bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.26.428071; this version posted January 26, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Sulfur-fueled chemolithoautotrophs 2 replenish organic carbon inventory in 3 groundwater 4 Martin Taubert1,+, Beatrix M. Heinze1, Will A. Overholt1, Georgette Azemtsop2, Rola Houhou2, Nico 5 Jehmlich3, Martin von Bergen3,4, Petra Rösch2, Jürgen Popp2,5, Kirsten Küsel1,6 6 1Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Str. 7 159, 07743 Jena, Germany 8 2Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 9 Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany 10 3Department of Molecular Systems Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, 11 Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 12 4Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, University of Leipzig, 13 Brüderstraße 32, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 14 5Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, 07745 Jena, Germany 15 6German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5E, 16 04103 Leipzig, Germany 17 +Corresponding author: Martin Taubert; Tel.: +49 3641 949459; Fax: +49 3641 949402; E-mail: 18
[email protected] 13 19 Keywords: Chemolithoautotrophy, groundwater, CO2 stable isotope probing, genome-resolved 20 metaproteomics, metagenomics, Raman microspectroscopy 21 Short title: Chemolithoautotrophy in shallow groundwater 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.26.428071; this version posted January 26, 2021.