PMID- 21134098 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110801 LR - 20181201 IS - 1462-2920 (Electronic) IS - 1462-2912 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 3 DP - 2011 Mar TI - Novel groups of Gammaproteobacteria catalyse sulfur oxidation and carbon fixation in a coastal, intertidal sediment. PG - 758-74 LID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02380.x [doi] AB - The oxidation of hydrogen sulfide is essential to sulfur cycling in marine habitats. However, the role of microbial sulfur oxidation in marine sediments and the microorganisms involved are largely unknown, except for the filamentous, mat-forming bacteria. In this study we explored the diversity, abundance and activity of sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes (SOP) in sulfidic intertidal sediments using 16S rRNA and functional gene sequence analyses, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and microautoradiography. The 16S rRNA gene analysis revealed that distinct clades of uncultured Gammaproteobacteria are important SOP in the tidal sediments. This was supported by the dominance of gammaproteobacterial sequences in clone libraries of genes encoding the reverse dissimilatory sulfite reductase (rDSR) and the adenosine phosphosulfate reductase (APR). Numerous sequences of all three genes grouped with uncultured autotrophic SOP. Accordingly, Gammaproteobacteria accounted for 40-70% of all (1)(4)CO(2) -incorporating cells in surface sediments as shown by microautoradiography. Furthermore, phylogenetic analysis of all three genes consistently suggested a discrete population of SOP that was most closely related to the sulfur-oxidizing endosymbionts of the tubeworm Oligobrachia spp. FISH showed that members of this population (WS-Gam209 group) were abundant, reaching up to 1.3 x 10(8) cells ml(-)(1) (4.6% of all cells). Approximately 25% of this population incorporated CO(2), consistent with a chemolithoautotrophic metabolism most likely based on sulfur oxidation. Thus, we hypothesize that novel, gammaproteobacterial SOP attached to sediment particles may play a more important role for sulfide removal and primary production in marine sediments than previously assumed. CI - (c) 2010 Society for Applied Microbiology and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. FAU - Lenk, Sabine AU - Lenk S AD - Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany. 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0 (Sulfides) RN - 70FD1KFU70 (Sulfur) RN - EC 1.8.99.3 (Hydrogensulfite Reductase) SB - IM MH - Biocatalysis MH - *Carbon Cycle MH - Gammaproteobacteria/classification/genetics/*metabolism MH - Genes, rRNA MH - Geologic Sediments/*microbiology MH - Hydrogensulfite Reductase/genetics MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Phylogeny MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics MH - Sulfides/metabolism MH - Sulfur/*metabolism EDAT- 2010/12/08 06:00 MHDA- 2011/08/02 06:00 CRDT- 2010/12/08 06:00 PHST- 2010/12/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/12/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/08/02 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02380.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Microbiol. 2011 Mar;13(3):758-74. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02380.x. Epub 2010 Dec 6.