FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome BT AF Amano, Chie Zhao, Zihao Sintes, Eva Reinthaler, Thomas Stefanschitz, Julia Kisadur, Murat Utsumi, Motoo Herndl, Gerhard J. AS 1:1;2:1;3:1,2;4:1;5:1;6:1;7:3,4;8:1,5,6; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:; C1 Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology Unit, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Instituto Español de Oceanografía-CSIC, Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan NIOZ, Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Utrecht University, Texel, The Netherlands Vienna Metabolomics & Proteomics Center, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria C2 UNIV VIENNA, AUSTRIA IEO CSIC, SPAIN UNIV TSUKUBA, JAPAN UNIV TSUKUBA, JAPAN INST SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ), NETHERLANDS UNIV VIENNA, AUSTRIA IF 18.3 TC 10 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00808/91962/97913.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00808/91962/97914.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00808/91962/97915.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00808/91962/97916.csv https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00808/91962/97917.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00808/91962/97918.jpg https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00808/91962/97919.csv LA English DT Article CR MOBYDICK-THEMISTO BO Marion Dufresne AB Deep-sea microbial communities are exposed to high-pressure conditions, which has a variable impact on prokaryotes depending on whether they are piezophilic (that is, pressure-loving), piezotolerant or piezosensitive. While it has been suggested that elevated pressures lead to higher community-level metabolic rates, the response of these deep-sea microbial communities to the high-pressure conditions of the deep sea is poorly understood. Based on microbial activity measurements in the major oceanic basins using an in situ microbial incubator, we show that the bulk heterotrophic activity of prokaryotic communities becomes increasingly inhibited at higher hydrostatic pressure. At 4,000 m depth, the bulk heterotrophic prokaryotic activity under in situ hydrostatic pressure was about one-third of that measured in the same community at atmospheric pressure conditions. In the bathypelagic zone—between 1,000 and 4,000 m depth—~85% of the prokaryotic community was piezotolerant and ~5% of the prokaryotic community was piezophilic. Despite piezosensitive-like prokaryotes comprising only ~10% (mainly members of Bacteroidetes, Alteromonas) of the deep-sea prokaryotic community, the more than 100-fold metabolic activity increase of these piezosensitive prokaryotes upon depressurization leads to high apparent bulk metabolic activity. Overall, the heterotrophic prokaryotic activity in the deep sea is likely to be substantially lower than hitherto assumed, with major impacts on the oceanic carbon cycling. PY 2022 PD DEC SO Nature Geoscience SN 1752-0894 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 15 IS 12 UT 000889417500002 BP 1041 EP 1047 DI 10.1038/s41561-022-01081-3 ID 91962 ER EF