590 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2012] [Accepted: 09/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We examine and discuss literature targeted at identifying “active” subpopulations of soil microbial communities with regard to the factors that affect the balance between mineralization and immobilization/assimilation of N. Whereas a large fraction (≥50%) of soil microbial biomass can immediately respire exogenous substrates, it remains unclear what percentage of both bacterial and fungal populations are capable of expressing their growth potential. The factors controlling the relative amounts of respiratorily responsive biomass versus growth-active biomass will impact the balance between N mineralization and N immobilization. Stable isotope probing of de novo DNA synthesis, and pyrosequence analyses of rRNA:rDNA ratios in soils have identified both numerically dominant and rare microbial taxa showing greatest growth potential. The relative growth responses of numerically dominant or rare members of a soil community could influence the amount of N immobilized into biomass during a “growth” event. Recent studies have used selective antibiotics targeted at protein synthesis to measure the relative contributions of fungi and bacteria to ammonification and NH4+ consumption, and of NH3-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) to NH3 oxidation. Evidence was obtained for bacteria to dominate NH4+ assimilation and for fungi to be involved in both consumption of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and its ammonification. Soil conditions, phase of cropping system, NH4+ availability, and soil pH influence the relative contributions of AOA and AOB to soil nitrification. A recent discovery that AOA can ammonify organic N sources and oxidize it to NO2− serves to illustrate roles for AOA in both the production and consumption of NH3/NH4+. Clearly, much remains to be learned about the factors influencing the relative contributions of bacteria, archaea, and fungi to processing organic and inorganic N, and their impact on the balance between mineralization and immobilization of N.
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- Peter J Bottomley
- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University Corvallis, OR, USA ; Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University Corvallis, OR, USA
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Zeglin LH, Taylor AE, Myrold DD, Bottomley PJ. Bacterial and archaeal amoA gene distribution covaries with soil nitrification properties across a range of land uses. Environ Microbiol Rep 2011; 3:717-726. [PMID: 23761362 DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00290.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea are commonly found together in soils, yet the factors influencing their relative distribution and activity remain unclear. We examined archaeal and bacterial amoA gene distribution, and used a novel bioassay to assess archaeal and bacterial contributions to nitrification potentials in soils spanning a range of land uses (forest, pasture, cultivated and long-term fallowed cropland) along a 10 km transect. The assay, which quantifies the extent to which acetylene-inactivated soil nitrification potential recovers (RNP) in the presence of bacterial protein synthesis inhibitors, indicated a significant archaeal contribution to the nitrification potentials of the pasture and long-term fallowed soils. Archaeal amoA gene abundance did not vary significantly among the soils, but bacterial amoA gene abundance did, resulting in archaeal : bacterial amoA abundance ratios ranging from 1.1 ± 0.8 in cultivated soils to 396 ± 176 in pasture soils. Both archaeal and bacterial amoA gene compositions were heterogeneous across the landscape, but differed in their patterns of variability. Archaeal amoA gene distributions were distinct among each of the three main land-use types: forest, pasture and cropland soils. In contrast, bacterial amoA gene composition was distinct in forest and in cultivated cropland, while pasture and long-term fallowed cropland soils were similar. In both pasture and long-term fallowed cropland soils, one phylotype of Nitrosospira cluster 3a was highly abundant. This distinct bacterial amoA gene fingerprint correlated with significant contributions of archaea to RNP of both soils, despite differences in archaeal amoA gene composition between the pasture and fallowed soils. This observation suggests that the factors driving the development of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria community composition might influence the extent of archaeal contribution to soil nitrification.
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- Lydia H Zeglin
- Departments of Crop and Soil Science Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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Vajrala N, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Role of a Fur homolog in iron metabolism in Nitrosomonas europaea. BMC Microbiol 2011; 11:37. [PMID: 21338516 PMCID: PMC3050691 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2010] [Accepted: 02/21/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background In response to environmental iron concentrations, many bacteria coordinately regulate transcription of genes involved in iron acquisition via the ferric uptake regulation (Fur) system. The genome of Nitrosomonas europaea, an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium, carries three genes (NE0616, NE0730 and NE1722) encoding proteins belonging to Fur family. Results Of the three N. europaea fur homologs, only the Fur homolog encoded by gene NE0616 complemented the Escherichia coli H1780 fur mutant. A N. europaea fur:kanP mutant strain was created by insertion of kanamycin-resistance cassette in the promoter region of NE0616 fur homolog. The total cellular iron contents of the fur:kanP mutant strain increased by 1.5-fold compared to wild type when grown in Fe-replete media. Relative to the wild type, the fur:kanP mutant exhibited increased sensitivity to iron at or above 500 μM concentrations. Unlike the wild type, the fur:kanP mutant was capable of utilizing iron-bound ferrioxamine without any lag phase and showed over expression of several outer membrane TonB-dependent receptor proteins irrespective of Fe availability. Conclusions Our studies have clearly indicated a role in Fe regulation by the Fur protein encoded by N. europaea NE0616 gene. Additional studies are required to fully delineate role of this fur homolog.
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- Neeraja Vajrala
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, 2082 Cordley, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Yarwood SA, Bottomley PJ, Myrold DD. Soil microbial communities associated with Douglas-fir and red alder stands at high- and low-productivity forest sites in Oregon, USA. Microb Ecol 2010; 60:606-617. [PMID: 20449582 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9675-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2009] [Accepted: 04/10/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Communities of archaea, bacteria, and fungi were examined in forest soils located in the Oregon Coast Range and the inland Cascade Mountains. Soils from replicated plots of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and red alder (Alnus rubra) were characterized using fungal ITS (internal transcribed spacer region), eubacterial 16S rRNA, and archaeal 16S rRNA primers. Population size was measured with quantitative (Q)-PCR and composition was examined using length heterogeneity (LH)-PCR for fungal composition, terminal restriction fragment length (T-RFLP) profiles for bacterial and archaeal composition, and sequencing to identify dominant community members. Whereas fungal and archaeal composition varied between sites and dominant tree species, bacterial communities only varied between sites. The abundance of archaeal gene copy numbers was found to be greater in coastal compared to montane soils accounting for 11% of the prokaryotic community. Crenarchaea groups 1.1a-associated, 1.1b, 1.1c, and 1.1c-associated were putatively identified. A greater abundance of Crenarchaea 1.1b indicator fragments was found in acidic (pH 4) soils with low C:N ratios under red alder. In coastal soils, 25% of fungal sequences were putatively identified as basidiomycetous yeasts belonging to the genus Cryptococcus. Although the function of these yeasts in soil is not known, they could significantly contribute to decomposition processes in coastal soils distinguished by rapid tree growth, high N content, low pH, and frequent water-saturation events.
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- Stephanie A Yarwood
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Nash Hall 220, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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Hommes NG, Russell SA, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Effects of Soil on Ammonia, Ethylene, Chloroethane, and 1,1,1-Trichloroethane Oxidation by Nitrosomonas europaea. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 64:1372-8. [PMID: 16349541 PMCID: PMC106157 DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1372-1378.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Ammonia monooxygenase (AMO) from Nitrosomonas europaea catalyzes the oxidation of ammonia to hydroxylamine and has been shown to oxidize a variety of halogenated and nonhalogenated hydrocarbons. As part of a program focused upon extending these observations to natural systems, a study was conducted to examine the influence of soil upon the cooxidative abilities of N. europaea. Small quantities of Willamette silt loam (organic carbon content, 1.8%; cation-exchange capacity, 15 cmol/kg of soil) were suspended with N. europaea cells in a soil-slurry-type reaction mixture. The oxidations of ammonia and three different hydrocarbons (ethylene, chloroethane, and 1,1,1-trichloroethane) were compared to results for controls in which no soil was added. The soil significantly inhibited nitrite production from 10 mM ammonium by N. europaea. Inhibition resulted from a combination of ammonium adsorption onto soil colloids and the exchangeable acidity of the soil lowering the pH of the reaction mixture. These phenomena resulted in a substantial drop in the concentration of NH(4) in solution (10 to 4.5 mM) and, depending upon the pH, in a reduction in the amount of available NH(3) to concentrations (8 to 80 muM) similar to the K(s) value of AMO for NH(3) ( approximately 29 muM). At a fixed initial pH (7.8), the presence of soil also modified the rates of oxidation of ethylene and chloroethane and changed the concentrations at which their maximal rates of oxidation occurred. The modifying effects of soil on nitrite production and on the cooxidation of ethylene and chloroethane could be circumvented by raising the ammonium concentration in the reaction mixture from 10 to 50 mM. Soil had virtually no effect on the oxidation of 1,1,1-trichloroethane.
