Assessing environmental gradients in relation to dark CO₂ fixation in estuarine wetland microbiomes
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2025-01-31
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The rising atmospheric concentration of CO2 is a major concern to society due to its global warming potential. In soils, CO2-fixing microorganisms are preventing some of the CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Yet, the controls of dark CO2 fixation are rarely studied in situ. Here, we examined the gene and transcript abundance of key genes involved in microbial CO2 fixation along major environmental gradients within estuarine wetlands. A combined multi-omics approach incorporating metabarcoding, deep metagenomic, and metatranscriptomic analyses confirmed that wetland microbiota harbor four out of seven known CO2 fixation pathways, namely, the Calvin cycle, reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle, Wood–Ljungdahl pathway, and reverse glycine pathway. These pathways are transcribed at high frequencies along several environmental gradients, albeit at different levels depending on the environmental niche. Notably, the transcription of the key genes for the reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle was associated with high nitrate concentration, while the transcription of key genes for the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway was favored by reducing, O2-poor conditions. The transcript abundance of the Calvin cycle was favored by niches high in organic matter. Taxonomic assignment of transcripts implied that dark CO2 fixation was mainly linked to a few bacterial phyla, namely, Desulfobacterota, Methylomirabilota, Nitrospirota, Chloroflexota, and Pseudomonadota.
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91 (1)
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American Society for Microbiology
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Wood-Ljungdahl pathway; reverse TCA cycle; metagenomics; metatranscriptomics; Elbe estuary; C-cycle; carbon dioxide fixation
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09583 - Sunagawa, Shinichi / Sunagawa, Shinichi