Anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation in candidate phylum 'Atribacteria' (JS1) inferred from genomics.

ABSTRACT: The hydrocarbon-enriched environments, such as oil reservoirs and oil sands tailings ponds, contain a broad diversity of uncultured microorganisms. Despite being one of the few prokaryotic lineages that is consistently detected in both production water from oil reservoirs and stable hydrocarbon-degrading enrichment cultures originated from oil reservoirs, the physiological and ecological roles of candidate phylum "Atribacteria" (OP9/JS1) are not known in deep subsurface environments. Here, we report the expanded metabolic capabilities of Atribacteria as inferred from genomic reconstructions. Seventeen newly assembled medium-to-high-quality metagenomic assembly genomes (MAGs) were obtained either from co-assembly of two metagenomes from an Alaska North Slope oil reservoir or from previous s

SUBMITTER: Liu YF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6776118 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature