title: Temperature and nutrient induced responses of Lake Fryxell sulfate-reducing prokaryotes and description of Desulfovibrio lacusfryxellense, sp. nov., a pervasive, cold-active, sulfate-reducing bacterium from Lake Fryxell, Antarctica.
abstract: The effects of temperature and carbon substrate availability on the stimulation of sulfate reduction by indigenous populations of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) in permanently ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica were investigated. Psychrophilic and halotolerant, lactate-degrading SRP showed significant metabolic activity throughout all sampled depths of the water column, suggesting that such organisms, possibly of marine origin, may be key contributors to carbon and sulfur cycling in Lake Fryxell. Planktonic and benthic strains of lactate-oxidizing sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) were isolated from samples of various depths of the anoxic water column and from surficial sediments. Phylogenetic analyses of 16S rRNA gene sequences placed the Fryxell sulfate-reducer (FSR) strains within the Deltaproteobacteria and showed them to be most closely related to the Arctic marine species of SRB Desulfovibrio frigidus and Desulfovibrio ferrireducens. Based on phylogenetic and phenotypic differences between the Antarctic FSR strains and related species of the genus Desulfovibrio, strain FSRs(T) (=DSM 23315(T) =ATCC BAA-2083(T)) is proposed as the type strain of a novel species of cold-active SRB, Desulfovibrio lacusfryxellense, sp. nov.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA. Matthew.Sattley@indwes.edu
authors.forename: W Matthew
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Sattley
authors.forename: Michael T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Madigan
mesh_terms: D000864:Antarctic Regions; D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D003901:Desulfovibrio / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013045:Species Specificity; D013431:Sulfates / Q000378:metabolism*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D013431:Sulfates; D002244:Carbon
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