TY - JOUR
T1 - Seasonal changes in the abundance of bacterial genes related to dimethylsulfoniopropionate catabolism in seawater from Ofunato Bay revealed by metagenomic analysis
AU - Kudo, Toshiaki
AU - Kobiyama, Atsushi
AU - Rashid, Jonaira
AU - Reza, Shaheed
AU - Yamada, Yuichiro
AU - Ikeda, Yuri
AU - Ikeda, Daisuke
AU - Mizusawa, Nanami
AU - Ikeo, Kazuho
AU - Sato, Shigeru
AU - Ogata, Takehiko
AU - Jimbo, Mitsuru
AU - Kaga, Shinnosuke
AU - Watanabe, Shiho
AU - Naiki, Kimiaki
AU - Kaga, Yoshimasa
AU - Segawa, Satoshi
AU - Mineta, Katsuhiko
AU - Bajic, Vladimir B.
AU - Gojobori, Takashi
AU - Watabe, Shugo
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): URF/1/1976
Acknowledgements: We thank Dr. Toshiya Iida and Dr. Masahiro Yuki of RIKEN for their helpful advice regarding the bioinformatic analysis. This publication is based upon work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award No URF/1/1976.
PY - 2018/4/26
Y1 - 2018/4/26
N2 - Ofunato Bay is located in the northeastern Pacific Ocean area of Japan, and it has the highest biodiversity of marine organisms in the world, primarily due to tidal influences from the cold Oyashio and warm Kuroshio currents. Our previous results from performing shotgun metagenomics indicated that Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique and Planktomarina temperata were the dominant bacteria (Reza et al., 2018a, 2018b). These bacteria are reportedly able to catabolize dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) produced from phytoplankton into dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or methanethiol (MeSH). This study was focused on seasonal changes in the abundances of bacterial genes (dddP, dmdA) related to DMSP catabolism in the seawater of Ofunato Bay by BLAST+ analysis using shotgun metagenomic datasets. We found seasonal changes among the Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique strains, including those of the HTCC1062 type and the Red Sea type. A good correlation was observed between the chlorophyll a concentrations and the abundances of the catabolic genes, suggesting that the bacteria directly interact with phytoplankton in the marine material cycle system and play important roles in producing DMS and MeSH from DMSP as signaling molecules for the possible formation of the scent of the tidewater or as fish attractants.
AB - Ofunato Bay is located in the northeastern Pacific Ocean area of Japan, and it has the highest biodiversity of marine organisms in the world, primarily due to tidal influences from the cold Oyashio and warm Kuroshio currents. Our previous results from performing shotgun metagenomics indicated that Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique and Planktomarina temperata were the dominant bacteria (Reza et al., 2018a, 2018b). These bacteria are reportedly able to catabolize dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) produced from phytoplankton into dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or methanethiol (MeSH). This study was focused on seasonal changes in the abundances of bacterial genes (dddP, dmdA) related to DMSP catabolism in the seawater of Ofunato Bay by BLAST+ analysis using shotgun metagenomic datasets. We found seasonal changes among the Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique strains, including those of the HTCC1062 type and the Red Sea type. A good correlation was observed between the chlorophyll a concentrations and the abundances of the catabolic genes, suggesting that the bacteria directly interact with phytoplankton in the marine material cycle system and play important roles in producing DMS and MeSH from DMSP as signaling molecules for the possible formation of the scent of the tidewater or as fish attractants.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627697
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378111918304542
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046744629&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.gene.2018.04.072
DO - 10.1016/j.gene.2018.04.072
M3 - Article
C2 - 29705130
SN - 0378-1119
VL - 665
SP - 174
EP - 184
JO - Gene
JF - Gene
ER -