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- N G Hommes
- Laboratory for Nitrogen Fixation Research and Departments of Microbiology and Crop and Soil Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-2902
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Taylor AE, Arp DJ, Bottomley PJ, Semprini L. Extending the alkene substrate range of vinyl chloride utilizing Nocardioides sp. strain JS614 with ethene oxide. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 87:2293-302. [PMID: 20582588 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-2719-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2010] [Revised: 05/18/2010] [Accepted: 06/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nocardioides sp. strain JS614 grows on the C(2) alkenes ethene (Eth), vinyl chloride, and vinyl fluoride as sole carbon sources. The presence of 400-800 microM ethene oxide (EtO) extended the growth substrate range to propene (C(3)) and butene (C(4)). Propene-dependent growth of JS614 was CO(2) dependent and was prevented by the carboxylase/reductase inhibitor 2-bromoethanesulfonic acid, sodium salt (BES), while growth on Eth was not CO(2) dependent or BES sensitive. Although unable to promote growth, both propene and propene oxide (PrO)-induced expression of the genes encoding the alpha subunit of alkene monooxygenase (etnC) and epoxyethane CoM transferase (etnE) to similar levels as did Eth and EtO. Propene was transformed by Eth-grown and propene-grown/EtO-induced JS614 to PrO at a rate 4.2 times faster than PrO was consumed. As a result PrO accumulated in growth medium to 900 microM during EtO-induced growth on propene. PrO (50-100 microM) exerted inhibitory effects on growth of JS614 on both acetate and Eth, and on EtO-induced growth on Eth. However, higher EtO concentrations (300-400 microM) overcame the negative effects of PrO on Eth-dependent growth.
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Leung K, Wanjage FN, Bottomley PJ. Symbiotic Characteristics of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii Isolates Which Represent Major and Minor Nodule-Occupying Chromosomal Types of Field-Grown Subclover (Trifolium subterraneum L.). Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 60:427-33. [PMID: 16349172 PMCID: PMC201330 DOI: 10.1128/aem.60.2.427-433.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The symbiotic effectiveness and nodulation competitiveness of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii soil isolates were evaluated under nonsoil greenhouse conditions. The isolates which we used represented both major and minor nodule-occupying chromosomal types (electrophoretic types [ETs]) recovered from field-grown subclover (Trifolium subterraneum L.). Isolates representing four ETs (ETs 2, 3, 7, and 8) that were highly successful field nodule occupants fixed between 2- and 10-fold less nitrogen and produced lower herbage dry weights and first-harvest herbage protein concentrations than isolates that were minor nodule occupants of field-grown plants. Despite their equivalent levels of abundance in nodules on field-grown subclover plants, ET 2 and 3 isolates exhibited different competitive nodulation potentials under nonsoil greenhouse conditions. ET 3 isolates generally occupied more subclover nodules than isolates belonging to other ETs when the isolates were mixed in 1:1 inoculant ratios and inoculated onto seedlings. In contrast, ET 2 isolates were less successful at nodulating under these conditions. In many cases, ET 2 isolates required a numerical advantage of at least 6:1 to 11:1 to occupy significantly more nodules than their competitors. We identified highly effective isolates that were as competitive as the ET 3 isolates despite representing serotypes that were rarely recovered from nodules of field-grown plants. When one of the suboptimally effective isolates (ET2-1) competed with an effective and competitive isolate (ET31-5) at several different inoculant ratios, the percentages of nodules occupied by the former increased as its numerical advantage increased. Although subclover yields declined as nodule occupancy by ET2-1 increased, surprisingly, this occurred at inoculant ratios at which large percentages of nodules were still occupied by ET31-5.
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- K Leung
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3804
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Leung K, Yap K, Dashti N, Bottomley PJ. Serological and Ecological Characteristics of a Nodule-Dominant Serotype from an Indigenous Soil Population of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 60:408-15. [PMID: 16349170 PMCID: PMC201328 DOI: 10.1128/aem.60.2.408-415.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Although at least 13 antigenically distinct serotypes of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii exist in an Abiqua silty clay loam soil, one serotype, AS6, occupies >/=50% of the root nodules formed on field-grown subclover and between 33 and 78% of the nodules formed on five annual clover species grown in the same soil under laboratory conditions. The dominance of subclover nodules by serotype AS6 was reproducible over a 4-year sampling period and throughout the entire 200- by 100-m pasture examined. Serotype AS6 was composed of three antigenically distinct subtypes (AS6-a, AS6-b, and AS6-c). Each subtype contributed about one-third of the AS6 isolates recovered from nodules of field-grown subclover plants and maintained similar population densities in nonrhizosphere and rhizosphere soil. Rhizobia with the AS6 antigenic signature accounted for from 20 to 100% of the soil populations of R. leguminosarum in arable and pasture soils under legumes throughout the state of Oregon. Over a 12-month period, the population densities of the serotype AS6 complex and three minor nodule-occupying serotypes (AG4, AP17, and AS21) were measured in the rhizospheres of field-grown subclover and orchard grass and in nonrhizosphere Abiqua soil. Regardless of season or serotype, the orchard grass rhizosphere effect was minimal, with the ratio between rhizosphere and nonrhizosphere serotype population densities ranging between 2.5 (midsummer) and 10.5 (spring). In contrast, the magnitude of the subclover rhizosphere effect varied seasonally and among serotypes. Between October and December the ratios for all serotypes were similar (12.5 to 25.5). However, in the spring (April and May), the magnitude of the rhizosphere effect varied among the indigenous serotypes (ratios, 10.5 to 442) and for minor nodule-occupying serotypes AS21 (ratio, 442) and AP17 (ratio, 47) was as great as, or even greater than, the magnitude of the rhizosphere effect observed with the AS6 complex (ratio, 65.5).
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- K Leung
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3804
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Eardly BD, Hannaway DB, Bottomley PJ. Characterization of Rhizobia from Ineffective Alfalfa Nodules: Ability to Nodulate Bean Plants [Phaseolus vulgaris (L.) Savi.]. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 50:1422-7. [PMID: 16346942 PMCID: PMC238774 DOI: 10.1128/aem.50.6.1422-1427.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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This study was initiated to characterize Rhizobium isolates obtained from root nodules of ineffectively nodulated, field-grown alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plants. The purpose was to determine if these isolates possessed characteristics which would explain either their ineffectiveness in N(2) fixation or their apparent ability to tolerate the moderately acid soil conditions from which they originated. Isolates were characterized by analysis of growth rate, 39 degrees C tolerance, acid production on conventional media, and symbiotic performance. All isolates were ineffective in N(2) fixation on alfalfa, and they contained one or more anomalous characteristics. These included either slow growth rate, lack of 39 degrees C tolerance, or lack of acid production on conventional media. Infectiveness tests on a broad range of legumes revealed that the isolates formed root nodules on M. sativa, Medicago lupulina L., and Phaseolus vulgaris (L.) Savi. (common bean). These results provide evidence that, in some situations, ineffective nodulation of M. sativa in the field may be due to the presence of promiscuous, native Rhizobium species.
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- B D Eardly
- Departments of Crop Science, Microbiology, and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3804
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Cooley RB, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Growth of a non-methanotroph on natural gas: ignoring the obvious to focus on the obscure. Environ Microbiol Rep 2009; 1:408-413. [PMID: 23765894 DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00060.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Methanotrophs are well known for their ability to grow on methane in natural gas environments; however, these environments also contain low concentrations of longer-chain-length gaseous alkanes. This mixture of alkanes poses a problem for organisms that might otherwise grow on alkanes ≥ C2 because methane could inhibit oxidation of growth substrates and lead to an accumulation of toxic C1 metabolites. Here, we have characterized the growth of a C2 -C9 alkane-utilizing bacterium, Thauera butanivorans, in conditions containing high concentrations of methane and small amounts (< 3% of total alkane) of C2 -C4 . During such growth, methanol accumulates transiently before being consumed in an O2 -dependent process that leads to the formation of a proton gradient and subsequent ATP generation. In contrast, formaldehyde-dependent O2 consumption is insensitive to uncouplers and does not lead to significant ATP production. This efficient C1 oxidation process that regains much of the energy loss inflicted by oxidizing methane, coupled with an alkane monooxygenase effective at limiting methane oxidation, allows T. butanivorans to grow uninhibited in natural gas environments. Although longer-chain-length gaseous alkane-utilizing organisms have been previously identified to grow in natural gas seepages, the data presented here represent the first detailed characterization of the physiological effects associated with inadvertent methane oxidation by a non-methanotroph, and suggest the presence of a well-evolved series of biochemical processes that allow them to grow in natural gas deposits without the need for developing the unique metabolic machinery characteristic of methanotrophs.
