Anaerobic nitrate-dependent iron(II) bio-oxidation by a novel lithoautotrophic betaproteobacterium, strain 2002

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 686-694

  Weber, Karrie A ^a   Pollock, Jarrod ^b,c   Cole, Kimberly A ^b,d   O'Connor, Susan M ^a   Achenbach, Laurie A ^b   Coates, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d BioInsite LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH KINETICS; IRON; METABOLISM; NITRATES; OXIDATION;

ANOXIC ENVIRONMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; FE(II)-OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL METABOLIC PROCESS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

CARBON 14; CARBON DIOXIDE; FRESH WATER; IRON; LAKE WATER; NITRATE; NITRITE; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; FERROUS ION;

BACTERIUM; FRESHWATER; GENE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; RNA; SEDIMENT;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOMASS; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; PROTEOBACTERIA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33644862875     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.686-694.2006     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Bazylinski, D. A., R. B. Frankel, and H. W. Jannasch. 1988. Anaerobic magnetite production by a marine, magnetotactic bacterium. Nature 334:518-519.
2. Bazylinski, D. A., E. Palome, N. A. Blakemore, and R. P. Blakemore. 1986. Denitrification by Chromobacterium violaceum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 52:696-699.
3. Benz, M., A. Brune, and B. Schink. 1998. Anaerobic and aerobic oxidation of ferrous iron at neutral pH by chemoheterotrophic nitrate-reducing bacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 169:159-165.
4. Berner, R. A. 1980. Early diagenesis. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
5. Bruce, R. A., L. A. Achenback, and J. D. Coates. 1999. Reduction of (per) chlorate by a novel organism isolated from paper mill waste. Environ. Microbiol. 1:319-329.
6. Caldwell, M. E., R. S. Tanner, and J. M. Suflita. 1999. Microbial metabolism of benzene and the oxidation of ferrous iron under anaerobic conditions: implications for bioremediation. Anaerobe 5:595-603.
7. Canfield, D. E., B. B. Jorgensen, H. Fossing, R. Glud, J. Gundersen, N. B. Ramsing, B. Thamdrup, J. W. Hansen, L. P. Nielsen, and P. O. J. Hall. 1993. Pathways of organic carbon oxidation in three continental margin sediments. Mar. Geol. 113:27-40.
8. Chaudhuri, S. K., J. G. Lack, and J. D. Coates. 2001. Biogenic magnetite formation through anaerobic biooxidation of Fe(II). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:2844-2848.
9. Christensen, T. H., P. L. Bjerg, S. A. Banwart, R. Jakobsen, G. Heron, and H. Albrechtsen. 2000. Characterization of redox conditions in groundwater contaminant plumes. J. Contam. Hydrol. 45:165-241.
10. Coates, J. D., and L. A. Achenbach. 2001. The biogeochemistry of aquifer systems, p. 719-727. In C. J. Hurst, G. R. Knudsen, M. J. McInerney, L. D. Stetzenbach, and M. W. Walter (ed.), Manual of environmental microbiology, 2nd ed. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
11. Coates, J. D., and R. Chakraborty. 2003. Anaerobic bioremediation: an emerging resource for environmental cleanup, p. 227-257. In I. M. Head, I. Singleton, and M. G. Milner (ed.), Bioremediation: a critical review. Horizon Scientific, Wymondham, United Kingdom.
12. Coates, J. D., U. Michaelidou, R. A. Bruce, S. M. O'Connor, J. N. Crespi, and L. A. Achenbach. 1999. Ubiquity and diversity of dissimilatory (per)chlorate-reducing bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:5234-5241.
13. Cornell, R. M., and U. Schwertmann. 2003. The iron oxides: structure, properties, reactions, occurrences and uses, 2nd ed. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany.
