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Cui H, Fan S, Ding W, Zhang W. Genomic Analysis of Novel Sulfitobacter Bacterial Strains Isolated from Marine Biofilms. Mar Drugs 2024; 22:289. [PMID: 39057398 PMCID: PMC11278168 DOI: 10.3390/md22070289] [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: 05/28/2024] [Revised: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Bacteria from the genus Sulfitobacter are distributed across various marine habitats and play a significant role in sulfur cycling. However, the metabolic features of Sulfitobacter inhabiting marine biofilms are still not well understood. Here, complete genomes and paired metatranscriptomes of eight Sulfitobacter strains, isolated from biofilms on subtidal stones, have been analyzed to explore their central energy metabolism and potential of secondary metabolite biosynthesis. Based on average nucleotide identity and phylogenetic analysis, the eight strains were classified into six novel species and two novel strains. The reconstruction of the metabolic pathways indicated that all strains had a complete Entner-Doudoroff pathway, pentose phosphate pathway, and diverse pathways for amino acid metabolism, suggesting the presence of an optimized central carbon metabolism. Pangenome analysis further revealed the differences between the gene cluster distribution patterns among the eight strains, suggesting significant functional variation. Moreover, a total of 47 biosynthetic gene clusters were discovered, which were further classified into 37 gene cluster families that showed low similarity with previously documented clusters. Furthermore, metatranscriptomic analysis revealed the expressions of key functional genes involved in the biosynthesis of ribosomal peptides in in situ marine biofilms. Overall, this study sheds new light on the metabolic features, adaptive strategies, and value of genome mining in this group of biofilm-associated Sulfitobacter bacteria.
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- Han Cui
- MOE Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics & Breeding and College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; (H.C.); (S.F.)
- MOE Key Laboratory of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics & Breeding and College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; (H.C.); (S.F.)
- MOE Key Laboratory of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics & Breeding and College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; (H.C.); (S.F.)
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Stevenson DS. A New Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective on the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis. ASTROBIOLOGY 2023; 23:230-237. [PMID: 36413050 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2021.0165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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In this hypothesis article, we propose that the timing of the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis and the diversification of cyanobacteria is firmly tied to the geological evolution of Earth in the Mesoarchean to Neoarchean. Specifically, the diversification of species capable of oxygenic photosynthesis is tied to the growth of subaerial (above sea-level/terrestrial) continental crust, which provided niches for their diversification. Moreover, we suggest that some formerly aerobic bacterial lineages evolved to become anoxygenic photosynthetic as a result of changes in selection following the reintroduction of ferruginous conditions in the oceans at 1.88 GYa. Both conclusions are fully compatible with phylogenetic evidence. The hypothesis carries with it a predictive component-at least for terrestrial organisms-that the development and expansion of photosynthesis species was dependent on the geological evolution of Earth.
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Beyond the ABCs—Discovery of Three New Plasmid Types in Rhodobacterales (RepQ, RepY, RepW). Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10040738. [PMID: 35456790 PMCID: PMC9025767 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10040738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2022] [Revised: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Copiotrophic marine bacteria of the Roseobacter group (Rhodobacterales, Alphaproteobacteria) are characterized by a multipartite genome organization. We sequenced the genomes of Sulfitobacter indolifex DSM 14862T and four related plasmid-rich isolates in order to investigate the composition, distribution, and evolution of their extrachromosomal replicons (ECRs). A combination of long-read PacBio and short-read Illumina sequencing was required to establish complete closed genomes that comprised up to twelve ECRs. The ECRs were differentiated in stably evolving chromids and genuine plasmids. Among the chromids, a diagnostic RepABC-8 replicon was detected in four Sulfitobacter species that likely reflects an evolutionary innovation that originated in their common ancestor. Classification of the ECRs showed that the most abundant plasmid system is RepABC, followed by RepA, DnaA-like, and RepB. However, the strains also contained three novel plasmid types that were designated RepQ, RepY, and RepW. We confirmed the functionality of their replicases, investigated the genetic inventory of the mostly cryptic plasmids, and retraced their evolutionary origin. Remarkably, the RepY plasmid of S. pontiacus DSM 110277 is the first high copy-number plasmid discovered in Rhodobacterales.
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Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) drive bacterial evolution, alter gene availability within microbial communities, and facilitate adaptation to ecological niches. In natural systems, bacteria simultaneously possess or encounter multiple MGEs, yet their combined influences on microbial communities are poorly understood. Here, we investigate interactions among MGEs in the marine bacterium Sulfitobacter pontiacus. Two related strains, CB-D and CB-A, each harbor a single prophage. These prophages share high sequence identity with one another and an integration site within the host genome, yet these strains exhibit differences in “spontaneous” prophage induction (SPI) and consequent fitness. To better understand mechanisms underlying variation in SPI between these lysogens, we closed their genomes, which revealed that in addition to harboring different prophage genotypes, CB-A lacks two of the four large, low-copy-number plasmids possessed by CB-D. To assess the relative roles of plasmid content versus prophage genotype on host physiology, a panel of derivative strains varying in MGE content were generated. Characterization of these derivatives revealed a robust link between plasmid content and SPI, regardless of prophage genotype. Strains possessing all four plasmids had undetectable phage in cell-free lysates, while strains lacking either one plasmid (pSpoCB-1) or a combination of two plasmids (pSpoCB-2 and pSpoCB-4) produced high (>105 PFU/mL) phage titers. Homologous plasmid sequences were identified in related bacteria, and plasmid and phage genes were found to be widespread in Tara Oceans metagenomic data sets. This suggests that plasmid-dependent stabilization of prophages may be commonplace throughout the oceans. IMPORTANCE The consequences of prophage induction on the physiology of microbial populations are varied and include enhanced biofilm formation, conferral of virulence, and increased opportunity for horizontal gene transfer. These traits lead to competitive advantages for lysogenized bacteria and influence bacterial lifestyles in a variety of niches. However, biological controls of “spontaneous” prophage induction, the initiation of phage replication and phage-mediated cell lysis without an overt stressor, are not well understood. In this study, we observed a novel interaction between plasmids and prophages in the marine bacterium Sulfitobacter pontiacus. We found that loss of one or more distinct plasmids—which we show carry genes ubiquitous in the world’s oceans—resulted in a marked increase in prophage induction within lysogenized strains. These results demonstrate cross talk between different mobile genetic elements and have implications for our understanding of the lysogenic-lytic switches of prophages found not only in marine environments, but throughout all ecosystems.
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Tomasch J, Ringel V, Wang H, Freese HM, Bartling P, Brinkmann H, Vollmers J, Jarek M, Wagner-Döbler I, Petersen J. Fatal affairs - conjugational transfer of a dinoflagellate-killing plasmid between marine Rhodobacterales. Microb Genom 2022; 8:000787. [PMID: 35254236 PMCID: PMC9176285 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The roseobacter group of marine bacteria is characterized by a mosaic distribution of ecologically important phenotypes. These are often encoded on mobile extrachromosomal replicons. So far, conjugation had only been experimentally proven between the two model organisms Phaeobacter inhibens and Dinoroseobacter shibae. Here, we show that two large natural RepABC-type plasmids from D. shibae can be transferred into representatives of all known major Rhodobacterales lineages. Complete genome sequencing of the newly established Phaeobacter inhibens transconjugants confirmed their genomic integrity. The conjugated plasmids were stably maintained as single copy number replicons in the genuine as well as the new host. Co-cultivation of Phaeobacter inhibens and the transconjugants with the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum demonstrated that Phaeobacter inhibens is a probiotic strain that improves the yield and stability of the dinoflagellate culture. The transconjugant carrying the 191 kb plasmid, but not the 126 kb sister plasmid, killed the dinoflagellate in co-culture.
