Spatio-temporal variations in chemical pollutants found among urban deposits match changes in thiopurine S-methyltransferase-harboring bacteria tracked by the tpm metabarcoding approach - LEM - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne Access content directly
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Spatio-temporal variations in chemical pollutants found among urban deposits match changes in thiopurine S-methyltransferase-harboring bacteria tracked by the tpm metabarcoding approach

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The bTPMT (bacterial thiopurine S-methyltransferase), encoded by the tpm gene, can detoxify metalloid-containing oxyanions and xenobiotics. The hypothesis of significant relationships between tpm distribution patterns and chemical pollutants found in urban deposits was investigated. The tpm gene was found conserved among eight bacterial phyla with no sign of horizontal gene transfers but a predominance among gamma proteobacteria. A DNA metabarcoding approach was designed for tracking tpm-harboring bacteria among polluted urban deposits and sediments recovered for more than six years in a detention basin (DB). This DB recovers runoff waters and sediments from a zone of high commercial activities. The PCR products from DB samples led to more than 540,000 tpm reads after DADA2 or MOTHUR bio-informatic manipulations that were allocated to more than 88 and less than 634 sequence variants per sample. The tpm community patterns were significantly different between the recent urban deposits and those that had accumulated for more than 2 years in the DB, and between those of the DB surface and the DB settling pit. These groups of samples had distinct mixture of priority pollutants. Significant relationships between tpm ordination patterns, sediment accumulation time periods and location, and concentrations in PAH, chlorpyrifos, and 4-nonylphenols (NP) were observed. These correlations matched the higher occurrences of, among others, Aeromonas, Pseudomonas, and Xanthomonas tpm-harboring bacteria in recent urban DB deposits more contaminated with chrysene and alkylphenol ethoxylates. Highly significant drops in tpm reads allocated to Aeromonas species were recorded in the oldest DB sediments accumulating naphthalene and metallic pollutants. Degraders of urban pollutants such as P. aeruginosa and P. putida showed conserved distribution patterns over time but P. syringae phytopathogens were more abundant in the oldest sediments. TPMT-harboring bacteria can be used to assess the incidence of high risk priority pollutants on environmental systems.
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hal-03445972 , version 1 (13-02-2023)

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Axel Aigle, Emilie Bourgeois, Laurence Marjolet, Sabine Houot, Dominique Patureau, et al.. Spatio-temporal variations in chemical pollutants found among urban deposits match changes in thiopurine S-methyltransferase-harboring bacteria tracked by the tpm metabarcoding approach. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 767, pp.145425. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145425⟩. ⟨hal-03445972⟩
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