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Ahmed F, Mirani ZA, Urooj S, Noor Ul Hudda H, Janees Imdad M, Zhao Y, Malakar PK. A rare biofilm dispersion strategy demonstrated by Staphylococcus aureus under oxacillin stress. Microb Pathog 2024; 194:106838. [PMID: 39111368 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2024.106838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2024] [Revised: 07/31/2024] [Accepted: 08/02/2024] [Indexed: 08/13/2024]
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Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), a versatile Gram-positive bacterium, is implicated in a spectrum of infections, and its resilience is often attributed to biofilm formation. This study investigates the effect of sub-inhibitory doses of oxacillin on biofilm formation by methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Specifically, it examines how these doses influence biofilms' development, maturation, and dispersal. The biofilm's zenith reached 48 h of incubation, followed by a noteworthy decline at 96 h and a distinctive clearance zone around biofilm-positive cells exposed to oxacillin. Scanning electron micrographs unveiled an intriguing active biofilm dispersal mechanism, a rarity in this species. Among 180 isolates, only three carrying the elusive icaD gene exhibited this phenomenon. icaD gene was absent in their counterparts. Notably, the icaD gene emerges as a distinctive marker, crucial in regulating biofilm dispersion and setting these isolates apart. The captivating interplay of oxacillin, biofilm dynamics, and genetic signatures disintegrate novel dimensions in understanding MRSA's adaptive strategies and underscores the importance of the icaD gene in engineering biofilm resilience.
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- Faraz Ahmed
- College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China; International Research Centre for Food and Health, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
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- Microbiology Section, FMRRC, PCSIR Laboratories Complex Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Aquatic Diagnostic and Research Center Bahria University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China; International Research Centre for Food and Health, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China; International Research Centre for Food and Health, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China; Laboratory of Quality & Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage and Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Aquatic-Product Processing & Preservation, Shanghai, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China; International Research Centre for Food and Health, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
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Li R, Yao J, Liu J, Sunahara G, Duran R, Xi B, El-Saadani Z. Bioindicator responses to extreme conditions: Insights into pH and bioavailable metals under acidic metal environments. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 356:120550. [PMID: 38537469 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2024] [Revised: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
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Acid mine drainage (AMD) caused environmental risks from heavy metal pollution, requiring treatment methods such as chemical precipitation and biological treatment. Monitoring and adapting treatment processes was crucial for success, but cost-effective pollution monitoring methods were lacking. Using bioindicators measured through 16S rRNA was a promising method to assess environmental pollution. This study evaluated the effects of AMD on ecological health using the ecological risk index (RI) and the Risk Assessment Code (RAC) indices. Additionally, we also examined how acidic metal stress affected the diversity of bacteria and fungi, as well as their networks. Bioindicators were identified using linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe), Partial least squares regression (PLS-R), and Spearman analyses. The study found that Cd, Cu, Pb, and As pose potential ecological risks in that order. Fungal diversity decreased by 44.88% in AMD-affected areas, more than the 33.61% decrease in bacterial diversity. Microbial diversity was positively correlated with pH (r = 0.88, p = 0.04) and negatively correlated with bioavailable metal concentrations (r = -0.59, p = 0.05). Similarly, microbial diversity was negatively correlated with bioavailable metal concentrations (bio_Cu, bio_Pb, bio_Cd) (r = 0.79, p = 0.03). Acidiferrobacter and Thermoplasmataceae were prevalent in acidic metal environments, while Puia and Chitinophagaceae were identified as biomarker species in the control area (LDA>4). Acidiferrobacter and Thermoplasmataceae were found to be pH-tolerant bioindicators with high reliability (r = 1, P < 0.05, BW > 0.1) through PLS-R and Spearman analysis. Conversely, Puia and Chitinophagaceae were pH-sensitive bioindicators, while Teratosphaeriaceae was a potential bioindicator for Cu-Zn-Cd metal pollution. This study identified bioindicator species for acid and metal pollution in AMD habitats. This study outlined the focus of biological monitoring in AMD acidic stress environments, including extreme pH, heavy metal pollutants, and indicator species. It also provided essential information for heavy metal bioremediation, such as the role of omics and the effects of organic matter on metal bioavailability.
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- Ruofei Li
- School of Water Resource and Environment, Research Center of Environmental Science and Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Groundwater Circulation and Environmental Evolution, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Water Resource and Environment, Research Center of Environmental Science and Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Groundwater Circulation and Environmental Evolution, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China.
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- School of Water Resource and Environment, Research Center of Environmental Science and Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Groundwater Circulation and Environmental Evolution, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Water Resource and Environment, Research Center of Environmental Science and Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Groundwater Circulation and Environmental Evolution, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China; Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Drive, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, H9X 3V9, Canada
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- School of Water Resource and Environment, Research Center of Environmental Science and Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Groundwater Circulation and Environmental Evolution, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China; Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, UPPA/E2S, IPREM CNRS, 5254, Pau, France
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Simulation and Control of Groundwater Pollution, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig, 44519, Egypt
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Sajjad W, Ilahi N, Kang S, Bahadur A, Banerjee A, Zada S, Ali B, Rafiq M, Zheng G. Microbial diversity and community structure dynamics in acid mine drainage: Acidic fire with dissolved heavy metals. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 909:168635. [PMID: 37981161 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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Acid mine drainage (AMD) is one of the leading causes of environmental pollution and is linked to public health and ecological consequences. Microbes-mineral interaction generates AMD, but microorganisms can also remedy AMD pollution. Exploring the microbial response to AMD effluents may reveal survival strategies in extreme ecosystems. Three distinct sites across a mine (inside the mine, the entrance of the mine, and outside) were selected to study their heavy metal concentrations due to significant variations in pH and physicochemical characteristics, and high-throughput sequencing was carried out to investigate the microbial diversity. The metal and ion concentrations followed the order SO42-, Fe, Cu, Zn, Mg, Pb, Co, Cr, and Ni from highest to lowest, respectively. Maximum sequences were allocated to Proteobacteria and Firmicutes. Among archaea, the abundance of Thaumarchaeota and Euryarchaeota was higher outside of mine. Most of the genera (23.12 %) were unclassified and unknown. The average OTUs (operational taxonomic units) were significantly higher outside the mine; however, diversity indices were not significantly different across the mine sites. Hierarchical clustering of selective genera and nMDS ordination of OTUs displayed greater segregation resolution inside and outside of mine, whereas the entrance samples clustered with greater similarity. Heterogeneous selection might be the main driver of community composition outside the mine, whereas stochastic processes became prominent inside the mine. However, the ANOSIM test shows a relatively even distribution of community composition within and between the groups. Microbial phyla showed both positive and negative correlations with physicochemical factors. A greater number of biomarkers were reported outside of the mine. Predictive functional investigation revealed the existence of putative degradative, metabolic, and biosynthetic pathways. This study presents a rare dataset in our understanding of microbial diversity and distribution as shaped by the ecological gradient and potential novelty in phylogenetic/taxonomic diversity in AMD, with potential biotechnological applications.
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- Wasim Sajjad
- State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Informatics, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan.
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- School of Environmental Studies, China University Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
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Zhang M, Huang C, Ni J, Yue S. Global trends and future prospects of acid mine drainage research. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:109233-109249. [PMID: 37770736 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-30059-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023]
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The uncontrolled release of acid mine drainage (AMD) results in the ongoing deterioration of groundwater and surface water, along with harmful impacts on aquatic ecosystems and surrounding habitats. This study employed a bibliometric analysis to examine research activities and trends related to AMD from 1991 to 2021. The analysis demonstrated a consistent growth in AMD research over the years, with a notable surge in the number of publications starting from 2014. Applied Geochemistry and Science of the Total Environment emerged as the top two extensively published journals in the field of AMD research. The USA held a prominent position, achieving the highest h-index (96) and central value (0.36) among 111 countries/territories, with China and Spain following closely behind. The author keyword analysis provides an overview of the main focuses in AMD research. Furthermore, the co-citation reference analysis reveals four primary domains of AMD research. Moreover, the prevention and remediation of AMD, including source prevention and migration control, as well as the hazards posed by heavy metals/metalloids and the mechanisms and techniques employed for their removal, are discussed in detail.
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- Min Zhang
- Jiangxi Copper Technology Research Institute, Jiangxi Copper Corporation, Nanchang, 330096, Jiangxi Province, China
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- Jiangxi Copper Technology Research Institute, Jiangxi Copper Corporation, Nanchang, 330096, Jiangxi Province, China
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- Jiangxi Copper Technology Research Institute, Jiangxi Copper Corporation, Nanchang, 330096, Jiangxi Province, China
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- Institute of Microbiology, Jiangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanchang, 330096, Jiangxi Province, China.
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Yang Z, Lian Z, Liu L, Fang B, Li W, Jiao J. Cultivation strategies for prokaryotes from extreme environments. IMETA 2023; 2:e123. [PMID: 38867929 PMCID: PMC10989778 DOI: 10.1002/imt2.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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The great majority of microorganisms are as-yet-uncultivated, mostly found in extreme environments. High-throughput sequencing provides data-rich genomes from single-cell and metagenomic techniques, which has enabled researchers to obtain a glimpse of the unexpected genetic diversity of "microbial dark matter." However, cultivating microorganisms from extreme environments remains essential for dissecting and utilizing the functions of extremophiles. Here, we provide a straightforward protocol for efficiently isolating prokaryotic microorganisms from different extreme habitats (thermal, xeric, saline, alkaline, acidic, and cryogenic environments), which was established through previous successful work and our long-term experience in extremophile resource mining. We propose common processes for extremophile isolation at first and then summarize multiple cultivation strategies for recovering prokaryotic microorganisms from extreme environments and meanwhile provide specific isolation tips that are always overlooked but important. Furthermore, we propose the use of multi-omics-guided microbial cultivation approaches for culturing these as-yet-uncultivated microorganisms and two examples are provided to introduce how these approaches work. In summary, the protocol allows researchers to significantly improve the isolation efficiency of pure cultures and novel taxa, which therefore paves the way for the protection and utilization of microbial resources from extreme environments.
