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Article

Frankia alni Carbonic Anhydrase Regulates Cytoplasmic pH of Nitrogen-Fixing Vesicles

by
Petar Pujic
1,*,
Lorena Carro
1,2,
Pascale Fournier
1,
Jean Armengaud
3,
Guylaine Miotello
3,
Nathalie Dumont
4,
Caroline Bourgeois
5,
Xavier Saupin
5,
Patrick Jame
5,
Gabriela Vuletin Selak
6,7,
Nicole Alloisio
1 and
Philippe Normand
1,*
1
Ecologie Microbienne, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5557, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, INRAE, UMRA1418, Cedex, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
2
Departamento de Microbiología y Genética, Facultad de CC Agrarias y Ambientales, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza Doctores de la Reina, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
3
Département Médicaments et Technologies pour la Santé (DMTS), SPI, Université Paris Saclay, CEA, INRAE, 30200 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
4
Laboratoire DEEP, INSA, Cedex, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
5
Institut des Sciences Analytiques, UMR 5280, Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 5 rue de la Doua, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
6
Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Put Duilova 11, 21000 Split, Croatia
7
Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding (CoE CroP-BioDiv), Svetošimunska Cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24(11), 9162; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24119162
Submission received: 18 April 2023 / Revised: 17 May 2023 / Accepted: 18 May 2023 / Published: 23 May 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bacteria Present in Nitrogen-Fixing Nodules)
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Abstract

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A phyloprofile of Frankia genomes was carried out to identify those genes present in symbiotic strains of clusters 1, 1c, 2 and 3 and absent in non-infective strains of cluster 4. At a threshold of 50% AA identity, 108 genes were retrieved. Among these were known symbiosis-associated genes such as nif (nitrogenase), and genes which are not know as symbiosis-associated genes such as can (carbonic anhydrase, CAN). The role of CAN, which supplies carbonate ions necessary for carboxylases and acidifies the cytoplasm, was thus analyzed by staining cells with pH-responsive dyes; assaying for CO2 levels in N-fixing propionate-fed cells (that require a propionate-CoA carboxylase to yield succinate-CoA), fumarate-fed cells and N-replete propionate-fed cells; conducting proteomics on N-fixing fumarate and propionate-fed cells and direct measurement of organic acids in nodules and in roots. The interiors of both in vitro and nodular vesicles were found to be at a lower pH than that of hyphae. CO2 levels in N2-fixing propionate-fed cultures were lower than in N-replete ones. Proteomics of propionate-fed cells showed carbamoyl-phosphate synthase (CPS) as the most overabundant enzyme relative to fumarate-fed cells. CPS combines carbonate and ammonium in the first step of the citrulline pathway, something which would help manage acidity and NH4+. Nodules were found to have sizeable amounts of pyruvate and acetate in addition to TCA intermediates. This points to CAN reducing the vesicles’ pH to prevent the escape of NH3 and to control ammonium assimilation by GS and GOGAT, two enzymes that work in different ways in vesicles and hyphae. Genes with related functions (carboxylases, biotin operon and citrulline-aspartate ligase) appear to have undergone decay in non-symbiotic lineages.

1. Introduction

Actinobacterial genus Frankia contains several symbiotic lineages that fix nitrogen within the root nodules of plants belonging to the Rosales, Fagales and Cucurbitales orders [1]. A phylogenetic analysis showed that these symbiotic Frankia formed three clusters [2]. Conversely there are numerous strains that have lost various symbiotic features; these form a coherent cluster [3]. These non-symbiotic strains fall into two categories: those that are non-infective such as CN3 or DC12 [4,5] and those strains that are infective but non-nitrogen-fixing such as EuI1c or AgB1.9 [6,7]. The relative position of the clusters has been found to fluctuate depending on the marker used or the strains studied, [8,9] but all are robust.
It has been estimated that the symbiotic Frankia strains diverged from other soil actinobacteria around 80–100 MY [2], a time length that corresponds roughly to that of the emergence of the plant lineages in symbiosis with Frankia, predating the emergence of the Fabaceae which is estimated at 60 MY [10]. This is thus a lengthy period of time that could have impacted the Frankia genomes with genes which are non-essential for symbiosis, presumably costly to express and dispensable in free-living lineages, and during which these genes could have been subject to negative evolutionary pressure leading them to be lost in a manner similar to that occurring in non-symbiotic host plant lineages in relation to symbiosis-associated genes [1].
More than 40 Frankia genomes from all clusters have become available since the first ones were published in 2007 [11,12]. These genomes have been compared and have been found to fluctuate in terms of parameters such as size [11], GC% [12], codon usage [13] and Ka/Ks [14] as they have been subjected to different evolutionary pressures in the soil, on the one hand, or in plant tissues, on the other. There has been massive genome erosion between non-sporulating (Sp−) and sporulating strains (Sp+) [15], for instance, in Alnus-infective strains that have lost around 2500 genes, or one third of the total number.
There have also been studies targeted at groups of genes which have shown the presence of canonical nod genes in some cluster 2 strains [16,17] and one cluster 3 strain [18], the absence of nif, sodF and rhb genes in non-symbiotic cluster 4 strains [12], the presence of celA-bcsA genes in symbiotic strains [19] and the loss of saprophytic genes such as gvp in cluster 1c strains and cluster 2 strains that have reduced genomes [11,16]. These genomes are thus a wealth of data that can be analyzed to try to understand the genetic determinants underpinning symbiosis in the absence of a proven genetic transformation protocol. We decided to compare symbiotic and non-symbiotic genomes to determine if the estimated 100 MY since their separation had resulted in the loss of symbiosis-associated determinants in those strains that had lost the ability to establish nodules. One such determinant that emerged was the can genes that code for carbonic anhydrase (CAN), an enzyme that converts CO2 into carbonic ions and protons mainly for pH homeostasis and the functioning of carboxylases. There are 23 of these genes in Frankia alni, and we investigated them from a physiological viewpoint.

