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Molecular Hydrogen, a Neglected Key Driver of Soil Biogeochemical Processes

Sarah Piché-Choquette, Philippe Constant
Alfons J. M. Stams, Editor
Sarah Piché-Choquette
aINRS—Institut Armand-Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada
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DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02418-18
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    Consensus tree of 25 [Fe]-hydrogenase sequences, with an alignment length of 389 amino acids. Protein sequences were imported from a study by Greening et al. (10), which included nonredundant putative hydrogenase catalytic subunits from cultured and environmental metagenomes sourced from NCBI RefSeq and Joint Genome Institute, Microbial Dark Matter (JGI, MDM) databases. More details are found in the article by Greening et al. (10). See Fig. S1 for complete taxa names and a more detailed phylogenetic tree. Hydrogenase amino acid sequences were aligned with MUSCLE (198) and clustered into phylogenetic trees using the following algorithms: maximum likelihood (Jones-Taylor-Thornton substitution model) using RAxML version 8.2.10 (199), maximum parsimony using PAUP 4.0 (200), and neighbor-joining (Jones-Taylor-Thornton substitution model) using BIONJ (201). CIPRES Science Gateway version 3.3 (202) servers were used for phylogenetic trees construction. Tree branches supported by over 50% of the 1,000 bootstrap replications were represented in the final consensus tree. The consensus tree was built using the “ape” package (203) in R (204). Branch colors represent taxonomic classification at the class level, since all 25 sequences are part of the Euryarchaeota phylum, while pie charts show the relative abundance of each class within Euryarchaeota.

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    Consensus tree of 1,217 [FeFe]-hydrogenase sequences, with an alignment length of 3,525 amino acids, computed as described in Fig. 1. See Fig. S2 for complete names of taxa and a more detailed phylogenetic tree. Branch colors represent taxonomic classification at the phylum level, while pie charts show the relative abundance of each phylum within hydrogenase subgroups (except for Eukaryota being a superkingdom). Dashed brackets show which tree branches belong to a specific hydrogenases group. Numbers between parentheses depict the amount of sequences within that group.

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    Consensus tree of 1,988 [NiFe]-hydrogenases sequences, with an alignment length of 1,850 amino acids, computed as described in Fig. 1. See Fig. S3 for complete names of taxa and a more detailed phylogenetic tree. Branch colors represent taxonomic classification at the phylum level, while pie charts show the relative abundance of each phylum within hydrogenase subgroups (except for Eukaryota being a superkingdom). Dashed brackets show which tree branches belong to a specific hydrogenases group. Numbers between parentheses depict the amount of sequences within that group.

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    Juxtaposition of the carbon cycle and main H2-oxidizing functional groups. HOM contribute to all key steps of the C cycle. All numbers below microbial functional groups consist of reactions performed by these groups. While the oxidation of CH4 can be performed in anoxic ecosystems, the anaerobic oxidation of CH4 (AOM) is not performed by HOM, only by their syntrophic bacterial partners (i.e., sulfate- or nitrate-reducing bacteria). H2-utilizing processes occur in a thermodynamically favored fashion according to available substrates, where O2 is used first, followed by nitrate, iron oxides, sulfate, and carbon dioxide, as shown in the gradient at the bottom of the figure. The only key C-cycling process missing in oxic ecosystems is methanogenesis, yet residual CH4 diffuses from anoxic to oxic layers in various ecosystems. An exception to this is that nonhydrogenotrophic methanogens are also active in oxic layers (138), thus providing CH4 directly to oxic ecosystems.

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      Complete consensus phylogenetic trees of 25 [Fe]-hydrogenase sequences (Fig. S1), 1,217 [FeFe]-hydrogenase sequences (Fig. S2), and 1,988 [NiFe]-hydrogenase sequences (Fig. S3).

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Molecular Hydrogen, a Neglected Key Driver of Soil Biogeochemical Processes
Sarah Piché-Choquette, Philippe Constant
Applied and Environmental Microbiology Mar 2019, 85 (6) e02418-18; DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02418-18

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Molecular Hydrogen, a Neglected Key Driver of Soil Biogeochemical Processes
Sarah Piché-Choquette, Philippe Constant
Applied and Environmental Microbiology Mar 2019, 85 (6) e02418-18; DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02418-18
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    • ABSTRACT
    • INTRODUCTION
    • HYDROGENASE CLASSIFICATION: AN OVERVIEW
    • OVERVIEW OF THE H2 BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE
    • JUXTAPOSITION OF THE H2 AND C BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES IN SOILS ALONG THEORETICAL O2 GRADIENTS
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KEYWORDS

H2 oxidation
anaerobic processes
biogeochemical processes
carbon cycle
environmental microbiology
hydrogen
soil

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