Coupled arsenotrophy in a hot spring photosynthetic biofilm at mono lake, california

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4633-4639

  Hoeft, Shelley E ^a   Kulp, Thomas R ^a   Han, Sukkyun ^b   Lanoil, Brian ^b   Oremland, Ronald S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AMPLICONS; ANAEROBIC PROCESS; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARSENIC RESISTANCE; ARSENITE OXIDASE; ARSENITE OXIDATION; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CALIFORNIA; CELL MATERIALS; CHEMOHETEROTROPHY; CO-OCCURRENCE; FUNCTIONAL GENES; MONO LAKE; PCR PRODUCTS; RADIOLABEL; REDOX PROCESS;

AMINO ACIDS; ARSENIC; BIOFILTERS; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; HOT SPRINGS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; ORGANIC ACIDS; RNA;

BIOFILMS;

ARSENIC; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; HYDROGEN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARSENIC; BIOFILM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HETEROTROPHY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PIGMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMAL SPRING;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRACEAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; STAINING; THERMAL SPRING; UNITED STATES; CALIFORNIA;

ARSENIC; BIOFILMS; CALIFORNIA; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRACEAE; HOT SPRINGS; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAINING AND LABELING; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRA; ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRACEAE;

EID: 77954733234     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00545-10     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Achour, A. R., P. Bauda, and P. Billard. 2007. Diversity of arsenite transporter genes from arsenic-resistant soil bacteria. Res. Microbiol. 158: 128-137.
2. Cline, J. D. 1969. Spectrophotometric determination of hydrogen sulfide in natural waters. Limnol. Oceanogr. 14: 454-459.
3. DeLong, E. F. 1992. Archaea in coastal marine environments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 89: 5685-5689.
4. Giovannoni, S. J. 1991. The polymerase chain reaction, p. 177-201. In E. Stackebrandt and M. Goodfellow (ed.), Sequencing and hybridization techniques in bacterial systematics. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.
5. Gorlenko, V., A. Tsapin, Z. Namsarev, T. Teal, T. Tourova, D. Engler, R. Mielke, and K. Nealson. 2004. Anaerobranca californiensis sp. nov., an anaerobic, alkalithermophilic, fermentative bacterium isolated from a hot spring on Mono Lake. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Micobiol. 54: 739-743.
6. Hoeft, S. E., T. R. Kulp, J. F. Stolz, J. T. Hollibaugh, and R. S. Oremland. 2004. Dissimilatory arsenate reduction with sulfide as the electron donor: experiments with Mono Lake water and isolation of strain MLMS-1, a chemoautotrophic arsenate-respirer. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 2741-2747.
7. Hoeft, S. E., J. Switzer Blum, J. F. Stolz, F. R. Tabita, B. Witte, G. M. King, J. M. Santini, and R. S. Oremland. 2007. Alkalilimnicola ehrlichii, sp. nov., a novel, arsenite oxidizing haloalkaliphilic -y-proteobacterium capable of chemoautotrophic or heterotrophic growth with nitrate or oxygen as the electron acceptor. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 57: 504-512.
8. Hollibaugh, J. T., C. Budinoff, R. A. Hollibaugh, B. Ransom, and N. Bano. 2006. Sulfide oxidation coupled to arsenate reduction by a diverse microbial community in a soda lake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 2043-2049.
9. Huber, R., M. M. Sacher, A. Vollmann, H. Huber, and D. Rose. 2000. Respiration of arsenate and selenate by hyperthermophilic archaea. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 23: 305-314.
10. Jenkins, M. C., and M. Kemp. 1984. The coupling of nitrification and denitrification in two estuarine sediments. Limnol. Oceanogr. 29: 609-619.
11. Jensen, K., N. P. Sloth, N. Risgaard-Petersen, S. Rysgaard, and N. P. Revsbech. 1994. Estimation of nitrification and denitrification from microprofiles of oxygen and nitrate in model sediments systems. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60: 2094-2100.
12. Klappenbach, J. A., P. R. Saxman, J. R. Cole, and T. M. Schmidt. 2001. rRNDB: the ribosomal RNA Operon copy number database. Nucleic Acids Res. 29: 181-184.
13. Kulp, T. R., S. E. Hoeft, and R. S. Oremland. 2004. Redox transformations of arsenic oxyanions in periphyton communities. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 6428-6434.
14. Kulp, T. R., S. E. Hoeft, L. G. Miller, C. Saltikov, J. Nilsen, S. Han, B. Lanoil, and R. S. Oremland. 2006. Dissimilatory arsenate and sulfate reduction in sediments of two hypersaline, arsenic-rich soda lakes: Mono and Searles Lakes, California. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 6514-6526.
