ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2014
Aerobic methanotrophic communities at the Red Sea brine-seawater interface.
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- Antibacterial and anticancer activities of orphan biosynthetic gene clusters from Atlantis II Red Sea brine pool.Microbial cell factories · 2019Article
- Life on the edge: active microbial communities in the Kryos MgClThe ISME journal · 2018Article
- Draft Genome of Scalindua rubra, Obtained from the Interface Above the Discovery Deep Brine in the Red Sea, Sheds Light on Potential Salt Adaptation Strategies in Anammox Bacteria.Microbial ecology · 2017Article
- Building a bio-based industry in the Middle East through harnessing the potential of the Red Sea biodiversity.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2017Review
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- Reducing Salinity by Flooding an Extremely Alkaline and Saline Soil Changes the Bacterial Community but Its Effect on the Archaeal Community Is Limited.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Novel thermostable antibiotic resistance enzymes from the Atlantis II Deep Red Sea brine pool.Microbial biotechnology · 2017Article
- Viruses-to-mobile genetic elements skew in the deep Atlantis II brine pool sediments.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Diversification and niche adaptations of Nitrospina-like bacteria in the polyextreme interfaces of Red Sea brines.The ISME journal · 2016Article
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- First Insights into the Viral Communities of the Deep-sea Anoxic Brines of the Red Sea.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2015Article
- Diversity and Habitat Preferences of Cultivated and Uncultivated Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria Evaluated Based on pmoA as Molecular Marker.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Review
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Abstract
The central rift of the Red Sea contains 25 brine pools with different physicochemical conditions, dictating the diversity and abundance of the microbial community. Three of these pools, the Atlantis II, Kebrit and Discovery Deeps, are uniquely characterized by a high concentration of hydrocarbons. The brine-seawater interface, described as an anoxic-oxic (brine-seawater) boundary, is characterized by a high methane concentration, thus favoring aerobic methane oxidation. The current study analyzed the aerobic free-living methane-oxidizing bacterial communities that potentially contribute to methane oxidation at the brine-seawater interfaces of the three aforementioned brine pools, using metagenomic pyrosequencing, 16S rRNA pyrotags and pmoA library constructs. The sequencing of 16S rRNA pyrotags revealed that these interfaces are characterized by high microbial community diversity. Signatures of aerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria were detected in the Atlantis II Interface (ATII-I) and the Kebrit Deep Upper (KB-U) and Lower (KB-L) brine-seawater interfaces. Through phylogenetic analysis of pmoA, we further demonstrated that the ATII-I aerobic methanotroph community is highly diverse. We propose four ATII-I pmoA clusters. Most importantly, cluster 2 groups with marine methane seep methanotrophs, and cluster 4 represent a unique lineage of an uncultured bacterium with divergent alkane monooxygenases. Moreover, non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) based on the ordination of putative enzymes involved in methane metabolism showed that the Kebrit interface layers were distinct from the ATII-I and DD-I brine-seawater interfaces.
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