2. Results

2.1. Genome Mining

When a search was made for those proteins conserved at a threshold of 50% identity between symbiotic cluster1 (cl1) strains (ACN14a, QA3, CcI3), cluster 2 (cl2) strains (BMG5.1 and Dg1) and cluster 3 (cl3) strains (EaN1pec and EUN1f) and absent from non-symbiotic non-infective cluster 4 (cl4) strains (CN3 and DC12), 108 hits were obtained (Table 1). Among those genes retrieved were nif (nitrogenase, FRAAL6800-6814); rhbBCEF (rhizobactin-related metabolite; FRAAL6422- FRAAL6426); sodF (Fe-superoxide dismutase, FRAAL4337); accA (acetyl carboxylase, FRAAL3196); argF (argininosuccinate lyase, FRAAL5202) and two can (carbonic anhydrase; FRAAL1222, FRAAL4889). These two CANs belong to the Beta class prevalent in prokaryotes which is more active than the Gamma CANs [20]. The can genes were found to be present in some genomes belonging to cluster 4, such as Frankia AgW1.1 and AgB1.8 strains, isolated from Alnus and able to reinfect Alnus but unable to fix nitrogen in pure culture or in vitro.
When a search for gene annotations was carried out in the MAGE data base using “carbonic anhydrase” as keyword, supplementary hits were obtained in several lineages including Frankia alni, FRAAL2078, that would code for a distant Gamma CAN with homologs in all Frankia strains. Finally, the same keyword search yielded a Beta CAN present in cluster3 and cluster4 strains with a very low ID (<30% AA) with FRAAL1222 and FRAAL4889 CANs.

2.2. Cells Growth

Growth, N-fixation and CO2 levels were monitored over liquid N-fixing and N-replete cultures. Frankia grew rapidly on propionate and ammonium, reaching a plateau after only 3 days, whereas it took 6 days when fixing nitrogen on propionate, and on fumarate it took 13 days (Figure 1). The CO2 in the propionate+ammonium-fed culture reached a plateau at day 4, whereas in the propionate-fed nitrogen fixing culture, CO2 increased steadily over seven days as the cells multiplied. CO2 in the fumarate-fed culture was low at first and increased slowly thereafter.

2.3. Physiology Measurements of Cells

Frankia alni cells grown on an FBM-medium were stained with DND-189 and DND-99 fluorescent probes and observed under fluorescent light with filters as well as with SYTO-9, which showed the vesicles to be fluorescent (Figure 2) thus indicating their pH is acidic, more so than that of the hyphae that did not fluoresce with the pH-responsive stains. After staining 21 days post infection (dpi), nodule sections showed strong fluorescence with DND-99 and SYTO-9 stains, thus indicating acidity was found inside the cytoplasm of the vesicles (Figure 3).

2.4. Gene Expression

Expression levels of can1 (FRAAL1222), can2 (FRAAL4889), ctp (FRAAL4724) and two carbamoyl phosphate synthases cpsA (FRAAL4684) and cspB (FRAAL4683) are shown in Figure 4. The can1 and ctp genes were highly upregulated under nitrogen starvation in FBM− media and in symbiosis. The second can gene (FRAAL4889) was not differentially expressed under all conditions tested. The two carbamoylphosphate synthase genes, cpsA and cpsB genes, were up-regulated in free-living cultures without nitrogen and down-regulated in symbiosis. A low level of expression was observed under growth as free culture in FBM+ with supplied ammonium.

2.5. Proteomics

The proteomic analysis results of fumarate- and propionate-fed cells under nitrogen fixing conditions are shown in Table 2 with the 40 most up-regulated proteins of each condition. Fumarate-fed cells had a high overabundance of acyl-CoA synthase, three dicarboxylate transporters and proteases. Propionate-fed cells had carbamoyl-phosphate synthase, nitrogenase, SHC and lipid synthase as the most overabundant proteins.

2.6. Metabolomics of Organic Acids

The small organic acids present in roots and 21 dpi nodules were formic, acetic, pyruvic, propionic, malonic, malic, fumaric, α-ketoglutaric, succinic, oxalic and citric acids (Table 3). Among these, citric, malic and oxalic acids were the most abundant, while α-ketoglutaric acid fumaric acid and the monocarboxylates pyruvic acid and acetic acid were those with the highest FCs of 2.1, 2.1, 1.9 and 1.6, respectively, in nodules relative to roots.

