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Duan Y, Santos-Júnior CD, Schmidt TS, Fullam A, de Almeida BLS, Zhu C, Kuhn M, Zhao XM, Bork P, Coelho LP. A catalog of small proteins from the global microbiome. Nat Commun 2024; 15:7563. [PMID: 39214983 PMCID: PMC11364881 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51894-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 08/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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Small open reading frames (smORFs) shorter than 100 codons are widespread and perform essential roles in microorganisms, where they encode proteins active in several cell functions, including signal pathways, stress response, and antibacterial activities. However, the ecology, distribution and role of small proteins in the global microbiome remain unknown. Here, we construct a global microbial smORFs catalog (GMSC) derived from 63,410 publicly available metagenomes across 75 distinct habitats and 87,920 high-quality isolate genomes. GMSC contains 965 million non-redundant smORFs with comprehensive annotations. We find that archaea harbor more smORFs proportionally than bacteria. We moreover provide a tool called GMSC-mapper to identify and annotate small proteins from microbial (meta)genomes. Overall, this publicly-available resource demonstrates the immense and underexplored diversity of small proteins.
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- Yiqian Duan
- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Laboratory of Microbial Processes & Biodiversity - LMPB; Department of Hydrobiology, Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
- APC Microbiome and School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
- Department of Neurology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
- Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai, 200031, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
- MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
- Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
- Centre for Microbiome Research, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia.
- Centre for Data Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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Lee CY, Chan CK, Chen YS, Lee YS, Lin ST, Chang YC, Wu HC, Zhang JR, Chen HY, Wang LT. Streptococcus taoyuanensis sp. nov., a Novel Species Isolated from a Patient with Bacteremia. Curr Microbiol 2024; 81:286. [PMID: 39073451 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-024-03806-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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Streptococcus spp. are important opportunistic pathogen of bacteremia in both immunocompetent and immunosuppressed patients. A streptococcal strain, designated ST2T, was isolated from the blood specimen of a bacteremic patient. Comparative analyses of 16S rRNA, rpoB and groEL gene sequences demonstrated that the novel strain ST2T is a member of the genus Streptococcus. Based on of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities, the type strains of Streptococcus (S.) parasanguinis (99.2%), S. ilei (98.8%), S. oralis subsp. oralis (97.6%), S. australis (97.5%) and S. sanguinis (97.5%) were the closest neighbours to strain ST2T. The housekeeping gene sequences (rpoB and groEL) similarities of strain ST2T to these closely related type strains were 80.4-97.4%, respectively. The complete draft genome of strain ST2T consisted of 2,155,906 bp with a G + C content of 42.0%. Strain ST2T has an average nucleotide identity (ANI) value of 94.1 and 81.3% with S. parasanguinis ATCC 15912T and S. ilei I-G2T, respectively. The highest in silico DNA-DNA hybridization value with respect to the closest species S. parasanguinis was 55.6%, below the species cut-off of 70% hybridization. The primary cellular fatty acids of strain ST2T were C16:0, C18:1 ω9c, C18:0 and C14:0. Based on biochemical criteria and molecular genetic evidence, it is proposed that strain ST2T be assigned to a new species of the genus Streptococcus as Streptococcus taoyuanensis sp. nov. The type strain of Streptococcus taoyuanensis is ST2T (=NBRC 115928T = BCRC 81374T) as the type strain.
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- Chien-Yu Lee
- Department of Pediatrics, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, No. 1492, Zhongshan Rd., Taoyuan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
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- Department of Pediatrics, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, No. 1492, Zhongshan Rd., Taoyuan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu, 30062, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan District, Taoyuan, 330, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu, 30062, Taiwan, R.O.C..
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Lee CY, Chan CK, Chida M, Miyashita M, Lee YS, Wu HC, Chang YC, Lin WT, Chen YS. Streptococcus taonis sp. nov., a novel bacterial species isolated from a blood culture of a patient. Arch Microbiol 2024; 206:168. [PMID: 38489085 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-024-03884-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024]
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One Gram stain-positive, catalase-negative, α-hemolytic, chain-forming or paired cocci, designated ST22-14T, was isolated from a blood culture of a child with suspected infection. The results of 16S rRNA gene sequences analyses showed that the most closely related species to strain ST22-14T were "Streptococcus vulneris" DM3B3T (99.2%), Streptococcus mitis NCTC 12261T (99.0%), "Streptococcus gwangjuense" ChDC B345T, (99.0%), Streptococcus oralis subsp. dentisani 7747T (99.0%), Streptococcus downii CECT 9732T (99.0%), and Streptococcus infantis ATCC 700779T (98.9%). The genome of strain ST22-14T consists of 2,053,261 bp with a G + C content of 39.4%. Average nucleotide identity values between strain ST22-14T and Streptococcus mitis NCTC 12261T or other five species were from 82.2 to 88.0%. In silico DNA-DNA hybridization of ST22-14T showed an estimated DNA reassociation value of 34.6% with the closest species. The main cellular fatty acids of strain ST22-14T were 16:0, 18:0, 14:0, 18:1ω7c and 18:1ω6c. Based on these results, strain ST22-14T should be classified as a novel species of genus Streptococcus, for which the name Streptococcus taonis sp. nov. is proposed (type strain ST22-14T = NBRC 116002T = BCRC 81402T).
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- Chien-Yu Lee
- Department of Pediatrics, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, No.1492, Zhongshan Rd., Taoyuan Dist., Taoyuan City, 330, Taiwan ROC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, No.1492, Zhongshan Rd., Taoyuan Dist., Taoyuan City, 330, Taiwan ROC
- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City, 333, Taiwan ROC
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City, 333, Taiwan ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City, 333, Taiwan ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City, 333, Taiwan ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City, 333, Taiwan ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City, 333, Taiwan ROC.
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Pan Z, Li DD, Li P, Geng Y, Jiang Y, Liu Y, Li YZ, Zhang Z. GDPF: a data resource for the distribution of prokaryotic protein families across the global biosphere. Nucleic Acids Res 2024; 52:D724-D731. [PMID: 37823598 PMCID: PMC10767866 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Microorganisms encode most of the functions of life on Earth. However, conventional research has primarily focused on specific environments such as humans, soil and oceans, leaving the distribution of functional families throughout the global biosphere poorly comprehended. Here, we present the database of the global distribution of prokaryotic protein families (GDPF, http://bioinfo.qd.sdu.edu.cn/GDPF/), a data resource on the distribution of functional families across the global biosphere. GDPF provides global distribution information for 36 334 protein families, 19 734 superfamilies and 12 089 KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) orthologs from multiple source databases, covering typical environments such as soil, oceans, animals, plants and sediments. Users can browse, search and download the distribution data of each entry in 10 000 global microbial communities, as well as conduct comparative analysis of distribution disparities among multiple entries across various environments. The GDPF data resource contributes to uncovering the geographical distribution patterns, key influencing factors and macroecological principles of microbial functions at a global level, thereby promoting research in Earth ecology and human health.
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- Zhuo Pan
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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Goff JL, Lui LM, Nielsen TN, Poole FL, Smith HJ, Walker KF, Hazen TC, Fields MW, Arkin AP, Adams MWW. Mixed waste contamination selects for a mobile genetic element population enriched in multiple heavy metal resistance genes. ISME COMMUNICATIONS 2024; 4:ycae064. [PMID: 38800128 PMCID: PMC11128244 DOI: 10.1093/ismeco/ycae064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Revised: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
Abstract
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) like plasmids, viruses, and transposable elements can provide fitness benefits to their hosts for survival in the presence of environmental stressors. Heavy metal resistance genes (HMRGs) are frequently observed on MGEs, suggesting that MGEs may be an important driver of adaptive evolution in environments contaminated with heavy metals. Here, we report the meta-mobilome of the heavy metal-contaminated regions of the Oak Ridge Reservation subsurface. This meta-mobilome was compared with one derived from samples collected from unimpacted regions of the Oak Ridge Reservation subsurface. We assembled 1615 unique circularized DNA elements that we propose to be MGEs. The circular elements from the highly contaminated subsurface were enriched in HMRG clusters relative to those from the nearby unimpacted regions. Additionally, we found that these HMRGs were associated with Gamma and Betaproteobacteria hosts in the contaminated subsurface and potentially facilitate the persistence and dominance of these taxa in this region. Finally, the HMRGs were associated with conjugative elements, suggesting their potential for future lateral transfer. We demonstrate how our understanding of MGE ecology, evolution, and function can be enhanced through the genomic context provided by completed MGE assemblies.
