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Title: Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria

Abstract

© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Soils are arguably the most microbially diverse ecosystems. Physicochemical properties have been associated with the maintenance of this diversity. Yet, the role of microbial substrate specialization is largely unexplored since substrate utilization studies have focused on simple substrates, not the complex mixtures representative of the soil environment. Here we examine the exometabolite composition of desert biological soil crusts (biocrusts) and the substrate preferences of seven biocrust isolates. The biocrust's main primary producer releases a diverse array of metabolites, and isolates of physically associated taxa use unique subsets of the complex metabolite pool. Individual isolates use only 13-26% of available metabolites, with only 2 out of 470 used by all and 40% not used by any. An extension of this approach to a mesophilic soil environment also reveals high levels of microbial substrate specialization. These results suggest that exometabolite niche partitioning may be an important factor in the maintenance of microbial diversity.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [6];  [4];  [4];  [7]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Climate and Ecosystems Sciences Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division; Arizona State Univ., Mesa, AZ (United States)
  4. Arizona State Univ., Mesa, AZ (United States)
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Climate and Ecosystems Sciences Division; Vrije Univ., Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Climate and Ecosystems Sciences Division
  7. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division; DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1256039
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1513785
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Baran, Richard, Brodie, Eoin L., Mayberry-Lewis, Jazmine, Hummel, Eric, Da Rocha, Ulisses Nunes, Chakraborty, Romy, Bowen, Benjamin P., Karaoz, Ulas, Cadillo-Quiroz, Hinsby, Garcia-Pichel, Ferran, and Northen, Trent R. Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms9289.
Baran, Richard, Brodie, Eoin L., Mayberry-Lewis, Jazmine, Hummel, Eric, Da Rocha, Ulisses Nunes, Chakraborty, Romy, Bowen, Benjamin P., Karaoz, Ulas, Cadillo-Quiroz, Hinsby, Garcia-Pichel, Ferran, & Northen, Trent R. Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9289
Baran, Richard, Brodie, Eoin L., Mayberry-Lewis, Jazmine, Hummel, Eric, Da Rocha, Ulisses Nunes, Chakraborty, Romy, Bowen, Benjamin P., Karaoz, Ulas, Cadillo-Quiroz, Hinsby, Garcia-Pichel, Ferran, and Northen, Trent R. Tue . "Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9289. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1256039.
@article{osti_1256039,
title = {Exometabolite niche partitioning among sympatric soil bacteria},
author = {Baran, Richard and Brodie, Eoin L. and Mayberry-Lewis, Jazmine and Hummel, Eric and Da Rocha, Ulisses Nunes and Chakraborty, Romy and Bowen, Benjamin P. and Karaoz, Ulas and Cadillo-Quiroz, Hinsby and Garcia-Pichel, Ferran and Northen, Trent R.},
abstractNote = {© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Soils are arguably the most microbially diverse ecosystems. Physicochemical properties have been associated with the maintenance of this diversity. Yet, the role of microbial substrate specialization is largely unexplored since substrate utilization studies have focused on simple substrates, not the complex mixtures representative of the soil environment. Here we examine the exometabolite composition of desert biological soil crusts (biocrusts) and the substrate preferences of seven biocrust isolates. The biocrust's main primary producer releases a diverse array of metabolites, and isolates of physically associated taxa use unique subsets of the complex metabolite pool. Individual isolates use only 13-26% of available metabolites, with only 2 out of 470 used by all and 40% not used by any. An extension of this approach to a mesophilic soil environment also reveals high levels of microbial substrate specialization. These results suggest that exometabolite niche partitioning may be an important factor in the maintenance of microbial diversity.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms9289},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Two scenarios for substrate preferences in sympatric soil bacteria. (a) Metabolites have a weak effect in supporting diversity due to substrate generalism among heterotrophs. (b) Metabolite diversity contributes to niche differentiation and supports diversity due to strong substrate preferences among heterotrophs.

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Assessing the influence of soil abiotic and biotic factors on Nostoc commune inoculation success
journal, August 2019


Microbial Group Dynamics in Plant Rhizospheres and Their Implications on Nutrient Cycling
journal, July 2018


Characterization of a nifH-Harboring Bacterial Community in the Soil-Limited Gotjawal Forest
journal, August 2019


Mind the Gap: Mapping Mass Spectral Databases in Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks Reveals Poorly Covered Areas
journal, September 2018

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Linking soil biology and chemistry in biological soil crust using isolate exometabolomics
journal, January 2018


Polyphasic evaluation of key cyanobacteria in biocrusts from the most arid region in Europe
journal, January 2019

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Biofilms 2018: a Diversity of Microbes and Mechanisms
journal, February 2019

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Belowground Response to Drought in a Tropical Forest Soil. II. Change in Microbial Function Impacts Carbon Composition
journal, March 2016


Learning representations of microbe–metabolite interactions
journal, November 2019

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Yeast Creates a Niche for Symbiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria through Nitrogen Overflow
journal, October 2017


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book, January 2016

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Microbial Group Dynamics in Plant Rhizospheres and Their Implications on Nutrient Cycling
journal, July 2018


Effects of Spatial Variability and Relic DNA Removal on the Detection of Temporal Dynamics in Soil Microbial Communities
journal, January 2020

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