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Determining the Reliability of Measuring Mercury Cycling Gene Abundance with Correlations with Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 53, 期 15, 页码 8649-8663

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06389

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  1. Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Science, US Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Mercury Science Focus Area at Oak Ridge National Laboratory [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
  2. Office of Biological and Environmental Research [130367]
  3. Innovate UK [130367] Funding Source: UKRI

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Methylmercury (MeHg) is a bioaccumulative toxic contaminant in many ecosystems, but factors governing its production are poorly understood. Recent work has shown that the anaerobic microbial conversion of mercury (Hg) to MeHg requires the Hg-methylation genes hgcAB and that these genes can be used as biomarkers in PCR-based estimators of Hg-methylator abundance. In an effort to determine reliable methods for assessing hgcA abundance and diversity and linking them to MeHg concentrations, multiple approaches were compared including metagenomic shotgun sequencing, 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing and cloning/sequencing hgcAB gene products. Hg-methylator abundance was also determined by quantitative hgcA qPCR amplification and metaproteomics for comparison to the above measurements. Samples from eight sites were examined covering a range of total Hg (HgT; 0.03-14 mg kg(-1) dry wt. soil) and MeHg (0.05-27 mu g kg(-1) dry wt. soil) concentrations. In the metagenome and amplicon sequencing of hgcAB diversity, the Deltaproteobacteria were the dominant Hg-methylators while Firmicutes and methanogenic Archaea were typically similar to 50% less abundant. This was consistent with metaproteomics estimates where the Deltaproteobacteria were steadily higher. The 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing did not have sufficient resolution to identify hgcAB(+) species. Metagenomic and hgcAB results were similar for Hg-methylator diversity and Glade-specific qPCR-based approaches for hgcA are only appropriate when comparing the abundance of a particular Glade across various samples. Weak correlations between Hg-methylating bacteria and soil Hg concentrations were observed for similar environmental samples, but overall total Hg and MeHg concentrations poorly correlated with Hg-cycling genes.

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