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- Richard B Cooley
- Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Microbiology and Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Dubbels BL, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Thauera butanivorans sp. nov., a C2-C9 alkane-oxidizing bacterium previously referred to as 'Pseudomonas butanovora'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1576-8. [PMID: 19528200 DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.000638-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The placement of 'Pseudomonas butanovora' in the genus Thauera was proposed previously, based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, upon further studies of taxonomical characteristics. In this study, physiological characteristics and DNA-DNA reassociation data are presented and the transfer of 'P. butanovora' to the genus Thauera is proposed. The original description of the strain (strain Bu-B1211) indicated that it was capable of denitrification but not anaerobic growth. 'P. butanovora' is capable of anaerobic respiration and growth, utilizing nitrate as a terminal electron acceptor during the oxidation of organic acids and alcohols, but not aromatic hydrocarbons or open-chain terpenoids. The total fatty acid composition supported the assignment of strain Bu-B1211 to the Betaproteobacteria and resembled that of members of the genus Thauera. The combination of 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic evidence, physiological and taxonomical characteristics and DNA-DNA reassociation data supported the placement of 'Pseudomonas butanovora' Bu-B1211 in the genus Thauera as representing a novel species, for which the name Thauera butanivorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Bu-B1211(T) (=IAM 12574(T)=ATCC 43655(T)=DSM 2080(T)).
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- Bradley L Dubbels
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, 2082 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, USA
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Cooley RB, Dubbels BL, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Kinetic characterization of the soluble butane monooxygenase from Thauera butanivorans, formerly 'Pseudomonas butanovora'. Microbiology (Reading) 2009; 155:2086-2096. [PMID: 19383682 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.028175-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Soluble butane monooxygenase (sBMO), a three-component di-iron monooxygenase complex expressed by the C(2)-C(9) alkane-utilizing bacterium Thauera butanivorans, was kinetically characterized by measuring substrate specificities for C(1)-C(5) alkanes and product inhibition profiles. sBMO has high sequence homology with soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) and shares a similar substrate range, including gaseous and liquid alkanes, aromatics, alkenes and halogenated xenobiotics. Results indicated that butane was the preferred substrate (defined by k(cat) : K(m) ratios). Relative rates of oxidation for C(1)-C(5) alkanes differed minimally, implying that substrate specificity is heavily influenced by differences in substrate K(m) values. The low micromolar K(m) for linear C(2)-C(5) alkanes and the millimolar K(m) for methane demonstrate that sBMO is two to three orders of magnitude more specific for physiologically relevant substrates of T. butanivorans. Methanol, the product of methane oxidation and also a substrate itself, was found to have similar K(m) and k(cat) values to those of methane. This inability to kinetically discriminate between the C(1) alkane and C(1) alcohol is observed as a steady-state concentration of methanol during the two-step oxidation of methane to formaldehyde by sBMO. Unlike methanol, alcohols with chain length C(2)-C(5) do not compete effectively with their respective alkane substrates. Results from product inhibition experiments suggest that the geometry of the active site is optimized for linear molecules four to five carbons in length and is influenced by the regulatory protein component B (butane monooxygenase regulatory component; BMOB). The data suggest that alkane oxidation by sBMO is highly specialized for the turnover of C(3)-C(5) alkanes and the release of their respective alcohol products. Additionally, sBMO is particularly efficient at preventing methane oxidation during growth on linear alkanes > or =C(2,) despite its high sequence homology with sMMO. These results represent, to the best of our knowledge, the first kinetic in vitro characterization of the closest known homologue of sMMO.
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- Richard B Cooley
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Gvakharia BO, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ, Sayavedra-Soto LA. Construction of recombinant Nitrosomonas europaea expressing green fluorescent protein in response to co-oxidation of chloroform. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2009; 82:1179-85. [PMID: 19247648 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-009-1914-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2009] [Revised: 02/05/2009] [Accepted: 02/08/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Transcriptional fusions with gfp driven by the promoter region of mbla (NE2571) in pPRO/mbla4 and clpB (NE2402) in pPRO/clpb7 were used to transform the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea (ATCC 19718). The two genes were chosen because their transcript levels were found at much higher levels in N. europaea in response to oxidation of chloroform and chloromethane. In N. europaea transformed with pPRO/mbla4, green fluorescent protein (GFP)-dependent fluorescence increased from 3- to 18-fold above control levels in response to increasing chloroform concentrations (7 to 28 microM), and from 8- to 10-fold in response to increasing hydrogen peroxide concentrations (2.5-7.5 mM). The GFP-dependent fluorescence of N. europaea transformed with pPRO/clpb7 also showed an increase of 6- to 10-fold in response to chloroform (28-100 microM) but did not respond to H(2)O(2). Our data provide proof of concept that biosensors can be fabricated in ammonia-oxidizing bacteria using "sentinel" genes that up-regulate in response to stress caused either by co-oxidation of chlorinated solvents or by the presence of H(2)O(2). The fabricated biosensors had a consistent concentration-dependent response to chloroform; however, these did not respond to other chlorinated compounds that cause similar cellular stress.
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- Barbara O Gvakharia
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Starkenburg SR, Arp DJ, Bottomley PJ. Expression of a putative nitrite reductase and the reversible inhibition of nitrite-dependent respiration by nitric oxide in Nitrobacter winogradskyi Nb-255. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:3036-42. [PMID: 18973623 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01763.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The nitrite oxidizing Alphaproteobacterium, Nitrobacter winogradskyi, primarily conserves energy from the oxidation of nitrite (NO(2)(-))to nitrate (NO(3)(-)) through aerobic respiration. Almost 20 years ago, NO-dependent NADH formation was reported to occur in both aerobic and anaerobic cell suspensions of N. winogradskyi strain 'agilis', suggesting that NO oxidation might contribute to energy conservation by Nitrobacter. Recently, the N. winogradskyi Nb-255 genome was found to contain a gene (Nwin_2648) that encodes a putative copper-containing nitrite reductase (NirK), which may reduce NO(2)(-) to NO. In this study, the putative nirK was found to be maximally transcribed under low O(2) (between zero and 4% O(2)) in the presence of NO(2)(-). Transcription of nirK was not detected under anaerobic conditions in the absence of NO(2)(-) or in the presence of NO(3)(-) and pyruvate. Although net production of NO could not be detected from either aerobically grown or anaerobically incubated cells, exogenous NO was consumed by viable cells and concomitantly inhibited NO(2)(-)-dependent O(2) uptake in a reversible, concentration dependent manner. Both NO(2(-)-dependent O(2) uptake and NO consumption were inhibited by 1 mM cyanide suggesting involvement of cytochrome oxidase with NO consumption. Abiotic consumption of NO was measured, yet, both the rates and kinetics of NO transformation in buffer alone, or by heat killed, or cyanide-treated cells differed from those of viable cells. In light of this new information, a modified model is proposed to explain how NirK and NO manage electron flux in Nitrobacter.
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- Shawn R Starkenburg
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
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Boyle-Yarwood SA, Bottomley PJ, Myrold DD. Community composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in soils under stands of red alder and Douglas fir in Oregon. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:2956-65. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01600.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Starkenburg SR, Arp DJ, Bottomley PJ. D-Lactate metabolism and the obligate requirement for CO2 during growth on nitrite by the facultative lithoautotroph Nitrobacter hamburgensis. Microbiology (Reading) 2008; 154:2473-2481. [PMID: 18667580 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/018085-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Nitrobacter hamburgensis X14 is a facultative lithoautotroph that conserves energy from the oxidation of nitrite (NO(-)2) and fixes carbon dioxide (CO(2)) as its sole source of carbon. The availability of the N. hamburgensis X14 genome sequence initiated a re-examination of its mixotrophic and organotrophic potential, as genes encoding three flavin-dependent oxidases were identified that may function to oxidize lactate, providing energy and carbon for growth. The response of N. hamburgensis to D- and L-lactate in the presence (mixotrophy) and absence (organotrophy) of NO(-)2 was examined. L-lactate did not support organotrophic growth or stimulate mixotrophic growth. In contrast, D-lactate enhanced the growth rate and yield of N. hamburgensis in the presence of NO(-)2, and served as the sole carbon and energy source for growth in the absence of NO(-)2 with ammonium as the sole nitrogen source. Lithoautotrophically grown cells immediately consumed D-lactate, suggesting that a lactate metabolic pathway is constitutively expressed. Nevertheless, a physiological adaptation to lactate occurred, as D-lactate-grown cells consumed and assimilated lactate at a faster rate than NO(-)2-grown cells, and the D-lactate-dependent O(2) uptake rate was significantly greater in cells grown either organotrophically or mixotrophically compared with cells grown lithoautotrophically. Although D-lactate was assimilated and metabolized to CO(2) in the presence or absence of NO(-)2, exposure to atmospheric CO(2) or the addition of 0.75 mM sodium carbonate was required for mixotrophic growth and for optimum organotrophic growth on D-lactate.