3. Discussion

Frankia symbiotic determinants are still poorly understood mostly due to the absence of an effective genetic transformation protocol. Omics, transcriptomics and proteomics are promising new approaches for the study of plant—bacteria interactions, and have been used to circumvent this drawback in Frankia. A transcriptomic study of 21 dpi symbiotic cells showed upregulation of the genes nif, hup, suf and shc [21]. More recently, it was shown that cellulase and cellulose synthase were upregulated upon early (2 dpi) contact even although Frankia alni feeds neither on glucose nor on cellulose [19], suggesting a role in penetration into the root hair. However, few hints have emerged through omics on the nature of the trophic relations between symbiont and host.
Carbonic anhydrase (CAN) is a zinc-dependent metallo enzyme that catalyzes the reversible reaction of CO2 with water into carbonic ions and protons, thereby modifying pH and permitting the subsequent action of carboxylases. In animal lungs, carbonic anhydrase converts blood bicarbonate to carbon dioxide that is then exhaled. In the stomach, the CAN of parietal cells produces acid, in the kidneys it helps maintain the blood pH level by forming protons that are then secreted into urine. In plants, CAN helps increase chloroplast CO2 concentration to facilitate the carboxylation of RuBisCO. Bacteria need to adapt to niches with low pH, for example Helicobacter pylori in the stomach [22] or Mycobacterium tuberculosis in macrophages [23], and CAN has been shown to permit adaptation to these biotopes. An Escherichia coli can- mutant can only survive if the atmospheric partial pressure of CO2 is high or during anaerobic growth in a closed vessel at low pH where copious CO2 is generated endogenously [24]. Pathogen CANs are also targets of specific enzyme inhibitors and fight antibiotic resistant cells. This mechanism is known to be used against Mycobacterium tuberculosis [23,25], M. leprae [26], Legionella pneumophila [22] and several other bacteria [27]. Thus, CAN activity is a critical feature for these bacteria. Many CAN enzymes have been described with less sequence identity which suggests the convergent evolution of the enzymatic function [28]. Carboxylases play important roles in the cell; for instance phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase feeds pyruvate into the TCA, propionyl-CoA carboxylase yields methylmalonyl-CoA for feeding succinyl-CoA into the TCA, acetyl-CoA carboxylase yields malonyl-CoA for the lipid synthesis or carbamoyl phosphate synthetase that then permit L-ornithine to transform into L-citrulline.
Propionate and acetate are known antibacterial compounds which are active against a wide range of microbes. Their mechanism of action has been postulated to be a drop in cytoplasmic pH [29] or synergy and potentiation of the anti-bacterial activity of transition metals [30]. They can freely cross membranes when they are not charged (they are neutral at their pKa, 4.8 for acetate, 4.9 for propionate, and much lower at 2.4 for pyruvate) and thus require no dedicated transporter [31] except at low concentrations or at a pH above neutrality [32]. They are used as food preservatives, yet propionate and acetate are the most efficiently used carbon sources in Frankia [33], presumably because Frankia has been selected over millions of years to use them and can counter their toxic properties. One study claimed that one Frankia strain needed a transporter for propionate, but it is probable that the inhibitors used inhibited incorporation into the TCA and the labeled propionate could then simply move freely in and out of the cells [34]. The present study found three expressed dicarboxylate transporters when Frankia was fed the dicarboxylate fumarate but no likely propionate transporter when fed propionate. Furthermore, the onset of nitrogen fixation was much more rapid when Frankia was fed monocarboxylates than with dicarboxylates, suggesting there was no need for the synthesis of a dedicated monocarboxylates transporter [33].
Symbiotic Frankia lives in a sheltered niche, the root nodular cortex, but it nevertheless faces strong physiological constraints. One of those constraints is pH homeostasis as it is modified by several enzymes such as upregulated nitrogenase that requires protons and ATP to reduce dinitrogen to ammonium or to uptake hydrogenase that recycles hydrogen into protons and ATP. Rhizobium, that has similar constraints, has its peribacteroid space made acidic by the host to provide a proton-motive force, presumably to permit uptake of malate and activate proteases [35] and also to trap fixed nitrogen as ammonium and not as gaseous ammonia that would otherwise escape at a pH above 6 [36].
Among Frankia cells, the hyphae and vesicles differ from each other in terms of physiology, with hyphae having a complete ammonia assimilation pathway (GS and GOGAT) and vesicles only having an active GS that would lead to large amounts of glutamine under low O2 [37]. It has been hypothesized that glutamine could then diffuse toward the plant as a consequence of several peptides which are upregulated in nodules and which increase porosity towards AA [38]. One of the vesicles’ main characteristics is to have a multi-lamellate wall with hopanoid lipids providing a passive diffusion barrier to oxygen, yielding an anaerobic environment in which nitrogenase can function [39]. GSII, the primary enzyme responsible for NH4+ assimilation, was found to have an optimum pH of 6.4 [40], whereas GOGAT and GDH had optimums of 7.6 and 8.6, respectively [37], which is 1 or 2 pH units above that of GSII. This difference in the pH response of the two enzymes could be explained by the more acidic conditions in the vesicles and is consistent with the vesicles only having GSII activity while the hyphae have a complete cycle. In this scenario, the GS would be complemented by carbamoyl-phosphate synthase (CPS) and ornithine carbamoyl transferase (OCT) which use HCO3− to incorporate NH4+ into ornithine and yield citrulline [41]. OCT is also found in the phyloprofile, with only a distant homolog (32% identities) present in non-symbiotic lineages, with its closest relatives being found in the Planctomyces.
Propionate is synthesized through the catabolism of chlorophyll, valine and fatty acids [42]. The synthesis of acetate as acetyl-CoA in plant cells occurs through pyruvate dehydrogenase entering the TCA cycle and yields lipids and flavonoids [43]. Propionate is known to be upregulated as a response to different situations such as drought [44] and high levels of CO2. The catabolism of lipids is also known to yield acetate [43]. However, in nodules we see much higher levels of dicarboxylates than of monocarboxylates, suggesting Frankia could be fed a mixture of both types of organic acids, with monocarboxylates also serving to modulate cytoplasmic acidity.
Nodules are known to fix CO2 at five times the level of adjacent roots [45], with the labeled carbon ending up as amino acids (glutamate, aspartate and citrulline) and organic acids (malate, citrate and succinate) through the action of PEP carboxylase or pyruvate carboxylase, an enzyme that would be active when the carbon source is pyruvate. Frankia strain ArI3 in pure culture was also shown to fix more nitrogen when supplied supplementary CO2, but only when fed monocarboxylates [46] and not TCA intermediates such as succinate, malate, etc. Pyruvate is assimilated through a dedicated carboxylase and transformed into oxalacetate; propionate is assimilated through the propionyl CoA carboxylase and transformed into succinate. Both oxalacetate and succinate use biotin, and acetate is assimilated through acetyl-CoA carboxylase into malonyl-CoA and lipids. Another possible pathway for the assimilation of propionate is the methyl citrate cycle that is also present in symbiotic strains and absent in non-symbiotic strains. This pathway does not require carboxylase and could function to complement the methyl-malonyl pathway. It has long been assumed that the host feeds Frankia with dicarboxylates since the expression of AgDCAT, a transporter specific for dicarboxylates, was nodule-specific [47]. However, monocarboxylates could also contribute to the nutrition of Frankia since pyruvate, for instance, is present in the roots and nodules of Casuarina and Alnus [48]. The transport of monocarboxylates appears to be facilitated in Coryebacterium by a specific sodium solute symporter at a high pH, but import can nevertheless occur through simple diffusion at a neutral pH [32]. When Frankia is fed a dicarboxylate, it upregulates three transporters, all of which were not up-regulated in 21 dpi nodules [21].
The most overabundant proteins in propionate-fed in-vitro-grown cells were CPS subunit, proteins that use ammonium, phosphate and HCO3− to yield carbamoyl that could then be used to transform L-ornithine into L-citrulline, the compound shown to carry the most labels after 15N has been fed to A. glutinosa [49]. This could be a pathway for the assimilation of ammonium which is complementary to the GS-GOGAT pathway. Frankia has been shown to be able to use L-ornithine as source of nitrogen without inhibition of nitrogenase. This could also serve to select efficient nitrogen fixers that can provide NH4+ to quench carbonate and maintain a slightly acidic pH.
The genes encoding CANs are differentially expressed in nodules (FRAAL1222: 1.20; FRAAL2078: 0.86; FRAAL4724: 1.15; FRAAL4889: 0.71, relative to BAP+, [21]), a process which is compatible with the requirement for CO2 when grown on propionate in vitro and the very high efficiency of the CAN that have a low Km [50]. It is also compatible with the host feeding the symbiont a mixture of dicarboxylates and monocarboxylates. The amount of organic acids measured in this study and by previous authors [33,48] do lead to a certain conclusion in relation to the photosynthates fed to the microsymbiont because of likely compartmentation in the mitochondria, chloroplasts and vacuoles. Nevertheless yet these organic acids are good candidates for the role.
Carbonic anhydrase would thus be added to the list of symbiosis-related genes such as those coding for nitrogenase, hopanoid biosynthesis, iron-sulfur cluster synthesis, hydrogen-uptake [21] and cellulase and cellulose synthase [19]. Similar to hydrogen-uptake and cellulase, there are copies that have diverged early in the evolutionary history of the genus. Whenever genetic editing becomes practical, it will be of interest to assay this symbiosis determinant.

