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Achenbach-Richter L, Gupta R, Zillig W, Woese CR. Rooting the archaebacterial tree: the pivotal role of Thermococcus celer in archaebacterial evolution. Syst Appl Microbiol 2001; 10:231-40. [PMID: 11542150 DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(88)80007-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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The sequence of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene from the archaebacterium Thermococcus celer shows the organism to be related to the methanogenic archaebacteria rather than to its phenotypic counterparts, the extremely thermophilic archaebacteria. This conclusion turns on the position of the root of the archaebacterial phylogenetic tree, however. The problems encountered in rooting this tree are analyzed in detail. Under conditions that suppress evolutionary noise both the parsimony and evolutionary distance methods yield a root location (using a number of eubacterial or eukaryotic outgroup sequences) that is consistent with that determined by an "internal rooting" method, based upon an (approximate) determination of relative evolutionary rates.
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Weisburg WG, Giovannoni SJ, Woese CR. The Deinococcus-Thermus phylum and the effect of rRNA composition on phylogenetic tree construction. Syst Appl Microbiol 2001; 11:128-34. [PMID: 11542160 DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(89)80051-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Through comparative analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences, it can be shown that two seemingly dissimilar types of eubacteria Deinococcus and the ubiquitous hot spring organism Thermus are distantly but specifically related to one another. This confirms an earlier report based upon 16S rRNA oligonucleotide cataloging studies (Hensel et al., 1986). Their two lineages form a distinctive grouping within the eubacteria that deserved the taxonomic status of a phylum. The (partial) sequence of T. aquaticus rRNA appears relatively close to those of other thermophilic eubacteria. e.g. Thermotoga maritima and Thermomicrobium roseum. However, this closeness does not reflect a true evolutionary closeness; rather it is due to a "thermophilic convergence", the result of unusually high G+C composition in the rRNAs of thermophilic bacteria. Unless such compositional biases are taken into account, the branching order and root of phylogenetic trees can be incorrectly inferred.
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- W G Weisburg
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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Sequences for the spacer regions that separate the 16S and 23S ribosomal RNA genes have been determined for four more (strategically placed) archaebacteria. These confirm the general rule that methanogens and extreme halophiles have spacers that contain a single tRNAala gene, while tRNA genes are not found in the spacer region of the true extreme thermophiles. The present study also shows that the spacer regions from the sulfate reducing Archaeglobus and the extreme thermophile Thermococcus (both of which cluster phylogenetically with the methanogens and extreme halophiles) contain each a tRNAala gene. Thus, not only all methanogens and extreme halophiles show this characteristic, but all organisms on the "methanogen branch" of the archaebacterial tree appear to do so. The finding of a tRNA gene in the spacer region of the extreme thermophile Thermococcus celer is the first known phenotypic property that links this organism with its phylogenetic counterparts, the methanogens, rather than with its phenotypic counterparts, the sulfur-dependent extreme thermophiles.
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Comparisons of complete 16S ribosomal RNA sequences have been used to confirm, refine and extend earlier concepts of archaebacterial phylogeny. The archaebacteria fall naturally into two major branches or divisions, I--the sulfur-dependent thermophilic archaebacteria, and II--the methanogenic archaebacteria and their relatives. Division I comprises a relatively closely related and phenotypically homogeneous collection of thermophilic sulfur-dependent species--encompassing the genera Sulfolobus, Thermoproteus, Pyrodictium and Desulfurococcus. The organisms of Division II, however, form a less compact grouping phylogenetically, and are also more diverse in phenotype. All three of the (major) methanogen groups are found in Division II, as are the extreme halophiles and two types of thermoacidophiles, Thermoplasma acidophilum and Thermococcus celer. This last species branches sufficiently deeply in the Division II line that it might be considered to represent a separate, third Division. However, both the extreme halophiles and Tp. acidophilum branch within the cluster of methanogens. The extreme halophiles are specifically related to the Methanomicrobiales, to the exclusion of both the Methanococcales and the Methanobacteriales. Tp. acidophilum is peripherally related to the halophile-Methanomicrobiales group. By 16S rRNA sequence measure the archaebacteria constitute a phylogenetically coherent grouping (clade), which excludes both the eubacteria and the eukaryotes--a conclusion that is supported by other sequence evidence as well. Alternative proposals for archaebacterial phylogeny, not based upon sequence evidence, are discussed and evaluated. In particular, proposals to rename (reclassify) various subgroups of the archaebacteria as new kingdoms are found wanting, for both their lack of proper experimental support and the taxonomic confusion they introduce.
