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Comparative Genomics Highlights the Unique Biology Of Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine. Guillaume Borrel, Nicolas Parisot, Hugh Harris, Eric Peyretaillade, Nadia Gaci, William Tottey, Olivier Bardot, Kasie Raymann, Simonetta Gribaldo, Pierre Peyret, et al. To cite this version: Guillaume Borrel, Nicolas Parisot, Hugh Harris, Eric Peyretaillade, Nadia Gaci, et al.. Compara- tive genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine.. BMC Genomics, BioMed Central, 2014, 15 (1), pp.679. 10.1186/1471-2164-15-679. pasteur-01059404 HAL Id: pasteur-01059404 https://hal-pasteur.archives-ouvertes.fr/pasteur-01059404 Submitted on 30 Aug 2014 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine Borrel et al. Borrel et al. BMC Genomics 2014, 15:679 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/15/679 Borrel et al. BMC Genomics 2014, 15:679 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/15/679 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine Guillaume Borrel1,2†, Nicolas Parisot1,3†, Hugh MB Harris2, Eric Peyretaillade1, Nadia Gaci1, William Tottey1, Olivier Bardot4, Kasie Raymann5,6, Simonetta Gribaldo5,6, Pierre Peyret1, Paul W O’Toole2 and Jean-François Brugère1* Abstract Background: A seventh order of methanogens, the Methanomassiliicoccales, has been identified in diverse anaerobic environments including the gastrointestinal tracts (GIT) of humans and other animals and may contribute significantly to methane emission and global warming. Methanomassiliicoccales are phylogenetically distant from all other orders of methanogens and belong to a large evolutionary branch composed by lineages of non-methanogenic archaea such as Thermoplasmatales, the Deep Hydrothermal Vent Euryarchaeota-2 (DHVE-2, Aciduliprofundum boonei)andtheMarine Group-II (MG-II). To better understand this new order and its relationship to other archaea, we manually curated and extensively compared the genome sequences of three Methanomassiliicoccales representatives derived from human GIT microbiota, “Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus", “Candidatus Methanomassiliicoccus intestinalis” and Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis. Results: Comparative analyses revealed atypical features, such as the scattering of the ribosomal RNA genes in the genome and the absence of eukaryotic-like histone gene otherwise present in most of Euryarchaeota genomes. Previously identified in Thermoplasmatales genomes, these features are presently extended to several completely sequenced genomes of this large evolutionary branch, including MG-II and DHVE2. The three Methanomassiliicoccales genomes share a unique composition of genes involved in energy conservation suggesting an original combination of two main energy conservation processes previously described in other methanogens. They also display substantial differences with each other, such as their codon usage, the nature and origin of their CRISPRs systems and the genes possibly involved in particular environmental adaptations. The genome of M. luminyensis encodes several features to thrive in soil and sediment conditions suggesting its larger environmental distribution than GIT. Conversely, “Ca. M. alvus” and “Ca. M. intestinalis” do not present these features and could be more restricted and specialized on GIT. Prediction of the amber codon usage, either as a termination signal of translation or coding for pyrrolysine revealed contrasted patterns among the three genomes and suggests a different handling of the Pyl-encoding capacity. (Continued on next page) * Correspondence: [email protected] †Equal contributors 1EA-4678 CIDAM, Clermont Université, Université d’Auvergne, 28 Place Henri Dunant, BP 10448, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2014 Borrel et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Borrel et al. BMC Genomics 2014, 15:679 Page 2 of 23 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/15/679 (Continued from previous page) Conclusions: This study represents the first insights into the genomic organization and metabolic traits of the seventh order of methanogens. It suggests contrasted evolutionary history among the three analyzed Methanomassiliicoccales representatives and provides information on conserved characteristics among the overall methanogens and among Thermoplasmata. Keywords: Archaea, Methanomassiliicoccales, Methanomethylophilus, Methanomassiliicoccus, Origin of replication (ORI) binding (ORB) motif, Genome streamlining, CRISPR, Pyrrolysine Pyl, H2-dependent methylotrophic methanogenesis, Energy conservation Background International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Methanogenic archaea are distributed worldwide in an- [12]. For this reason, the name of Methanomassiliicoccales aerobic environments and account for a large proportion will be used in the current publication to refer to this of methane emissions into the atmosphere, partly due to novel order of methanogens. anthropogenic activity (e.g. rice fields and livestock). Over The global contribution of Methanomassiliicoccales rep- the last ten years, sequences of novel archaeal lineages resentatives to methane emission could be large, consider- distantly related to all orders of methanogens have recur- ingthatitconstitutesoneofthethreedominantarchaeal rently been found in diverse anaerobic environments. lineages in the rumen [3] and in some ruminants it repre- One of these lineages, phylogenetically related to the sents half or more of the methanogens [13-15]. Using mcrA Thermoplasmatales, was first reported in the rumen and 16S rRNA sequences, several studies have also [1,2] and was thereafter referred as Rumen Cluster-C in highlighted the broad environmental distribution of this this environment [3]. The methanogenic nature of these order, not limited to digestive tracts of animals but also archaea was subsequently strongly supported by the retrieved in rice paddy fields, natural wetlands, subseaflor co-occurrence in human stool samples of 16S rRNA and freshwater sediments for example [9,10,16,17]. Metha- affiliated to this lineage and mcrA genes (a functional nomassiliicoccales were split into three large clusters, the marker of methanogens) distantly related to any other “Ca.M.alvus” cluster, grouping sequences mostly retrieved methanogens [4,5]. The final evidence that they represent from digestive tract of animals, the M. luminyensis cluster, a new order of methanogens was recently given with the mainly composed of sequences from soils and sedi- isolation of Methanomassiliicoccus luminyenis B10 from ments and to a lesser extent from digestive tracts, and the human feces [6] and the culture in consortia of several Lake Pavin cluster formed by sequences retrieved from di- strains of this order: “Candidatus Methanomethylophilus verse environments but not digestive tracts [16]. alvus” [7] and “Candidatus Methanomassiliicoccus intesti- The genome sequences of three different Methanomas- nalis” [8] from human feces samples, MpT1 and MpM2 siliicoccales members cultured from human stool samples, [9] from termite gut and “Candidatus Methanogranum M. luminyensis B10 [18], “Ca. M. intestinalis Mx1-Issoire” caenicola” [10] from waste treatment sludge. All the [8] and “Ca. M. alvus Mx1201” [7], have recently been culture-based studies agreed on a common methanogenic made available [19]. M. luminyensis shows 98% identity pathway relying on the obligate dependence of the strains with “Ca. M. intestinalis” over the whole 16S rRNA on an external H2 source to reduce methyl-compounds gene and only 87% with “Ca. M. alvus”.Accordingto into methane. The restriction to this metabolism was the environmental origin of the sequences constituting previously only observed in two methanogens from the large cluster to which they belong, M. luminyensis digestive tract (Methanosphaera stadtmanae and Metha- and “Ca. M. intestinalis” might be more recently adapted nomicrococcus blatticola) and considered an exception to gut condition than “Ca. M. alvus”.Moreoverthe [11]. The apparently large distribution of this obligate important difference in genome size and [G + C] % metabolism among this novel order
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