Summary
Thermotoga petrophila is a hyperthermophilic, anaerobic, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, fermentative heterotroph, with type strain RKU-1T.[1] T. petrophila was first discovered and isolated from an oil reservoir off of the coast of Japan and was deemed genetically distinct from its sister clades. Because these organism are found in deep, hot aquatic settings, they have become of great interest for biotechnology due to their enzymes functioning at high temperatures and pressures.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Thermotogota |
| Class: | Thermotogae |
| Order: | Thermotogales |
| Family: | Thermotogaceae |
| Genus: | Thermotoga |
| Species: | T. petrophila
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| Binomial name | |
| Thermotoga petrophila Takahata et al. 2001
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Description edit
T. petrophila strain RKU-1 belongs to one of the deepest branching bacteria phyla, Thermotogota, but it is a member of a later branching clade within its genus Thermotoga.[2] T. petrophila was first isolated from an oil reserve off the coast of Japan in 2001.[1] This was the first time that this novel organism was morphologically and genetically described.
Morphological Characteristic edit
T. petrophila are rod shaped bacteria containing a sheath like structure that balloons at both ends called a toga. Typically, the cells size ranged from 2-7 µm long to 0.7-1.0 µm wide, and have flagella at the subpolar and lateral regions of the cell. The optimal growth rate occurs at 80 °C, but growth is observed from 47-88 °C. Growth occurs between pH 5.2-9.0 with optimum growth occurring at a pH 7. Ionic strength as well as oxygen availability affects the growth of T. petrophila negatively. It can grow and obtain carbon from the majority of sugars, excluding mannitol and xylose. While it cannot reduce sulfate to hydrogen sulfide, it reduces sulfur to thiosulfate which is further reduced to hydrogen sulfide.[1]
Genotypic Characteristics edit
T. petrophila shares more than 99% of its 16S rRNA genetic sequence with its sister clade, T. maritima, T. neapolitana, and T. naphthophila, but each of these are distinct species as they share less than 30% similarity shown by DNA-DNA hybridization experiments.[1][2] The G+C base content of the DNA is 46.6%.[1] T. petrophila is also known to contain one of the smallest plasmids. Thermotoga petrophila RKU1 plasmid (pRKU1) is negatively supercoiled, contains 846 base pairs, and carries only the rep gene.[3] Due to T. Petrophila being part of the deep branching bacterial lineages, some horizontal genetic transfer has occurred with the maltose transporter gene (mal3) and the archaeal lineage Thermococcales, while the mal1 and mal2 genes are more closely related to bacterial maltose transporter genes.[4]
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Metabolism edit
The majority of the Thermotogota species use the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway to catabolize glucose, however, during the tricarboxylic acid pathway,T. petrophila, uses the malic enzyme to create a pyruvate intermediate. They oxidatively catabolize malate to succinyl-CoA and reductively produce succinate from malate.[5]
Applications edit
Because these organisms are found near hyperthermophic deep sea oil rigs, their enzymes tend to be thermostable. Recently, the textile industry was investigating the fermentative scale up strategy of cloning the α – amylase gene from T. petrophila into E. coli. Their results indicate that the efficiency of this enzyme helps with the desizing of cotton cloth.[1][6]
For the biofuel industry, cellulase enzyme genes from T. petrophila have been cloned and put into E. coli for an enhanced saccharification reaction from softwood dust. With nitric acid treatment and the transformed enzymes, the results revealed that lignin degradation was more efficiently optimized and that the recombinant cellulases actively hydrolyzed cellulose indicating that this method could potentially be used for better lignocellulosic based bioethanol manufacturing.[7]
For medical purposes, T. petrophila K4 genetically engineered strain used its DNA polymerase (K4polL329A) for a detection method of acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) detection kit.[8]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f Takahata Y, Nishijima M, Hoaki T, Maruyama T (September 2001). "Thermotoga petrophila sp. nov. and Thermotoga naphthophila sp. nov., two hyperthermophilic bacteria from the Kubiki oil reservoir in Niigata, Japan". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 5): 1901–1909. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-5-1901. PMID 11594624.