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- Shawn R Starkenburg
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.,Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Doughty DM, Kurth EG, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Arp DJ, Bottomley PJ. Evidence for involvement of copper ions and redox state in regulation of butane monooxygenase in Pseudomonas butanovora. J Bacteriol 2008; 190:2933-8. [PMID: 18281403 PMCID: PMC2293249 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01409-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2007] [Accepted: 02/05/2008] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas butanovora possesses an alcohol-inducible alkane monooxygenase, butane monooxygenase (BMO), that initiates growth on C(2)-C(9) alkanes. A lacZ transcriptional reporter strain, P. butanovora bmoX::lacZ, in which the BMO promoter controls the expression of beta-galactosidase activity, was used to show that 1-butanol induced the BMO promoter in the presence or absence of O(2) when lactate-grown, BMO-repressed cells were washed free of lactate and incubated in NH(4)Cl-KNa phosphate buffer. In contrast, when lactate-grown cells of the reporter strain were incubated in phosphate buffer containing the mineral salts of standard growth medium, 1-butanol-dependent induction was significantly repressed at low O(2) (1 to 2% [vol/vol]) and totally repressed under anoxic conditions. The repressive effect of the mineral salts was traced to its copper content. In cells exposed to 1% (vol/vol) O(2), CuSO(4) (0.5 microM) repressed 1-butanol-dependent induction of beta-galactosidase activity. Under oxic conditions (20% O(2) [vol/vol]), significantly higher concentrations of CuSO(4) (2 microM) were required for almost complete repression of induction in lactate-grown cells. A combination of the Cu(2+) reducing agent Na ascorbate (100 microM) and CuSO(4) (0.5 microM) repressed the induction of beta-galactosidase activity under oxic conditions to the same extent that 0.5 microM CuSO(4) alone repressed it under anoxic conditions. Under oxic conditions, 2 microM CuSO(4) repressed induction of the BMO promoter less effectively in butyrate-grown cells of the bmoX::lacZ strain and of an R8-bmoX::lacZ mutant reporter strain with a putative BMO regulator, BmoR, inactivated. Under anoxic conditions, CuSO(4) repression remained highly effective, regardless of the growth substrate, in both BmoR-positive and -negative reporter strains.
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- D M Doughty
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3804, USA
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Kurth EG, Doughty DM, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ, Sayavedra-Soto LA. Involvement of BmoR and BmoG in n-alkane metabolism in ‘Pseudomonas butanovora’. Microbiology (Reading) 2008; 154:139-147. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/012724-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Elizabeth G. Kurth
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, 2082 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, 2082 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, 2082 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Taylor AE, Dolan ME, Bottomley PJ, Semprini L. Utilization of fluoroethene as a surrogate for aerobic vinyl chloride transformation. Environ Sci Technol 2007; 41:6378-6383. [PMID: 17948782 DOI: 10.1021/es0701255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Fluoroethene (FE) is a stable molecule in aqueous solution and its aerobic transformation potentially yields F-. This work evaluated if FE is a suitable surrogate for monitoring aerobic vinyl chloride (VC) utilization or cometabolic transformation. Experiments were carried out with three isolates, Mycobacterium strain EE13a, Mycobacterium strain JS60, and Nocardioides strain JS614 to evaluate if their affinities for FE and VC and their rates of transformation were comparable and whether the transformation of FE and F- accumulation could be correlated with VC utilization. JS614 grew on FE in addition to VC, making it the first organism reported to use FE as a sole carbon and energy source. EE13a cometabolized VC and FE, and JS60 catabolized VC and cometabolized FE. There was little difference among the three strains in the Ks or kmax values for VC or FE. Competitive inhibition modeled the temporal responses of FE and VC transformations and Cl- and F- release when both substrates were present. Both the rate of FE transformation and rate of F-accumulation could be correlated with the rate of aerobic transformation of VC and showed promise for estimating VC rates in situ using FE as a reactive surrogate.
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- Anne E Taylor
- School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, 101 Gleeson Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331, USA
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Halsey KH, Doughty DM, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Evidence for modified mechanisms of chloroethene oxidation in Pseudomonas butanovora mutants containing single amino acid substitutions in the hydroxylase alpha-subunit of butane monooxygenase. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:5068-74. [PMID: 17496103 PMCID: PMC1951863 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00189-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The properties of oxidation of dichloroethene (DCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE) by three mutant strains of Pseudomonas butanovora containing single amino acid substitutions in the alpha-subunit of butane monooxygenase hydroxylase (BMOH-alpha) were compared to the properties of the wild-type strain (Rev WT). The rates of oxidation of three chloroethenes (CEs) were reduced in mutant strain G113N and corresponded with a lower maximum rate of butane oxidation. The rate of TCE degradation was reduced by one-half in mutant strain L279F, whereas the rates of DCE oxidation were the same as those in Rev WT. Evidence was obtained that the composition of products of CE oxidation differed between Rev WT and some of the mutant strains. For example, while Rev WT released nearly all available chlorine stoichiometrically during CE oxidation, strain F321Y released about 40% of the chlorine during 1,2-cis-DCE and TCE oxidation, and strain G113N released between 14 and 25% of the available chlorine during oxidation of DCE and 56% of the available chlorine during oxidation of TCE. Whereas Rev WT, strain L279F, and strain F321Y formed stoichiometric amounts of 1,2-cis-DCE epoxide during oxidation of 1,2-cis-DCE, only about 50% of the 1,2-cis-DCE oxidized by strain G113N was detected as the epoxide. Evidence was obtained that 1,2-cis-DCE epoxide was a substrate for butane monooxygenase (BMO) that was oxidized after the parent compound was consumed. Yet all of the mutant strains released less than 40% of the available 1,2-cis-DCE chlorine, suggesting that they have altered activity towards the epoxide. In addition, strain G113N was unable to degrade the epoxide. TCE epoxide was detected during exposure of Rev WT and strain F321Y to TCE but was not detected with strains L279F and G113N. Lactate-dependent O(2) uptake rates were differentially affected by DCE degradation in the mutant strains, providing evidence that some products released by the altered BMOs reduced the impact of CE on cellular toxicity. The use of CEs as substrates in combination with P. butanovora BMOH-alpha mutants might allow insights into the catalytic mechanism of BMO to be obtained.
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- Kimberly H Halsey
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Gvakharia BO, Permina EA, Gelfand MS, Bottomley PJ, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Arp DJ. Global transcriptional response of Nitrosomonas europaea to chloroform and chloromethane. Appl Environ Microbiol 2007; 73:3440-5. [PMID: 17369330 PMCID: PMC1907119 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02831-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Upon exposure of Nitrosomonas europaea to chloroform (7 microM, 1 h), transcripts for 175 of 2,460 genes were found at higher levels in treated cells than in untreated cells and transcripts for 501 genes were found at lower levels. With chloromethane (3.2 mM, 1 h), transcripts for 67 genes were at higher levels and transcripts for 148 genes were at lower levels. Transcripts for 37 genes were at higher levels following both treatments and included genes for heat shock proteins, sigma-factors of the extracytoplasmic function subfamily, and toxin-antitoxin loci. N. europaea has higher levels of transcripts for a variety of defense genes when exposed to chloroform or chloromethane.
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- Barbara O Gvakharia
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Halsey KH, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Site-directed amino acid substitutions in the hydroxylase alpha subunit of butane monooxygenase from Pseudomonas butanovora: Implications for substrates knocking at the gate. J Bacteriol 2006; 188:4962-9. [PMID: 16788204 PMCID: PMC1482983 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00280-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2006] [Accepted: 04/22/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Butane monooxygenase (BMO) from Pseudomonas butanovora has high homology to soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO), and both oxidize a wide range of hydrocarbons; yet previous studies have not demonstrated methane oxidation by BMO. Studies to understand the basis for this difference were initiated by making single-amino-acid substitutions in the hydroxylase alpha subunit of butane monooxygenase (BMOH-alpha) in P. butanovora. Residues likely to be within hydrophobic cavities, adjacent to the diiron center, and on the surface of BMOH-alpha were altered to the corresponding residues from the alpha subunit of sMMO. In vivo studies of five site-directed mutants were carried out to initiate mechanistic investigations of BMO. Growth rates of mutant strains G113N and L279F on butane were dramatically slower than the rate seen with the control P. butanovora wild-type strain (Rev WT). The specific activities of BMO in these strains were sevenfold lower than those of Rev WT. Strains G113N and L279F also showed 277- and 5.5-fold increases in the ratio of the rates of 2-butanol production to 1-butanol production compared to Rev WT. Propane oxidation by strain G113N was exclusively subterminal and led to accumulation of acetone, which P. butanovora could not further metabolize. Methane oxidation was measurable for all strains, although accumulation of 23 microM methanol led to complete inhibition of methane oxidation in strain Rev WT. In contrast, methane oxidation by strain G113N was not completely inhibited until the methanol concentration reached 83 microM. The structural significance of the results obtained in this study is discussed using a three-dimensional model of BMOH-alpha.
