Southern Ocean Experimental Metatranscriptome to Investigate Micronutrient Colimitation

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Description

Metatranscriptome dataset (targeting all mRNA) from Southern Ocean sea water samples (1 control, 3 treatments, 3 replicates per treatment), near the ice edge at McMurdo Sound (Antarctica). All samples were incubated 24h at 0°C, ~45 μmol photons m-2 s-1 of constant light. Treatments existed of: 1) addition of 1 nM FeCl3; 2) addition of 200 pM cyanocobalamin; or 3) addition of 200 pM cyanocobalamin and 1 nM FeCl3.

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Bertrand E, McCrow J, Moustafa A, Zheng H, McQuaid J, Delmont T, Post A, Sipler R, Spackeen J, Xu K, Bronk D, Hutchins D, Allen A (2019): Southern Ocean Experimental Metatranscriptome to Investigate Micronutrient Colimitation. v1.0. SCAR - Microbial Antarctic Resource System. Dataset/Metadata. http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=southern_ocean_experimental_metatranscriptome&v=1.0

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Contacts

Erin Bertrand
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Assistant professor
J. Craig Venter Institute
La Jolla
US
John McCrow
  • Originator
Researcher
J. Craig Venter Institute
La Jolla
US
Ahmed Moustafa
  • Originator
Associate professor
J. Craig Venter Institute
La Jolla
US
Hong Zheng
  • Originator
Research associate
J. Craig Venter Institute
La Jolla
US
Jeffrey McQuaid
  • Originator
PhD student
J. Craig Venter Institute
La Jolla
US
Tom Delmont
  • Originator
Post doctoral researcher
josephine Bay Paul Center
Woods Hole
US
Anton Post
  • Originator
Senior scientist
University of Rhode Island
Narragansett
US
Rachel Sipler
  • Originator
Research scientist
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Gloucester Point
US
Jenna Spackeen
  • Originator
Researcher
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Gloucester Point
US
Kai Xu
  • Originator
Researcher
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
US
Deborah Bronk
  • Originator
Researcher
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Gloucester Point
US
David Hutchins
  • Originator
Professor
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
US
Andrew Allen
  • Originator
Professor
J. Craig Venter Institute
La Jolla
US
Maxime Sweetlove
  • Metadata Provider
Research assistent
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Rue Vautier 29
Brussels
BE

Geographic Coverage

Souther Ocean sea water of the ice edge, near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Bounding Coordinates South West [-77.617, 164.474], North East [-77.617, 164.474]

Taxonomic Coverage

RNA metatranscriptome

Domain Eukaryota (Eukaryotes), Bacteria (Bacteria), Archaea (Archaea)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 2013-01-16

Project Data

No Description available

Title Southern Ocean Experimental Metatranscriptome to Investigate Micronutrient Colimitation
Funding This study was funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) Antarctic Sciences Awards 1103503, 0732822 and 1043671, 1043748, 1043635, and 1142095; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant GBMF3828; and NSF Ocean Sciences Award 1136477.

The personnel involved in the project:

Erin Bertrand
Andrew Allen
Deborah Bronk
David Hutchins
Anton Post

Sampling Methods

Water was pumped to the surface using a trace metal clean diaphragm pump and acid cleaned teflon tubing and dispensed into trace metal clean (TMC) 50 L carboys. Sampling occurred between 18:00 and 19:00 in open air, with wind coming from over open water, NNE to NE. The carboys were protected from light with dark plastic bags and returned to the Crary Laboratory at McMurdo Station via helicopter within one hour of sampling, where it was stored overnight at 0°C and then split into twelve 2.7 L TMC polycarbonate bottles.

Study Extent On 16 Jan 2013, seawater was collected from 3 m depth at the sea ice edge in McMurdo Sound of the Ross Sea (77° 36.999’ S 165° 28.464’ E).

Method step description:

  1. Three bottles were left as unamended controls, three were amended with 1 nM FeCl3, three were amended with 200 pM cyanocobalamin, and three had 200 pM cyanocobalamin and 1 nM Fe added. Iron concentrations in the cobalamin stock were such that < 6 pM iron was added with 200 pM cobalamin (measured via flow injection). Bottles were placed in an indoor incubator at 0°C, ~45 μmol photons m-2 s-1 of constant light. This level of irradiance is in between levels typical for 3 m depth in open water and under the sea ice, and was selected because the harvested community would have experienced both under ice and open water light regimes in the recent past.
  2. For RNA extraction, 1 billion copies of each of two RNA standards were added to each filter (#1, #8 ArrayControl Spots and Spikes, Life Technologies, with polyA tails). RNA was extracted from Sterivex filters using the Trizol reagent manufacturer’s protocol (Life Technologies); Trizol was added to the filter membrane after it had been extracted from the plastic housing on dry ice using a sterile pipe cutter, razor blade, and forceps. 450- 800 ng RNA was obtained per filter. RNAeasy MinElut Cleanup kit was applied (Qiagen) and ribosomal RNA was removed with Ribo-Zero Magnetic kits, employing a mix of plant, bacterial, and human/mouse/rat formulations in a ratio of 2:1:1 (Epicentre).
  3. The resulting mRNA enrichment was purified using an Agencourt RNAClean XP kit and 2 ng of rRNA depleted RNA was subjected to amplification and cDNA synthesis using the Ovation RNA-Seq System V2 (NuGEN), which applies both polyA and random hexamer primers. 1 μg of the resulting high quality cDNA pool was fragmented to a mean length of 200 bp. Libraries were constructed using a Truseq RNA Sample Prep kit v2 (IlluminaTM), applying the manufacturer’s protocol from the end-repair step. The libraries were then subjected to paired-end sequencing via Illumina Hiseq.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Bertrand, E. M., McCrow, J. P., Moustafa, A., Zheng, H., McQuaid, J. B., Delmont, T. O., ... & Bronk, D. A. (2015). Phytoplankton–bacterial interactions mediate micronutrient colimitation at the coastal Antarctic sea ice edge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(32), 9938-9943.