PMID- 21895915 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120227 LR - 20181201 IS - 1462-2920 (Electronic) IS - 1462-2912 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 11 DP - 2011 Nov TI - Rhodoferax-related pufM gene cluster dominates the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic communities in German freshwater lakes. PG - 2865-75 LID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02562.x [doi] AB - The presence of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs (AAPs) has been repeatedly reported from various marine environments, but their distribution in freshwater lakes was neglected until recently. We investigated the phylogenetic composition of AAP communities in 10 lakes in Northeastern Germany with different trophic status including oligotrophic Lake Stechlin and humic matter rich Lake Grosse Fuchskuhle. The AAP community was composed by members of Alpha- and Betaproteobacteria, but their contribution varied largely among the studied lakes. Our results show that AAP community composition in the studied lakes was affected mostly by pH and humic matter content. While alkaline lakes were mostly composed of Betaproteobacteria, the acidic and humic matter rich south-west (SW) basin of Lake Grosse Fuchskule was dominated (87%) by Alphaproteobacteria. The most frequent group within Betaproteobacteria was a cluster of pufM genes which was phylogenetically related to Rhodoferax representing 38.5% of all retrieved sequences. Alphaproteobacteria-related sequences had a broader phylogenetic diversity including six different taxa dominated by Sphingomonas- and Rhodobacter-like bacteria in lakes with alkaline to neutral pH. In the acidic and humic matter-rich SW basin of Lake Grosse Fuchskuhle, however, Methylobacterium-related sequences dominated the AAP community. We suggest that the variable AAP community structure might reflect the potential of these bacteria to cope with the contrasting conditions in freshwater environments. CI - (c) 2011 Society for Applied Microbiology and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. FAU - Salka, Ivette AU - Salka I AD - Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhutte 2, 16775 Stechlin, Germany. FAU - Cuperova, Zuzana AU - Cuperova Z FAU - Masin, Michal AU - Masin M FAU - Koblizek, Michal AU - Koblizek M FAU - Grossart, Hans-Peter AU - Grossart HP LA - eng SI - GENBANK/JF906259 SI - GENBANK/JF906260 SI - GENBANK/JF906261 SI - GENBANK/JF906262 SI - GENBANK/JF906263 SI - GENBANK/JF906264 SI - GENBANK/JF906265 SI - GENBANK/JF906266 SI - GENBANK/JF906267 SI - GENBANK/JF906268 SI - GENBANK/JF906269 SI - GENBANK/JF906270 SI - GENBANK/JF906271 SI - GENBANK/JF906272 SI - GENBANK/JF906273 SI - GENBANK/JF906274 SI - GENBANK/JF906275 SI - GENBANK/JF906276 SI - GENBANK/JF906277 SI - GENBANK/JF906278 SI - GENBANK/JF906279 SI - GENBANK/JF906280 SI - GENBANK/JF906281 SI - GENBANK/JF906282 SI - GENBANK/JF906283 SI - GENBANK/JF906284 SI - GENBANK/JF906285 SI - GENBANK/JF906286 SI - GENBANK/JF906287 SI - GENBANK/JF906288 SI - GENBANK/JF906289 SI - GENBANK/JF906290 SI - GENBANK/JF906291 SI - GENBANK/JF906292 SI - GENBANK/JF906293 SI - GENBANK/JF906294 SI - GENBANK/JF906295 SI - GENBANK/JF906296 SI - GENBANK/JF906297 SI - GENBANK/JF906298 SI - GENBANK/JF906299 SI - GENBANK/JF906300 SI - GENBANK/JF906301 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110906 PL - England TA - Environ Microbiol JT - Environmental microbiology JID - 100883692 RN - 0 (Bacterial Proteins) RN - 0 (DNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins) RN - 0 (PufM protein, Bacteria) SB - IM MH - Alphaproteobacteria/classification/*genetics MH - Bacterial Proteins/*genetics MH - Betaproteobacteria/classification/*genetics MH - Biodiversity MH - DNA, Bacterial/genetics MH - Germany MH - Lakes/*microbiology MH - Likelihood Functions MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - *Multigene Family MH - Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins/*genetics MH - *Phylogeny EDAT- 2011/09/08 06:00 MHDA- 2012/03/01 06:00 CRDT- 2011/09/08 06:00 PHST- 2011/09/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/09/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/03/01 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02562.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Microbiol. 2011 Nov;13(11):2865-75. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02562.x. Epub 2011 Sep 6.