Metabolically-active obligate aerobes in anoxic (sulfidic) marine sediments
Bhattacharya, S.; Roy, C.; Mandal, S.; Rameez, M. J.; Sarkar, J.; Fernandes, S.; Mapder, T.; Alam, M.; Roy, R.; Mondal, N.; Pyne, P.; Haldar, P. K.; Peketi, A.; Chakraborty, R.; Mazumdar, A.; Ghosh, W.
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Metabolically-active obligate aerobes are unheard-of in tightly-anoxic environments. Present culture-independent and culture-dependent investigations revealed aerobic microbial communities along two, ~3-meter-long sediment-cores underlying the eastern Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone, where high H2S disallows O2 influx from the water-column. While genes for aerobic respiration by aa3-/cbb3-type cytochrome-c oxidases and cytochrome-bd ubiquinol oxidase, and aerobic oxidation of methane/ammonia/alcohols/thiosulfate/sulfite/organosulfur-compounds, were present across the cores, so were live aerobic, sulfur-chemolithoautotrophs and chemoorganoheterotrophs. The 8820-years-old, highly-sulfidic, methane-containing sediment-sample from 275 cmbsf of 530 mbsl yielded many such obligately-aerobic bacterial-isolates that died upon anaerobic incubation with alternative electron-acceptors/fermentative-substrates. Several metatranscriptomic reads from this sediment-sample matched aerobic-respiration-/oxidase-reaction-/transcription-/translation-/DNA-replication-/membrane-transport-/cell-division-related genes of the obligately-aerobic isolates, thereby corroborating their active aerobic metabolic-status in situ. Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic detection of perchlorate-/chlorate-reduction genes, plus anaerobic growth of an obligately-aerobic Halothiobacillus isolate in the presence of perchlorate and perchlorate-reducing-consortia, suggested that cryptic O2 produced by perchlorate-respirers could be sustaining obligately-aerobes in this environment.
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