ArticleThe ISME journal2011
Alternative pathways for phosphonate metabolism in thermophilic cyanobacteria from microbial mats.
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- Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs play important roles in nutrient cycling within cyanobacterial Microcystis bloom microbiomes.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Viral infection of an estuarineFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- The Microbial Degradation of Natural and Anthropogenic Phosphonates.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Marine picocyanobacterial PhnD1 shows specificity for various phosphorus sources but likely represents a constitutive inorganic phosphate transporter.The ISME journal · 2023Article
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- Aquatic and terrestrial cyanobacteria produce methane.Science advances · 2020Article
- Strains of the toxic and bloom-forming Nodularia spumigena (cyanobacteria) can degrade methylphosphonate and release methane.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- Glyphosate dose modulates the uptake of inorganic phosphate by freshwater cyanobacteria.Journal of applied phycology · 2018Article
- Diversity in a Polymicrobial Community Revealed by Analysis of Viromes, Endolysins and CRISPR Spacers.PloS one · 2016Article
- Challenges of metagenomics and single-cell genomics approaches for exploring cyanobacterial diversity.Photosynthesis research · 2015Review
- Diel metabolomics analysis of a hot spring chlorophototrophic microbial mat leads to new hypotheses of community member metabolisms.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
- Phosphate-independent utilization of phosphonoacetic acid as sole phosphorus source by a psychrophilic strain of Geomyces pannorum P15.Folia microbiologica · 2014Article
- Role of polyphosphate in thermophilic Synechococcus sp. from microbial mats.Journal of bacteriology · 2013Article
- Organophosphonates revealed: new insights into the microbial metabolism of ancient molecules.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2013Review
- Sublethal detergent concentrations increase metabolization of recalcitrant polyphosphonates by the cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2013Article
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Abstract
Synechococcus sp. represents an ecologically diverse group of cyanobacteria found in numerous environments, including hot-spring microbial mats, where they are spatially distributed along thermal, light and oxygen gradients. These thermophiles engage in photosynthesis and aerobic respiration during the day, but switch to fermentative metabolism and nitrogen fixation at night. The genome of Synechococcus OS-B', isolated from Octopus Spring (Yellowstone National Park) contains a phn gene cluster encoding a phosphonate (Phn) transporter and a C-P lyase. A closely related isolate, Synechococcus OS-A, lacks this cluster, but contains genes encoding putative phosphonatases (Phnases) that appear to be active only in the presence of the Phn substrate. Both isolates grow well on several different Phns as a sole phosphorus (P) source. Interestingly, Synechococcus OS-B' can use the organic carbon backbones of Phns for heterotrophic growth in the dark, whereas in the light this strain releases organic carbon from Phn as ethane or methane (depending on the specific Phn available); Synechococcus OS-A has neither of these capabilities. These differences in metabolic strategies for assimilating the P and C of Phn by two closely related Synechococcus spp. are suggestive of niche-specific constraints in the evolution of nutrient assimilation pathways and syntrophic relationships among the microbial populations of the hot-spring mats. Thus, it is critical to evaluate levels of various P sources, including Phn, in thermally active habitats and the potential importance of these compounds in the biogeochemical cycling of P and C (some Phn compounds also contain N) in diverse terrestrial environments.
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