Mechanistic strategies of microbial communities regulating lignocellulose deconstruction in a UK salt marsh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Salt marshes are major natural repositories of sequestered organic carbon with high burial rates of organic matter, produced by highly productive native flora. Accumulated carbon predominantly exists as lignocellulose which is metabolised by communities of functionally diverse microbes. However, the organisms that orchestrate this process and the enzymatic mechanisms employed that regulate the accumulation, composition and permanence of this carbon stock are not yet known. We applied meta-exo-proteome proteomics and 16S rRNA gene profiling to study lignocellulose decomposition in situ within the surface level sediments of a natural established UK salt marsh.

Results

Our studies revealed a community dominated by Gammaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Deltaproteobac

SUBMITTER: Leadbeater DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7890819 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature