Posth, Nicole and Bristow, L. A. and Cox, Raymond and Habicht, Kirsten and Danza, Francesco and Tonolla, Mauro and Frigaard, Niels-Ulrik and Canfield, Donald (2017) Carbon isotope fractionation by anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in euxinic Lake Cadagno. Geobiology. pp. 1-19. ISSN 1472-4669
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Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria utilize ancient metabolic pathways to link sulfur and iron metabolism to the reduction of CO2. In meromictic Lake Cadagno, Switzerland, both purple sulfur (PSB) and green sulfur anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (GSB) dominate the chemocline community and drive the sulfur cycle. PSB and GSB fix carbon utilizing different enzymatic pathways and these fractionate C-isotopes to different extents. Here, these differences in C-isotope fractionation are used to constrain the relative input of various anoxygenic phototrophs to the bulk community C-isotope signal in the chemocline. We sought to determine whether a distinct isotopic signature of GSB and PSB in the chemocline persists in the settling fraction and in the sediment. To answer these questions, we also sought investigated C-isotope fractionation in the water column, settling material, and sediment of Lake Cadagno, compared these values to C-isotope fractionation of isolated anoxygenic phototroph cultures, and took a mass balance approach to investigate relative contributions to the bulk fractionation signature. We found a large C-isotope fractionation between dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) in the Lake Cadagno chemocline. This large fractionation between the DIC and POC was also found in culture experiments carried out with anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria isolated from the lake. In the Lake Cadagno chemocline, anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria controlled the bulk C-isotope fractionation, but the influence of GSB and PSB differed with season. Furthermore, the contribution of PSB and GSB to bulk C-isotope fractionation in the chemocline could be traced in the settling fraction and in the sediment. Taken together with other studies, such as lipid biomarker analyzes and investigations of other stratified lakes, these results offer a firmer understanding of diagenetic influences on bacterial biomass.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Biological Sciences > Microbiology Biological Sciences > Microbiology > Microbiology not elsewhere classified |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design > Laboratorio microbiologia applicata |
| Depositing User: | Mauro Tonolla |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2017 05:31 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2017 05:31 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/8662 |
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