Isolation and Characterization of Methanofollis Species from Potential Cold Seep Area-Four Way Closure Ridge Offshore SW Taiwan / 台灣西南海域四方圈合海脊冷泉區甲烷泡菌屬新種之純化與特性分析

碩士 / 國立中興大學 / 生命科學系所 / 106 / Four Way Closure Ridge is an anticlinal ridge that represents an ideal trap for methane hydrate accumulations through the analyses of high-resolution bathymetry, deep-towed sidescan sonar imagery, high-resolution seismic profiling and towed video observations of the seafloor. Four Way Closure Ridge is one of the sites with intensive methane seepages to bring up a typical cold seep used methane as substrate chemosynthetic community and with highly dense mussel bed with shrimps, crabs and clams was found at this site. A mesophilic, hydrogenotrophic methanogen, strain FWC-SCC2, was isolated from deep-sea sediment obtained at the C5-6 station at Four Way Closure Ridge region by the R/V Ocean Researcher III during ORIII-1900 cruise in 2015. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that strain FWC-SCC2 was most closely related to Methanofollis tationis Chile 9T (98.2% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity) and share 96-98 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with other valid Methanofollis species. Genome relatedness between strain FWC-SCC2 and Methanofollis genus was computed using both average nucleotide identity (ANI) and genome-to-genome distance analysis (GGDA) with values of 78.2-79.8% and 17.8-23.8%, respectively. Based on the morphological, phenotypic and phylogenetic characteristics presented here, it is suggested that strain FWC-SCC2 represents a new species of genus Methanofollis. The cells were irregular cocci, non-motile with 0.8-1.2 μm in diameter. The Mr of surface-layer protein was 116.4 kDa. Strain FWC-SCC2 used H2/CO2 or formate as catabolic substrates. The growth conditions were at 20-40C, 0-0.85 M NaCl and pH 5.9-8.2. Comparative genomic analysis between strain FWC-SCC2 and other Methanofollis reveals strain FWC-SCC2 have 38 unique COGs, included ABC-type iron transport system FetAB, quinol monooxygenase YgiN, two type aerotolerant COGs and phage shock protein A that can maintain cell membrane integrity.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106NCHU5105044
Date January 2018
CreatorsNai-Hsuan Teng, 鄧乃瑄
Contributors賴美津
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format86

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