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MESH Headings
- Archaea/chemistry
- Archaea/classification
- Archaea/genetics
- Bacteria/classification
- Bacteria/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Eukaryotic Cells/chemistry
- Eukaryotic Cells/classification
- Eukaryotic Cells/physiology
- Euryarchaeota/chemistry
- Euryarchaeota/classification
- Euryarchaeota/genetics
- Membrane Lipids/analysis
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Archaeal/analysis
- RNA, Archaeal/chemistry
- RNA, Archaeal/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/analysis
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- Sequence Analysis, RNA
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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- C R Woese
- Department of Genetics and Development, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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Woese CR, Achenbach L, Rouviere P, Mandelco L. Archaeal phylogeny: reexamination of the phylogenetic position of Archaeoglobus fulgidus in light of certain composition-induced artifacts. Syst Appl Microbiol 2001; 14:364-71. [PMID: 11540072 DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80311-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A major and too little recognized source of artifact in phylogenetic analysis of molecular sequence data is compositional difference among sequences. The problem becomes particularly acute when alignments contain ribosomal RNAs from both mesophilic and thermophilic species. Among prokaryotes the latter are considerably higher in G + C content than the former, which often results in artificial clustering of thermophilic lineages and their being placed artificially deep in phylogenetic trees. In this communication we review archaeal phylogeny in the light of this consideration, focusing in particular on the phylogenetic position of the sulfate reducing species Archaeoglobus fulgidus, using both 16S rRNA and 23S rRNA sequences. The analysis shows clearly that the previously reported deep branching of the A. fulgidus lineage (very near the base of the euryarchaeal side of the archaeal tree) is incorrect, and that the lineage actually groups with a previously recognized unit that comprises the Methanomicrobiales and extreme halophiles.
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MESH Headings
- Archaea/classification
- Archaea/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Methanomicrobiales/classification
- Methanomicrobiales/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Bacterial/classification
- RNA, Bacterial/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/classification
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/classification
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/genetics
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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- C R Woese
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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Burggraf S, Stetter KO, Rouviere P, Woese CR. Methanopyrus kandleri: an archaeal methanogen unrelated to all other known methanogens. Syst Appl Microbiol 2001; 14:346-51. [PMID: 11540073 DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80308-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Analysis of its 16S rRNA sequence shows that the newly discovered hyperthermophilic methanogen, Methanopryus kandleri, is phylogenetically unrelated to any other known methanogen. The organism represents a separate lineage originating near the root of the archaeal tree. Although the 16S rRNA sequence of Mp. kandleri resembles euryarchaeal 16S rRNAs more than it does crenarchaeal, it shows more crenarchaeal signature features than any known euryarchaeal rRNA. Attempts to place it in relation to the root of the archaeal tree show that the Mp. kandleri lineage likely arises from the euryarchaeal branch of the tree. While the existence of so deeply branching a methanogenic lineage brings into question the thesis that methanogenesis evolved from an earlier metabolism similar to that seen in Thermococcus, it at the same time reinforces the notion that the aboriginal [correction of aborginal] archaeon was a thermophile.
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- S Burggraf
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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Daffonchio D, De Biase A, Rizzi A, Sorlini C. Interspecific, intraspecific and interoperonic variability in the 16S rRNA gene of methanogens revealed by length and single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1998; 164:403-10. [PMID: 9682489 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb13116.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Thirty-seven strains of mesophilic and thermophilic methanogenic Archaea, belonging to 30 species, were analyzed by length polymorphism (LP) and single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) of an amplified 300-bp fragment of the 16S rRNA gene (Escherichia coli positions 9-331) including the variable regions V1 and V2, LPs and SSCPs were detected between species and between strains of the same species (Methanobacterium formicicum). LPs were found in Mb. formicicum DSMZ 3637, Mb. ivanovii DSMZ 2611, Mb. wolfei DSMZ 2970, Methanosarcina barkeri DSMZ 800, and Methanosaeta concilii DSMZ 3671, suggesting the presence of polymorphic 16S rRNA genes in the genome. We propose that LP and SSCP analysis of the 16S rRNA gene could be of practical help for strain identification.
