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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 23, 期 7, 页码 4017-4033出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15546
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- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek through the Soehngen Institute of Anaerobic Microbiology (SIAM) Gravitation Grant [024.002.002]
- Netherlands Earth System Science Center Gravitation [024.002.001]
- European Research Council Advanced Grant Ecology of Anaerobic Methane Oxidizing Microbes [339880]
- Deutsche Forschungs Gesellschafts (DFG) [KU 3768/1-1]
The study found that the non-methanogenic archaeon A. fulgidus has the ability to grow on MACs, converting them to hydroxylated derivatives with CO2 as the main product and sulfate as electron acceptor. Additionally, MACs can enhance the growth of A. fulgidus in the presence of organic substrates.
Methoxylated aromatic compounds (MACs) are important components of lignin found in significant amounts in the subsurface. Recently, the methanogenic archaeon Methermicoccus shengliensis was shown to be able to use a variety of MACs during methoxydotrophic growth. After a molecular survey, we found that the hyperthermophilic non-methanogenic archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus also encodes genes for a bacterial-like demethoxylation system. In this study, we performed growth and metabolite analysis, and used transcriptomics to investigate the response of A. fulgidus during growth on MACs in comparison to growth on lactate. We observed that A. fulgidus converts MACs to their hydroxylated derivatives with CO2 as the main product and sulfate as electron acceptor. Furthermore, we could show that MACs improve the growth of A. fulgidus in the presence of organic substrates such as lactate. We also found evidence that other archaea such as Bathyarchaeota, Lokiarchaeota, Verstraetearchaeota, Korarchaeota, Helarchaeota and Nezhaarchaeota encode a demethoxylation system. In summary, we here describe the first non-methanogenic archaeon with the ability to grow on MACs indicating that methoxydotrophic archaea might play a so far underestimated role in the global carbon cycle.
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