Abstract
Planctomycetes occur in almost all aquatic ecosystems on earth. They have a remarkable cell biology, and members of the orders Planctomycetales and Pirellulales feature cell division by polar budding, perform a lifestyle switch from sessile to motile cells and have an enlarged periplasmic space. Here, we characterise a novel planctomycetal strain, Pla110T, isolated from the surface of polystyrene particles incubated in the Baltic Sea. After phylogenetic analysis, the strain could be placed in the family Planctomycetaceae. Strain Pla110T performs cell division by budding, has crateriform structures and grows in aggregates or rosettes. The strain is a chemoheterotroph, grows under mesophilic and neutrophilic conditions, and exhibited a doubling time of 21 h. Based on our phylogenetic and morphological characterisation, strain Pla110T (DSM 103387T = LMG 29693T) is concluded to represent a novel species belonging to a novel genus, for which we propose the name Polystyrenella longa gen. nov., sp. nov.
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Introduction
Planctomycetes are bacteria with a Gram-negative cell envelope architecture belonging to the PVC superphylum, along with Verrucomicrobia, Lentisphaerae, Kiritimatiellaeota, Candidatus Omnitrophica and Chlamydiae. Many representatives of this superphylum have major medical and biotechnological relevance (Wagner and Horn 2006), and can play key roles in global biogeochemical cycles (Peeters and van Niftrik 2018; Strous et al. 1999; Wiegand et al. 2018).
Planctomycetes are found in many environments, e.g. on (marine) algae (Bengtsson and Øvreås 2010; Bengtsson et al. 2012; Bondoso et al. 2014, 2015, 2017; Lage and Bondoso 2014; Vollmers et al. 2017), in peat bogs in northern wetlands (Kulichevskaya et al. 2012) or in hot springs (Slobodkina et al. 2015). They are assumed to metabolise complex carbon substrates released by biotic surfaces (Frank et al. 2014; Jeske et al. 2013; Lachnit et al. 2013; Wiegand et al. 2018). In the past, Planctomycetes were thought to have a number of exceptional traits (Devos et al. 2013; Devos and Reynaud 2010; Fuerst and Sagulenko 2011; Fuerst and Webb 1991; König et al. 1984; Lindsay et al. 1997; Lonhienne et al. 2010) that would place them at the base of the eukaryotes, but these properties have been re-interpreted in the recent years (Acehan et al. 2013; Boedeker et al. 2017; Jeske et al. 2015; Jogler 2014; Jogler et al. 2011; Jogler and Jogler 2013; Neumann et al. 2014; Rast et al. 2017; Rivas-Marin et al. 2016; Santarella-Mellwig et al. 2013). The cell envelope architecture of Planctomycetes was classified as Gram-negative (Boedeker et al. 2017; Devos 2014; van Teeseling et al. 2015).
Nevertheless, Planctomycetes are non-canonical as they have many remarkable properties. They perform cell division by budding or binary fission (or even a combination) while lacking most of the canonical cell division proteins, including FtsZ (Jogler et al. 2012; Pilhofer et al. 2008; Wiegand et al. 2020). Many Planctomycetes can perform a lifestyle switch between sessile mother cells and motile daughter cells (Jogler et al. 2011; Wiegand et al. 2020). They can also have unusual crateriform structures on their cell surfaces, which are visible by electron microscopy. Their periplasm is enlarged and forms large invaginations into the cytoplasm. Several planctomycetal strains are regarded as potential talented producers of as yet uncharacterised small bioactive molecules (Graça et al. 2016; Jeske et al. 2016; Wiegand et al. 2018). Many Planctomycetes possess large numbers of giant genes (Kohn et al. 2016; Reva et al. 2008) and are amongst the bacterial phyla with the highest number of predicted genes of unknown function (Overmann et al. 2017; Wiegand et al. 2018).
In this study, we describe a novel strain, Pla110T, which was isolated from polystyrene particles incubated in the Baltic Sea. The strain is part of the family Planctomycetaceae, which includes the limnic model planctomycete Planctopirus limnophila. Most of the other known members of this clade are marine bacteria.
