Abstract
AbstractThe reduction of manganese oxide with sulfide in aquatic redox-stratified systems was previously considered to be mainly chemical, but recent isolation of the Black Sea isolate Candidatus Sulfurimonas marisnigri strain SoZ1 suggests an important role for biological catalyzation. Here we provide evidence from laboratory experiments, field data, and modeling that the latter process has a strong impact on redox zonation in the Black Sea. High relative abundances of Sulfurimonas spp. across the redoxcline in the central western gyre of the Black Sea coincided with the high-level expression of both the sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase gene (sqr, up to 93% expressed by Sulfurimonas spp.) and other sulfur oxidation genes. The cell-specific rate of manganese-coupled sulfide oxidation by Ca. S. marisnigri SoZ1 determined experimentally was combined with the in situ abundance of Sulfurimonas spp. in a one-dimensional numerical model to calculate the vertical sulfide distribution. Abiotic sulfide oxidation was too slow to counterbalance the sulfide flux from euxinic water. We conclude that microbially catalyzed Mn-dependent sulfide oxidation influences the element cycles of Mn, S, C, and N and therefore the prevalence of other functional groups of prokaryotes (e.g., anammox bacteria) in a sulfide-free, anoxic redox zone.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Microbiology
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14 articles.
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