Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota

Autor(en)

Anja Spang, Roland Hatzenpichler, Celine Brochier-Armanet, Thomas Rattei, Patrick Tischler, Eva Spieck, Wolfgang Streit, David A. Stahl, Michael Wagner, Christa Schleper

Abstrakt

Globally distributed archaea comprising ammonia oxidizers of moderate terrestrial and marine environments are considered the most abundant archaeal organisms on Earth. Based on 16S rRNA phylogeny, initial assignment of these archaea was to the Crenarchaeota. By contrast, features of the first genome sequence from a member of this group suggested that they belong to a novel phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. Here, we re-investigate the Thaumarchaeota hypothesis by including two newly available genomes, that of the marine ammonia oxidizer Nitrosopumilus maritimus and that of Nitrososphaera gargensis, a representative of another evolutionary lineage within this group predominantly detected in terrestrial environments. Phylogenetic studies based on r-proteins and other core genes, as well as comparative genomics, confirm the assignment of these organisms to a separate phylum and reveal a Thaumarchaeota-specific set of core informational processing genes, as well as potentially ancestral features of the archaea.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I, Technische Universität München, Universität Hamburg, University of Washington

Journal

Trends in Microbiology

Band

18

Seiten

331-340

Anzahl der Seiten

10

ISSN

0966-842X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2010.06.003

Publikationsdatum

2010

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

106023 Molekularbiologie, 106005 Bioinformatik

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 14 – Leben unter Wasser

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/1eb9ff5f-2dfe-48ed-acaf-20bb28774451