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- Jürgen Tomasch
- Laboratory of Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Science – Centre Algatech, Třeboň, Czech Republic
- *Correspondence: Jürgen Tomasch,
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- Department of Microbial Ecology and Diversity Research, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Ecology and Diversity Research, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Ecology and Diversity Research, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
- Present address: Schülke & Mayr GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Ecology and Diversity Research, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Biological Interfaces 5: Biotechnology and Microbial Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Group Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Ecology and Diversity Research, Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
- *Correspondence: Jörn Petersen,
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Mansky J, Wang H, Ebert M, Härtig E, Jahn D, Tomasch J, Wagner-Döbler I. The Influence of Genes on the “Killer Plasmid” of Dinoroseobacter shibae on Its Symbiosis With the Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum. Front Microbiol 2022; 12:804767. [PMID: 35154034 PMCID: PMC8831719 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.804767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The marine bacterium Dinoroseobacter shibae shows a Jekyll-and-Hyde behavior in co-culture with the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum: In the initial symbiotic phase it provides the essential vitamins B12 (cobalamin) and B1 (thiamine) to the algae. In the later pathogenic phase it kills the dinoflagellate. The killing phenotype is determined by the 191 kb plasmid and can be conjugated into other Roseobacters. From a transposon-library of D. shibae we retrieved 28 mutants whose insertion sites were located on the 191 kb plasmid. We co-cultivated each of them with P. minimum in L1 medium lacking vitamin B12. With 20 mutant strains no algal growth beyond the axenic control lacking B12 occurred. Several of these genes were predicted to encode proteins from the type IV secretion system (T4SS). They are apparently essential for establishing the symbiosis. With five transposon mutant strains, the initial symbiotic phase was intact but the later pathogenic phase was lost in co-culture. In three of them the insertion sites were located in an operon predicted to encode genes for biotin (B7) uptake. Both P. minimum and D. shibae are auxotrophic for biotin. We hypothesize that the bacterium depletes the medium from biotin resulting in apoptosis of the dinoflagellate.
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- Johannes Mansky
- Institute for Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Laboratory of Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences – Centre Algatech, Třeboň, Czechia
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- Institute for Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
- *Correspondence: Irene Wagner-Döbler,
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Sandmann G. Diversity and origin of carotenoid biosynthesis: its history of coevolution towards plant photosynthesis. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 232:479-493. [PMID: 34324713 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The development of photosynthesis was a highlight in the progression of bacteria. In addition to the photosystems with their structural proteins, the photosynthesis apparatus consists of different cofactors including essential carotenoids. Thus, the evolution of the carotenoid pathways in relation to the functionality of the resulting structures in photosynthesis is the focus of this review. Analysis of carotenoid pathway genes indicates early evolutionary roots in prokaryotes. The pathway complexity leading to a multitude of structures is a result of gene acquisition, including their functional modifications, emergence of novel genes and gene exchange between species. Along with the progression of photosynthesis, carotenoid pathways coevolved with photosynthesis according to their advancing functionality. Cyanobacteria, with their oxygenic photosynthesis, became a landmark for evolutionary events including carotenogenesis. Concurrent with endosymbiosis, the cyanobacterial carotenoid pathways were inherited into algal plastids. In the lineage leading to Chlorophyta and plants, carotenoids evolved to their prominent role in protection and regulation of light energy input as constituents of a highly efficient light-harvesting complex.
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- Gerhard Sandmann
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt/M, Max von Laue Str. 9, Frankfurt, D-60438, Germany
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Birmes L, Freese HM, Petersen J. RepC_soli: a novel promiscuous plasmid type of Rhodobacteraceae mediates horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistances in the ocean. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:5395-5411. [PMID: 33393148 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Alphaproteobacteria are typically characterized by a multipartite genome organization with a chromosome, stable chromids and accessory plasmids. Extrachromosomal elements determine the lifestyle of roseobacters and their horizontal transfer was previously correlated with rapid adaptations to novel ecological niches. We characterized the distribution and biology of a novel Rhodobacteraceae-specific plasmid type that was designated RepC_soli according to its diagnostic solitary replicase. This low copy number replicon exhibits an exceptional stability, which is likely ensured by non-canonical separate parA and parB partitioning genes. RepC_soli plasmids occur frequently in the surface-associated marine genus Phaeobacter and comparative genome analyses revealed the emergence of four compatibility groups. The universal presence of conserved type IV secretion systems in RepC_soli plasmids is indicative of their recurrent mobilization, a prediction that was experimentally validated by conjugation of the 57 kb Phaeobacter inhibens P72 plasmid (pP72_e) over genus borders. RepC_soli plasmids harbour a diverse collection of beneficial genes including transporters for heavy metal detoxification, prokaryotic defence systems and a conspicuous abundance of antibiotic resistance genes. The pP72_e-encoded efflux pump FloR conferred an about 50-fold increase of resistance against chloramphenicol. Its specific occurrence in Phaeobacter likely reflects a genetic footprint of (former) antimicrobial use in marine aquaculture.
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- Lukas Birmes
- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124, Germany
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Over the course of evolution for billions of years, bacteria that are capable of light-driven energy production have occupied every corner of surface Earth where sunlight can reach. Only two general biological systems have evolved in bacteria to be capable of net energy conservation via light harvesting: one is based on the pigment of (bacterio-)chlorophyll and the other is based on proton-pumping rhodopsin. There is emerging genomic evidence that these two rather different systems can coexist in a single bacterium to take advantage of their contrasting characteristics in the number of genes involved, biosynthesis cost, ease of expression control, and efficiency of energy production and thus enhance the capability of exploiting solar energy. Our data provide the first clear-cut evidence that such dual phototrophy potentially exists in glacial bacteria. Further public genome mining suggests this understudied dual phototrophic mechanism is possibly more common than our data alone suggested. Conserving additional energy from sunlight through bacteriochlorophyll (BChl)-based reaction center or proton-pumping rhodopsin is a highly successful life strategy in environmental bacteria. BChl and rhodopsin-based systems display contrasting characteristics in the size of coding operon, cost of biosynthesis, ease of expression control, and efficiency of energy production. This raises an intriguing question of whether a single bacterium has evolved the ability to perform these two types of phototrophy complementarily according to energy needs and environmental conditions. Here, we report four Tardiphaga sp. strains (Alphaproteobacteria) of monophyletic origin isolated from a high Arctic glacier in northeast Greenland (81.566° N, 16.363° W) that are at different evolutionary stages concerning phototrophy. Their >99.8% identical genomes contain footprints of horizontal operon transfer (HOT) of the complete gene clusters encoding BChl- and xanthorhodopsin (XR)-based dual phototrophy. Two strains possess only a complete XR operon, while the other two strains have both a photosynthesis gene cluster and an XR operon in their genomes. All XR operons are heavily surrounded by mobile genetic elements and are located close to a tRNA gene, strongly signaling that a HOT event of the XR operon has occurred recently. Mining public genome databases and our high Arctic glacial and soil metagenomes revealed that phylogenetically diverse bacteria have the metabolic potential of performing BChl- and rhodopsin-based dual phototrophy. Our data provide new insights on how bacteria cope with the harsh and energy-deficient environment in surface glacier, possibly by maximizing the capability of exploiting solar energy.
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Hollensteiner J, Schneider D, Poehlein A, Daniel R. Complete Genome of Roseobacter ponti DSM 106830T. Genome Biol Evol 2020; 12:1013-1018. [PMID: 32658259 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Members of the Roseobacter group are known for their different ecologically relevant metabolic traits and high abundance in many marine environments. This includes traits like carbon monoxide oxidation, sulfur oxidation, nitrogen oxidation, DMSP demethylation, denitrification, and production of bioactive compounds. Nevertheless, their role in the marine biogeochemical cycles remains to be elucidated. Roseobacter ponti DSM 106830T, also designated strain MM-7T (=KCTC 52469T =NBRC 112431T), is a novel type strain of the Roseobacter group, which was proposed as new Roseobacter species. It was isolated from seawater of the Yellow Sea in South Korea. We report the complete genome sequence of R. ponti DSM 106830T, which belongs to the family Rhodobacteraceae. The genome of R. ponti DSM 106830T comprises a single circular chromosome (3,861,689 bp) with a GC content of 60.52% and an additional circular plasmid (p1) of 100,942 bp with a GC content of 61.51%. The genome encodes 3,812 putative genes, including 3 rRNA, 42 tRNA, 1 tmRNA, and 3 ncRNA. The genome information was used to perform a phylogenetic analysis, which confirmed that the strain represents a new species. Moreover, the genome sequence enabled the investigation of the metabolic capabilities and versatility of R. ponti DSM 106830T. Finally, it provided insight into the high niche adaptation potential of Roseobacter group members.
