Physiological and Genomic Characterization of a Novel Obligately Chemolithoautotrophic, Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacterium of Genus Thiomicrorhabdus Isolated from a Coastal Sediment

Thiomicrorhabdus species, belonging to the family Piscirickettsiaceae in the phylum Pseudomonadotav are usually detected in various sulfur-rich marine environments. However, only a few bacteria of Thiomicrorhabdus have been isolated, and their ecological roles and environmental adaptations still req...

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Veröffentlicht in:Microorganisms (Basel) 2023-10, Vol.11 (10), p.2569
Hauptverfasser: Gao, Yu, Zhu, Han, Wang, Jun, Shao, Zongze, Wei, Shiping, Wang, Ruicheng, Cheng, Ruolin, Jiang, Lijing
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Zusammenfassung:Thiomicrorhabdus species, belonging to the family Piscirickettsiaceae in the phylum Pseudomonadotav are usually detected in various sulfur-rich marine environments. However, only a few bacteria of Thiomicrorhabdus have been isolated, and their ecological roles and environmental adaptations still require further understanding. Here, we report a novel strain, XGS-01T, isolated from a coastal sediment, which belongs to genus Thiomicrorhabdus and is most closely related to Thiomicrorhabdus hydrogeniphila MAS2T, with a sequence similarity of 97.8%. Phenotypic characterization showed that XGS-01T is a mesophilic, sulfur-oxidizing, obligate chemolithoautotrophy, with carbon dioxide as its sole carbon source and oxygen as its sole electron acceptor. During thiosulfate oxidation, strain XGS-01T can produce extracellular sulfur of elemental α-S8, as confirmed via scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectromicroscopy. Polyphasic taxonomy results indicate that strain XGS-01T represents a novel species of the genus Thiomicrorhabdus, named Thiomicrorhabdus lithotrophica sp. nov. Genomic analysis confirmed that XGS-01T performed thiosulfate oxidation through a sox multienzyme complex, and harbored fcc and sqr genes for sulfide oxidation. Comparative genomics analysis among five available genomes from Thiomicrorhabdus species revealed that carbon fixation via the oxidation of reduced-sulfur compounds coupled with oxygen reduction is conserved metabolic pathways among members of genus Thiomicrorhabdus.
ISSN:2076-2607
2076-2607
DOI:10.3390/microorganisms11102569