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ToolsSchwartz-Narbonne, Rachel, Schaeffer, Philippe, Hopmans, Ellen C., Schenesse, Margot, Charlton, E. Alex, Jones, D. Martin, Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S., Farhan Ul Haque, Muhammad, Jetten, Mike S. M., Lengger, Sabine K., Murrell, J. Colin, Normand, Philippe, Nuijten, Guylaine H. l., Talbot, Helen M. and Rush, Darci (2020) A unique bacteriohopanetetrol stereoisomer of marine anammox. Organic Geochemistry, 143. ISSN 0146-6380
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Abstract
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is a major process of bioavailable nitrogen removal from marine systems. Previously, a bacteriohopanetetrol (BHT) isomer, with unknown stereochemistry, eluting later than BHT when examined by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), was detected in ‘Ca. Scalindua profunda’ and proposed as a biomarker for anammox in marine paleo-environments. However, the utility of this BHT isomer as an anammox biomarker is hindered by the fact that four other, non-anammox, bacteria are also known to produce a late-eluting BHT stereoisomer. The stereochemistry in Acetobacter pasteurianus, Komagataeibacter xylinus and Frankia sp. was known to be 17β, 21β(H), 22R, 32R, 33R, 34R (BHT-34R). The stereochemistry of the late-eluting BHT in Methylocella palustris was unknown. To determine if marine anammox bacteria produce a unique BHT isomer, we studied the BHT distributions and stereochemistry of known BHT isomer producers and of previously unscreened marine (‘Ca. Scalindua brodeae’) and freshwater (‘Ca. Brocadia spp.’) anammox bacteria, using HPLC and gas chromatographiy (GC) analysis of acetylated BHTs and ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC)-high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) analysis of non-acetylated BHTs. The 34R stereochemistry was confirmed for the BHT isomers in Ca. Brocadia sp. and Methylocella palustris. However, ‘Ca. Scalindua spp.’ synthesises a stereochemically distinct BHT isomer, with still unconfirmed stereochemistry (BHT-x). Only GC analysis of acetylated BHT and UHPLC analysis of non-acetylated BHT distinguished between late-eluting BHT isomers. Acetylated BHT-x and BHT-34R co-elute when examined by HPLC. As BHT-x is currently only known to be produced by ‘Ca. Scalindua spp.’, it may be a biomarker for marine anammox.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | anammox,bacteriohopanepolyols,bacteriohopanetetrols,biomarkers,stereoisomers,geochemistry and petrology,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1906 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2020 08:29 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2023 00:25 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74329 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.103994 |
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