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- Jacqueline Hollensteiner
- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany
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- Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany
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Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the movement of genetic material between organisms other than by reproduction, which plays an important role in bacterial evolution. Often, mobile genetic elements such as plasmids are involved in HGT. In this study, we present phylogenetic, biogeographic, and functional analyses of a previously unrecognized plasmid that is found with 100% sequence identity in multiple distinct bacterial genera obtained from geographically separated locations. This is the only known instance where actual nucleotide identity and not only high synteny has been described for plasmids in environmental organisms. Furthermore, we provide experimental evidence for the potential of this plasmid to be transmitted across bacterial orders, thereby increasing our understanding of evolution and microbial niche adaptation in the environment. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays an important role in bacterial evolution and serves as a driving force for bacterial diversity and versatility. HGT events often involve mobile genetic elements like plasmids, which can promote their own dissemination by associating with adaptive traits in the gene pool of the so-called mobilome. Novel traits that evolve through HGT can therefore lead to the exploitation of new ecological niches, prompting an adaptive radiation of bacterial species. In this study, we present phylogenetic, biogeographic, and functional analyses of a previously unrecognized RepL-type plasmid found in diverse members of the marine Roseobacter group across the globe. Noteworthy, 100% identical plasmids were detected in phylogenetically and geographically distant bacteria, revealing a so-far overlooked, but environmentally highly relevant vector for HGT. The genomic and functional characterization of this plasmid showed a completely conserved backbone dedicated to replication, stability, and mobilization as well as an interchangeable gene cassette with highly diverse, but recurring motifs. The majority of the latter appear to be involved in mechanisms coping with toxins and/or pollutants in the marine environment. Furthermore, we provide experimental evidence that the plasmid has the potential to be transmitted across bacterial orders, thereby increasing our understanding of evolution and microbial niche adaptation in the environment.
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Characteristics and Evolutionary Analysis of Photosynthetic Gene Clusters on Extrachromosomal Replicons: from Streamlined Plasmids to Chromids. mSystems 2019; 4:4/5/e00358-19. [PMID: 31506262 PMCID: PMC6739100 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00358-19] [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] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophic bacteria (AAPB) represent a bacteriochlorophyll a-containing functional group. Substantial evidence indicates that highly conserved photosynthetic gene clusters (PGCs) of AAPB can be transferred between species, genera, and even phyla. Furthermore, analysis of recently discovered PGCs carried by extrachromosomal replicons (exPGCs) suggests that extrachromosomal replicons (ECRs) play an important role in the transfer of PGCs. In this study, 13 Roseobacter clade genomes from seven genera that harbored exPGCs were used to analyze the characteristics and evolution of PGCs. The identification of plasmid-like and chromid-like ECRs among PGC-containing ECRs revealed two different functions: the spread of PGCs among strains and the maintenance of PGCs within genomes. Phylogenetic analyses indicated two independent origins of exPGCs, corresponding to PufC-containing and PufX-containing puf operons. Furthermore, the two different types of operons were observed within different strains of the same Tateyamaria and Jannaschia genera. The PufC-containing and PufX-containing operons were also differentially carried by chromosomes and ECRs in the strains, respectively, which provided clear evidence for ECR-mediated PGC transfer. Multiple recombination events of exPGCs were also observed, wherein the majority of exPGCs were inserted by replication modules at the same genomic positions. However, the exPGCs of the Jannaschia strains comprised superoperons without evidence of insertion and therefore likely represent an initial evolutionary stage where the PGC was translocated from chromosomes to ECRs without further combinations. Finally, a scenario of PGC gain and loss is proposed that specifically focuses on ECR-mediated exPGC transfer to explain the evolution and patchy distribution of AAPB within the Roseobacter clade.IMPORTANCE The evolution of photosynthesis was a significant event during the diversification of biological life. Aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophic bacteria (AAPB) share physiological characteristics with chemoheterotrophs and represent an important group associated with bacteriochlorophyll-dependent phototrophy in the environment. Here, characterization and evolutionary analyses were conducted for 13 bacterial strains that contained photosynthetic gene clusters (PGCs) carried by extrachromosomal replicons (ECRs) to shed light on the evolution of chlorophototrophy in bacteria. This report advances our understanding of the importance of ECRs in the transfer of PGCs within marine photoheterotrophic bacteria.
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Complete Genome Sequence of Thalassococcus sp. Strain S3, a Marine Roseobacter Clade Member Capable of Degrading Carbazole. Microbiol Resour Announc 2019; 8:8/28/e00231-19. [PMID: 31296670 PMCID: PMC6624753 DOI: 10.1128/mra.00231-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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We determined the complete genome sequence of Thalassococcus sp. strain S3, a marine carbazole degrader isolated from Tokyo Bay in Japan that carries genes for aerobic anoxygenic phototrophy. Strain S3 has a 4.7-Mb chromosome that harbors the carbazole-degradative gene cluster and three (96-, 63-, and 46-kb) plasmids. We determined the complete genome sequence of Thalassococcus sp. strain S3, a marine carbazole degrader isolated from Tokyo Bay in Japan that carries genes for aerobic anoxygenic phototrophy. Strain S3 has a 4.7-Mb chromosome that harbors the carbazole-degradative gene cluster and three (96-, 63-, and 46-kb) plasmids.
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Pérez AA, Chen Q, Hernández HP, Branco dos Santos F, Hellingwerf KJ. On the use of oxygenic photosynthesis for the sustainable production of commodity chemicals. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2019; 166:413-427. [PMID: 30829400 PMCID: PMC6850307 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2018] [Revised: 02/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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A sustainable society will have to largely refrain from the use of fossil carbon deposits. In such a regime, renewable electricity can be harvested as a primary source of energy. However, as for the synthesis of carbon-based materials from bulk chemicals, an alternative is required. A sustainable approach towards this is the synthesis of commodity chemicals from CO2 , water and sunlight. Multiple paths to achieve this have been designed and tested in the domains of chemistry and biology. In the latter, the use of both chemotrophic and phototrophic organisms has been advocated. 'Direct conversion' of CO2 and H2 O, catalyzed by an oxyphototroph, has excellent prospects to become the most economically competitive of these transformations, because of the relative ease of scale-up of this process. Significantly, for a wide range of energy and commodity products, a proof of principle via engineering of the corresponding production organism has been provided. In the optimization of a cyanobacterial production organism, a wide range of aspects has to be addressed. Of these, here we will put our focus on: (1) optimizing the (carbon) flux to the desired product; (2) increasing the genetic stability of the producing organism and (3) maximizing its energy conversion efficiency. Significant advances have been made on all these three aspects during the past 2 years and these will be discussed: (1) increasing the carbon partitioning to >50%; (2) aligning product formation with the growth of the cells and (3) expanding the photosynthetically active radiation region for oxygenic photosynthesis.
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- Adam A. Pérez
- Molecular Microbial Physiology GroupSwammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam1098 XH AmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Photanol BVMatrix VAmsterdam, 1098 XHThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Microbial Physiology GroupSwammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam1098 XH AmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Microbial Physiology GroupSwammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam1098 XH AmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Microbial Physiology GroupSwammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam1098 XH AmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Molecular Microbial Physiology GroupSwammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam1098 XH AmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Photanol BVMatrix VAmsterdam, 1098 XHThe Netherlands
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Chen Q, Arents J, Schuurmans JM, Ganapathy S, de Grip WJ, Cheregi O, Funk C, dos Santos FB, Hellingwerf KJ. Combining retinal-based and chlorophyll-based (oxygenic) photosynthesis: Proteorhodopsin expression increases growth rate and fitness of a ∆PSI strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Metab Eng 2019; 52:68-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2018.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Horizontal operon transfer, plasmids, and the evolution of photosynthesis in Rhodobacteraceae. ISME JOURNAL 2018; 12:1994-2010. [PMID: 29795276 PMCID: PMC6052148 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0150-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Revised: 04/23/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The capacity for anoxygenic photosynthesis is scattered throughout the phylogeny of the Proteobacteria. Their photosynthesis genes are typically located in a so-called photosynthesis gene cluster (PGC). It is unclear (i) whether phototrophy is an ancestral trait that was frequently lost or (ii) whether it was acquired later by horizontal gene transfer. We investigated the evolution of phototrophy in 105 genome-sequenced Rhodobacteraceae and provide the first unequivocal evidence for the horizontal transfer of the PGC. The 33 concatenated core genes of the PGC formed a robust phylogenetic tree and the comparison with single-gene trees demonstrated the dominance of joint evolution. The PGC tree is, however, largely incongruent with the species tree and at least seven transfers of the PGC are required to reconcile both phylogenies. The origin of a derived branch containing the PGC of the model organism Rhodobacter capsulatus correlates with a diagnostic gene replacement of pufC by pufX. The PGC is located on plasmids in six of the analyzed genomes and its DnaA-like replication module was discovered at a conserved central position of the PGC. A scenario of plasmid-borne horizontal transfer of the PGC and its reintegration into the chromosome could explain the current distribution of phototrophy in Rhodobacteraceae.