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- Zi‐Wen Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life SciencesSun Yat‐Sen UniversityGuangzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life SciencesSun Yat‐Sen UniversityGuangzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life SciencesSun Yat‐Sen UniversityGuangzhouChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and GeographyChinese Academy of SciencesUrumqiChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life SciencesSun Yat‐Sen UniversityGuangzhouChina
- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and GeographyChinese Academy of SciencesUrumqiChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Life SciencesSun Yat‐Sen UniversityGuangzhouChina
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Li Y, Shi X, Tan W, Ling Q, Pei F, Luo S, Qin P, Yuan H, Huang L, Yu F. Metagenomics combined with metabolomics reveals the effect of Enterobacter sp. inoculation on the rhizosphere microenvironment of Bidens pilosa L. in heavy metal contaminated soil. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 458:132033. [PMID: 37453352 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Revised: 06/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Metagenomics analysis was performed to determine the effects of Enterobacter sp. FM-1 (FM-1) on key genera as well as functional genes in the rhizosphere of Bidens pilosa L. (B. pilosa L.). Moreover, metabolomics was used to reveal the differences among rhizosphere metabolites after FM-1 inoculation. FM-1 inoculation significantly increased the activity of enzymes associated with the carbon cycle in soil; among them, invertase activity increased by 5.52 units compared to a control. Specifically, the relative abundance of beneficial genera increased significantly, such as Lysobacter (0.45-2.58 unit increase) in low-contamination soils (LC) and Pseudomonas (31.17-45.99 unit increase) in high-contamination soils (HC). Comparison of different transformation processes of the C cycle revealed that inoculation of FM-1 increased the abundance of functional genes related to the carbon cycle in LC soil. In contrast, the nitrogen cycling pathway was significantly elevated in both the LC and HC soils. FM-1 inoculation reduced HM resistance gene abundance in the rhizosphere soil of B. pilosa L. in the LC soil. Moreover, FM-1 and B. pilosa L. interactions promoted the secretion of rhizosphere metabolites, in which lipids and amino acids played important roles in the phytoremediation process. Overall, we explored the rhizosphere effects induced by plantmicrobe interactions, providing new insights into the functional microbes and rhizosphere metabolites involved in phytoremediation.
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- Yi Li
- Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guilin, China; College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Landscape Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization in Lijiang River Basin, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
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- Hunan Suining Huayuange National Wetland Park, Suining, China
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- Hunan Suining Huayuange National Wetland Park, Suining, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guilin, China; College of Environment and Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Landscape Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization in Lijiang River Basin, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China.
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Luo ZH, Li Q, Chen N, Tang LY, Liao B, Yang TT, Huang LN. Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals depth-related patterns of microbial community structure and functions in a highly stratified, AMD overlaying mine tailings. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2023; 447:130774. [PMID: 36641850 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.130774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2022] [Revised: 01/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a worldwide environmental problem, yet bioremediation is hampered by a limited knowledge of the reductive microbial processes in the AMD ecosystem. Here, we generate extensive metagenome and geochemical datasets to investigate how microbial populations and metabolic capacities driving major element cycles are structured in a highly stratified, AMD overlaying tailings environment. The results demonstrated an explicit depth-dependent differentiation of microbial community composition and function profiles between the surface and deeper tailings layers, paralleling the dramatic shifts in major physical and geochemical properties. Specifically, key genes involved in sulfur and iron oxidation were significantly enriched in the surface tailings, whereas those associated with reductive nitrogen, sulfur, and iron processes were enriched in the deeper layers. Genome-resolved metagenomics retrieved 406 intermediate or high-quality genomes spanning 26 phyla, including major new groups (e.g., Patescibacteria and DPANN). Metabolic models involving nitrogen, sulfur, iron, and carbon cycles were proposed based on the functional potentials of the abundant microbial genomes, emphasizing syntrophy and the importance of lesser-known taxa in the degradation of complex carbon compounds. These results have implications for in situ AMD bioremediation.
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- Zhen-Hao Luo
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Heavy Metal Mine Ecological Restoration Engineering Technology Research Center, Shaoguan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
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Diverse Methylmercury (MeHg) Producers and Degraders Inhabit Acid Mine Drainage Sediments, but Few Taxa Correlate with MeHg Accumulation. mSystems 2023; 8:e0073622. [PMID: 36507660 PMCID: PMC9948709 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00736-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Methylmercury (MeHg) is a notorious neurotoxin, and its production and degradation in the environment are mainly driven by microorganisms. A variety of microbial MeHg producers carrying the gene pair hgcAB and degraders carrying the merB gene have been separately reported in recent studies. However, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the simultaneous investigation of the diversities of microbial MeHg producers and degraders in a given habitat, and no studies have been performed to explore to what extent these two contrasting microbial groups correlate with MeHg accumulation in the habitat of interest. Here, we collected 86 acid mine drainage (AMD) sediments from an area spanning approximately 500,000 km2 in southern China and profiled the sediment-borne putative MeHg producers and degraders using genome-resolved metagenomics. 46 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) containing hgcAB and 93 MAGs containing merB were obtained, including those from various taxa without previously known MeHg-metabolizing microorganisms. These diverse MeHg-metabolizing MAGs were formed largely via multiple independent horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events. The putative MeHg producers from Deltaproteobacteria and Firmicutes as well as MeHg degraders from Acidithiobacillia were closely correlated with MeHg accumulation in the sediments. Furthermore, these three taxa, in combination with two abiotic factors, explained over 60% of the variance in MeHg accumulation. Most of the members of these taxa were characterized by their metabolic potential for nitrogen fixation and copper tolerance. Overall, these findings improve our understanding of the ecology of MeHg-metabolizing microorganisms and likely have implications for the development of management strategies for the reduction of MeHg accumulation in the AMD sediments. IMPORTANCE Microorganisms are the main drivers of MeHg production and degradation in the environment. However, little attention has been paid to the simultaneous investigation of the diversities of microbial MeHg producers and degraders in a given habitat. We used genome-resolved metagenomics to reveal the vast phylogenetic and metabolic diversities of putative MeHg producers and degraders in AMD sediments. Our results show that the diversity of MeHg-metabolizing microorganisms (particularly MeHg degraders) in AMD sediments is much higher than was previously recognized. Via multiple linear regression analysis, we identified both microbial and abiotic factors affecting MeHg accumulation in AMD sediments. Despite their great diversity, only a few taxa of MeHg-metabolizing microorganisms were closely correlated with MeHg accumulation. This work underscores the importance of using genome-resolved metagenomics to survey MeHg-metabolizing microorganisms and provides a framework for the illumination of the microbial basis of MeHg accumulation via the characterization of physicochemical properties, MeHg-metabolizing microorganisms, and the correlations between them.
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Mining of novel secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters from acid mine drainage. Sci Data 2022; 9:760. [PMID: 36494363 PMCID: PMC9734747 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01866-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Acid mine drainage (AMD) is usually acidic (pH < 4) and contains high concentrations of dissolved metals and metalloids, making AMD a typical representative of extreme environments. Recent studies have shown that microbes play a key role in AMD bioremediation, and secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (smBGCs) from AMD microbes are important resources for the synthesis of antibacterial and anticancer drugs. Here, 179 samples from 13 mineral types were used to analyze the putative novel microorganisms and secondary metabolites in AMD environments. Among 7,007 qualified metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) mined from these datasets, 6,340 MAGs could not be assigned to any GTDB species representative. Overall, 11,856 smBGCs in eight categories were obtained from 7,007 qualified MAGs, and 10,899 smBGCs were identified as putative novel smBGCs. We anticipate that these datasets will accelerate research in the field of AMD bioremediation, aid in the discovery of novel secondary metabolites, and facilitate investigation into gene functions, metabolic pathways, and CNPS cycles in AMD.
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Kelly LC, Rivett DW, Pakostova E, Creer S, Cotterell T, Johnson DB. Mineralogy affects prokaryotic community composition in an acidic metal mine. Microbiol Res 2022; 266:127257. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2022.127257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Feng SW, Lu JL, Liang JL, Wu ZH, Yi X, Wen P, Li FL, Liao B, Jia P, Shu WS, Li JT. Functional Guilds, Community Assembly, and Co-occurrence Patterns of Fungi in Metalliferous Mine Tailings Ponds in Mainland China. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2022:10.1007/s00248-022-02121-6. [PMID: 36205737 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-022-02121-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Metalliferous mine tailings ponds are generally characterized by low levels of nutrient elements, sustained acidic conditions, and high contents of toxic metals. They represent one kind of extreme environments that are believed to resemble the Earth's early environmental conditions. There is increasing evidence that the diversity of fungi inhabiting mine tailings ponds is much higher than previously thought. However, little is known about functional guilds, community assembly, and co-occurrence patterns of fungi in such habitats. As a first attempt to address this critical knowledge gap, we employed high-throughput sequencing to characterize fungal communities in 33 mine tailings ponds distributed across 18 provinces of mainland China. A total of 5842 fungal phylotypes were identified, with saprotrophic fungi being the major functional guild. The predictors of fungal diversity in whole community and sub-communities differed considerably. Community assembly of the whole fungal community and individual functional guilds were primarily governed by stochastic processes. Total soil nitrogen and total phosphorus mediated the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes of the fungal community assembly. Co-occurrence network analysis uncovered a high modularity of the whole fungal community. The observed main modules largely consisted of saprotrophic fungi as well as various phylotypes that could not be assigned to known functional guilds. The richness of core fungal phylotypes, occupying vital positions in co-occurrence network, was positively correlated with edaphic properties such as soil enzyme activity. This indicates the important roles of core fungal phylotypes in soil organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling. These findings improve our understanding of fungal ecology of extreme environments.
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- Shi-Wei Feng
- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China.
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China
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Shu WS, Huang LN. Microbial diversity in extreme environments. Nat Rev Microbiol 2022; 20:219-235. [PMID: 34754082 DOI: 10.1038/s41579-021-00648-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 63.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa, survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity ecosystems offer a tremendous opportunity for studying the structure, function and evolution of natural microbial communities. Marker gene surveys have resolved patterns and ecological drivers of these extremophile assemblages, revealing a vast uncultured microbial diversity and the often predominance of archaea in the most extreme conditions. New omics studies have uncovered linkages between community function and environmental variables, and have enabled discovery and genomic characterization of major new lineages that substantially expand microbial diversity and change the structure of the tree of life. These efforts have significantly advanced our understanding of the diversity, ecology and evolution of microorganisms populating Earth's extreme environments, and have facilitated the exploration of microbiota and processes in more complex ecosystems.
