Ratio of electron donor to acceptor influences metabolic specialization and denitrification dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a mixed carbon medium
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2021-09-10Author
Zhang, Irene H.
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Mullen, Susan
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Ciccarese, Davide
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Dumit, Diana
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Martocello, Donald E., III
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Toyofuku, Masanori
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Nomura, Nobuhiko
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Smriga, Steven
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Babbin, Andrew R.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/27781As published
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.711073DOI
10.3389/fmicb.2021.711073Abstract
Denitrifying microbes sequentially reduce nitrate (NO3–) to nitrite (NO2–), NO, N2O, and N2 through enzymes encoded by nar, nir, nor, and nos. Some denitrifiers maintain the whole four-gene pathway, but others possess partial pathways. Partial denitrifiers may evolve through metabolic specialization whereas complete denitrifiers may adapt toward greater metabolic flexibility in nitrogen oxide (NOx–) utilization. Both exist within natural environments, but we lack an understanding of selective pressures driving the evolution toward each lifestyle. Here we investigate differences in growth rate, growth yield, denitrification dynamics, and the extent of intermediate metabolite accumulation under varying nutrient conditions between the model complete denitrifier Pseudomonas aeruginosa and a community of engineered specialists with deletions in the denitrification genes nar or nir. Our results in a mixed carbon medium indicate a growth rate vs. yield tradeoff between complete and partial denitrifiers, which varies with total nutrient availability and ratios of organic carbon to NOx–. We found that the cultures of both complete and partial denitrifiers accumulated nitrite and that the metabolic lifestyle coupled with nutrient conditions are responsible for the extent of nitrite accumulation.
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© The Author(s), 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Zhang, I. H., Mullen, S., Ciccarese, D., Dumit, D., Martocello, D. E., Toyofuku, M., Nomura, N., Smriga, S., & Babbin, A. R. Ratio of electron donor to acceptor influences metabolic specialization and denitrification dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a mixed carbon medium. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, (2021): 711073, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.711073.
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Zhang, I. H., Mullen, S., Ciccarese, D., Dumit, D., Martocello, D. E., Toyofuku, M., Nomura, N., Smriga, S., & Babbin, A. R. (2021). Ratio of electron donor to acceptor influences metabolic specialization and denitrification dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a mixed carbon medium. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 711073.The following license files are associated with this item:
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