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Ice nucleating properties of the sea ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus and its exudates

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BIOGEOSCIENCES
卷 20, 期 1, 页码 1-14

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COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/bg-20-1-2023

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In this study, the ice nucleation activity of Antarctic sea ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus was investigated. This diatom is an important primary producer of organic carbon in the Southern Ocean. It has developed mechanisms to cope with extreme conditions, such as producing ice-binding proteins and extracellular polymeric substances. The experiments revealed an increase in ice nucleation temperatures for seawater containing F. cylindrus diatoms compared to pure seawater.
In this study, we investigated the ice nucleation activity of the Antarctic sea ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus. Diatoms are the main primary producers of organic carbon in the Southern Ocean, and the Antarctic sea ice diatom F. cylindrus is one of the predominant species. This psychrophilic diatom is abundant in open waters and within sea ice. It has developed several mechanisms to cope with the extreme conditions of its environment, for example, the production of ice-binding proteins (IBPs) and extracellular polymeric substances known to alter the structure of ice. Here, we investigated the ice nucleation activity of F. cylindrus using a microfluidic device containing individual sub-nanolitre (similar to 90 mu m) droplet samples. The experimental method and a newly implemented Poisson-statistics-based data evaluation procedure applicable to samples with low ice nucleating particle concentrations were validated by comparative ice nucleation experiments with well-investigated bacterial samples from Pseudomonas syringae (Snomax((R))). The experiments reveal an increase of up to 7.2 degrees C in the ice nucleation temperatures for seawater containing F. cylindrus diatoms when compared to pure seawater. Moreover, F. cylindrus fragments also show ice nucleation activity, while experiments with the F. cylindrus ice-binding protein (fcIBP) show no significant ice nucleation activity. A comparison with experimental results from other diatoms suggests a universal behaviour of polar sea ice diatoms, and we provide a diatom-mass-based parameterization of their ice nucleation activity for use in models.

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