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Proteomic and biogeochemical perspectives on cyanobacteria nutrient acquisition – Part 1: Zonal gradients in phosphorus and nitrogen acquisition and stress revealed by metaproteomes of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus
Claire Mahaffey
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Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
Noelle A. Held
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Department of Biological Sciences, Marine & Environmental Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Korinne Kunde
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Clare Davis
Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
Current address: Springer Nature, London, UK
Neil Wyatt
Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
E. Matthew R. McIlvin
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA
E. Malcolm S. Woodward
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, UK
Lewis Wrightson
Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
Alessandro Tagliabue
Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
Maeve C. Lohan
Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Mak Saito
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA
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Primary production helps regulate climate and is governed by nutrient availability. We used biogeochemical states and rates with proteomics to study how resource availability shapes metabolism in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. Both picocyanobacteria were phosphorus stressed in the western Atlantic, but Prochlorococcus was nitrogen, iron, zinc and cobalamin stressed in the east. Our findings provide species and ecotype level insights into oceanic nutrient acquisition and metabolism.
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