- ^ a b Bhandari V, Gupta RS (2014). "The Phylum Thermotogae". In Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F (eds.). The Prokaryotes: Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 989–1015. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_118. ISBN 978-3-642-38954-2.
- ^ Smillie C, Garcillán-Barcia MP, Francia MV, Rocha EP, de la Cruz F (September 2010). "Mobility of plasmids". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 74 (3): 434–452. doi:10.1128/MMBR.00020-10. PMC 2937521. PMID 20805406.
- ^ Noll KM, Lapierre P, Gogarten JP, Nanavati DM (January 2008). "Evolution of mal ABC transporter operons in the Thermococcales and Thermotogales". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8 (1): 7. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-7. PMC 2246101. PMID 18197971.
- ^ Zhaxybayeva O, Swithers KS, Lapierre P, Fournier GP, Bickhart DM, DeBoy RT, et al. (April 2009). "On the chimeric nature, thermophilic origin, and phylogenetic placement of the Thermotogales". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106 (14): 5865–5870. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.5865Z. doi:10.1073/pnas.0901260106. PMC 2667022. PMID 19307556.
- ^ Zafar A, Aftab MN, Iqbal I, Din ZU, Saleem MA (January 2019). "Pilot-scale production of a highly thermostable α-amylase enzyme from Thermotoga petrophila cloned into E. coli and its application as a desizer in textile industry". RSC Advances. 9 (2): 984–992. Bibcode:2019RSCAd...9..984Z. doi:10.1039/C8RA06554C. PMC 9059537. PMID 35517638.
- ^ Haq I, Mustafa Z, Nawaz A, Mukhtar H, Zhou X, Xu Y (2020-07-23). "Comparative assessment of acids and alkali based pretreatment on sawdust for enhanced saccharification with thermophilic cellulases". Revista Mexicana de Ingeniería Química. 19 (Sup. 1): 305–314. doi:10.24275/rmiq/Bio1702. ISSN 2395-8472. S2CID 225313585.
- ^ Summer S, Schmidt R, Herdina AN, Krickl I, Madner J, Greiner G, Mayer FJ, Perkmann-Nagele N, Strassl R (July 2020). "High stability of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA under minimal storage conditions for detection by Real-Time PCR". pp. 1–9. medRxiv 10.1101/2020.07.21.20158154.
Further reading edit
- Dworkin M, Falkow S, Rosenberg E, Schleifer KH, Stackebrandt E, eds. (2006). The Prokaryotes: Volume 7: Proteobacteria: Delta, Epsilon Subclass. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-30747-3.
- Priest F, Goodfellow M, eds. (November 2000). Applied Microbial Systematics. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-412-71660-7.
- Haq IU, Khan MA, Muneer B, Hussain Z, Afzal S, Majeed S, et al. (September 2012). "Cloning, characterization and molecular docking of a highly thermostable β-1,4-glucosidase from Thermotoga petrophila". Biotechnology Letters. 34 (9): 1703–1709. doi:10.1007/s10529-012-0953-0. PMID 22714267. S2CID 17477338.
- Souza TA, Santos CR, Souza AR, Oldiges DP, Ruller R, Prade RA, et al. (September 2011). "Structure of a novel thermostable GH51 α-L-arabinofuranosidase from Thermotoga petrophila RKU-1". Protein Science. 20 (9): 1632–1637. doi:10.1002/pro.693. PMC 3190157. PMID 21796714.
- Sano S, Yamada Y, Shinkawa T, Kato S, Okada T, Higashibata H, Fujiwara S (March 2012). "Mutations to create thermostable reverse transcriptase with bacterial family A DNA polymerase from Thermotoga petrophila K4". Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 113 (3): 315–321. doi:10.1016/j.jbiosc.2011.11.001. PMID 22143068.
External links edit
- "Thermotoga petrophila" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- LPSN
- Type strain of Thermotoga petrophila at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
