Archaeal lipid biomarkers and isotopic evidence of anaerobic methane oxidation associated with gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 827-836

  Zhang, Chuanlun L ^a,e   Pancost, Richard D ^b   Sassen, Roger ^c   Qian, Yaorong ^c   Macko, Stephen A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DEGRADATION; GAS HYDRATES; LIPIDS; METHANE; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS;

ANAEROBIC OXIDATION;

OXIDATION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOMARKER; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GAS HYDRATE; LIPID; METHANE; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; OXIDATION;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0037568126     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(03)00003-2     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Aharon, P., Fu, B., 2000. Microbial sulfate reduction rates and sulfur and oxygen isotope fractionations at oil and gas seeps in deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 64, 233-246.
2. Aloisi, G., Bouloubassi, I., Heijs, S.K., Pancost, R.D., Pierre, C., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Gottschal, J.C., Forney, L.J., Rouchy, J.M. Novel species of CH4-consuming microorganisms involved in cold-seep carbonate crust formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (in press).
3. Boetius, A., Ravenschlag, K., Schubert, C.J., Rickert, D., Widdel, F., Gleseke, A., Amann, R., Jorgensen, B.B., Witte, U., Pfannkuche, O., 2000. A marine microbial consortium apparently mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane. Nature 407, 623-626.
4. Brooks, J.M., Cox, H.B., Bryant, W.R., Kennicutt II, M.C., Mann, R.G., McDonald, T.J., 1986. Association of gas hydrates and oil seepage in the Gulf of Mexico. Organic Geochemistry 10, 221-234.
5. DeLong, E.F., 2000. Microbiology: resolving a methane mystery. Nature 407, 577-579.
6. Dickens, G.R., 2001. Modeling the global carbon cycling with a gas hydrate capacitor: significance for the latest Paleocene thermal maximum. In: Paull, C.K., Dillon, W.P. (Eds.), Natural Gas Hydrates: Occurrence, Distribution, and Detection. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp. 19-38.
7. Dickens, G.R., O'Neil, J.R., Rea, D.K., Owen, R.M., 1995. Dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate as a cause of the carbon isotope excursion at the end of the Paleocene. Paleoceanography 10, 965-971.
8. 25 irregular isoprenoids. Naturwissenschaften 86, 295-300.
9. Elvert, M., Greinert, J., Suess, E., Whiticar, M.J., 2001. Carbon isotopes of biomarkers derived from methane-oxidizing microbes at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Convergent Margin. In: Paull, C.K., Dillon, W.P. (Eds.), Natural Gas Hydrates: Occurrence, Distribution, and Detection. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp. 115-129.
10. Fisher, C.R., MacDonald, I.R., Sassen, R., Young, C.M., Macko, S.A., Hourdez, S., Carney, R.S., Joye, S., McMullin, E., 2000. Methane ice worms: Hesiocaeca methanicola colonizing fossil fuel reserves. Naturwissenschaften 87, 184-187.
11. Henriet, J.P., Mienert, J., 1998. Gas Hydrates: Relevance to World Margin Stability and Climate Change, Special Publications 137. Geological Society, London.
12. Hinrichs, K.-U., Hayes, J.M., Sylva, S.P., Brewer, P.G., DeLong, E.F., 1999. Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments. Nature 398, 802-805.
13. Hinrichs, K.-U., Sylva, S.P., Hayes, J.M., Summons, R.E., Orphan, V., 2000. Molecular and isotopic analysis of anaerobic methane oxidizing communities in marine sediments. Organic Geochemistry 31, 1685-1701.
14. Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S., Pancost, R.D., van der Meer, M.T.J., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2000. Analysis of intact tetraether lipids in archaeal cell material and sediments by high performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 14, 585-589.
15. Kastner, M., 2001. Gas hydrates in convergent margins: formation, occurrence, geochemistry and global significance. In: Paull, C.K., Dillon, W.P. (Eds.), Natural Gas Hydrates: Occurrence, Distribution, and Detection. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp. 67-86.
