RRC ID 48491
著者 Zhang YZ, Li Y, Xie BB, Chen XL, Yao QQ, Zhang XY, Kempher ML, Zhou J, Oren A, Qin QL.
タイトル Nascent Genomic Evolution and Allopatric Speciation of Myroides profundi D25 in Its Transition from Land to Ocean.
ジャーナル mBio
Abstract UNLABELLED:A large amount of bacterial biomass is transferred from land to ocean annually. Most transferred bacteria should not survive, but undoubtedly some do. It is unclear what mechanisms these bacteria use in order to survive and even thrive in a new marine environment. Myroides profundi D25(T), a member of the Bacteroidetes phylum, was isolated from deep-sea sediment of the southern Okinawa Trough near the China mainland and had high genomic sequence identity to and synteny with the human opportunistic pathogen Myroides odoratimimus. Phylogenetic and physiological analyses suggested that M. profundi recently transitioned from land to the ocean. This provided an opportunity to explore how a bacterial genome evolved to survive in a novel environment. Changes in the transcriptome were evaluated when both species were cultured under low-salinity conditions and then transferred to high-salinity conditions. Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses showed that M. profundi altered transcription regulation in the early stages of survival. In these stages, vertically inherited genes played a key role in the survival of M. profundi. The contribution of M. profundi unique genes, some possibly acquired by horizontal gene transfer (HGT), appeared relatively small, and expression levels of unique genes were diminished under the high-salinity conditions. We postulate that HGT genes might play an important role in longer-term adaptation. These results suggested that some human pathogens might have the ability to survive in and adapt to the marine environment, which may have important implications for public health control in coastal regions.
IMPORTANCE:Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is considered to be important for bacteria to adapt to a different microhabitat. However, our results showed that vertically inherited genes might play more important roles than HGT genes in the nascent adaptation to the marine environment in the bacterium Myroides profundi, which has recently been transferred from land to ocean. M. profundi unique genes had low expression levels and were less regulated under high-salinity conditions, indicating that the contribution of HGT genes to survival of this bacterium under marine high-salinity conditions was limited. In the early adaptation stages, M. profundi apparently survived and adapted mainly by regulating the expression of inherited core genes. These results may explain in part why human pathogens can easily be detected in marine environments.
巻・号 7(1)
ページ e01946-15
公開日 2016-1-12
DOI 10.1128/mBio.01946-15
PII mBio.01946-15
PMID 26758181
PMC PMC4725012
MeSH Bacteroidetes / genetics* Bacteroidetes / growth & development* Bacteroidetes / isolation & purification China Culture Media / chemistry Gene Expression Profiling Gene Transfer, Horizontal Genetic Speciation* Genome, Bacterial* Geologic Sediments / microbiology Molecular Sequence Data Phylogeny Salinity Sequence Analysis, DNA
IF 6.784
引用数 2
WOS 分野 MICROBIOLOGY
リソース情報
一般微生物 JCM 7460