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- D Daffonchio
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Alimentari e Microbiologiche (DISTAM), Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
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Arahal DR, Dewhirst FE, Paster BJ, Volcani BE, Ventosa A. Phylogenetic analyses of some extremely halophilic archaea isolated from Dead Sea water, determined on the basis of their 16S rRNA sequences. Appl Environ Microbiol 1996; 62:3779-86. [PMID: 8837434 PMCID: PMC168186 DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.10.3779-3786.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Twenty-two extremely halophilic aerobic archaeal strains were isolated from enrichments prepared from Dead Sea water samples collected 57 years ago. The isolates were phenotypically clustered into five different groups, and a representative from each group was chosen for further study. Almost the entire sequences of the 16S rRNA genes of these representatives, and of Haloarcula hispanica ATCC 33960, were determined to establish their phylogenetic positions. The sequences of these strains were compared to previously published sequences of 27 reference halophilic archaea (members of the family Halobacteriaceae) and two other archaea, Methanobacterium formicicum DSM 1312 and Methanospirillum hungatei DSM 864. Phylogenetic analysis using approximately 1,400 base comparisons of 16S rRNA-encoding gene sequences demonstrated that the five isolates clustered closely to species belonging to three different genera--Haloferax, Halobacterium, and Haloarcula. Strains E1 and E8 were closely related and identified as members of the species Haloferax volcanii, and strain E12 was closely related and identified as a member of the species Halobacterium salinarum. However, strains E2 and E11 clustered in the Haloarcula branch with Haloarcula hispanica as the closest relative at 98.9 and 98.8% similarity, respectively. Strains E2 and E11 could represent two new species of the genus Haloarcula. However, because strains of these two new species were isolated from a single source, they will not be named until additional strains are isolated from other sources and fully characterized.
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- D R Arahal
- Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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Leadbetter JR, Breznak JA. Physiological ecology of Methanobrevibacter cuticularis sp. nov. and Methanobrevibacter curvatus sp. nov., isolated from the hindgut of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes. Appl Environ Microbiol 1996; 62:3620-31. [PMID: 8837417 PMCID: PMC168169 DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.10.3620-3631.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Two morphologically distinct, H2- and CO2-utilizing methanogens were isolated from gut homogenates of the subterranean termite, Reticulitermes-flavipes (Kollar) (Rhinotermitidae). Strain RFM-1 was a short straight rod (0.4 by 1.2 micron), whereas strain RFM-2 was a slightly curved rod (0.34 by 1.6 microns) that possessed polar fibers. Their morphology, gram-positive staining reaction, resistance to cell lysis by chemical agents, and narrow range of utilizable substracts were typical of species belonging to the family Methanobacteriaceae. Analysis of the nearly complete sequences of the small-subunit rRNA-encoding genes confirmed this affiliation and supported their recognition as new species of Methanobrevibacter: M. cuticularis (RFM-1) and M. curvatus (RFM-2). The per cell rates of methanogenesis by strains RFM-1 and RFM-2 in vitro, taken together with their in situ population densities (ca. 10(6) cells.gut-1; equivalent to 10(9) cells . ml of gut fluid-1), could fully account for the rate of methane emission by the live termites. UV epifluorescence and electron microscopy confirmed that RFM-1- and RFM-2-type cells were the dominant methanogens in R.flavipes collected in Michigan (but were not the only methanogens associated with this species) and that they colonized the peripheral, microoxic region of the hindgut, i.e., residing on or near the hindgut epithelium and also attached to filamentous prokaryotes associated with the gut wall. An examination of their oxygen tolerance revealed that both strains possessed catalase-like activity. Moreover, when dispersed in tubes or agar medium under H2-CO2-O2 (75: 18.8:6.2, vol/vol/vol), both strains grew to form a thin plate about 6 mm below the meniscus, just beneath the oxic-anoxic interface. Such growth plates were capable of mediating a net consumption of O2 that otherwise penetrated much deeper into uninoculated control tubes. Similar results were obtained with an authentic strain of Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus. This is the first detailed description of an important and often cited but poorly understood component of the termite gut microbiota.