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Thiel V, Tank M, Bryant DA. Diversity of Chlorophototrophic Bacteria Revealed in the Omics Era. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 69:21-49. [PMID: 29505738 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042817-040500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Because of recent advances in omics methodologies, knowledge of chlorophototrophy (i.e., chlorophyll-based phototrophy) in bacteria has rapidly increased. Chlorophototrophs currently are known to occur in seven bacterial phyla: Cyanobacteria, Proteobacteria, Chlorobi, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Acidobacteria, and Gemmatimonadetes. Other organisms that can produce chlorophylls and photochemical reaction centers may still be undiscovered. Here we summarize the current status of the taxonomy and phylogeny of chlorophototrophic bacteria as revealed by genomic methods. In specific cases, we briefly describe important ecophysiological and metabolic insights that have been gained from the application of genomic methods to these bacteria. In the 20 years since the completion of the Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 genome in 1996, approximately 1,100 genomes have been sequenced, which represents nearly the complete diversity of known chlorophototrophic bacteria. These data are leading to new insights into many important processes, including photosynthesis, nitrogen and carbon fixation, cellular differentiation and development, symbiosis, and ecosystem functionality.
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- Vera Thiel
- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan; ,
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan; ,
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA;
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
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Patidar SK, Kim SH, Kim JH, Park J, Park BS, Han MS. Pelagibaca bermudensis promotes biofuel competence of Tetraselmis striata in a broad range of abiotic stressors: dynamics of quorum-sensing precursors and strategic improvement in lipid productivity. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2018; 11:102. [PMID: 29636820 PMCID: PMC5889607 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-018-1097-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Amelioration of biofuel feedstock of microalgae using sustainable means through synthetic ecology is a promising strategy. The co-cultivation model (Tetraselmis striata and Pelagibaca bermudensis) was evaluated for the robust biofuel production under varying stressors as well as with the selected two-stage cultivation modes. In addition, the role of metabolic exudates including the quorum-sensing precursors was assessed. RESULTS The co-cultivation model innovated in this study supported the biomass production of T. striata in a saline/marine medium at a broad range of pH, salinity, and temperature/light conditions, as well as nutrient limitation with a growth promotion of 1.2-3.6-fold. Hence, this developed model could contribute to abiotic stress mitigation of T. striata. The quorum-sensing precursor dynamics of the growth promoting bacteria P. bermudensis exhibited unique pattern under varying stressors as revealed through targeted metabolomics (using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, LC-MS). P. bermudensis and its metabolic exudates mutually promoted the growth of T. striata, which elevated the lipid productivity. Interestingly, hydroxy alkyl quinolones independently showed growth inhibition of T. striata on elevated concentration. Among two-stage cultivation modes (low pH, elevated salinity, and nitrate limitation), specifically, nitrate limitation induced a 1.5 times higher lipid content (30-31%) than control in both axenic and co-cultivated conditions. CONCLUSION Pelagibaca bermudensis is established as a potential growth promoting native phycospheric bacteria for robust biomass generation of T. striata in varying environment, and two-stage cultivation using nitrate limitation strategically maximized the biofuel precursors for both axenic and co-cultivation conditions (T and T-PB, respectively). Optimum metabolic exudate of P. bermudensis which act as a growth substrate to T. striata surpasses the antagonistic effect of excessive hydroxy alkyl quinolones [HHQ, 4-hydroxy-2-alkylquinolines and PQS (pseudomonas quorum signal), 2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4(1H)-quinolone].
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- Shailesh Kumar Patidar
- Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Present Address: Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX USA
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- Department of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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Martin WF, Bryant DA, Beatty JT. A physiological perspective on the origin and evolution of photosynthesis. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2018; 42:205-231. [PMID: 29177446 PMCID: PMC5972617 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fux056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The origin and early evolution of photosynthesis are reviewed from an ecophysiological perspective. Earth's first ecosystems were chemotrophic, fueled by geological H2 at hydrothermal vents and, required flavin-based electron bifurcation to reduce ferredoxin for CO2 fixation. Chlorophyll-based phototrophy (chlorophototrophy) allowed autotrophs to generate reduced ferredoxin without electron bifurcation, providing them access to reductants other than H2. Because high-intensity, short-wavelength electromagnetic radiation at Earth's surface would have been damaging for the first chlorophyll (Chl)-containing cells, photosynthesis probably arose at hydrothermal vents under low-intensity, long-wavelength geothermal light. The first photochemically active pigments were possibly Zn-tetrapyrroles. We suggest that (i) after the evolution of red-absorbing Chl-like pigments, the first light-driven electron transport chains reduced ferredoxin via a type-1 reaction center (RC) progenitor with electrons from H2S; (ii) photothioautotrophy, first with one RC and then with two, was the bridge between H2-dependent chemolithoautotrophy and water-splitting photosynthesis; (iii) photothiotrophy sustained primary production in the photic zone of Archean oceans; (iv) photosynthesis arose in an anoxygenic cyanobacterial progenitor; (v) Chl a is the ancestral Chl; and (vi), anoxygenic chlorophototrophic lineages characterized so far acquired, by horizontal gene transfer, RCs and Chl biosynthesis with or without autotrophy, from the architects of chlorophototrophy-the cyanobacterial lineage.
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- William F Martin
- Institute for Molecular Evolution, University of Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- William F. Martin
- University of Düsseldorf; Universitätsstr. 1 Düsseldorf 40225 Germany
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Bartling P, Brinkmann H, Bunk B, Overmann J, Göker M, Petersen J. The Composite 259-kb Plasmid of Martelella mediterranea DSM 17316 T-A Natural Replicon with Functional RepABC Modules from Rhodobacteraceae and Rhizobiaceae. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1787. [PMID: 28983283 PMCID: PMC5613091 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A multipartite genome organization with a chromosome and many extrachromosomal replicons (ECRs) is characteristic for Alphaproteobacteria. The best investigated ECRs of terrestrial rhizobia are the symbiotic plasmids for legume root nodulation and the tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. RepABC plasmids represent the most abundant alphaproteobacterial replicon type. The currently known homologous replication modules of rhizobia and Rhodobacteraceae are phylogenetically distinct. In this study, we surveyed type-strain genomes from the One Thousand Microbial Genomes (KMG-I) project and identified a roseobacter-specific RepABC-type operon in the draft genome of the marine rhizobium Martelella mediterranea DSM 17316T. PacBio genome sequencing demonstrated the presence of three circular ECRs with sizes of 593, 259, and 170-kb. The rhodobacteral RepABC module is located together with a rhizobial equivalent on the intermediate sized plasmid pMM259, which likely originated in the fusion of a pre-existing rhizobial ECR with a conjugated roseobacter plasmid. Further evidence for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is given by the presence of a roseobacter-specific type IV secretion system on the 259-kb plasmid and the rhodobacteracean origin of 62% of the genes on this plasmid. Functionality tests documented that the genuine rhizobial RepABC module from the Martelella 259-kb plasmid is only maintained in A. tumefaciens C58 (Rhizobiaceae) but not in Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395 (Rhodobacteraceae). Unexpectedly, the roseobacter-like replication system is functional and stably maintained in both host strains, thus providing evidence for a broader host range than previously proposed. In conclusion, pMM259 is the first example of a natural plasmid that likely mediates genetic exchange between roseobacters and rhizobia.