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- Jennifer L Goff
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States
- Department of Chemistry, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, United States
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- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States
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- Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916, United States
- Genome Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, United States
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- Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States
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- Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States
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Rajeh A, Cornman HL, Gupta A, Szeto MD, Kambala A, Oladipo O, Parthasarathy V, Deng J, Wheelan S, Pritchard T, Kwatra MM, Semenov YR, Gusev A, Yegnasubramanian S, Kwatra SG. Somatic mutations reveal hyperactive Notch signaling and racial disparities in prurigo nodularis. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2023:2023.09.25.23295810. [PMID: 37808834 PMCID: PMC10557842 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.25.23295810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Prurigo nodularis (PN) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that disproportionately affects African Americans and is characterized by pruritic skin nodules of unknown etiology. Little is known about genetic alterations in PN pathogenesis, especially relating to somatic events which are often implicated in inflammatory conditions. We thus performed whole-exome sequencing on 54 lesional and nonlesional skin biopsies from 17 PN patients and 10 atopic dermatitis (AD) patients for comparison. Somatic mutational analysis revealed that PN lesional skin harbors pervasive somatic mutations in fibrotic, neurotropic, and cancer-associated genes. Nonsynonymous mutations were most frequent in NOTCH1 and the Notch signaling pathway, a regulator of cellular proliferation and tissue fibrosis, and NOTCH1 mutations were absent in AD. Somatic copy-number analysis, combined with expression data, showed that recurrently deleted and downregulated genes in PN lesional skin are associated with axonal guidance and extension. Follow-up immunofluorescence validation demonstrated increased NOTCH1 expression in PN lesional skin fibroblasts and increased Notch signaling in PN lesional dermis. Finally, multi-center data revealed a significantly increased risk of NOTCH1-associated diseases in PN patients. In characterizing the somatic landscape of PN, we uncover novel insights into its pathophysiology and identify a role for dysregulated Notch signaling in PN.
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- Ahmad Rajeh
- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Present affiliation: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Wang J, Chitsaz F, Derbyshire MK, Gonzales NR, Gwadz M, Lu S, Marchler G, Song J, Thanki N, Yamashita R, Yang M, Zhang D, Zheng C, Lanczycki C, Marchler-Bauer A. The conserved domain database in 2023. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 51:D384-D388. [PMID: 36477806 PMCID: PMC9825596 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac1096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 86.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2022] [Revised: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
NLM's conserved domain database (CDD) is a collection of protein domain and protein family models constructed as multiple sequence alignments. Its main purpose is to provide annotation for protein and translated nucleotide sequences with the location of domain footprints and associated functional sites, and to define protein domain architecture as a basis for assigning gene product names and putative/predicted function. CDD has been available publicly for over 20 years and has grown substantially during that time. Maintaining an archive of pre-computed annotation continues to be a challenge and has slowed down the cadence of CDD releases. CDD curation staff builds hierarchical classifications of large protein domain families, adds models for novel domain families via surveillance of the protein 'dark matter' that currently lacks annotation, and now spends considerable effort on providing names and attribution for conserved domain architectures. CDD can be accessed at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml.
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- Jiyao Wang
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 301 435 4919; Fax: +1 301 435 7793;
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Chen YS, Wang LT, Lin ST, Lee YS, Chang YC, Wu HC, Liao CY, Chen WH, Deng JN, Wang YH. Fructobacillus apis sp. nov., isolated from the gut of honeybee ( Apis mellifera). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72. [PMID: 36748588 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
A Gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, catalase-negative, fructose-dependent strain (W13T) was isolated from the gut of honeybee (Apis mellifera). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing indicated that strain W13T represents a distinct line of descent within the genus Fructobacillus, with the closest neighbours being Fructobacillus broussonetiae BCRC 81240T (98.9 % sequence similarity) and Fructobacillus durionis DSM 19113T (96.8 % sequence similarity). Comparative sequencing of the additional phylogenetic markers rpoC and recA confirmed the 16S rRNA gene tree topology. The complete genome of strain W13T consisted of 1 292 712 bp with a G+C content of 48.3 mol%. Pairwise comparisons of the average nucleotide identity values and digital DNA-DNA hybridization values between the genomes of W13T and its close phylogenetic neighbours, F. broussonetiae BCRC 81240T and F. durionis DSM 19113T, resulted in 76.2-84.1 % and 20.2-27.6 %, respectively. The main cellular fatty acids of strain W13T were C16 : 0, C18 : 1 ω9c and C18 : 1 ω7c. Thus, we propose a novel species within the genus Fructobacillus, with the name Fructobacillus apis sp. nov. and the type strain is W13T (= NBRC 115637T=BCRC 81365T).
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- Yi-Sheng Chen
- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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Liu Y, Liu S, Pan Z, Ren Y, Jiang Y, Wang F, Li DD, Li YZ, Zhang Z. PAT: a comprehensive database of prokaryotic antimicrobial toxins. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 51:D452-D459. [PMID: 36243963 PMCID: PMC9825508 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Revised: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Antimicrobial toxins help prokaryotes win competitive advantages in intraspecific or interspecific conflicts and are also a critical factor affecting the pathogenicity of many pathogens that threaten human health. Although many studies have revealed that antagonism based on antimicrobial toxins plays a central role in prokaryotic life, a database on antimicrobial toxins remains lacking. Here, we present the prokaryotic antimicrobial toxin database (PAT, http://bioinfo.qd.sdu.edu.cn/PAT/), a comprehensive data resource collection on experimentally validated antimicrobial toxins. PAT has organized information, derived from the reported literature, on antimicrobial toxins, as well as the corresponding immunity proteins, delivery mechanisms, toxin activities, structural characteristics, sequences, etc. Moreover, we also predict potential antimicrobial toxins in prokaryotic reference genomes and show the taxonomic information and environmental distribution of typical antimicrobial toxins. These details have been fully incorporated into the PAT database, where users can browse, search, download, analyse and view informative statistics and detailed information. PAT resources have already been used in our prediction and identification of prokaryotic antimicrobial toxins and may contribute to promoting the efficient investigation of antimicrobial toxin functions, the discovery of novel antimicrobial toxins, and an improved understanding of the biological roles and significance of these toxins.
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- Ya Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Correspondence may also be addressed to Yue-zhong Li. Tel: +86 532 58631539;
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +86 532 58631557;
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Vibrio salinus sp. nov., a marine nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from the lagoon sediment of an islet inside an atoll in the western Pacific Ocean. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2022; 115:1203-1214. [PMID: 35908088 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-022-01768-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/17/2022] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
Abstract
A marine, facultatively anaerobic, nitrogen-fixing bacterium, designated strain DNF-1T, was isolated from the lagoon sediment of Dongsha Island, Taiwan. Cells grown in broth cultures were Gram-negative rods that were motile by means of monotrichous flagella. Cells grown on plate medium produced prosthecae and vesicle-like structures. NaCl was required and optimal growth occurred at about 2-3% NaCl, 25-30 °C and pH 7-8. The strain grew aerobically and was capable of anaerobic growth by fermenting D-glucose or other carbohydrates as substrate. Both the aerobic and anaerobic growth could be achieved with NH4Cl as a sole nitrogen source. When N2 served as the sole nitrogen source only anaerobic growth was observed. Major cellular fatty acids were C14:0, C16:0 and C16:1 ω7c, while major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylglycerol. The DNA G+C content was 42.2 mol% based on the genomic DNA data. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA genes and the housekeeping genes, gapA, pyrH, recA and gyrB, revealed that the strain formed a distinct lineage at species level in the genus Vibrio of the family Vibrionaceae. These results and those from genomic, chemotaxonomic and physiological studies strongly support the assignment of a novel Vibrio species. The name Vibrio salinus sp. nov. is proposed for the novel species, with DNF-1T (= BCRC 81209T = JCM 33626T) as the type strain. This newly proposed species represents the second example of the genus Vibrio that has been demonstrated to be capable of anaerobic growth by fixing N2 as the sole nitrogen source.
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Streptococcus vulneris sp. nov., isolated from wound of patient with diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). Arch Microbiol 2022; 204:359. [DOI: 10.1007/s00203-022-02981-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Carbonari CC, Miliwebsky ES, Zolezzi G, Deza NL, Fittipaldi N, Manfredi E, Baschkier A, D’Astek BA, Melano RG, Schesi C, Rivas M, Chinen I. The Importance of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O145:NM[H28]/H28 Infections in Argentina, 1998–2020. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10030582. [PMID: 35336157 PMCID: PMC8950694 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10030582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2021] [Revised: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is known as a pathogen associated with food-borne diseases. The STEC O145 serogroup has been related with acute watery diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Argentina has the highest rate of HUS worldwide with 70% of the cases associated with STEC infections. We aimed to describe the epidemiology and genetic diversity of STEC O145 strains isolated across Argentina between 1998–2020. The strains isolated from 543 cases of human disease and four cattle, were pheno-genotipically characterized. Sequencing of five strains was performed. The strains were serotyped as O145:NM[H28]/H28, O145:H25, and O145:HNT, and mainly characterized as O145:NM[H28]/stx2a/eae/ehxA (98.1%). The results obtained by sequencing were consistent with those obtained by traditional methods and additional genes involved in different mechanisms of the pathogen were observed. In this study, we confirmed that STEC O145 strains are the second serogroup after O157 and represent 20.3% of HUS cases in Argentina. The frequency of STEC O145 and other significant serogroups is of utmost importance for public health in the country. This study encourages the improvement of the surveillance system to prevent severe cases of human disease.
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- Claudia Carolina Carbonari
- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
- Correspondence:
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC J2S 2M2, Canada;
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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- Public Health Ontario, Toronto Laboratories, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, Canada;
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, Canada
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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- Servicio Fisiopatogenia, Departamento Bacteriología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas-ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (E.S.M.); (G.Z.); (N.L.D.); (E.M.); (A.B.); (B.A.D.); (C.S.); (M.R.); (I.C.)
