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Disentangle genus microdiversity within a complex microbial community by using a multi-distance long-read binning method: example of Candidatus Accumulibacter

Adler, Aline  
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Poirier, Simon  
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Pagni, Marco
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March 22, 2022
Environmental Microbiology

Complete genomes can be recovered from metagenomes by assembling and binning DNA sequences into metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs). Yet, the presence of microdiversity can hamper the assembly and binning processes, possibly yielding chimeric, highly fragmented and incomplete genomes. Here, the metagenomes of four samples of aerobic granular sludge bioreactors containing Candidatus (Ca.) Accumulibacter, a phosphate-accumulating organism of interest for wastewater treatment, were sequenced with both PacBio and Illumina. Different strategies of genome assembly and binning were investigated, including published protocols and a binning procedure adapted to the binning of long contigs (MuLoBiSC). Multiple criteria were considered to select the best strategy for Ca. Accumulibacter, whose multiple strains in every sample represent a challenging microdiversity. In this case, the best strategy relies on long-read only assembly and a custom binning procedure including MuLoBiSC in metaWRAP. Several high-quality Ca. Accumulibacter MAGs, including a novel species, were obtained independently from different samples. Comparative genomic analysis showed that MAGs retrieved in different samples harbour genomic rearrangements in addition to accumulation of point mutations. The microdiversity of Ca. Accumulibacter, likely driven by mobile genetic elements, causes major difficulties in recovering MAGs, but it is also a hallmark of the panmictic lifestyle of these bacteria.

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research article
DOI
10.1111/1462-2920.15947
Web of Science ID

WOS:000771535000001

Author(s)
Adler, Aline  
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Poirier, Simon  
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Pagni, Marco
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Maillard, Julien  
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Holliger, Christof  
Date Issued

2022-03-22

Publisher

WILEY

Published in
Environmental Microbiology
Volume

24

Issue

4

Start page

2136

End page

2156

Subjects

Microbiology

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uncultured bacteria

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genome

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alignment

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diversity

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annotation

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replication

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sequences

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resource

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insights

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elements

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/186992
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