Materials and methods
Isolation and cultivation
Strain Pla110T was collected during a sampling campaign, in which polystyrene particles were stored in small incubators, submerged in water and incubated at the given location for 14 days. The strain characterised here was isolated from the Baltic Sea 120 m off the shore at Heiligendamm, Germany (54.146 N 11.843 E). Isolation was performed as previously described (Wiegand et al. 2020).
The strain was cultivated and analysed in M1H medium supplemented with N-acetyl-glucosamine (NAG) and artificial seawater (ASW) (M1H NAG ASW medium) as described earlier (Wiegand et al. 2020) and incubated in a shaking incubator at 28 °C and 110 rpm. Medium supplemented with 1.5% (w/v) washed agar was used for plates.
Light microscopy and electron microscopy
Phase contrast micrographs were taken with a Nikon Eclipse Ti inverted microscope and a Nikon DS-Ri2 camera. To ensure good image quality, specimens were immobilised using a 1% (w/v) agarose cushion and MatTek glass bottom dishes (35 mm, No. 1.5) (Boedeker et al. 2017). ImageJ (Rueden et al. 2017) was used to examine cell size by sequentially applying an Otsu threshold, a watershed, and count particles.
Field emission scanning electron microscopy was performed as described (Boersma et al. 2019). Briefly, bacteria were fixed in formaldehyde, washed, and placed on cover slips coated with poly-l-lysine solution. Cover slips were then fixed in 1% (v/v) glutaraldehyde and washed twice before dehydrating in a graded series of acetone (10, 30, 50, 70, 90, 100% (v/v)) on ice. Samples from the 100% acetone step were brought to room temperature before placing them in fresh 100% acetone. Samples were then subjected to critical-point drying with liquid CO2 (CPD 300, Leica). Dried samples were covered with a gold/palladium (80/20) film by sputter coating (SCD 500, Bal-Tec) before examination in a field emission scanning electron microscope (Zeiss Merlin) using the Everhart Thornley HESE2 detector and the inlens SE detector in a 25:75 ratio at an acceleration voltage of 5 kV.
Physiological analyses
Determination of the pH optimum for growth was performed at 28 °C, with buffering agents 100 mM 2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid (MES) at pH 5 and 6, 100 mM (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid) (HEPES) at pH 7, 7.5 and 8, or 100 mM N-cyclohexyl-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid (CHES) at pH 9 and 10. Temperature optimum for growth determination was performed at pH 7.5 with temperatures ranging from 10 to 40 °C. Cell densities were inferred from optical density measurements (OD600).
Genome information
The genome and 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain Pla110T are available from GenBank under accession numbers CP036281 and MK554533, respectively. Information on genome sequencing and assembly was previously published (Wiegand et al. 2020).
Phylogenetic analysis
16S rRNA gene-based phylogeny was computed for strain Pla110T, the type strains of all described planctomycetal species (assessed in January 2020), all isolates recently described (Boersma et al. 2019; Kallscheuer et al. 2019a, b, c, d, 2020; Kohn et al. 2019; Peeters et al. 2019; Rensink et al. 2020; Wiegand et al. 2020) and with an outgroup of strains from outside the Planctomycetes, but part of the PVC superphylum. The alignment of 16S rRNA genes was made with SINA (Pruesse et al. 2012). Phylogenetic analysis was performed employing a maximum likelihood approach with 1,000 bootstraps, the nucleotide substitution model GTR, gamma distribution, and estimation of proportion of invariable sites using GTRGAMMAI (Stamatakis 2014).
