- 著者
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Shingo Kato
Sanae Sakai
Miho Hirai
Eiji Tasumi
Manabu Nishizawa
Katsuhiko Suzuki
Ken Takai
- 出版者
- 日本微生物生態学会・日本土壌微生物学会
- 雑誌
- Microbes and Environments (ISSN:13426311)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.ME17165, (Released:2018-02-16)
- 被引用文献数
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31
Many thermophiles thriving in a natural high-temperature environment remain uncultivated, and their ecophysiological functions in the biogeochemical cycle remain unclear. In the present study, we performed long-term continuous cultivation at 65°C and 70°C using a microbial mat sample, collected from a subsurface geothermal stream, as the inoculum, and reconstructed the whole genome of the maintained populations using metagenomics. Some metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), affiliated into phylum-level bacterial and archaeal clades without cultivated representatives, contained genes involved in nitrogen metabolism including nitrification and denitrification. Our results show genetic components and their potential interactions for the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle in a subsurface geothermal environment.