@article {alonso-saez_transcriptional_2023,
	title = {Transcriptional Mechanisms of Thermal Acclimation in \textit{Prochlorococcus},
	journal = {mBio},
	year = {2023},
	pages = {e03425{\textendash}22},
	abstract = {Low temperature limits the growth and the distribution of the key oceanic primary producer Prochlorococcus, which does not proliferate above a latitude of ca. 40{\textdegree}. Yet, the molecular basis of thermal acclimation in this cyanobacterium remains unexplored. We analyzed the transcriptional response of the Prochlorococcus marinus strain MIT9301 in long-term acclimations and in natural Prochlorococcus populations along a temperature range enabling its growth (17 to 30{\textdegree}C). MIT9301 upregulated mechanisms of the global stress response at the temperature minimum (17{\textdegree}C) but maintained the expression levels of genes involved in essential metabolic pathways (e.g., ATP synthesis and carbon fixation) along the whole thermal niche. Notably, the declining growth of MIT9301 from the optimum to the minimum temperature was coincident with a transcriptional suppression of the photosynthetic apparatus and a dampening of its circadian expression patterns, indicating a loss in their regulatory capacity under cold conditions. Under warm conditions, the cellular transcript inventory of MIT9301 was strongly streamlined, which may also induce regulatory imbalances due to stochasticity in gene expression. The daytime transcriptional suppression of photosynthetic genes at low temperature was also observed in metatranscriptomic reads mapping to MIT9301 across the global ocean, implying that this molecular mechanism may be associated with the restricted distribution of Prochlorococcus to temperate zones.},
	keywords = {RCC3377},
	issn = {2150-7511},
	doi = {10.1128/mbio.03425-22},
	url = {https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.03425-22},
	author = {Alonso-S{\'a}ez, Laura and Palacio, Antonio S. and Cabello, Ana M. and Robaina-Est{\'e}vez, Semid{\'a}n and Gonz{\'a}lez, Jos{\'e} M. and Garczarek, Laurence and L{\'o}pez-Urrutia, {\'A}ngel},
	editor = {Martiny, Jennifer B. H.}
}
@article {labban_temperature_2021,
	title = {Temperature Responses of Heterotrophic Bacteria in Co-culture With a Red Sea Synechococcus Strain},
	journal = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
	volume = {12},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {612732},
	abstract = {Interactions between autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria are fundamental for marine biogeochemical cycling. How global warming will affect the dynamics of these essential microbial players is not fully understood. The aims of this study were to identify the major groups of heterotrophic bacteria present in a Synechococcus culture originally isolated from the Red Sea and assess their joint responses to experimental warming within the metabolic ecology framework. A co-culture of Synechococcus sp. RS9907 and their associated heterotrophic bacteria, after determining their taxonomic affiliation by 16S rRNA gene sequencing, was acclimated and maintained in the lab at different temperatures (24{\textendash}34{\textdegree}C). The abundance and cellular properties of Synechococcus and the three dominant heterotrophic bacterial groups (pertaining to the genera Paracoccus, Marinobacter, and Muricauda) were monitored by flow cytometry. The activation energy of Synechococcus, which grew at 0.94{\textendash}1.38 d{\textendash}1, was very similar (0.34 {\textpm} 0.02 eV) to the value hypothesized by the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) for autotrophs (0.32 eV), while the values of the three heterotrophic bacteria ranged from 0.16 to 1.15 eV and were negatively correlated with their corresponding specific growth rates (2.38{\textendash}24.4 d{\textendash}1). The corresponding carrying capacities did not always follow the inverse relationship with temperature predicted by MTE, nor did we observe a consistent response of bacterial cell size and temperature. Our results show that the responses to future ocean warming of autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria in microbial consortia might not be well described by theoretical universal rules.},
	keywords = {rcc, RCC546},
	issn = {1664-302X},
	doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2021.612732},
	url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8141594/},
	author = {Labban, Abbrar and Palacio, Antonio S. and Garc{\'\i}a, Francisca C. and Hadaidi, Ghaida and Ansari, Mohd I. and L{\'o}pez-Urrutia, {\'A}ngel and Alonso-S{\'a}ez, Laura and Hong, Pei-Ying and Mor{\'a}n, Xos{\'e} Anxelu G.}
}
