An Expanded Genomic Representation of the Phylum Cyanobacteria

Soo, Rochelle M.; Skennerton, Connor T.; Sekiguchi, Yuji; Imelfort, Michael; Paech, Samuel J.; Dennis, Paul G.; Steen, Jason A.; Parks, Donovan H.; Tyson, Gene W.; Hugenholtz, Philip

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“…We attribute this discrepancy to the higher average 16S rRNA copy number in Bacteria relative to Archaea 48 (bacterial mean = 4.12, archaeal mean = 1.63). Challenges in assembling and binning 16S rRNA genes motivated the use of protein-coding genes for the phylogenetic analyses presented in this and previous MAG studies 45,46 .…”

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“…They are more complete than those typically derived using single-cell genomics 4 and are of similar quality to those reported in other studies considering MAGs 10,11,44 . We have focused on these genomes, which represent only ~12% of the 64,295 recovered bins, as they are of sufficient quality to inform analyses such as resolving phylogenetic relationships 4,30 and comparing inter-and intralineage genomic features [45][46][47] . Importantly, these results demonstrate that a large amount of microbial diversity remains to be genomically described across the tree of life, even within existing metagenomic samples, and that this diversity is readily recovered using current tools and methodologies.…”

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Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

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Challenges in cultivating microorganisms have limited the phylogenetic diversity of currently available microbial genomes. This is being addressed by advances in sequencing throughput and computational techniques that allow for the cultivation-independent recovery of genomes from metagenomes. Here, we report the reconstruction of 7,903 bacterial and archaeal genomes from > 1,500 public metagenomes. All genomes are estimated to be ≥ 50% complete and nearly half are ≥ 90% complete with ≤ 5% contamination. These genomes increase the phylogenetic diversity of bacterial and archaeal genome trees by > 30% and provide the first representatives of 17 bacterial and three archaeal candidate phyla. We also recovered 245 genomes from the Patescibacteria superphylum (also known as the Candidate Phyla Radiation) and find that the relative diversity of this group varies substantially with different protein marker sets. The scale and quality of this data set demonstrate that recovering genomes from metagenomes provides an expedient path forward to exploring microbial dark matter. Articles NATuRe MiCRobiologyform the UBA data set as they met our filtering criteria of having an estimated quality ≥ 50 (defined as the estimated completeness of a genome minus five times its estimated contamination) and consisting of ≤ 500 scaffolds with an N50 ≥ 10 kb ( Fig. 1 and Supplementary Table 2). Over 93% of the 7,903 UBA genomes have an average coverage of ≥ 10× (5th percentile, 9.2× , 95th percentile, 268× ) and 95.8% have > 5× coverage over 90% of bases, providing assurance of high-quality base-calling across the genomes 3,36 . Among the UBA genomes is a subset of 3,438 near-complete genomes (3,225 bacterial and 213 archaeal) estimated to be ≥ 90% complete with ≤ 5% contamination (Fig. 1a). These genomes consist of ≤ 100 scaffolds in 70.2% of cases (≤ 200 scaffolds in 92.0% genomes) and have an average N50 of 136 kb. Comparison of near-complete UBA genomes that are conspecific strains of complete isolate genomes also suggest that the recovered MAGs have no systematic loss of genomic content, with the exception of extrachromosomal elements such as plasmids (Supplementary Note 1).The UBA data set was also assessed relative to the criteria used by the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) for defining high-quality draft genomes 3,37 . Of the 3,438 UBA genomes we have defined as near complete, 3,201 (93.1%) pass all of the HMP criteria, with the only substantial exception being 4.8% of the genomes having scaffolds with an N50 of < 20 kb (Supplementary Table 3). Nearly half of the remaining 4,465 UBA genomes also pass the HMP criteria for being high quality except that they are estimated to be < 90% complete.The presence of tRNAs for the standard 20 amino acids was examined as a secondary measure of genome quality (Fig. 1c). The 3,438 near-complete UBA genomes have tRNAs that encode for an average of 17.3 ± 2.2 of the 20 amino acids and ≥ 15 amino acids in 90.3% of the genomes. The correlation between estimated genome completeness and identified tRN...

