Carbon Oxidation State in Microbial Polar Lipids Suggests Adaptation to Hot Spring Temperature and Redox Gradients.

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Abstract
The influence of oxidation-reduction (redox) potential on the expression of biomolecules is a topic of ongoing exploration in geobiology. In this study, we investigate the novel possibility that structures and compositions of lipids produced by microbial communities are sensitive to environmental redox conditions. We extracted lipids from microbial biomass collected along the thermal and redox gradients of four alkaline hot springs in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) and investigated patterns in the average oxidation state of carbon (Z), a metric calculated from the chemical formulae of lipid structures. Carbon in intact polar lipids (IPLs) and their alkyl chains becomes more oxidized (higher Z) with increasing distance from each of the four hot spring sources. This coincides with decreased water temperature and increased concentrations of oxidized inorganic solutes, such as dissolved oxygen, sulfate, and nitrate. Carbon in IPLs is most reduced (lowest Z) in the hot, reduced conditions upstream, with abundance-weighted Z values between -1.68 and -1.56. These values increase gradually downstream to around -1.36 to -1.33 in microbial communities living between 29.0 and 38.1°C. This near-linear increase in Z can be attributed to a shift from ether-linked to ester-linked alkyl chains, a decrease in average aliphatic carbons per chain (nC), an increase in average degree of unsaturation per chain (nUnsat), and increased cyclization in tetraether lipids. The Z of lipid headgroups and backbones did not change significantly downstream. Expression of lipids with relatively reduced carbon under reduced conditions and oxidized lipids under oxidized conditions may indicate microbial adaptation across environmental gradients in temperature and electron donor/acceptor supply.
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Authors Boyer, Grayson M;Schubotz, Florence;Summons, Roger E;Woods, Jade;Shock, Everett L;
Journal Frontiers in microbiology
Year 2020
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10.3389/fmicb.2020.00229
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Keywords
microbial community carbon oxidation state geobiochemistry hydrothermal system intact polar lipid redox gradient

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