4. Materials and Methods

4.1. Genome Mining

Genome comparisons were made on the Mage platform [51]. Conserved genes present in representative genomes from clusters 1, 2 and 3 were extracted, and those present in non-symbiotic lineage 4 were subtracted using as the threshold 50% of identities over 80% of the length of the shorter AA sequence. For cluster 4, only CN3 [52] and DC12 [5] were used because these are unable to induce nodules in any of the hosts tested other than EuI1c and AgB1.9 that can induce inefficient nodules [53]. A list of the strains and a flow chart of research directions are given in the Supplementary Materials (see Supplementary Materials Table S1 and Figure S1).

4.2. Plant Growth

Alnus seeds were surface-sterilized and germinated as described previously [19]. Seedlings were transferred to opaque pots, grown with N-free medium and inoculated with Frankia alni as before [1].

4.3. Culture of Cells and Physiology Measurements of Cells

Growth, N-fixation and CO2 levels were followed in FBM medium [54], both with and without 5 mM ammonium, and in the same medium with 5 mM fumarate instead of propionate. Growth was monitored as previously [33] and CO2 in the headspace was measured in the flask every day using a gas chromatograph (Micro GC R3000, SRA Instrument, Marcy L’Etoile, France) as described previously [55].

4.4. Microscopy

The staining of nodule slices and FBM− grown Frankia was carried out with DND-99 probes (LysoTracker Red) or DND-189 (LysoSensor Green, Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR, USA) in a 50 mm Tris pH = 7 buffer. Excess dye was removed by a short wash with buffer and samples were observed using a confocal microscope (LSM510 META, Carl Zeiss, Le Pecq, France) using a plan-Apo 63×/1.2 NA water immersion objective.