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McKay LJ, Nigro OD, Dlakić M, Luttrell KM, Rusch DB, Fields MW, Inskeep WP. Sulfur cycling and host-virus interactions in Aquificales-dominated biofilms from Yellowstone's hottest ecosystems. THE ISME JOURNAL 2022; 16:842-855. [PMID: 34650231 PMCID: PMC8857204 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-01132-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 09/20/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Modern linkages among magmatic, geochemical, and geobiological processes provide clues about the importance of thermophiles in the origin of biogeochemical cycles. The aim of this study was to identify the primary chemoautotrophs and host-virus interactions involved in microbial colonization and biogeochemical cycling at sublacustrine, vapor-dominated vents that represent the hottest measured ecosystems in Yellowstone National Park (~140 °C). Filamentous microbial communities exposed to extreme thermal and geochemical gradients were sampled using a remotely operated vehicle and subjected to random metagenome sequencing and microscopic analyses. Sulfurihydrogenibium (phylum Aquificae) was the predominant lineage (up to 84% relative abundance) detected at vents that discharged high levels of dissolved H2, H2S, and CO2. Metabolic analyses indicated carbon fixation by Sulfurihydrogenibium spp. was powered by the oxidation of reduced sulfur and H2, which provides organic carbon for heterotrophic community members. Highly variable Sulfurihydrogenibium genomes suggested the importance of intra-population diversity under extreme environmental and viral pressures. Numerous lytic viruses (primarily unclassified taxa) were associated with diverse archaea and bacteria in the vent community. Five circular dsDNA uncultivated virus genomes (UViGs) of ~40 kbp length were linked to the Sulfurihydrogenibium metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) by CRISPR spacer matches. Four UViGs contained consistent genome architecture and formed a monophyletic cluster with the recently proposed Pyrovirus genus within the Caudovirales. Sulfurihydrogenibium spp. also contained CRISPR arrays linked to plasmid DNA with genes for a novel type IV filament system and a highly expressed β-barrel porin. A diverse suite of transcribed secretion systems was consistent with direct microscopic analyses, which revealed an extensive extracellular matrix likely critical to community structure and function. We hypothesize these attributes are fundamental to the establishment and survival of microbial communities in highly turbulent, extreme-gradient environments.
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- Luke J. McKay
- grid.41891.350000 0001 2156 6108Department of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA ,grid.41891.350000 0001 2156 6108Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA ,grid.41891.350000 0001 2156 6108Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
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- grid.256872.c0000 0000 8741 0387Department of Natural Science, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI 96813 USA
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- grid.41891.350000 0001 2156 6108Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
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- grid.64337.350000 0001 0662 7451Department of Geology & Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
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- grid.411377.70000 0001 0790 959XCenter for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
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- grid.41891.350000 0001 2156 6108Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA ,grid.41891.350000 0001 2156 6108Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
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- grid.41891.350000 0001 2156 6108Department of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA ,grid.41891.350000 0001 2156 6108Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
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Chung JH, Otoguro M, Yanagida F, Wu HC, Chang YC, Lee YS, Chen YS. Enterococcus alishanensis sp. nov., a novel lactic acid bacterium isolated from fresh coffee beans. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72. [DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
A coccus-shaped organism, designated ALS3T, was isolated from fresh coffee cherries collected at a farm located in the Ali Mountain region of Taiwan. Sequence analysis of its 16S rRNA gene indicated that strain ALS3T belongs to the genus
Enterococcus
and has more than 98.5 % sequence similarity to
Enterococcus pallens
and
Enterococcus hermanniensis
. When comparing the ALS3T genome with these two type strains, the average nucleotide identity values and digital DNA–DNA hybridization values were 72.6–73.3 and 19.2 %, respectively. The G+C content of the genomic DNA from strain ALS3T was 35.6 mol%. Results of sequence analysis, together with enzymatic activities and characteristics of carbohydrate metabolism, indicated that strain ALS3T is distinct and represents a novel species, for which the name Enterococcus alishanensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is ALS3T (=NBRC 109593T=BCRC 80605T).
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- Jen-hao Chung
- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Gui-Shan Township Taoyuan County 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- The Institute of Enology and Viticulture, University of Yamanashi, 1-13-1, Kitashin, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-0005, Japan
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- The Institute of Enology and Viticulture, University of Yamanashi, 1-13-1, Kitashin, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-0005, Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Gui-Shan Township Taoyuan County 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Gui-Shan Township Taoyuan County 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Gui-Shan Township Taoyuan County 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Gui-Shan Township Taoyuan County 333, Taiwan, ROC
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Lin ST, Guu JR, Wang HM, Tamura T, Mori K, Huang L, Watanabe K. Fructobacillus papyriferae sp. nov., Fructobacillus papyrifericola sp. nov., Fructobacillus broussonetiae sp. nov. and Fructobacillus parabroussonetiae sp. nov., isolated from paper mulberry in Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72. [DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Five Gram-stain-positive strains (M1-10T, M1-13, M1-21T, M2-14T and S1-1T) were isolated from paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) in Taiwan. Cells were rod-shaped, non-motile, non-haemolytic, asporogenous, facultatively anaerobic, heterofermentative, and did not exhibit catalase and oxidase activities. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that these novel strains belonged to the genus
Fructobacillus
. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities, the type strains of
Fructobacillus fructosus
and
Fructobacillus durionis
were the closest neighbours to strains M1-10T, M1-13, M1-21T, M2-14T and S1-1T. Sequence analyses of concatenated two partial housekeeping genes, the RNA polymerase beta subunit (rpoC) and recombinase A (recA) also indicated that the novel strains belonged to the genus
Fructobacillus
. The 16S rRNA and concatenated rpoC and recA gene sequence similarities between strains M1-10T and M1-13 were 100 %, respectively. The average nucleotide identity values of M1-10T, M1-21T, M2-14T and S1-1T with
F. fructosus
and
F. durionis
were 75.1–78.9% and 76.5–77.5 %, respectively. The digital DNA–DNA hybridization values were 19.7–21.5% and 19.6–20.4 %, respectively. Phenotypic and genotypic test results demonstrated that these strains represent four novel species of the genus
Fructobacillus
, for which the names Fructobacillus papyriferae sp. nov., Fructobacillus papyrifericola sp. nov., Fructobacillus broussonetiae sp. nov. and Fructobacillus parabroussonetiae sp. nov. are proposed with the type strains M1-10T (=BCRC 81237T=NBRC 114433T), M1-21T (=BCRC 81239T=NBRC 114435T), M2-14T (=BCRC 81240T=NBRC 114436T) and S1-1T (=BCRC 81241T=NBRC 114437T), respectively.
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- Shih-Ting Lin
- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, No. 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, No. 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, No. 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, No. 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Animal Science and Technology, College of Bioresources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Taipei 10673, Taiwan, ROC
- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, No. 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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Zhang MJ, Li XH, Peng LY, Yun ST, Liu ZC, Zhou YX. Williamsia soli sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from soil at a thermal power plant in Yantai, China. Arch Microbiol 2021; 204:102. [DOI: 10.1007/s00203-021-02714-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Di Cesare A, Pinnell LJ, Brambilla D, Elli G, Sabatino R, Sathicq MB, Corno G, O'Donnell C, Turner JW. Bioplastic accumulates antibiotic and metal resistance genes in coastal marine sediments. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 291:118161. [PMID: 34537596 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Revised: 09/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
The oceans are increasingly polluted with plastic debris, and several studies have implicated plastic as a reservoir for antibiotic resistance genes and a potential vector for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Bioplastic is widely regarded as an environmentally friendly replacement to conventional petroleum-based plastic, but the effects of bioplastic pollution on marine environments remain largely unknown. Here, we present the first evidence that bioplastic accumulates antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and metal resistance genes (MRGs) in marine sediments. Biofilms fouling ceramic, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) were investigated by shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Four ARG groups were more abundant in PHA: trimethoprim resistance (TMP), multidrug resistance (MDR), macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin resistance (MLS), and polymyxin resistance (PMR). One MRG group was more abundant in PHA: multimetal resistance (MMR). The relative abundance of ARGs and MRGs were strongly correlated based on a Mantel test between the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrices (R = 0.97, p < 0.05) and a Pearson's analysis (R = 0.96, p < 0.05). ARGs were detected in more than 40% of the 57 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) while MRGs were detected in more than 90% of the MAGs. Further investigation (e.g., culturing, genome sequencing, antibiotic susceptibility testing) revealed that PHA biofilms were colonized by hemolytic Bacillus cereus group bacteria that were resistant to beta-lactams, vancomycin, and bacitracin. Taken together, our findings indicate that bioplastic, like conventional petroleum-based plastic, is a reservoir for resistance genes and a potential vector for antibiotic-resistant bacteria in coastal marine sediments.
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- Andrea Di Cesare
- Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRSA), MEG - Molecular Ecology Group, Largo Tonolli 50, 28922, Verbania, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, 78412, United States
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- Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRSA), MEG - Molecular Ecology Group, Largo Tonolli 50, 28922, Verbania, Italy
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- Division of Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100, Lund, Sweden
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- Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRSA), MEG - Molecular Ecology Group, Largo Tonolli 50, 28922, Verbania, Italy
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- Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRSA), MEG - Molecular Ecology Group, Largo Tonolli 50, 28922, Verbania, Italy
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- Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRSA), MEG - Molecular Ecology Group, Largo Tonolli 50, 28922, Verbania, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, 78412, United States
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- Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, 78412, United States.
