Diffusional Interactions among Marine Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton: Modelling H2O2 as a Case Study
Marine phytoplankton vary widely in size across taxa, and in cell suspension densities across habitats and growth states. Cell suspension density and total biovolume determine the bulk influence of a phytoplankton community upon its environment. Cell suspension density also determines the intercellu...
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| author | Omar, Naaman M. Prášil, Ondřej McCain, J. Scott P. Campbell, Douglas A. |
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| description | Marine phytoplankton vary widely in size across taxa, and in cell suspension densities across habitats and growth states. Cell suspension density and total biovolume determine the bulk influence of a phytoplankton community upon its environment. Cell suspension density also determines the intercellular spacings separating phytoplankton cells from each other, or from co-occurring bacterioplankton. Intercellular spacing then determines the mean diffusion paths for exchanges of solutes among co-occurring cells. Marine phytoplankton and bacterioplankton both produce and scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS), to maintain intracellular ROS homeostasis to support their cellular processes, while limiting damaging reactions. Among ROS, hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) has relatively low reactivity, long intracellular and extracellular lifetimes, and readily crosses cell membranes. Our objective was to quantify how cells can influence other cells via diffusional interactions, using H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> as a case study. To visualize and constrain potentials for cell-to-cell exchanges of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>, we simulated the decrease of [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] outwards from representative phytoplankton taxa maintaining internal [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] above representative seawater [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>]. [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] gradients outwards from static cell surfaces were dominated by volumetric dilution, with only a negligible influence from decay. The simulated [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] fell to background [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] within ~3.1 µm from a <i>Prochlorococcus</i> cell surface, but extended outwards 90 µm from a diatom cell surface. More rapid decays of other, less stable ROS, would lower these threshold distances. Bacterioplankton lowered simulated local [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] below background only out to 1.<sub>2</sub> µm from the surface of a static cell, even though bacterioplankton collectively act to influence seawater ROS. These small diffusional spheres around cells mean that direct cell-to-cell exchange of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> is unlikely in oligotrophic habits with widely spaced, small cells; moderate in eutrophic habits with shorter cell-to-cell spacing; but extensive within phytoplankton colonies. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1420372023-04-18T18:52:28Z Diffusional Interactions among Marine Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton: Modelling H2O2 as a Case Study Omar, Naaman M. Prášil, Ondřej McCain, J. Scott P. Campbell, Douglas A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology Marine phytoplankton vary widely in size across taxa, and in cell suspension densities across habitats and growth states. Cell suspension density and total biovolume determine the bulk influence of a phytoplankton community upon its environment. Cell suspension density also determines the intercellular spacings separating phytoplankton cells from each other, or from co-occurring bacterioplankton. Intercellular spacing then determines the mean diffusion paths for exchanges of solutes among co-occurring cells. Marine phytoplankton and bacterioplankton both produce and scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS), to maintain intracellular ROS homeostasis to support their cellular processes, while limiting damaging reactions. Among ROS, hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) has relatively low reactivity, long intracellular and extracellular lifetimes, and readily crosses cell membranes. Our objective was to quantify how cells can influence other cells via diffusional interactions, using H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> as a case study. To visualize and constrain potentials for cell-to-cell exchanges of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>, we simulated the decrease of [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] outwards from representative phytoplankton taxa maintaining internal [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] above representative seawater [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>]. [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] gradients outwards from static cell surfaces were dominated by volumetric dilution, with only a negligible influence from decay. The simulated [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] fell to background [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] within ~3.1 µm from a <i>Prochlorococcus</i> cell surface, but extended outwards 90 µm from a diatom cell surface. More rapid decays of other, less stable ROS, would lower these threshold distances. Bacterioplankton lowered simulated local [H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>] below background only out to 1.<sub>2</sub> µm from the surface of a static cell, even though bacterioplankton collectively act to influence seawater ROS. These small diffusional spheres around cells mean that direct cell-to-cell exchange of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> is unlikely in oligotrophic habits with widely spaced, small cells; moderate in eutrophic habits with shorter cell-to-cell spacing; but extensive within phytoplankton colonies. 2022-04-25T12:40:33Z 2022-04-25T12:40:33Z 2022-04-15 2022-04-21T21:03:38Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142037 Microorganisms 10 (4): 821 (2022) PUBLISHER_CC http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10040821 Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| spellingShingle | Omar, Naaman M. Prášil, Ondřej McCain, J. Scott P. Campbell, Douglas A. Diffusional Interactions among Marine Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton: Modelling H2O2 as a Case Study |
| title | Diffusional Interactions among Marine Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton: Modelling H2O2 as a Case Study |
| title_full | Diffusional Interactions among Marine Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton: Modelling H2O2 as a Case Study |
| title_fullStr | Diffusional Interactions among Marine Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton: Modelling H2O2 as a Case Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diffusional Interactions among Marine Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton: Modelling H2O2 as a Case Study |
| title_short | Diffusional Interactions among Marine Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton: Modelling H2O2 as a Case Study |
| title_sort | diffusional interactions among marine phytoplankton and bacterioplankton modelling h2o2 as a case study |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142037 |
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