Microbe-metal interactions in marine hydrothermal environments

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 160-165

  Holden, James F ^a   Adams, Michael W W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CALCIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; METAL; MINERAL; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; SELENIUM; TUNGSTEN; ZINC;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBON CYCLING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DETOXIFICATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; REDUCTION; REVIEW; TOXICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037398780     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(03)00026-7     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. Kelley D.S., Baross J.A., Delaney J.R. Volcanoes, fluids and life at mid-ocean ridge spreading centers. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet Sci. 30:2002;385-391 This is a very thorough review of the geochemistry, geophysics and geology of hydrothermal systems along MOSCs. What is known about microbial life associated with these environments and their implications regarding the deep subsurface biosphere, the origin of life and the potential for life on other solar bodies are discussed at length.
2. Butterfield D.A., Jonasson I.R., Massoth G.J., Feely R.A., Roe K.K., Embley R.E., Holden J.F., McDuff R.E., Lilley M.D., Delaney J.R. Seafloor eruptions and evolution of hydrothermal fluid chemistry. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A. 355:1997;369-386.
3. Douville E., Charlou J.-L., Donval J.-P., Hureau D., Appriou P. As and Sb behaviour in fluids from various deep-sea hydrothermal systems. Earth Planet Sci. 328:1999;97-104.
4. Aiuppa A., Dongarrà G., Capasso G., Allard P. Trace elements in the thermal groundwaters of Vulcano Island (Sicily). J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 98:2000;189-207.
5. Pace N.R. A molecular view of microbial diversity and the biosphere. Science. 276:1997;734-740.
6. Gadd GM: Molecular biology and biotechnology of microbial interactions with organic and inorganic heavy metal compounds. In Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Extremophiles. Edited by Herbert RA, Sharp RJ. New York: Chapman and Hall; 1992:225-257.
7. Silver S., Phung L.T. Bacterial heavy metal resistance: new surprises. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 50:1996;753-789.
8. Llanos J., Capasso C., Parisi E., Prieur D., Jeanthon C. Susceptibility to heavy metals and cadmium accumulation in aerobic and anaerobic thermophilic microorganisms isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Curr. Microbiol. 41:2000;201-205.
9. Holden J, Adams MWW: Unique aspects of the hyperthermophile proteome. In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Extremophiles, Vol. 6.73. Edited by Gerday C. Paris: UNESCO; 2003, in press.
10. Rathgeber C., Yurkova N., Stackebrandt E., Beatty J.T., Yurkov V. Isolation of tellurite- and selenite-resistant bacteria from hydrothermal vents of the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:2002;4613-4622 The first report of tellurite and selenite resistance from a hydrothermal environment.
11. Juniper S.K., Martineau P., Sarrazin J., Gelinas Y. Microbial-mineral floc associated with nascent hydrothermal activity on CoAxial segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geophys. Res. Lett. 22:1995;179-182.
12. Emerson D., Moyer C.L. Neutrophilic Fe-oxidizing bacteria are abundant at the Loihi Seamount hydrothermal vents and play a major role in Fe oxide deposition. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:2002;3085-3093 A thorough report of the extent and morphological characteristics of iron oxidizing bacteria at a deep-sea hydrothermal vent site near Hawaii.
13. Huber R., Sacher M., Vollmann A., Huber H., Rose D. Respiration of arsenate and selenate by hyperthermophilic archaea. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 23:2000;305-314.
14. Kashefi K., Lovley D.R. Reduction of Fe(III), Mn(IV), and toxic metals at 100°C by Pyrobaculum islandicum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66:2000;1050-1056.
15. Lovley D.R., Kashefi K., Vargas M., Tor J.M., Blunt-Harris E.L. Reduction of humic substances and Fe(III) by hyperthermophilic microorganisms. Chem. Geol. 169:2000;289-298.
