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Function and Importance of Marine Bacterial Transporters of Plankton Exometabolites

View ORCID ProfileWilliam F. Schroer, Hannah E. Kepner, Mario Uchimiya, Catalina Mejia, Lidimarie Trujillo Rodriguez, Christopher R. Reisch, Mary Ann Moran
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.19.524783
William F. Schroer
1Dept. of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
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Hannah E. Kepner
1Dept. of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
2College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA
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Mario Uchimiya
3Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
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Catalina Mejia
4Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
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Lidimarie Trujillo Rodriguez
4Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
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Christopher R. Reisch
4Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
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Mary Ann Moran
1Dept. of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
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Abstract

Metabolite exchange within marine microbial communities transfers carbon and other major elements through global cycles and forms the basis of microbial interactions. Yet lack of gene annotations and concern about the quality of existing ones remain major impediments to revealing the metabolite-microbial network. We employed an arrayed mutant library of the marine bacterium Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3 to experimentally annotate substrates of organic compound transporter systems, using mutant growth and compound drawdown analyses to link transporters to their substrates. Mutant experiments verified substrates for thirteen R. pomeroyi transporters. Four were previously hypothesized based on gene expression data (taurine, glucose/xylose, isethionate, and cadaverine/putrescine/spermidine); five were previously hypothesized based on homology to experimentally annotated transporters in other bacteria (citrate, glycerol, N-acetylglucosamine, fumarate/malate/succinate, and dimethylsulfoniopropionate); and four had no previous annotations (thymidine, carnitine, cysteate, and 3-hydroxybutyrate transporter). These bring the total number of experimentally-verified organic carbon influx transporters to 17 of 126 in the R. pomeroyi genome. In a longitudinal study of a coastal phytoplankton bloom, expression patterns of the experimentally annotated transporters linked them to different stages of the bloom, and also led to the hypothesis that citrate and 3-hydroxybutyrate were among the most highly available bacterial substrates. Improved functional knowledge of these gatekeepers of organic carbon uptake is facilitating better characterization of the surface ocean metabolite network.

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Function and Importance of Marine Bacterial Transporters of Plankton Exometabolites
William F. Schroer, Hannah E. Kepner, Mario Uchimiya, Catalina Mejia, Lidimarie Trujillo Rodriguez, Christopher R. Reisch, Mary Ann Moran
bioRxiv 2023.01.19.524783; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.19.524783
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Function and Importance of Marine Bacterial Transporters of Plankton Exometabolites
William F. Schroer, Hannah E. Kepner, Mario Uchimiya, Catalina Mejia, Lidimarie Trujillo Rodriguez, Christopher R. Reisch, Mary Ann Moran
bioRxiv 2023.01.19.524783; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.19.524783

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