Unveiling the hidden diversity and functional role of Chloroflexota in full-scale wastewater treatment plants through genome-centric analyses.

ABSTRACT: The phylum Chloroflexota has been found to exhibit high abundance in the microbial communities from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in both aerobic and anaerobic systems. However, its metabolic role has not been fully explored due to the lack of cultured isolates. To address this gap, we use publicly available metagenome datasets from both activated sludge (AS) and methanogenic (MET) full-scale wastewater treatment reactors to assembled genomes. Using this strategy, 264 dereplicated, medium- and high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) classified within Chloroflexota were obtained. Taxonomic classification revealed that AS and MET reactors harbored distinct Chloroflexota families. Nonetheless, the majority of the annotated MAGs (166 MAGs with >85% completeness and < 5% contamin

SUBMITTER: Bovio-Winkler P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11653643 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature