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First evidences that the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus mobilizes nitrogen and carbon from saprotrophic fungus necromass Emila Akroume, François Maillard, Cyrille Bach, Christian Hossann, Claude Brechet, Nicolas Angeli, Bernhard Zeller, Laurent Saint-André, Marc Buee To cite this version: Emila Akroume, François Maillard, Cyrille Bach, Christian Hossann, Claude Brechet, et al.. First evidences that the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus mobilizes nitrogen and carbon from saprotrophic fungus necromass. Environmental Microbiology, Society for Applied Microbiology and Wiley-Blackwell, 2019, 21 (1), pp.197-208. 10.1111/1462-2920.14440. hal-02154447 HAL Id: hal-02154447 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02154447 Submitted on 12 Jun 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Environmental Microbiology (2019) 21(1), 197–208 doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14440 First evidences that the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus mobilizes nitrogen and carbon from saprotrophic fungus necromass Emila Akroume,1,2,3,4† François Maillard,1,2† mycelium and mycorrhizas, demonstrating that the Cyrille Bach,1,2 Christian Hossann,5 Claude Brechet,5 EM fungus transferred essentially N from the necro- Nicolas Angeli,5 Bernhard Zeller,3 mass to the tree. These observations reveal that fun- Laurent Saint-André3 and Marc Buée 1,2* gal organic matter could represent a significant N 1INRA, UMR1136 Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, source for EM fungi and trees, but also a C source for F-54280, Champenoux, France. mycorrhizal fungi, including in symbiotic lifestyle. 2Université de Lorraine, UMR1136 Interactions Arbres- Microorganismes, F-54500, Vand uvre-lès-Nancy, Introduction France. 3INRA UR 1138 Biogéochimie des Ecosystèmes In forest ecosystems, dead wood and soil organic matter Forestiers, Centre INRA de Nancy, Champenoux, (SOM) represent essential habitats for a wide variety of France. organisms (Kruys and Jonsson, 1999; Nordén et al., 4Agroparistech, Centre de Nancy, F-54000, Nancy, 2004) and consequently an energy resource for microbes France. and associated ecosystem services, such as soil carbon 5INRA UMR1137 Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestière, sequestration (Clemmensen et al., 2013). Interestingly, if Centre INRA de Nancy, Champenoux, France. soil microorganisms are highly involved in organic matter decomposition and cycling, their own cell degradation and their residual products are important components of Summary this SOM (Schmidt et al., 2011). Indeed, plant tissues, Fungal succession in rotting wood shows a surprising soil fauna and microorganisms are the primary sources abundance of ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi during the of soil organic carbon in forest soils (Six et al., 2006). late decomposition stages. To better understand the In these ecosystems, saproxylic fungi are highly rele- links between EM fungi and saprotrophic fungi, we vant in the process of the degradation of dead wood to investigated the potential capacities of the EM fungus mobilize carbon (Blanchette, 1995; Rajala et al., 2015) Paxillus involutus to mobilize nutrients from necro- and recycle the other major nutrients, such as nitrogen mass of Postia placenta, a wood rot fungus, and to and phosphorus (Watkinson et al., 2006). In addition, this transfer these elements to its host tree. In this aim, we decomposition of woody debris is a temporally dynamic used pure cultures of P. involutus in the presence of process supported by the succession of different fungal labelled Postia necromass (15N/13C) as nutrient ecological groups (Stockland et al., 2012). Interestingly, source, and a monoxenic mycorrhized pine experi- diverse studies reported the recurrent presence and ment composed of labelled Postia necromass and potential role of ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi in this decay- P. involutus culture in interaction with pine seedlings. ing process or in the saproxylic food web dynamics The isotopic labelling was measured in both experi- (Tedersoo et al., 2003; Buée et al., 2007; Rajala et al., P. involutus ments. In pure culture, was able to 2012, 2015; Walker et al., 2012). EM fungi are well Postia mobilize N, but C as well, from the necromass. known to provide soil-derived nutrients in exchange for In the symbiotic interaction experiment, we measured carbohydrates produced by photosynthesis from the host 15 high N enrichments in all plant and fungal compart- tree. This exchange