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Metatranscriptomic exploration of microbial functioning in clouds

Pierre Amato
Muriel Joly
Benjamin Penaud
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Anne-Marie Delort

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Clouds constitute the uppermost layer of the biosphere. they host diverse communities whose functioning remains obscure, although biological activity potentially participates to atmospheric chemical and physical processes. In order to gain information on the metabolic functioning of microbial communities in clouds, we conducted coordinated metagenomics/metatranscriptomics profiling of cloud water microbial communities. samples were collected from a high altitude atmospheric station in France and examined for biological content after untargeted amplification of nucleic acids. Living microorganisms, essentially bacteria, maintained transcriptional and translational activities and expressed many known complementary physiological responses intended to fight oxidants, osmotic variations and cold. These included activities of oxidant detoxification and regulation, synthesis of osmoprotectants/cryoprotectants, modifications of membranes, iron uptake. Consistently these energy-demanding processes were fueled by central metabolic routes involved in oxidative stress response and redox homeostasis management, such as pentose phosphate and glyoxylate pathways. elevated binding and transmembrane ion transports demonstrated important interactions between cells and their cloud droplet chemical environments. In addition, polysaccharides, potentially beneficial for survival like exopolysaccharides, biosurfactants and adhesins, were synthesized. our results support a biological influence on cloud physical and chemical processes, acting notably on the oxidant capacity, iron speciation and availability, amino-acids distribution and carbon and nitrogen fates.
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hal-02098642 , version 1 (06-11-2020)

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Pierre Amato, Ludovic Besaury, Muriel Joly, Benjamin Penaud, Laurent Deguillaume, et al.. Metatranscriptomic exploration of microbial functioning in clouds. Scientific Reports, 2019, 9 (1), pp.4383. ⟨10.1038/s41598-019-41032-4⟩. ⟨hal-02098642⟩
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