title: Use of aliphatic n-alkynes to discriminate soil nitrification activities of ammonia-oxidizing thaumarchaea and bacteria.
abstract: Ammonia (NH3)-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and thaumarchaea (AOA) co-occupy most soils, yet no short-term growth-independent method exists to determine their relative contributions to nitrification in situ. Microbial monooxygenases differ in their vulnerability to inactivation by aliphatic n-alkynes, and we found that NH3 oxidation by the marine thaumarchaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus was unaffected during a 24-h exposure to ≤ 20 μM concentrations of 1-alkynes C8 and C9. In contrast, NH3 oxidation by two AOB (Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrosospira multiformis) was quickly and irreversibly inactivated by 1 μM C8 (octyne). Evidence that nitrification carried out by soilborne AOA was also insensitive to octyne was obtained. In incubations (21 or 28 days) of two different whole soils, both acetylene and octyne effectively prevented NH4(+)-stimulated increases in AOB population densities, but octyne did not prevent increases in AOA population densities that were prevented by acetylene. Furthermore, octyne-resistant, NH4(+)-stimulated net nitrification rates of 2 and 7 μg N/g soil/day persisted throughout the incubation of the two soils. Other evidence that octyne-resistant nitrification was due to AOA included (i) a positive correlation of octyne-resistant nitrification in soil slurries of cropped and noncropped soils with allylthiourea-resistant activity (100 μM) and (ii) the finding that the fraction of octyne-resistant nitrification in soil slurries correlated with the fraction of nitrification that recovered from irreversible acetylene inactivation in the presence of bacterial protein synthesis inhibitors and with the octyne-resistant fraction of NH4(+)-saturated net nitrification measured in whole soils. Octyne can be useful in short-term assays to discriminate AOA and AOB contributions to soil nitrification.
authors: Department of Crop and Soil Science.
authors: Anne E
authors: AE
authors: Taylor
authors: Neeraja
authors: N
authors: Vajrala
authors: Andrew T
authors: AT
authors: Giguere
authors: Alix I
authors: AI
authors: Gitelman
authors: Daniel J
authors: DJ
authors: Arp
authors: David D
authors: DD
authors: Myrold
authors: Luis
authors: L
authors: Sayavedra-Soto
authors: Peter J
authors: PJ
authors: Bottomley
mesh_terms: D000480:Alkynes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D000641:Ammonia / Q000378:metabolism; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001105:Archaea / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D020562:Betaproteobacteria / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D016014:Linear Models; D058465:Nitrification / Q000502:physiology*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D000480:Alkynes; D000641:Ammonia
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