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Microbial enrichment, functional characterization and isolation from a cold seep yield piezotolerant obligate hydrocarbon degraders

Van Landuyt, Josefien
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Cimmino, Lorenzo  
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Dumolin, Charles
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September 1, 2020
Fems Microbiology Ecology

Deep-sea environments can become contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. The effects of hydrostatic pressure (HP) in the deep sea on microbial oil degradation are poorly understood. Here, we performed long-term enrichments (100 days) from a natural cold seep while providing optimal conditions to sustain high hydrocarbon degradation rates. Through enrichments performed at increased HP and ambient pressure (AP) and by using control enrichments with marine broth, we demonstrated that both pressure and carbon source can have a big impact on the community structure. In contrast to previous studies, hydrocarbonoclastic operational taxonomic units (OTUs) remained dominant at both AP and increased HP, suggesting piezotolerance of these OTUs over the tested pressure range. Twenty-three isolates were obtained after isolation and dereplication. After recultivation at increased HP, an Alcanivorax sp. showed promising piezotolerance in axenic culture. Furthermore, preliminary co-cultivation tests indicated synergistic growth between some isolates, which shows promise for future synthetic community construction. Overall, more insights into the effect of increased HP on oil-degrading communities were obtained as well as several interesting isolates, e.g. a piezotolerant hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium for future deep-sea bioaugmentation investigation.

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research article
DOI
10.1093/femsec/fiaa097
Web of Science ID

WOS:000575458400002

Author(s)
Van Landuyt, Josefien
Cimmino, Lorenzo  
Dumolin, Charles
Chatzigiannidou, Ioanna
Taveirne, Felix
Mattelin, Valerie
Zhang, Yu
Vandamme, Peter
Scoma, Alberto
Williamson, Adam
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Date Issued

2020-09-01

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Published in
Fems Microbiology Ecology
Volume

96

Issue

9

Article Number

fiaa097

Subjects

Microbiology

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Microbiology

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bioaugmentation

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oil degradation

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microbial community

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hydrocarbonoclastic

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piezotolerance

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deep-sea bacteria

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high hydrostatic-pressure

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bacterial consortium

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lactococcus-lactis

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hydrothermal-vent

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crude-oil

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biodegradation

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microorganisms

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degradation

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diversity

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halomonas

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