16. Childers S.E., Lovley D.R. Differences in Fe(III) reduction in the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrobaculum islandicum, versus mesophilic Fe(III)-reducing bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 195:2001;253-258 This research shows that the enzymatic mechanism for iron reduction in this hyperthermophile is unique relative to that found in mesophilic bacteria on the basis of the absence of cytochrome c and the enzyme's preference for NADPH over NADH.
17. Vargas M., Kashefi K., Blunt-Harris E.L., Lovley D.R. Microbiological evidence for Fe(III) reduction on early earth. Nature. 395:1998;65-67.
18. Slobodkin A., Campbell B., Cary S.C., Bonch-Osmolovskaya E., Jeanthon C. Evidence for the presence of thermophilic Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in deep-sea hydrothermal vents at 13°N (East Pacific Rise). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 36:2001;235-243 This is the first work to specifically target, isolate and phylogenetically categorize thermophilic and hyperthermophilic iron reducers from a deep-sea hydrothermal environment.
19. Slobodkin A.I., Jeanthon C., L'Haridon S., Nazina T., Miroshnichenko M., Bonch-Osmolovskaya E. Dissimilatory reduction of Fe(III) by thermophilic bacteria and archaea in deep subsurface petroleum reservoirs of western Siberia. Curr. Microbiol. 39:1999;99-102.
20. ••].
21. ••] are the first detailed descriptions of hyperthermophilic iron reducers and demonstrate that these organisms include archaea and bacteria and are found in marine and fresh water environments, all of which suggests that microbial iron reduction may be an ancient and wide-spread trait.
22. 2.
23. Kashefi K., Tor J.M., Nevin K.P., Lovley D.R. Reductive precipitation of gold by dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing Bacteria and Archaea. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:2001;3275-3279 The work demonstrates that some hyperthermophiles, but not all, are capable of reducing gold and depositing it on the cell's exterior surface.
24. Vadas A., Monbouquette H.G., Johnson E., Schröder I. Identification and characterization of a novel ferric reductase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus. J. Biol. Chem. 274:1999;36715-36721.
25. + intermediates.
26. Roy R., Adams M.W.W. Tungsten-dependent aldehyde oxidoreductase: a new family of enzymes containing the pterin cofactor. Metal Ions Biol. Systems. 39:2002;673-697 The latest and most comprehensive review of hyperthermophilic, tungsten-containing aldehyde oxidoreductase biochemistry, phylogeny and structure.
27. Kletzin A., Adams M.W.W. Tungsten in biological systems. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 18:1996;5-63.
28. Afshar S., Kim C., Monbouquette H.G., Schröder I. Effect of tungstate on nitrate reduction by the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:1998;3004-3008.
29. Mukund S., Adams M.W.W. Molybdenum and vanadium do not replace tungsten in the catalytically active forms of the three tungstoenzymes in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus. J. Bacteriol. 178:1996;163-167.
30. Delaney J.R., Robigou V., McDuff R.E., Tivey M.K. Geology of a vigorous hydrothermal system on the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge. J. Geophys. Res. 97:1992;19663-19682.
31. Koski R.A., Jonasson I.R., Kadko D.C., Smith V.K., Wond F.L. Compositions, growth mechanisms, and temporal relations of hydrothermal sulfide-sulfate-silica chimneys at the northern Cleft segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge. J. Geophys. Res. 99:1994;4813-4832.
32. Hedrick D.B., Pledger R.J., White D.C., Baross J.A. In situ microbial ecology of hydrothermal vent sediments. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 101:1992;1-10.
33. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the NIH on URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov gives complete and annotated genome sequences of over 200 microorganisms, including 10 hyperthermophile species.
34. Von Damm KL: Controls on the chemistry and temporal variability of seafloor hydrothermal fluids. In Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems: Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Geological Interactions, Geophysical Monograph 91. Edited by Humphris SE, Zierenberg RA, Mullineaux LS, Thomson RE. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union; 1995:222-247.
35. Turekian KK: Oceans. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall; 1968:120 pages.