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- Wen-Sheng Shu
- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
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Palomo A, Dechesne A, Cordero OX, Smets BF. Evolutionary Ecology of Natural Comammox Nitrospira Populations. mSystems 2022; 7:e0113921. [PMID: 35014874 PMCID: PMC8751384 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01139-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Microbes commonly exist in diverse and complex communities where species interact, and their genomic repertoires evolve over time. Our understanding of species interaction and evolution has increased during the last decades, but most studies of evolutionary dynamics are based on single species in isolation or in experimental systems composed of few interacting species. Here, we use the microbial ecosystem found in groundwater-fed sand filter as a model to avoid this limitation. In these open systems, diverse microbial communities experience relatively stable conditions, and the coupling between chemical and biological processes is generally well defined. Metagenomic analysis of 12 sand filters communities revealed systematic co-occurrence of at least five comammox Nitrospira species, likely promoted by low ammonium concentrations. These Nitrospira species showed intrapopulation sequence diversity, although possible clonal expansion was detected in a few abundant local comammox populations. Nitrospira species showed low homologous recombination and strong purifying selection, the latter process being especially strong in genes essential in energy metabolism. Positive selection was detected for genes related to resistance to foreign DNA and phages. We found that, compared to other habitats, groundwater-fed sand filters impose strong purifying selection and low recombination on comammox Nitrospira populations. These results suggest that evolutionary processes are more affected by habitat type than by species identity. Together, this study improves our understanding of species interaction and evolution in complex microbial communities and sheds light on the environmental dependency of evolutionary processes. IMPORTANCE Microbial species interact with each other and their environment (ecological processes) and undergo changes in their genomic repertoire over time (evolutionary processes). How these two classes of processes interact is largely unknown, especially for complex communities, as most studies of microbial evolutionary dynamics consider single species in isolation or a few interacting species in simplified experimental systems. In this study, these limitations are circumvented by examining the microbial communities found in stable and well-described groundwater-fed sand filters. Combining metagenomics and strain-level analyses, we identified the microbial interactions and evolutionary processes affecting comammox Nitrospira, a recently discovered bacterial type capable of performing the whole nitrification process. We found that abundant and co-occurrent Nitrospira populations in groundwater-fed sand filters are characterized by low recombination and strong purifying selection. In addition, by comparing these observations with those obtained from Nitrospira species inhabiting other environments, we revealed that evolutionary processes are more affected by habitat type than by species identity.
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- Alejandro Palomo
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Hao YQ, Zhao XF, Ai HX, Gao SM, Teng WK, Zheng J, Shu WS. Microbial biogeography of acid mine drainage sediments at a regional scale across Southern China. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2022; 98:6520435. [PMID: 35108388 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiac002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Investigations of microbial biogeography in extreme environments provide unique opportunities to disentangle the roles of environment and space in microbial community assembly. Here, we reported a comprehensive microbial biogeographic survey of 90 acid mine drainage (AMD) sediment samples from 18 mining sites of various mineral types across southern China. We found that environmental selection was strong in determining the AMD habitat species pool. However, microbial alpha diversity was primarily explained by mining sites rather than environmental factors, and microbial beta diversity correlated more strongly with geographic than environmental distance at both large and small spatial scales. Particularly, the presence/absence of widespread AMD habitat generalists was only correlated with geographic distance and independent of environmental variation. These distance-decay patterns suggested that spatial processes played a more important role in determining microbial compositional variation across space; which could be explained by the reinforced impacts of dispersal limitation in less fluid, spatially structured sediment habitat with diverse pre-existing communities. In summary, our findings suggested that the deterministic assembling and spatial constraints interact to shape microbial biogeography in AMD sediments; and provided implications that spatial processes should be considered when predicting microbial dynamics in response to severe environmental change across large spatial scales.
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- Yi-Qi Hao
- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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Jin L, Gerson JR, Rocca JD, Bernhardt ES, Simonin M. Alkaline mine drainage drives stream sediment microbial community structure and function. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 805:150189. [PMID: 34818783 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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With advances in eDNA metabarcoding, environmental microbiomes are increasingly used as cost-effective tools for monitoring ecosystem health. Stream ecosystems in Central Appalachia, heavily impacted by alkaline drainage from mountaintop coal mining, present ideal opportunities for biomonitoring using stream microbiomes, but the structural and functional responses of microbial communities in different environmental compartments are not well understood. We investigated sediment microbiomes in mining impacted streams to determine how community composition and function respond to mining and to look for potential microbial bioindicators. Using 16s rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we found that mining leads to shifts in microbial community structure, with the phylum Planctomycetes enriched by 1-6% at mined sites. We observed ~51% increase in species richness in bulk sediments. In contrast, of the 31 predicted metabolic pathways that changed significantly with mining, 23 responded negatively. Mining explained 15-18% of the variance in community structure and S, Se, %C and %N were the main drivers of community and functional pathway composition. We identified 12 microbial indicators prevalent in the ecosystem and sensitive to mining. Overall, alkaline mountaintop mining drainage causes a restructuration of the sediment microbiome, and our study identified promising microbial indicators for the long-term monitoring of these impacted streams.
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- Lingrong Jin
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States.
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States.
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States.
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Genomic Insights into the Ecological Role and Evolution of a Novel Thermoplasmata Order, " Candidatus Sysuiplasmatales". Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:e0106521. [PMID: 34524897 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01065-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Recent omics studies have provided invaluable insights into the metabolic potential, adaptation, and evolution of novel archaeal lineages from a variety of extreme environments. We utilized a genome-resolved metagenomic approach to recover eight medium- to high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) that likely represent a new order ("Candidatus Sysuiplasmatales") in the class Thermoplasmata from mine tailings and acid mine drainage (AMD) sediments sampled from two copper mines in South China. 16S rRNA gene-based analyses revealed a narrow habitat range for these uncultured archaea limited to AMD and hot spring-related environments. Metabolic reconstruction indicated a facultatively anaerobic heterotrophic lifestyle. This may allow the archaea to adapt to oxygen fluctuations and is thus in marked contrast to the majority of lineages in the domain Archaea, which typically show obligately anaerobic metabolisms. Notably, "Ca. Sysuiplasmatales" could conserve energy through degradation of fatty acids, amino acid metabolism, and oxidation of reduced inorganic sulfur compounds (RISCs), suggesting that they may contribute to acid generation in the extreme mine environments. Unlike the closely related orders Methanomassiliicoccales and "Candidatus Gimiplasmatales," "Ca. Sysuiplasmatales" lacks the capacity to perform methanogenesis and carbon fixation. Ancestral state reconstruction indicated that "Ca. Sysuiplasmatales," the closely related orders Methanomassiliicoccales and "Ca. Gimiplasmatales," and the orders SG8-5 and RBG-16-68-12 originated from a facultatively anaerobic ancestor capable of carbon fixation via the bacterial-type H4F Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (WLP). Their metabolic divergence might be attributed to different evolutionary paths. IMPORTANCE A wide array of archaea populate Earth's extreme environments; therefore, they may play important roles in mediating biogeochemical processes such as iron and sulfur cycling. However, our knowledge of archaeal biology and evolution is still limited, since the majority of the archaeal diversity is uncultured. For instance, most order-level lineages except Thermoplasmatales, Aciduliprofundales, and Methanomassiliicoccales within Thermoplasmata do not have cultured representatives. Here, we report the discovery and genomic characterization of a novel order, "Ca. Sysuiplasmatales," within Thermoplasmata in extremely acidic mine environments. "Ca. Sysuiplasmatales" are inferred to be facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs and likely contribute to acid generation through the oxidation of RISCs. The physiological divergence between "Ca. Sysuiplasmatales" and closely related Thermoplasmata lineages may be attributed to different evolutionary paths. These results expand our knowledge of archaea in the extreme mine ecosystem.
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Ou SN, Liang JL, Jiang XM, Liao B, Jia P, Shu WS, Li JT. Physiological, Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Reveal the Adaptation Mechanisms of Acidiella bohemica to Extreme Acid Mine Drainage Environments. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:705839. [PMID: 34305876 PMCID: PMC8298002 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.705839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Fungi in acid mine drainage (AMD) environments are of great concern due to their potentials of decomposing organic carbon, absorbing heavy metals and reducing AMD acidity. Based on morphological analysis and ITS/18S high-throughput sequencing technology, previous studies have provided deep insights into the diversity and community composition of fungi in AMD environments. However, knowledge about physiology, metabolic potential and transcriptome profiles of fungi inhabiting AMD environments is still scarce. Here, we reported the physiological, genomic, and transcriptomic characterization of Acidiella bohemica SYSU C17045 to improve our understanding of the physiological, genomic, and transcriptomic mechanisms underlying fungal adaptation to AMD environments. A. bohemica was isolated from an AMD environment, which has been proved to be an acidophilic fungus in this study. The surface of A. bohemica cultured in AMD solutions was covered with a large number of minerals such as jarosite. We thus inferred that the A. bohemica might have the potential of biologically induced mineralization. Taking advantage of PacBio single-molecule real-time sequencing, we obtained the high-quality genome sequences of A. bohemica (50 Mbp). To our knowledge, this was the first attempt to employ a third-generation sequencing technology to explore the genomic traits of fungi isolated from AMD environments. Moreover, our transcriptomic analysis revealed that a series of genes in the A. bohemica genome were related to its metabolic pathways of C, N, S, and Fe as well as its adaptation mechanisms, including the response to acid stress and the resistance to heavy metals. Overall, our physiological, genomic, and transcriptomic data provide a foundation for understanding the metabolic potential and adaptation mechanisms of fungi in AMD environments.
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- Shu-Ning Ou
- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Ecological Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Subtropical Biodiversity and Biomonitoring, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology for Plant Development, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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Metabolites have essential roles in microbial communities, including as mediators of nutrient and energy exchange, cell-to-cell communication, and antibiosis. However, detecting and quantifying metabolites and other chemicals in samples having extremes in salt or mineral content using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based methods remains a significant challenge. Here, we report a facile method based on in situ chemical derivatization followed by extraction for analysis of metabolites and other chemicals in hypersaline samples, enabling for the first time direct LC-MS-based exometabolomics analysis in sample matrices containing up to 2 M total dissolved salts. The method, MetFish, is applicable to molecules containing amine, carboxylic acid, carbonyl, or hydroxyl functional groups, and it can be integrated into either targeted or untargeted analysis pipelines. In targeted analyses, MetFish provided limits of quantification as low as 1 nM, broad linear dynamic ranges (up to 5 to 6 orders of magnitude) with excellent linearity, and low median interday reproducibility (e.g., 2.6%). MetFish was successfully applied in targeted and untargeted exometabolomics analyses of microbial consortia, quantifying amino acid dynamics in the exometabolome during community succession; in situ in a native prairie soil, whose exometabolome was isolated using a hypersaline extraction; and in input and produced fluids from a hydraulically fractured well, identifying dramatic changes in the exometabolome over time in the well. IMPORTANCE The identification and accurate quantification of metabolites using electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) in hypersaline samples is a challenge due to matrix effects. Clean-up and desalting strategies that typically work well for samples with lower salt concentrations are often ineffective in hypersaline samples. To address this gap, we developed and demonstrated a simple yet sensitive and accurate method—MetFish—using chemical derivatization to enable mass spectrometry-based metabolomics in a variety of hypersaline samples from varied ecosystems and containing up to 2 M dissolved salts.