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- Pascal Bartling
- Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell CulturesBraunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell CulturesBraunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell CulturesBraunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell CulturesBraunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell CulturesBraunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell CulturesBraunschweig, Germany
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Martin WF, Tielens AGM, Mentel M, Garg SG, Gould SB. The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2017; 81:e00008-17. [PMID: 28615286 PMCID: PMC5584316 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00008-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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How mitochondria came to reside within the cytosol of their host has been debated for 50 years. Though current data indicate that the last eukaryote common ancestor possessed mitochondria and was a complex cell, whether mitochondria or complexity came first in eukaryotic evolution is still discussed. In autogenous models (complexity first), the origin of phagocytosis poses the limiting step at eukaryote origin, with mitochondria coming late as an undigested growth substrate. In symbiosis-based models (mitochondria first), the host was an archaeon, and the origin of mitochondria was the limiting step at eukaryote origin, with mitochondria providing bacterial genes, ATP synthesis on internalized bioenergetic membranes, and mitochondrion-derived vesicles as the seed of the eukaryote endomembrane system. Metagenomic studies are uncovering new host-related archaeal lineages that are reported as complex or phagocytosing, although images of such cells are lacking. Here we review the physiology and components of phagocytosis in eukaryotes, critically inspecting the concept of a phagotrophic host. From ATP supply and demand, a mitochondrion-lacking phagotrophic archaeal fermenter would have to ingest about 34 times its body weight in prokaryotic prey to obtain enough ATP to support one cell division. It would lack chemiosmotic ATP synthesis at the plasma membrane, because phagocytosis and chemiosmosis in the same membrane are incompatible. It would have lived from amino acid fermentations, because prokaryotes are mainly protein. Its ATP yield would have been impaired relative to typical archaeal amino acid fermentations, which involve chemiosmosis. In contrast, phagocytosis would have had great physiological benefit for a mitochondrion-bearing cell.
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- William F Martin
- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Trautwein K, Will SE, Hulsch R, Maschmann U, Wiegmann K, Hensler M, Michael V, Ruppersberg H, Wünsch D, Feenders C, Neumann-Schaal M, Kaltenhäuser S, Ulbrich M, Schmidt-Hohagen K, Blasius B, Petersen J, Schomburg D, Rabus R. Native plasmids restrict growth of Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395: Energetic costs of plasmids assessed by quantitative physiological analyses. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:4817-4829. [PMID: 27233797 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Plasmid carriage is associated with energetic costs, and thus only those plasmids providing fitness benefits are stably maintained in the host lineage. Marine bacteria of the Roseobacter clade harbor up to 11 extrachromosomal replicons, adding lifestyle-relevant and possibly habitat success-promoting functions to their genomic repertoire. Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395 is a nutritionally versatile representative, carrying three stable and functionally distinct plasmids (65, 78, and 262 kb). The present study investigates the physiological and energetic consequences of plasmid carriage in P. inhibens DSM 17395, employing mutants cured from all native plasmids in every possible combination (seven different). Cultivation in process-controlled bioreactors with casamino acids as organic substrate revealed a complex physiological response, suggesting existence of functional interconnections between the replicons. Deletion of the 262 kb plasmid boosted growth rate (>3-fold) and growth efficiency (yields for carbon, O2 and CO2 ), which was not observed for the 65 or 78 kb plasmid. Carriage of the 262 kb plasmid was most costly for the wild type, i.e. contributing ∼50% to its energetic (dissimilatory) expenditures. Cost-benefit analysis of plasmid carriage reflects the high value of plasmids for niche specialization of P. inhibens DSM 17395 and most likely also for related Phaeobacter species.
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- Kathleen Trautwein
- General and Molecular Microbiology, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- General and Molecular Microbiology, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- General and Molecular Microbiology, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- General and Molecular Microbiology, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Microbial Ecology and Diversity Projects, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- General and Molecular Microbiology, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- General and Molecular Microbiology, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Mathematical Modelling, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Mathematical Modelling, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department Microbial Ecology and Diversity Projects, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- General and Molecular Microbiology, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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Patzelt D, Michael V, Päuker O, Ebert M, Tielen P, Jahn D, Tomasch J, Petersen J, Wagner-Döbler I. Gene Flow Across Genus Barriers - Conjugation of Dinoroseobacter shibae's 191-kb Killer Plasmid into Phaeobacter inhibens and AHL-mediated Expression of Type IV Secretion Systems. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:742. [PMID: 27303368 PMCID: PMC4886583 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Rhodobacteraceae harbor a conspicuous wealth of extrachromosomal replicons (ECRs) and therefore the exchange of genetic material via horizontal transfer has been supposed to be a major evolutionary driving force. Many plasmids in this group encode type IV secretion systems (T4SS) that are expected to mediate transfer of proteins and/or DNA into host cells, but no experimental evidence of either has yet been provided. Dinoroseobacter shibae, a species of the Roseobacter group within the Rhodobacteraceae family, contains five ECRs that are crucial for anaerobic growth, survival under starvation and the pathogenicity of this model organism. Here we tagged two syntenous but compatible RepABC-type plasmids of 191 and 126-kb size, each encoding a T4SS, with antibiotic resistance genes and demonstrated their conjugational transfer into a distantly related Roseobacter species, namely Phaeobacter inhibens. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis showed transfer of those replicons into the recipient both individually but also together documenting the efficiency of conjugation. We then studied the influence of externally added quorum sensing (QS) signals on the expression of the T4SS located on the sister plasmids. A QS deficient D. shibae null mutant (ΔluxI1) lacking synthesis of N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) was cultivated with a wide spectrum of chemically diverse long-chain AHLs. All AHLs with lengths of the acid side-chain ≥14 reverted the ΔluxI1 phenotype to wild-type. Expression of the T4SS was induced up to log2 ∼3fold above wild-type level. We hypothesize that conjugation in roseobacters is QS-controlled and that the QS system may detect a wide array of long-chain AHLs at the cell surface.
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- Diana Patzelt
- Department of Microbiology, Microbial Communication, Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures Braunschweig, Germany
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- Braunschweig University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany
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- Braunschweig University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany
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- Braunschweig University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, Microbial Communication, Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, Microbial Communication, Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig, Germany
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Nupur LNU, Vats A, Dhanda SK, Raghava GPS, Pinnaka AK, Kumar A. ProCarDB: a database of bacterial carotenoids. BMC Microbiol 2016; 16:96. [PMID: 27230105 PMCID: PMC4882832 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0715-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2015] [Accepted: 05/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Carotenoids have important functions in bacteria, ranging from harvesting light energy to neutralizing oxidants and acting as virulence factors. However, information pertaining to the carotenoids is scattered throughout the literature. Furthermore, information about the genes/proteins involved in the biosynthesis of carotenoids has tremendously increased in the post-genomic era. A web server providing the information about microbial carotenoids in a structured manner is required and will be a valuable resource for the scientific community working with microbial carotenoids. Results Here, we have created a manually curated, open access, comprehensive compilation of bacterial carotenoids named as ProCarDB- Prokaryotic Carotenoid Database. ProCarDB includes 304 unique carotenoids arising from 50 biosynthetic pathways distributed among 611 prokaryotes. ProCarDB provides important information on carotenoids, such as 2D and 3D structures, molecular weight, molecular formula, SMILES, InChI, InChIKey, IUPAC name, KEGG Id, PubChem Id, and ChEBI Id. The database also provides NMR data, UV-vis absorption data, IR data, MS data and HPLC data that play key roles in the identification of carotenoids. An important feature of this database is the extension of biosynthetic pathways from the literature and through the presence of the genes/enzymes in different organisms. The information contained in the database was mined from published literature and databases such as KEGG, PubChem, ChEBI, LipidBank, LPSN, and Uniprot. The database integrates user-friendly browsing and searching with carotenoid analysis tools to help the user. We believe that this database will serve as a major information centre for researchers working on bacterial carotenoids.
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- L N U Nupur
- Microbial Type Culture collection and Gene Bank (MTCC), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- Bioinformatics Centre, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- Bioinformatics Centre, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- Microbial Type Culture collection and Gene Bank (MTCC), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39 A, 160036, Chandigarh, India.
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- Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39 A, 160036, Chandigarh, India.
