fmicb-09-01672 July 24, 2018 Time: 12:49 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 24 July 2018 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01672 Comparative Genomics of Candidatus Methylomirabilis Species and Description of Ca. Methylomirabilis Lanthanidiphila Edited by: Iain Sutcliffe, Wouter Versantvoort1†, Simon Guerrero-Cruz1†, Daan R. Speth1‡, Jeroen Frank1,2, Northumbria University, Lavinia Gambelli1, Geert Cremers1, Theo van Alen1, Mike S. M. Jetten1,2,3, Boran Kartal4, United Kingdom Huub J. M. Op den Camp1* and Joachim Reimann1* Reviewed by: Monali C. Rahalkar, 1 Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Agharkar Research Institute, India Netherlands, 2 Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, 3 Soehngen Institute Lidong Shen, of Anaerobic Microbiology, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 4 Microbial Physiology Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Nanjing University of Information Microbiology, Bremen, Germany Science and Technology, China *Correspondence: Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, which can be converted by microorganism at the Huub J. M. Op den Camp
[email protected] expense of oxygen, nitrate, nitrite, metal-oxides or sulfate. The bacterium ‘Candidatus Joachim Reimann Methylomirabilis oxyfera,’ a member of the NC10 phylum, is capable of nitrite-dependent
[email protected] anaerobic methane oxidation. Prolonged enrichment of ‘Ca. M. oxyfera’ with cerium † These authors have contributed added as trace element and without nitrate resulted in the shift of the dominant equally to this work. species. Here, we present a high quality draft genome of the new species ‘Candidatus ‡Present address: Daan R. Speth, Methylomirabilis lanthanidiphila’ and use comparative genomics to analyze its metabolic Division of Geological and Planetary potential in both nitrogen and carbon cycling.