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Fan H, Yang W, Nie J, Lin C, Wu J, Wu D, Wang Y. Characterization of a Secretory YML079-like Cupin Protein That Contributes to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Pathogenicity. Microorganisms 2021; 9:2519. [PMID: 34946121 PMCID: PMC8704077 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9122519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2021] [Revised: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Sclerotinia sclerotiorum causes devastating diseases in many agriculturally important crops, including oilseed rape and sunflower. However, the mechanisms of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum pathogenesis remain poorly understood. In this study, we characterized a YML079-like cupin protein (SsYCP1) from Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. We showed that SsYCP1 is strongly expressed and secreted during Sclerotinia sclerotiorum infection. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum infection was promoted by SsYCP1 overexpression and inhibited by silencing this gene with synthetic double-stranded RNA. These results collectively indicate SsYCP1 as a putative effector protein that contributes to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum pathogenicity. These findings extend our understanding of effector-mediated Sclerotinia sclerotiorum pathogenesis and suggest a novel role for YML079-like cupin proteins in plant-pathogen interactions.
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- Hongxia Fan
- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (H.F.); (W.Y.); (J.N.); (C.L.); (J.W.)
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (H.F.); (W.Y.); (J.N.); (C.L.); (J.W.)
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (H.F.); (W.Y.); (J.N.); (C.L.); (J.W.)
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (H.F.); (W.Y.); (J.N.); (C.L.); (J.W.)
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (H.F.); (W.Y.); (J.N.); (C.L.); (J.W.)
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (H.F.); (W.Y.); (J.N.); (C.L.); (J.W.)
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (H.F.); (W.Y.); (J.N.); (C.L.); (J.W.)
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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Streptococcus vaginalis sp. nov., a novel bacterial species isolated from vaginal swabs of a pregnant woman with diabetes. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:5475-5482. [PMID: 34417650 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-021-02532-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Sequences targeted at the V3 and V4 16S rRNA hypervariable regions of a streptococcal strain (P1L01T) isolated from vaginal swabs of a pregnant woman with diabetes were 100% similar to those of Streptococcus anginosus subsp. whileyi. However, phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA full-gene sequencing (1562 bp) revealed highest sequence similarity to Streptococcus periodonticum (98.7%), followed by Streptococcus anginosus subsp. whileyi (98.7%), and Streptococcus anginosus subsp. anginosus (98.4%). Phylogenies of housekeeping genes rpoB and groEL were compared to improve classification, and the results showed a clear separation between strain P1L01T and closely related Streptococcus type strains. The complete genome of strain P1L01T consisted of 2,108,769 bp with a G + C content of 38.5 mol%. Average nucleotide identity values, based on genome sequencing, between strain P1L01T and Streptococcus periodonticum KCOM 2412T, Streptococcus anginosus subsp. whileyi CCUG 39159T, and Streptococcus anginosus subsp. anginosus NCTC 10713T were 95.5%, 94.3%, and 95.3%, respectively. The highest in silico DNA-DNA hybridization value with respect to the closest species was 66.2%, i.e., below the species cutoff of 70% hybridization. The main cellular fatty acids of strain P1L01T were 16:0, 18:1ω7c, and 14:0. On the basis of phylogenetic, genotypic and phenotypic data, we propose to classify this isolate as representative of a novel species of the genus Streptococcus, Streptococcus vaginalis sp. nov., in reference to its isolation from vaginal swabs, with strain P1L01T (= NBRC 114754T = BCRC 81289T) as the type strain.
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Manual Annotation Studio (MAS): a collaborative platform for manual functional annotation of viral and microbial genomes. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:733. [PMID: 34627149 PMCID: PMC8501643 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-08029-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Functional genome annotation is the process of labelling functional genomic regions with descriptive information. Manual curation can produce higher quality genome annotations than fully automated methods. Manual annotation efforts are time-consuming and complex; however, software can help reduce these drawbacks. Results We created Manual Annotation Studio (MAS) to improve the efficiency of the process of manual functional annotation prokaryotic and viral genomes. MAS allows users to upload unannotated genomes, provides an interface to edit and upload annotations, tracks annotation history and progress, and saves data to a relational database. MAS provides users with pertinent information through a simple point and click interface to execute and visualize results for multiple homology search tools (blastp, rpsblast, and HHsearch) against multiple databases (Swiss-Prot, nr, CDD, PDB, and an internally generated database). MAS was designed to accept connections over the local area network (LAN) of a lab or organization so multiple users can access it simultaneously. MAS can take advantage of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters by interfacing with SGE or SLURM and data can be exported from MAS in a variety of formats (FASTA, GenBank, GFF, and excel). Conclusions MAS streamlines and provides structure to manual functional annotation projects. MAS enhances the ability of users to generate, interpret, and compare results from multiple tools. The structure that MAS provides can improve project organization and reduce annotation errors. MAS is ideal for team-based annotation projects because it facilitates collaboration. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-021-08029-8.
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Yang M, Derbyshire MK, Yamashita RA, Marchler-Bauer A. NCBI's Conserved Domain Database and Tools for Protein Domain Analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021; 69:e90. [PMID: 31851420 PMCID: PMC7378889 DOI: 10.1002/cpbi.90] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The Conserved Domain Database (CDD) is a freely available resource for the annotation of sequences with the locations of conserved protein domain footprints, as well as functional sites and motifs inferred from these footprints. It includes protein domain and protein family models curated in house by CDD staff, as well as imported from a variety of other sources. The latest CDD release (v3.17, April 2019) contains more than 57,000 domain models, of which almost 15,000 were curated by CDD staff. The CDD curation effort increases coverage and provides finer-grained classifications of common and widely distributed protein domain families, for which a wealth of functional and structural data have become available. The CDD maintains both live search capabilities and an archive of pre-computed domain annotations for a selected subset of sequences tracked by the NCBI's Entrez protein database. These can be retrieved or computed for a single sequence using CD-Search or in bulk using Batch CD-Search, or computed via standalone RPS-BLAST plus the rpsbproc software package. The CDD can be accessed via https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml. The three protocols listed here describe how to perform a CD-Search (Basic Protocol 1), a Batch CD-Search (Basic Protocol 2), and a Standalone RPS-BLAST and rpsbproc (Basic Protocol 3). © 2019 The Authors. Basic Protocol 1: CD-search Basic Protocol 2: Batch CD-search Basic Protocol 3: Standalone RPS-BLAST and rpsbproc.
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- Mingzhang Yang
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Draft Genome Sequences of 80 Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis Strains Isolated from Food, Environmental, Human, and Veterinary Sources in Brazil. Microbiol Resour Announc 2021; 10:e0031321. [PMID: 34137634 PMCID: PMC8210703 DOI: 10.1128/mra.00313-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis is a broadly distributed serovar infecting humans and animal reservoirs globally. Here, we report 80 draft genome sequences of S. Infantis strains isolated from diverse sources in Brazil. These data will improve our understanding of the specific traits of S. Infantis isolated in this country.
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Huang WS, Wang LT, Chen JS, Chen YT, Wei STS, Chiang YR, Wang PL, Lee TH, Lin ST, Huang L, Shieh WY. Vibrio nitrifigilis sp. nov., a marine nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from the lagoon sediment of an islet inside an atoll. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:933-945. [PMID: 33864545 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-021-01567-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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A nitrogen-fixing isolate of facultatively anaerobic, marine bacterium, designated strain NFV-1T, was recovered from the lagoon sediment of Dongsha Island, Taiwan. It was a Gram-negative rod which exhibited motility with monotrichous flagellation in broth cultures. The strain required NaCl for growth and grew optimally at about 25-35 °C, 3% NaCl and pH 7-8. It grew aerobically and could achieve anaerobic growth by fermenting D-glucose or other carbohydrates as substrates. NH4Cl could serve as a sole nitrogen source for growth aerobically and anaerobically, whereas growth with N2 as the sole nitrogen source was observed only under anaerobic conditions. Cellular fatty acids were predominated by C16:1 ω7c, C16:0, and C18:1 ω7c. The major polar lipids consisted of phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylserine. Strain NFV-1T had a DNA G + C content of 42.5 mol%, as evaluated according to the chromosomal DNA sequencing data. Analyses of sequence similarities and phylogeny based on the 16S rRNA genes, together with the housekeeping genes, gyrB, ftsZ, mreB, topA and gapA, indicated that the strain formed a distinct species-level lineage in the genus Vibrio of the family Vibrionaceae. These phylogenetic data and those from genomic and phenotypic characterisations support the establishment of a novel Vibrio species, for which the name Vibrio nitrifigilis sp. nov. (type strain NFV-1T = BCRC 81211T = JCM 33628T) is proposed.
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- Wei-Sheng Huang
- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, P.O. Box 23-13, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu, 30062, Taiwan
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- College of Health Care, China Medical University, No. 91, Shyue-Shyh Rd, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, P.O. Box 23-13, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, P.O. Box 23-13, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu, 30062, Taiwan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu, 30062, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, P.O. Box 23-13, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
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Survival of Salmonella Under Heat Stress is Associated with the Presence/Absence of CRISPR Cas Genes and Iron Levels. Curr Microbiol 2021; 78:1741-1751. [PMID: 33738531 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-021-02443-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) cas genes have been linked to stress response in Salmonella. Our aim was to identify the presence of CRISPR cas in Salmonella and its response to heat in the presence of iron. Whole genomes of Salmonella (n = 50) of seven serovars were compared to identify the presence of CRISPR cas genes, direct-repeats and spacers. All Salmonella genomes had all cas genes present except S. Newport 2393 which lacked these genes. Gene-specific primers were used to confirm the absence of these genes in S. Newport 2393. The presence/absence of CRISPR cas genes was further investigated among 469 S. Newport genomes from PATRIC with 283 genomes selected for pan-genome analysis. The response of eleven Salmonella strains of various serovars to gradual heat in ferrous and ferric forms of iron was investigated. A total of 32/283 S. Newport genomes that lacked all CRISPR cas genes clustered together. S. Newport 2393 was the most heat-sensitive strain at higher iron levels (200 and 220 pm) in ferrous and ferric forms of iron. The absence of CRISPR cas genes in S. Newport 2393 may contribute to its increase in heat sensitivity and iron may play a role in this. The high reduction in numbers of most Salmonella strains exposed to heat makes it unfeasible to extract RNA and conduct transcription studies. Further studies should be conducted to validate the survival of Salmonella when exposed to heat in the presence/absence of CRISPR cas genes and different iron levels.
