title: Flexibility of syntrophic enzyme systems in Desulfovibrio species ensures their adaptation capability to environmental changes.
abstract: The mineralization of organic matter in anoxic environments relies on the cooperative activities of hydrogen producers and consumers obligately linked by interspecies metabolite exchange in syntrophic consortia that may include sulfate reducing species such as Desulfovibrio. To evaluate the metabolic flexibility of syntrophic Desulfovibrio to adapt to naturally fluctuating methanogenic environments, we studied Desulfovibrio alaskensis strain G20 grown in chemostats under respiratory and syntrophic conditions with alternative methanogenic partners, Methanococcus maripaludis and Methanospirillum hungatei, at different growth rates. Comparative whole-genome transcriptional analyses, complemented by G20 mutant strain growth experiments and physiological data, revealed a significant influence of both energy source availability (as controlled by dilution rate) and methanogen on the electron transfer systems, ratios of interspecies electron carriers, energy generating systems, and interspecies physical associations. A total of 68 genes were commonly differentially expressed under syntrophic versus respiratory lifestyle. Under low-energy (low-growth-rate) conditions, strain G20 further had the capacity to adapt to the metabolism of its methanogenic partners, as shown by its differing gene expression of enzymes involved in the direct metabolic interactions (e.g., periplasmic hydrogenases) and the ratio shift in electron carriers used for interspecies metabolite exchange (hydrogen/formate). A putative monomeric [Fe-Fe] hydrogenase and Hmc (high-molecular-weight-cytochrome c3) complex-linked reverse menaquinone (MQ) redox loop become increasingly important for the reoxidation of the lactate-/pyruvate oxidation-derived redox pair, DsrC(red) and Fd(red), relative to the Qmo-MQ-Qrc (quinone-interacting membrane-bound oxidoreductase; quinone-reducing complex) loop. Together, these data underscore the high enzymatic and metabolic adaptive flexibility that likely sustains Desulfovibrio in naturally fluctuating methanogenic environments.
authors: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors: Birte
authors: B
authors: Meyer
authors: Jennifer V
authors: JV
authors: Kuehl
authors: Adam M
authors: AM
authors: Deutschbauer
authors: Adam P
authors: AP
authors: Arkin
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Stahl
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*; D003901:Desulfovibrio / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D004579:Electron Transport / Q000502:physiology; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000502:physiology; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D008697:Methane / Q000378:metabolism; D017017:Methanococcus; D019639:Methanospirillum; D009154:Mutation; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction
chemical_list: D019344:Lactic Acid; D008697:Methane
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