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Nowicka B, Kruk J. Powered by light: Phototrophy and photosynthesis in prokaryotes and its evolution. Microbiol Res 2016; 186-187:99-118. [PMID: 27242148 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2016.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2015] [Revised: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 04/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Photosynthesis is a complex metabolic process enabling photosynthetic organisms to use solar energy for the reduction of carbon dioxide into biomass. This ancient pathway has revolutionized life on Earth. The most important event was the development of oxygenic photosynthesis. It had a tremendous impact on the Earth's geochemistry and the evolution of living beings, as the rise of atmospheric molecular oxygen enabled the development of a highly efficient aerobic metabolism, which later led to the evolution of complex multicellular organisms. The mechanism of photosynthesis has been the subject of intensive research and a great body of data has been accumulated. However, the evolution of this process is not fully understood, and the development of photosynthesis in prokaryota in particular remains an unresolved question. This review is devoted to the occurrence and main features of phototrophy and photosynthesis in prokaryotes. Hypotheses concerning the origin and spread of photosynthetic traits in bacteria are also discussed.
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- Beatrycze Nowicka
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland.
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland.
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Biofilm plasmids with a rhamnose operon are widely distributed determinants of the 'swim-or-stick' lifestyle in roseobacters. ISME JOURNAL 2016; 10:2498-513. [PMID: 26953602 PMCID: PMC5030684 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 01/12/2016] [Accepted: 01/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Alphaproteobacteria of the metabolically versatile Roseobacter group (Rhodobacteraceae) are abundant in marine ecosystems and represent dominant primary colonizers of submerged surfaces. Motility and attachment are the prerequisite for the characteristic 'swim-or-stick' lifestyle of many representatives such as Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395. It has recently been shown that plasmid curing of its 65-kb RepA-I-type replicon with >20 genes for exopolysaccharide biosynthesis including a rhamnose operon results in nearly complete loss of motility and biofilm formation. The current study is based on the assumption that homologous biofilm plasmids are widely distributed. We analyzed 33 roseobacters that represent the phylogenetic diversity of this lineage and documented attachment as well as swimming motility for 60% of the strains. All strong biofilm formers were also motile, which is in agreement with the proposed mechanism of surface attachment. We established transposon mutants for the four genes of the rhamnose operon from P. inhibens and proved its crucial role in biofilm formation. In the Roseobacter group, two-thirds of the predicted biofilm plasmids represent the RepA-I type and their physiological role was experimentally validated via plasmid curing for four additional strains. Horizontal transfer of these replicons was documented by a comparison of the RepA-I phylogeny with the species tree. A gene content analysis of 35 RepA-I plasmids revealed a core set of genes, including the rhamnose operon and a specific ABC transporter for polysaccharide export. Taken together, our data show that RepA-I-type biofilm plasmids are essential for the sessile mode of life in the majority of cultivated roseobacters.
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Rodrigo-Torres L, Pujalte MJ, Arahal DR. Draft genome of Leisingera aquaemixtae CECT 8399(T), a member of the Roseobacter clade isolated from a junction of fresh and ocean water in Jeju Island, South Korea. GENOMICS DATA 2016; 7:233-6. [PMID: 26981415 PMCID: PMC4778666 DOI: 10.1016/j.gdata.2016.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2015] [Revised: 01/08/2016] [Accepted: 01/14/2016] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We report the draft genome sequence and annotation of Leisingera aquaemixtae CECT 8399(T) (DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank accession number CYSR00000000) which comprises 4,614,060 bp, 4313 protein coding genes, 54 tRNA coding genes and 7 rRNA coding genes. General findings of the annotated genome, such as pigment indigoidine operon, phenylacetate oxidation genes or predictable number of replicons, are commented in comparison to other Leisingera species. Average Nucleotide Identity between available genomes of type strains of species of Leisingera and Phaeobacter genera has been calculated to evaluate its current classification.
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- Lidia Rodrigo-Torres
- Departamento de Microbiología y Ecología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Ecología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Ecología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Wang H, Tomasch J, Michael V, Bhuju S, Jarek M, Petersen J, Wagner-Döbler I. Identification of Genetic Modules Mediating the Jekyll and Hyde Interaction of Dinoroseobacter shibae with the Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:1262. [PMID: 26617596 PMCID: PMC4643747 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The co-cultivation of the alphaproteobacterium Dinoroseobacter shibae with the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum is characterized by a mutualistic phase followed by a pathogenic phase in which the bacterium kills aging algae. Thus it resembles the “Jekyll-and-Hyde” interaction that has been proposed for other algae and Roseobacter. Here, we identified key genetic components of this interaction. Analysis of the transcriptome of D. shibae in co-culture with P. minimum revealed growth phase dependent changes in the expression of quorum sensing, the CtrA phosphorelay, and flagella biosynthesis genes. Deletion of the histidine kinase gene cckA which is part of the CtrA phosphorelay or the flagella genes fliC or flgK resulted in complete lack of growth stimulation of P. minimum in co-culture with the D. shibae mutants. By contrast, pathogenicity was entirely dependent on one of the extrachromosomal elements of D. shibae, the 191 kb plasmid. The data show that flagella and the CtrA phosphorelay are required for establishing mutualism and prove a cell density dependent killing effect of D. shibae on P. minimum which is mediated by an unknown factor encoded on the 191 kb plasmid.
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- Hui Wang
- Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Microbial Communication Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Microbial Communication Braunschweig, Germany
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- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Microbial Ecology and Diversity Research Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Genome Analytics Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Genome Analytics Braunschweig, Germany
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- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Microbial Ecology and Diversity Research Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Microbial Communication Braunschweig, Germany
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Frank O, Göker M, Pradella S, Petersen J. Ocean's Twelve: flagellar and biofilm chromids in the multipartite genome ofMarinovum algicola DG898 exemplify functional compartmentalization. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:4019-34. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Revised: 06/05/2015] [Accepted: 06/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Oliver Frank
- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH; Inhoffenstraße 7 B Braunschweig D-38124 Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH; Inhoffenstraße 7 B Braunschweig D-38124 Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH; Inhoffenstraße 7 B Braunschweig D-38124 Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH; Inhoffenstraße 7 B Braunschweig D-38124 Germany
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Dziewit L, Czarnecki J, Prochwicz E, Wibberg D, Schlüter A, Pühler A, Bartosik D. Genome-guided insight into the methylotrophy of Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:852. [PMID: 26347732 PMCID: PMC4543880 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 08/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686 (Alphaproteobacteria) is a facultative, heterotrophic methylotroph capable of utilizing a wide range of C1 compounds as sole carbon and energy sources. Analysis of the JCM 7686 genome revealed the presence of genes involved in the oxidation of methanol, methylamine, dimethylamine, trimethylamine, N,N-dimethylformamide, and formamide, as well as the serine cycle, which appears to be the only C1 assimilatory pathway in this strain. Many of these genes are located in different extrachromosomal replicons and are not present in the genomes of most members of the genus Paracoccus, which strongly suggests that they have been horizontally acquired. When compared with Paracoccus denitrificans Pd1222 (type strain of the genus Paracoccus), P. aminophilus JCM 7686 has many additional methylotrophic capabilities (oxidation of dimethylamine, trimethylamine, N,N-dimethylformamide, the serine cycle), which are determined by the presence of three separate gene clusters. Interestingly, related clusters form compact methylotrophy islands within the genomes of Paracoccus sp. N5 and many marine bacteria of the Roseobacter clade.
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- Lukasz Dziewit
- Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland
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SUMMARY Members of the Roseobacter clade are equipped with a tremendous diversity of metabolic capabilities, which in part explains their success in so many different marine habitats. Ideas on how this diversity evolved and is maintained are reviewed, focusing on recent evolutionary studies exploring the timing and mechanisms of Roseobacter ecological diversification.
