PXD025534

PXD025534 is an original dataset announced via ProteomeXchange.

Title	Insights into autotrophic activities and carbon flow in iron-rich pelagic aggregates (iron snow)
Description	Pelagic aggregates function as hotspots for microbial activity and biological carbon pumps for exporting OM fixed by photoautotrophs to sediments in lakes and oceans. In iron-rich (ferruginous) lakes, photoferrotrophic or chemolithoautotrophic bacteria appear to contribute to CO2 fixation by oxidizing reduced iron which leads to the formation of iron-rich pelagic aggregates called iron-snow. In acidic lakes, iron snow is colonized mainly by acidophilic iron-cycling microbes that can trigger interspecies aggregation mechanisms. However, the significance of iron oxidizers in carbon fixation, their general role in iron snow functioning, and the flow of carbon within iron snow is still unclear. Here, we combined a two-year metatranscriptome analysis with a 13CO2 metabolic labeling approach to determine general metabolic activities. Protein-based stable isotope probing (protein-SIP) was used to trace the 13CO2 incorporation in iron snow microcosms over time under both oxic and anoxic conditions. Analysis of our mRNA-derived metatranscriptome data identified four key players (Leptospirillum, Ferrovum, Acidithrix, Acidiphilium) with relative abundances (59.6%-85.7%) in iron snow encoding a variety of ecologically relevant pathways, including carbon fixation, polysaccharide biosynthesis, and flagellar-based motility. We did not detect transcriptional activity for carbon fixation from archaea or eukaryotes. The largest numbers of expressed genes (3008, 2991, 2936) matched to the genomes of our previously obtained iron snow isolates (Acidithrix sp. C25, Acidiphilium sp. C61, Acidocella sp. C78) separately. 13CO2 incorporation studies identified Leptospirillum and Ferrovum, as the main active chemolithoautotrophs under oxic conditions, and Ferrovum was the main active organism under anoxic conditions as well. Small amounts of labeled 13C (Relative isotope abundance: 1.0%-5.3%) were found in the heterotrophic Acidiphilium and Acidocella. Overall, our data show that iron oxidizers play an important role in the formation of iron minerals and CO2 fixation, but the majority of fixed C apparently did not reach other iron snow microbes. This finding suggests that most of the fixed C will be directly exported to the sediment without feeding heterotrophs in the water column in acidic ferruginous lakes.
HostingRepository	PRIDE
AnnounceDate	2022-02-17
AnnouncementXML	Submission_2022-02-17_01:04:54.521.xml
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ReviewLevel	Peer-reviewed dataset
DatasetOrigin	Original dataset
RepositorySupport	Unsupported dataset by repository
PrimarySubmitter	Nico Jehmlich
SpeciesList	scientific name: Escherichia coli; NCBI TaxID: 562;
ModificationList	monohydroxylated residue; iodoacetamide derivatized residue
Instrument	Q Exactive HF

Revision	Datetime	Status	ChangeLog Entry
0	2021-04-21 07:47:55	ID requested
⏵ 1	2022-02-17 01:04:55	announced

Li Q, Cooper RE, Wegner CE, Taubert M, Jehmlich N, von Bergen M, K, ü, sel K, Insights into Autotrophic Activities and Carbon Flow in Iron-Rich Pelagic Aggregates (Iron Snow). Microorganisms, 9(7):(2021) [pubmed]

submitter keyword: iron snow, autotrophic iron oxidizing bacteria, heterotrophic iron reducing bacteria, 13C isotope, metaproteomics

Nico Jehmlich
contact affiliation	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ Department of Molecular Systems Biology Permoserstraße 15 04318 Leipzig, Germany
contact email	nico.jehmlich@ufz.de
lab head
Nico Jehmlich
contact affiliation	Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
contact email	nico.jehmlich@ufz.de
dataset submitter

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  1. PXD025534
     1. Label: PRIDE project
     2. Name: Insights into autotrophic activities and carbon flow in iron-rich pelagic aggregates (iron snow)