Effects of RuBisCO and CO2 concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation

被引:5
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作者
Garcia, Amanda K. [1 ]
Kedzior, Mateusz [1 ]
Taton, Arnaud [2 ]
Li, Meng [3 ]
Young, Jodi N. [3 ]
Kacar, Betul [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Bacteriol, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Diego, Div Biol Sci, La Jolla, CA USA
[3] Univ Washington, Sch Oceanog, Seattle, WA USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
biosignatures; carbon fixation; carbon isotope fractionation; cyanobacteria; RuBisCO; SUBSTRATE-SPECIFICITY; MARINE-PHYTOPLANKTON; CIRCADIAN-RHYTHMS; ABUNDANT PROTEIN; ATMOSPHERIC CO2; EVOLUTION; C-13; DISCRIMINATION; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;
D O I
10.1111/gbi.12543
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Carbon isotope biosignatures preserved in the Precambrian geologic record are primarily interpreted to reflect ancient cyanobacterial carbon fixation catalyzed by Form I RuBisCO enzymes. The average range of isotopic biosignatures generally follows that produced by extant cyanobacteria. However, this observation is difficult to reconcile with several environmental (e.g., temperature, pH, and CO2 concentrations), molecular, and physiological factors that likely would have differed during the Precambrian and can produce fractionation variability in contemporary organisms that meets or exceeds that observed in the geologic record. To test a specific range of genetic and environmental factors that may impact ancient carbon isotope biosignatures, we engineered a mutant strain of the model cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 that overexpresses RuBisCO across varying atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We hypothesized that changes in RuBisCO expression would impact the net rates of intracellular CO2 fixation versus CO2 supply, and thus whole-cell carbon isotope discrimination. In particular, we investigated the impacts of RuBisCO overexpression under changing CO2 concentrations on both carbon isotope biosignatures and cyanobacterial physiology, including cell growth and oxygen evolution rates. We found that an increased pool of active RuBisCO does not significantly affect the C-13/C-12 isotopic discrimination (epsilon(p)) at all tested CO2 concentrations, yielding epsilon(p) of approximate to 23 parts per thousand for both wild-type and mutant strains at elevated CO2. We therefore suggest that expected variation in cyanobacterial RuBisCO expression patterns should not confound carbon isotope biosignature interpretation. A deeper understanding of environmental, evolutionary, and intracellular factors that impact cyanobacterial physiology and isotope discrimination is crucial for reconciling microbially driven carbon biosignatures with those preserved in the geologic record.
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页码:390 / 403
页数:14
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