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. 2021 Jan 21;15(6):1794–1809. doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-00887-6

Fig. 6. Interspecies metabolite transfer of Sulfurospirillum multivorans and Dehalococcoides mccartyi.

Fig. 6

PCE is dechlorinated to cDCE by S. multivorans with electrons from lactate oxidation. After depletion of PCE, S. multivorans switches to fermentative metabolism, thereby generating hydrogen, which is consumed by D. mccartyi as electron donor. The electron acceptor for D. mccartyi is cDCE and is further dechlorinated to ethene or VC by D. mccartyi. S. multivorans synthesizes norpseudo B12 ([Ade]NCba, Inline graphic) and [DMB]NCba (Inline graphic) when DMB (maximally 1 µM) is amended. Both can be salvaged and remodeled by D. mccartyi into [DMB]Cba (Inline graphic with a y-shaped linker). The interspecies cobamide transfer is indicated by yellow arrows. A discrimination between norcobamide or cobamide incorporation into the D. mccartyi RDases is not depicted here, since the data do not allow a conclusion on the cobalamin nucleotide loop type.