Genomic analysis of Melioribacter roseus, facultatively anaerobic organotrophic bacterium representing a novel deep lineage within Bacteriodetes/Chlorobi group.
PLoS One, 2013;8(1):e53047.
Kadnikov VV[1], Mardanov AV, Podosokorskaya OA, Gavrilov SN, Kublanov IV, Beletsky AV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Ravin NV
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PMID: 23301019DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053047
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Abstract
Melioribacter roseus is a moderately thermophilic facultatively anaerobic organotrophic bacterium representing a novel deep branch within Bacteriodetes/Chlorobi group. To better understand the metabolic capabilities and possible ecological functions of M. roseus and get insights into the evolutionary history of this bacterial lineage, we sequenced the genome of the type strain P3M-2(T). A total of 2838 open reading frames was predicted from its 3.30 Mb genome. The whole proteome analysis supported phylum-level classification of M. roseus since most of the predicted proteins had closest matches in Bacteriodetes, Proteobacteria, Chlorobi, Firmicutes and deeply-branching bacterium Caldithrix abyssi, rather than in one particular phylum. Consistent with the ability of the bacterium to grow on complex carbohydrates, the genome analysis revealed more than one hundred glycoside hydrolases, glycoside transferases, polysaccharide lyases and carbohydrate esterases. The reconstructed central metabolism revealed pathways enabling the fermentation of complex organic substrates, as well as their complete oxidation through aerobic and anaerobic respiration. Genes encoding the photosynthetic and nitrogen-fixation machinery of green sulfur bacteria, as well as key enzymes of autotrophic carbon fixation pathways, were not identified. The M. roseus genome supports its affiliation to a novel phylum Ignavibateriae, representing the first step on the evolutionary pathway from heterotrophic ancestors of Bacteriodetes/Chlorobi group towards anaerobic photoautotrophic Chlorobi.
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Bacteria, Anaerobic; Bacteroidetes; Base Composition; Carbohydrate Metabolism; Electron Transport; Genome, Bacterial; Genomics; Hydrolysis; Likelihood Functions; Metabolic Networks and Pathways; Photosynthesis; Phylogeny; Polysaccharides; Proteome; RNA, Ribosomal; Ribosomes; Transcription, Genetic
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