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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
Volume 165, Issue 12, Pages 1345-1354Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000847
Keywords
Gemmatimonas aurantiaca; Clade II nosZ; N-oxide reduction
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- U.S. Dept. of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service
- CRIS Project [3611-12220-008--00D]
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Bacteria affiliated with the phylum Gemmatimonadetes are found in high abundance in many terrestrial and aquatic environments, yet little is known about their metabolic capabilities. Difficulty in their cultivation has prompted interest in identifying better growth conditions for metabolic studies, especially related to their ability to reduce N2O. a potent greenhouse gas. T-27 Gemmatimonas aurantiaca is one of few cultivated strains of Gemmatimonadetes available for physiological studies. Our objective was to test this organism's ability to use nitrite, nitrate, and N2O, and mineral forms of assimilable NH4+ at concentrations not typically used in tests for compound utilization. Cultures incubated under anaerobic conditions with nitrate, nitrite or N2O failed to grow or show depletion of these substrates. Nitrate and nitrite (1 mM) were not used even when cells were grown aerobically with the O-2 allowed to deplete first. N2O reduction only commenced in the presence of O-2 and continued to be depleted when refed to the culture under anaerobic, microaerobic and aerobic atmospheres. Carbon mineralization was coupled to the electron-accepting processes, with higher reducing equivalents needed for N2O utilization under aerobic atmospheres. N2O was reduced to N-2 in the presence of 20% O-2, however the rate of this reaction is reduced in the presence of high O-2 concentration. This study demonstrated that G. aurantiaca T-27 possesses unique characteristics for assimilative and dissimilative N processes with new implications for cultivation strategies to better assess the metabolic abilities of Gemmatimonadetes.
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