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Desulfovibrio diazotrophica sp. nov., a Sulphate Reducing Bacterium from the Human Gut Capable of Nitrogen Fixation

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Seah,  BKB       
Research Group Ciliate Genomics and Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Max Planck Society;

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Sayavedra, L., Bueno Batista, M., Seah, B., Booth, C., Zhai, Q., Chen, W., et al. (2021). Desulfovibrio diazotrophica sp. nov., a Sulphate Reducing Bacterium from the Human Gut Capable of Nitrogen Fixation. Poster presented at World Microbe Forum 2021.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-B829-7
Abstract
Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are widespread in human guts, yet their expansion has been linked to colonic diseases. We report the isolation, sequencing, and physiological characterisation of strain QI0027T, a novel SRB species belonging to the class Desulfovibrionia. Metagenomic sequencing of stool samples from 45 Chinese individuals, and comparison with 1690 Desulfovibrionaceae metagenome-assembled genomes recovered from humans of diverse geographic locations, revealed the presence of QI0027T in 22 further individuals. QI0027T encoded nitrogen fixation genes and based on the acetylene reduction assay, actively fixed nitrogen. Transcriptomics revealed that QI0027T overexpressed 42 genes in nitrogen limiting conditions as compared to cultures supplemented with ammonia, including genes encoding nitrogenases, a urea uptake system and the urease complex. Reanalyses of 834 public stool metatranscriptomes showed that nitrogenase genes from Desulfovibrio bacteria were expressed in six samples suggesting that nitrogen fixation can occur in the gut environment. Although frequently thought as a nutrient-rich environment, nitrogen fixation can occur in the human gut. Animals are often nitrogen limited and have evolved diverse strategies to capture biologically active nitrogen, ranging from amino acid transporters to stable associations with beneficial microbes that provide fixed nitrogen. QI0027T is the first Desulfovibrio human isolate for which nitrogen fixation has been demonstrated, suggesting that some sulphate reducing bacteria could also play a role in the availability of nitrogen in the gut.