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- Kimberly H Halsey
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Starkenburg SR, Chain PSG, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Hauser L, Land ML, Larimer FW, Malfatti SA, Klotz MG, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ, Hickey WJ. Genome sequence of the chemolithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium Nitrobacter winogradskyi Nb-255. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72:2050-63. [PMID: 16517654 PMCID: PMC1393235 DOI: 10.1128/aem.72.3.2050-2063.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The alphaproteobacterium Nitrobacter winogradskyi (ATCC 25391) is a gram-negative facultative chemolithoautotroph capable of extracting energy from the oxidation of nitrite to nitrate. Sequencing and analysis of its genome revealed a single circular chromosome of 3,402,093 bp encoding 3,143 predicted proteins. There were extensive similarities to genes in two alphaproteobacteria, Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110 (1,300 genes) and Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009 CG (815 genes). Genes encoding pathways for known modes of chemolithotrophic and chemoorganotrophic growth were identified. Genes encoding multiple enzymes involved in anapleurotic reactions centered on C2 to C4 metabolism, including a glyoxylate bypass, were annotated. The inability of N. winogradskyi to grow on C6 molecules is consistent with the genome sequence, which lacks genes for complete Embden-Meyerhof and Entner-Doudoroff pathways, and active uptake of sugars. Two gene copies of the nitrite oxidoreductase, type I ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, cytochrome c oxidase, and gene homologs encoding an aerobic-type carbon monoxide dehydrogenase were present. Similarity of nitrite oxidoreductases to respiratory nitrate reductases was confirmed. Approximately 10% of the N. winogradskyi genome codes for genes involved in transport and secretion, including the presence of transporters for various organic-nitrogen molecules. The N. winogradskyi genome provides new insight into the phylogenetic identity and physiological capabilities of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. The genome will serve as a model to study the cellular and molecular processes that control nitrite oxidation and its interaction with other nitrogen-cycling processes.
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Physiological and regulatory mechanisms that allow the alkane-oxidizing bacterium Pseudomonas butanovora to consume C2 to C8 alkane substrates via butane monooxygenase (BMO) were examined. Striking differences were observed in response to even- versus odd-chain-length alkanes. Propionate, the downstream product of propane oxidation and of the oxidation of other odd-chain-length alkanes following beta-oxidation, was a potent repressor of BMO expression. The transcriptional activity of the BMO promoter was reduced with as little as 10 microM propionate, even in the presence of appropriate inducers. Propionate accumulated stoichiometrically when 1-propanol and propionaldehyde were added to butane- and ethane-grown cells, indicating that propionate catabolism was inactive during growth on even-chain-length alkanes. In contrast, propionate consumption was induced (about 80 nmol propionate consumed.min(-1).mg protein(-1)) following growth on the odd-chain-length alkanes, propane and pentane. The induction of propionate consumption could be brought on by the addition of propionate or pentanoate to the growth medium. In a reporter strain of P. butanovora in which the BMO promoter controls beta-galactosidase expression, only even-chain-length alcohols (C2 to C8) induced beta-galactosidase following growth on acetate or butyrate. In contrast, both even- and odd-chain-length alcohols (C3 to C7) were able to induce beta-galactosidase following the induction of propionate consumption by propionate or pentanoate.
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- D M Doughty
- Department of Microbiology, Nash Hall, Room 220, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3804, USA
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Doughty DM, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Arp DJ, Bottomley PJ. Effects of dichloroethene isomers on the induction and activity of butane monooxygenase in the alkane-oxidizing bacterium "Pseudomonas butanovora". Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:6054-9. [PMID: 16204521 PMCID: PMC1265974 DOI: 10.1128/aem.71.10.6054-6059.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We examined cooxidation of three different dichloroethenes (1,1-DCE, 1,2-trans DCE, and 1,2-cis DCE) by butane monooxygenase (BMO) in the butane-utilizing bacterium "Pseudomonas butanovora." Different organic acids were tested as exogenous reductant sources for this process. In addition, we determined if DCEs could serve as surrogate inducers of BMO gene expression. Lactic acid supported greater rates of oxidation of the three DCEs than the other organic acids tested. The impacts of lactic acid-supported DCE oxidation on BMO activity differed among the isomers. In intact cells, 50% of BMO activity was irreversibly lost after consumption of approximately 20 nmol mg protein(-1) of 1,1-DCE and 1,2-trans DCE in 0.5 and 5 min, respectively. In contrast, a comparable loss of activity required the oxidation of 120 nmol 1,2-cis DCE mg protein(-1). Oxidation of similar amounts of each DCE isomer ( approximately 20 nmol mg protein(-1)) produced different negative effects on lactic acid-dependent respiration. Despite 1,1-DCE being consumed 10 times faster than 1,2,-trans DCE, respiration declined at similar rates, suggesting that the product(s) of oxidation of 1,2-trans DCE was more toxic to respiration than 1,1-DCE. Lactate-grown "P. butanovora" did not express BMO activity but gained activity after exposure to butane, ethene, 1,2-cis DCE, or 1,2-trans DCE. The products of BMO activity, ethene oxide and 1-butanol, induced lacZ in a reporter strain containing lacZ fused to the BMO promoter, whereas butane, ethene, and 1,2-cis DCE did not. 1,2-trans DCE was unique among the BMO substrates tested in its ability to induce lacZ expression.
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- D M Doughty
- Dept. of Microbiology, Nash Hall Rm. 220, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3804, USA
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Sayavedra-Soto LA, Doughty DM, Kurth EG, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Product and product-independent induction of butane oxidation in Pseudomonas butanovora. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005; 250:111-6. [PMID: 16055278 DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.06.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2005] [Accepted: 06/27/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas butanovora grows on butane by means of an inducible soluble alkane monooxygenase (sBMO). The induction of sBMO was studied using the wild type and a sBMO reporter strain. The reporter strain has the lacZ::kan cassette inserted into bmoX, the gene that encodes the alpha-subunit of the hydroxylase of sBMO. The beta-galactosidase activity in the reporter strain was not induced by butane, but was induced by 1-butanol and butyraldehyde. P. butanovora expressed sBMO product-independent activity at 3.0+/-1 nmol ethylene oxide min(-1) mg protein(-1) in stationary phase. The sBMO product-independent activity likely primes the expression of sBMO by butane.
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- Luis A Sayavedra-Soto
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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Halsey KH, Sayavedra-Soto LA, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Trichloroethylene degradation by butane-oxidizing bacteria causes a spectrum of toxic effects. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2005; 68:794-801. [PMID: 15754184 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-005-1944-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2005] [Revised: 02/08/2005] [Accepted: 02/13/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The physiological consequences of trichloroethylene (TCE) transformation by three butane oxidizers were examined. Pseudomonas butanovora, Mycobacterium vaccae, and Nocardioides sp. CF8 utilize distinctly different butane monooxygenases (BMOs) to initiate degradation of the recalcitrant TCE molecule. Although the primary toxic event resulting from TCE cometabolism by these three strains was loss of BMO activity, species differences were observed. P. butanovora and Nocardioides sp. CF8 maintained only 4% residual BMO activity following exposure to 165 microM TCE for 90 min and 180 min, respectively. In contrast, M. vaccae maintained 34% residual activity even after exposure to 165 microM TCE for 300 min. Culture viability was reduced 83% in P. butanovora, but was unaffected in the other two species. Transformation of 530 nmol of TCE by P. butanovora (1.0 mg total protein) did not affect the viability of BMO-deficient P. butanovora cells, whereas transformation of 482 nmol of TCE by toluene-grown Burkholderia cepacia G4 caused 87% of BMO-deficient P. butanovora cells to lose viability. Together, these results contrast with those previously reported for other bacteria carrying out TCE cometabolism and demonstrate the range of cellular toxicities associated with TCE cometabolism.
