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GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 5, 期 5, 页码 934-953出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt061
关键词
arsenic metabolism; motility/biofilm; Rhizobium/Agrobacterium; transcriptomics/proteomics; phylogeny; rhizosphere
资金
- Universite de Strasbourg (UdS)
- Consortium National de Recherche en Genomique (CNRG)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Australian Research Council [DP034305]
- French Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche
- Direction Generale de l'Armement
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) COBIAS project [PRECODD 2007]
- Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) of Lyon
Arsenic is widespread in the environment and its presence is a result of natural or anthropogenic activities. Microbes have developed different mechanisms to deal with toxic compounds such as arsenic and this is to resist or metabolize the compound. Here, we present the first reference set of genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data of an Alphaproteobacterium isolated from an arsenic containing goldmine: Rhizobium sp. NT-26. Although phylogenetically related to the plant-associated bacteria, this organism has lost the major colonizing capabilities needed for symbiosis with legumes. In contrast, the genome of Rhizobium sp. NT-26 comprises a megaplasmid containing the various genes, which enable it to metabolize arsenite. Remarkably, although the genes required for arsenite oxidation and flagellar motility/biofilm formation are carried by the megaplasmid and the chromosome, respectively, a coordinate regulation of these two mechanisms was observed. Taken together, these processes illustrate the impact environmental pressure can have on the evolution of bacterial genomes, improving the fitness of bacterial strains by the acquisition of novel functions.
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