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Nitrogen isotope effects induced by anammox bacteria.


ABSTRACT: Nitrogen (N) isotope ratios ((15)N/(14)N) provide integrative constraints on the N inventory of the modern ocean. Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), which converts ammonium and nitrite to dinitrogen gas (N2) and nitrate, is an important fixed N sink in marine ecosystems. We studied the so far unknown N isotope effects of anammox in batch culture experiments. Anammox preferentially removes (14)N from the ammonium pool with an isotope effect of +23.5‰ to +29.1‰, depending on factors controlling reversibility. The N isotope effects during the conversion of nitrite to N2 and nitrate are (i) inverse kinetic N isotope fractionation associated with the oxidation of nitrite to nitrate (-31.1 ± 3.9‰), (ii) normal kinetic N isotope fractionation during the reduction of nitrite to N2 (+16.0 ± 4.5‰), and (iii) an equilibrium N isotope effect between nitrate and nitrite (-60.5 ± 1.0‰), induced when anammox is exposed to environmental stress, leading to the superposition of N isotope exchange effects upon kinetic N isotope fractionation. Our findings indicate that anammox may be responsible for the unresolved large N isotope offsets between nitrate and nitrite in oceanic oxygen minimum zones. Irrespective of the extent of N isotope exchange between nitrate and nitrite, N removed from the combined nitrite and nitrate (NOx) pool is depleted in (15)N relative to NOx. This net N isotope effect by anammox is superimposed on the N isotope fractionation by the co-occurring reduction of nitrate to nitrite in suboxic waters, possibly enhancing the overall N isotope effect for N loss from oxygen minimum zones.

SUBMITTER: Brunner B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3839690 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Nitrogen isotope effects induced by anammox bacteria.

Brunner Benjamin B   Contreras Sergio S   Lehmann Moritz F MF   Matantseva Olga O   Rollog Mark M   Kalvelage Tim T   Klockgether Gabriele G   Lavik Gaute G   Jetten Mike S M MS   Kartal Boran B   Kuypers Marcel M M MM  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20131104 47


Nitrogen (N) isotope ratios ((15)N/(14)N) provide integrative constraints on the N inventory of the modern ocean. Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), which converts ammonium and nitrite to dinitrogen gas (N2) and nitrate, is an important fixed N sink in marine ecosystems. We studied the so far unknown N isotope effects of anammox in batch culture experiments. Anammox preferentially removes (14)N from the ammonium pool with an isotope effect of +23.5‰ to +29.1‰, depending on factors controlli  ...[more]

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