Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of Actinomycetota isolated from faeces of a 28,000-year-old mammoth

© 2024 The Authors. Environmental Microbiology published by Applied Microbiology International and John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

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.

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E-Artikel

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

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Environmental microbiology - 26(2024), 2 vom: 14. Feb., Seite e16589

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Englisch

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van Bergeijk, Doris A [VerfasserIn]
Augustijn, Hannah E [VerfasserIn]
Elsayed, Somayah S [VerfasserIn]
Willemse, Joost [VerfasserIn]
Carrión, Victor J [VerfasserIn]
Du, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Urem, Mia [VerfasserIn]
Grigoreva, Lena V [VerfasserIn]
Cheprasov, Maksim Y [VerfasserIn]
Grigoriev, Semyon [VerfasserIn]
Jansen, Hans [VerfasserIn]
Wintermans, Bas [VerfasserIn]
Budding, Andries E [VerfasserIn]
Spaink, Herman P [VerfasserIn]
Medema, Marnix H [VerfasserIn]
van Wezel, Gilles P [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 16.02.2024

Date Revised 26.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1111/1462-2920.16589

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NLM368461491