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Bidirectional C and N transfer and a potential role for sulfur in an epiphytic diazotrophic mutualism.


ABSTRACT: In nitrogen-limited boreal forests, associations between feathermoss and diazotrophic cyanobacteria control nitrogen inputs and thus carbon cycling, but little is known about the molecular regulators required for initiation and maintenance of these associations. Specifically, a benefit to the cyanobacteria is not known, challenging whether the association is a nutritional mutualism. Targeted mutagenesis of the cyanobacterial alkane sulfonate monooxygenase results in an inability to colonize feathermosses by the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme, suggesting a role for organic sulfur in communication or nutrition. Isotope probing paired with high-resolution imaging mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) demonstrated bidirectional elemental transfer between partners, with carbon and sulfur both being transferred to the cyanobacteria, and nitrogen transferred to the moss. These results support the hypothesis that moss and cyanobacteria enter a mutualistic exosymbiosis with substantial bidirectional material exchange of carbon and nitrogen and potential signaling through sulfur compounds.

SUBMITTER: Stuart RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7784912 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Bidirectional C and N transfer and a potential role for sulfur in an epiphytic diazotrophic mutualism.

Stuart Rhona K RK   Pederson Eric R A ERA   Weyman Philip D PD   Weber Peter K PK   Rassmussen Ulla U   Dupont Christopher L CL  

The ISME journal 20200819 12


In nitrogen-limited boreal forests, associations between feathermoss and diazotrophic cyanobacteria control nitrogen inputs and thus carbon cycling, but little is known about the molecular regulators required for initiation and maintenance of these associations. Specifically, a benefit to the cyanobacteria is not known, challenging whether the association is a nutritional mutualism. Targeted mutagenesis of the cyanobacterial alkane sulfonate monooxygenase results in an inability to colonize feat  ...[more]

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