Hahnke, Sarah and Brock, Nelson L. and Zell, Claudia and Simon, Meinhard and Dickschat, Jeroen S. and Brinkhoff, Thorsten (2013) Physiological diversity of Roseobacter clade bacteria co-occurring during a phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea. Systematic and applied microbiology, 36 (1). pp. 39-48. ISSN 1618-0984

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Abstract

Organisms of the Roseobacter clade are an important component in marine ecosystems, partially due to their metabolic variety. Not much is known, however, about the physiological diversity of different roseobacters present within one habitat. By using serial dilution cultures with low-nutrient media seven roseobacter strains, co-occurring during a phytoplankton bloom in the southern North Sea, were obtained in this study. Physiological characterization exhibited distinct substrate spectra of the isolates. Although no isolate showed growth on algal osmolyte dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), feeding experiments revealed that all new strains converted [2H6]DMSP into a variety of volatile compounds. Six strains mainly decomposed DMSP via the demethylation pathway, but four strains were also capable of cleaving DMSP to DMS and acrylate. It is hypothesized that the great physiological diversity of the roseobacters reflects their ability to inhabit different ecological niches and enables the organisms to cope differently with changing substrate supplies during phytoplankton blooms. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and sequencing of excised bands resulted in detection of five additional roseobacters. Three of these sequences showed affiliation with three of the four major clusters of the Roseobacter clade, consisting predominantly of uncultured organisms (i.e. the Roseobacter clade-affiliated (RCA)), the NAC11-7 and the CHAB-I-5 clusters.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Science and mathematics > Life sciences, biology
Divisions:	Faculty of Mathematics and Science > Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2024 12:08
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2024 12:08
URI:	https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/id/eprint/6074
URN:	urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-61559
DOI:	10.1016/j.syapm.2012.09.004
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