15. Kulp, T. R., S. Han, C. W. Saltikov, B. D. Lanoil, K. Zargar, and R. S. Oremland. 2007. Effects of imposed salinity gradients on dissimilatory arsenate reduction and other microbial processes in sediments from two California soda lakes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 5130-5137.
16. Kulp, T. R., S. E. Hoeft, M. Asao, M. T. Madigan, J. T. Hollibaugh, J. C. Fisher, J. F. Stolz, C. W. Culbertson, and R. S. Oremland. 2008. Arsenic(III) fuels anoxygenic photosynthesis in hot spring biofilms from Mono Lake, California. Science 321: 967-970.
17. Liu, A., E. Garcia-Dominguez, E. D. Rhine, and L. Y. Young. 2004. A novel arsenate respiring isolate that can utilize aromatic substrates. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 48: 323-332.
18. Mukhopadhyay, R., B. P. Rosen, L. T. Phung, and S. Silver. 2002. Microbial arsenic: from geocycles to genes and enzymes. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 26: 311-325.
19. Newman, D. K., D. Ahmann, and F. M. M. Morel. 1997. A brief review of microbial arsenate respiration. Geomicrobiol. J. 15: 255-268.
20. Oremland, R. S., L. G. Miller, and M. Whiticar. 1987. Sources and flux of natural gases from Mono Lake, California. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 51: 2915-2929.
21. Oremland, R. S., P. R. Dowdle, S. Hoeft, J. O. Sharp, J. K. Schaefer, L. G. Miller, J. S. Blum, R. L. Smith, N. S. Bloom, and D. Wallschlaeger. 2000. Bacterial dissimilatory reduction of arsenate and sulfate in meromictic Mono Lake, California. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64: 3073-3084.
22. Oremland, R. S., and J. F. Stolz. 2003. The ecology of arsenic. Science 299: 939-944.
23. Oremland, R. S., T. R. Kulp, J. Switzer Blum, S. E. Hoeft, S. Baesman, L. G. Miller, and J. F. Stolz. 2005. A microbial arsenic cycle in a salt-saturated, extreme environment. Science 308: 1305-1308.
24. Pfennig, N., and H. G. Trüper. 1976. The phototrophic bacteria, p. 24-75. In R. E. Buchanan and N. E. Gibbons (ed.), Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology, 8th ed. Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, MD.
25. Quéméneur, A. Heinrich-Salmeron, D. Muller, D. Lièvremont, M. Jauzein, P. N. Bertin, F. Garrido, and C. Joulian. 2008. Diversity surveys and evolutionary relationships of aoxB genes in aerobic arsenite-oxidizing bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74: 4567-4573.
26. Reference deleted.
27. Rhine, E. D., E. Garcia-Dominguez, C. D. Phelps, and L. Y. Young. 2005. Environmental microbes can speciate and cycle arsenic. Environ. Sci. Technol. 39: 9569-9573.
28. Richey, C., P. Chovanec, S. Hoeft, R. S. Oremland, P. Basu, and J. F. Stolz. 2009. Respiratory arsenate reductase as a bidirectional enzyme. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 382: 298-302.
29. Risgaard-Petersen, N. 2003. Coupled nitrification-denitrification in autotrophic and heterotrophic sediments: on the influence of benthic microalgae. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48: 93-105.
30. Rosen, B. 2002. Biochemistry of arsenic detoxification. FEBS Lett. 529: 86-92.
31. Saltikov, C. W., R. Wildman, Jr., and D. K. Newman. 2005. Expression dynamics of arsenic respiration and detoxification in Shewanella sp. strain ANA-3. J. Bacteriol. 187: 7390-7396.
32. Silver, S., and L. T. Phung. 2005. Genes and enzymes involved in bacterial oxidation and reduction of inorganic arsenic. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71: 599-608.
33. Song, B., E. Chyun, P. Jaffe, and B. B. Ward. 2009. Molecular methods to detect and monitor dissimilatory arsenate-respiring bacteria (DARB) in sediments. FEMS Microb. Ecol. 68: 108-117.
34. Stine, S. 1984. Late Holocene lake level fluctuations and island volcanism at Mono Lake, California, p. 21-49. In Geologic guide to Aspen Valley, Mono Lake, Mono Craters, and Inyo Craters. Genny Smith Books, Palo Alto, CA.
35. Stolz, J. F., and R. S. Oremland. 1999. Bacterial respiration of selenium and arsenic. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 23: 615-627.
36. Stolz, J. F., P. Basu, and R. S. Oremland. 2010. Microbial arsenic metabolism: new twists on an old poison. Microbe 5: 53-59.
37. T, gen. nov., sp. nov., ecophysiology of an extremely halophilic, facultative chemoautotrophic arsenate-respirer of the Halanaerobiales isolated from Searles Lake, California. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: 1950-1960.
38. Tice, M. M., and D. R. Lowe. 2004. Fhotosynthetic microbial mats in the 3, 416-Myr-old ocean. Nature 431: 549-552.
39. Widdel, F., G. W. Kohring, and F. Mayer. 1983. Studies on dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria that decompose fatty acids. III. Characterization of the filamentous gliding Desulfonema limicola gen. nov., sp. nov., and Desulfonema magnum sp. nov. Arch. Microbiol. 134: 286-294.
40. Yamamura, S., M. Watanabe, N. Yamamoto, K. Sci, and M. Ile. 2009. Potential for microbially mediated redox transformations and mobilization of arsenic in uncontaminated soils. Chemosphere 77: 169-174.