Prevalence of a calcium-based alkaline phosphatase associated with the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus and other ocean bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-83

  Kathuria, Satish ^a   Martiny, Adam C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM; PHOSPHATE; SEA WATER; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHOSPHATES; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEAWATER; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 78650787971     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02310.x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Boyer, T.P., Antonov, J.I., Garcia, H.E., Johnson, D.R., Locarnini, R.A., Mishonov, A.V., et al. (2006) World Ocean Database 2005. Washington, DC, USA: US Government Printing Office.
2. Cavender-Bares, K.K., Karl, D.M., and Chisholm, S.W. (2001) Nutrient gradients in the western North Atlantic Ocean: relationship to microbial community structure, and comparison to patterns in the Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Res I 48: 2373-2395.
3. Coleman, J.E. (1992) Structure and mechanism of alkaline phosphatase. Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct 21: 441-483.
4. Coleman, M.L., Sullivan, M.B., Martiny, A.C., Steglich, C., Barry, K., Delong, E.F., and Chisholm, S.W. (2006) Genomic islands and the ecology and evolution of Prochlorococcus. Science 311: 1768-1770.
5. Emanuelsson, O., Brunak, S., von Heijne, G., and Nielsen, H. (2007) Locating proteins in the cell using TargetP, SignalP and related tools. Nat Protoc 2: 953-971.
6. Felsenstein, J. (2006) PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package). Seattle, WA, USA: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington.
7. Hallmann, A. (1999) Enzymes in the extracellular matrix of Volvox: an inducible, calcium-dependent phosphatase with a modular composition. J Biol Chem 274: 1691-1697.
8. Jakuba, R.W., Moffett, J.W., and Dyhrman, S.T. (2008) Evidence for the linked biogeochemical cycling of zinc, cobalt, and phosphorus in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Global Biogeochem Cycles 22: 6B4012. doi: 4010.1029/2007GB003119.
9. Karl, D.M., and Björkman, K.M. (2002) Dynamics of DOP. In Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter. Hansell, D.A., and Carlson, C.A. (eds). London, UK: Academic Press, pp. 250-366.
10. Kolowith, L.C., Ingall, E.D., and Benner, R. (2001) Composition and cycling of marine organic phosphorus. Limnol Oceanogr 46: 309-320.
11. Lomas, M.W., Burke, A.L., Lomas, D.A., Bell, D.W., Shen, C., Dyhrman, S.T., and Ammerman, J.W. (2010) Sargasso Sea phosphorus biogeochemistry: an important role for dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP). Biogeosciences 7: 695-710.
12. Luo, H.W., Bennera, R., Long, R.A., and Hu, J.J. (2009) Subcellular localization of marine bacterial alkaline phosphatases. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106: 21219-21223.
13. Martiny, A.C., Coleman, M.L., and Chisholm, S.W. (2006) Phosphate acquisition genes in Prochlorococcus ecotypes: evidence for genome-wide adaptation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103: 12552-12557.
14. Martiny, A.C., Huang, Y., and Li, W.Z. (2009a) Occurrence of phosphate acquisition genes in Prochlorococcus cells from different ocean regions. Environ Microbiol 11: 1340-1347.
15. Martiny, A.C., Kathuria, S., and Berube, P.M. (2009b) Widespread metabolic potential for nitrite and nitrate assimilation among Prochlorococcus ecotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106: 10787-10792.
16. Martiny, A.C., Huang, Y., and Li, W. (2010) Adaptation to nutrient availability in marine microorganisms by gene gain and loss. In Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology II: Metagenomics in Different Habitats. de Bruijn, F. (ed.). Oxford, UK: Wiley/Blackwell (in press).
17. Moore, J.K., Doney, S.C., Glover, D.M., and Fung, I.Y. (2002) Iron cycling and nutrient-limitation patterns in surface waters of the World Ocean. Deep Sea Res II 49: 463-507.
