Deep-Subsurface Pressure Stimulates Metabolic Plasticity in Shale-Colonizing Halanaerobium spp.
Abstract
Bacterial Halanaerobium strains become the dominant persisting microbial community member in produced fluids across geographically distinct hydraulically fractured shales. Halanaerobium is believed to be inadvertently introduced into this environment during the drilling and fracturing process and must therefore tolerate large changes in pressure, temperature, and salinity. Here, we used a Halanaerobium strain isolated from a natural gas well in the Utica Point Pleasant formation to investigate metabolic and physiological responses to growth under high-pressure subsurface conditions. Laboratory incubations confirmed the ability of Halanaerobium congolense strain WG8 to grow under pressures representative of deep shale formations (21 to 48 MPa). Under these conditions, broad metabolic and physiological shifts were identified, including higher abundances of proteins associated with the production of extracellular polymeric substances. Confocal laser scanning microscopy indicated that extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) production was associated with greater cell aggregation when biomass was cultured at high pressure.
- Authors:
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- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- DowDuPont Industrial Biosciences, Wilmington, DE (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
- Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1567051
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-144542
Journal ID: ISSN 0099-2240
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 85; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0099-2240
- Publisher:
- American Society for Microbiology
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Halanaerobium; Shale; Biofilms; High Pressure; Hydraulic fracturing; Metabolomics
Citation Formats
Booker, Anne E., Hoyt, David W., Meulia, Tea, Eder, Elizabeth, Nicora, Carrie D., Purvine, Samuel O., Daly, Rebecca A., Moore, Joseph D., Wunch, Kenneth, Pfiffner, Susan M., Lipton, Mary S., Mouser, Paula J., Wrighton, Kelly C., Wilkins, Michael J., and Liu, Shuang-Jiang. Deep-Subsurface Pressure Stimulates Metabolic Plasticity in Shale-Colonizing Halanaerobium spp.. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1128/AEM.00018-19.
Booker, Anne E., Hoyt, David W., Meulia, Tea, Eder, Elizabeth, Nicora, Carrie D., Purvine, Samuel O., Daly, Rebecca A., Moore, Joseph D., Wunch, Kenneth, Pfiffner, Susan M., Lipton, Mary S., Mouser, Paula J., Wrighton, Kelly C., Wilkins, Michael J., & Liu, Shuang-Jiang. Deep-Subsurface Pressure Stimulates Metabolic Plasticity in Shale-Colonizing Halanaerobium spp.. United States. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00018-19
Booker, Anne E., Hoyt, David W., Meulia, Tea, Eder, Elizabeth, Nicora, Carrie D., Purvine, Samuel O., Daly, Rebecca A., Moore, Joseph D., Wunch, Kenneth, Pfiffner, Susan M., Lipton, Mary S., Mouser, Paula J., Wrighton, Kelly C., Wilkins, Michael J., and Liu, Shuang-Jiang. Fri .
"Deep-Subsurface Pressure Stimulates Metabolic Plasticity in Shale-Colonizing Halanaerobium spp.". United States. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00018-19. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1567051.
@article{osti_1567051,
title = {Deep-Subsurface Pressure Stimulates Metabolic Plasticity in Shale-Colonizing Halanaerobium spp.},
author = {Booker, Anne E. and Hoyt, David W. and Meulia, Tea and Eder, Elizabeth and Nicora, Carrie D. and Purvine, Samuel O. and Daly, Rebecca A. and Moore, Joseph D. and Wunch, Kenneth and Pfiffner, Susan M. and Lipton, Mary S. and Mouser, Paula J. and Wrighton, Kelly C. and Wilkins, Michael J. and Liu, Shuang-Jiang},
abstractNote = {Bacterial Halanaerobium strains become the dominant persisting microbial community member in produced fluids across geographically distinct hydraulically fractured shales. Halanaerobium is believed to be inadvertently introduced into this environment during the drilling and fracturing process and must therefore tolerate large changes in pressure, temperature, and salinity. Here, we used a Halanaerobium strain isolated from a natural gas well in the Utica Point Pleasant formation to investigate metabolic and physiological responses to growth under high-pressure subsurface conditions. Laboratory incubations confirmed the ability of Halanaerobium congolense strain WG8 to grow under pressures representative of deep shale formations (21 to 48 MPa). Under these conditions, broad metabolic and physiological shifts were identified, including higher abundances of proteins associated with the production of extracellular polymeric substances. Confocal laser scanning microscopy indicated that extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) production was associated with greater cell aggregation when biomass was cultured at high pressure.},
doi = {10.1128/AEM.00018-19},
journal = {Applied and Environmental Microbiology},
number = 12,
volume = 85,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 12 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Apr 12 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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