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Chacon-Baca E, Santos A, Sarmiento AM, Luís AT, Santisteban M, Fortes JC, Dávila JM, Diaz-Curiel JM, Grande JA. Acid Mine Drainage as Energizing Microbial Niches for the Formation of Iron Stromatolites: The Tintillo River in Southwest Spain. ASTROBIOLOGY 2021; 21:443-463. [PMID: 33351707 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2019.2164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The Iberian Pyrite Belt in southwest Spain hosts some of the largest and diverse extreme acidic environments with textural variation across rapidly changing biogeochemical gradients at multiple scales. After almost three decades of studies, mostly focused on molecular evolution and metagenomics, there is an increasing awareness of the multidisciplinary potential of these types of settings, especially for astrobiology. Since modern automatized exploration on extraterrestrial surfaces is essentially based on the morphological recognition of biosignatures, a macroscopic characterization of such sedimentary extreme environments and how they look is crucial to identify life properties, but it is a perspective that most molecular approaches frequently miss. Although acid mine drainage (AMD) systems are toxic and contaminated, they offer at the same time the bioengineering tools for natural remediation strategies. This work presents a biosedimentological characterization of the clastic iron stromatolites in the Tintillo river. They occur as laminated terraced iron formations that are the most distinctive sedimentary facies at the Tintillo river, which is polluted by AMD. Iron stromatolites originate from fluvial abiotic factors that interact with biological zonation. The authigenic precipitation of schwertmannite and jarosite results from microbial-mineral interactions between mineral and organic matrices. The Tintillo iron stromatolites are composed of bacterial filaments and diatoms as Nitzschia aurariae, Pinnularia aljustrelica, Stauroneis kriegeri, and Fragilaria sp. Furthermore, the active biosorption and bioleaching of sulfur are suggested by the black and white coloration of microbial filaments inside stromatolites. AMD systems are hazardous due to physical, chemical, and biological agents, but they also provide biogeochemical sources with which to infer past geochemical conditions on Earth and inform exploration efforts on extraterrestrial surfaces in the future.
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- Elizabeth Chacon-Baca
- Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Léon (UANL), Linares, México
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- Department of Applied Geosciences, CCTH-Science and Technology Research Centre, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- Applied Geosciences Research Group (RNM276), Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Water, Mining and Environment, Scientific and Technological Center of Huelva, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- Sustainable Mining Engineering Research Group, Department of Mining, Mechanic, Energetic and Construction Engineering, Higher Technical School of Engineering, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Water, Mining and Environment, Scientific and Technological Center of Huelva, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- GeoBioTec Research Unit, Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Water, Mining and Environment, Scientific and Technological Center of Huelva, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- Sustainable Mining Engineering Research Group, Department of Mining, Mechanic, Energetic and Construction Engineering, Higher Technical School of Engineering, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Water, Mining and Environment, Scientific and Technological Center of Huelva, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- Sustainable Mining Engineering Research Group, Department of Mining, Mechanic, Energetic and Construction Engineering, Higher Technical School of Engineering, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Department of Water, Mining and Environment, Scientific and Technological Center of Huelva, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- Sustainable Mining Engineering Research Group, Department of Mining, Mechanic, Energetic and Construction Engineering, Higher Technical School of Engineering, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Departamento de Geología, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Water, Mining and Environment, Scientific and Technological Center of Huelva, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- Sustainable Mining Engineering Research Group, Department of Mining, Mechanic, Energetic and Construction Engineering, Higher Technical School of Engineering, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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Larsen T, Jefferson C, Bartley A, Strassmann JE, Queller DC. Inference of symbiotic adaptations in nature using experimental evolution. Evolution 2021; 75:945-955. [PMID: 33590884 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14193] [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: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Microbes must adapt to the presence of other species, but it can be difficult to recreate the natural context for these interactions in the laboratory. We describe a method for inferring the existence of symbiotic adaptations by experimentally evolving microbes that would normally interact in an artificial environment without access to other species. By looking for changes in the fitness effects microbes adapted to isolation have on their partners, we can infer the existence of ancestral adaptations that were lost during experimental evolution. The direction and magnitude of trait changes can offer useful insight as to whether the microbes have historically been selected to help or harm one another in nature. We apply our method to the complex symbiosis between the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and two intracellular bacterial endosymbionts, Paraburkholderia agricolaris and Paraburkholderia hayleyella. Our results suggest P. hayleyella-but not P. agricolaris-has generally been selected to attenuate its virulence in nature, and that D. discoideum has evolved to antagonistically limit the growth of Paraburkholderia. The approach demonstrated here can be a powerful tool for studying adaptations in microbes, particularly when the specific natural context in which the adaptations evolved is unknown or hard to reproduce.
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- Tyler Larsen
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130
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Tao J, Liu X, Luo X, Teng T, Jiang C, Drewniak L, Yang Z, Yin H. An integrated insight into bioleaching performance of chalcopyrite mediated by microbial factors: Functional types and biodiversity. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2021; 319:124219. [PMID: 33254450 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Six artificial communities with different function or biodiversity were reconstructed by six typical bioleaching species for chalcopyrite leaching. Absence of sulfur oxidizers in communities significantly reduced copper extraction rates, and low diversity communities also exhibited slightly poor bioleaching performances. The variations of pH, redox potential, ferrous and copper ions indicated that the community with both sulfur oxidizers and high diversity showed fast adaptation to the environment and rapid dissolution of chalcopyrite. Integrated analysis of mineralogical and microbial parameters demonstrated that functional types of microorganisms made more contributions in mediating chalcopyrite dissolution than microbial diversity. Further correlation analysis between microbial types and chalcopyrite dissolution performances showed that sulfur oxidizers, especially Acidithiobacillus caldus, could greatly accelerate chalcopyrite dissolution by regulating solution physicochemical factors, such as redox potential and pH. This study provided a theoretical basis for improving bioleaching efficiency by balancing microbial functional types and biodiversity.
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- Jiemeng Tao
- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China; Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China; Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096 Warsaw, Poland
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China; Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy, Ministry of Education, Changsha 410083, China.
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Luo ZH, Li Q, Lai Y, Chen H, Liao B, Huang LN. Diversity and Genomic Characterization of a Novel Parvarchaeota Family in Acid Mine Drainage Sediments. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:612257. [PMID: 33408709 PMCID: PMC7779479 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.612257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Recent genome-resolved metagenomic analyses of microbial communities from diverse environments have led to the discovery of many novel lineages that significantly expand the phylogenetic breadth of Archaea. Here, we report the genomic characterization of a new archaeal family based on five metagenome-assembled genomes retrieved from acid mine drainage sediments. Phylogenomic analyses placed these uncultivated archaea at the root of the candidate phylum Parvarchaeota, which expand this lesser-known phylum into two family levels. Genes involved in environmental adaptation and carbohydrate and protein utilization were identified in the ultra-small genomes (estimated size 0.53–0.76 Mb), indicating a survival strategy in this harsh environment (low pH and high heavy metal content). The detection of genes with homology to sulfocyanin suggested a potential involvement in iron cycling. Nevertheless, the absence of the ability to synthesize amino acids and nucleotides implies that these archaea may acquire these biomolecules from the environment or other community members. Applying evolutionary history analysis to Parvarchaeota suggested that members of the two families could broaden their niches by acquiring the potentials of utilizing different substrates. This study expands our knowledge of the diversity, metabolic capacity, and evolutionary history of the Parvarchaeota.
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- Zhen-Hao Luo
- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Li L, Liu Z, Zhang M, Meng D, Liu X, Wang P, Li X, Jiang Z, Zhong S, Jiang C, Yin H. Insights into the Metabolism and Evolution of the Genus Acidiphilium, a Typical Acidophile in Acid Mine Drainage. mSystems 2020; 5:e00867-20. [PMID: 33203689 PMCID: PMC7677001 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00867-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Here, we report three new Acidiphilium genomes, reclassified existing Acidiphilium species, and performed the first comparative genomic analysis on Acidiphilium in an attempt to address the metabolic potential, ecological functions, and evolutionary history of the genus Acidiphilium In the genomes of Acidiphilium, we found an abundant repertoire of horizontally transferred genes (HTGs) contributing to environmental adaption and metabolic expansion, including genes conferring photosynthesis (puf, puh), CO2 assimilation (rbc), capacity for methane metabolism (mmo, mdh, frm), nitrogen source utilization (nar, cyn, hmp), sulfur compound utilization (sox, psr, sqr), and multiple metal and osmotic stress resistance capacities (czc, cop, ect). Additionally, the predicted donors of horizontal gene transfer were present in a cooccurrence network of Acidiphilium Genome-scale positive selection analysis revealed that 15 genes contained adaptive mutations, most of which were multifunctional and played critical roles in the survival of extreme conditions. We proposed that Acidiphilium originated in mild conditions and adapted to extreme environments such as acidic mineral sites after the acquisition of many essential functions.IMPORTANCE Extremophiles, organisms that thrive in extreme environments, are key models for research on biological adaption. They can provide hints for the origin and evolution of life, as well as improve the understanding of biogeochemical cycling of elements. Extremely acidophilic bacteria such as Acidiphilium are widespread in acid mine drainage (AMD) systems, but the metabolic potential, ecological functions, and evolutionary history of this genus are still ambiguous. Here, we sequenced the genomes of three new Acidiphilium strains and performed comparative genomic analysis on this extremely acidophilic bacterial genus. We found in the genomes of Acidiphilium an abundant repertoire of horizontally transferred genes (HTGs) contributing to environmental adaption and metabolic ability expansion, as indicated by phylogenetic reconstruction and gene context comparison. This study has advanced our understanding of microbial evolution and biogeochemical cycling in extreme niches.
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- Liangzhi Li
- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Zijin Mining, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
- National Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Utilization of Low-Grade Refractory Gold Ores, Shanghang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, China
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Freel KC, Fouteau S, Roche D, Farasin J, Huber A, Koechler S, Peres M, Chiboub O, Varet H, Proux C, Deschamps J, Briandet R, Torchet R, Cruveiller S, Lièvremont D, Coppée JY, Barbe V, Arsène-Ploetze F. Effect of arsenite and growth in biofilm conditions on the evolution of Thiomonas sp. CB2. Microb Genom 2020; 6:mgen000447. [PMID: 33034553 PMCID: PMC7660254 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Thiomonas bacteria are ubiquitous at acid mine drainage sites and play key roles in the remediation of water at these locations by oxidizing arsenite to arsenate, favouring the sorption of arsenic by iron oxides and their coprecipitation. Understanding the adaptive capacities of these bacteria is crucial to revealing how they persist and remain active in such extreme conditions. Interestingly, it was previously observed that after exposure to arsenite, when grown in a biofilm, some strains of Thiomonas bacteria develop variants that are more resistant to arsenic. Here, we identified the mechanisms involved in the emergence of such variants in biofilms. We found that the percentage of variants generated increased in the presence of high concentrations of arsenite (5.33 mM), especially in the detached cells after growth under biofilm-forming conditions. Analysis of gene expression in the parent strain CB2 revealed that genes involved in DNA repair were upregulated in the conditions where variants were observed. Finally, we assessed the phenotypes and genomes of the subsequent variants generated to evaluate the number of mutations compared to the parent strain. We determined that multiple point mutations accumulated after exposure to arsenite when cells were grown under biofilm conditions. Some of these mutations were found in what is referred to as ICE19, a genomic island (GI) carrying arsenic-resistance genes, also harbouring characteristics of an integrative and conjugative element (ICE). The mutations likely favoured the excision and duplication of this GI. This research aids in understanding how Thiomonas bacteria adapt to highly toxic environments, and, more generally, provides a window to bacterial genome evolution in extreme environments.
