Hydrolytic Capabilities As a Key to Environmental Success: Chitinolytic and Cellulolytic From Acidic Sub-arctic Soils and Boreal Peatlands

Overview

Journal Front Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2018 Dec 5

PMID 30510549

Citations 22

Authors

Svetlana E Belova

Nikolai V Ravin

Timofey A Pankratov

Andrey L Rakitin

Anastasia A Ivanova

Alexey V Beletsky

Andrey V Mardanov

Jaap S Sinninghe Damste

Svetlana N Dedysh

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Abstract

Members of the are among the most efficient colonizers of acidic terrestrial habitats but the key traits underlying their environmental fitness remain to be understood. We analyzed indigenous assemblages of in a lichen-covered acidic (pH 4.1) soil of forested tundra dominated by uncultivated members of subdivision 1. An isolate of these bacteria with cells occurring within saccular chambers, strain SBC82, was obtained. The genome of strain SBC82 consists of a 7.11-Mb chromosome and four megaplasmids, and encodes a wide repertoire of enzymes involved in degradation of chitin, cellulose, and xylan. Among those, four secreted chitinases affiliated with the glycoside hydrolase family GH18 were identified. Strain SBC82 utilized amorphous chitin as a source of carbon and nitrogen; the respective enzyme activities were detected in tests with synthetic substrates. Chitinolytic capability was also confirmed for another phylogenetically related acidobacterium isolated from a peat bog, strain CCO287. As revealed by metatranscriptomic analysis of chitin-amended peat, 16S rRNA reads from these acidobacteria increased in response to chitin availability. Strains SBC82 and CCO287 were assigned to a novel genus and species, gen. nov., sp. nov. Members of this genus colonize acidic soils and peatlands and specialize in degrading complex polysaccharides.

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