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. 2007 Nov 22;450(7169):560-5.
doi: 10.1038/nature06269.

Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite

Falk Warnecke  1 , Peter Luginbühl, Natalia Ivanova, Majid Ghassemian, Toby H Richardson, Justin T Stege, Michelle Cayouette, Alice C McHardy, Gordana Djordjevic, Nahla Aboushadi, Rotem Sorek, Susannah G Tringe, Mircea Podar, Hector Garcia Martin, Victor Kunin, Daniel Dalevi, Julita Madejska, Edward Kirton, Darren Platt, Ernest Szeto, Asaf Salamov, Kerrie Barry, Natalia Mikhailova, Nikos C Kyrpides, Eric G Matson, Elizabeth A Ottesen, Xinning Zhang, Myriam Hernández, Catalina Murillo, Luis G Acosta, Isidore Rigoutsos, Giselle Tamayo, Brian D Green, Cathy Chang, Edward M Rubin, Eric J Mathur, Dan E Robertson, Philip Hugenholtz, Jared R Leadbetter
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Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite

Falk Warnecke (VSports在线直播) et al. Nature. .
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Abstract

From the standpoints of both basic research and biotechnology, there is considerable interest in reaching a clearer understanding of the diversity of biological mechanisms employed during lignocellulose degradation. Globally, termites are an extremely successful group of wood-degrading organisms and are therefore important both for their roles in carbon turnover in the environment and as potential sources of biochemical catalysts for efforts aimed at converting wood into biofuels. Only recently have data supported any direct role for the symbiotic bacteria in the gut of the termite in cellulose and xylan hydrolysis. Here we use a metagenomic analysis of the bacterial community resident in the hindgut paunch of a wood-feeding 'higher' Nasutitermes species (which do not contain cellulose-fermenting protozoa) to show the presence of a large, diverse set of bacterial genes for cellulose and xylan hydrolysis. Many of these genes were expressed in vivo or had cellulase activity in vitro, and further analyses implicate spirochete and fibrobacter species in gut lignocellulose degradation. New insights into other important symbiotic functions including H2 metabolism, CO2-reductive acetogenesis and N2 fixation are also provided by this first system-wide gene analysis of a microbial community specialized towards plant lignocellulose degradation VSports手机版. Our results underscore how complex even a 1-microl environment can be. .

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