Bacterial Diversity, Metabolic Profiling, and Application Potential of Antarctic Soil Metagenomes.

ABSTRACT: Antarctica has attracted increasing interest in understanding its microbial communities, metabolic potential, and as a source of microbial hydrolytic enzymes with industrial applications, for which advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have greatly facilitated the study of unculturable microorganisms. In this work, soils from seven sub-Antarctic islands and Union Glacier were studied using a whole-genome shotgun metagenomic approach. The main findings were that the microbial community at all sites was predominantly composed of the bacterial phyla Actinobacteria and Cyanobacteria, and the families Streptomycetaceae and Pseudonocardiaceae. Regarding the xenobiotic biodegradation and metabolism pathway, genes associated with benzoate, chloroalkane, chloroalkene, and styrene degr

SUBMITTER: Fernandez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11593224 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature