Adaptation in Toxic Environments: Arsenic Genomic Islands in the Bacterial Genus Thiomonas.
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Date publication
janvier 2015
Journal
PloS one
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Mme KOECHLER Sandrine
Tous les auteurs :
Freel KC, Krueger MC, Farasin J, Brochier-Armanet C, Barbe V, Andrès J, Cholley PE, Dillies MA, Jagla B, Koechler S, Leva Y, Magdelenat G, Plewniak F, Proux C, Coppée JY, Bertin PN, Heipieper HJ, Arsène-Ploetze F
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Résumé
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a highly toxic environment for most living organisms due to the presence of many lethal elements including arsenic (As). Thiomonas (Tm.) bacteria are found ubiquitously in AMD and can withstand these extreme conditions, in part because they are able to oxidize arsenite. In order to further improve our knowledge concerning the adaptive capacities of these bacteria, we sequenced and assembled the genome of six isolates derived from the Carnoulès AMD, and compared them to the genomes of Tm. arsenitoxydans 3As (isolated from the same site) and Tm. intermedia K12 (isolated from a sewage pipe). A detailed analysis of the Tm. sp. CB2 genome revealed various rearrangements had occurred in comparison to what was observed in 3As and K12 and over 20 genomic islands (GEIs) were found in each of these three genomes. We performed a detailed comparison of the two arsenic-related islands found in CB2, carrying the genes required for arsenite oxidation and As resistance, with those found in K12, 3As, and five other Thiomonas strains also isolated from Carnoulès (CB1, CB3, CB6, ACO3 and ACO7). Our results suggest that these arsenic-related islands have evolved differentially in these closely related Thiomonas strains, leading to divergent capacities to survive in As rich environments.
Mots clés
Arsenic, Burkholderiaceae, genetics, Genome, Bacterial, Water Microbiology
Référence
PLoS ONE. 2015 ;10(9):e0139011