The increasing application of anammox processes suggests their enormous potential for nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment facilities.However,the functional potentials and ecological differentiation of cooccurring...The increasing application of anammox processes suggests their enormous potential for nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment facilities.However,the functional potentials and ecological differentiation of cooccurring anammox species in complex ecosystems have not been well elucidated.Herein,by utilizing functional reconstruction and comparative genome analysis,we deciphered the cooccurring mechanisms of four Candidatus Brocadia species that were spontaneously enriched in a full-scale swine wastewater treatment system.Phylogenetic analysis indicated that species SW172 and SW745 were closely related to Ca.Brocadia caroliniensis and Ca.Brocadia sapporoensis,respectively,whereas the dominant species SW510 and SW773,with a total average abundance of 34.1%,were classified as novel species of the genus Ca.Brocadia.Functional reconstruction revealed that the novel species SW510 can encode both cytochrome cd1-type nitrite reductase and hydroxylamine oxidase for nitrite reduction.In contrast,the detected respiratory pentaheme cytochrome c nitrite reductase and acetate kinase genes suggested that SW773 likely reduced nitrite to ammonium with acetate as a carbon source.Intriguingly,the presence of genes encoding urease and cyanase indicated that both novel species can use diverse organic nitrogen compounds in addition to ammonia and nitrite as substrates.Taken together,the recovery and comparative analysis of these anammox genomes expand our understanding of the functional differentiation and cooccurrence of the genus Ca.Brocadia in wastewater treatment systems.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52000185,51878675,and 51622813)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2021A1515010512)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,Sun Yat-sen University(No.2021qntd07).
文摘The increasing application of anammox processes suggests their enormous potential for nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment facilities.However,the functional potentials and ecological differentiation of cooccurring anammox species in complex ecosystems have not been well elucidated.Herein,by utilizing functional reconstruction and comparative genome analysis,we deciphered the cooccurring mechanisms of four Candidatus Brocadia species that were spontaneously enriched in a full-scale swine wastewater treatment system.Phylogenetic analysis indicated that species SW172 and SW745 were closely related to Ca.Brocadia caroliniensis and Ca.Brocadia sapporoensis,respectively,whereas the dominant species SW510 and SW773,with a total average abundance of 34.1%,were classified as novel species of the genus Ca.Brocadia.Functional reconstruction revealed that the novel species SW510 can encode both cytochrome cd1-type nitrite reductase and hydroxylamine oxidase for nitrite reduction.In contrast,the detected respiratory pentaheme cytochrome c nitrite reductase and acetate kinase genes suggested that SW773 likely reduced nitrite to ammonium with acetate as a carbon source.Intriguingly,the presence of genes encoding urease and cyanase indicated that both novel species can use diverse organic nitrogen compounds in addition to ammonia and nitrite as substrates.Taken together,the recovery and comparative analysis of these anammox genomes expand our understanding of the functional differentiation and cooccurrence of the genus Ca.Brocadia in wastewater treatment systems.
