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Free-living, psychrotrophic bacteria of the genus Psychrobacter are descendents of pathobionts
Welter, D; Ruaud, A; Henzeler, Z et al.
2021In mSystems
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Abstract :
[en] Host-adapted microorganisms are generally assumed to have evolved from free-living, environmental microorganisms, as examples of the reverse process are rare. In the phylum Gammaproteobacteria, family Moraxellaceae, the genus Psychrobacter includes strains from a broad ecological distribution including animal bodies as well as sea ice and other nonhost environments. To elucidate the relationship between these ecological niches and Psychrobacter’s evolutionary history, we performed tandem genomic analyses with phenotyping of 85 Psychrobacter accessions. Phylogenomic analysis of the family Moraxellaceae reveals that basal members of the Psychrobacter clade are Moraxella spp., a group of often-pathogenic organisms. Psychrobacter exhibited two broad growth patterns in our phenotypic screen: one group that we called the “flexible ecotype” (FE) had the ability to grow between 4 and 37°C, and the other, which we called the “restricted ecotype” (RE), could grow between 4 and 25°C. The FE group includes phylogenetically basal strains, and FE strains exhibit increased transposon copy numbers, smaller genomes, and a higher likelihood to be bile salt resistant. The RE group contains only phylogenetically derived strains and has increased proportions of lipid metabolism and biofilm formation genes, functions that are adaptive to cold stress. In a 16S rRNA gene survey of polar bear fecal samples, we detect both FE and RE strains, but in in vivo colonizations of gnotobiotic mice, only FE strains persist. Our results indicate the ability to grow at 37°C, seemingly necessary for mammalian gut colonization, is an ancestral trait for Psychrobacter, which likely evolved from a pathobiont.
Disciplines :
Zoology
Author, co-author :
Welter, D
Ruaud, A
Henzeler, Z
De jong, H
Van Coeverden de Groot, Peter
Michaux, Johan  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Laboratoire de génétique de la conservation
Gormezano, L
Waters, J.
Youngblut, L.
Ley, R
Language :
English
Title :
Free-living, psychrotrophic bacteria of the genus Psychrobacter are descendents of pathobionts
Publication date :
2021
Journal title :
mSystems
eISSN :
2379-5077
Publisher :
American Society for Microbiology, Washington, United States - Washington
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