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Soora M, Tomasch J, Wang H, Michael V, Petersen J, Engelen B, Wagner-Döbler I, Cypionka H. Oxidative stress and starvation in Dinoroseobacter shibae: the role of extrachromosomal elements. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:233. [PMID: 25859246 PMCID: PMC4373377 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (AAP) are abundant in the photic zone of the marine environment. Dinoroseobacter shibae, a representative of the Roseobacter group, converts light into additional energy that enhances its survival especially under starvation. However, light exposure results in the production of cytotoxic reactive oxygen species in AAPs. Here we investigated the response of D. shibae to starvation and oxidative stress, focusing on the role of extrachromosomal elements (ECRs). D. shibae possessing five ECRs (three plasmids and two chromids) was starved for 4 weeks either in the dark or under light/dark cycles and the survival was monitored. Transcriptomics showed that on the chromosome genes with a role in oxidative stress response and photosynthesis were differentially expressed during the light period. Most extrachromosomal genes in contrast showed a general loss of transcriptional activity, especially in dark-starved cells. The observed decrease of gene expression was not due to plasmid loss, as all five ECRs were maintained in the cells. Interestingly, the genes on the 72-kb chromid were the least downregulated, and one region with genes of the oxygen stress response and a light-dependent protochlorophyllide reductase of cyanobacterial origin was strongly activated under the light/dark cycle. A Δ72-kb curing mutant lost the ability to survive under starvation in a light/dark cycle demonstrating the essential role of this chromid for adaptation to starvation and oxidative stress. Our data moreover suggest that the other four ECRs of D. shibae have no vital function under the investigated conditions and therefore were transcriptionally silenced.
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- Maya Soora
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Oldenburg, Germany
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- Group Microbial Communication, Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig, Germany
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- Group Microbial Communication, Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Oldenburg, Germany
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- Group Microbial Communication, Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Oldenburg, Germany
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Frank O, Michael V, Päuker O, Boedeker C, Jogler C, Rohde M, Petersen J. Plasmid curing and the loss of grip--the 65-kb replicon of Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395 is required for biofilm formation, motility and the colonization of marine algae. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 38:120-7. [PMID: 25595869 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2014.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2014] [Revised: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 12/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Surface colonization is characteristic for a broad range of marine roseobacters and many strains have been isolated from biofilms, microbial mats and dinoflagellates. Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395, one of the best-studied representatives of the Roseobacter group, is an effective colonizer of marine surfaces, but the genetic basis of this trait is unknown. Based on the composition of its 65-kb RepA-I type plasmid that contains more than 20 genes for polysaccharide metabolism, including a rhamnose operon, which is required for O-antigen formation in Escherichia coli, it was hypothesized that this replicon was essential for surface attachment. Accordingly, a holistic approach was taken and the functional role of this extrachromosomal element in P. inhibens was investigated. Plasmid curing was performed with the homologous RepA-I replication system of Dinoroseobacter shibae DSM 16493(T). The Δ65-kb mutant completely lost its stickiness and could neither attach to artificial (glass, polystyrene) nor to natural surfaces (algae) and, consequently, its ability to form biofilms was impaired. Surprisingly, the mutant also lost the capacity for flagellar swimming motility required for surface colonization and the dispersal of biofilms. The data clearly showed that the 65-kb replicon of P. inhibens DSM 17395 was a genuine biofilm plasmid-mediating surface attachment. Homologous replicons are widely distributed among Rhodobacterales thus indicating the general importance of extrachromosomal elements for biofilm formation.
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- Oliver Frank
- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany.
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Functional type 2 photosynthetic reaction centers found in the rare bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:7795-800. [PMID: 24821787 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1400295111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Photosynthetic bacteria emerged on Earth more than 3 Gyr ago. To date, despite a long evolutionary history, species containing (bacterio)chlorophyll-based reaction centers have been reported in only 6 out of more than 30 formally described bacterial phyla: Cyanobacteria, Proteobacteria, Chlorobi, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, and Acidobacteria. Here we describe a bacteriochlorophyll a-producing isolate AP64 that belongs to the poorly characterized phylum Gemmatimonadetes. This red-pigmented semiaerobic strain was isolated from a freshwater lake in the western Gobi Desert. It contains fully functional type 2 (pheophytin-quinone) photosynthetic reaction centers but does not assimilate inorganic carbon, suggesting that it performs a photoheterotrophic lifestyle. Full genome sequencing revealed the presence of a 42.3-kb-long photosynthesis gene cluster (PGC) in its genome. The organization and phylogeny of its photosynthesis genes suggests an ancient acquisition of PGC via horizontal transfer from purple phototrophic bacteria. The data presented here document that Gemmatimonadetes is the seventh bacterial phylum containing (bacterio)chlorophyll-based phototrophic species. To our knowledge, these data provide the first evidence that (bacterio)chlorophyll-based phototrophy can be transferred between distant bacterial phyla, providing new insights into the evolution of bacterial photosynthesis.
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Maj A, Dziewit L, Czarnecki J, Wlodarczyk M, Baj J, Skrzypczyk G, Giersz D, Bartosik D. Plasmids of carotenoid-producing Paracoccus spp. (Alphaproteobacteria) - structure, diversity and evolution. PLoS One 2013; 8:e80258. [PMID: 24260361 PMCID: PMC3832669 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Plasmids are components of many bacterial genomes. They enable the spread of a large pool of genetic information via lateral gene transfer. Many bacterial strains contain mega-sized replicons and these are particularly common in Alphaproteobacteria. Considerably less is known about smaller alphaproteobacterial plasmids. We analyzed the genomes of 14 such plasmids residing in 4 multireplicon carotenoid-producing strains of the genus Paracoccus (Alphaproteobacteria): P. aestuarii DSM 19484, P. haeundaensis LG P-21903, P. marcusii DSM 11574 and P. marcusii OS22. Comparative analyses revealed mosaic structures of the plasmids and recombinational shuffling of diverse genetic modules involved in (i) plasmid replication, (ii) stabilization (including toxin-antitoxin systems of the relBE/parDE, tad-ata, higBA, mazEF and toxBA families) and (iii) mobilization for conjugal transfer (encoding relaxases of the MobQ, MobP or MobV families). A common feature of the majority of the plasmids is the presence of AT-rich sequence islets (located downstream of exc1-like genes) containing genes, whose homologs are conserved in the chromosomes of many bacteria (encoding e.g. RelA/SpoT, SMC-like proteins and a retron-type reverse transcriptase). The results of this study have provided insight into the diversity and plasticity of plasmids of Paracoccus spp., and of the entire Alphaproteobacteria. Some of the identified plasmids contain replication systems not described previously in this class of bacteria. The composition of the plasmid genomes revealed frequent transfer of chromosomal genes into plasmids, which significantly enriches the pool of mobile DNA that can participate in lateral transfer. Many strains of Paracoccus spp. have great biotechnological potential, and the plasmid vectors constructed in this study will facilitate genetic studies of these bacteria.
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- Anna Maj
- Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Beyersmann PG, Chertkov O, Petersen J, Fiebig A, Chen A, Pati A, Ivanova N, Lapidus A, Goodwin LA, Chain P, Detter JC, Rohde M, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Simon M, Göker M, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T. Genome sequence of Phaeobacter caeruleus type strain (DSM 24564T), a surface-associated member of the marine Roseobacter clade. Stand Genomic Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.4056/sigs.3927626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Beyersmann PG, Chertkov O, Petersen J, Fiebig A, Chen A, Pati A, Ivanova N, Lapidus A, Goodwin LA, Chain P, Detter JC, Rohde M, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Simon M, Göker M, Klenk HP, Brinkhoff T. Genome sequence of Phaeobacter caeruleus type strain (DSM 24564(T)), a surface-associated member of the marine Roseobacter clade. Stand Genomic Sci 2013; 8:403-19. [PMID: 24501626 PMCID: PMC3910702 DOI: 10.4056/sigs.3927623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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In 2009 Phaeobacter caeruleus was described as a novel species affiliated with the marine Roseobacter clade, which, in turn, belongs to the class Alphaproteobacteria. The genus Phaeobacter is well known for members that produce various secondary metabolites. Here we report of putative quorum sensing systems, based on the finding of six N-acyl-homoserine lactone synthetases, and show that the blue color of P. caeruleus is probably due to the production of the secondary metabolite indigoidine. Therefore, P. caeruleus might have inhibitory effects on other bacteria. In this study the genome of the type strain DSM 24564T was sequenced, annotated and characterized. The 5,344,419 bp long genome with its seven plasmids contains 5,227 protein-coding genes (3,904 with a predicted function) and 108 RNA genes.
