Functional analysis of an anaerobic m-xylene-degrading enrichment culture using protein-based stable isotope probing

FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Dragana BozinovskiCarsten Vogt

Abstract

A sulfate-reducing consortium maintained for several years in the laboratory with m-xylene as sole source of carbon and energy was characterized by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) fingerprinting of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes and stable isotope probing of proteins (Protein-SIP). During growth upon m-xylene or methyl-labeled m-xylene (1,3-dimethyl-(13)C(2)-benzene), a phylotype affiliated to the family Desulfobacteriaceae became most abundant. A second dominant phylotype was affiliated to the phylum Epsilonproteobacteria. In cultures grown with methyl-labeled m-xylene, 331 proteins were identified by LC-MS/MS analysis. These proteins were either not (13)C-labeled (23%) or showed a (13)C-incorporation of 19-22 atom% (13)C (77%), the latter demonstrating that methyl groups of m-xylene were assimilated. (13)C-labeled proteins were involved in anaerobic m-xylene biodegradation, in sulfate reduction, in the Wood-Ljungdahl-pathway, and in general housekeeping functions. Thirty-eight percent of the labeled proteins were affiliated to Deltaproteobacteria. Probably due to a lack of sequence data from Epsilonproteobacteria, only 14 proteins were assigned to this phylum. Our data suggest that m-xylene is assimil...Continue Reading

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