Metagenomic evidence of a novel family of anammox bacteria in a subsea environment
Journal article, 2022

Bacteria in the order ‘CandidatusBrocadiales’ within the phylum Planctomycetes (Planctomycetota) have the remarkable ability to perform anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox). Two families of anammox bacteria with different biogeographical distributions have been reported, marine Ca. Scalinduaceae and freshwater Ca. Brocadiaceae. Here we report evidence of three new species within a novel genus an dfamily of anammox bacteria, which were discovered in biofilms of a subsea road tunnel under a fjord in Norway. In this particular ecosystem, the nitrogen cycle is likely fuelled by ammonia from organic matter degradation in the fjord sediments and the rock mass above the tunnel, resulting in the growth of biofilms where anammox bacteria can thrive under oxygen limitation. We resolved several metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of anammox bacteria, including three Ca. Brocadiales MAGs that could not be classified at the family level. MAGs of this novel family had all the diagnostic genes for a full anaerobic ammonium oxidation pathway in which nitrite was probably reduced by a NirK-like reductase. A survey of published molecular data indicated that this new family of anammox bacteria occurs in many marine sediments, where its members presumably would contribute to nitrogen loss.

Author

Carolina Suarez

Lund University

University of Gothenburg

Paula Martins

Radboud University

Mike Jetten

Radboud University

Sabina Karacic

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Water Environment Technology

Britt-Marie Wilen

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Water Environment Technology

Oskar Modin

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Water Environment Technology

Per Hagelia

Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA)

Malte Hermansson

University of Gothenburg

Frank Persson

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Water Environment Technology

Environmental Microbiology

1462-2912 (ISSN) 1462-2920 (eISSN)

Vol. 24 5 2348-2360

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Formas (2018-01423), 2019-01-01 -- 2021-12-31.

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Biological Systematics

Ecology

Microbiology

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1111/1462-2920.16006

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5/31/2022