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Sakamoto S, Nobu MK, Mayumi D, Tamazawa S, Kusada H, Yonebayashi H, Iwama H, Ikarashi M, Wakayama T, Maeda H, Sakata S, Tamura T, Nomura N, Kamagata Y, Tamaki H. Koleobacter methoxysyntrophicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic bacterium isolated from deep subsurface oil field and proposal of Koleobacteraceae fam. nov. and Koleobacterales ord. nov. within the class Clostridia of the phylum Firmicutes. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 44:126154. [PMID: 33227632 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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An anaerobic thermophilic, rod-shaped bacterium possessing a unique non-lipid sheathed-like structure enveloping a single-membraned cell, designated strain NRmbB1T was isolated from at the deep subsurface oil field located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Growth occurred with 40-60°C (optimum, 55°C), 0-2% (2%), NaCl and pH 6.0-8.5 (8.0). Fermentative growth with various sugars was observed. Glucose-grown cells generated acetate, hydrogen, pyruvate and lactate as the main end products. Syntrophic growth occurred with glucose, pyruvate and 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoate in the presence of an H2-scavenging partner, and growth on 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoate was only observed under syntrophic condition. The predominant cellular fatty acids were C16:0, iso-C16:0, anteiso-C15:0, and iso-C14:0. Respiratory quinone was not detected. The genomic G+C content was 40.8mol%. Based on 16S rRNA gene phylogeny, strain NRmbB1T belongs to a distinct order-level clade in the class Clostridia of the phylum Firmicutes, sharing low similarity with other isolated organisms (i.e., 87.5% for top hit Moorella thermoacetica DSM 2955T). In total, chemotaxonomic, phylogenetic and genomic characterization revealed that strain NRmbB1T (=KCTC 25035T, =JCM 39120T) represents a novel species of a new genus. In addition, we also propose the associated family and order as Koleobacteraceae fam. nov and Koleobacterales ord. nov., respectively.
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- Sachiko Sakamoto
- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan; JST ERATO Nomura Microbial Community Control Project, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan.
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- Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan; Northern Advancement Center for Science & Technology, H-RISE, 5-3 Sakae-machi, Horonobe-cho, Teshio-gun, BPRI, Hokkaido 098-3221, Japan
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- JST ERATO Nomura Microbial Community Control Project, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan; Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan
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- Technical Research Center, INPEX CORPORATION, 9-23-30, Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya, 157-0061, Tokyo, Japan
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- Technical Research Center, INPEX CORPORATION, 9-23-30, Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya, 157-0061, Tokyo, Japan
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- Technical Research Center, INPEX CORPORATION, 9-23-30, Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya, 157-0061, Tokyo, Japan
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- Technical Research Center, INPEX CORPORATION, 9-23-30, Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya, 157-0061, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Ibaraki, Japan; Technical Research Center, INPEX CORPORATION, 9-23-30, Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya, 157-0061, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan; Computational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory (CBBD-OIL), AIST, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan; JST ERATO Nomura Microbial Community Control Project, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan; JST ERATO Nomura Microbial Community Control Project, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan; Bioproduction Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan.
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Ghattas AK, Fischer F, Wick A, Ternes TA. Anaerobic biodegradation of (emerging) organic contaminants in the aquatic environment. WATER RESEARCH 2017; 116:268-295. [PMID: 28347952 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Revised: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Although strictly anaerobic conditions prevail in several environmental compartments, up to now, biodegradation studies with emerging organic contaminants (EOCs), such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products, have mainly focused on aerobic conditions. One of the reasons probably is the assumption that the aerobic degradation is more energetically favorable than degradation under strictly anaerobic conditions. Certain aerobically recalcitrant contaminants, however, are biodegraded under strictly anaerobic conditions and little is known about the organisms and enzymatic processes involved in their degradation. This review provides a comprehensive survey of characteristic anaerobic biotransformation reactions for a variety of well-studied, structurally rather simple contaminants (SMOCs) bearing one or a few different functional groups/structural moieties. Furthermore it summarizes anaerobic degradation studies of more complex contaminants with several functional groups (CMCs), in soil, sediment and wastewater treatment. While strictly anaerobic conditions are able to promote the transformation of several aerobically persistent contaminants, the variety of observed reactions is limited, with reductive dehalogenations and the cleavage of ether bonds being the most prevalent. Thus, it becomes clear that the transferability of degradation mechanisms deduced from culture studies of SMOCs to predict the degradation of CMCs, such as EOCs, in environmental matrices is hampered due the more complex chemical structure bearing different functional groups, different environmental conditions (e.g. matrix, redox, pH), the microbial community (e.g. adaptation, competition) and the low concentrations typical for EOCs.
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- Ann-Kathrin Ghattas
- Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), D-56068 Koblenz, Am Mainzer Tor 1, Germany
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- Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), D-56068 Koblenz, Am Mainzer Tor 1, Germany
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- Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), D-56068 Koblenz, Am Mainzer Tor 1, Germany
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- Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), D-56068 Koblenz, Am Mainzer Tor 1, Germany.