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- Kimberly H Halsey
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, ALS 3021, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, USA
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Bottomley PJ, Taylor AE, Boyle SA, McMahon SK, Rich JJ, Cromack K, Myrold DD. Responses of nitrification and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria to reciprocal transfers of soil between adjacent coniferous forest and meadow vegetation in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Microb Ecol 2004; 48:500-508. [PMID: 15696383 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-004-0215-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2003] [Accepted: 04/06/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Despite the critical position of nitrification in N cycling in coniferous forest soils of western North America, little information exists on the composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in these soils, or their response to treatments that promote or reduce nitrification. To this end, an experiment was conducted in which a set of soil cores was reciprocally transplanted between adjacent forest (low nitrification potential) and meadow (high nitrification potential) environments, at two high-elevation (approximately 1500 m) sites in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest located in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Half of the cores were placed in screened PVC pipe (closed) to prevent new root colonization, large litter debris inputs, and animal disturbance; the other cores were placed in open mesh bags. A duplicate set of open and closed soil cores was not transferred between sites and was incubated in place. Over the 2-year experiment, net nitrification increased in both open and closed cores transferred from forest to meadow, and to a lesser extent in cores remaining in the forest. In three of four forest soil treatments, net nitrification increases were accompanied by increases in nitrification potential rates (NPR) and 10- to 100-fold increases in AOB populations. In open cores remaining in the forests, however, increases in net nitrification were not accompanied by significant increases in either NPR or AOB populations. Although some meadow soil treatments reduced both net nitrification and nitrification potential rates, significant changes were not detected in most probable number (MPN)-based estimates of AOB population densities. Terminal restriction fragment profiles (T-RFs) of a PCR-amplified 491-bp fragment of the ammonia monooxygenase subunit A gene (amoA) changed significantly in response to some soil treatments, and treatment effects differed among locations and between years. A T-RF previously shown to be a specific biomarker of Nitrosospira cluster 4 (Alu390) was widespread and dominant in the majority of soil samples. Despite some treatments causing substantial increases in AOB population densities and nitrification potential rates, nitrosomonads remained undetectable, and the nitrosospirad AOB community composition did not change radically following treatment.
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- P J Bottomley
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3804, USA.
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Root-deposited photosynthate (rhizodeposition) is an important source of readily available carbon (C) for microbes in the vicinity of growing roots. Plant nutrient availability is controlled, to a large extent, by the cycling of this and other organic materials through the soil microbial community. Currently, our understanding of microbial community dynamics associated with rhizodeposition is limited. We used a (13)C pulse-chase labeling procedure to examine the incorporation of rhizodeposition into individual phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) in the bulk and rhizosphere soils of greenhouse-grown annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam. var. Gulf). Labeling took place during a growth stage in transition between active root growth and rapid shoot growth on one set of plants (labeling period 1) and 9 days later during the rapid shoot growth stage on another set of plants (labeling period 2). Temporal differences in microbial community composition were more apparent than spatial differences, with a greater relative abundance of PLFAs from gram-positive organisms (i15:0 and a15:0) in the second labeling period. Although more abundant, gram-positive organisms appeared to be less actively utilizing rhizodeposited C in labeling period 2 than in labeling period 1. Gram-negative bacteria associated with the 16:1omega5 PLFA were more active in utilizing (13)C-labeled rhizodeposits in the second labeling period than in the first labeling period. In both labeling periods, however, the fungal PLFA 18:2omega6,9 was the most highly labeled. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of using (13)C labeling and PLFA analysis to examine the microbial dynamics associated with rhizosphere C cycling by focusing on the members actively involved.
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- Jessica L Butler
- Departments of Crop and Soil Science. Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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Rich JJ, Heichen RS, Bottomley PJ, Cromack K, Myrold DD. Community composition and functioning of denitrifying bacteria from adjacent meadow and forest soils. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 69:5974-82. [PMID: 14532052 PMCID: PMC201216 DOI: 10.1128/aem.69.10.5974-5982.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We investigated communities of denitrifying bacteria from adjacent meadow and forest soils. Our objectives were to explore spatial gradients in denitrifier communities from meadow to forest, examine whether community composition was related to ecological properties (such as vegetation type and process rates), and determine phylogenetic relationships among denitrifiers. nosZ, a key gene in the denitrification pathway for nitrous oxide reductase, served as a marker for denitrifying bacteria. Denitrifying enzyme activity (DEA) was measured as a proxy for function. Other variables, such as nitrification potential and soil C/N ratio, were also measured. Soil samples were taken along transects that spanned meadow-forest boundaries at two sites in the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the Western Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Results indicated strong functional and structural community differences between the meadow and forest soils. Levels of DEA were an order of magnitude higher in the meadow soils. Denitrifying community composition was related to process rates and vegetation type as determined on the basis of multivariate analyses of nosZ terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism profiles. Denitrifier communities formed distinct groups according to vegetation type and site. Screening 225 nosZ clones yielded 47 unique denitrifying genotypes; the most dominant genotype occurred 31 times, and half the genotypes occurred once. Several dominant and less-dominant denitrifying genotypes were more characteristic of either meadow or forest soils. The majority of nosZ fragments sequenced from meadow or forest soils were most similar to nosZ from the Rhizobiaceae group in alpha-Proteobacteria species. Denitrifying community composition, as well as environmental factors, may contribute to the variability of denitrification rates in these systems.
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- J J Rich
- Departments of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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The potential of trichloroethylene (TCE) to induce and non-aromatic growth substrates to support TCE degradation in five strains (Pseudomonas mendocina KR1, Ralstonia pickettii PKO1, Pseudomonas putida F1, Burkholderia cepacia G4, B. cepacia PR1) of toluene-oxidizing bacteria was examined. LB broth and acetate did not support TCE degradation in any of the wild-type strains. In contrast, fructose supported the highest specific levels of TCE oxidation observed in each of the strains tested, except B. cepacia G4. We discuss the potential mechanisms and implications of this observation. In particular, cells of P. mendocina KR1 degraded significant amounts of TCE during cell growth on non-aromatic substrates. Apparently, TCE degradation was not completely constrained by any given factor in this microorganism, as was observed with P. putida F1 (TCE was an extremely poor substrate) or B. cepacia G4 (lack of oxygenase induction by TCE). Our results indicate that multiple physiological traits are required to enable useful TCE degradation by toluene-oxidizing bacteria in the absence of aromatic cosubstrates. These traits include oxygenase induction, effective TCE turnover, and some level of resistance to TCE mediated toxicity.
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- Chris M Yeager
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, USA
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Mintie AT, Heichen RS, Cromack K, Myrold DD, Bottomley PJ. Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria along meadow-to-forest transects in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. Appl Environ Microbiol 2003; 69:3129-36. [PMID: 12788707 PMCID: PMC161520 DOI: 10.1128/aem.69.6.3129-3136.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Although nitrification has been well studied in coniferous forests of Western North America, communities of NH(3)-oxidizing bacteria in these forests have not been characterized. Studies were conducted along meadow-to-forest transects at two sites (Lookout and Carpenter) in the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, located in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Soil samples taken at 10- or 20-m intervals along the transects showed that several soil properties, including net nitrogen mineralization and nitrification potential rates changed significantly between vegetation zones. Nonetheless, terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of the PCR-amplified NH(3) monooxygenase subunit A gene (amoA) showed the same DNA fragments (TaqI [283 bp], CfoI [66 bp], and AluI [392 bp]) to dominate >/=45 of 47 soil samples recovered from both sites. Two fragments (491-bp AluI [AluI491] and CfoI135) were found more frequently in meadow and transition zone soil samples than in forest samples at both sites. At the Lookout site the combination AluI491-CfoI135 was found primarily in meadow samples expressing the highest N mineralization rates. Four unique amoA sequences were identified among 15 isolates recovered into pure culture from various transect locations. Six isolates possessed the most common T-RFLP amoA fingerprint of the soil samples (TaqI283-AluI392-CfoI66), and their amoA sequences shared 99.8% similarity with a cultured species, Nitrosospira sp. strain Ka4 (cluster 4). The other three amoA sequences were most similar to sequences of Nitrosospira sp. strain Nsp1 and Nitrosospira briensis (cluster 3). 16S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis confirmed the affiliation of these isolates with Nitrosospira clusters 3 and 4. Two amoA clone sequences matched T-RFLP fingerprints found in soil, but they were not found among the isolates.
