Genomic Evidence for Phototrophic Oxidation of Small Alkanes in a Member of the Chloroflexi Phylum
Abstract
Recent genomic and microcosm based studies revealed a wide diversity of previously unknown microbial processes involved in alkane and methane metabolism. Here we described a new bacterial genome from a member of the Chloroflexi phylum—termed here Candidatus Chlorolinea photoalkanotrophicum—with cooccurring pathways for phototrophy and the oxidation of methane and/or other small alkanes. Recovered as a metagenome-assembled genome from microbial mats in an iron-rich hot spring in Japan, Ca. 'C. photoalkanotrophicum' forms a new lineage within the Chloroflexi phylum and expands the known metabolic diversity of this already diverse clade. Ca. 'C. photoalkanotrophicum' appears to be metabolically versatile, capable of phototrophy (via a Type 2 reaction center), aerobic respiration, nitrite reduction, oxidation of carbon monoxide, oxidation and incorporation of carbon from methane and/or other short-chain alkanes such as propane, and potentially carbon fixation via a novel pathway composed of hybridized components of the serine cycle and the 3-hydroxypropionate bi-cycle. The biochemical network of this organism is constructed from components from multiple organisms and pathways, further demonstrating the modular nature of metabolic machinery and the ecological and evolutionary importance of horizontal gene transfer in the establishment of novel pathways.
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The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. bioRxiv preprint first posted online Jan. 26, 2019. LMW acknowledges support from NASA NESSF (#NNX16AP39H), NSF (#OISE 1639454), NSF GROW (#DGE 1144469), the Earth-Life Science Institute Origins Network (EON), and the Agouron Institute. P.M.S. was supported by The Branco Weiss Fellowship - Society in Science from ETH Zurich. WWF acknowledges the generous support of the Caltech Center for Environment Microbe Interactions, NASA Exobiology (#NNX16AJ57G), and the Simons Foundation Collaboration on the Origins of Life (SCOL). SEM is supported by NSF Award 1724300, JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18H01325, and the Astrobiology Center Program of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (grant no. AB311013).Attached Files
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- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
- NNX16AP39H
- NSF
- OISE-1639454
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- DGE-1144469
- Earth-Life Science Institute Origins Network (EON)
- Agouron Institute
- ETH Zurich
- Caltech Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions (CEMI)
- NASA
- NNX16AJ57G
- Simons Foundation
- NSF
- EF-1724300
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- 18H01325
- National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan
- AB311013
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