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Carbon Fixation by Marine Ultrasmall Prokaryotes

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Autotrophic carbon fixation is a crucial process for sustaining life on Earth. To date, six pathways, the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle, the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle, the 3-hydroxypropionate bicycle , the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, the dicarboxylate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle, and the 4-hydroxybutyrate cycle, have been described. Nano-organisms such as members of the Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) bacterial superphylum and the Diapherotrites, Parvarchaeota, Aenigmarchaeota, Nanoarchaeota, Nanohalorchaeota (DPANN) archaeal superphylum could deeply impact carbon cycling and carbon fixation in ways that are still to be determined. CPR and DPANN are ubiquitous in the environment but understudied; their gene contents are not exhaustively described; and their metabolisms are not yet fully understood. Here, the completeness of each of the above pathways was quantified and tested for the presence of all key enzymes in nano-organisms from across the World Ocean. The novel marine ultrasmall prokaryotes were demonstrated to collectively harbor the genes required for carbon fixation, in particular the "energetically efficient" dicarboxylate/4-hydroxybutyrate pathway and the 4-hydroxybutyrate pathway. This contrasted with the known carbon metabolic pathways associated with CPR members in aquifers, where they are described as degraders (Castelle CJ, et al. 2015. Genomic expansion of domain archaea highlights roles for organisms from new phyla in anaerobic carbon cycling. Curr Biol. 25(6):690-701; Castelle CJ, et al. 2018. Biosynthetic capacity, metabolic variety and unusual biology in the CPR and DPANN radiations. Nat Rev Microbiol. 16(10):629-645; Anantharaman K, et al. 2016. Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system. Nat Commun. 7:13219.). Our findings suggest that nano-organisms have a broader contribution to carbon fixation and cycling than currently assumed. Furthermore, CPR and DPANN superphyla are possibly not the only nanosized prokaryotes; therefore, the discovery of new autotrophic marine nano-organisms by future single cell genomics is anticipated.
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hal-02277606 , version 1 (03-09-2019)

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Romain Lannes, Karen Olsson-Francis, Philippe Lopez, Eric Bapteste. Carbon Fixation by Marine Ultrasmall Prokaryotes. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2019, 11 (4), pp.1166-1177. ⟨10.1093/gbe/evz050⟩. ⟨hal-02277606⟩
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