铁酸盐
甲烷厌氧氧化
环境化学
固氮酶
化学
固氮
稳定同位素探测
甲烷利用细菌
产甲烷
甲烷
氮气
微生物
细菌
生物
有机化学
吸附
遗传学
作者
Yu Li,Rong Jia,Shiqi Liu,Shuan Li,Shan Zhong,Guo-Hong Liu,Raymond Jianxiong Zeng,Christopher Rensing,Shungui Zhou
标识
DOI:10.1093/ismeco/ycae030
摘要
Abstract Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) by methanotrophic bacteria has been shown to play an important role in maintaining fertility. However, this process is still limited to aerobic methane oxidation with sufficient oxygen. It has remained unknown whether and how methanotrophic BNF proceeds in hypoxic environments. Herein, we incubated paddy soils with a ferrihydrite-containing mineral salt medium to enrich methanotrophic bacteria in the presence of methane (20%, v/v) under oxygen constraints (0.27%, v/v). The resulting microcosms showed that ferrihydrite-dependent aerobic methane oxidation significantly contributed (81%) to total BNF, increasing the 15N fixation rate by 13-fold from 0.02 to 0.28 μmol 15N2 (g dry weight soil) -1 d−1. BNF was reduced by 97% when ferrihydrite was omitted, demonstrating the involvement of ferrihydrite in methanotrophic BNF. DNA stable-isotope probing indicated that Methylocystis, Methylophilaceae, and Methylomicrobium were the dominant methanotrophs/methylotrophs that assimilated labeled isotopes (13C or 15N) into biomass. Metagenomic binning combined with electrochemical analysis suggested that Methylocystis and Methylophilaceae had the potential to perform methane-induced BNF and likely utilized riboflavin and c-type cytochromes as electron carriers for ferrihydrite reduction. It was concluded that ferrihydrite mediated methanotrophic BNF by methanotrophs/methylotrophs solely or in conjunction with iron-reducing bacteria. Overall, this study revealed a previously overlooked yet pronounced coupling of iron-dependent aerobic methane oxidation to BNF and improves our understanding of methanotrophic BNF in hypoxic zones.
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