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- J R Leadbetter
- Department of Microbiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1101, USA
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Embley TM, Finlay BJ. Systematic and morphological diversity of endosymbiotic methanogens in anaerobic ciliates. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1994; 64:261-71. [PMID: 8085789 DOI: 10.1007/bf00873086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The identities and taxonomic diversity of the endosymbiotic methanogens from the anaerobic protozoa Metopus contortus, Metopus striatus, Metopus palaeformis, Trimyema sp. and Pelomyxa palustris were determined by comparative analysis of their 16S ribosomal RNA sequences. Fluorescent oligonucleotide probes were designed to bind to the symbiont rRNA sequences and to provide direct visual evidence of their origins from methanogenic archaea contained within the host cells. Confocal microscopy was used to analyze the morphology of the endosymbionts in whole cells of Metopus palaeformis, Metopus contortus, Trimyema sp, and Cyclidium porcatum. The endosymbionts are taxonomically diverse and are drawn from three different genera; Methanobacterium, Methanocorpusculum and Methanoplanus. In every case the symbionts are closely related to, but different from, free-living methanogens for which sequences are available. It is thus apparent that symbioses have been formed repeatedly and independently. Ciliates which are unrelated to each other (Trimyema sp. and Metopus contortus) may contain symbionts which are closely related, and congeneric ciliates (Metopus palaeformis and M. contortus) may contain symbionts which are distantly related to each other. This suggests that some of the symbiotic associations must be relatively recent. For example, at least one of the symbioses in Metopus must postdate the speciation of M. palaeformis and M. contortus. Despite this, Metopus contortus, Trimyema sp., Cyclidium porcatum and their respective endosymbionts show sophisticated morphological interactions which probably facilitate the exchange of materials between the partners.
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- T M Embley
- Microbiology Group, Natural History Museum, London, UK
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McGenity TJ, Grant WD. The Haloalkaliphilic Archaeon (Archaebacterium) Natronococcus occultus Represents a Distinct Lineage Within the Halobacteriales, Most Closely Related to the Other Haloalkaliphilic Lineage (Natronobacterium). Syst Appl Microbiol 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80474-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Nölling J, Hahn D, Ludwig W, De Vos WM. Phylogenetic Analysis of Thermophilic Methanobacterium sp.: Evidence for a Formate-Utilizing Ancestor. Syst Appl Microbiol 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80469-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Klenk HP, Palm P, Zillig W. DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerases as Phylogenetic Marker Molecules. Syst Appl Microbiol 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80335-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Chapter 16 Structure and function of methanogen genes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60265-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Chapter 15 Halobacterial genes and genomes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60264-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Palmer JR, Reeve JN. Methanogen Genes and the Molecular Biology of Methane Biosynthesis. BROCK/SPRINGER SERIES IN CONTEMPORARY BIOSCIENCE 1993. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-7087-5_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Lai MC, Gunsalus RP. Glycine betaine and potassium ion are the major compatible solutes in the extremely halophilic methanogen Methanohalophilus strain Z7302. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:7474-7. [PMID: 1429470 PMCID: PMC207447 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.22.7474-7477.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Methanohalophilus strain Z7302 was previously isolated from a hypersaline environment and grows over a range of NaCl concentrations from 1.7 to 4.4 M. We examined the relationships between cell growth rate, cell volume, and intracellular solute concentrations with increasing salinity. This extremely halophilic methanogen synthesized three zwitterionic compounds, beta-glutamine, N epsilon-acetyl-beta-lysine, and glycine betaine, and also accumulated potassium ion as compatible solutes to balance the external and internal osmotic pressures. Potassium and glycine betaine were the predominant compatible solutes when Methanohalophilus strain Z7302 was grown at high external NaCl concentrations and approached intracellular levels of 3 and 4 M, respectively.
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- M C Lai
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
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The small subunit rRNA sequence of twenty archaea, members of the Methanomicrobiales, permits a detailed phylogenetic tree to be inferred for the group. The tree confirms earlier studies, based on far fewer sequences, in showing the group to be divided into two major clusters, temporarily designated the "methanosarcina" group and the "methanogenium" group. The tree also defines phylogenetic relationships within these two groups, which in some cases do not agree with the phylogenetic relationships implied by current taxonomic names--a problem most acute for the genus Methanogenium and its relatives. The present phylogenetic characterization provides the basis for a consistent taxonomic restructuring of this major methanogenic taxon.
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- P Rouvière
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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Nucleotide Sequence of the 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene from the Haloalkaliphilic Archaeon (Archaebacterium) Natronobacterium magadii, and the Phylogeny of Halobacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80309-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ward DM, Weller R, Bateson MM. 16S rRNA sequences reveal uncultured inhabitants of a well-studied thermal community. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1990; 6:105-15. [PMID: 2117459 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1990.tb04088.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Molecular methods are beginning to reveal inhabitants of natural microbial communities which have never before been cultured. Our approach involves selective cloning of naturally occurring 16S rRNA sequences as cDNA, and comparison of these sequences to a database which includes 16S rRNA sequences of isolated community members. We provide here an overview of the method and its potential for community analysis. A 16S rRNA sequence retrieved from the well-studied hot spring cyanobacterial mat in Octopus Spring (Yellowstone National Park) is shown as an example of one contributed by an uncultured member of the community.
