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Environmental Breviatea harbour mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts

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Hamann,  Emmo
Microbial Fitness Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Gruber-Vodicka,  Harald R.
Department of Symbiosis, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Kleiner,  Manuel
Department of Symbiosis, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Tegetmeyer,  Halina E.
HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology & Technology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Littmann,  Sten
Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Chen,  Jianwei
Microbial Fitness Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Milucka,  Jana
Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Strous,  Marc
Microbial Fitness Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Hamann, E., Gruber-Vodicka, H. R., Kleiner, M., Tegetmeyer, H. E., Riedel, D., Littmann, S., et al. (2016). Environmental Breviatea harbour mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts. Nature, 534: 1, pp. 254-258.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-C2CC-E
Abstract
Breviatea form a lineage of free living, unicellular protists, distantly related to animals and fungi. This lineage emerged almost one billion years ago, when the oceanic oxygen content was low, and extant Breviatea have evolved or retained an anaerobic lifestyle. Here we report the cultivation of Lenisia limosa, gen. et sp. nov., a newly discovered breviate colonized by relatives of animal-associated Arcobacter. Physiological experiments show that the association of L. limosa with Arcobacter is driven by the transfer of hydrogen and is mutualistic, providing benefits to both partners. With whole-genome sequencing and differential proteomics, we show that an experimentally observed fitness gain of L. limosa could be explained by the activity of a so far unknown type of NAD(P)H-accepting hydrogenase, which is expressed in the presence, but not in the absence, of Arcobacter. Differential proteomics further reveal that the presence of Lenisia stimulates expression of known 'virulence' factors by Arcobacter. These proteins typically enable colonization of animal cells during infection, but may in the present case act for mutual benefit. Finally, re-investigation of two currently available transcriptomic data sets of other Breviatea reveals the presence and activity of related hydrogen-consuming Arcobacter, indicating that mutualistic interaction between these two groups of microbes might be pervasive. Our results support the notion that molecular mechanisms involved in virulence can also support mutualism, as shown here for Arcobacter and Breviatea.