期刊
ISME JOURNAL
卷 8, 期 8, 页码 1682-1690出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.19
关键词
nitrate; cable bacteria; electric current; cathodic reduction; sediment
资金
- SENSEnet ITN (EC) [PITN-GA-2009-237868]
- European Research Council [267233, 291650]
- Danish Council for Independent Research
- Danish National Research Foundation
- German Max Planck Society
- European Research Council (ERC) [291650] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Filamentous bacteria of the Desulfobulbaceae family can conduct electrons over centimeter-long distances thereby coupling oxygen reduction at the surface of marine sediment to sulfide oxidation in deeper anoxic layers. The ability of these cable bacteria to use alternative electron acceptors is currently unknown. Here we show that these organisms can use also nitrate or nitrite as an electron acceptor thereby coupling the reduction of nitrate to distant oxidation of sulfide. Sulfidic marine sediment was incubated with overlying nitrate-amended anoxic seawater. Within 2 months, electric coupling of spatially segregated nitrate reduction and sulfide oxidation was evident from: (1) the formation of a 4-6-mm-deep zone separating sulfide oxidation from the associated nitrate reduction, and (2) the presence of pH signatures consistent with proton consumption by cathodic nitrate reduction, and proton production by anodic sulfide oxidation. Filamentous Desulfobulbaceae with the longitudinal structures characteristic of cable bacteria were detected in anoxic, nitrate-amended incubations but not in anoxic, nitrate-free controls. Nitrate reduction by cable bacteria using long-distance electron transport to get privileged access to distant electron donors is a hitherto unknown mechanism in nitrogen and sulfur transformations, and the quantitative importance for elements cycling remains to be addressed.
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