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- Kelle C. Freel
- Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, Institut de Botanique, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Present address: Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Kāneʻohe, HI, USA
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), CNRS, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), CNRS, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, Institut de Botanique, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, Institut de Botanique, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, Institut de Botanique, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Present address: Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, Institut de Botanique, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, Institut de Botanique, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Plateforme Transcriptome et Epigenome, BioMics, Centre de Ressources et Recherches Technologiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique, Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI, USR 3756, IP CNRS), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Plateforme Transcriptome et Epigenome, BioMics, Centre de Ressources et Recherches Technologiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), CNRS, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), CNRS, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, Institut de Botanique, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Plateforme Transcriptome et Epigenome, BioMics, Centre de Ressources et Recherches Technologiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), CNRS, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, Institut de Botanique, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Present address: Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Sriaporn C, Campbell KA, Millan M, Ruff SW, Van Kranendonk MJ, Handley KM. Stromatolitic digitate sinters form under wide-ranging physicochemical conditions with diverse hot spring microbial communities. GEOBIOLOGY 2020; 18:619-640. [PMID: 32336004 DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Digitate siliceous hot spring deposits are a form of biomediated sinter that is relatively common in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ), New Zealand, and elsewhere on Earth. Such deposits have gained prominence recently because of their morphological similarity to opaline silica rocks of likely hot spring origin found by the Spirit rover on Mars and the consequent implications for potential biosignatures there. Here, we investigate the possible relationship between microbial community composition and morphological diversity among digitate structures from actively forming siliceous hot spring sinters depositing subaerially in shallow discharge channels and around pool rims at several physicochemically distinct geothermal fields in the TVZ. The TVZ digitate sinters range in morphologic subtype from knobby to spicular, and are shown to be microstromatolites that grow under varied pH ranges, temperatures, and water chemistries. Scanning electron microscopy and molecular analyses revealed that TVZ digitate sinters are intimately associated with a diverse array of bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic micro-organisms, and for most digitate structures the diversity and quantity of prokaryotes was higher than that of eukaryotes. However, microbial community composition was not correlated with morphologic subtypes of digitate sinter, and observations provided limited evidence that pH (acidic versus alkali) affects morphology. Instead, results suggest hydrodynamics may be an important factor influencing variations in morphology, while water chemistry, pH, and temperature are strong drivers of microbial composition and diversity.
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- Chanenath Sriaporn
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Environment & Te Ao Mārama - Centre for Fundamental Inquiry, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Biology & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Australian Centre for Astrobiology, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Xia J, Liu H, Nie Z, Fan X, Zhang D, Zheng X, Liu L, Pan X, Zhou Y. Taking insights into phenomics of microbe-mineral interaction in bioleaching and acid mine drainage: Concepts and methodology. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 729:139005. [PMID: 32361456 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Revised: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Phenomics is originally a biological concept. In the most recent years, the studies of plant and human phenomics have started, and show a strong momentum and trend of development. In this paper, based on the related research on bioleaching/acid mine drainage (AMD), we put forward the relevant concepts and methodology of phenomics of microbe-mineral interaction (MMI) in bioleaching/AMD environments. It refers to the systematic study on phenotypes of MMI on both levels of microbiome and mineralome under various environmental conditions, by which it gives the relationship between microbial/mineral genome and phenome of MMI responding to the varying environmental conditions. The pertinent methodology is of mainly (meta)-omics, synchrotron radiation-based techniques and supercomputing-based density function theory (DFT) calculation.
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- Jinlan Xia
- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China; Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education of China, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China; Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education of China, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China; Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education of China, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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Gao SM, Schippers A, Chen N, Yuan Y, Zhang MM, Li Q, Liao B, Shu WS, Huang LN. Depth-related variability in viral communities in highly stratified sulfidic mine tailings. MICROBIOME 2020; 8:89. [PMID: 32517753 PMCID: PMC7285708 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-020-00848-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Recent studies have significantly expanded our knowledge of viral diversity and functions in the environment. Exploring the ecological relationships between viruses, hosts, and the environment is a crucial first step towards a deeper understanding of the complex and dynamic interplays among them. RESULTS Here, we obtained extensive 16S rRNA gene amplicon, metagenomics sequencing, and geochemical datasets from different depths of two highly stratified sulfidic mine tailings cores with steep geochemical gradients especially pH, and explored how variations in viral community composition and functions were coupled to the co-existing prokaryotic assemblages and the varying environmental conditions. Our data showed that many viruses in the mine tailings represented novel genera, based on gene-sharing networks. Siphoviridae, Podoviridae, and Myoviridae dominated the classified viruses in the surface tailings and deeper layers. Both viral richness and normalized coverage increased with depth in the tailings cores and were significantly correlated with geochemical properties, for example, pH. Viral richness was also coupled to prokaryotic richness (Pearson's r = 0.65, P = 0.032). The enrichment of prophages in the surface mine tailings suggested a preference of lysogenic viral lifestyle in more acidic conditions. Community-wide comparative analyses clearly showed that viruses in the surface tailings encoded genes mostly with unknown functions while viruses in the deeper layers contained genes mainly annotated as conventional functions related to metabolism and structure. Notably, significantly abundant assimilatory sulfate reduction genes were identified from the deeper tailings layers and they were widespread in viruses predicted to infect diverse bacterial phyla. CONCLUSIONS Overall, our results revealed a depth-related distribution of viral populations in the extreme and heterogeneous tailings system. The viruses may interact with diverse hosts and dynamic environmental conditions and likely play a role in the functioning of microbial community and modulate sulfur cycles in situ. Video Abstract.
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- Shao-Ming Gao
- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 People’s Republic of China
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- Resource Geochemistry, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631 People’s Republic of China
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- School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 People’s Republic of China
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The genome of opportunistic fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum carries a unique set of lineage-specific chromosomes. Commun Biol 2020; 3:50. [PMID: 32005944 PMCID: PMC6994591 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0770-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Fusarium oxysporum is a cross-kingdom fungal pathogen that infects plants and humans. Horizontally transferred lineage-specific (LS) chromosomes were reported to determine host-specific pathogenicity among phytopathogenic F. oxysporum. However, the existence and functional importance of LS chromosomes among human pathogenic isolates are unknown. Here we report four unique LS chromosomes in a human pathogenic strain NRRL 32931, isolated from a leukemia patient. These LS chromosomes were devoid of housekeeping genes, but were significantly enriched in genes encoding metal ion transporters and cation transporters. Homologs of NRRL 32931 LS genes, including a homolog of ceruloplasmin and the genes that contribute to the expansion of the alkaline pH-responsive transcription factor PacC/Rim1p, were also present in the genome of NRRL 47514, a strain associated with Fusarium keratitis outbreak. This study provides the first evidence, to our knowledge, for genomic compartmentalization in two human pathogenic fungal genomes and suggests an important role of LS chromosomes in niche adaptation. Zhang, Yang et al. compare a Fusarium oxysporum isolate obtained clinically to a phytopathogenic strain to examine transfer of lineage-specific chromosomes in determining host specificity. They find four unique lineage-specific chromosomes that seem to contribute to fungal adaptation to human hosts.
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Lyons KM, Cannon RD, Beumer J, Bakr MM, Love RM. The Role of Biofilms and Material Surface Characteristics in Microbial Adhesion to Maxillary Obturator Materials: A Literature Review. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2019; 57:487-498. [PMID: 31665902 DOI: 10.1177/1055665619882555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Maxillofacial prosthetics includes restoration of maxillary defects resulting from resection of palate and nasosinus neoplasms with obturator prostheses which may be colonized by microorganisms and function as a reservoir of infection. Patients with neoplasms commonly also require radiotherapy that can result in changes in saliva quality and quantity and changes in the oral microbial flora. The altered flora, in individuals immunocompromised from cancer therapy, increases their risk of prosthesis-related infections. OBJECTIVES In this review article, we explore microbial biofilms, their main components, mechanisms of microbial adhesion, and stages of biofilm development. We also discuss the different materials that are used for manufacturing maxillary obturators, their characteristic features, and how these can affect microbial adhesion. Furthermore, we shed some light on the factors that affect microbial adhesion to the surface of maxillary obturators including tissue proteins, protein adsorption, and the acquired enamel pellicle. CONCLUSIONS The conclusions drawn from this literature review are that it is imperative to minimize the risk of local and systemic infections in immunocompromised patients with cancer having maxillary defects. It is also important to determine the role of saliva in microbial adhesion to obturator materials as well as develop materials that have a longer life span with surface characteristics that promote less microbial adhesion than current materials.
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- Karl M Lyons
- Department of Oral Rehabilitation and Sir John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Faculty of Dentistry, Sir John Walsh Research Institute, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Division of Advanced Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
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Lukhele T, Selvarajan R, Nyoni H, Mamba BB, Msagati TAM. Diversity and functional profile of bacterial communities at Lancaster acid mine drainage dam, South Africa as revealed by 16S rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing analysis. Extremophiles 2019; 23:719-734. [PMID: 31520125 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-019-01130-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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This study surveyed physicochemical properties and bacterial community structure of water and sediments from an acid mine drainage (AMD) dam in South Africa. High-throughput sequence analysis revealed low diversity bacterial communities affiliated within 8 dominant phyla; Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Nitrospirae, Proteobacteria, Saccharibacteria, and ca. TM6_(Dependentiae). Acidiphilium spp. which are common AMD inhabitants but rarely occur as dominant taxa, were the most abundant in both AMD water and sediments. Other groups making up the community are less common AMD inhabitants; Acidibacillus, Acidibacter, Acidobacterium, Acidothermus, Legionella, Metallibacterium, Mycobacterium, as well as elusive taxa (Saccharibacteria, ca. TM6_(Dependentiae) and ca. JG37-AG-4). Although most of the taxa are shared between sediment and water communities, alpha diversity indices indicate a higher species richness in the sediments. From canonical correspondence analysis, DOC, Mn, Cu, Cr, Al, Fe, Ca were identified as important determinants of community structure in water, compared to DOC, Ca, Cu, Fe, Zn, Mg, K, Mn, Al, sulfates, and nitrates in sediments. Predictive functional profiling recovered genes associated with bacterial growth and those related to survival and adaptation to the harsh environmental conditions. Overall, the study reports on a distinct AMD bacterial community and highlights sediments as microhabitats with higher species richness than water.
