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ArticleThe ISME journal2016

RubisCO of a nucleoside pathway known from Archaea is found in diverse uncultivated phyla in bacteria.

Kelly C Wrighton, Cindy J Castelle, Vanessa A Varaljay, Sriram Satagopan, Christopher T Brown, Michael J Wilkins, Brian C Thomas, Itai Sharon, Kenneth H Williams, F Robert Tabita and 1 more

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11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Kelly C WrightonDepartment of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Cindy J CastelleDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Vanessa A VaraljayDepartment of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Sriram SatagopanDepartment of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Christopher T BrownDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Michael J WilkinsDepartment of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Brian C ThomasDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Itai SharonDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Kenneth H WilliamsEarth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
F Robert TabitaDepartment of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Jillian F BanfieldDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
The Ohio State University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · USPlanetary Science Institute · USLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · US

Funding

One Enzyme for Two Distinct MetabolismsR01GM095742 · NIGMS · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI TABITA, F ROBERT · 2011 to 2014
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metagenomic studies recently uncovered form II/III RubisCO genes, originally thought to only occur in archaea, from uncultivated bacteria of the candidate phyla radiation (CPR). There are no isolated CPR bacteria and these organisms are predicted to have limited metabolic capacities. Here we expand the known diversity of RubisCO from CPR lineages. We report a form of RubisCO, distantly similar to the archaeal form III RubisCO, in some CPR bacteria from the Parcubacteria (OD1), WS6 and Microgenomates (OP11) phyla. In addition, we significantly expand the Peregrinibacteria (PER) II/III RubisCO diversity and report the first II/III RubisCO sequences from the Microgenomates and WS6 phyla. To provide a metabolic context for these RubisCOs, we reconstructed near-complete (>93%) PER genomes and the first closed genome for a WS6 bacterium, for which we propose the phylum name Dojkabacteria. Genomic and bioinformatic analyses suggest that the CPR RubisCOs function in a nucleoside pathway similar to that proposed in Archaea. Detection of form II/III RubisCO and nucleoside metabolism gene transcripts from a PER supports the operation of this pathway in situ. We demonstrate that the PER form II/III RubisCO is catalytically active, fixing CO

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ArchaeaArchaeal ProteinsBacteriaBacterial ProteinsFermentationMetagenomicsMolecular Sequence DataNucleosidesPhylogenyRibulose-Bisphosphate CarboxylaseArchaeal ProteinsBacterial ProteinsNucleosidesRibulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase

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PMID27137126
PMCPMC5113843
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