18. Moore, L.R., Ostrowski, M., Scanlan, D.J., Feren, K., and Sweetsir, T. (2005) Ecotypic variation in phosphorus acquisition mechanisms within marine picocyanobacteria. Aquat Microb Ecol 39: 257-269.
19. Paytan, A., and McLaughlin, K. (2007) The oceanic phosphorus cycle. Chem Rev 107: 563-576.
20. Quisel, J.D., Wykoff, D.D., and Grossman, A.R. (1996) Biochemical characterization of the extracellular phosphatases produced by phosphorus-deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol 111: 839-848.
21. Ross, M.H., Ely, J.O., and Archer, J.G. (1951) Alkaline phosphatase activity and ph optima. J Biol Chem 192: 561-568.
22. Roy, N.K., Ghosh, R.K., and Das, J. (1982) Monomeric alkaline phosphatase of Vibrio cholerae. J Bacteriol 150: 1033-1039.
23. Rusch, D.B., Halpern, A.L., Sutton, G., Heidelberg, K.B., Williamson, S., Yooseph, S., et al. (2007) The sorcerer II global ocean sampling expedition: Northwest Atlantic through eastern Tropical Pacific. PLoS Biol 5: e77.
24. Sanudo-Wilhelmy, S.A., Kustka, A.B., Gobler, C.J., Hutchins, D.A., Yang, M., Lwiza, K., et al. (2001) Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic Ocean. Nature 411: 66-69.
25. Scanlan, D.J., Ostrowski, M., Mazard, S., Dufresne, A., Garczarek, L., Hess, W.R., et al. (2009) Ecological genomics of marine picocyanobacteria. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 73: 249-299.
26. Sebastian, M., and Ammerman, J.W. (2009) The alkaline phosphatase PhoX is more widely distributed in marine bacteria than the classical PhoA. ISME J 3: 563-572.
27. Shaked, Y., Xu, Y., Leblanc, K., and Morel, F.M.M. (2006) Zinc availability and alkaline phosphatase activity in Emiliania huxleyi: implications for Zn-P co-limitation in the ocean. Limnol Oceanogr 51: 299-309.
28. Sullivan, M.B., Coleman, M.L., Weigele, P., Rohwer, F., and Chisholm, S.W. (2005) Three Prochlorococcus cyanophage genomes: signature features and ecological interpretations. PLoS Biol 3: e144.
29. Tetu, S.G., Brahamsha, B., Johnson, D.A., Tai, V., Phillippy, K., Palenik, B., and Paulsen, I.T. (2009) Microarray analysis of phosphate regulation in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp WH8102. ISME J 3: 835-849.
30. Thingstad, T.F., Krom, M.D., Mantoura, R.F., Flaten, G.A., Groom, S., Herut, B., et al. (2005) Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean. Science 309: 1068-1071.
31. Torriani-Gorini, A. (1987) The birth and growth of the Pho regulon. In Phosphate Metabolism and Cellular Regulation in Microorganisms. Torriani-Gorini, A., Rothman, F.G., Silver, S., Wright, A., and Yagil, E. (eds). Washington, DC, USA: American Society for Microbiology, pp. 3-11.
32. Wanner, B.L. (1996) Phosphorus assimilation and control of the phosphate regulon. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology. Neidhardt, F.C. (ed.). Washington, DC, USA: American Society of Microbiology, pp. 1357-1381.
33. Wu, J., Sunda, W., Boyle, E.A., and Karl, D.M. (2000) Phosphate depletion in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Science 289: 759-762.
34. Young, C., and Ingall, E. (2010) Marine dissolved organic phosphorus composition: insights from samples recovered using combined electrodialysis/reverse osmosis. Aquat Geochem 16: 563-574.
35. Zaheer, R., Morton, R., Proudfoot, M., Yakunin, A., and Finan, T.M. (2009) Genetic and biochemical properties of an alkaline phosphatase PhoX family protein found in many bacteria. Environ Microbiol 11: 1572-1587.