of commodities between two inter- 13 ments. Interestingly, C remains mainly in the acting partners is the most basic element of any biologi- cal market (Werner et al., 2014). In the EM symbiosis, Received 17 January, 2018; accepted 5 October, 2018. *For corre- this market involves the exchange of different commodi- spondence. E-mail [email protected]. Tel : +33 (0)3 83 39 40 72; fi Fax: +33 (0)3 83 39 40 69. †These authors contributed equally to this ties by both partners. Indeed, EM fungi are highly ef cient work. at exploring the soil and mobilizing nutrients, particularly © 2018 Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 198 E. Akroume et al. organic ones that would not be directly available to their known about the turn-over of this large pool of organic plant hosts (Smith and Read, 2010). Therefore, rotting nitrogen. Different authors have suggested that EM fungi wood could constitute a particular niche for EM fungi are capable of degrading fungal necromass and to lyse involved in a symbiotic interaction with their host-tree roots. associated cell walls. Indeed, Leake and Read (1990) More precisely, it was suggested that certain EM fungi colo- have reported potential chitinolytic activities from EM fungi nized dead wood acting as scavengers by degrading wood by quantifying the mycelial growth of diverse ericoid and rot fungi (Buée et al., 2007; Rajala et al., 2012; Mäkipää EM fungi with chitin as the sole source of nitrogen. Com- et al., 2017; Maillard et al., 2018). The abilities of EM fungi plementary to these observations, enzymatic approaches to mobilize nutrients from dead organic matter have been confirmed the expression of proteolytic and chitinolytic suggested in numerous studies (Buée et al., 2005; Courty activities from EM fungal mycelium in presence of sapro- et al., 2007; Lindahl and Finlay, 2006; Talbot et al., 2013; trophic fungal necromass, or pure chitin (Hodge et al., Vaario et al., 2002). Some authors have even reported that 1995; Mucha et al., 2006; Mucha et al., 2007; Maillard EM fungi would be able to mobilize carbon from plant et al., 2018). Moreover, Lindahl and Taylor (2004) organic matter (e.g., cellulose and hemicellulose) for their reported the frequent occurrence of N-acetylhexosamini- development (Durall et al., 1994); but also, under certain dase-encoding genes in ectomycorrhizal fungi. Finally, conditions, to mitigate or offset losses in the host-tree car- although some studies have shown EM chitinase or pro- bon budget through a mixotrophic interaction (Cullings and teolytic activities in the presence of fungal necromass, Courty, 2009; Bréda et al., 2013). Rineau et al. (2012) have there has been no effective demonstration of nitrogen and investigated the mechanisms by which Paxillus involutus carbon mobilization from fungal cell walls to the EM fun- could degrade organic matter. The expression profile of gus, with a potential transfer to the plant host. genes potentially involved in organic matter degradation The use of biomarkers in combination with stable iso- revealed that only few of them were expected to be tope analysis is an efficient approach in microbial ecology involved in plant cell wall degradation. Additionally, Rineau to study carbon or nitrogen transfer. Coupled with analyti- et al. (2012) reported in this study that P. involutus induces cal techniques, such as gas chromatography-combustion- chemical changes in plant organic matter similar to isotope ratio mass spectrometry, stable isotope labelling hydroxyl radical attacks of brown-rot fungi, involving Fenton (e.g., for 15Nuptakeor13C mobilization or respiration) pro- chemistry. More recently Kohler et al. (2015) demonstrated vides the unique opportunity to link biological identity (bio- strong losses of genes encoding enzymes involved in the marker) and biopolymer decomposition and associated decay of lignin within EM fungal genomes, including class II activities (Boschker and Middelburg, 2002). Using 13C/15N peroxidases or glyoxal oxidases, suggesting they have lim- stable isotopic tracing, the aims of our study were (i) to ited genomic capacity to degrade lignocellulose. Neverthe- prove the capability of an EM fungus to decompose the less, a limited presence of class II peroxidases and glyoxal necromass of a ligninolytic fungus and mobilize nutrients oxidases is not an evidence for a limited capacity to (N and/or C) in a pure culture experiment; (ii) to extend degrade plant cell walls. Indeed, despite observed expan- this demonstration to symbiotic conditions; (iii) to sions in peroxidase gene families within white rot fungi, quantify N, and potentially C, transfers