16. Kennett, J.P., Cannariato, K.G., Hendy, I.L., Behl, R.J., 2000. Carbon isotopic evidence for methane hydrate instability during Quaternary interstadials, Science 288, 128-133.
17. Kroop, K.G., Davidova, I.A., Suflita, J.M., 2000. Anaerobic oxidation of n-dodecane by an addition reaction in a sulfatereducing bacterial enrichment culture. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66, 5393-5398.
18. Kvenvolden, K.A., Lorenson, T.D., 2001. The global occurrence of natural gas hydrates. In: Paull, C.K., Dillon, W.P. (Eds.), Natural Gas Hydrates: Occurrence, Distribution, and Detection. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp, 3-18.
19. Lanoil, B.D., Sassen, R., La Duc, M.T., Sweet, S.T., Nealson, K.H., 2001. Bacteria and Archaea physically associated with Gulf of Mexico gas hydrates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67, 5143-5153.
20. LaRock, P.A., Hyun, J.-H., Bennison, B.W., 1994. Bacterioplankton growth and production at the Louisiana hydrocarbon seeps, Geomarine Letters 14, 104-109.
21. Michaelis, W., Seifert, R., Nauhaus, K., Treude, T., Thiel, V., Blumenberg, M., Knittel, K., Gieseke, A., Peterknecht, K., Pape, T., Boetius, A., Amann, R., Jorgensen, B.B., Widdel, F., Peckmann, J., Pimenov, N.V., Gulin, M.B., 2002. Microbial reefs in the Black Sea fuelled by anaerobic oxidation of methane, Science 297, 1013-1015.
22. Nelson, D.C., Fisher, C.R., 1995. Chemoautotrophic and methanotrophic endosymbiotic bacteria at deep-sea vents and seeps. In: Karl, D.M. (Ed.), The Microbiology of Deepsea Hydrothermal Vents. CRC Press, New York, pp, 125-167.
23. Orphan, V.J., Hinrichs, K.-U., Ussler III, W., Paull, C.K., Taylor, L.T. Sylva, S.P., Hayes, J.M., Delong, E.F., 2001. Comparative analysis of methane-oxidizing archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria in anoxic marine sediments, Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67, 1922-1934.
24. Pancost, R.D., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., De Lint, S., Van Der Maarel, M.J.E.C., Gottschal, J.C., the MEDINAUT Shipboard Scientific Party, 2001. Biomarker evidence for widespread anaerobic methane oxidation in Mediterranean sediments by a consortium of methanogenic archaea and bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66, 1126-1132.
25. Pancost, R.D., Hopmans, E.C., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., the MEDINAUT Shipboard Scientific Party, 2001. Archaeal lipids in Mediterranean cold seeps: molecular proxies for anaerobic methane oxidation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65, 1611-1627.
26. Pancost, R.D., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Carbon isotopic compositions of prokaryotic lipids as tracers of carbon cycling in diverse settings. Chemical Geology (in press).
27. Roberts, H.H., Aharon, P., 1994. Hydrocarbon-derived carbonate buildups of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope: a review of submersible investigations. Geo-Marine Letters 14, 135-148.
28. Roberts, H.H., Carney, R., 1997. Evidence of episodic fluid, gas, and sediment venting on the northern Gulf of Mexico slope. Economical Geology 92, 863-879.
29. Rohmer, M., Bouvier-Nave, P., Ourisson, G., 1984. Distribution of hopanoid triterpenes in prokaryotes. Journal of General Microbiology 130, 1137-1150.
30. Rueter, P., Rabus, R., Wilkes, H., Aeckersberg, F., Ralney, F.A., Jannasch, H.W., Widdel, F., 1994. Anaerobic oxidation of hydrocarbons in crude oil by new types of sulphate-reducing bacteria. Nature 372, 455-458.
