High activity and low temperature optima of extracellular enzymes in Arctic sediments: implications for carbon cycling by heterotrophic microbial communities ...
ABSTRACT: The rate of the initial step in microbial remineralization of organic carbon, extracellular enzymatic hydrolysis, was investigated as a function of temperature in permanently cold sediments from 2 fjords on the west coast of Svalbard (Arctic Ocean). We used 4 structurally distinct polysacc...
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ftdatacite:10.17615/9kte-we96 2024-03-31T07:50:44+00:00 High activity and low temperature optima of extracellular enzymes in Arctic sediments: implications for carbon cycling by heterotrophic microbial communities ... Arnosti, C. Jørgensen, B. B. 2003 https://dx.doi.org/10.17615/9kte-we96 https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/articles/9s161g856 en eng The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Text article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2003 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17615/9kte-we96 2024-03-04T11:41:33Z ABSTRACT: The rate of the initial step in microbial remineralization of organic carbon, extracellular enzymatic hydrolysis, was investigated as a function of temperature in permanently cold sediments from 2 fjords on the west coast of Svalbard (Arctic Ocean). We used 4 structurally distinct polysaccharides (chondroitin sulfate, fucoidan, xylan and pullulan) to determine the temperature-activity responses of hydrolysis of a related class of compounds. All 4 enzyme activities showed similarly low temperature optima in the range of 15 to 18°C. These temperature optima are considerably lower than most previous reports of temperature optima for enzyme activities in marine sediments. At 0°C, close to the in situ temperature, these enzyme activities achieved 13 to 38% of their rates at optimum temperatures. In one experiment, sulfate reduction rates were measured in parallel with extracellular enzymatic hydrolysis in order to determine the relative temperature responses of the initial and terminal steps in ... Text Arctic Arctic Ocean Svalbard DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Arctic Ocean Svalbard |
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ABSTRACT: The rate of the initial step in microbial remineralization of organic carbon, extracellular enzymatic hydrolysis, was investigated as a function of temperature in permanently cold sediments from 2 fjords on the west coast of Svalbard (Arctic Ocean). We used 4 structurally distinct polysaccharides (chondroitin sulfate, fucoidan, xylan and pullulan) to determine the temperature-activity responses of hydrolysis of a related class of compounds. All 4 enzyme activities showed similarly low temperature optima in the range of 15 to 18°C. These temperature optima are considerably lower than most previous reports of temperature optima for enzyme activities in marine sediments. At 0°C, close to the in situ temperature, these enzyme activities achieved 13 to 38% of their rates at optimum temperatures. In one experiment, sulfate reduction rates were measured in parallel with extracellular enzymatic hydrolysis in order to determine the relative temperature responses of the initial and terminal steps in ... |
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High activity and low temperature optima of extracellular enzymes in Arctic sediments: implications for carbon cycling by heterotrophic microbial communities ... |
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High activity and low temperature optima of extracellular enzymes in Arctic sediments: implications for carbon cycling by heterotrophic microbial communities ... |
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High activity and low temperature optima of extracellular enzymes in Arctic sediments: implications for carbon cycling by heterotrophic microbial communities ... |
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