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- Thabile Lukhele
- Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit, College of Science Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Science Campus, Johannesburg, 1709, South Africa
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- College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Science Campus, Johannesburg, 1709, South Africa
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- Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit, College of Science Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Science Campus, Johannesburg, 1709, South Africa
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- Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit, College of Science Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Science Campus, Johannesburg, 1709, South Africa.,State Key Laboratory of Separation and Membranes, Membrane Processes, National Center for International Joint Research on Membrane Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300387, People's Republic of China
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- Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit, College of Science Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Science Campus, Johannesburg, 1709, South Africa.
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Sayed AM, Hassan MHA, Alhadrami HA, Hassan HM, Goodfellow M, Rateb ME. Extreme environments: microbiology leading to specialized metabolites. J Appl Microbiol 2019; 128:630-657. [PMID: 31310419 DOI: 10.1111/jam.14386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2019] [Revised: 06/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The prevalence of multidrug-resistant microbial pathogens due to the continued misuse and overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and medicine is raising the prospect of a return to the preantibiotic days of medicine at the time of diminishing numbers of drug leads. The good news is that an increased understanding of the nature and extent of microbial diversity in natural habitats coupled with the application of new technologies in microbiology and chemistry is opening up new strategies in the search for new specialized products with therapeutic properties. This review explores the premise that harsh environmental conditions in extreme biomes, notably in deserts, permafrost soils and deep-sea sediments select for micro-organisms, especially actinobacteria, cyanobacteria and fungi, with the potential to synthesize new druggable molecules. There is evidence over the past decade that micro-organisms adapted to life in extreme habitats are a rich source of new specialized metabolites. Extreme habitats by their very nature tend to be fragile hence there is a need to conserve those known to be hot-spots of novel gifted micro-organisms needed to drive drug discovery campaigns and innovative biotechnology. This review also provides an overview of microbial-derived molecules and their biological activities focusing on the period from 2010 until 2018, over this time 186 novel structures were isolated from 129 representatives of microbial taxa recovered from extreme habitats.
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- A M Sayed
- Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nahda University, Beni-Suef, Egypt
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- Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.,Special Infectious Agent Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nahda University, Beni-Suef, Egypt.,Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- School of Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK
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Gilbert KB, Holcomb EE, Allscheid RL, Carrington JC. Hiding in plain sight: New virus genomes discovered via a systematic analysis of fungal public transcriptomes. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0219207. [PMID: 31339899 PMCID: PMC6655640 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The distribution and diversity of RNA viruses in fungi is incompletely understood due to the often cryptic nature of mycoviral infections and the focused study of primarily pathogenic and/or economically important fungi. As most viruses that are known to infect fungi possess either single-stranded or double-stranded RNA genomes, transcriptomic data provides the opportunity to query for viruses in diverse fungal samples without any a priori knowledge of virus infection. Here we describe a systematic survey of all transcriptomic datasets from fungi belonging to the subphylum Pezizomycotina. Using a simple but effective computational pipeline that uses reads discarded during normal RNA-seq analyses, followed by identification of a viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) motif in de novo assembled contigs, 59 viruses from 44 different fungi were identified. Among the viruses identified, 88% were determined to be new species and 68% are, to our knowledge, the first virus described from the fungal species. Comprehensive analyses of both nucleotide and inferred protein sequences characterize the phylogenetic relationships between these viruses and the known set of mycoviral sequences and support the classification of up to four new families and two new genera. Thus the results provide a deeper understanding of the scope of mycoviral diversity while also increasing the distribution of fungal hosts. Further, this study demonstrates the suitability of analyzing RNA-seq data to facilitate rapid discovery of new viruses.
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- Kerrigan B. Gilbert
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Liu L, Li S, Han J, Lin W, Luo J. A Two-Step Strategy for the Rapid Enrichment of Nitrosocosmicus-Like Ammonia-Oxidizing Thaumarchaea. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:875. [PMID: 31105671 PMCID: PMC6491936 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are widely distributed on the earth and play a significant role in the global nitrogen cycle. Although dozens of AOA strains were obtained in the last 13 years, it is still necessary to obtain more AOA strains for the entire exploration of their ecology, physiology, and underlying biochemistry in different environments. In this study, we designed a two-step strategy for the rapid enrichment of Nitrosocosmicus–like AOA from soils. Firstly, combination of kanamycin and ampicillin was chosen as the selective stress for bacteria and quartz sands were used as the attachment of AOA cells during the first step cultivation; only after 40–75 days cultivation, AOA enrichments with abundance >20% were obtained. Secondly, combination of ciprofloxacin and azithromycin was chosen as the selective stress for the following cultivation; it is able to penetrate the biofilms and kill the bacterial cells inside the aggregate, contributing to the AOA enrichments reached high abundances (90%) only after one-time cultivation. Basing on this strategy, three AOA strains were obtained from agricultural soils only after 90–150 days cultivation. Phylogenetic analysis suggested these AOA belong to the soil group I.1b Thaumarchaeota and are closely related to the genus Nitrosocosmicus. In general, AOA enrichment or isolation is very difficult and time-consuming (an average of 2–3 years). Here, we provide a new strategy for the rapid enrichment of high abundance of Nitrosocosmicus-like AOA from soil, which gives a new solution to the AOA enrichment and cultivation in a short period.
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- Liangting Liu
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fermentation and Enzyme Engineering, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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Zhang X, Tang S, Wang M, Sun W, Xie Y, Peng H, Zhong A, Liu H, Zhang X, Yu H, Giesy JP, Hecker M. Acid mine drainage affects the diversity and metal resistance gene profile of sediment bacterial community along a river. CHEMOSPHERE 2019; 217:790-799. [PMID: 30453276 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.10.210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Revised: 10/28/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Acid mine drainage (AMD) is one of the most hazardous byproducts of some types of mining. However, research on how AMD affects the bacterial community structure of downstream riverine ecosystems and the distribution of metal resistance genes (MRGs) along pollution gradient is limited. Comprehensive geochemical and high-throughput next-generation sequencing analyses can be integrated to characterize spatial distributions and MRG profiles of sediment bacteria communities along the AMD-contaminated Hengshi River. We found that (1) diversities of bacterial communities significantly and gradually increased along the river with decreasing contamination, suggesting community composition reflected changes in geochemical conditions; (2) relative abundances of phyla Proteobacteria and genus Halomonas and Planococcaceae that function in metal reduction decreased along the AMD gradient; (3) low levels of sediment salinity, sulfate, aquatic lead (Pb), and cadmium (Cd) were negatively correlated with bacterial diversity despite pH was in a positive manner with diversity; and (4) arsenic (As) and copper (Cu) resistance genes corresponded to sediment concentrations of As and Cu, respectively. Altogether, our findings offer initial insight into the distribution patterns of sediment bacterial community structure, diversity and MRGs along a lotic ecosystem contaminated by AMD, and the factors that affect them.
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- Xiaohui Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Safety and Health Risk of Chemicals, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Research Center for Environmental Toxicology & Safety of Chemicals, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100021, China; Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C3, Canada.
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- School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China.
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Agro-environmental Pollution Control and Management, Guangdong Institute of Eco-environmental Science & Technology, Guangzhou 510650, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and School of the Environment, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of Wengyuan County, Shaoguan, Guangdong 512600, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Safety and Health Risk of Chemicals, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Research Center for Environmental Toxicology & Safety of Chemicals, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Safety and Health Risk of Chemicals, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Research Center for Environmental Toxicology & Safety of Chemicals, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Safety and Health Risk of Chemicals, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Research Center for Environmental Toxicology & Safety of Chemicals, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China; Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B3, Canada
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- School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C3, Canada; Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B3, Canada
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Assessment of Bioleaching Microbial Community Structure and Function Based on Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies. MINERALS 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/min8120596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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It is widely known that bioleaching microorganisms have to cope with the complex extreme environment in which microbial ecology relating to community structure and function varies across environmental types. However, analyses of microbial ecology of bioleaching bacteria is still a challenge. To address this challenge, numerous technologies have been developed. In recent years, high-throughput sequencing technologies enabling comprehensive sequencing analysis of cellular RNA and DNA within the reach of most laboratories have been added to the toolbox of microbial ecology. The next-generation sequencing technology allowing processing DNA sequences can produce available draft genomic sequences of more bioleaching bacteria, which provides the opportunity to predict models of genetic and metabolic potential of bioleaching bacteria and ultimately deepens our understanding of bioleaching microorganism. High-throughput sequencing that focuses on targeted phylogenetic marker 16S rRNA has been effectively applied to characterize the community diversity in an ore leaching environment. RNA-seq, another application of high-throughput sequencing to profile RNA, can be for both mapping and quantifying transcriptome and has demonstrated a high efficiency in quantifying the changing expression level of each transcript under different conditions. It has been demonstrated as a powerful tool for dissecting the relationship between genotype and phenotype, leading to interpreting functional elements of the genome and revealing molecular mechanisms of adaption. This review aims to describe the high-throughput sequencing approach for bioleaching environmental microorganisms, particularly focusing on its application associated with challenges.
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Gupta A, Dutta A, Sarkar J, Panigrahi MK, Sar P. Low-Abundance Members of the Firmicutes Facilitate Bioremediation of Soil Impacted by Highly Acidic Mine Drainage From the Malanjkhand Copper Project, India. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2882. [PMID: 30619102 PMCID: PMC6297179 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2017] [Accepted: 11/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sulfate- and iron-reducing heterotrophic bacteria represented minor proportion of the indigenous microbial community of highly acidic, oligotrophic acid mine drainage (AMD), but they can be successfully stimulated for in situ bioremediation of an AMD impacted soil (AIS). These anaerobic microorganisms although played central role in sulfate- and metal-removal, they remained inactive in the AIS due to the paucity of organic carbon and extreme acidity of the local environment. The present study investigated the scope for increasing the abundance and activity of inhabitant sulfate- and iron-reducing bacterial populations of an AIS from Malanjkhand Copper Project. An AIS of pH 3.5, high soluble SO4 2- (7838 mg/l) and Fe (179 mg/l) content was amended with nutrients (cysteine and lactate). Thorough geochemical analysis, 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and qPCR highlighted the intrinsic metabolic abilities of native bacteria in AMD bioremediation. Following 180 days incubation, the nutrient amended AIS showed marked increase in pH (to 6.6) and reduction in soluble -SO4 2- (95%), -Fe (50%) and other heavy metals. Concomitant to physicochemical changes a vivid shift in microbial community composition was observed. Members of the Firmicutes present as a minor group (1.5% of total community) in AIS emerged as the single most abundant taxon (∼56%) following nutrient amendments. Organisms affiliated to Clostridiaceae, Peptococcaceae, Veillonellaceae, Christensenellaceae, Lachnospiraceae, Bacillaceae, etc. known for their fermentative, iron and sulfate reducing abilities were prevailed in the amended samples. qPCR data corroborated with this change and further revealed an increase in abundance of dissimilatory sulfite reductase gene (dsrB) and specific bacterial taxa. Involvement of these enhanced populations in reductive processes was validated by further enrichments and growth in sulfate- and iron-reducing media. Amplicon sequencing of these enrichments confirmed growth of Firmicutes members and proved their sulfate- and iron-reduction abilities. This study provided a better insight on ecological perspective of Firmicutes members within the AMD impacted sites, particularly their involvement in sulfate- and iron-reduction processes, in situ pH management and bioremediation.