The genomes for the genome-based analyses were gathered from GenBank, including the sequence for strain Pla110T. Completeness and contamination of the genome was determined using CheckM v1.0.131 (Parks et al. 2015). The average nucleotide identity (ANI) was calculated using OrthoANI (Lee et al. 2016), the average amino acid identity (AAI) was computed with the aai.rb script from the enveomics collection (Rodriguez-R and Konstantinidis 2016) and the percentage of conserved proteins (POCP) was determined as previously described (Qin et al. 2014). The rpoB nucleotide sequences (encoding the β-subunit of the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase) were taken from the genome annotations and the sequence identities were determined as described before (Bondoso et al. 2013). Upon extracting only those parts of the sequences that would have been sequenced with the described primer set, the alignment and matrix calculation was done with Clustal Omega (Sievers et al. 2011). The genus thresholds for rpoB were taken from a previous study (Kallscheuer et al. 2019d).
For the multi-locus sequence analysis (MLSA), the unique single-copy core genome of all analysed genomes was determined with proteinortho5 (Lechner et al. 2011) with the ‘selfblast’ option enabled. The protein sequences of the resulting orthologous groups were aligned using MUSCLE v.3.8.31 (Edgar 2004). After clipping, partially aligned C- and N-terminal regions and poorly aligned internal regions were filtered using Gblocks (Castresana 2000). The final alignment was concatenated and clustered using the maximum likelihood method implemented by RaxML (Stamatakis 2014) with the ‘rapid bootstrap’ method and 500 bootstrap replicates. The outgroup consisted of concatenated gene sets of strains from the order Pirellulales.
Results and discussion
Morphological and physiological analyses
Strain Pla110T forms white colonies, while colony colours of related strains range from white to ochre (Table 1). Mature cells of strain Pla110T are attached to each other by loose polar fimbriae, enabling the cells to grow in aggregates or rosettes (Fig. 1a). Fibres originate from crateriform structures, which were also observed on one of the two poles of Pla110T cells.
When examined with phase contrast microscopy, the cells appeared to be pear-shaped and on average 1.4 ± 0.2 by 0.7 ± 0.1 µm in size (Fig. 1b), which is relatively elongated for a planctomycetal cell (Table 1). This characteristic makes them distinguishable from their close relatives. Typical for members of Planctomycetaceae, the cells perform cell division by polar budding. The wider side of the cell was always observed to be the origin of the nascent bud during both SEM and phase contrast microscopy (Fig. 1a).
Strain Pla110T was isolated from the surface of plastic (polystyrene), whereas many of its close relatives were found on plant surfaces and can subsist on sugars. The strain was found to grow chemoorganotrophically, to be strictly aerobic and to grow at temperatures ranging from 10 to 27 °C, with the optimum at 24 °C (Fig. 1b). The pH values that permit growth of the strain range from 6.5 to 8.5, with the optimum at 7.5 (Fig. 1b). The growth rate of this strain was calculated to be 0.033 h− 1, which corresponds to a doubling time of 21 h.
Genomic characteristics
Compared to other Planctomycetes, the genome of the novel strain features an average number of transposable elements per Mb (0.82). Proteins per Mb (752), genes per Mb (762) and tRNAs per Mb (7.67) are all at the lower end of the planctomycete spectrum (Table 1). The genome is 6,125,480 bp in length, features two 16S rRNA genes and has a coding density of 84.5%. The G + C content of strain Pla110T is 55.3%, which is in the lower range compared to other members of the family Planctomycetaceae (50.4–70.7%, Table 1). The number of transposable elements per Mb (0.82) is higher than for most of its close relatives.
Phylogenetic analysis
Based on 16S rRNA gene comparison and MLSA, strain Pla110T clusters within the family Planctomycetaceae according to the recent re-definition (Dedysh et al. 2019) (Fig. 2). However, it remains elusive from these analyses which genus is the current closest neighbour, although both trees showed a relationship with the type strain of Gimesia maris, to which high pairwise 16S rRNA homology was found (90.5%). The 16S rRNA sequence similarities between strain Pla110T and the described genera within the family Planctomycetaceae range from 81.7–90.6% (Fig. 3). These identity values are below the suggested threshold for genera of 94.5% (Yarza et al. 2014), indicating that strain Pla110T is not part of any established genus, but instead represents a novel genus.
