scholarly journals Use of 16S Rrna Oligonucleotide Probes to Monitor Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria, Archaea and Fe(II) Oxidizer in the Okinawa Trough Basin

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-1) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Li-Min Chen ◽  
Jau-Der Chen
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Okinawa Trough ◽  
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Oligonucleotide Probes ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
The Okinawa Trough ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

scholarly journals ANME-1 archaea drive methane accumulation and removal in estuarine sediments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Kevorkian ◽  
Sean Callahan ◽  
Rachel Winstead ◽  
Karen G. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Estuarine Sediments ◽  
16S Rrna Genes ◽  
Rrna Genes ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenesis ◽  
Natural Settings ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

AbstractUncultured members of the Methanomicrobia called ANME-1 perform the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) through a process that uses much of the methanogenic pathway. It is unknown whether ANME-1 obligately perform AOM, or whether some of them can perform methanogenesis when methanogenesis is exergonic. Most marine sediments lack advective transport of methane, so AOM occurs in the sulfate methane transition zone (SMTZ) where sulfate-reducing bacteria consume hydrogen produced by fermenters, making hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis exergonic in the reverse direction. When sulfate is depleted deeper in the sediments, hydrogen accumulates making hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis exergonic, and methane accumulates in the methane zone (MZ). In White Oak River estuarine sediments, we found that ANME-1 comprised 99.5% of 16S rRNA genes from amplicons and 100% of 16S rRNA genes from metagenomes of the Methanomicrobia in the SMTZ and 99.9% and 98.3%, respectively, in the MZ. Each of the 16 ANME-1 OTUs (97% similarity) had peaks in the SMTZ that coincided with peaks of putative sulfate-reducing bacteria Desulfatiglans sp. and SEEP-SRB1. In the MZ, ANME-1, but no putative sulfate-reducing bacteria or cultured methanogens, increased with depth. Using publicly available data, we found that ANME-1 was the only group expressing methanogenic genes during both net AOM and net methanogenesis in an enrichment. The commonly-held belief that ANME-1 perform AOM is based on the fact that they dominate natural settings and enrichments where net AOM is measured. We found that ANME-1 also dominate natural settings and enrichment where net methanogenesis is measured, so we conclude that ANME-1 perform methane production. Alternating between AOM and methanogenesis, either in a single ANME-1 cell or between different subclades with similar 16S rRNA sequences of ANME-1, may confer a competitive advantage, explaining the predominance of low-energy adapted ANME-1 in methanogenic sediments worldwide.Abstract ImportanceLife may operate differently at very low energy levels. Natural populations of microbes that make methane survive on some of the lowest energy yields of all life. From all available data, we infer that these microbes alternate between methane production and oxidation, depending on which process is energy-yielding in the environment. This means that much of the methane produced naturally in marine sediments occurs through an organism that is also capable of destroying it under different circumstances.

scholarly journals Production of biogas: relationship between methanogenic and sulfate-reducing microorganisms

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Kushkevych ◽  
Monika Vítězová ◽  
Tomáš Vítěz ◽  
Milan Bartoš
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
16S Rrna Gene ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Biogas Production ◽  
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
Quantitative Composition ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

AbstractThe production of high-quality methane depends on many factors, including temperature, pH, substrate, composition and relationship of the microorganisms. The qualitative and quantitative composition of methanogenic and sulfate-reducing microorganisms and their relationship in the experimental bioreactors has never been studied. The aim of this research was to characterize, for the first time, the diversity of the methanogenic microorganisms and sulfate-reducing bacteria, and study their relationship and biogas production in experimental bioreactors. Amplification of 16S rRNA gene fragments was carried out. Purified amplicons were paired-end sequenced on an Illumina Mi-Seq platform. The dominant morphotypes of these microorganisms in the bioreactor were homologous (99%) by the sequences of 16S rRNA gene to theMethanosarcina,Thermogymnomonas,Methanoculleusgenera andArchaeondeposited in GenBank. Three dominant genera of sulfate-reducing bacteria,Desulfomicrobium,DesulfobulbusandDesulfovibrio, were detected in the bioreactor. The phylogenetic trees showing their genetic relationship were constructed. The diversity and number of the genera, production of methane, hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen in the bioreactor was investigated. This research is important for understanding the relationship between methanogenic microbial populations and other bacterial physiological groups, their substrate competition and, in turn, can be helpful for controlling methanogenesis in bioreactors.