4.5. Phylogenomics

The amino acid sequences of the carbonic anhydrase genes from the representative Frankia species and related actinobacteria were retrieved using the BlastP method [26]; and were aligned using the Seaview platform [56] implementing the ClustalW2 v2.1 software [57]. The alignment was then used for a Maximum Likelihood tree reconstruction approach [58] with a bootstrap of 1000 replicates [59] to assess the robustness of the topology obtained.

4.6. Gene Expression

Expression analysis of the carbonic anhydrases FRAAL1222, can1 and FRAAL4889, can2; carbonate transporter FRAAL4724, ctp and two carbamoylphosphate synthase genes, FRAAL4883, (cspA) and FRAAL4884, (cspB), was carried out with cells grown on FBM+ medium [54] with 5 mM propionate and with 5 mM ammonium chloride and cells grown on FBM− medium without ammonium chloride and in 21 dpi nodules [21]. This was monitored by qPCR using the primers that are listed in Table 4 and following the procedure described previously [21].

4.7. Proteomics

Proteomic analysis of 5 mM propionate-fed and 5 mM fumarate-fed Frankia cells grown in BAP- was carried out as described before [60]. The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited in the ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRIDE partner repository with the dataset identifiers PXD018045 and 10.6019/PXD018045.

4.8. Metabolomic of Organic Acids

The organic acids in the nodules and roots were quantified using 22-day-old nodules grown as described in Alloisio et al. [31]. These were extracted from liquid nitrogen ground tissues. Sterile ultrapure water was added to achieve a concentration of 1 g of nodule per mL of water. Samples were centrifuged at 13,000 rpm in Eppendorf centrifuge for 10 min.
After extraction, the supernatants of the nodules or roots were diluted (1:20) in ultrapure water and filtrated on a 0.45 µm PVDF filter prior to being analysed by ionic chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry (IC-MS/MS). IC-MS/MS was used to verify the presence of organic acids already quantified by IC-conductivity and to identify other unknown organic acids.
The IC-MS/MS instrument involved was the ICS-5000+ Ion Chromatography System combined with a TSQ Fortis Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (all Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). The monitoring software was Chromeleon 7.2.10. The IC system was equipped with an AS-AP auto-sampler, a Dual Pump analytical gradient system, a suppressor ADRS 600 (2 mm, Thermo Scientific) and a conductivity detector (P/N 061830). The IC separation was realized using an anion-exchange column IonPac AS11-HC-4 µm (2 × 250 mm2, Thermo Scientific, Illkirch, France) preceded by a guard column IonPac AG11-HC-4 µm (2 × 50 mm2, Thermo Scientific) and with the same parameters as the IC-conductivity analysis. Concerning the mass spectrometer, the heated electrospray ionization source was used in negative mode with the following parameters: negative ion spray voltage 3.0 kV, sheath gas 52 Arb, auxiliary gas 13 Arb, sweep gas 16 Arb, ion transfer tube temperature 275 °C and vaporizer temperature 375 °C. Acquisitions were realized in full scan mode or in Single Ion Monitoring mode with analytes detected after deprotonation in ionization source.
The flow chart of Materials and Methods is presented in Supplementary Figure S1.

Supplementary Materials

The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/ijms24119162/s1.

Author Contributions

P.P. and P.N. designed research; P.P., L.C., P.F., J.A., G.M., N.A., N.D., C.B., X.S. and P.J. performed research; P.P., J.A., G.V.S. and P.N. analyzed data; and P.P. and P.N. wrote the paper. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

The work was funded by the French ANR (BugsInACell ANR-13-BSV7-0013-03) to P.N. and by an MEC postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish government awarded to L.C. (Programa Nacional de Movilidad de Recursos Humanos del Plan Nacional de I-D+i 2008–2011).

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

The original contributions generated for this study are included in the article; further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding authors.

