TY - JOUR
T1 - Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of Actinomycetota isolated from faeces of a 28,000‐year‐old mammoth
AU - van Bergeijk, Doris A.
AU - Augustijn, Hannah E.
AU - Elsayed, Somayah S.
AU - Willemse, Joost
AU - Carrión, Victor J.
AU - Du, Chao
AU - Urem, Mia
AU - Grigoreva, Lena V.
AU - Cheprasov, Maksim Y.
AU - Grigoriev, Semyon
AU - Jansen, Hans
AU - Wintermans, Bas
AU - Budding, Andries E.
AU - Spaink, Herman P.
AU - Medema, Marnix H.
AU - van Wezel, Gilles P.
N1 - Data archiving: no NIOO data
PY - 2024/2
Y1 - 2024/2
N2 - Ancient environmental samples, including permafrost soils and frozen animal remains, represent an archive with microbial communities that have barely been explored. This yet unexplored microbial world is a genetic resource that may provide us with new evolutionary insights into recent genomic changes, as well as novel metabolic pathways and chemistry. Here, we describe Actinomycetota Micromonospora, Oerskovia, Saccharopolyspora, Sanguibacter and Streptomyces species were successfully revived and their genome sequences resolved. Surprisingly, the genomes of these bacteria from an ancient source show a large phylogenetic distance to known strains and harbour many novel biosynthetic gene clusters that may well represent uncharacterised biosynthetic potential. Metabolic profiles of the strains display the production of known molecules like antimycin, conglobatin and macrotetrolides, but the majority of the mass features could not be dereplicated. Our work provides insights into Actinomycetota isolated from an ancient source, yielding unexplored genomic information that is not yet present in current databases.
AB - Ancient environmental samples, including permafrost soils and frozen animal remains, represent an archive with microbial communities that have barely been explored. This yet unexplored microbial world is a genetic resource that may provide us with new evolutionary insights into recent genomic changes, as well as novel metabolic pathways and chemistry. Here, we describe Actinomycetota Micromonospora, Oerskovia, Saccharopolyspora, Sanguibacter and Streptomyces species were successfully revived and their genome sequences resolved. Surprisingly, the genomes of these bacteria from an ancient source show a large phylogenetic distance to known strains and harbour many novel biosynthetic gene clusters that may well represent uncharacterised biosynthetic potential. Metabolic profiles of the strains display the production of known molecules like antimycin, conglobatin and macrotetrolides, but the majority of the mass features could not be dereplicated. Our work provides insights into Actinomycetota isolated from an ancient source, yielding unexplored genomic information that is not yet present in current databases.
U2 - 10.1111/1462-2920.16589
DO - 10.1111/1462-2920.16589
M3 - Article
SN - 1462-2912
VL - 26
JO - Environmental Microbiology
JF - Environmental Microbiology
IS - 2
M1 - e16589
ER -