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- A T Mintie
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3804, USA
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To investigate the treatment capability of a surface flow wetland at a container nursery near Portland, Oregon, atrazine was introduced during simulated runoff events. Treatment efficiency was evaluated as the percent atrazine recovered (as percent of applied) in the water column at the wetland's outlet. Atrazine treatment efficiency at the outlet of the constructed wetland during a 7-d period ranged from 18-24% in 1998 (experiments 1-3) and 16-17% in 1999 (experiments 4 and 5). Changes in total flow, or frequency and intensity of runoff events did not affect treatment. For experiment 6 in 1999, where the amount, frequency, and duration of runoff events exceeded all other experiments, treatment was compromised. For all experiments, deethylatrazine (DEA) and deisopropylatrazine (DIA) accounted for 13-21% of the initial application. Hydroxyatrazine (HA) was rarely detected in the water. Organic carbon adsorption coefficients (Koc) were determined from batch equilibrium sorption isotherms with wetland sediment, and they decreased in the order of HA > DIA > atrazine > DEA. Static water-sediment column experiments indicated that sorption is an important mechanism for atrazine loss from water passing through the constructed wetland. The results of the MPN assay indicated the existence in the wetland of a low-density population of microorganisms with the potential to mineralize atrazine's ethyl side chain.
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- Heather B Runes
- PTRL West. Inc., 625-B Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, CA 94547, USA
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Duddleston KN, Arp DJ, Bottomley PJ. Biodegradation of monohalogenated alkanes by soil NH(3)-oxidizing bacteria. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2002; 59:535-9. [PMID: 12172622 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-002-1031-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2002] [Revised: 04/10/2002] [Accepted: 04/19/2002] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Although cooxidative biodegradation of monohalogenated hydrocarbons has been well studied in the model NH(3)-oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea, virtually no information exists about cooxidation of these compounds by native populations of NH(3)-oxidizing bacteria. To address this subject, nitrifying activity was stimulated to 125-400 nmol NO(3)(-) produced g(-1) soil h(-1) by first incubating a Ca(OH)(2)-amended, silt loam soil (pH 7.0+/-0.2) at field capacity (270 g H(2)O kg(-1) soil) with 10 micro mol NH(4)(+) g(-1) soil for 14 days, followed by another 10 days of incubation in a shaken slurry (2:1 water:soil, v/w) with periodic pH adjustment and maintenance of 10 mM NH(4)(+). These slurries actively degraded both methyl bromide (MeBr) and ethyl chloride (EtCl) at maximum rates of 20-30 nmol ml(-1) h(-1) that could be sustained for approximately 12 h. Although the MeBr degradation rates were linear for the first 10-12 h of incubation, they could not be sustained regardless of NH(4)(+) level and declined to zero over 20 h of incubation. The transformation capacity of the slurry enrichments (~1 micro mol MeBr ml(-1) soil slurry) was similar to the value measured previously in cell suspensions of N. europaea with similar NH(3)-oxidizing activity. Several MeBr-degrading characteristics of the nitrifying enrichments were found to be similar to those documented in the literature for MeBr-degrading methanotrophs and facultatively methylotrophic bacteria.
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- K N Duddleston
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3804, USA
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Cliff JB, Gaspar DJ, Bottomley PJ, Myrold DD. Exploration of inorganic C and N assimilation by soil microbes with time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:4067-73. [PMID: 12147508 PMCID: PMC124058 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.8.4067-4073.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Stable C and N isotopes have long been used to examine properties of various C and N cycling processes in soils. Unfortunately, relatively large sample sizes are needed for accurate gas phase isotope ratio mass spectrometric analysis. This limitation has prevented researchers from addressing C and N cycling issues on microbially meaningful scales. Here we explored the use of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) to detect 13C and 15N assimilation by individual bacterial cells and to quantify N isotope ratios in bacterial samples and individual fungal hyphae. This was accomplished by measuring the relative abundances of mass 26 (12C14N-) and mass 27 (13C14N- and 12C15N-) ions sputtered with a Ga+ probe from cells adhered to an Si contact slide. TOF-SIMS was successfully used to locate and quantify the relative 15N contents of individual hyphae that grew onto Si contact slides in intimate contact with a model organomineral porous matrix composed of kaolin, straw fragments, and freshly deposited manure that was supplemented with 15NO3-. We observed that the 15N content of fungal hyphae grown on the slides was significantly lower in regions where the hyphae were influenced by N-rich manure than in regions influenced by N-deficient straw. This effect occurred over distances of tens to hundreds of microns. Our data illustrate that TOF-SIMS has the potential to locate N-assimilating microorganisms in soil and to quantify the 15N content of cells that have assimilated 15N-labeled mineral N and shows promise as a tool with which to explore the factors controlling microsite heterogeneities in soil.
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- John B Cliff
- Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-7306, USA.
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Yarwood RR, Rockhold ML, Niemet MR, Selker JS, Bottomley PJ. Noninvasive quantitative measurement of bacterial growth in porous media under unsaturated-flow conditions. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:3597-605. [PMID: 12089048 PMCID: PMC126793 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.7.3597-3605.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Glucose-dependent growth of the luxCDABE reporter bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens HK44 was monitored noninvasively in quartz sand under unsaturated-flow conditions within a 45- by 56- by 1-cm two-dimensional light transmission chamber. The spatial and temporal development of growth were mapped daily over 7 days by quantifying salicylate-induced bioluminescence. A nonlinear model relating the rate of increase in light emission after salicylate exposure to microbial density successfully predicted growth over 4 orders of magnitude (r(2) = 0.95). Total model-predicted growth agreed with growth calculated from the mass balance of the system by using previously established growth parameters of HK44 (predicted, 1.2 x 10(12) cells; calculated, 1.7 x 10(12) cells). Colonization expanded in all directions from the inoculation region, including upward migration against the liquid flow. Both the daily rate of expansion of the colonized zone and the population density of the first day's growth in each newly colonized region remained relatively constant throughout the experiment. Nonetheless, substantial growth continued to occur on subsequent days in the older regions of the colonized zone. The proportion of daily potential growth that remained within the chamber declined progressively between days 2 and 7 (from 97 to 13%). A densely populated, anoxic region developed in the interior of the colonized zone even though the sand was unsaturated and fresh growth medium continued to flow through the colonized zone. These data illustrate the potential of a light transmission chamber, bioluminescent bacteria, and sensitive digital camera technology to noninvasively study real-time hydrology-microbiology interactions associated with unsaturated flow in porous media.
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- R R Yarwood
- Department of Microbiolog, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3804, USA
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Yeager CM, Bottomley PJ, Arp DJ. Requirement of DNA repair mechanisms for survival of Burkholderia cepacia G4 upon degradation of trichloroethylene. Appl Environ Microbiol 2001; 67:5384-91. [PMID: 11722883 PMCID: PMC93320 DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.12.5384-5391.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A Tn5-based mutagenesis strategy was used to generate a collection of trichloroethylene (TCE)-sensitive (TCS) mutants in order to identify repair systems or protective mechanisms that shield Burkholderia cepacia G4 from the toxic effects associated with TCE oxidation. Single Tn5 insertion sites were mapped within open reading frames putatively encoding enzymes involved in DNA repair (UvrB, RuvB, RecA, and RecG) in 7 of the 11 TCS strains obtained (4 of the TCS strains had a single Tn5 insertion within a uvrB homolog). The data revealed that the uvrB-disrupted strains were exceptionally susceptible to killing by TCE oxidation, followed by the recA strain, while the ruvB and recG strains were just slightly more sensitive to TCE than the wild type. The uvrB and recA strains were also extremely sensitive to UV light and, to a lesser extent, to exposure to mitomycin C and H(2)O(2). The data from this study establishes that there is a link between DNA repair and the ability of B. cepacia G4 cells to survive following TCE transformation. A possible role for nucleotide excision repair and recombination repair activities in TCE-damaged cells is discussed.
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- C M Yeager
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-2902, USA
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Uesugi SL, Yarwood RR, Selker JS, Bottomley PJ. A model that uses the induction phase of lux gene-dependent bioluminescence in Pseudomonas fluorescens HK44 to quantify cell density in translucent porous media. J Microbiol Methods 2001; 47:315-22. [PMID: 11714522 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7012(01)00337-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A cooled charge-coupled device (CCD) camera was used to follow the kinetics of induction of lux gene-dependent bioluminescence in Pseudomonas fluorescens HK44 held either in aqueous suspensions minus sand, saturated or unsaturated translucent sand (0.348 and 0.07 cm(3) H(2)O/cm(3) of sand, respectively), and at cell densities ranging between 1 x 10(6) and 8.5 x 10(8) cells/ml. Before O(2) availability became a limiting factor, the rate of light emission (L) increased with the square of time (t) and linearly with increasing cell density (c). A nonlinear model was developed that contains a "rate of increase in light emission" constant, B', which is determined directly from the slope of a plot of radical L/c against t. The model predicted the behavior of lux induction in HK44 under a variety of conditions. Similar B' values were determined [49.0-57.6 x 10(-10) light units/(cell min(2))] for cell suspensions held in aqueous medium minus sand, in saturated or unsaturated 40/50 grade sand (0.36 mm grain diameter) and in two other textural classes of translucent sand. Although both the growth phase, and the presence of glucose during lux induction affected the first detectable time (FDT) of bioluminescence by HK44 in sand, the kinetics of induction of light emission were similar among treatments (stationary phase cells plus glucose, B'=61.6+/-3.2, log phase cells plus glucose, B'=63.2+/-7.2). The potential exists to use a combination of a CCD camera system, an inducible lux gene containing bioluminescent bacterium, and a light transmission chamber to nonintrusively visualize and quantify in real time the interactions between bacterial growth and unsaturated flow of water and solutes in porous media.
