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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 1999, p. 3810-3819, Vol. 65, No. 9
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Transformation of Sulfur Compounds by an Abundant Lineage of Marine Bacteria in the alpha -Subclass of the Class Proteobacteria

José M. González,1,* Ronald P. Kiene,2 and Mary Ann Moran1

Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602,1 and Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 366882

Received 14 April 1999/Accepted 23 June 1999

Members of a group of marine bacteria that is numerically important in coastal seawater and sediments were characterized with respect to their ability to transform organic and inorganic sulfur compounds. Fifteen strains representing the Roseobacter group (a phylogenetic cluster of marine bacteria in the alpha -subclass of the class Proteobacteria) were isolated from seawater, primarily from the southeastern United States. Although more than one-half of the isolates were obtained without any selection for sulfur metabolism, all of the isolates were able to degrade the sulfur-containing osmolyte dimethyl sulfoniopropionate (DMSP) with production of dimethyl sulfide (DMS). Five isolates also degraded DMSP with production of methanethiol, indicating that both cleavage and demethylation pathways for DMSP occurred in the same organism, which is unusual. Five isolates were able to reduce dimethyl sulfoxide to DMS, and several isolates also degraded DMS and methanethiol. Sulfite oxygenase activity and methanesulfonic acid oxygenase activity were also present in some of the isolates. The ability to incorporate the reduced sulfur in DMSP and methanethiol into cellular material was studied with one of the isolates. A group-specific 16S rRNA probe indicated that the relative abundance of uncultured bacteria in the Roseobacter group increased in seawater enriched with DMSP or DMS. Because this group typically accounts for >10% of the 16S ribosomal DNA pool in coastal seawater and sediments of the southern United States, clues about its potential biogeochemical role are of particular interest. Studies of culturable representatives suggested that the group could mediate a number of steps in the cycling of both organic and inorganic forms of sulfur in marine environments.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Phone: (706) 542-5900. Fax: (706) 542-5888. E-mail: gonzalez{at}arches.uga.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 1999, p. 3810-3819, Vol. 65, No. 9
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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