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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2003, p. 1299-1304, Vol. 69, No. 2
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.1299-1304.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

High Rate of Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Compounds by Prochlorococcus Cyanobacteria as a Key to Their Dominance in Oligotrophic Oceanic Waters

Mikhail V. Zubkov,1* Bernhard M. Fuchs,2 Glen A. Tarran,3 Peter H. Burkill,1 and Rudolf Amann2

Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton SO14 3ZH,1 Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth PL1 3DH, United Kingdom,3 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, D-28359 Bremen, Germany2

Received 2 July 2002/ Accepted 13 November 2002

Direct evidence that marine cyanobacteria take up organic nitrogen compounds in situ at high rates is reported. About 33% of the total bacterioplankton turnover of amino acids, determined with a representative [35S]methionine precursor and flow sorting, can be assigned to Prochlorococcus spp. and 3% can be assigned to Synechococcus spp. in the oligotrophic and mesotrophic parts of the Arabian Sea, respectively. This finding may provide a mechanism for Prochlorococcus' competitive dominance over both strictly autotrophic algae and other bacteria in oligotrophic regions sustained by nutrient remineralization via a microbial loop.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: George Deacon Division for Ocean Processes, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 (0)2380 596335. Fax: 44 (0)2380 596247. E-mail: mvz{at}soc.soton.ac.uk.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2003, p. 1299-1304, Vol. 69, No. 2
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.1299-1304.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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