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Article Dans Une Revue Atmospheric environment Année : 2015

Survival of microbial isolates from clouds toward simulated atmospheric stress factors.

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In the atmosphere, airborne microbial cells are exposed to conditions that are thought to affect their survival. Here, we investigated the survival of 5 microorganisms among the most represented in the cultivable community of clouds (4 bacteria affiliated to Pseudomonas, Sphingomonas and Arthrobacter and 1 yeast of Dioszegia) after exposition to different atmospheric factors generally considered stressful for cells: artificial solar light (10 h), oxidant (hydrogen peroxide: 0–1 mM for 90 min), osmotic shocks (0.1–2.5 M NaCl) and freeze-thaw cycles (6 cycles of 5 °C/-40 °C). Each condition was applied separately to cell suspensions, and survival rates were examined by culture. Survival was highly strain and stress dependent, with no relationship with pigmentation or ice nucleation activity. In all strains, solar light had no or mitigated influence, and exposition to H2O2 at the concentration measured in cloud water only slightly impacted viability (>70% of the cells survived). The strain Sphingomonas sp. was particularly impacted by osmotic shocks while repeated freeze-thaw was particularly damaging for Arthrobacter and Pseudomonas species. Overall, our results tend to indicate that in the atmosphere, the most stringent selection factors on living organisms are probably freeze-thaw and condensation/evaporation (osmotic shocks) cycles, whereas the impacts of oxidants and of solar light are limited.

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Chimie
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hal-01206712 , version 1 (29-09-2015)

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Muriel Joly, Pierre Amato, Martine Sancelme, Virginie Vinatier, Magali Abrantes, et al.. Survival of microbial isolates from clouds toward simulated atmospheric stress factors.. Atmospheric environment, 2015, 117, pp.92-98. ⟨10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.07.009⟩. ⟨hal-01206712⟩
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