Shark Bay, Western Australia is a World Heritage area with extensive microbial mats and stromatolites. Microbial communities that comprise these mats have developed a range of mitigation strategies against changing levels of photosynthetically active and ultraviolet radiation, including the ability to biosynthesise the UV-absorbing natural products scytonemin and mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs). To this end, the distribution of photoprotective pigments within Shark Bay microbial mats was delineated in the present study. This involved amplicon sequencing of bacterial 16S rDNA from communities at the surface and subsurface in three distinct mat types (smooth, pustular and tufted), and correlating this data with the chemical and molecular distribution of scytonemin and MAAs. Employing UV spectroscopy and MS/MS fragmentation, mycosporine-glycine, asterina and an unknown MAA were identified based on typical fragmentation patterns. Marker genes for scytonemin and MAA production (scyC and mysC) were amplified from microbial mat DNA and placed into phylogenetic context against a broad screen throughout 363 cyanobacterial genomes. Results indicate that occurrence of UV screening compounds is associated with the upper layer of Shark Bay microbial mats, and the occurrence of scytonemin is closely dependent on the abundance of cyanobacteria.
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- aminokyseliny metabolismus MeSH
- fenoly metabolismus MeSH
- fotosyntéza MeSH
- fylogeneze * MeSH
- glycin metabolismus MeSH
- indoly metabolismus MeSH
- mikrobiota účinky záření MeSH
- sinice klasifikace genetika izolace a purifikace metabolismus MeSH
- tandemová hmotnostní spektrometrie MeSH
- ultrafialové záření MeSH
- výpočetní biologie MeSH
- zátoky mikrobiologie MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Austrálie MeSH
Helicobacter suis is the second most prevalent Helicobacter species in the stomach of humans suffering from gastric disease. This bacterium mainly inhabits the stomach of domesticated pigs, in which it causes gastric disease, but it appears to be absent in wild boars. Interestingly, it also colonizes the stomach of asymptomatic rhesus and cynomolgus monkeys. The origin of modern human-, pig- or non-human primate-associated H. suis strains in these respective host populations was hitherto unknown. Here we show that H. suis in pigs possibly originates from non-human primates. Our data suggest that a host jump from macaques to pigs happened between 100 000 and 15 000 years ago and that pig domestication has had a significant impact on the spread of H. suis in the pig population, from where this pathogen occasionally infects humans. Thus, in contrast to our expectations, H. suis appears to have evolved in its main host in a completely different way than its close relative Helicobacter pylori in humans.
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- fylogeneze MeSH
- Helicobacter heilmannii klasifikace genetika růst a vývoj izolace a purifikace MeSH
- hospodářská zvířata mikrobiologie MeSH
- infekce vyvolané Helicobacter pylori mikrobiologie veterinární MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- Macaca fascicularis mikrobiologie MeSH
- Macaca mulatta mikrobiologie MeSH
- nemoci prasat mikrobiologie MeSH
- prasata MeSH
- žaludek mikrobiologie MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
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- alkaloidy biosyntéza MeSH
- Bacteria genetika metabolismus MeSH
- biosyntéza peptidů nezávislá na nukleových kyselinách MeSH
- databáze genetické MeSH
- genetické markery MeSH
- houby genetika metabolismus MeSH
- metagenom MeSH
- mezinárodní spolupráce MeSH
- multigenová rodina * MeSH
- peptidy metabolismus MeSH
- polyketidy metabolismus MeSH
- polysacharidy biosyntéza MeSH
- proteosyntéza * MeSH
- rostliny genetika metabolismus MeSH
- terminologie jako téma MeSH
- terpeny metabolismus MeSH
- výpočetní biologie normy MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. MeSH