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“…Marker genes were identified across 346 good-quality archaeal genomes and the Verstraetearchaeota genomes (V1-V5) using hidden Markov models (HMMs), and a phylogenetic genome tree was constructed from the concatenated alignments using FastTree (ref. 46) v2.1.8 under the WAG and GAMMA models. The tree was decorated with taxonomic information using tax2tree (ref.…”

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Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota

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Methanogenesis is the primary biogenic source of methane in the atmosphere and a key contributor to climate change. The long-standing dogma that methanogenesis originated within the Euryarchaeota was recently challenged by the discovery of putative methane-metabolizing genes in members of the Bathyarchaeota, suggesting that methanogenesis may be more phylogenetically widespread than currently appreciated. Here, we present the discovery of divergent methylcoenzyme M reductase genes in population genomes recovered from anoxic environments with high methane flux that belong to a new archaeal phylum, the Verstraetearchaeota. These archaea encode the genes required for methylotrophic methanogenesis, and may conserve energy using a mechanism similar to that proposed for the obligate H 2 -dependent methylotrophic Methanomassiliicoccales and recently described Candidatus 'Methanofastidiosa'. Our findings indicate that we are only beginning to understand methanogen diversity and support an ancient origin for methane metabolism in the Archaea, which is changing our understanding of the global carbon cycle.

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“…To infer the phylogeny of WPS-2 and AD3, a genome tree was generated using 38 universal conserved marker genes 41 from 4,624 bacterial and archaeal genomes retrieved from the Integrated Microbial Genomes database (IMG) 42 together with the recovered population genomes. A concatenated alignment of the marker genes was used to generate the genome tree with FastTree 43 and the tree was visualized in iTOL 44 . Functional analysis.…”

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Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil

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Cultivation-independent surveys have shown that the desert soils of Antarctica harbour surprisingly rich microbial communities 1-3 . Given that phototroph abundance varies across these Antarctic soils 2,4 , an enduring question is what supports life in those communities with low photosynthetic capacity 3,5 . Here we provide evidence that atmospheric trace gases are the primary energy sources of two Antarctic surface soil communities. We reconstructed 23 draft genomes from metagenomic reads, including genomes from the candidate bacterial phyla WPS-2 and AD3. The dominant community members encoded and expressed high-affinity hydrogenases, carbon monoxide dehydrogenases, and a RuBisCO lineage known to support chemosynthetic carbon fixation 6,7 . Soil microcosms aerobically scavenged atmospheric H 2 and CO at rates sufficient to sustain their theoretical maintenance energy and mediated substantial levels of chemosynthetic but not photosynthetic CO 2 fixation. We propose that atmospheric H 2 , CO 2 and CO provide dependable sources of energy and carbon to support these communities, which suggests that atmospheric energy sources can provide an alternative basis for ecosystem function to solar or geological energy sources 8,9 . Although more extensive sampling is required to verify whether this process is widespread in terrestrial Antarctica and other oligotrophic habitats, our results provide new understanding of the minimal nutritional requirements for life and open the possibility that atmospheric gases support life on other planets.Terrestrial Antarctica is among the most extreme environments on Earth. Its inhabitants experience the cumulative stresses of freezing temperatures, limited carbon, nitrogen and water availability, strong UV radiation, and frequent freeze-thaw cycles 2,10,11 . Although it was once believed that these conditions restrict life, we now know that the continent hosts a surprising diversity of macrofauna and microbiota 1,2,12 . Surveys indicate that the phylum-level composition of microbial communities in Antarctic soils is similar to those of temperate soils 3 , but Antarctic communities are highly specialized at the species level and strongly structured by physicochemical factors 1,3,10 . In many Antarctic soils, microorganisms are thought to live in dormant states 2 , with metabolic energy directed towards cell maintenance rather than growth 13 . However, it is unclear how these communities obtain the energy and carbon needed for maintenance, given that these soils are often low in organic carbon and contain few classical primary producers 2,5 .

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An Expanded Genomic Representation of the Phylum Cyanobacteria

Cited by 300 publications

References 64 publications

Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota

Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil

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