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- Paul G Beyersmann
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICMB), Oldenburg, Germany
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA ; DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA ; DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- HZI - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICMB), Oldenburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICMB), Oldenburg, Germany
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Riedel T, Teshima H, Petersen J, Fiebig A, Davenport K, Daligault H, Erkkila T, Gu W, Munk C, Xu Y, Chen A, Pati A, Ivanova N, Goodwin LA, Chain P, Detter JC, Rohde M, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Göker M, Brinkhoff T, Klenk HP. Genome sequence of the Leisingera aquimarina type strain (DSM 24565(T)), a member of the marine Roseobacter clade rich in extrachromosomal elements. Stand Genomic Sci 2013; 8:389-402. [PMID: 24501625 PMCID: PMC3910692 DOI: 10.4056/sigs.3858183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Leisingera aquimarina Vandecandelaere et al. 2008 is a member of the genomically well characterized Roseobacter clade within the family Rhodobacteraceae. Representatives of the marine Roseobacter clade are metabolically versatile and involved in carbon fixation and biogeochemical processes. They form a physiologically heterogeneous group, found predominantly in coastal or polar waters, especially in symbiosis with algae, in microbial mats, in sediments or associated with invertebrates. Here we describe the features of L. aquimarina DSM 24565(T) together with the permanent-draft genome sequence and annotation. The 5,344,253 bp long genome consists of one chromosome and an unusually high number of seven extrachromosomal elements and contains 5,129 protein-coding and 89 RNA genes. It was sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute Community Sequencing Program 2010 and of the activities of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 51 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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- Thomas Riedel
- HZI – Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- HZI – Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Oldenburg, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
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Raven JA, Beardall J, Larkum AWD, Sánchez-Baracaldo P. Interactions of photosynthesis with genome size and function. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2013; 368:20120264. [PMID: 23754816 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Photolithotrophs are divided between those that use water as their electron donor (Cyanobacteria and the photosynthetic eukaryotes) and those that use a different electron donor (the anoxygenic photolithotrophs, all of them Bacteria). Photolithotrophs with the most reduced genomes have more genes than do the corresponding chemoorganotrophs, and the fastest-growing photolithotrophs have significantly lower specific growth rates than the fastest-growing chemoorganotrophs. Slower growth results from diversion of resources into the photosynthetic apparatus, which accounts for about half of the cell protein. There are inherent dangers in (especially oxygenic) photosynthesis, including the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and blue light sensitivity of the water spitting apparatus. The extent to which photolithotrophs incur greater DNA damage and repair, and faster protein turnover with increased rRNA requirement, needs further investigation. A related source of environmental damage is ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation (280-320 nm), whose flux at the Earth's surface decreased as oxygen (and ozone) increased in the atmosphere. This oxygenation led to the requirements of defence against ROS, and decreasing availability to organisms of combined (non-dinitrogen) nitrogen and ferrous iron, and (indirectly) phosphorus, in the oxygenated biosphere. Differential codon usage in the genome and, especially, the proteome can lead to economies in the use of potentially growth-limiting elements.
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- John A Raven
- School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
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Spring S, Riedel T, Spröer C, Yan S, Harder J, Fuchs BM. Taxonomy and evolution of bacteriochlorophyll a-containing members of the OM60/NOR5 clade of marine gammaproteobacteria: description of Luminiphilus syltensis gen. nov., sp. nov., reclassification of Haliea rubra as Pseudohaliea rubra gen. nov., comb. nov., and emendation of Chromatocurvus halotolerans. BMC Microbiol 2013; 13:118. [PMID: 23705883 PMCID: PMC3679898 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Background Aerobic gammaproteobacteria affiliated to the OM60/NOR5 clade are widespread in saline environments and of ecological importance in several marine ecosystems, especially the euphotic zone of coastal areas. Within this group a close relationship between aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophs and non-phototrophic members has been found. Results Several strains of aerobic red-pigmented bacteria affiliated to the OM60/NOR5 clade were obtained from tidal flat sediment samples at the island of Sylt (North Sea, Germany). Two of the novel isolates, Rap1red and Ivo14T, were chosen for an analysis in detail. Strain Rap1red shared a 16S rRNA sequence identity of 99% with the type strain of Congregibacter litoralis and was genome-sequenced to reveal the extent of genetic microheterogeneity among closely related strains within this clade. In addition, a draft genome sequence was obtained from the isolate Ivo14T, which belongs to the environmental important NOR5-1 lineage that contains so far no cultured representative with a comprehensive description. Strain Ivo14T was characterized using a polyphasic approach and compared with other red-pigmented members of the OM60/NOR5 clade, including Congregibacter litoralis DSM 17192T, Haliea rubra DSM 19751T and Chromatocurvus halotolerans DSM 23344T. All analyzed strains contained bacteriochlorophyll a and spirilloxanthin as photosynthetic pigments. Besides a detailed phenotypic characterization including physiological and chemotaxonomic traits, sequence information based on protein-coding genes and a comparison of draft genome data sets were used to identify possible features characteristic for distinct taxa within this clade. Conclusions Comparative sequence analyses of the pufLM genes of genome-sequenced representatives of the OM60/NOR5 clade indicated that the photosynthetic apparatus of these species was derived from a common ancestor and not acquired by multiple horizontal gene transfer from phylogenetically distant species. An affiliation of the characterized bacteriochlorophyll a-containing strains to different genera was indicated by significant phenotypic differences and pufLM nucleotide sequence identity values below 82%. The revealed high genotypic and phenotypic diversity of closely related strains within this phylogenetic group reflects a rapid evolution and frequent niche separation in the OM60/NOR5 clade, which is possibly driven by the necessities of an adaptation to oligotrophic marine habitats.
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- Stefan Spring
- Leibniz Institute DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Inhoffenstr 7B, Braunschweig 38124, Germany.
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Petersen J, Frank O, Göker M, Pradella S. Extrachromosomal, extraordinary and essential--the plasmids of the Roseobacter clade. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 97:2805-15. [PMID: 23435940 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4746-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Revised: 01/29/2013] [Accepted: 01/30/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The alphaproteobacterial Roseobacter clade (Rhodobacterales) is one of the most important global players in carbon and sulfur cycles of marine ecosystems. The remarkable metabolic versatility of this bacterial lineage provides access to diverse habitats and correlates with a multitude of extrachromosomal elements. Four non-homologous replication systems and additional subsets of individual compatibility groups ensure the stable maintenance of up to a dozen replicons representing up to one third of the bacterial genome. This complexity presents the challenge of successful partitioning of all low copy number replicons. Based on the phenomenon of plasmid incompatibility, we developed molecular tools for target-oriented plasmid curing and could generate customized mutants lacking hundreds of genes. This approach allows one to analyze the relevance of specific replicons including so-called chromids that are known as lifestyle determinants of bacteria. Chromids are extrachromosomal elements with a chromosome-like genetic imprint (codon usage, GC content) that are essential for competitive survival in the natural habitat, whereas classical dispensable plasmids exhibit a deviating codon usage and typically contain type IV secretion systems for conjugation. The impact of horizontal plasmid transfer is exemplified by the scattered occurrence of the characteristic aerobic anoxygenic photosynthesis among the Roseobacter clade and the recently reported transfer of the 45-kb photosynthesis gene cluster to extrachromosomal elements. Conjugative transmission may be the crucial driving force for rapid adaptations and hence the ecological prosperousness of this lineage of pink bacteria.
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- Jörn Petersen
- Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Inhoffenstraße 7 B, D-38124, Braunschweig, Germany.
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Pinto UM, Pappas KM, Winans SC. The ABCs of plasmid replication and segregation. Nat Rev Microbiol 2013; 10:755-65. [PMID: 23070556 DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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To ensure faithful transmission of low-copy plasmids to daughter cells, these plasmids must replicate once per cell cycle and distribute the replicated DNA to the nascent daughter cells. RepABC family plasmids are found exclusively in alphaproteobacteria and carry a combined replication and partitioning locus, the repABC cassette, which is also found on secondary chromosomes in this group. RepC and a replication origin are essential for plasmid replication, and RepA, RepB and the partitioning sites distribute the replicons to predivisional cells. Here, we review our current understanding of the transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of the Rep proteins and of their functions in plasmid replication and partitioning.
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- Uelinton M Pinto
- Departamento de Alimentos, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais 35400-000, Brazil
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