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Title: The Candidate Phylum Poribacteria by Single-Cell Genomics: New Insights into Phylogeny, Cell-Compartmentation, Eukaryote-Like Repeat Proteins, and Other Genomic Features

Abstract

The candidate phylum Poribacteria is one of the most dominant and widespread members of the microbial communities residing within marine sponges. Cell compartmentalization had been postulated along with their discovery about a decade ago and their phylogenetic association to the Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae superphylum was proposed soon thereafter. In the present study we revised these features based on genomic data obtained from six poribacterial single cells. We propose that Poribacteria form a distinct monophyletic phylum contiguous to the PVC superphylum together with other candidate phyla. Our genomic analyses supported the possibility of cell compartmentalization in form of bacterial microcompartments. Further analyses of eukaryote-like protein domains stressed the importance of such proteins with features including tetratricopeptide repeats, leucin rich repeats as well as low density lipoproteins receptor repeats, the latter of which are reported here for the first time from a sponge symbiont. Finally, examining the most abundant protein domain family on poribacterial genomes revealed diverse phyH family proteins, some of which may be related to dissolved organic posphorus uptake.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [1]
  1. University of Wuerzburg (Germany)
  2. USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
  3. USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States); Bielefeld University (Germany)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); German Research Foundation (DFG); University of Wuerzburg; Bavaria California Technology Center
OSTI Identifier:
1904133
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
PLoS ONE
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; protein domains; phylogenetic analysis; genomics; bacterial genomics; eukaryota; sponges; marine bacteria; phylogenetics

Citation Formats

Kamke, Janine, Rinke, Christian, Schwientek, Patrick, Mavromatis, Kostas, Ivanova, Natalia, Sczyrba, Alexander, Woyke, Tanja, and Hentschel, Ute. The Candidate Phylum Poribacteria by Single-Cell Genomics: New Insights into Phylogeny, Cell-Compartmentation, Eukaryote-Like Repeat Proteins, and Other Genomic Features. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087353.
Kamke, Janine, Rinke, Christian, Schwientek, Patrick, Mavromatis, Kostas, Ivanova, Natalia, Sczyrba, Alexander, Woyke, Tanja, & Hentschel, Ute. The Candidate Phylum Poribacteria by Single-Cell Genomics: New Insights into Phylogeny, Cell-Compartmentation, Eukaryote-Like Repeat Proteins, and Other Genomic Features. United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087353
Kamke, Janine, Rinke, Christian, Schwientek, Patrick, Mavromatis, Kostas, Ivanova, Natalia, Sczyrba, Alexander, Woyke, Tanja, and Hentschel, Ute. Fri . "The Candidate Phylum Poribacteria by Single-Cell Genomics: New Insights into Phylogeny, Cell-Compartmentation, Eukaryote-Like Repeat Proteins, and Other Genomic Features". United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087353. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1904133.
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title = {The Candidate Phylum Poribacteria by Single-Cell Genomics: New Insights into Phylogeny, Cell-Compartmentation, Eukaryote-Like Repeat Proteins, and Other Genomic Features},
author = {Kamke, Janine and Rinke, Christian and Schwientek, Patrick and Mavromatis, Kostas and Ivanova, Natalia and Sczyrba, Alexander and Woyke, Tanja and Hentschel, Ute},
abstractNote = {The candidate phylum Poribacteria is one of the most dominant and widespread members of the microbial communities residing within marine sponges. Cell compartmentalization had been postulated along with their discovery about a decade ago and their phylogenetic association to the Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae superphylum was proposed soon thereafter. In the present study we revised these features based on genomic data obtained from six poribacterial single cells. We propose that Poribacteria form a distinct monophyletic phylum contiguous to the PVC superphylum together with other candidate phyla. Our genomic analyses supported the possibility of cell compartmentalization in form of bacterial microcompartments. Further analyses of eukaryote-like protein domains stressed the importance of such proteins with features including tetratricopeptide repeats, leucin rich repeats as well as low density lipoproteins receptor repeats, the latter of which are reported here for the first time from a sponge symbiont. Finally, examining the most abundant protein domain family on poribacterial genomes revealed diverse phyH family proteins, some of which may be related to dissolved organic posphorus uptake.},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0087353},
journal = {PLoS ONE},
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volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2014}
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