A novel uncultured heterotrophic bacterial associate of the cyanobacterium Moorea producens JHB

BMC Microbiology

Research Article

Lena Gerwick¹  Tiago Ferreira Leao¹  Debby Barbé¹  Evgenia Glukhov¹  William H. Gerwick²  Niclas Engene³  Anton Korobeynikov⁴  Susie L. Cummings⁵ 

[1] Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA;Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA;Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA;Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, 33199, Miami, FL, USA;Department of Statistical Modelling, St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia;Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia;Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA;Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA;

关键词: Heterotrophic Bacterium;    Cyanobacterial Bloom;    Biosynthetic Gene Cluster;    Spectral Network;    Cyanobacterial Culture;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12866-016-0817-1

 received in 2015-06-27, accepted in 2016-08-19,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

ndFilamentous tropical marine cyanobacteria such as Moorea producens strain JHB possess a rich community of heterotrophic bacteria on their polysaccharide sheaths; however, these bacterial communities have not yet been adequately studied or characterized.Results and discussionThrough efforts to sequence the genome of this cyanobacterial strain, the 5.99 MB genome of an unknown bacterium emerged from the metagenomic information, named here as Mor1. Analysis of its genome revealed that the bacterium is heterotrophic and belongs to the phylum Acidobacteria, subgroup 22; however, it is only 85 % identical to the nearest cultured representative. Comparative genomics further revealed that Mor1 has a large number of genes involved in transcriptional regulation, is completely devoid of transposases, is not able to synthesize the full complement of proteogenic amino acids and appears to lack genes for nitrate uptake. Mor1 was found to be present in lab cultures of M. producens collected from various locations, but not other cyanobacterial species. Diverse efforts failed to culture the bacterium separately from filaments of M. producens JHB. Additionally, a co-culturing experiment between M. producens JHB possessing Mor1 and cultures of other genera of cyanobacteria indicated that the bacterium was not transferable.ConclusionThe data presented support a specific relationship between this novel uncultured bacterium and M. producens, however, verification of this proposed relationship cannot be done until the “uncultured” bacterium can be cultured.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2016