Acknowledgments

Thanks are expressed to Audrey Dubost (iBio, Université de Lyon) for help with data management, to Danis Abrouk for help with drawing the figures and to Elise Lacroix for Greenhouse management (Université de Lyon).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. (A) Growth of Frankia alni strain ACN14a (DO 600 nm) in FBM medium with 5 mM propionate and 5 mM NH4Cl (yellow dots), in FBM medium with 5 mM propionate without NH4Cl (blue dots) and in FBM medium without propionate but with 5 mM fumarate and without NH4Cl (green dots) followed over a time course of 13 days; (B) CO2 in the gas phase over strain ACN14a (in the same conditions as in (A)). Bars are +/− standard error.
Figure 1. (A) Growth of Frankia alni strain ACN14a (DO 600 nm) in FBM medium with 5 mM propionate and 5 mM NH4Cl (yellow dots), in FBM medium with 5 mM propionate without NH4Cl (blue dots) and in FBM medium without propionate but with 5 mM fumarate and without NH4Cl (green dots) followed over a time course of 13 days; (B) CO2 in the gas phase over strain ACN14a (in the same conditions as in (A)). Bars are +/− standard error.
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Figure 2. Free cells cultures of Frankia alni ACN14a grown for 7 days in BAP− medium observed under visible light and UV microscope. Phase contrast (a) and green filter DND-189 probe-treated (b). Strong fluorescence indicative of acidity is found inside N2-fixing Frankia vesicles.
Figure 2. Free cells cultures of Frankia alni ACN14a grown for 7 days in BAP− medium observed under visible light and UV microscope. Phase contrast (a) and green filter DND-189 probe-treated (b). Strong fluorescence indicative of acidity is found inside N2-fixing Frankia vesicles.
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Figure 3. Alnus glutinosa nodules resulting from inoculation of Frankia alni ACN14a. Nodules treated with DND-99 and SYTO-9 under red filter (a) green filter (b) and overlay (c) show acidity inside vesicles. Nodules treated with DND-189 probe show absence of acidity in intervesicular spaces (arrows), (d) and in intermembrane spacers (*), (e).
Figure 3. Alnus glutinosa nodules resulting from inoculation of Frankia alni ACN14a. Nodules treated with DND-99 and SYTO-9 under red filter (a) green filter (b) and overlay (c) show acidity inside vesicles. Nodules treated with DND-189 probe show absence of acidity in intervesicular spaces (arrows), (d) and in intermembrane spacers (*), (e).
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Figure 4. Relative expression of can1 (FRAAL1222), can2 (FRAAL4889), ctp (FRAAL4724), cpsA and cpsB (FRAAL4684 and FRAAL4683) genes in Frankia alni ACN14a grown under nitrogen-free conditions in FBM− (grey) media, with 5 mM ammonium in FBM+ media (light grey) and in symbiosis within Alnus glutinosa nodules (dark).
Figure 4. Relative expression of can1 (FRAAL1222), can2 (FRAAL4889), ctp (FRAAL4724), cpsA and cpsB (FRAAL4684 and FRAAL4683) genes in Frankia alni ACN14a grown under nitrogen-free conditions in FBM− (grey) media, with 5 mM ammonium in FBM+ media (light grey) and in symbiosis within Alnus glutinosa nodules (dark).
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Table 1. List of genes conserved between Frankia strains of clusters 1, 2 and 3 but absent in cluster 4 genomes at a level of 50% Id. Bold letters indicate carbonic anhydrase.
Table 1. List of genes conserved between Frankia strains of clusters 1, 2 and 3 but absent in cluster 4 genomes at a level of 50% Id. Bold letters indicate carbonic anhydrase.
LabelBeginGeneProduct
FRAAL001112280-putative membrane protein
FRAAL0337365258ddpCABC transporter dipeptide permease, membrane component
FRAAL0338366130ddpBABC transporter oligopeptide permease, membrane component.
FRAAL0476543271-Putative acetyltransferase
FRAAL0564622164-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL0674735035-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL0757818794-Putative membrane protein
FRAAL0911981382malEMalic enzyme
FRAAL10091080832-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL10271099037-6-aminodeoxyfutalosine deaminase
FRAAL10291101440-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL10571133454-Putative membrane protein
FRAAL11191186573-Putative PadR-like family Transcriptional regulator
FRAAL11941269992deoAThymidine phosphorylase
FRAAL12221300029canCarbonic anhydrase
FRAAL16711792140-Putative oxidoreductase
FRAAL16751796237-Oxidoreductase involved in polyketide synthesis
FRAAL19142074787folCFolylpolyglutamate synthase, Dihydrofolate synthase
FRAAL19582125395-Putative Short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase SDR
FRAAL19972164212-Putative DNA-binding protein
FRAAL20522228153gtfUDP-Glycosyltransferase
FRAAL20552231919idhAInositol 2-dehydrogenase
FRAAL20572235712rffEUDP-N-acetyl glucosamine-2-epimerase
FRAAL21002290841-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL21262322837trpEAnthranilate synthase
FRAAL21622363687-Conserved protein of unknown function
FRAAL22082420975lspALipoprotein signal peptidase
FRAAL23182525122-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL24322651458-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL27182967613-conserved hypothetical protein
