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Glacier-preserved Tibetan Plateau viral community probably linked to warm–cold climate variations

Glaciers archive time-structured information on climates and ecosystems, including microorganisms. However, the long-term ecogenomic dynamics or biogeography of the preserved viruses and their palaeoclimatic connections remain uninvestigated. Here we use metagenomes to reconstruct viral genomes from nine time horizons, spanning three cold-to-warm cycles over the past >41,000 years, preserved in an ice core from Guliya Glacier,… [Read More]

Revealing reaction intermediates in one-carbon elongation by thiamine diphosphate/CoA-dependent enzyme family

Abstract2-Hydroxyacyl-CoA lyase/synthase (HACL/S) is a thiamine diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent versatile enzyme originally discovered in the mammalian α-oxidation pathway. HACL/S natively cleaves 2-hydroxyacyl-CoAs and, in its reverse direction, condenses formyl-CoA with aldehydes or ketones. The one-carbon elongation biochemistry based on HACL/S has enabled the use of molecules derived from greenhouse gases as biomanufacturing feedstocks. We investigated several… [Read More]

Time-series metagenomics reveals changing protistan ecology of a temperate dimictic lake

BackgroundProtists, single-celled eukaryotic organisms, are critical to food web ecology, contributing to primary productivity and connecting small bacteria and archaea to higher trophic levels. Lake Mendota is a large, eutrophic natural lake that is a Long-Term Ecological Research site and among the world’s best-studied freshwater systems. Metagenomic samples have been collected and shotgun sequenced from… [Read More]

Symmetric and asymmetric DNA N6-adenine methylation regulates different biological responses in Mucorales

DNA N6-adenine methylation (6mA) has recently gained importance as an epigenetic modification in eukaryotes. Its function in lineages with high levels, such as early-diverging fungi (EDF), is of particular interest. Here, we investigated the biological significance and evolutionary implications of 6mA in EDF, which exhibit divergent evolutionary patterns in 6mA usage. The analysis of two… [Read More]

Functional genomic screening in Komagataella phaffii enabled by high-activity CRISPR-Cas9 library

CRISPR-based high-throughput genome-wide loss-of-function screens are a valuable approach to functional genetics and strain engineering. The yeast Komagataella phaffii is a host of particular interest in the biopharmaceutical industry and as a metabolic engineering host for proteins and metabolites. Here, we design and validate a highly active 6-fold coverage genome-wide sgRNA library for this biotechnologically… [Read More]

High phenotypic and genotypic plasticity among strains of the mushroom-forming fungus Schizophyllum commune

Schizophyllum commune is a mushroom-forming fungus notable for its distinctive fruiting bodies with split gills. It is used as a model organism to study mushroom development, lignocellulose degradation and mating type loci. It is a hypervariable species with considerable genetic and phenotypic diversity between the strains. In this study, we systematically phenotyped 16 dikaryotic strains… [Read More]

Comparative transcriptomics provides insights into molecular mechanisms of zinc tolerance in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus luteus

Zinc (Zn) is a major soil contaminant and high Zn levels can disrupt growth, survival, and reproduction of fungi. Some fungal species evolved Zn tolerance through cell processes mitigating Zn toxicity, although the genes and detailed mechanisms underlying mycorrhizal fungal Zn tolerance remain unexplored. To fill this gap in knowledge, we investigated the gene expression… [Read More]

Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells

Consortia of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) are currently the only known example of bacteria without a unicellular stage in their life cycle. Because of their recalcitrance to cultivation, most previous studies of MMB have been limited to microscopic observations. To study the biology of these unique organisms in more detail, we use multiple culture-independent approaches… [Read More]

scMicrobe PTA: near complete genomes from single bacterial cells

Microbial genomes produced by standard single-cell amplification methods are largely incomplete. Here, we show that primary template-directed amplification (PTA), a novel single-cell amplification technique, generated nearly complete genomes from three bacterial isolate species. Furthermore, taxonomically diverse genomes recovered from aquatic and soil microbiomes using PTA had a median completeness of 81%, whereas genomes from standard… [Read More]

Draft genome sequence of Nitrobacter vulgaris DSM 10236T

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Nitrobacter vulgaris DSM 10236T, a nitrite-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a sewage system in Hamburg, Germany. The genome is 4.3 Mb in size with 4,585 predicted genes, including the full complement of genes necessary for growth on nitrite (narK, nxrA, nxrB, nxrC, and nxrD). [Read More]