14. Croal, L. R., C. M. Johnson, B. L. Beard, and D. K. Newman. 2004. Iron isotope fractionation by Fe(II)-oxidizing photoautotrophic bacteria. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68:1227-1242.
15. Edwards, K. J., W. Bach, T. M. McCollom, and D. R. Rogers. 2004. Neutrophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria in the ocean: their habitats, diversity, and roles in mineral deposition, rock alteration, and biomass production in the deep-sea. Geomicrobiol. J. 21:393-404.
16. Edwards, K. J., D. R. Rogers, C. O. Wirsen, and T. M. McCollom. 2003. Isolation and characterization of novel psychrophilic, neutrophilic, Fe-oxidizing, chemolithoautotrophic α- and γ-Proteobacteria from the deep sea. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:2906-2913.
17. Elsaied, H., and T. Naganum. 2001. Phylogenetic diversity of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large-subunit genes from deep-sea microorganisms. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:1751-1765.
18. Emerson, D., and J. V. Weiss. 2004. Bacterial iron oxidation in circumneutral freshwater habitats: findings from the field and the laboratory. Geomicrobiol. J. 21:405-414.
19. Finneran, K. T., M. E. Housewright, and D. R. Lovley. 2002. Multiple influences of nitrate on uranium solubility during bioremediation of uranium-contaminated subsurface sediments. Environ. Microbiol. 4:510-516.
20. Froelich, P. N., G. P. Klinkhammer, M. L. Bender, N. A. Luedtke, G. R. Heath, D. Cullen, P. Dauphin, D. Hammond, B. Hartman, and V. Maynard. 1979. Early oxidation of organic-matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic-suboxic diagenesis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 43:1075-1090.
21. Gibbs-Eggar, Z., B. Jude, J. Dominik, J. L. Loizeau, and F. Oldfield. 1999. Possible evidence for dissimilatory bacterial magnetite dominating the magnetite properties of recent lake sediments. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 168:1-6.
22. Gregory, K. B., D. R. Bond, and D. R. Lovley. 2004. Graphite electrodes as electron donors for anaerobic respiration. Environ. Microbiol. 6:596-604.
23. 2+ at neutral pH under anoxic conditions. Arch. Microbiol. 166:308-314.
24. Hauck, S., M. Benz, A. Brune, and B. Schink. 2001. Ferrous iron oxidation by denitrifying bacteria in profundal sediments of a deep lake (Lake Constance). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 37:127-134.
25. Heising, S., and B. Schink. 1998. Phototrophic oxidation of ferrous iron by a Rhodomicrobium vannielii strain. Microbiology 144:2263-2269.
26. 2O on methanogenesis and other redox processes in anoxic rice field soil. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 25:301-318.
27. Lack, J. G., S. K. Chaudhuri, R. Chakraborty, L. A. Achenbach, and J. D. Coates. 2002. Anaerobic biooxidation of Fe(II) by Dechlorosoma suillum. Microb. Ecol. 43:424-431.
28. Lack, J. G., S. K. Chaudhuri, S. D. Kelly, K. M. Kemner, S. M. O'Connor, and J. D. Coates. 2002. Immobilization of radionuclides and heavy metals through anaerobic bio-oxidation of Fe(II). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:2704-2710.
29. Lovley, D. R. 2000. Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reduction, p. 3-30. In D. R. Lovley (ed.), Environmental microbe-metal interactions. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
30. Lovley, D. R., and F. H. Chapelle. 1995. Deep subsurface microbial processes. Rev. Geophys. 33:365-381.
31. 2 concentrations to determine the distribution of microbially catalyzed redox reactions in anoxic groundwater. Environ. Sci. Technol. 28:1205-1210.
32. Lovley, D. R., S. J. Giovannoni, D. C. White, J. E. Champine, E. J. P. Phillips, Y. A. Gorby, and S. Goodwin. 1993. Geobacter metallireducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a microorganism capable of coupling the complete oxidation of organic compounds to the reduction of iron and other metals. Arch. Microbiol. 159:336-344.
