Molecular methods resolve the bacterial composition of natural marine biofilms on galvanically coupled stainless steel cathodes

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• 作者：Athenia L. Oldham ; Mia K. Steinberg…
• 关键词：Marine biofilm ; Galvanic couples ; DNA ; seq ; 316 stainless steel ; Bacterial community ; Galvanic current ; 16S rRNA gene
• 刊名：Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：44
• 期：2
• 页码：167-180
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Microbiology; Biochemistry, general; Inorganic Chemistry; Genetic Engineering; Biotechnology; Bioinformatics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1476-5535
• 卷排序：44

文摘

Navy vessels consist of various metal alloys and biofilm accumulation at the metal surface is thought to play a role in influencing metal deterioration. To develop better strategies to monitor and control metallic biofilms, it is necessary to resolve the bacterial composition within the biofilm. This study aimed to determine if differences in electrochemical current could influence the composition of dominant bacteria in a metallic biofilm, and if so, determine the level of resolution using metagenomic amplicon sequencing. Current was generated by creating galvanic couples between cathodes made from stainless steel and anodes made from carbon steel, aluminum, or copper nickel and exposing them in the Delaware Bay. Stainless steel cathodes (SSCs) coupled to aluminum or carbon steel generated a higher mean current (0.39 mA) than that coupled to copper nickel (0.17 mA). Following 3 months of exposure, the bacterial composition of biofilms collected from the SSCs was determined and compared. Dominant bacterial taxa from the two higher current SSCs were different from that of the low-current SSC as determined by DGGE and verified by Illumina DNA-seq analysis. These results demonstrate that electrochemical current could influence the composition of dominant bacteria in metallic biofilms and that amplicon sequencing is sufficient to complement current methods used to study metallic biofilms in marine environments.