Bifidobacterium asteroides PRL2011 genome analysis reveals clues for colonization of the insect gut.
PLoS One, 2012;7(9):e44229.
Bottacini F[1], Milani C, Turroni F, Sánchez B, Foroni E, Duranti S, Serafini F, Viappiani A, Strati F, Ferrarini A, Delledonne M, Henrissat B, Coutinho P, Fitzgerald GF, Margolles A, van Sinderen D, Ventura M
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PMID: 23028506DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044229
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Abstract
Bifidobacteria are known as anaerobic/microaerophilic and fermentative microorganisms, which commonly inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of various animals and insects. Analysis of the 2,167,301 bp genome of Bifidobacterium asteroides PRL2011, a strain isolated from the hindgut of Apis mellifera var. ligustica, commonly known as the honey bee, revealed its predicted capability for respiratory metabolism. Conservation of the latter gene clusters in various B. asteroides strains enforces the notion that respiration is a common metabolic feature of this ancient bifidobacterial species, which has been lost in currently known mammal-derived Bifidobacterium species. In fact, phylogenomic based analyses suggested an ancient origin of B. asteroides and indicates it as an ancestor of the genus Bifidobacterium. Furthermore, the B. asteroides PRL2011 genome encodes various enzymes for coping with toxic products that arise as a result of oxygen-mediated respiration.
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Animals; Bifidobacterium; Cluster Analysis; Gastrointestinal Tract; Gene Expression Profiling; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Gene Order; Genetic Variation; Genome, Bacterial; Insecta; Oxygen Consumption; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; Sequence Analysis, DNA
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