期刊
MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS
卷 298, 期 3, 页码 627-651出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-023-01995-6
关键词
WGS; Nanopore; Arabian Sea metagenome; Bioremediation; Long-read
This study aimed to explore the taxonomic and functional profiles of Arabian Sea sediments through whole metagenome sequencing using Nanopore technology. The results revealed Proteobacteria as the dominant phylum in the sediment metagenome, followed by Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria. Additionally, the study generated Metagenome Assembled Genomes (MAGs) from long-read sequence dataset, with major representations from the genera Marinobacter, Kangiella, and Porticoccus. The analysis also identified a high representation of pollutant-degrading enzymes involved in hydrocarbon, plastic, and dye degradation.
Deep-sea sediments provide important information on oceanic biogeochemical processes mediated by the microbiome and their functional roles which could be unravelled using genomic tools. The present study aimed to delineate microbial taxonomic and functional profiles from Arabian Sea sediment samples through whole metagenome sequencing using Nanopore technology. Arabian Sea is considered as a major microbial reservoir with significant bio-prospecting potential which needs to be explored extensively using recent advances in genomics. Assembly, co-assembly, and binning methods were used to predict Metagenome Assembled Genomes (MAGs) which were further characterized by their completeness and heterogeneity. Nanopore sequencing of Arabian Sea sediment samples generated around 1.73 tera basepairs of data. Proteobacteria (78.32%) was found to be the most dominant phylum followed by Bacteroidetes (9.55%) and Actinobacteria (2.14%) in the sediment metagenome. Further, 35 MAGs from assembled and 38 MAGs of co-assembled reads were generated from long-read sequence dataset with major representations from the genera Marinobacter, Kangiella, and Porticoccus. RemeDB analysis revealed a high representation of pollutant-degrading enzymes involved in hydrocarbon, plastic and dye degradation. Validation of enzymes with long nanopore reads using BlastX resulted in better characterization of complete gene signatures involved in hydrocarbon (6-monooxygenase and 4-hydroxyacetophenone monooxygenase) and dye degradation (Arylsulfatase). Enhancing the cultivability of deep-sea microbes predicted from the uncultured WGS approaches by I-tip method resulted in isolation of facultative extremophiles. This study presents a comprehensive insight into the taxonomic and functional profiles of Arabian Sea sediments, indicating a potential hotspot for bioprospection.
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