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Methylotrophs and methylotroph populations for chloromethane degradation

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Chloromethane is a halogenated volatile organic compound, produced in large quantities by terrestrial vegetation. After its release to the troposphere and transport to the stratosphere, its photolysis contributes to the degradation of stratospheric ozone. A better knowledge of chloromethane sources (pro-duction) and sinks (degradation) is a prerequisite to estimate its atmospheric budget in the context of global warming. The degradation of chloromethane by methylotrophic communities in terrestrial environments is a major underestimated chloromethane sink. Methylotrophs isolated from soils, marine environments and more recently from the phyllosphere have been grown under laboratory conditions using chloromethane as the sole carbon source. In addition to anaerobes that degrade chloromethane, the majority of cultivated strains were isolated in aerobiosis for their ability to use chloromethane as sole carbon and energy source. Among those, the Proteobacterium Methylobacterium (recently reclassified as Methylorubrum) harbours the only characterized 'chloromethane utilization' (cmu) pathway, so far. This pathway may not be representative of chloromethane-utilizing populations in the environment as cmu genes are rare in metagenomes. Recently, combined 'omics' biological approaches with chloromethane carbon and hydrogen stable isotope fractionation measurements in microcosms, indicated that microorganisms in soils and the phyl-losphere (plant aerial parts) represent major sinks of chloromethane in contrast to more recently recognized microbe-inhabited environments, such as clouds. Cultivated chloromethane-degraders lacking cmu genes display a singular isotope frac-tionation signature of chloromethane. Moreover, 13 CH 3 Cl labelling of active methylotrophic communities by stable isotope probing in soils identify taxa that differ from those known for chloromethane degradation. These observations suggest that new biomarkers for detecting active microbial chlo-romethane-utilizers in the environment are needed to assess the contribution of microorganisms to the global chloromethane cycle.
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hal-02350630 , version 1 (06-11-2020)

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Françoise Bringel, Ludovic Besaury, Pierre Amato, Eileen Kröber, Steffen Kolb, et al.. Methylotrophs and methylotroph populations for chloromethane degradation. Ludmila Chistoserdova. Methylotrophs and methylotroph communities, Caister Academic Press, pp.149-172, 2019, 978-1-912530-19-9. ⟨10.21775/cimb.033.149⟩. ⟨hal-02350630⟩
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