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Li W, O’Neill KR, Haft DH, DiCuccio M, Chetvernin V, Badretdin A, Coulouris G, Chitsaz F, Derbyshire M, Durkin AS, Gonzales NR, Gwadz M, Lanczycki C, Song JS, Thanki N, Wang J, Yamashita R, Yang M, Zheng C, Marchler-Bauer A, Thibaud-Nissen F. RefSeq: expanding the Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline reach with protein family model curation. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:D1020-D1028. [PMID: 33270901 PMCID: PMC7779008 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 521] [Impact Index Per Article: 173.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) project at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) contains nearly 200 000 bacterial and archaeal genomes and 150 million proteins with up-to-date annotation. Changes in the Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP) since 2018 have resulted in a substantial reduction in spurious annotation. The hierarchical collection of protein family models (PFMs) used by PGAP as evidence for structural and functional annotation was expanded to over 35 000 protein profile hidden Markov models (HMMs), 12 300 BlastRules and 36 000 curated CDD architectures. As a result, >122 million or 79% of RefSeq proteins are now named based on a match to a curated PFM. Gene symbols, Enzyme Commission numbers or supporting publication attributes are available on over 40% of the PFMs and are inherited by the proteins and features they name, facilitating multi-genome analyses and connections to the literature. In adherence with the principles of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable), the PFMs are available in the Protein Family Models Entrez database to any user. Finally, the reference and representative genome set, a taxonomically diverse subset of RefSeq prokaryotic genomes, is now recalculated regularly and available for download and homology searches with BLAST. RefSeq is found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/.
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- Wenjun Li
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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Frazão MR, Cao G, Medeiros MIC, Duque SDS, Allard MW, Falcão JP. Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles and Phylogenetic Analysis of Campylobacter jejuni Strains Isolated in Brazil by Whole Genome Sequencing. Microb Drug Resist 2020; 27:660-669. [PMID: 33021437 DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2020.0184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Aims: The objectives of this work were to use whole genome sequencing (WGS) to determine the antimicrobial resistance genotypes of 116 Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated in Brazil and to compare it with the results obtained by antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST). In addition, WGS was used to uncover the phylogenetic relationship among those strains. Results: By AST, the C. jejuni strains resistant to ciprofloxacin, tetracycline, doxycycline, and erythromycin were 51 (44%), 41 (35.3%), 41 (35.3%), and 6 (5.2%), respectively. By WGS, the genes aph(3')III, aadE, blaOXA-449, blaOXA-184, blaOXA-61, and tet(O) were detected in 6 (5.2%), 3 (2.6%), 1 (0.9%), 10 (8.6%), 55 (47.4%), and 44 (38%) strains, respectively. Fifty-four (46.6%) strains showed the mutation T86I in the gyrA gene, and four (3.4%) strains presented the mutation A2075G in the 23S rRNA gene. The correlation between AST and WGS was 100% for ciprofloxacin, 97.5% for tetracyclines, and 66.7% for erythromycin. The whole genome single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) tree clustered the C. jejuni strains into two clades comprising strains that were highly related from different sources, places, and years. Conclusion: The high rates of C. jejuni strains resistant to ciprofloxacin and tetracyclines are of concern and may represent a public health problem. WGS has a potential to be a powerful tool for the prediction of resistance of antibiotics used to treat campylobacteriosis. The results obtained by whole genome SNP analysis suggested the potential for transmission between clinical and nonclinical sources and between human and animal sources over the course of 20 years in Brazil.
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- Miliane Rodrigues Frazão
- Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, FCFRP-USP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Division of Microbiology, Office of Regular Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Microbiology, Office of Regular Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, FCFRP-USP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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Huang WS, Wang LT, Sun JN, Chen JS, Huang SP, Lin ST, Huang L, Shieh WY. Glaciimonas soli sp. nov., a soil bacterium isolated from the forest of a high elevation mountain. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:1213-1223. [PMID: 32468220 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-020-01428-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 05/12/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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A Gram-negative, psychrophilic bacterium, designated strain GS1T, was isolated from a forest soil sample collected from the West Peak of Mt. Yushan, Yushan National Park, Taiwan. Cells grown in broth cultures were mostly non-motile and non-flagellated, whereas motile cells with monotrichous, subpolar flagella were also observed. The novel strain grew over a temperature range of 4-25 °C with optimum growth at 10-15 °C. It grew aerobically and was not capable of anaerobic growth by fermentation of D-glucose or other carbohydrates. Ubiquinone 8 was the predominant isoprenoid quinone. The major polar lipids comprised phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol and dimethylaminoethanol. Cellular fatty acids were dominated by C16:1ω7c (35.2%), C16:0 (19.5%), C18:1ω7c (18.8%) and C17:0ω7c cyclo (15.5%). The DNA G + C content was 49.2 mol% evaluated according to the genomic sequencing data. Strain GS1T shared more than 96.5% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities with type strains of four Collimonas species (97.2-97.5%), three Glaciimonas species (97.3% for each of the three) and Oxalicibacterium solurbis (96.5%). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain GS1T formed a stable genus-level clade with type strains of species in the genus Glaciimonas in the family Oxalobacteraceae and GS1T was an outgroup with respect to these Glaciimonas species. Characteristically, strain GS1T could be easily distinguished from the recognised Glaciimonas species by exhibition of swimming motility with monotrichous, subpolar flagellum in some of the cells, ability to grow in NaCl at 2% but not at 3% and the distinguishable fatty acid profiles. On the basis of the polyphasic taxonomic data from this study, strain GS1T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Glaciimonas, for which the name Glaciimonas soli sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GS1T (= JCM 33275T = BCRC 81091T).
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- Wei-Sheng Huang
- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, PO Box 23-13, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu, 30062, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, PO Box 23-13, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- College of Health Care, China Medical University, No. 91, Shyue-Shyh Rd, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, PO Box 23-13, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu, 30062, Taiwan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu, 30062, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, PO Box 23-13, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
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Lu S, Wang J, Chitsaz F, Derbyshire MK, Geer RC, Gonzales NR, Gwadz M, Hurwitz DI, Marchler GH, Song JS, Thanki N, Yamashita RA, Yang M, Zhang D, Zheng C, Lanczycki CJ, Marchler-Bauer A. CDD/SPARCLE: the conserved domain database in 2020. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:D265-D268. [PMID: 31777944 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1643] [Impact Index Per Article: 410.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Revised: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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As NLM's Conserved Domain Database (CDD) enters its 20th year of operations as a publicly available resource, CDD curation staff continues to develop hierarchical classifications of widely distributed protein domain families, and to record conserved sites associated with molecular function, so that they can be mapped onto user queries in support of hypothesis-driven biomolecular research. CDD offers both an archive of pre-computed domain annotations as well as live search services for both single protein or nucleotide queries and larger sets of protein query sequences. CDD staff has continued to characterize protein families via conserved domain architectures and has built up a significant corpus of curated domain architectures in support of naming bacterial proteins in RefSeq. These architecture definitions are available via SPARCLE, the Subfamily Protein Architecture Labeling Engine. CDD can be accessed at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml.
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- Shennan Lu
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 38 A, Room 8N805, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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Chen YS, Wang LT, Wu YC, Mori K, Tamura T, Chang CH, Chang YC, Wu HC, Yi HH, Wang PY. Leuconostoc litchii sp. nov., a novel lactic acid bacterium isolated from lychee. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1585-1590. [PMID: 32228772 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A novel lactic acid bacterium, strain MB7T, was isolated from lychee in Taiwan. MB7T is Gram-staining-positive, catalase-negative, non-motile, non-haemolytic, facultatively anaerobic, coccoid-shaped, heterofermentative and mainly produces d-lactic acid from glucose. Comparative analysis of 16S rRNA, pheS and rpoA gene sequences has demonstrated that the novel strain represented a member of the genus Leuconostoc. 16S rRNA gene sequencing results indicated that MB7T had the same sequence similarity of 99.25 % to four type strains of members of the genus Leuconostoc: Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. dextranicum DSM 20484T, Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. jonggajibkimchii DRC 1506T, Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides ATCC 8293T and Leuconostoc suionicum DSM 20241T. Additionally, high 16S rRNA sequence similarities were also observed with Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. cremoris ATCC 19254T (99.12 %) and Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides NRIC 1777T (98.69 %). When comparing the genomes of these type strains, the average nucleotide identity values and digital DNA-DNA hybridization values of MB7T with these type strains were 76.57-80.53 and 22.0-22.6 %, respectively. MB7T also showed different phenotypic characteristics to other most closely related species of the genus Leuconostoc, such as carbohydrate metabolizing ability, halotolerance and growth at various pHs. On the basis of phenotypic and genotypic properties, strain MB7T represents a novel species belonging to the genus Leuconostoc, for which the name Leuconostoc litchii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MB7T (=BCRC 81077T=NBRC 113542T).