33. Lovley, D. R., and E. J. P. Phillips. 1987. Rapid assay for microbially reducible ferric iron in aquatic sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 53:1536-1540.
34. Lovley, D. R., J. F. Stolz, G. L. Nord, and E. J. P. Phillips. 1987. Anaerobic production of magnetite by a dissimilatory iron-reducing microorganism. Nature 330:252-254.
35. Luther, G. W., B. Sundby, B. L. Lewis, P. J. Brendel, and N. Silverberg. 1997. Interactions of manganese with the nitrogen cycle: alternative pathways to dinitrogen. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61:4043-4052.
36. Mortimer, R., S. Harris, M. Krom, T. Freitag, J. Prosser, J. Barnes, P. Anschutz, P. Hayes, and I. Davies. 2004. Anoxic nitrification in marine sediments. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 276:37-51.
37. Mortimer, R., M. Krom, S. Harris, P. Hayes, I. Davies, W. Davison, and H. Zhang. 2002. Evidence for suboxic nitrification in recent marine sediments. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 236:31-35.
38. Nielsen, J. L., and P. H. Nielsen. 1998. Microbial nitrate-dependent oxidation of ferrous iron in activated sludge. Environ. Sci. Technol. 32:3556-3561.
39. Ratering, S., and S. Schnell. 2000. Localization of iron-reducing activity in paddy soils by profile studies. Biogeochemistry 48:341-365.
40. Ratering, S., and S. Schnell. 2001. Nitrate-dependent iron(II) oxidation in paddy soil. Environ. Microbiol. 3:100-109.
41. Roden, E. E., D. Sobolev, B. Glazer, and G. W. Luther. 2004. Potential for microscale bacterial Fe redox cycling at the aerobic-anaerobic interface. Geomicrobiol. J. 21:379-391.
42. Senn, D. B., and H. F. Hemond. 2002. Nitrate controls on iron and arsenic in an urban lake. Science 296:2373-2376.
43. Sheloblina, E. S., C. G. VanPraagy, and D. R. Lovley. 2003. Use of ferric and ferrous iron containing minerals for respiration by Desulfitobacterium frappieri. Geomicrobiol. J. 20:143-156.
44. Stookey, L. L. 1970. Ferrozine-a new spectrophotometric reagent for iron. Anal. Chem. 42:779-781.
45. Straub, K. L., M. Benz, B. Schink, and F. Widdel. 1996. Anaerobic, nitrate-dependent microbial oxidation of ferrous iron. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:1458-1460.
46. Straub, K. L., and B. E. E. Buchholz-Cleven. 1998. Enumeration and detection of anaerobic ferrous iron-oxidizing, nitrate-reducing bacteria from diverse European sediments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:4846-4856.
47. Straub, K. L., M. Hanzlik, and B. E. E. Buchholz-Cleven. 1998. The use of biologically produced ferrihydrite for the isolation of novel iron-reducing bacteria. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 21:442-449.
48. Straub, K. L., W. Schonhuber, B. Buchholz-Cleven, and B. Schink. 2004. Diversity of ferrous iron-oxidizing, nitrate-reducing bacteria and their involvement in oxygen-independent iron cycling. Geomicrobiol. J. 21:371-378.
49. 2 fixation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodospirillum rubrum in the absence of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase. J. Bacteriol. 175:7109-7114.
50. Weber, K. A. 2002. Microbial coupling between nitrogen and iron cycles: potential implications for nitrate and iron biogeochemistry and metal mobility in sedimentary environments. Dissertation. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
51. Weber, K. A., F. W. Picardal, and E. E. Roden. 2001. Microbially catalyzed nitrate-dependent oxidation of biogenic solid-phase Fe(II) compounds. Environ. Sci. Technol. 35:1644-1650.
52. Weber, K. A., M. M. Urrutia, P. F. Churchill, R. K. Kukkadapu, and E. E. Roden. 2006. Anaerobic redox cycling of iron by freshwater sediment microorganisms. Environ. Microbiol. 8:100-113.
53. Widdel, F., S. Schnell, S. Heising, A. Ehrenreich, B. Assmus, and B. Schink. 1993. Ferrous iron oxidation by anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. Nature 362:834-836.