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Abstract
Living systems are built from a small subset of the atomic elements, including the bulk macronutrients (C,H,N,O,P,S) and ions (Mg,K,Na,Ca) together with a small but variable set of trace elements (micronutrients). Here, we provide a global survey of how chemical elements contribute to life. We define five classes of elements: those that are (i) essential for all life, (ii) essential for many organisms in all three domains of life, (iii) essential or beneficial for many organisms in at least one domain, (iv) beneficial to at least some species, and (v) of no known beneficial use. The ability of cells to sustain life when individual elements are absent or limiting relies on complex physiological and evolutionary mechanisms (elemental economy). This survey of elemental use across the tree of life is encapsulated in a web-based, interactive periodic table that summarizes the roles chemical elements in biology and highlights corresponding mechanisms of elemental economy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kaleigh A Remick
- Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States.
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Buessecker S, Palmer M, Lai D, Dimapilis J, Mayali X, Mosier D, Jiao JY, Colman DR, Keller LM, St John E, Miranda M, Gonzalez C, Gonzalez L, Sam C, Villa C, Zhuo M, Bodman N, Robles F, Boyd ES, Cox AD, St Clair B, Hua ZS, Li WJ, Reysenbach AL, Stott MB, Weber PK, Pett-Ridge J, Dekas AE, Hedlund BP, Dodsworth JA. An essential role for tungsten in the ecology and evolution of a previously uncultivated lineage of anaerobic, thermophilic Archaea. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3773. [PMID: 35773279 PMCID: PMC9246946 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31452-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Trace metals have been an important ingredient for life throughout Earth's history. Here, we describe the genome-guided cultivation of a member of the elusive archaeal lineage Caldarchaeales (syn. Aigarchaeota), Wolframiiraptor gerlachensis, and its growth dependence on tungsten. A metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) of W. gerlachensis encodes putative tungsten membrane transport systems, as well as pathways for anaerobic oxidation of sugars probably mediated by tungsten-dependent ferredoxin oxidoreductases that are expressed during growth. Catalyzed reporter deposition-fluorescence in-situ hybridization (CARD-FISH) and nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (nanoSIMS) show that W. gerlachensis preferentially assimilates xylose. Phylogenetic analyses of 78 high-quality Wolframiiraptoraceae MAGs from terrestrial and marine hydrothermal systems suggest that tungsten-associated enzymes were present in the last common ancestor of extant Wolframiiraptoraceae. Our observations imply a crucial role for tungsten-dependent metabolism in the origin and evolution of this lineage, and hint at a relic metabolic dependence on this trace metal in early anaerobic thermophiles.
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Affiliation(s)
- Steffen Buessecker
- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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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 Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Montana Technological University, Butte, MT, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Montana Technological University, Butte, MT, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China
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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 Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, PR China
- College of Fisheries, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, PR China
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
- Life & Environmental Sciences Department, University of Merced, Merced, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA.
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Abstract
Metalloproteins play diverse and critical functions in all living systems, and their dysfunctional forms are closely related to many human diseases. The development of methods that enable comprehensive mapping of metalloproteome is of great interest to help elucidate crucial roles of metalloproteins in both physiology and pathology, as well as to discover new metalloproteins. We herein briefly review recent progress in the field of metalloproteomics and provide future outlooks.
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- Xin Zeng
- Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.,Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.,College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.,College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.,Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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