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- Yi-Sheng Chen
- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Department of Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Biotechnology, Ming Chuan University, No. 5, De-Ming Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan, ROC
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Wu YC, Lin ST, Guu JR, Tamura T, Mori K, Wang LT, Huang L, Watanabe K. Vagococcus silagei sp. nov., isolated from brewer's grain used to make silage in Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1953-1960. [PMID: 32003713 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A Gram-stain-positive, coccus- or oval-shaped, non-motile, haemolytic, asporogenous, catalase- and oxidase-negative, and facultatively anaerobic strain, 2B-2T, was isolated from a brewer's grain used to make silage in Taiwan. Comparative analyses of 16S rRNA, hsp60 and pheS gene sequences demonstrated that strain 2B-2T was a member of the genus Vagococcus. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, the type strains of Vagococcus teuberi (98.4 % similarity), Vagococcus carniphilus (98.4 %), Vagococcus martis (98.2 %), Vagococcus penaei (98.2 %) and Vagococcus fluvialis (98.0 %) were the closest neighbours to this novel strain. The similarity levels of concatenated housekeeping gene sequences (hsp60 and pheS) between strain 2B-2T and these closely related species ranged from 84.5 to 88.0 %. The average nucleotide identity and in silico DNA-DNA hybridization values between strain 2B-2T and its closest relatives were lower than 72.9 and 21.6 %, respectively. The DNA G+C content was 34.7 mol%. Phenotypic and genotypic features demonstrated that strain 2B-2T represents a novel species of the genus Vagococcus, for which the name Vagococcus silagei sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 2B-2T (=BCRC 81132T=NBRC 113536T).
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- Yen-Chi Wu
- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Animal Science and Technology, College of Bioresources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10673, Taiwan, ROC.,Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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Lin ST, Wang LT, Wang HM, Tamura T, Mori K, Huang L, Watanabe K. Lactobacillus suantsaicola sp. nov. and Lactobacillus suantsaiihabitans sp. nov., isolated from suan-tsai, a traditional fermented mustard green product of Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2972-2980. [DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Four Gram-stain-positive strains, R7T, R11, R19T and R27, were isolated from suan-tsai, a traditional fermented mustard green product of Taiwan. Cells were rod-shaped, non-motile, non-haemolytic, asporogenous, facultatively anaerobic, heterofermentative, and did not exhibit catalase and oxidase activities. Comparative analyses of 16S rRNA, pheS and rpoA gene sequences demonstrated that these novel strains were members of the genus
Lactobacillus
. 16S rRNA and the concatenated pheS and rpoA gene sequence similarities between strains R7T and R11, and strains R19T and R27 were very high (>99.8 % similarity), respectively. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities, the type strains of
Lactobacillus paralimentarius
(98.5 %),
Lactobacillus kimchii
(98.5 %),
Lactobacillus alimentarius
(98.1 %) and
Lactobacillus bobalius
(98.1 %) were the closest neighbours to strains R7T and R11, and the type strains of
Lactobacillus brevis
(98.9 %),
Lactobacillus cerevisiae
(98.4 %), Lactobacillus hammesii (98.4 %),
Lactobacillus koreensis
(98.4 %) and
Lactobacillus yonginensis
(98.0 %) were the closest neighbours to strains R19T and R27, respectively. The average nucleotide identity values of R7T and R19T with the closely related type strains were 78.9–80.1% and 75.7–80.5 %, respectively. The digital DNA–DNA hybridization values were 22.8–23.6% and 21.0–23.1 %, respectively. Phenotypic and genotypic test results demonstrated that these strains represent two novel species of the genus
Lactobacillus
, for which the name
Lactobacillus
suantsaicola sp. nov. (R7T=BCRC 81127T=NBRC 113530T) and
Lactobacillus
suantsaiihabitans sp. nov. (R19T=BCRC 81129T=NBRC 113532T) are proposed.
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- Shih-Ting Lin
- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute. 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute. 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute. 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute. 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Animal Science and Technology, College of Bioresources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd, Taipei 10673, Taiwan, ROC
- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute. 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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Galperin MY, Kristensen DM, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Koonin EV. Microbial genome analysis: the COG approach. Brief Bioinform 2020; 20:1063-1070. [PMID: 28968633 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbx117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2017] [Revised: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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For the past 20 years, the Clusters of Orthologous Genes (COG) database had been a popular tool for microbial genome annotation and comparative genomics. Initially created for the purpose of evolutionary classification of protein families, the COG have been used, apart from straightforward functional annotation of sequenced genomes, for such tasks as (i) unification of genome annotation in groups of related organisms; (ii) identification of missing and/or undetected genes in complete microbial genomes; (iii) analysis of genomic neighborhoods, in many cases allowing prediction of novel functional systems; (iv) analysis of metabolic pathways and prediction of alternative forms of enzymes; (v) comparison of organisms by COG functional categories; and (vi) prioritization of targets for structural and functional characterization. Here we review the principles of the COG approach and discuss its key advantages and drawbacks in microbial genome analysis.
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Lin ST, Wang LT, Wu YC, Guu JRJ, Tamura T, Mori K, Huang L, Watanabe K. Weissella muntiaci sp. nov., isolated from faeces of Formosan barking deer ( Muntiacus reevesi). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1578-1584. [PMID: 32228749 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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A Gram-stain-positive strain, 8 H-2T, was isolated from faeces of Reeves' muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) barking deer in Taiwan. Cells of the strain were short rod-shaped, non-motile, non-haemolytic, asporogenous, facultatively anaerobic, heterofermentative and did not exhibit catalase and oxidase activities. Comparative analyses of 16S rRNA, pheS and dnaA gene sequences demonstrated that the novel strain was a member of the genus Weissella. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities, the type strains of Weissella oryzae (99.2 %), Weissella confusa (97.8 %), Weissella cibaria (97.6 %) and Weissella soli (97.3 %) were the closest neighbours to strain 8 H-2T. The concatenated housekeeping gene sequence (pheS and dnaA) similarities of 8 H-2T to closely related type strains were 72.5-84.9 %, respectively. The genomic DNA G+C content was 40.5 mol%. The average nucleotide identity and digital DNA-DNA hybridization values with these type strains were 70.2-75.4% and 25.1-30.1 %, respectively. Phenotypic and genotypic test results demonstrated that strain 8 H-2T represents a novel species belonging to the genus Weissella, for which the name Weissella muntiaci sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 8 H-2T (=BCRC 81133T=NBRC 113537T).
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- Shih-Ting Lin
- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8 Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
- Department of Animal Science and Technology, College of Bioresources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10673, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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Seribelli AA, Gonzales JC, de Almeida F, Benevides L, Cazentini Medeiros MI, Dos Prazeres Rodrigues D, de C Soares S, Allard MW, Falcão JP. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 isolated from humans and food in Brazil presented a high genomic similarity. Braz J Microbiol 2020; 51:53-64. [PMID: 31728978 PMCID: PMC7058764 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-019-00155-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Salmonella Typhimurium sequence type 313 (S. Typhimurium ST313) has caused invasive disease mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. In Brazil, ST313 strains have been recently described, and there is a lack of studies that assessed by whole genome sequencing (WGS)-the relationship of these strains. The aims of this work were to study the phylogenetic relationship of 70 S. Typhimurium genomes comparing strains of ST313 (n = 9) isolated from humans and food in Brazil among themselves, with other STs isolated in this country (n = 31) and in other parts of the globe (n = 30) by 16S rRNA sequences, the Gegenees software, whole genome multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST), and average nucleotide identity (ANI) for the genomes of ST313. Additionally, pangenome analysis was performed to verify the heterogeneity of these genomes. The phylogenetic analyses showed that the ST313 genomes were very similar among themselves. However, the ST313 genomes were usually clustered more distantly to other STs of strains isolated in Brazil and in other parts of the world. By pangenome calculation, the core genome was 2,880 CDSs and 4,171 CDSs singletons for all the 70 S. Typhimurium genomes studied. Considering the 10 ST313 genomes analyzed the core genome was 4,112 CDSs and 76 CDSs singletons. In conclusion, the ST313 genomes from Brazil showed a high similarity among them which information might eventually help in the development of vaccines and antibiotics. The pangenome analysis showed that the S. Typhimurium genomes studied presented an open pangenome, but specifically tending to become close for the ST313 strains.
