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Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins.
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- Cultivation of Diverse Novel Marine Bacteria from Deep Ocean Sediment Using Spent Culture Supernatant of Ca. Bathyarchaeia Enrichment.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2024Article
- Single-cell analysis reveals an active and heterotrophic microbiome in the Guaymas Basin deep subsurface with significant inorganic carbon fixation by heterotrophs.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- Secondary production and priming reshape the organic matter composition in marine sediments.Science advances · 2024Article
- Comparative single-cell genomics of Atribacterota JS1 in the Japan Trench hadal sedimentary biosphere.mSphere · 2024Article
- Anaerobic hexadecane degradation by a thermophilic Hadarchaeon from Guaymas Basin.The ISME journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
Half of the microbial cells in the Earth's oceans are found in sediments. Many of these cells are members of the Archaea, single-celled prokaryotes in a domain of life separate from Bacteria and Eukaryota. However, most of these archaea lack cultured representatives, leaving their physiologies and placement on the tree of life uncertain. Here we show that the uncultured miscellaneous crenarchaeotal group (MCG) and marine benthic group-D (MBG-D) are among the most numerous archaea in the marine sub-sea floor. Single-cell genomic sequencing of one cell of MCG and three cells of MBG-D indicated that they form new branches basal to the archaeal phyla Thaumarchaeota and Aigarchaeota, for MCG, and the order Thermoplasmatales, for MBG-D. All four cells encoded extracellular protein-degrading enzymes such as gingipain and clostripain that are known to be effective in environments chemically similar to marine sediments. Furthermore, we found these two types of peptidase to be abundant and active in marine sediments, indicating that uncultured archaea may have a previously undiscovered role in protein remineralization in anoxic marine sediments.
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