FRAAL29423184379-conserved hypothetical protein
FRAAL30473321125-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL31893459207-Transcriptional regulator, lysR family
FRAAL31913462339-Monooxygenase FAD-binding
FRAAL31943471740fabAbeta-ketoacyl synthase
FRAAL31953473917pksEPolyketide biosynthesis protein PksE
FRAAL31963475554accAAcetyl carboxylase
FRAAL32113491576-Putative phytoene dehydrogenase (Phytoene desaturase)
FRAAL32253507852pheAPrephenate dehydratase (PDT)
FRAAL32803568827-Putative NADPH-dependent FMN reductase domain
FRAAL34493738250-Putative fatty acid desaturase
FRAAL34513739662-Cyclopropane-fatty-acyl-phospholipid synthase
FRAAL34533742003-Putative peptide synthetase
FRAAL35333831802-Putative GntR-family transcriptional regulator
FRAAL35993896141-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL41084444365-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL42064571703-Putative cytochrome P450
FRAAL43374705479sodFSuperoxide dismutase [Fe-Zn] 1 (FeSOD I)
FRAAL43454713659-Protein of unknown function
FRAAL43784754901-putative DNA helicase
FRAAL44364823328-Membrane-bound metal-dependent hydrolase
FRAAL45134899008-Lysophospholipase; GDSL domain
FRAAL46125006448-Putative membrane protein; putative GGDEF and EAL domains
FRAAL47445135553-Conserved hypothetical protein
FRAAL48895291471canCarbonic anhydrase
FRAAL49715397536-Trp biosynthesis associated, transmembrane protein, Oprn/Chp
FRAAL50405472936-Putative acetyltransferase protein
FRAAL51425574524cobScobalamin 5′-phosphate synthase
FRAAL52025637735argGArgininosuccinate synthase (Citrulline-aspartate ligase)
FRAAL52485688660-Putative integral membrane peptidase
FRAAL56566113062-D-amino acid dehydrogenase small subunit
FRAAL56796141476mobAmolybdopterin-guanine dinucleotide biosynthesis protein (partial)
FRAAL57026174425-Conserved hypothetical protein; putative signal peptide
FRAAL57576240667-Conserved hypothetical protein
FRAAL57686250966-ABC transporter transmembrane subunit
FRAAL57706252849-Aliphatic sulfonates family ABC transporter, periplsmic ligand-binding protein
FRAAL58446327476-Putative signal peptide
FRAAL60066512802-Putative permease
FRAAL60646579159-Putative PE-PGRS family protein PE_PGRS54 precursor
FRAAL60696583344-Putative integral membrane protein (partial match); putative coiled-coil domain
FRAAL60826599422-putative succinate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase I, NADP-dependent
FRAAL61366660036-putative pterin-4-alpha-carbinolamine dehydratase (PHS)
FRAAL62076732283-Conserved protein of unknown function, putative coiled-coil domain
FRAAL62206748530-Putative Prolyl aminopeptidase
FRAAL62316759567-Conserved hypothetical protein
FRAAL62946828148-Conserved protein of unknown function
FRAAL64206974297lysADiaminopimelate decarboxylase protein
FRAAL64216976208rhbADiaminobutyrate-2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase
FRAAL64226977644rhbBL-2,4-diaminobutyrate decarboxylase
FRAAL64246981251rhbErhizobactin biosynthesis protein RhbE
FRAAL64256982828rhbFN4-acetyl-N4-hydroxy-1-aminopropane citrate synthase, siderophore
FRAAL64266985113glnA3Glutamine synthetase
FRAAL64427009938hesA2Protein hesA
FRAAL64487014231-Putative molybdenum binding protein
FRAAL65067073847mmpIcAMP-binding potassium voltage-gated channel protein
FRAAL65077075397cyc2Germacradienol/geosmin synthase
FRAAL65367112699-Conserved protein of unknown function
FRAAL66067192461-Hypothetical protein; putative signal peptide
FRAAL66237206003-Putative F420-dependent glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase domain
FRAAL66377231846-Conserved hypothetical protein; putative NERD domain
FRAAL66537250627-Secreted CAP protein
FRAAL66717268730panDAspartate 1-decarboxylase
FRAAL67247333518purQPhosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase I (FGAM synthase I)
FRAAL67307338262purLPhosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase II (FGAM synthase II)
FRAAL67387347692-Conserved hypothetical protein
FRAAL68007407340nifSCysteine desulfurase (Nitrogenase metalloclusters biosynthesis protein)
FRAAL68017408818hesAMolybdenum cofactor biosynthesis protein hesA
FRAAL68027409711erpAIron-sulfur cluster insertion protein ErpA
FRAAL68037410328nifBFeMo cofactor biosynthesis protein nifB
FRAAL68057412516nifWNitrogenase stabilizing/protective protein nifW
FRAAL68077413131-Putative NifX-associated protein
FRAAL68087413571nifXNifX protein
FRAAL68107415792nifENitrogenase iron-molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis protein nifE
FRAAL68117417374nifKNitrogenase molybdenum-iron protein beta chain
FRAAL68127419136nifDNitrogenase molybdenum-iron protein alpha chain
FRAAL68137420646nifHNitrogenase iron protein (Nitrogenase component II)
FRAAL68147421686nifVNitrogenase-associated homocitrate synthase
FRAAL68577460193-Peptidoglycan-binding glycosyltransferase
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Table 2. List of the 40 most overabundant proteins in fumarate-fed cells (section a) or in propionate-fed cells (section b).
Table 2. List of the 40 most overabundant proteins in fumarate-fed cells (section a) or in propionate-fed cells (section b).
Section a40 Most Overabundant Proteins in Fumarate-Fed Cells Relative to Propionate-Fed Cells
