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Aerobic carbon monoxide oxidation in the course of growth of a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. ETSY

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An aerobic hyperthermophilic CO-oxidizing archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. strain ETSY, was isolated and characterized. Presently, it is the only known representative of both hyperthermophiles and Archaea that is capable of aerobic oxidation of CO, a gas of global importance for atmospheric chemistry and of local importance as one of the substrates for the microbial communities of hydrothermal vents. In the genome of Sulfolobus sp. ETSY we found genetic determinants of aerobic CO oxidation: a coxFMSLDE gene cluster and two separately located coxG genes. We also found such gene clusters in the genomes of certain strains of Sulfolobus islandicus and Sulfolobus solfataricus. On the phylogenetic tree of large subunits of aerobic CO-dehydrogenases (CoxLs), these proteins of Sulfolobus representatives formed a compact cluster within one of the branches formed by bacterial form I CoxLs. Thus we argue that the ability to oxidize CO aerobically was acquired by Sulfolobus ancestor from Bacteria relatively late in the evolution, presumably after the formation of the atmosphere with a high oxygen content.

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  1. Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    T. G. Sokolova, N. A. Chernyh, E. Yu. Lun’kova, N. A. Kostrikina, E. A. Taranov, A. V. Lebedinskii & E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya

  2. Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, CNR, Messina, Italy

    M. M. Yakimov

  3. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

    M. M. Yakimov

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Original Russian Text © T.G. Sokolova, M.M. Yakimov, N.A. Chernyh, E.Yu. Lun’kova, N.A. Kostrikina, E.A. Taranov, A.V. Lebedinskii, E.A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, 2017, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2017, Vol. 86, No. 5, pp. 527–537.

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Sokolova, T.G., Yakimov, M.M., Chernyh, N.A. et al. Aerobic carbon monoxide oxidation in the course of growth of a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. ETSY. Microbiology 86, 539–548 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261717050174

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