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- Amanda Ap Seribelli
- Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Av. do Café, s/n°-Campus Universitário USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14040-903, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Av. do Café, s/n°-Campus Universitário USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14040-903, Brazil
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- Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Av. do Café, s/n°-Campus Universitário USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14040-903, Brazil
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- National Laboratory of Scientific Computation - LNCC, Petrópolis, Brazil
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- Food and Drug Administration - FDA, College Park, MA, USA
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- Departamento de Análises Clínicas, Toxicológicas e Bromatológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Av. do Café, s/n°-Campus Universitário USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, 14040-903, Brazil
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Islamaj R, Wilbur WJ, Xie N, Gonzales NR, Thanki N, Yamashita R, Zheng C, Marchler-Bauer A, Lu Z. PubMed Text Similarity Model and its application to curation efforts in the Conserved Domain Database. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION 2020; 2019:5527151. [PMID: 31267135 DOI: 10.1093/database/baz064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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This study proposes a text similarity model to help biocuration efforts of the Conserved Domain Database (CDD). CDD is a curated resource that catalogs annotated multiple sequence alignment models for ancient domains and full-length proteins. These models allow for fast searching and quick identification of conserved motifs in protein sequences via Reverse PSI-BLAST. In addition, CDD curators prepare summaries detailing the function of these conserved domains and specific protein families, based on published peer-reviewed articles. To facilitate information access for database users, it is desirable to specifically identify the referenced articles that support the assertions of curator-composed sentences. Moreover, CDD curators desire an alert system that scans the newly published literature and proposes related articles of relevance to the existing CDD records. Our approach to address these needs is a text similarity method that automatically maps a curator-written statement to candidate sentences extracted from the list of referenced articles, as well as the articles in the PubMed Central database. To evaluate this proposal, we paired CDD description sentences with the top 10 matching sentences from the literature, which were given to curators for review. Through this exercise, we discovered that we were able to map the articles in the reference list to the CDD description statements with an accuracy of 77%. In the dataset that was reviewed by curators, we were able to successfully provide references for 86% of the curator statements. In addition, we suggested new articles for curator review, which were accepted by curators to be added into the reference list at an acceptance rate of 50%. Through this process, we developed a substantial corpus of similar sentences from biomedical articles on protein sequence, structure and function research, which constitute the CDD text similarity corpus. This corpus contains 5159 sentence pairs judged for their similarity on a scale from 1 (low) to 5 (high) doubly annotated by four CDD curators. Curator-assigned similarity scores have a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.70 and an inter-annotator agreement of 85%. To date, this is the largest biomedical text similarity resource that has been manually judged, evaluated and made publicly available to the community to foster research and development of text similarity algorithms.
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- Rezarta Islamaj
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
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A Putative Microcin Amplifies Shiga Toxin 2a Production of Escherichia coli O157:H7. J Bacteriol 2019; 202:JB.00353-19. [PMID: 31611289 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00353-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a foodborne pathogen implicated in various multistate outbreaks. It encodes Shiga toxin on a prophage, and Shiga toxin production is linked to phage induction. An E. coli strain, designated 0.1229, that amplified Stx2a production when cocultured with E. coli O157:H7 strain PA2 was identified. Growth of PA2 in 0.1229 cell-free supernatants had a similar effect, even when supernatants were heated to 100°C for 10 min, but not after treatment with proteinase K. The secreted molecule was shown to use TolC for export and the TonB system for import. The genes sufficient for production of this molecule were localized to a 5.2-kb region of a 12.8-kb plasmid. This region was annotated, identifying hypothetical proteins, a predicted ABC transporter, and a cupin superfamily protein. These genes were identified and shown to be functional in two other E. coli strains, and bioinformatic analyses identified related gene clusters in similar and distinct bacterial species. These data collectively suggest that E. coli 0.1229 and other E. coli strains produce a microcin that induces the SOS response in target bacteria. Besides adding to the limited number of microcins known to be produced by E. coli, this study provides an additional mechanism by which stx 2a expression is increased in response to the gut microflora.IMPORTANCE How the gut microflora influences the progression of bacterial infections is only beginning to be understood. Antibiotics are counterindicated for E. coli O157:H7 infections, limiting treatment options. An increased understanding of how the gut microflora directs O157:H7 virulence gene expression may lead to additional treatment options. This work identified E. coli strains that enhance the production of Shiga toxin by O157:H7 through the secretion of a proposed microcin. Microcins are natural antimicrobial peptides that target specific species, can act as alternatives to antibiotics, and mediate microbial competition. This work demonstrates another mechanism by which non-O157 E. coli strains may increase Shiga toxin production and adds to our understanding of microcins, a group of antimicrobials less well understood than colicins.
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Huang CH, Wang CL, Liou JS, Lee AY, Blom J, Huang L, Watanabe K. Reclassification of Micrococcus aloeverae and Micrococcus yunnanensis as later heterotypic synonyms of Micrococcus luteus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3512-3518. [DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Chien-Hsun Huang
- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, 35392, Germany
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- Bioresource Collection and Research Center (BCRC), Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd., Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
- Department of Animal Science and Technology, College of Bioresources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10673, Taiwan, ROC
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Dong X, Strous M. An Integrated Pipeline for Annotation and Visualization of Metagenomic Contigs. Front Genet 2019; 10:999. [PMID: 31681429 PMCID: PMC6803454 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Here, we describe MetaErg, a standalone and fully automated metagenome and metaproteome annotation pipeline. Annotation of metagenomes is challenging. First, metagenomes contain sequence data of many organisms from all domains of life. Second, many of these are from understudied lineages, encoding genes with low similarity to experimentally validated reference genes. Third, assembly and binning are not perfect, sometimes resulting in artifactual hybrid contigs or genomes. To address these challenges, MetaErg provides graphical summaries of annotation outcomes, both for the complete metagenome and for individual metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). It performs a comprehensive annotation of each gene, including taxonomic classification, enabling functional inferences despite low similarity to reference genes, as well as detection of potential assembly or binning artifacts. When provided with metaproteome information, it visualizes gene and pathway activity using sequencing coverage and proteomic spectral counts, respectively. For visualization, MetaErg provides an HTML interface, bringing all annotation results together, and producing sortable and searchable tables, collapsible trees, and other graphic representations enabling intuitive navigation of complex data. MetaErg, implemented in Perl, HTML, and JavaScript, is a fully open source application, distributed under Academic Free License at https://github.com/xiaoli-dong/metaerg. MetaErg is also available as a docker image at https://hub.docker.com/r/xiaolidong/docker-metaerg.
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- Xiaoli Dong
- Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Draft Genome Sequences of Four Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Strains Isolated from Australian Red Meat Animal Species. Microbiol Resour Announc 2019; 8:8/35/e00925-19. [PMID: 31467110 PMCID: PMC6715880 DOI: 10.1128/mra.00925-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The genome sequences of four antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strains isolated from red meat animals in Australia are presented. Multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg 329 and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium 2470 harbored an IncHI2 plasmid similar to the multidrug-resistant S. Heidelberg strain N13-01290 plasmid pN13-01290_23 previously isolated in Canada.
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Haft DH, DiCuccio M, Badretdin A, Brover V, Chetvernin V, O'Neill K, Li W, Chitsaz F, Derbyshire MK, Gonzales NR, Gwadz M, Lu F, Marchler GH, Song JS, Thanki N, Yamashita RA, Zheng C, Thibaud-Nissen F, Geer LY, Marchler-Bauer A, Pruitt KD. RefSeq: an update on prokaryotic genome annotation and curation. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:D851-D860. [PMID: 29112715 PMCID: PMC5753331 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx1068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 648] [Impact Index Per Article: 129.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) project at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides annotation for over 95 000 prokaryotic genomes that meet standards for sequence quality, completeness, and freedom from contamination. Genomes are annotated by a single Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP) to provide users with a resource that is as consistent and accurate as possible. Notable recent changes include the development of a hierarchical evidence scheme, a new focus on curating annotation evidence sources, the addition and curation of protein profile hidden Markov models (HMMs), release of an updated pipeline (PGAP-4), and comprehensive re-annotation of RefSeq prokaryotic genomes. Antimicrobial resistance proteins have been reannotated comprehensively, improved structural annotation of insertion sequence transposases and selenoproteins is provided, curated complex domain architectures have given upgraded names to millions of multidomain proteins, and we introduce a new kind of annotation rule—BlastRules. Continual curation of supporting evidence, and propagation of improved names onto RefSeq proteins ensures that the functional annotation of genomes is kept current. An increasing share of our annotation now derives from HMMs and other sets of annotation rules that are portable by nature, and available for download and for reuse by other investigators. RefSeq is found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/.
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- Daniel H Haft
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6511, USA
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Ogata Y, Kimura N, Sano R. Gcorn Plant: A Database for Retrieving Functional and Evolutionary Traits of Plant Genes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 180:732-742. [PMID: 30971448 PMCID: PMC6548233 DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.01370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 03/31/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Gene homology helps us understand gene function and speciation. The number of plant genes and species registered in public databanks is continuously increasing. It is useful to associate homologous genes of various plants to better understand plant speciation. We designed the Gcorn plant database for the retrieval of information on homology and evolution of a plant gene of interest. Amino acid sequences of 73 species (62 land plants and 11 green algae), containing 2,682,261 sequences, were obtained from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Reference Sequence database. Based on NCBI BLAST searches between these sequences, homologous genes were grouped at various thresholds of homology indices devised by the authors. To show functional and evolutionary traits of a gene of interest, a phylogenetic tree, connecting genes with high homology indices, and line charts of the numbers of genes with various homology indices, are depicted. In addition, such indices are projected on a network graph in which species studied are connected based on the ratios of homologous genes, and on a phylogenetic tree for species based on NCBI Taxonomy. Gcorn plant provides information on homologous genes at various virtual time points along with speciation in plants.
