bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/179903; this version posted September 4, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Sugar metabolism of the first thermophilic planctomycete Thermogutta terrifontis: comparative genomic and transcriptomic approaches Elcheninov A.G.1*, Menzel P.2*+, Gudbergsdottir S.R.2, Slesarev A.3, Kadnikov V.4, Krogh A.2, Bonch-Osmolovskaya E.A.1, Peng X.2 and Kublanov I.V.1** 1 Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 2 Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Fidelity Systems, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD USA 4 Center of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. + present address: Max Delbrück Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany * These authors contributed equally. ** Correspondence: Ilya V. Kublanov
[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/179903; this version posted September 4, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Abstract Xanthan gum, a complex polysaccharide comprising glucose, mannose and glucuronic acid residues, is involved in numerous biotechnological applications in cosmetics, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, food and petroleum industries. Additionally, its oligosaccharides were shown to possess antimicrobial, antioxidant and few other properties.