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- D M Ward
- Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
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Haas ES, Brown JW, Daniels CJ, Reeve JN. Genes encoding the 7S RNA and tRNA(Ser) are linked to one of the two rRNA operons in the genome of the extremely thermophilic archaebacterium Methanothermus fervidus. Gene 1990; 90:51-9. [PMID: 2116370 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(90)90438-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Analysis of gene structure in the extremely thermophilic archaebacterium, Methanothermus fervidus, has revealed the presence of a cluster of stable RNA-encoding genes arranged 5'-7S RNA-tRNA(Ser)-16S rRNA-tRNA(Ala)-23S rRNA-5S rRNA. The genome of M. fervidus contains two rRNA operons but only one operon has the closely linked 7S RNA-encoding gene. The sequences upstream from the two rRNA operons are identical for 206 bp but diverge at the 3' base of the tRNA(Ser) gene. The secondary structures predicted for the M. fervidus 7S, 16S rRNA, tRNA(Ala) and tRNA(Ser) have been compared with those of functionally homologous molecules from moderately thermophilic and mesophilic archaebacteria. A consensus secondary structure for archaebacterial 7S RNAs has been developed which incorporates bases and structural features also conserved in eukaryotic signal-recognition-particle RNAs and eubacterial 4.5S RNAs.
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MESH Headings
- Archaea/genetics
- Bacteria/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Linkage
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Operon
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal/ultrastructure
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/ultrastructure
- RNA, Small Nuclear/genetics
- RNA, Small Nuclear/ultrastructure
- RNA, Transfer, Amino Acid-Specific/genetics
- RNA, Transfer, Ser/genetics
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- E S Haas
- Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210
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Bateson MM, Wiegel J, Ward DM. Comparative Analysis of 16S Ribosomal RNA Sequences of Thermophilic Fermentative Bacteria Isolated from Hot Spring Cyanobacterial Mats. Syst Appl Microbiol 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(89)80034-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Brown JW, Daniels CJ, Reeve JN. Gene structure, organization, and expression in archaebacteria. Crit Rev Microbiol 1989; 16:287-338. [PMID: 2467783 DOI: 10.3109/10408418909105479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Major advances have recently been made in understanding the molecular biology of the archaebacteria. In this review, we compare the structure of protein and stable RNA-encoding genes cloned and sequenced from each of the major classes of archaebacteria: the methanogens, extreme halophiles, and acid thermophiles. Protein-encoding genes, including some encoding proteins directly involved in methanogenesis and photoautotrophy, are analyzed on the basis of gene organization and structure, transcriptional control signals, codon usage, and evolutionary conservation. Stable RNA-encoding genes are compared for gene organization and structure, transcriptional signals, and processing events involved in RNA maturation, including intron removal. Comparisons of archaebacterial structures and regulatory systems are made with their eubacterial and eukaryotic homologs.
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- J W Brown
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington
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Londei P, Altamura S, Sanz JL, Amils R. Aminoglycoside-induced mistranslation in thermophilic archaebacteria. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1988; 214:48-54. [PMID: 2465484 DOI: 10.1007/bf00340178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The effect of selected aminoglycoside antibiotics on the translational accuracy of poly(U) programmed ribosomes derived from the thermophilic archaebacteria Thermoplasma acidophilum, Sulfolobus solfataricus, Thermococcus celer and Desulfurococcus mobilis has been determined. Under optimum temperature and ionic conditions for polyphenylalanine synthesis, the four species investigated are found to be markedly diverse in their response to the miscoding-inducing action of aminoglycoside antibiotics. T. acidophilum is sensitive to all of the compounds tested except streptomycin; S. solfataricus responds to paromomycin and to hygromycin B; T. celer is only affected by neomycin, and D. mobilis is refractory to all drugs. The only feature shared by the four species under study, and by all archaebacteria so far investigated, is their complete insensitivity to streptomycin. The structural and phylogenetic implications of the remarkable diversity encountered among archaebacterial ribosomes in their susceptibility to aminoglycosides are discussed.
