Sulfide ameliorates metal toxicity for deep-sea hydrothermal vent archaea

dc.contributor.author Edgcomb, Virginia P.
dc.contributor.author Molyneaux, Stephen J.
dc.contributor.author Saito, Mak A.
dc.contributor.author Lloyd, Karen G.
dc.contributor.author Boer, Simone
dc.contributor.author Wirsen, Carl O.
dc.contributor.author Atkins, Michael S.
dc.contributor.author Teske, Andreas
dc.date.accessioned 2005-11-23T19:25:58Z
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dc.date.issued 2004-04
dc.description Author Posting. © American Society for Microbiology, 2004. This article is posted here by permission of American Society for Microbiology for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70 (2004): 2551-2555, doi:10.1128/AEM.70.4.2551-2555.2004.
dc.description.abstract The chemical stress factors for microbial life at deep-sea hydrothermal vents include high concentrations of heavy metals and sulfide. Three hyperthermophilic vent archaea, the sulfur-reducing heterotrophs Thermococcus fumicolans and Pyrococcus strain GB-D and the chemolithoautotrophic methanogen Methanocaldococcus jannaschii, were tested for survival tolerance to heavy metals (Zn, Co, and Cu) and sulfide. The sulfide addition consistently ameliorated the high toxicity of free metal cations by the formation of dissolved metal-sulfide complexes as well as solid precipitates. Thus, chemical speciation of heavy metals with sulfide allows hydrothermal vent archaea to tolerate otherwise toxic metal concentrations in their natural environment. en
dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (Life in Extreme Environments [LExEn] grant OCE-0085534 to A.T., S.J.M., K.L, S.B., and C.O.W.), an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Biology (M.S.A.), the MBL (Environmental Genomes, S/C NCC2-1054) and URI (Subsurface Biospheres) NASA Astrobiology Institute Teams (A.T. and S.J.M.), an NRC Astrobiology postdoctoral fellowship (V.P.E.), and a Princeton Harry Hess postdoctoral fellowship (M.A.S.). en
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dc.identifier.citation Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70 (2004): 2551-2555 en
dc.identifier.doi 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2551-2555.2004
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/1912/189
dc.language.iso en_US en
dc.publisher American Society for Microbiology en
dc.relation.uri https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.70.4.2551-2555.2004
dc.subject Thermococcus fumicolans en
dc.subject Pyrococcus en
dc.subject Methanocaldococcus jannaschii en
dc.subject Heavy metals en
dc.title Sulfide ameliorates metal toxicity for deep-sea hydrothermal vent archaea en
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