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- Abhishek Gupta
- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
- School of Bioscience, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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- Environmental Microbiology and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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Insights into the Fundamental Physiology of the Uncultured Fe-Oxidizing Bacterium Leptothrix ochracea. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.02239-17. [PMID: 29453262 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02239-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 02/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Leptothrix ochracea is known for producing large volumes of iron oxyhydroxide sheaths that alter wetland biogeochemistry. For over a century, these delicate structures have fascinated microbiologists and geoscientists. Because L. ochracea still resists long-term in vitro culture, the debate regarding its metabolic classification dates back to 1885. We developed a novel culturing technique for L. ochracea using in situ natural waters and coupled this with single-cell genomics and nanoscale secondary-ion mass spectrophotometry (nanoSIMS) to probe L. ochracea's physiology. In microslide cultures L. ochracea doubled every 5.7 h and had an absolute growth requirement for ferrous iron, the genomic capacity for iron oxidation, and a branched electron transport chain with cytochromes putatively involved in lithotrophic iron oxidation. Additionally, its genome encoded several electron transport chain proteins, including a molybdopterin alternative complex III (ACIII), a cytochrome bd oxidase reductase, and several terminal oxidase genes. L. ochracea contained two key autotrophic proteins in the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle, a form II ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase, and a phosphoribulose kinase. L. ochracea also assimilated bicarbonate, although calculations suggest that bicarbonate assimilation is a small fraction of its total carbon assimilation. Finally, L. ochracea's fundamental physiology is a hybrid of those of the chemolithotrophic Gallionella-type iron-oxidizing bacteria and the sheathed, heterotrophic filamentous metal-oxidizing bacteria of the Leptothrix-Sphaerotilus genera. This allows L. ochracea to inhabit a unique niche within the neutrophilic iron seeps.IMPORTANCE Leptothrix ochracea was one of three groups of organisms that Sergei Winogradsky used in the 1880s to develop his hypothesis on chemolithotrophy. L. ochracea continues to resist cultivation and appears to have an absolute requirement for organic-rich waters, suggesting that its true physiology remains unknown. Further, L. ochracea is an ecological engineer; a few L. ochracea cells can generate prodigious volumes of iron oxyhydroxides, changing the ecosystem's geochemistry and ecology. Therefore, to determine L. ochracea's basic physiology, we employed new single-cell techniques to demonstrate that L. ochracea oxidizes iron to generate energy and, despite having predicted genes for autotrophic growth, assimilates a fraction of the total CO2 that autotrophs do. Although not a true chemolithoautotroph, L. ochracea's physiological strategy allows it to be flexible and to extensively colonize iron-rich wetlands.
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Chen LX, Méndez-García C, Dombrowski N, Servín-Garcidueñas LE, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Fang BZ, Luo ZH, Tan S, Zhi XY, Hua ZS, Martinez-Romero E, Woyke T, Huang LN, Sánchez J, Peláez AI, Ferrer M, Baker BJ, Shu WS. Metabolic versatility of small archaea Micrarchaeota and Parvarchaeota. THE ISME JOURNAL 2018; 12:756-775. [PMID: 29222443 PMCID: PMC5864196 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-017-0002-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Revised: 08/26/2017] [Accepted: 10/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Small acidophilic archaea belonging to Micrarchaeota and Parvarchaeota phyla are known to physically interact with some Thermoplasmatales members in nature. However, due to a lack of cultivation and limited genomes on hand, their biodiversity, metabolisms, and physiologies remain largely unresolved. Here, we obtained 39 genomes from acid mine drainage (AMD) and hot spring environments around the world. 16S rRNA gene based analyses revealed that Parvarchaeota were only detected in AMD and hot spring habitats, while Micrarchaeota were also detected in others including soil, peat, hypersaline mat, and freshwater, suggesting a considerable higher diversity and broader than expected habitat distribution for this phylum. Despite their small genomes (0.64-1.08 Mb), these archaea may contribute to carbon and nitrogen cycling by degrading multiple saccharides and proteins, and produce ATP via aerobic respiration and fermentation. Additionally, we identified several syntenic genes with homology to those involved in iron oxidation in six Parvarchaeota genomes, suggesting their potential role in iron cycling. However, both phyla lack biosynthetic pathways for amino acids and nucleotides, suggesting that they likely scavenge these biomolecules from the environment and/or other community members. Moreover, low-oxygen enrichments in laboratory confirmed our speculation that both phyla are microaerobic/anaerobic, based on several specific genes identified in them. Furthermore, phylogenetic analyses provide insights into the close evolutionary history of energy related functionalities between both phyla with Thermoplasmatales. These results expand our understanding of these elusive archaea by revealing their involvement in carbon, nitrogen, and iron cycling, and suggest their potential interactions with Thermoplasmatales on genomic scale.
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- Lin-Xing Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional-IUBA, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
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- Department of Marine Science, University of Texas Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, 78373, USA
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- Laboratory of Microbiomics, National School of Higher Studies Morelia, National University of Mexico, Morelia, Michoacan, 58190, Mexico
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ecological Genomics, Center for Genomic Sciences, National University of Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos, 62210, Mexico
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- Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional-IUBA, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional-IUBA, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Institute of Catalysis, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Marine Science, University of Texas Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, 78373, USA.
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, People's Republic of China.
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Microbiomes in extremely acidic environments: functionalities and interactions that allow survival and growth of prokaryotes at low pH. Curr Opin Microbiol 2018; 43:139-147. [PMID: 29414445 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2018.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2017] [Revised: 01/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Extremely acidic environments have global distribution and can have natural or, increasingly, anthropogenic origins. Extreme acidophiles grow optimally at pH 3 or less, have multiple strategies for tolerating stresses that accompany high levels of acidity and are scattered in all three domains of the tree of life. Metagenomic studies have expanded knowledge of the diversity of extreme acidophile communities, their ecological networks and their metabolic potentials, both confirmed and inferred. High resolution compositional and functional profiling of these microbiomes have begun to reveal spatial diversity patterns at global, regional, local, zonal and micro-scales. Future integration of genomic and other meta-omic data will offer new opportunities to utilize acidic microbiomes and to engineer beneficial interactions within them in biotechnologies.
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Peering into the Genetic Makeup of Natural Microbial Populations Using Metagenomics. POPULATION GENOMICS: MICROORGANISMS 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/13836_2018_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A Reverse Ecology Framework for Bacteria and Archaea. POPULATION GENOMICS: MICROORGANISMS 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/13836_2018_46] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Zeng Q, Tian X, Wang L. Genetic adaptation of microbial populations present in high-intensity catfish production systems with therapeutic oxytetracycline treatment. Sci Rep 2017; 7:17491. [PMID: 29235508 PMCID: PMC5727513 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17640-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2017] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Microbial communities that are present in aquaculture production systems play significant roles in degrading organic matter, controlling diseases, and formation of antibiotic resistance. It is important to understand the diversity and abundance of microbial communities and their genetic adaptations associated with environmental physical and chemical changes. Here we collected water and sediment samples from a high-intensity catfish production system and its original water reservoir. The metagenomic analysis showed that Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Cyanobacteria, and Firmicutes were the top five phyla identified from all samples. The aquaculture production system significantly changed the structure of aquatic microbial populations. Substantial changes were also observed in SNP patterns among four sample types. The gene-specific sweep was found to be more common than genome-wide sweep. The selective sweep analysis revealed that 21 antibiotic resistant (AR) genes were under selection, with most belonging to antibiotic efflux pathways. Over 200 AR gene gains and losses were determined by changes in gene frequencies. Most of the AR genes were characterized as ABC efflux pumps, RND efflux pumps, and tetracycline MFS efflux pumps. Results of this study suggested that aquaculture waste, especially waste containing therapeutic antibiotics, has a significant impact on microbial population structures and their genetic structures.
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- Qifan Zeng
- Food Microbiology and Safety Lab, Department of Animal Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Food Microbiology and Safety Lab, Department of Animal Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.
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Kuang J, Cadotte MW, Chen Y, Shu H, Liu J, Chen L, Hua Z, Shu W, Zhou J, Huang L. Conservation of Species- and Trait-Based Modeling Network Interactions in Extremely Acidic Microbial Community Assembly. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1486. [PMID: 28848508 PMCID: PMC5554326 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Accepted: 07/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Understanding microbial interactions is essential to decipher the mechanisms of community assembly and their effects on ecosystem functioning, however, the conservation of species- and trait-based network interactions along environmental gradient remains largely unknown. Here, by using the network-based analyses with three paralleled data sets derived from 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing, functional microarray, and predicted metagenome, we test our hypothesis that the network interactions of traits are more conserved than those of taxonomic measures, with significantly lower variation of network characteristics along the environmental gradient in acid mine drainage. The results showed that although the overall network characteristics remained similar, the structural variation was significantly lower at trait levels. The higher conserved individual node topological properties at trait level rather than at species level indicated that the responses of diverse traits remained relatively consistent even though different species played key roles under different environmental conditions. Additionally, the randomization tests revealed that it could not reject the null hypothesis that species-based correlations were random, while the tests suggested that correlation patterns of traits were non-random. Furthermore, relationships between trait-based network characteristics and environmental properties implied that trait-based networks might be more useful in reflecting the variation of ecosystem function. Taken together, our results suggest that deterministic trait-based community assembly results in greater conservation of network interaction, which may ensure ecosystem function across environmental regimes, emphasizing the potential importance of measuring the complexity and conservation of network interaction in evaluating the ecosystem stability and functioning.
