| Literature DB >> 27303734 |
Michael W Henson1, David M Pitre1, Jessica Lee Weckhorst1, V Celeste Lanclos1, Austen T Webber1, J Cameron Thrash1.
Abstract
High-throughput cultivation studies have been successful at bringing numerous important marine bacterioplankton lineages into culture, yet these frequently utilize natural seawater media that can hamper portability, reproducibility, and downstream characterization efforts. Here we report the results of seven experiments with a set of newly developed artificial seawater media and evaluation of cultivation success via comparison with community sequencing data from the inocula. Eighty-two new isolates represent highly important marine clades, including SAR116, OM60/NOR5, SAR92, Roseobacter, and SAR11. For many, isolation with an artificial seawater medium is unprecedented, and several organisms are also the first of their type from the Gulf of Mexico. Community analysis revealed that many isolates were among the 20 most abundant organisms in their source inoculum. This method will expand the accessibility of bacterioplankton cultivation experiments and improve repeatability by avoiding normal compositional changes in natural seawater. IMPORTANCE The difficulty in cultivating many microbial taxa vexes researchers intent on understanding the contributions of these organisms to natural systems, particularly when these organisms are numerically abundant, and many cultivation attempts recover only rare taxa. Efforts to improve this conundrum with marine bacterioplankton have been successful with natural seawater media, but that approach suffers from a number of drawbacks and there have been no comparable artificial alternatives created in the laboratory. This work demonstrates that a newly developed suite of artificial-seawater media can successfully cultivate many of the most abundant taxa from seawater samples and many taxa previously only cultivated with natural-seawater media. This methodology therefore significantly simplifies efforts to cultivate bacterioplankton and greatly improves our ability to perform physiological characterization of cultures postisolation.Entities:
Keywords: Gulf of Mexico; SAR11; artificial seawater; coastal microbiology; high-throughput culturing; marine microbiology
Year: 2016 PMID: 27303734 PMCID: PMC4894692 DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00028-16
Source DB: PubMed Journal: mSphere ISSN: 2379-5042 Impact factor: 4.389
Comparison of the compositions of natural seawater, marine broth 2216, and JW artificial seawater
| Element | Seawater | Marine | JW1 | JW2 | JW3 | JW4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | 19 | 19.8 | 19.2 | 12.8 | 6.4 | 3.2 |
| Sodium | 10.5 | 8.8 | 11 | 7.4 | 3.8 | 2 |
| Magnesium | 1.35 | 2.2 | 1.27 | 0.85 | 0.42 | 0.211 |
| Sulfur | 885 | 0.72 | 0.96 | 0.64 | 0.32 | 0.16 |
| Calcium | 0.4 | 0.65 | 0.41 | 0.28 | 0.14 | 0.07 |
| Potassium | 0.38 | 0.32 | 0.39 | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0.07 |
| Bromine | 0.65 | 0.054 | 0.063 | 0.042 | 0.022 | 0.01 |
| Carbon | 0.028 | 4.78 | 0.0008 | 0.0008 | 0.0008 | 0.0008 |
| Boron | 0.0046 | 0.0047 | 0.0046 | 0.003 | 0.0015 | 0.00075 |
| Silicon | 0.003 | 0.00085 | ||||
| Fluorine | 0.0013 | 0.00109 | 0.001 | 0.0009 | 0.00046 | 0.00023 |
| Nitrogen | 0.0005 | 0.72 | 0.0096 | 0.0096 | 0.0096 | 0.0096 |
| Phosphorus | 0.0007 | 0.045 | 0.0016 | 0.0016 | 0.0015 | 0.0008 |
| Iron | 0.00001 | 0.0226 | 0.000006 | 0.000006 | 0.000006 | 0.000006 |
All values are in grams per liter. The data in the seawater and marine broth 2216 columns are from reference 14.
C as mixed amino acids, fatty acids, carboxylic acids, and sugars (17, 18).
N as NO3−, NO2−, NH4+, urea, and amino acids (17, 18). Differences between JW media and seawater in some element values are related to the geochemical nature of the Gulf of Mexico compared to the Atlantic subtropical gyre.
