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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2016

Phenotypic and Genomic Properties of Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., A Haloalkaliphilic Anaerobic Chitinolytic Bacterium Representing a Novel Class in the Phylum Fibrobacteres.

Dimitry Y Sorokin, Andrey L Rakitin, Vadim M Gumerov, Alexey V Beletsky, Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté, Andrey V Mardanov, Nikolai V Ravin

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Dimitry Y SorokinWinogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of SciencesMoscow, Russia; Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of TechnologyDelft, Netherlands.
Andrey L RakitinInstitute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia.
Vadim M GumerovInstitute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia.
Alexey V BeletskyInstitute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia.
Jaap S Sinninghe DamstéDepartment of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and and Utrecht UniversityUtrecht, Netherlands; Geochemistry, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht UniversityUtrecht, Netherlands.
Andrey V MardanovInstitute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia.
Nikolai V RavinInstitute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia.
Russian Academy of Sciences · RUDelft University of Technology · NLUtrecht University · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anaerobic enrichment from sediments of hypersaline alkaline lakes in Wadi el Natrun (Egypt) with chitin resulted in the isolation of a fermentative haloalkaliphilic bacterium, strain ACht6-1, growing exclusively with insoluble chitin as the substrate in a sodium carbonate-based medium at pH 8.5-10.5 and total Na(+) concentrations from 0.4 to 1.75 M. The isolate had a Gram-negative cell wall and formed lipid cysts in old cultures. The chitinolytic activity was associated with cells. Analysis of the 4.4 Mb draft genome identified pathways for chitin utilization, particularly, secreted chitinases linked to the cell surface, as well as genes for the hydrolysis of other polysaccharides and fermentation of sugars, while the genes needed for aerobic and anaerobic respiration were absent. Adaptation to a haloalkaliphilic lifestyle was reflected by the gene repertoire encoding sodium rather than proton-dependent membrane-bound ion pumps, including the Rnf-type complex, oxaloacetate decarboxylase, V-type ATPase, and pyrophosphatase. The phylogenetic analysis using 16S rRNA gene and ribosomal proteins indicated that ACht6-1 forms a novel deep lineage at the class level within the bacterial candidate division TG3. Based on phylogenetic, phenotypic and genomic analyses, the novel chitinolytic bacterium is described as Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., within a novel class Chitinispirillia that could be included into the phylum Fibrobacteres.

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candidate phylum TG3chitinFibrobacteresgenome sequencehaloalkaliphilic bacterium

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