The origin of aerobic methanotrophy within the Proteobacteria
Abstract
Aerobic methanotrophs play critical roles in the global carbon cycle, but despite their environmental ubiquity, they are phylogenetically restricted. Via bioinformatic analyses, it is shown that methanotrophy likely arose from methylotrophy from the lateral gene transfer of either of the two known forms of methane monooxygenase (particulate and soluble methane monooxygenases). Furthemore, it appears that both known forms of pyrroloquinoline quinone-dependent methanol dehydrogenase (MeDH) found in methanotrophs—the calcium-containing Mxa-MeDH and the rare earth element-containing Xox-MeDH—were likely encoded in the genomes before the acquisition of the methane monooxygenases (MMOs), but that some methanotrophs subsequently received an additional copy of Xox-MeDH-encoding genes via lateral gene transfer. Further, data are presented that indicate the evolution of methanotrophy from methylotrophy not only required lateral transfer of genes encoding for methane monooxygenases, but also likely the pre-existence of a means of collecting copper. Given the emerging interest in valorizing methane via biological platforms, it is recommended that future strategies for heterologous expression of methane monooxygenase for conversion of methane to methanol also include cloning of genes encoding mechanism(s) of copper uptake, especially for expression of particulate methane monooxygenase.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 48109-2125
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4
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- Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1515086
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1691492
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018059; 1724744
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- FEMS Microbiology Letters (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: FEMS Microbiology Letters (Online) Journal Volume: 366 Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1574-6968
- Publisher:
- Federation of European Microbiological Societies
- Country of Publication:
- Netherlands
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; methanotrophy; metal uptake; evolution
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Kang, Christina S., Dunfield, Peter F., and Semrau, Jeremy D. The origin of aerobic methanotrophy within the Proteobacteria. Netherlands: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1093/femsle/fnz096.
Kang, Christina S., Dunfield, Peter F., & Semrau, Jeremy D. The origin of aerobic methanotrophy within the Proteobacteria. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnz096
Kang, Christina S., Dunfield, Peter F., and Semrau, Jeremy D. Sat .
"The origin of aerobic methanotrophy within the Proteobacteria". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnz096.
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title = {The origin of aerobic methanotrophy within the Proteobacteria},
author = {Kang, Christina S. and Dunfield, Peter F. and Semrau, Jeremy D.},
abstractNote = {Aerobic methanotrophs play critical roles in the global carbon cycle, but despite their environmental ubiquity, they are phylogenetically restricted. Via bioinformatic analyses, it is shown that methanotrophy likely arose from methylotrophy from the lateral gene transfer of either of the two known forms of methane monooxygenase (particulate and soluble methane monooxygenases). Furthemore, it appears that both known forms of pyrroloquinoline quinone-dependent methanol dehydrogenase (MeDH) found in methanotrophs—the calcium-containing Mxa-MeDH and the rare earth element-containing Xox-MeDH—were likely encoded in the genomes before the acquisition of the methane monooxygenases (MMOs), but that some methanotrophs subsequently received an additional copy of Xox-MeDH-encoding genes via lateral gene transfer. Further, data are presented that indicate the evolution of methanotrophy from methylotrophy not only required lateral transfer of genes encoding for methane monooxygenases, but also likely the pre-existence of a means of collecting copper. Given the emerging interest in valorizing methane via biological platforms, it is recommended that future strategies for heterologous expression of methane monooxygenase for conversion of methane to methanol also include cloning of genes encoding mechanism(s) of copper uptake, especially for expression of particulate methane monooxygenase.},
doi = {10.1093/femsle/fnz096},
journal = {FEMS Microbiology Letters (Online)},
number = 9,
volume = 366,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Sat May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Sat May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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