JW1 medium components
| Component | Concn |
|---|---|
| Basic components | |
| Cl | 0.54 M |
| Na | 0.48 M |
| Mg | 52 mM |
| S (SO42−) | 30 mM |
| Ca | 10 mM |
| K | 10 mM |
| Br | 0.8 mM |
| B | 0.42 mM |
| Sr | 0.09 mM |
| F | 0.055 mM |
| Fe | 101 nM |
| P (PO43−) | 51 µM |
| HCO3− | 10 mM |
| Total inorganic N | 45 µM |
| Total organic N | 23 µM |
| Total organic C | 71 µM |
| Trace metals | |
| Mn | 9 nM |
| Zn | 1 nM |
| Co | 0.5 nM |
| Mo | 0.3 nM |
| Se | 1 nM |
| Ni | 1 nM |
| Vitamins | |
| B1/thiamine | 500 nM |
| B2/riboflavin | 0.7 nM |
| B3/niacin | 800 nM |
| B5/pantothenate | 425 nM |
| B6/pyridoxine | 500 nM |
| B7/biotin | 4 nM |
| B9/folic acid | 4 nM |
| B12 | 0.7 nM |
| | 500 nM |
| 4-Aminobenzoic acid | 60 nM |
As NO3−, NO2−, and NH4+.
As urea and amino acids.
As amino acids, carboxylic acids, sugars, and fatty acids.
FIG 1 Locations of the seven experiments along the coast of the northern Gulf of Mexico (map data copyright 2016 Google; imagery copyright 2016 TerraMetrics).
Initial cultivability statistics and salinity values for seven HTC experiments
| Site | Date | No. of wells: | P | X | V | % | Medium | Medium | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inoculated | Positive | |||||||||
| CJ | 9/12/14 | 460 | 15 | 0.033 | 1.27 | 0.026 | 2.6 | JWAMPFe | 34.8 | 24.6 |
| ARD | 11/24/14 | 460 | 1 | 0.002 | 1.5 | 0.001 | 0.1 | JW1 | 34.8 | 1.7 |
| JLB | 1/9/15 | 460 | 61 | 0.133 | 1.96 | 0.073 | 7.3 | JW1 | 34.8 | 26 |
| FWC | 3/21/15 | 460 | 301 | 0.654 | 2 | 0.531 | 53.1 | JW4 | 5.8 | 5.4 |
| LB | 6/9/15 | 460 | 0 | 0 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | JW4 | 5.8 | 1.4 |
| Tbon | 7/24/15 | 460 | 41 | 0.089 | 1.56 | 0.06 | 6 | JW3 | 11.6 | 14.2 |
| CJ2 | 10/1/15 | 460 | 61 | 0.133 | 2 | 0.071 | 7.1 | JW2 | 23.2 | 22.2 |
According to V = −ln(1 − p)/X, where p is the number of positive wells divided by the number of inoculated wells and X is the number cells inoculated per well (10). Percent cultivability = V × 100.
Sample was counted by microscopy and believed to have underestimated the total number of cells, resulting in a higher percent cultivability.
FIG 2 Positions of LSUCC isolates relative to matching OTUs within the top 60 ranks for the first six experiments. OTUs are ordered by decreasing relative abundance, according to the average of duplicate samples. Experiments are in the following order according to Table 2: CJ (A), ARD (B), JLB (C), FWC (D), LB (E), and Tbon (F). The LSUCC isolates with the best BLAST hits to the representative sequence for a given OTU are in bold. Stars indicate OTUs with cultured representatives from other LSUCC experiments. Isolates with matching OTUs with ranks lower than 60 are detailed in Table S1 in the supplemental material.
FIG 3 Positions of LSUCC isolates relative to matching OTUs within the top 60 ranks for the most successful experiment, CJ2, which is enlarged to allow for OTU taxonomy labels. OTUs are ordered by decreasing relative abundance, according to the average of duplicate samples. LSUCC isolates with best blast hits to the representative sequence for a given OTU are in bold. Stars indicate OTUs with cultured representatives from other LSUCC experiments. Isolates with matching OTUs with ranks lower than 60 are detailed in Table S1 in the supplemental material.