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Kreher S, Studenik S, Diekert G. Ether cleaving methyltransferases of the strict anaerobe Acetobacterium dehalogenans: controlling the substrate spectrum by genetic engineering of the N-terminus. Mol Microbiol 2010; 78:230-7. [PMID: 20923421 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07333.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The anaerobic cleavage of ether bonds of methoxylated substrates such as vanillate or veratrol in acetogenic bacteria is mediated by multi-component enzyme systems, the O-demethylases. Acetobacterium dehalogenans harbours different inducible O-demethylases with various substrate spectra. Two of these enzyme systems, the vanillate- and the veratrol-O-demethylases, have been characterized so far. One component of this enzyme system, the methyltransferase I (MT I), catalyses the cleavage of the substrate ether bond and the subsequent transfer of the methyl group to a corrinoid protein. For the C-termini of the methyltransferases I of the vanillate- and the veratrol-O-demethylases, a TIM barrel structure of the enzymes was predicted, whereas the N-termini are not part of this conserved structure. The deletion of the N-terminal regions led to a significant increase of activity (up to 20-fold) and an extended substrate spectrum of the mutants, which also comprised non-aromatic compounds such as the thioether methionine and diethylether. The exchange of the N-termini of the two methyltransferases I resulted in chimeric enzymes whose substrate specificities were those of the enzymes from which the N-termini were derived. This demonstrated the crucial role of the N-termini for the substrate specificity of the methyltransferases.
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- Sandra Kreher
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Lehrstuhl für Angewandte und Ökologische Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Philosophenweg 12, 07743 Jena, Germany
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The ether-cleaving methyltransferase system of the strict anaerobe Acetobacterium dehalogenans: analysis and expression of the encoding genes. J Bacteriol 2008; 191:588-99. [PMID: 19011025 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01104-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Anaerobic O-demethylases are inducible multicomponent enzymes which mediate the cleavage of the ether bond of phenyl methyl ethers and the transfer of the methyl group to tetrahydrofolate. The genes of all components (methyltransferases I and II, CP, and activating enzyme [AE]) of the vanillate- and veratrol-O-demethylases of Acetobacterium dehalogenans were sequenced and analyzed. In A. dehalogenans, the genes for methyltransferase I, CP, and methyltransferase II of both O-demethylases are clustered. The single-copy gene for AE is not included in the O-demethylase gene clusters. It was found that AE grouped with COG3894 proteins, the function of which was unknown so far. Genes encoding COG3894 proteins with 20 to 41% amino acid sequence identity with AE are present in numerous genomes of anaerobic microorganisms. Inspection of the domain structure and genetic context of these orthologs predicts that these are also reductive activases for corrinoid enzymes (RACEs), such as carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl coenzyme A synthases or anaerobic methyltransferases. The genes encoding the O-demethylase components were heterologously expressed with a C-terminal Strep-tag in Escherichia coli, and the recombinant proteins methyltransferase I, CP, and AE were characterized. Gel shift experiments showed that the AE comigrated with the CP. The formation of other protein complexes with the O-demethylase components was not observed under the conditions used. The results point to a strong interaction of the AE with the CP. This is the first report on the functional heterologous expression of acetogenic phenyl methyl ether-cleaving O-demethylases.
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Aromatic compounds comprise a wide variety of low-molecular-mass natural compounds (amino acids, quinones, flavonoids, etc.) and biopolymers (lignin, melanin). They are almost exclusively degraded by microorganisms. Aerobic aromatic metabolism is characterised by the extensive use of molecular oxygen. Monoxygenases and dioxygenases are essential for the hydroxylation and cleavage of aromatic ring structures. Accordingly, the characteristic central intermediates of the aerobic pathways (e.g. catechol) are readily attacked oxidatively. Anaerobic aromatic catabolism requires, of necessity, a quite different strategy. The basic features of this metabolism have emerged from studies on bacteria that degrade soluble aromatic substrates to CO2 in the complete absence of molecular oxygen. Essential to anaerobic aromatic metabolism is the replacement of all the oxygen-dependent steps by an alternative set of novel reactions and the formation of different central intermediates (e.g. benzoyl-CoA) for breaking the aromaticity and cleaving the ring; notably, in anaerobic pathways, the aromatic ring is reduced rather than oxidised. The two-electron reduction of benzoyl-CoA to a cyclic diene requires the cleavage of two molecules of ATP to ADP and P1 and is catalysed by benzoyl-CoA reductase. After nitrogenase, this is the second enzyme known which overcomes the high activation energy required for reduction of a chemically stable bond by coupling electron transfer to the hydrolysis of ATP. The alicyclic product cyclohex-1,5-diene-1-carboxyl-CoA is oxidised to acetyl-CoA via a modified beta-oxidation pathway; the ring structure is opened hydrolytically. Some phenolic compounds are anaerobically transformed to resorcinol (1,3-dihydroxybenzene) or phloroglucinol (1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene). These intermediates are also first reduced and then as alicyclic products oxidised to acetyl-CoA. This review gives an outline of the anaerobic pathways which allow bacteria to utilize aromatics even in the absence of oxygen. We focus on previously unknown reactions and on the enzymes characteristic for such novel metabolism.
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- J Heider
- Institut für Biologie II, Universităt Freiburg, Germany
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