Other phylogenetic markers, such as rpoB similarity (Bondoso et al. 2013), AAI (Konstantinidis and Tiedje 2005) and POCP (Qin et al. 2014) provide additional means to determine if strain Pla110T is indeed part of a new genus (Fig. 3). Comparison of AAI values of strain Pla110T and other members of the family Planctomycetaceae result in an identity range between 48.3% and 52.8% (Fig. 3). This range falls below the threshold of 60%, supporting the conclusion that this strain is indeed part of a novel genus (Luo et al. 2014). Comparison of the POCP yielded values of 35.7–44.3% (Fig. 3), which are below the 50% cut-off value, again indicating a separate genus. The similarity of a 1200 bp region of the rpoB gene was used previously to infer phylogeny in genera belonging to the family Planctomycetaceae (Kallscheuer et al. 2019d). For the novel strain, we observed an identity of the mentioned partial sequence of the rpoB gene of 64.9–72.4% to other Planctomycetaceae members (Fig. 3). Again, these values are below the proposed threshold range for genera of 75.5–78% (Kallscheuer et al. 2019d), which is in line with the delineation of Pla110T from existing genera.
Taken together, based on results obtained for phylogeny and morphology we conclude that strain Pla110T belongs to a novel genus. We propose the name Polystyrenella gen. nov., with Polystyrenella longa sp. nov. as type species. Pla110T is the type strain of Polystyrenella longa.
Polystyrenella gen. nov.
Polystyrenella (Po.ly.sty.re.nel’la. N.L. neut. n. polystyrenum polystyrene; N.L. fem. dim. n. Polystyrenella an organism isolated from polystyrene).
The members of this genus have a Gram-negative cell envelope architecture, are aerobic, mesophilic, neutrophilic and heterotrophic. Cells are pear-shaped and divide by polar budding. The genus is part of the family Planctomycetaceae, order Planctomycetales, class Planctomycetia, phylum Planctomycetes.
Polystyrenella longa sp. nov.
Polystyrenella longa (lon’ga. L. fem. adj. longa long; corresponding to the longish appearance of the cells).
The members of this species are pear-shaped cells that grow in aggregates or rosettes. The cells are between 1.4 ± 0.2 by 0.7 ± 0.1 µm in size and divide by polar budding. The cells produce fimbriae originating from one of the cell poles, and have crateriform structures on this fibre pole. The type strain grows at 10–27 °C (optimum 24 °C) and pH 6.5–8.5 (optimum 7.5). Forms white colonies on M1H NAG ASW agar. The G + C content of the type strain genome is 50.3%.
The type strain, Pla110T (DSM 103387T = LMG 29693T), was isolated from polystyrene particles submerged near Heiligendamm in the Baltic Sea. The genome (accession no. CP036281) and 16S rRNA gene sequence (accession no. MK554533) are available from GenBank.
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Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL. Part of this research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grants KA 4967/1–1 and JO 893/4 − 1, Grant ALWOP.308 of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), SIAM (Soehngen Institute for Anaerobic Microbiology) Grant No. 024002002 and the Radboud Excellence fellowship. We thank Ina Schleicher for skillful technical assistance. Brian Tindall and Regine Fähnrich from the DSMZ as well as the BCCM/LMG Bacteria collection we thank for support during strain deposition. We thank our collaborators Sonja Oberbeckmann and Matthias Labrenz (IOW Warnemünde, Germany) for sampling support.
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S.H.P. and S.W. wrote the manuscript, analysed the data and prepared the figures, S.W. performed the genomic and phylogenetic analysis, A.H. and M.J. isolated the strains and performed the initial cultivation and strain deposition, S.H.P. and C.B. performed the light microscopic analysis, N.K. and M.S.M.J. contributed to text preparation and revised the manuscript, M.R. performed the electron microscopic analysis. C.J. supervised A.H. and the study. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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Peeters, S.H., Wiegand, S., Kallscheuer, N. et al. Description of Polystyrenella longa gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from polystyrene particles incubated in the Baltic Sea. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 113, 1851–1862 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-020-01406-5
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