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Phylum Gemmatimonadota and Its Role in the Environment
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SYSNO ASEP 0553485 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Phylum Gemmatimonadota and Its Role in the Environment Author(s) Mujakić, Izabela (MBU-M) ORCID
Piwosz, Kasia (MBU-M) ORCID
Koblížek, Michal (MBU-M) RID, ORCIDArticle number 151 Source Title Microorganisms. - : MDPI
Roč. 10, č. 1 (2022)Number of pages 17 s. Language eng - English Country CH - Switzerland Keywords deep-sea sediments ; sponge-associated bacteria ; microbial diversity ; community structure ; sp-nov. ; prokaryotic community ; spatial-distribution ; waste-water ; gen. nov. ; iq-tree ; Gemmatimonadota ; Gemmatimonadetes ; anoxygenic photosynthesis ; photosynthetic gene cluster ; MAGs Subject RIV EE - Microbiology, Virology OECD category Microbiology R&D Projects GX19-28778X GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support MBU-M - RVO:61388971 UT WOS 000746015700001 EID SCOPUS 85122707012 DOI 10.3390/microorganisms10010151 Annotation Bacteria are an important part of every ecosystem that they inhabit on Earth. Environmental microbiologists usually focus on a few dominant bacterial groups, neglecting less abundant ones, which collectively make up most of the microbial diversity. One of such less-studied phyla is Gemmatimonadota. Currently, the phylum contains only six cultured species. However, data from culture-independent studies indicate that members of Gemmatimonadota are common in diverse habitats. They are abundant in soils, where they seem to be frequently associated with plants and the rhizosphere. Moreover, Gemmatimonadota were found in aquatic environments, such as freshwaters, wastewater treatment plants, biofilms, and sediments. An important discovery was the identification of purple bacterial reaction centers and anoxygenic photosynthesis in this phylum, genes for which were likely acquired via horizontal gene transfer. So far, the capacity for anoxygenic photosynthesis has been described for two cultured species: Gemmatimonas phototrophica and Gemmatimonas groenlandica. Moreover, analyses of metagenome-assembled genomes indicate that it is also common in uncultured lineages of Gemmatimonadota. This review summarizes the current knowledge about this understudied bacterial phylum with an emphasis on its environmental distribution. Workplace Institute of Microbiology Contact Eliška Spurná, eliska.spurna@biomed.cas.cz, Tel.: 241 062 231 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/10/1/151
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