scholarly journals Whole-Cell versus Total RNA Extraction for Analysis of Microbial Community Structure with 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probes in Salt Marsh Sediments

2000 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 3037-3043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc E. Frischer ◽  
Jean M. Danforth ◽  
Michele A. Newton Healy ◽  
F. Michael Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Rna Extraction ◽  
Oligonucleotide Probes ◽  
Whole Cell ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
Marsh Sediments ◽  
Salt Marsh Sediments ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

ABSTRACT rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes have become powerful tools for describing microbial communities, but their use in sediments remains difficult. Here we describe a simple technique involving homogenization, detergents, and dispersants that allows the quantitative extraction of cells from formalin-preserved salt marsh sediments. Resulting cell extracts are amenable to membrane blotting and hybridization protocols. Using this procedure, the efficiency of cell extraction was high (95.7% � 3.7% [mean � standard deviation]) relative to direct DAPI (4′,6′-diamidino-2-phenylindole) epifluorescence cell counts for a variety of salt marsh sediments. To test the hypothesis that cells were extracted without phylogenetic bias, the relative abundance (depth distribution) of five major divisions of the gram-negative mesophilic sulfate-reducing delta proteobacteria were determined in sediments maintained in a tidal mesocosm system. A suite of six 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes were utilized. The apparent structure of sulfate-reducing bacteria communities determined from whole-cell and RNA extracts were consistent with each other (r 2 = 0.60), indicating that the whole-cell extraction and RNA extraction hybridization approaches for describing sediment microbial communities are equally robust. However, the variability associated with both methods was high and appeared to be a result of the natural heterogeneity of sediment microbial communities and methodological artifacts. The relative distribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria was similar to that observed in natural marsh systems, providing preliminary evidence that the mesocosm systems accurately simulate native marsh systems.

scholarly journals Molecular Characterization of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in the Guaymas Basin

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 2765-2772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashita Dhillon ◽  
Andreas Teske ◽  
Jesse Dillon ◽  
David A. Stahl ◽  
Mitchell L. Sogin
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria ◽  
16S Rrna Genes ◽  
Rrna Genes ◽  
Terrestrial Organic Matter ◽  
Guaymas Basin ◽  
Sulfate Reducers ◽  
Sulfate Reducing ◽  
Reducing Bacteria

ABSTRACT The Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California) is a hydrothermal vent site where thermal alteration of deposited planktonic and terrestrial organic matter forms petroliferous material which supports diverse sulfate-reducing bacteria. We explored the phylogenetic and functional diversity of the sulfate-reducing bacteria by characterizing PCR-amplified dissimilatory sulfite reductase (dsrAB) and 16S rRNA genes from the upper 4 cm of the Guaymas sediment. The dsrAB sequences revealed that there was a major clade closely related to the acetate-oxidizing delta-proteobacterial genus Desulfobacter and a clade of novel, deeply branching dsr sequences related to environmental dsr sequences from marine sediments in Aarhus Bay and Kysing Fjord (Denmark). Other dsr clones were affiliated with gram-positive thermophilic sulfate reducers (genus Desulfotomaculum) and the delta-proteobacterial species Desulforhabdus amnigena and Thermodesulforhabdus norvegica. Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNAs from the same environmental samples resulted in identification of four clones affiliated with Desulfobacterium niacini, a member of the acetate-oxidizing, nutritionally versatile genus Desulfobacterium, and one clone related to Desulfobacula toluolica and Desulfotignum balticum. Other bacterial 16S rRNA bacterial phylotypes were represented by non-sulfate reducers and uncultured lineages with unknown physiology, like OP9, OP8, as well as a group with no clear affiliation. In summary, analyses of both 16S rRNA and dsrAB clone libraries resulted in identification of members of the Desulfobacteriales in the Guaymas sediments. In addition, the dsrAB sequencing approach revealed a novel group of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes that could not be identified by 16S rRNA sequencing.

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