GeneFunctional descriptionTfold
FRAAL4675Acyl-CoA transferase11.5
FRAAL2567Protein of unknown function8.5
FRAAL3063Branched-chain amino acid ABC transporter7.4
FRAAL1390C4-dicarboxylate transporter6.83
FRAAL3378Protein of unknown function6.8
FRAAL0382CoA-transferase6.35
FRAAL6022Gamma-aminobutyraldehyde dehydrogenase6
FRAAL4493Alkyl hydroperoxide reductase AhpD5.6
FRAAL3042Short-chain dehydrogenase5.23
FRAAL4031Protein of unknown function5
FRAAL2915Dehydrogenase4.5
FRAAL5988Arginine ABC transporter ATP-binding protein4.4
FRAAL6577Potassium transporter4.37
FRAAL0095Large mechanosensitive ion channel protein MscL4.2
FRAAL4431Clp protease4
FRAAL5296Protein of unknown function3.86
FRAAL4754Protein of unknown function3.83
FRAAL2473Antibiotic biosynthesis monooxygenase3.8
FRAAL0785Membrane protein of unknown function3.8
FRAAL4195Protein of unknown function3.8
FRAAL3527Branched-chain amino acid ABC transporter3.71
FRAAL2449F420-dependent oxidoreductase3.69
FRAAL4251ABC transporter ATP-binding protein3.6
FRAAL3695Deaminase3.6
FRAAL5155Peptidase3.55
FRAAL3391Branched-chain amino acid ABC transporter3.43
FRAAL3545Protein of unknown function3.4
FRAAL0756C4-dicarboxylate ABC transporter3.4
FRAAL0729Branched-chain amino acid ABC transporter3.4
FRAAL4252Nitrate ABC transporter permease3.4
FRAAL0091Membrane protein of unknown function3.4
FRAAL4026Short-chain dehydrogenase3.38
FRAAL6394Molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis protein3.33
FRAAL3575Protein of unknown function3.33
FRAAL4335C4-dicarboxylate ABC transporter3.3
FRAAL2821Peptide-binding protein3.27
FRAAL3848Thiolase3.2
FRAAL3365Branched-chain amino acid ABC transporter3.2
FRAAL5858Amino acid-binding protein3.17
FRAAL2285Phosphohistidine phosphatase3.14
FRAAL2855Protein of unknown function3.14
Section b40 most overabundant proteins in propionate- relative to fumarate-fed cells
GeneFunctional descriptionTfold
FRAAL3447Beta-ketoacyl synthase10.8
FRAAL4683Carbamoyl phosphate synthase large subunit10.8
FRAAL6742Protein of unknown function8.2
FRAAL3139Protein of unknown function7.8
FRAAL6810Nitrogenase iron-molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis NifE7.6
FRAAL4690Protein of unknown function7.12
FRAAL4693Inducer of phenazine A6.67
FRAAL4681Tryptophan synthase subunit beta6.6
FRAAL5683DNA-binding protein6.1
FRAAL4934Acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase6.08
FRAAL4684Carbamoyl phosphate synthase small subunit5.8
FRAAL4687L-amino acid ligase5.61
FRAAL0025Glycosyl transferase family 15.6
FRAAL6528DNA repair protein RadA5.2
FRAAL2491Squalene-hopene cyclase5.2
FRAAL5157Lipoyl synthase5.2
FRAAL4695Oxidoreductase5.16
FRAAL14334-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase5.12
FRAAL4489Carboxylate-amine ligase5.08
FRAAL4685Biotin carboxylase4.8
FRAAL6803Nitrogen fixation protein NifB4.68
FRAAL0263Protein of unknown function4.67
FRAAL4691Protein of unknown function4.6
FRAAL4724Putative carbonate transporter4.6
FRAAL2577Protein of unknown function4.6
FRAAL6814Homocitrate synthase4.33
FRAAL6720Preprotein translocase SecA4.33
FRAAL0984Porphobilinogen deaminase4.33
FRAAL5851Acetolactate synthase4.25
FRAAL1432Squalene-hopene cyclase4.23
FRAAL5482Acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase4.22
FRAAL1003Cytochrome C biogenesis protein ResB4.2
FRAAL6672L-aspartate oxidase4.2
FRAAL4095FMN-dependent alkanal monooxygenase4.2
FRAAL3600Protein of unknown function4.18
FRAAL5337(2Fe-2S)-binding protein4.18
FRAAL1423Protein of unknown function4.17
FRAAL0262Helicase4.1
FRAAL5952Diaminopimelate decarboxylase4
FRAAL6862HDIG domain-containing protein4
FRAAL3851Serine/threonine protein kinase4
Table
Table 3. Abundance of organic acids in A. glutinosa nodules (N1 and N2) and roots (R1 and R2).
Table 3. Abundance of organic acids in A. glutinosa nodules (N1 and N2) and roots (R1 and R2).
CompoundFormulaR1R2N1N2Ratio (N1 + N2)/(R1 + R2)
Formic acidHCOOH235,66176,769162,492117,9200.90
Acetic acidCH3COOH4997605554332271.57
Pyruvic acidCH3COCOOH70,73516,84778,52987,0031.89
Propionic acidCH3CH2COOH15119209488080.72
Malonic acidCH2(COOH)2418,776125,492441,849330,0581.42
Malic acidC4H6O56,842,0865,418,6947,713,5297,219,2221.22
Succinic acid (CH2)2(COOH)218,09518,08120,55721,7131.17
Oxoglutaric acidC3OH4(COOH)2165,72232,647230,854189,8432.12
Fumaric acidHOOC-CH=CH-COOH7867219311,91989942.08
Citric acidHOC(COOH)(CH2COOH)211,042,1459,255,80614,287,74211,434,8861.27
Oxalic acidHOOC-COOH667,609738,765811,020672,5371.05
Table
Table 4. List of the primers used for monitoring the expression level of genes in symbiosis and in fumarate-fed and propionate-fed cells.
Table 4. List of the primers used for monitoring the expression level of genes in symbiosis and in fumarate-fed and propionate-fed cells.
OligoSequence
FRAAL1222q7AGATCATCCTCCTGCACCACA
FRAAL1222q8GAAGCCGTCGTCGGTGAT
FRAAL4889q5GCTGGGAACCCGAGAGATCA
FRAAL4889q6GAACGCCTCGTCGGTGAAAG
FRAAL4724q1TCCTCGGTCAGATCCACGTC
FRAAL4724q2GTATCGCCCGGATGTTGTCC
FRAAL4684q3TGCCTCGGTAACCAACTCCT
FRAAL4684q4TCCTGGACCGGCTGATTGAT
FRAAL4683q5ACTGGTGACTCCATCACGGT
FRAAL4683q6CGATGTCGCGAAGGATCTGG
16sRNA_fGAGTAACACGTGGGCAACCT
16sRNA_rATCCCGAGCCGATAAATCTT
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