Fungiculture in termites is associated with a mycolytic gut bacterial community
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Fungiculture in termites is associated with a mycolytic gut bacterial community. / Hu, Haofu; da Costa, Rafael Rodrigues; Pilgaard, Bo; Schiøtt, Morten; Lange, Lene; Poulsen, Michael.
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T1 - Fungiculture in termites is associated with a mycolytic gut bacterial community
AU - Hu, Haofu
AU - da Costa, Rafael Rodrigues
AU - Pilgaard, Bo
AU - Schiøtt, Morten
AU - Lange, Lene
AU - Poulsen, Michael
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Termites forage on a range of substrates, and it has been suggested that diet shapes the composition and function of termite gut bacterial communities. Through comparative analyses of gut metagenomes in nine termite species with distinct diets, we characterize bacterial community compositions and use peptidebased functional annotation method to determine biomass-degrading enzymes and the bacterial taxa that encode them. We find that fungus-growing termite guts have relatively more fungal cell wall-degrading enzyme genes, while wood-feeding termite gut communities have relatively more plant cell wall-degrading enzyme genes. Interestingly, wood-feeding termite gut bacterial genes code for abundant chitinolytic enzymes, suggesting that fungal biomass within the decaying wood likely contributes to gut bacterial or termite host nutrition. Across diets, the dominant biomass-degrading enzymes are predominantly coded for by the most abundant bacterial taxa, suggesting tight links between diet and gut community composition, with the most marked difference being the communities coding for the mycolytic capacity of the fungus-growing termite gut.
AB - Termites forage on a range of substrates, and it has been suggested that diet shapes the composition and function of termite gut bacterial communities. Through comparative analyses of gut metagenomes in nine termite species with distinct diets, we characterize bacterial community compositions and use peptidebased functional annotation method to determine biomass-degrading enzymes and the bacterial taxa that encode them. We find that fungus-growing termite guts have relatively more fungal cell wall-degrading enzyme genes, while wood-feeding termite gut communities have relatively more plant cell wall-degrading enzyme genes. Interestingly, wood-feeding termite gut bacterial genes code for abundant chitinolytic enzymes, suggesting that fungal biomass within the decaying wood likely contributes to gut bacterial or termite host nutrition. Across diets, the dominant biomass-degrading enzymes are predominantly coded for by the most abundant bacterial taxa, suggesting tight links between diet and gut community composition, with the most marked difference being the communities coding for the mycolytic capacity of the fungus-growing termite gut.
KW - Carbohydrate-active enzymes
KW - Cellulase
KW - Chitinase
KW - HiSeq
KW - HotPep
KW - Metagenomics
KW - Peptide-based functional predictions
U2 - 10.1128/mSphere.00165-19
DO - 10.1128/mSphere.00165-19
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31092601
AN - SCOPUS:85066833365
VL - 4
JO - mSphere
JF - mSphere
SN - 2379-5042
IS - 3
M1 - e00165-19
ER -
ID: 225792521