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Aerobic proteobacterial methylotrophs in Movile Cave: genomic and metagenomic analyses

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Title
Aerobic proteobacterial methylotrophs in Movile Cave: genomic and metagenomic analyses
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Microbiome, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40168-017-0383-2
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Deepak Kumaresan, Jason Stephenson, Andrew C. Doxey, Hina Bandukwala, Elliot Brooks, Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu, Andrew S. Whiteley, J Colin Murrell

Abstract

Movile Cave (Mangalia, Romania) is a unique ecosystem where the food web is sustained by microbial primary production, analogous to deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Specifically, chemoautotrophic microbes deriving energy from the oxidation of hydrogen sulphide and methane form the basis of the food web. Here, we report the isolation of the first methane-oxidizing bacterium from the Movile Cave ecosystem, Candidatus Methylomonas sp. LWB, a new species and representative of Movile Cave microbial mat samples. While previous research has suggested a prevalence of anoxic conditions in deeper lake water and sediment, using small-scale shotgun metagenome sequencing, we show that metabolic genes encoding enzymes for aerobic methylotrophy are prevalent in sediment metagenomes possibly indicating the presence of microoxic conditions. Moreover, this study also indicates that members within the family Gallionellaceae (Sideroxydans and Gallionella) were the dominant taxa within the sediment microbial community, thus suggesting a major role for microaerophilic iron-oxidising bacteria in nutrient cycling within the Movile Cave sediments. In this study, based on phylogenetic and metabolic gene surveys of metagenome sequences, the possibility of aerobic microbial processes (i.e., methylotrophy and iron oxidation) within the sediment is indicated. We also highlight significant gaps in our knowledge on biogeochemical cycles within the Movile Cave ecosystem, and the need to further investigate potential feedback mechanisms between microbial communities in both lake sediment and lake water.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 25%
Student > Master 13 17%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Student > Bachelor 4 5%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 19 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 15%
Environmental Science 7 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 5%
Engineering 3 4%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 20 27%
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