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- Yoshiyuki Ogata
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan
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- Division of Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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Mormile MR, Edwards T, Frank R, Geurin Z, Haendiges J, Hoffmann M, Miller J. Whole-Genome Analysis of Halomonas sp. Soap Lake #7 Reveals It Possesses Putative Mrp Antiporter Operon Groups 1 and 2. Genome Biol Evol 2019; 11:1706-1709. [PMID: 31214690 PMCID: PMC6598117 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The genus Halomonas possesses bacteria that are halophilic or halotolerant and exhibit a wide range of pH tolerance. The genome of Halomonas sp. Soap Lake #7 was sequenced to provide a better understanding of the mechanisms for salt and pH tolerance in this genus. The bacterium’s genome was found to possess two complete multiple resistance and pH antiporter systems, Group 1 and Group 2. This is the first report of both multiple resistance and pH antiporter Groups 1 and 2 in the genome of a haloalkaliphilic bacterium.
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- Melanie R Mormile
- Department of Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and Technology.,Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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- Applied Research Center, NSF International, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Applied Research Center, NSF International, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland
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- Applied Research Center, NSF International, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Bjornsdottir-Butler K, McCARTHY S, Benner RA. Characterization and Control of Erwinia spp. and Pluralibacter sp. in Tuna Salad Preparations. J Food Prot 2019; 82:1071-1081. [PMID: 31135184 DOI: 10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-18-506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Accepted: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Kristin Bjornsdottir-Butler
- Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528, USA
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- Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528, USA
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- Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Division of Seafood Science and Technology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528, USA
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Liou JS, Huang CH, Wang CL, Lee AY, Mori K, Tamura T, Watanabe M, Blom J, Huang L, Watanabe K. Lactobacillus suantsaii sp. nov., isolated from suan-tsai, a traditional Taiwanese fermented mustard green. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1484-1489. [DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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- Jong-Shian Liou
- 1Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- 1Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- 1Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- 1Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- 2Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8, Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- 2Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8, Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- 2Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8, Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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- 3Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, 35392, Germany
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- 1Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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- 4Department of Animal Science and Technology, College of Bioresources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Ln. 155, Sec. 3, Keelung Rd., Taipei 10673, Taiwan, ROC
- 1Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, 331 Shih-Pin Rd, Hsinchu 30062, Taiwan, ROC
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Gouda G, Gupta MK, Donde R, Kumar J, Vadde R, Mohapatra T, Behera L. Computational approach towards understanding structural and functional role of cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 2 (CKX2) in enhancing grain yield in rice plant. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:1158-1167. [PMID: 30896372 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1597771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (CKX) is the only known enzyme associated with irreversible degradation of cytokinins in plants. CKX2 contains flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) domain. Earlier studies utilising antisense & hpRNAi suppression techniques in mutant/transgenic rice plants revealed that when CKX2 binds with FAD, CKX2 expression reduces, which in turn causes cytokinin aggregation in inflorescence meristem that subsequently enhances both branches and grain number resulting in increased grain yield. Owing to the non-existence of complete three-dimensional structure of CKX2, insight into the structure and function of CKX2 and its relationship with its cofactor FAD is still a topic of debate. In the present study, computational approach was employed to estimate the three-dimensional structure of CKX2 through comparative modelling approach. Later, CKX2 and FAD interaction study was performed to understand the underlying mechanism involved with reduced expression of CKX2. Molecular dynamic simulation studies of both CKX2 and CKX-FAD complex revealed that after binding with FAD, CKX2 experienced increased pressure and reduced RMSD, potential energy and free energy landscape energy, which in turn lessen anti-correlation between almost all α and β strands and random motion of C-α, subsequently reducing CKX2 expression. In near future, these information can be utilised for increasing rice yield under irrigated field condition by introgression of Gn1a gene through marker assisted back-crossing breeding. AbbreviationsGROMACSGROningen MAchine for Chemical SimulationsNPTConstant Number of Particles, Volume and TemperatureRMSDRoot Mean Square DeviationRMSFRoot Mean Square FluctuationsQTLquantitative trait lociFADflavin adenine dinucleotideNVTConstant Number of Particles, Pressure and TemperatureLINCSLinear Constraint SolverCKX2Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 2MM/PBSAMolecular Mechanics/Poisson-Boltzmann surface areaSDFStructure Data FileCommunicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Gayatri Gouda
- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, India
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- Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, India
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- Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, India
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Genome sequence analysis of 91 Salmonella Enteritidis isolates from mice caught on poultry farms in the mid 1990s. Genomics 2019; 112:528-544. [PMID: 30974149 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Revised: 02/22/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A total of 91 draft genome sequences were used to analyze isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis obtained from feral mice caught on poultry farms in Pennsylvania. One objective was to find mutations disrupting open reading frames (ORFs) and another was to determine if ORF-disruptive mutations were present in isolates obtained from other sources. A total of 83 mice were obtained between 1995-1998. Isolates separated into two genomic clades and 12 subgroups due to 742 mutations. Nineteen ORF-disruptive mutations were found, and in addition, bigA had exceptional heterogeneity requiring additional evaluation. The TRAMS algorithm detected only 6 ORF disruptions. The sefD mutation was the most frequently encountered mutation and it was prevalent in human, poultry, environmental and mouse isolates. These results confirm previous assessments of the mouse as a rich source of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis that varies in genotype and phenotype.
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Page AP, Roberts M, Félix MA, Pickard D, Page A, Weir W. The golden death bacillus Chryseobacterium nematophagum is a novel matrix digesting pathogen of nematodes. BMC Biol 2019; 17:10. [PMID: 30813925 PMCID: PMC6394051 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-019-0632-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Nematodes represent important pathogens of humans and farmed animals and cause significant health and economic impacts. The control of nematodes is primarily carried out by applying a limited number of anthelmintic compounds, for which there is now widespread resistance being reported. There is a current unmet need to develop novel control measures including the identification and characterisation of natural pathogens of nematodes. RESULTS Nematode killing bacilli were isolated from a rotten fruit in association with wild free-living nematodes. These bacteria belong to the Chryseobacterium genus (golden bacteria) and represent a new species named Chryseobacterium nematophagum. These bacilli are oxidase-positive, flexirubin-pigmented, gram-negative rods that exhibit gelatinase activity. Caenorhabditis elegans are attracted to and eat these bacteria. Within 3 h of ingestion, however, the bacilli have degraded the anterior pharyngeal chitinous lining and entered the body cavity, ultimately killing the host. Within 24 h, the internal contents of the worms are digested followed by the final digestion of the remaining cuticle over a 2-3-day period. These bacteria will also infect and kill bacterivorous free-living (L1-L3) stages of all tested parasitic nematodes including the important veterinary Trichostrongylids such as Haemonchus contortus and Ostertagia ostertagi. The bacteria exhibit potent collagen-digesting properties, and genome sequencing has identified novel metalloprotease, collagenase and chitinase enzymes representing potential virulence factors. CONCLUSIONS Chryseobacterium nematophagum is a newly discovered pathogen of nematodes that rapidly kills environmental stages of a wide range of key nematode parasites. These bacilli exhibit a unique invasion process, entering the body via the anterior pharynx through the specific degradation of extracellular matrices. This bacterial pathogen represents a prospective biological control agent for important nematode parasites.
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- Antony P Page
- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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- Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Paris, France
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Draft Genome Sequence of Ruminococcus sp. nov. B05, Isolated from Human Feces. Microbiol Resour Announc 2019; 8:MRA01458-18. [PMID: 30643888 PMCID: PMC6328661 DOI: 10.1128/mra.01458-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Ruminococcus sp. nov. B05 was isolated from a fecal sample of a 34-year-old adult male in Taiwan, Republic of China. The genome assembly comprised 3,576,560 bp, with a 38.71% G+C content. Ruminococcus sp. nov. B05 was isolated from a fecal sample of a 34-year-old adult male in Taiwan, Republic of China. The genome assembly comprised 3,576,560 bp, with a 38.71% G+C content.
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Draft Genome Sequence of Blautia sp. Strain BCRC 81119, Isolated from Human Feces. Microbiol Resour Announc 2018; 7:MRA00812-18. [PMID: 30533876 PMCID: PMC6256421 DOI: 10.1128/mra.00812-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Blautia sp. strain BCRC 81119 was isolated from a fecal sample from a 34-year-old male in Taiwan. Blautia sp. strain BCRC 81119 was isolated from a fecal sample from a 34-year-old male in Taiwan. The genome assembly comprised 4,098,441 bp, with a 43.95% G+C content.
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Havrilla JM, Pedersen BS, Layer RM, Quinlan AR. A map of constrained coding regions in the human genome. Nat Genet 2018; 51:88-95. [PMID: 30531870 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0294-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Deep catalogs of genetic variation from thousands of humans enable the detection of intraspecies constraint by identifying coding regions with a scarcity of variation. While existing techniques summarize constraint for entire genes, single gene-wide metrics conceal regional constraint variability within each gene. Therefore, we have created a detailed map of constrained coding regions (CCRs) by leveraging variation observed among 123,136 humans from the Genome Aggregation Database. The most constrained CCRs are enriched for pathogenic variants in ClinVar and mutations underlying developmental disorders. CCRs highlight protein domain families under high constraint and suggest unannotated or incomplete protein domains. The highest-percentile CCRs complement existing variant prioritization methods when evaluating de novo mutations in studies of autosomal dominant disease. Finally, we identify highly constrained CCRs within genes lacking known disease associations. This observation suggests that CCRs may identify regions under strong purifying selection that, when mutated, cause severe developmental phenotypes or embryonic lethality.
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- James M Havrilla
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,USTAR Center for Genetic Discovery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,USTAR Center for Genetic Discovery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.,Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. .,USTAR Center for Genetic Discovery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. .,Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
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