31. Sassen, R., Roberts, H.H., Aharon, P., Larkin, J., Chinn, E.W., Carney, R., 1993. Chemosynthetic bacterial mats at cold hydrocarbon seeps, Gulf of Mexico continental slope. Organic Geochemistry 20, 77-89.
32. Sassen, R., MacDonald, I.R., Requejo, A.G., Guinasso, J.N.L., Kennicutt, M.C., Sweet, S.T., Brooks, J.M., 1994, Organic geochemistry of sediments from chemosynthetic communities, Gulf of Mexico slope. Geo-Marine Letters 14, 110-119.
33. Sassen, R., MacDonald, I.R., Guinasso, J.N.L., Joye, S., Requejo, A.G., Sweet, S.T., Alcala-Herrera, J., DeFreitas, D.A., Schink, D.R., 1998. Bacterial methane oxidation in sea-floor gas hydrate: significance to life in extreme environments. Geology 26, 851-854.
34. Sassen, R., Roberts, H.H., Milkov, A.V., DeFreitas, D.A., 2001. Sea floor vents, seeps, gas hydrate: relation to flux rate from the deep Gulf of Mexico petroleum system: 2001 GCSSEPM Research Foundation, In: 21st Annual Research Conference, Petroleum Systems of Deep-Water Basins, pp. 489-505.
35. Schouten, S., Hopmans, E.C., Pancost, R.D., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2000. Widespread occurrence of structurally diverse tetraether membrane lipids: evidence for the ubiquitous presence of low-temperature relatives of hyperthermophiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97, 14421-14426.
36. Schouten, S., Wakeham, S.G., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2001. Evidence for anaerobic methane oxidation by archaea in euxinic waters of the Black Sea. Organic Geochemistry 32, 1277-1281.
37. Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Kenig, F., Koopmans, M.P., K̈ster, J., Schouten, S., Hayes, J.M., de Leeuw, J.W., 1995. Evidence for gammacerane as an indicator of water column stratification, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59, 1895-1900.
38. So, C.M., Young, L.Y., 1999. Isolation and characterization of a sulfate-reducing bacterium that anaerobically degrades alkanes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65, 2969-2976.
39. Sprott, G.D., Ekiel, I., Patel, G.B., 1993. Metabolic pathways in Methanococcus jannaschii and other methanogenic bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59, 1092-1098.
40. Teske, A., Hinrichs, K.-U., Edgcomb, V., de Vera Gomez, A., Kysela, D., Sylva, S.P., Sogin, M.L., Jannasch, H.W., 2002. Microbial diversity of hydrothermal sediments in the Guaymas Basin: evidence for anaerobic methanotrophic communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68, 1994-2007.
41. Thiel, V., Reitner, J., Michaelis, W., Peckmann, J., Seifert, R., Wehrung, P., 1999. Highly isotopically depleted isoprenoids: molecular markers for ancient methane venting, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63, 3959-3966.
42. Thiel, V., Peckmann, J., Richnow, H.H., Luth, U., Reitner, J., Michaelis, W., 2001. Molecular signals for anaerobic methane oxidation in Black Sea seep carbonates and a microbial mat. Marine Chemistry 73, 97-112.
43. Valentine, D.L., Reeburgh, W.S., 2000. New perspectives on anaerobic methane oxidation. Environmental Microbiology 2, 477-484.
44. Zhang, C.L., Li, Y., Wall, J.D., Larsen, L., Sassen, R., Huang, Y., Wang, Y., Peacock, A., White, D.C., Horita, J., Cole, D.R., 2002. Lipid and carbon isotopic evidence of methaneoxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacteria in association with gas hydrates from the Gulf of Mexico. Geology 30, 239-242.
45. Zengler, K., Richnow, H.H., Rossello-Mora, R., Michaelis, W., Widdel, F., 1999. Methane formation from long-chain alkanes by anaerobic micororganisms. Nature 401, 266-269.