ArticlePloS one2015
Adaptation in Toxic Environments: Arsenic Genomic Islands in the Bacterial Genus Thiomonas.
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- The microbial nexus: linking arsenic biogeochemistry with greenhouse gas emissions.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Mixotrophic Iron-OxidizingApplied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
- Effect of arsenite and growth in biofilm conditions on the evolution ofMicrobial genomics · 2020Article
- Genomic Analysis ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2019Article
- Involvement of β-Carbonic Anhydrase Genes in Bacterial Genomic Islands and Their Horizontal Transfer to Protists.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2018Article
- Distribution of Arsenic Resistance Genes in Prokaryotes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Review
- Adaptation in toxic environments: comparative genomics of loci carrying antibiotic resistance genes derived from acid mine drainage waters.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
- Draft Genome Sequence ofGenome announcements · 2017Article
- Comparison of biofilm formation and motility processes in arsenic-resistant Thiomonas spp. strains revealed divergent response to arsenite.Microbial biotechnology · 2017Article
- Characterization of Thiomonas delicata arsenite oxidase expressed in Escherichia coli.3 Biotech · 2017Article
- Spatio-Temporal Detection of the Thiomonas Population and the Thiomonas Arsenite Oxidase Involved in Natural Arsenite Attenuation Processes in the Carnoulès Acid Mine Drainage.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2016Article
- Thiomonas sp. CB2 is able to degrade urea and promote toxic metal precipitation in acid mine drainage waters supplemented with urea.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
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18 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a highly toxic environment for most living organisms due to the presence of many lethal elements including arsenic (As). Thiomonas (Tm.) bacteria are found ubiquitously in AMD and can withstand these extreme conditions, in part because they are able to oxidize arsenite. In order to further improve our knowledge concerning the adaptive capacities of these bacteria, we sequenced and assembled the genome of six isolates derived from the Carnoulès AMD, and compared them to the genomes of Tm. arsenitoxydans 3As (isolated from the same site) and Tm. intermedia K12 (isolated from a sewage pipe). A detailed analysis of the Tm. sp. CB2 genome revealed various rearrangements had occurred in comparison to what was observed in 3As and K12 and over 20 genomic islands (GEIs) were found in each of these three genomes. We performed a detailed comparison of the two arsenic-related islands found in CB2, carrying the genes required for arsenite oxidation and As resistance, with those found in K12, 3As, and five other Thiomonas strains also isolated from Carnoulès (CB1, CB3, CB6, ACO3 and ACO7). Our results suggest that these arsenic-related islands have evolved differentially in these closely related Thiomonas strains, leading to divergent capacities to survive in As rich environments.
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