期刊
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 298, 期 1, 页码 56-66出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01710.x
关键词
Halobacteriaceae; haloalkaline; nitrate-reducing haloarchaea; nitrate assimilation
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资金
- Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT) [SEMARNAT-2004-C01- 257]
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) [SEP-1004-C01-479991]
Assimilatory nitrate reduction (ANR) is a pathway wherein NO3- is reduced to NH4+, an N species that can be incorporated into the biomass. There is little information about the ANR genes in Archaea and most of the known information has been obtained from cultivable species. In this study, the diversity of the haloarchaeal assimilatory nitrate-reducing community was studied in an extreme saline alkaline soil of the former lake Texcoco (Mexico). Genes coding for the assimilatory nitrate reductase (narB) and the assimilatory nitrite reductase (nirA) were used as functional markers. Primers to amplify and detect partial narB and nirA were designed. The analysis of these amplicons by cloning and sequencing showed that the deduced protein fragments shared >45% identity with other NarB and NirA proteins from Euryarchaeota and <38% identity with other nitrate reductases from Bacteria and Crenarchaeota. Furthermore, these clone sequences were clustered within the class Halobacteria with strong support values in both constructed dendrograms, confirming that desired PCR products were obtained. The metabolic capacity to assimilate nitrate by these haloarchaea seems to be important given that at pH 10 and higher, NH4+ is mostly converted to toxic and volatile NH3, and NO3- becomes the preferable N source.
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