Metagenomics-guided analysis of microbial chemolithoautotrophic phosphite oxidation yields evidence of a seventh natural CO2fixation pathway

Author:

Figueroa Israel A.,Barnum Tyler P.,Somasekhar Pranav Y.,Carlström Charlotte I.,Engelbrektson Anna L.,Coates John D.

Abstract

Dissimilatory phosphite oxidation (DPO), a microbial metabolism by which phosphite (HPO32−) is oxidized to phosphate (PO43−), is the most energetically favorable chemotrophic electron-donating process known. Only one DPO organism has been described to date, and little is known about the environmental relevance of this metabolism. In this study, we used 16S rRNA gene community analysis and genome-resolved metagenomics to characterize anaerobic wastewater treatment sludge enrichments performing DPO coupled to CO2reduction. We identified an uncultivated DPO bacterium,CandidatusPhosphitivorax (Ca.P.) anaerolimi strain Phox-21, that belongs to candidate order GW-28 within theDeltaproteobacteria, which has no known cultured isolates. Genes for phosphite oxidation and for CO2reduction to formate were found in the genome ofCa.P. anaerolimi, but it appears to lack any of the known natural carbon fixation pathways. These observations led us to propose a metabolic model for autotrophic growth byCa.P. anaerolimi whereby DPO drives CO2reduction to formate, which is then assimilated into biomass via the reductive glycine pathway.

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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