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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00061
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microbial mats; hydrogen; fermentation; Guerrero Negro; NanoSIMS
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- US Department of Energy (DOE) Genomic Science Program [SCW1039]
- U.S. Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- NASA Postdoctoral Program
Past studies of hydrogen cycling in hypersaline microbial mats have shown an active nighttime cycle, with production largely from cyanobacteria and consumption from sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). However, the mechanisms and magnitude of hydrogen cycling have not been extensively studied. Two mats types near Guerrero Negro, Mexico-permanently submerged Microcoleus microbial mat (GN-S), and intertidal Lyngbya microbial mat (GN-I)-were used in microcosm diel manipulation experiments with 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU), molybdate, ammonium addition, and physical disruption to understand the processes responsible for hydrogen cycling between mat microbes. Across microcosms, H-2 production occurred under dark anoxic conditions with simultaneous production of a suite of organic acids. H-2 production was not significantly affected by inhibition of nitrogen fixation, but rather appears to results from constitutive fermentation of photosynthetic storage products by oxygenic phototrophs. Comparison to accumulated glycogen and to CO2 flux indicated that, in the GN-I mat, fermentation released almost all of the carbon fixed via photosynthesis during the preceding day, primarily as organic acids. Across mats, although oxygenic and anoxygenic phototrophs were detected, cyanobacterial [NiFe]-hydrogenase transcripts predominated. Molybdate inhibition experiments indicated that SRBs from a wide distribution of DsrA phylotypes were responsible for H-2 consumption. Incubation with C-13-acetate and NanoSIMS (secondary ion mass-spectrometry) indicated higher uptake in both chloroflexi and SRBs relative to other filamentous bacteria. These manipulations and diel incubations confirm that cyanobacteria were the main fermenters in Guerrero Negro mats and that the net flux of nighttime fermentation byproducts (not only hydrogen) was largely regulated by the interplay between Cyanobacteria, SRBs, and Chloroflexi.
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