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- P Londei
- Dipartimento di Biopatologia Umana, Università di Roma, Policlinico Umberto I, Italy
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Altamura S, Sanz J, Amils R, Cammarano P, Londei P. The Antibiotic Sensitivity Spectra of Ribosomes from the Thermoproteales: Phylogenetic Depth and Distribution of Antibiotic Binding Sites. Syst Appl Microbiol 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(88)80004-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Zillig W, Palm P, Reiter WD, Gropp F, Pühler G, Klenk HP. Comparative evaluation of gene expression in archaebacteria. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1988; 173:473-82. [PMID: 3131139 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb14023.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Gene organization, gene structure, especially regarding transcription and translation signals, and the structure of essential components of the gene expression machinery of archaebacteria are compared with those of eubacteria and eukaryotes. Many features of the genetic machinery of archaebacteria are shared either with eubacteria or with eukaryotes. For example, the translation signals including ribosome-binding sites are the same as in eubacteria, but the consensus sequence of archaebacterial promoters closely resembles that of the eukaryotic polymerase II promoters. Archaebacterial genes can be organized in transcription units resembling those of eubacteria. But the sequences of several protein components of the genetic machinery have strikingly more homology with those of their eukaryotic than with those of their eubacterial correspondents. The sequences of the large components of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases of archaebacteria closely resemble those of the eukaryotic RNA polymerases II and, somewhat less, III. In a dendrogram calculated from percentage homology data, the eukaryotic RNA polymerase I component A shares a branching point with the eubacterial component. The implications of these findings for the origin and the evolution of the eukaryotic ancestry are discussed.
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- W Zillig
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Federal Republic of Germany
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Raué HA, Klootwijk J, Musters W. Evolutionary conservation of structure and function of high molecular weight ribosomal RNA. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1988; 51:77-129. [PMID: 3076243 DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(88)90011-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Weil CF, Beckler GS, Reeve JN. Structure and organization of the hisA gene of the thermophilic archaebacterium Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus. J Bacteriol 1987; 169:4857-60. [PMID: 3115964 PMCID: PMC213870 DOI: 10.1128/jb.169.10.4857-4860.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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A restriction fragment of Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus genomic DNA was cloned into pUC8 to produce plasmid pET9301, which complements mutations in the hisA gene of Escherichia coli. Sequencing the DNA (2,155 base pairs) cloned from this thermophilic methanogen demonstrated that the M. thermolithotrophicus hisA gene is located within a cluster of open reading frames (ORFs) and is 68 and 69% homologous at the nucleotide level to the hisA genes of the mesophilic methanococci M. voltae and M. vannielii, respectively. The ORF (ORF 206) immediately 5' to the hisA gene of M. thermolithotrophicus is partially deleted in the genomes of the two mesophilic species, whereas ORF 114, which is 5' to ORF 206, is conserved in all three species.
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- C F Weil
- Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210
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Martens B, Spiegl H, Stackebrandt E. Sequence of a 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene of Ruminobacter amylophilus: The Relation Between Homology Values and Similarity Coefficients. Syst Appl Microbiol 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(87)80026-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Despite the availability of a rapidly growing ribosomal RNA database that now includes organisms in all three primary lines of descent (eubacteria, archaebacteria, and eukaryotes), theoretical treatment of the evolution of the ribosomal RNAs has lagged behind that of the protein genes. In this paper a theory is developed that applies current views of protein gene evolution to the ribosomal RNAs. The major topics addressed are the variability in size, gene arrangement, and processing of the rRNAs among the three primary lines of descent. Among the conclusions are that the rRNAs of eukaryotes retain some primitive features that were probably present in the rRNAs of the earliest cell (the progenote) and that the genes coding for the three major rRNA species were probably originally unlinked.
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- C G Clark
- Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021-6399
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Østergaard L, Larsen N, Leffers H, Kjems J, Garrett R. A Ribosomal RNA Operon and its Flanking Region from the Archaebacterium Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, Marburg Strain: Transcription Signals, RNA Structure and Evolutionary Implications. Syst Appl Microbiol 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(87)80022-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Kjems J, Garrett RA, Ansorge W. The sequence of the 16S RNA gene and its flanking region from the archaebacterium Desulfurococcus mobilis. Syst Appl Microbiol 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(87)80051-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Leinfelder W, Jarsch M, Böck A. The Phylogenetic Position of the Sulfur-Dependent Archaebacterium Thermoproteus tenax: Sequence of the 16S rRNA Gene. Syst Appl Microbiol 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(85)80050-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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