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- S L Uesugi
- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3804, USA
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The potential to establish pesticide biodegradation in constructed wetland sediment was investigated. Under microcosm conditions, bioaugmentation of sediment with small quantities of an atrazine spill-site soil (1:100 w/w) resulted in the mineralization of 25-30% of 14C ethyl atrazine (1-10 microg g(-1) sediment) as 14CO2 under both unsaturated and water-saturated conditions; atrazine and its common metabolites were almost undetectable after 30 days incubation. By comparison, unbioaugmented sediment supplemented with organic amendments (cellulose or cattail leaves) mineralized only 2-3% of 14C ethyl atrazine, and extractable atrazine and its common metabolites comprised approximately 70% of the original application. The population density of atrazine-degrading microorganisms in unbioaugmented sediment was increased from approximately 10(2)/g to 10(4)/g by bioaugmentation (1:100 w/w), and increased by another 60-fold (6.0x10(5) g(-1)) after incubation with 10 microg g(-1) of atrazine. A high population of atrazine degraders (approximately 10(6) g(-1)) and enhanced rates of atrazine mineralization also developed in bioaugmented sediment after incubation in flooded mesocosms planted with cattails (Typha latifolia) and supplemented with atrazine (3.2 mg l(-1), 1 microg g(-1) sediment). In the absence of atrazine, neither the population of atrazine degraders, nor the atrazine mineralizing potential of bioaugmented sediment increased, regardless of the presence or absence of cattails. Bioaugmentation might be a simple method to promote pesticide degradation in nursery run-off channeled through constructed wetlands, if persistence of degraders in the absence of pesticide is not a serious constraint.
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- H B Runes
- Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331-3804, USA
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Laboratory wetland microcosms were used to study treatment of atrazine in irrigation runoff by a field-scale-constructed wetland under controlled conditions. Three experiments, in which 1 ppm atrazine was added to the water column of three wetland, one soil control, and one water control microcosm, were conducted. Atrazine dissipation from the water column and degradate formation (deethylatrazine [DEA]; deisopropylatrazine [DIA]; and hydroxyatrazine [HA]) were monitored. Atrazine dissipation from the water column of wetland microcosms was biphasic. Less than 12% of the atrazine applied to wetland microcosms remained in the water column on day 56. Atrazine degradates were observed in water and sediment, with HA the predominant degradate. Analysis of day 56 sediment samples indicated that a significant portion of the initial application was detected as the parent compound and HA. Most probable number (MPN) assays demonstrated that atrazine degrader populations were small in wetland sediment. Wetland microcosms were able to reduce atrazine concentration in the water column via sorption and degradation. Based on results from this study, it is hypothesized that plant uptake contributed to atrazine dissipation from the water column.
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- H B Runes
- Oregon State University, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, 1007 Agricultural and Life Sciences, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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The effects of trichloroethylene (TCE) oxidation on toluene 2-monooxygenase activity, general respiratory activity, and cell culturability were examined in the toluene-oxidizing bacterium Burkholderia cepacia G4. Nonspecific damage outpaced inactivation of toluene 2-monooxygenase in B. cepacia G4 cells. Cells that had degraded approximately 0.5 micromol of TCE (mg of cells(-1)) lost 95% of their acetate-dependent O(2) uptake activity (a measure of general respiratory activity), yet toluene-dependent O(2) uptake activity decreased only 35%. Cell culturability also decreased upon TCE oxidation; however, the extent of loss varied greatly (up to 3 orders of magnitude) with the method of assessment. Addition of catalase or sodium pyruvate to the surfaces of agar plates increased enumeration of TCE-injured cells by as much as 100-fold, indicating that the TCE-injured cells were ultrasensitive to oxidative stress. Cell suspensions that had oxidized TCE recovered the ability to grow in liquid minimal medium containing lactate or phenol, but recovery was delayed substantially when TCE degradation approached 0.5 micromol (mg of cells(-1)) or 66% of the cells' transformation capacity for TCE at the cell density utilized. Furthermore, among B. cepacia G4 cells isolated on Luria-Bertani agar plates from cultures that had degraded approximately 0.5 micromol of TCE (mg of cells(-1)), up to 90% were Tol(-) variants, no longer capable of TCE degradation. These results indicate that a toxicity threshold for TCE oxidation exists in B. cepacia G4 and that once a cell suspension has exceeded this toxicity threshold, the likelihood of reestablishing an active, TCE-degrading biomass from the cells will decrease significantly.
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- C M Yeager
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, USA
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Duddleston KN, Bottomley PJ, Porter AJ, Arp DJ. New insights into methyl bromide cooxidation by Nitrosomonas europaea obtained by experimenting with moderately low density cell suspensions. Appl Environ Microbiol 2000; 66:2726-31. [PMID: 10877761 PMCID: PMC92066 DOI: 10.1128/aem.66.7.2726-2731.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We examined the rates and sustainability of methyl bromide (MeBr) oxidation in moderately low density cell suspensions ( approximately 6 x 10(7) cells ml(-1)) of the NH(3)-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea. In the presence of 10 mM NH(4)(+) and 0.44, 0. 22, and 0.11 mM MeBr, the initial rates of MeBr oxidation were sustained for 12, 12, and 24 h, respectively, despite the fact that only 10% of the NH(4)(+), 18% of the NH(4)(+), and 35% of the NH(4)(+), respectively, were consumed. Although the duration of active MeBr oxidation generally decreased as the MeBr concentration increased, similar amounts of MeBr were oxidized with a large number of the NH(4)(+)-MeBr combinations examined (10 to 20 micromol mg [dry weight] of cells(-1)). Approximately 90% of the NH(3)-dependent O(2) uptake activity and the NO(2)(-)-producing activity were lost after N. europaea was exposed to 0.44 mM MeBr for 24 h. After MeBr was removed and the cells were resuspended in fresh growth medium, NO(2)(-) production increased exponentially, and 48 to 60 h was required to reach the level of activity observed initially in control cells that were not exposed to MeBr. It is not clear what percentage of the cells were capable of cell division after MeBr oxidation because NO(2)(-) accumulated more slowly in the exposed cells than in the unexposed cells despite the fact that the latter were diluted 10-fold to create inocula which exhibited equal initial activities. The decreases in NO(2)(-)-producing and MeBr-oxidizing activities could not be attributed directly to NH(4)(+) or NH(3) limitation, to a decrease in the pH, to the composition of the incubation medium, or to toxic effects caused by accumulation of the end products of oxidation (NO(2)(-) and formaldehyde) in the medium. Additional cooxidation-related studies of N. europaea are needed to identify the mechanism(s) responsible for the MeBr-induced loss of cell activity and/or viability, to determine what percentages of cells damaged by cooxidative activities are culturable, and to determine if cooxidative activity interferes with the regulation of NH(3)-oxidizing activity.
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- K N Duddleston
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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Duddleston KN, Bottomley PJ, Porter A, Arp DJ. Effects of soil and water content on methyl bromide oxidation by the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea. Appl Environ Microbiol 2000; 66:2636-40. [PMID: 10831449 PMCID: PMC110592 DOI: 10.1128/aem.66.6.2636-2640.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Little information exists on the potential of NH(3)-oxidizing bacteria to cooxidize halogenated hydrocarbons in soil. A study was conducted to examine the cooxidation of methyl bromide (MeBr) by an NH(3)-oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea, under soil conditions. Soil and its water content modified the availability of NH(4)(+) and MeBr and influenced the relative rates of substrate (NH(3)) and cosubstrate (MeBr) oxidations. These observations highlight the complexity associated with characterizing soil cooxidative activities when soil and water interact to differentially affect substrate and cosubstrate availabilities.
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- K N Duddleston
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
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