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- Jialiang Kuang
- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China.,Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of OklahomaNorman, OK, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto-ScarboroughToronto, ON, Canada.,Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of TorontoToronto, ON, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of OklahomaNorman, OK, United States.,Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeley, CA, United States.,State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua UniversityBeijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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Microbial Diversity and Community Assembly across Environmental Gradients in Acid Mine Drainage. MINERALS 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/min7060106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Microorganisms play an important role in weathering sulfide minerals worldwide and thrive in metal-rich and extremely acidic environments in acid mine drainage (AMD). Advanced molecular methods provide in-depth information on the microbial diversity and community dynamics in the AMD-generating environment. Although the diversity is relatively low and in general inversely correlated with the acidity, a considerable number of microbial species have been detected and described in AMD ecosystems. The acidophilic microbial communities dominated by iron/sulfur-oxidizing microbes vary widely in their composition and structure across diverse environmental gradients. Environmental conditions affect the microbial community assembly via direct and indirect interactions with microbes, resulting in an environmentally dependent biogeographic pattern. This article summarizes the latest studies to provide a better understanding of the microbial biodiversity and community assembly in AMD environments.
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Experimental evolution and the dynamics of adaptation and genome evolution in microbial populations. ISME JOURNAL 2017; 11:2181-2194. [PMID: 28509909 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2016] [Revised: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Evolution is an on-going process, and it can be studied experimentally in organisms with rapid generations. My team has maintained 12 populations of Escherichia coli in a simple laboratory environment for >25 years and 60 000 generations. We have quantified the dynamics of adaptation by natural selection, seen some of the populations diverge into stably coexisting ecotypes, described changes in the bacteria's mutation rate, observed the new ability to exploit a previously untapped carbon source, characterized the dynamics of genome evolution and used parallel evolution to identify the genetic targets of selection. I discuss what the future might hold for this particular experiment, briefly highlight some other microbial evolution experiments and suggest how the fields of experimental evolution and microbial ecology might intersect going forward.
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Zhang X, Liu X, Liang Y, Xiao Y, Ma L, Guo X, Miao B, Liu H, Peng D, Huang W, Yin H. Comparative Genomics Unravels the Functional Roles of Co-occurring Acidophilic Bacteria in Bioleaching Heaps. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:790. [PMID: 28529505 PMCID: PMC5418355 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The spatial-temporal distribution of populations in various econiches is thought to be potentially related to individual differences in the utilization of nutrients or other resources, but their functional roles in the microbial communities remain elusive. We compared differentiation in gene repertoire and metabolic profiles, with a focus on the potential functional traits of three commonly recognized members (Acidithiobacillus caldus, Leptospirillum ferriphilum, and Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans) in bioleaching heaps. Comparative genomics revealed that intra-species divergence might be driven by horizontal gene transfer. These co-occurring bacteria shared a few homologous genes, which significantly suggested the genomic differences between these organisms. Notably, relatively more genes assigned to the Clusters of Orthologous Groups category [G] (carbohydrate transport and metabolism) were identified in Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans compared to the two other species, which probably indicated their mixotrophic capabilities that assimilate both organic and inorganic forms of carbon. Further inspection revealed distinctive metabolic capabilities involving carbon assimilation, nitrogen uptake, and iron-sulfur cycling, providing robust evidence for functional differences with respect to nutrient utilization. Therefore, we proposed that the mutual compensation of functionalities among these co-occurring organisms might provide a selective advantage for efficiently utilizing the limited resources in their habitats. Furthermore, it might be favorable to chemoautotrophs' lifestyles to form mutualistic interactions with these heterotrophic and/or mixotrophic acidophiles, whereby the latter could degrade organic compounds to effectively detoxify the environments. Collectively, the findings shed light on the genetic traits and potential metabolic activities of these organisms, and enable us to make some inferences about genomic and functional differences that might allow them to co-exist.
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- Xian Zhang
- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing, China
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- School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South UniversityChangsha, China.,Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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Unusual Versatility of the Filamentous, Diazotrophic Cyanobacterium Anabaena torulosa Revealed for Its Survival during Prolonged Uranium Exposure. Appl Environ Microbiol 2017; 83:AEM.03356-16. [PMID: 28258135 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03356-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2016] [Accepted: 02/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Reports on interactions between cyanobacteria and uranyl carbonate are rare. Here, we present an interesting succession of the metabolic responses employed by a marine, filamentous, diazotrophic cyanobacterium, Anabaena torulosa for its survival following prolonged exposure to uranyl carbonate extending up to 384 h at pH 7.8 under phosphate-limited conditions. The cells sequestered uranium (U) within polyphosphates on initial exposure to 100 μM uranyl carbonate for 24 to 28 h. Further incubation until 120 h resulted in (i) significant degradation of cellular polyphosphates causing extensive chlorosis and cell lysis, (ii) akinete differentiation followed by (iii) extracellular uranyl precipitation. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES), and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy established the identity of the bioprecipitated uranium as a U(VI) autunite-type mineral, which settled at the bottom of the vessel. Surprisingly, A. torulosa cells resurfaced as small green flakes typical of actively growing colonies on top of the test solutions within 192 to 240 h of U exposure. A consolidated investigation using kinetics, microscopy, and physiological and biochemical analyses suggested a role of inducible alkaline phosphatase activity of cell aggregates/akinetes in facilitating the germination of akinetes leading to substantial regeneration of A. torulosa by 384 h of uranyl incubation. The biomineralized uranium appeared to be stable following cell regeneration. Altogether, our results reveal novel insights into the survival mechanism adopted by A. torulosa to resist sustained uranium toxicity under phosphate-limited oxic conditions.IMPORTANCE Long-term effects of uranyl exposure in cyanobacteria under oxic phosphate-limited conditions have been inadequately explored. We conducted a comprehensive examination of the metabolic responses displayed by a marine cyanobacterium, Anabaena torulosa, to cope with prolonged exposure to uranyl carbonate at pH 7.8 under phosphate limitation. Our results highlight distinct adaptive mechanisms harbored by this cyanobacterium that enabled its natural regeneration following extensive cell lysis and uranium biomineralization under sustained uranium exposure. Such complex interactions between environmental microbes such as Anabaena torulosa and uranium over a broader time range advance our understanding on the impact of microbial processes on uranium biogeochemistry.
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Farasin J, Koechler S, Varet H, Deschamps J, Dillies MA, Proux C, Erhardt M, Huber A, Jagla B, Briandet R, Coppée JY, Arsène-Ploetze F. Comparison of biofilm formation and motility processes in arsenic-resistant Thiomonas spp. strains revealed divergent response to arsenite. Microb Biotechnol 2017; 10:789-803. [PMID: 28169492 PMCID: PMC5481541 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2016] [Revised: 12/03/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Bacteria of the genus Thiomonas are found ubiquitously in arsenic contaminated waters such as acid mine drainage (AMD), where they contribute to the precipitation and the natural bioremediation of arsenic. In these environments, these bacteria have developed a large range of resistance strategies among which the capacity to form particular biofilm structures. The biofilm formation is one of the most ubiquitous adaptive response observed in prokaryotes to various stresses, such as those induced in the presence of toxic compounds. This study focused on the process of biofilm formation in three Thiomonas strains (CB1, CB2 and CB3) isolated from the same AMD. The results obtained here show that these bacteria are all capable of forming biofilms, but the architecture and the kinetics of formation of these biofilms differ depending on whether arsenite is present in the environment and from one strain to another. Indeed, two strains favoured biofilm formation, whereas one favoured motility in the presence of arsenite. To identify the underlying mechanisms, the patterns of expression of some genes possibly involved in the process of biofilm formation were investigated in Thiomonas sp. CB2 in the presence and absence of arsenite, using a transcriptomic approach (RNA‐seq). The findings obtained here shed interesting light on how the formation of biofilms, and the motility processes contribute to the adaptation of Thiomonas strains to extreme environments.
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- Julien Farasin
- Laboratoire Génétique moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Botanique, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Botanique, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Plate-forme Transcriptome et Epigenome, BioMics, Centre d'innovation et recherche technologique, Paris, France.,Institut Pasteur, Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique, Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI, USR 3756, IP CNRS), Paris, France
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Plate-forme Transcriptome et Epigenome, BioMics, Centre d'innovation et recherche technologique, Paris, France.,Institut Pasteur, Hub Bioinformatique et Biostatistique, Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI, USR 3756, IP CNRS), Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Plate-forme Transcriptome et Epigenome, BioMics, Centre d'innovation et recherche technologique, Paris, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMP UPR 2357, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Botanique, Strasbourg, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Plate-forme Transcriptome et Epigenome, BioMics, Centre d'innovation et recherche technologique, Paris, France
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Plate-forme Transcriptome et Epigenome, BioMics, Centre d'innovation et recherche technologique, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Génétique moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, UMR7156, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Botanique, Strasbourg, France
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Tan CH, Lee KWK, Burmølle M, Kjelleberg S, Rice SA. All together now: experimental multispecies biofilm model systems. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:42-53. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Chuan Hao Tan
- The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences EngineeringNanyang Technological University Singapore
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- The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences EngineeringNanyang Technological University Singapore
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- Section of Microbiology, Department of BiologyUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagen Denmark
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- The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences EngineeringNanyang Technological University Singapore
- The School of Biological SciencesNanyang Technological University Singapore
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- The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences EngineeringNanyang Technological University Singapore
- The School of Biological SciencesNanyang Technological University Singapore
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Klinger CR, Lau JA, Heath KD. Ecological genomics of mutualism decline in nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Proc Biol Sci 2016; 283:20152563. [PMID: 26962142 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Anthropogenic changes can influence mutualism evolution; however, the genomic regions underpinning mutualism that are most affected by environmental change are generally unknown, even in well-studied model mutualisms like the interaction between legumes and their nitrogen (N)-fixing rhizobia. Such genomic information can shed light on the agents and targets of selection maintaining cooperation in nature. We recently demonstrated that N-fertilization has caused an evolutionary decline in mutualistic partner quality in the rhizobia that form symbiosis with clover. Here, population genomic analyses of N-fertilized versus control rhizobium populations indicate that evolutionary differentiation at a key symbiosis gene region on the symbiotic plasmid (pSym) contributes to partner quality decline. Moreover, patterns of genetic variation at selected loci were consistent with recent positive selection within N-fertilized environments, suggesting that N-rich environments might select for less beneficial rhizobia. By studying the molecular population genomics of a natural bacterial population within a long-term ecological field experiment, we find that: (i) the N environment is indeed a potent selective force mediating mutualism evolution in this symbiosis, (ii) natural variation in rhizobium partner quality is mediated in part by key symbiosis genes on the symbiotic plasmid, and (iii) differentiation at selected genes occurred in the context of otherwise recombining genomes, resembling eukaryotic models of adaptation.
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- Christie R Klinger
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- W.K. Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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