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Different iron sources to study the physiology and biochemistry of iron metabolism in marine micro-algae.

ABSTRACT: We compared ferric EDTA, ferric citrate and ferrous ascorbate as iron sources to study iron metabolism in Ostreococcus tauri, Phaeodactlylum tricornutum and Emiliania huxleyi. Ferric EDTA was a better iron source than ferric citrate for growth and chlorophyll levels. Direct and indirect experiments showed that iron was much more available to the cells when provided as ferric citrate as compared to ferric EDTA. As a consequence, growth media with iron concentration in the range 1-100 nM were rapidly iron-depleted when ferric citrate-but not ferric EDTA was the iron source. When cultured together, P. tricornutum cells overgrew the two other species in iron-sufficient conditions, but E. huxleyi was able to compete other species in iron-deficient conditions, and when iron was provided as ferric citrate instead of ferric EDTA, which points out the critical influence of the chemical form of iron on the blooms of some phytoplankton species. The use of ferric citrate and ferrous ascorbate allowed us to unravel a kind of regulation of iron uptake that was dependent on the day/night cycles and to evidence independent uptake systems for ferrous and ferric iron, which can be regulated independently and be copper-dependent or independent. The same iron sources also allowed one to identify molecular components involved in iron uptake and storage in marine micro-algae. Characterizing the mechanisms of iron metabolism in the phytoplankton constitutes a big challenge; we show here that the use of iron sources more readily available to the cells than ferric EDTA is critical for this task.

SUBMITTER: Botebol H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3905174 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Different iron sources to study the physiology and biochemistry of iron metabolism in marine micro-algae.

Botebol Hugo H Sutak Robert R Scheiber Ivo F IF Blaiseau Pierre-Louis PL Bouget François-Yves FY Camadro Jean-Michel JM Lesuisse Emmanuel E

Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine 20131127 1

We compared ferric EDTA, ferric citrate and ferrous ascorbate as iron sources to study iron metabolism in Ostreococcus tauri, Phaeodactlylum tricornutum and Emiliania huxleyi. Ferric EDTA was a better iron source than ferric citrate for growth and chlorophyll levels. Direct and indirect experiments showed that iron was much more available to the cells when provided as ferric citrate as compared to ferric EDTA. As a consequence, growth media with iron concentration in the range 1-100 nM were rapi ...[more]

PMID: 24281777

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Different iron sources to study the physiology and biochemistry of iron metabolism in marine micro-algae.

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Different iron sources to study the physiology and biochemistry of iron metabolism in marine micro-algae.

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