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Transcription profiling of Methanobacterium thermautotrophicus after contact with flagellar filament protein (FliC) and flagellar cap protein (FliD) of P. thermopropionicum


ABSTRACT: In the syntrophic interaction between fermentative bacteria (Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum) and methanogenic archaea (methanogens: Methanothemobacter thermautotrophicus), reducing equivalents (e.g., H2) produced by fermentative bacteria should efficiently be consumed by methanogens in order for the fermentation of volatile fatty acids (VFA, e.g., butyrate, propionate, and acetate) to be thermodynamically feasible. It has been known that physical approximation (e.g., coaggregation) between VFA-fermenting syntrophic bacteria (syntrophs) and hydrogenotrophic methanogens is necessary for efficient H2 transfer between them. Our previous study has shown that, at an early exponential growth phase of syntrophic coculture, cells of Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum (syntroph) were connected to cells of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus (methanogen) via unidentified extracellular filamentous appendages, after which they started to coaggregate, suggesting that the filamentous appendages may have been important for their syntrophic interaction. The filamentous appendages seemed to specifically connect these syntrophic partners, since such pairwise connection has been observed neither in single-species cultures (monocultures) nor in mixtures with other microbes.
We found that P. thermopropionicum has putative gene clusters for flagellum and pilus, while no extracellular filament gene was identified in the M. thermautotrophicus genome. So we examined transcriptome responses of M. thermautotrophicus to the contact with flagellar filament protein (FliC) and flagellar cap protein (FliD) of P. thermopropionicum.

ORGANISM(S): Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

SUBMITTER: Takefumi Shimoyama 

PROVIDER: E-MEXP-1971 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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