Unraveling of Chlorella-Associated Bacterial Load, Diversity, and their Imputed Functions at High- and Low-Yield Conditions through Metagenome Sequencing.

Madhubalaji, C. K. and Sarada, R. and Sandeep, N. Mudliar (2022) Unraveling of Chlorella-Associated Bacterial Load, Diversity, and their Imputed Functions at High- and Low-Yield Conditions through Metagenome Sequencing. Journal of Phycology, 58. pp. 133-145.

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Abstract

Chlorella-associated bacteria can have a significant influence on facilitating higher Chlorella biomass yield due to their symbiotic relationship. In this study, non-axenic Chlorella was cultivated in an airlift photobioreactor at high and low-yield conditions. The associated bacterial diversity was analyzed using 16S rRNA metagenome sequencing. At high-yield conditions, the bacterial load was observed in the range of 108-1010CFU � mL−1, whereas at low-yield conditions, bacteria were more dominant and observed in the range of 1014– 1015 CFU � mL−1. The majority of the bacterial species associated with Chlorella at high-yield conditions belongs to Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes. Further, Bacteroidetes levels were decreased at low-yield conditions and were highly diversified with Planctomycetes, Firmicutes, and 18 others. Predicted functional genes indicated that Chlorella-associated bacteria have the enzymes involved in the metabolism and biosynthesis of Bcomplex vitamins (i.e., vitamin B12, thiamin, biotin, pyridoxine, and riboflavin). A critical evaluation revealed that vitamin biosynthesis genes were more abundant at low-yield conditions; however, vitamin B12 transport genes (B12 transport ATP-binding protein, B12 substrate-binding transportation, and B12 permease protein) were less abundant, indicating even though vitamins production occurs, but their availability to Chlorella was limited due to the lack of vitamin transport genes. Further, at high yield, Chlorella-associated bacteria enabled higher growth by supplementing the vitamins. In contrast, at low-yield condition—an increased bacterial load, diversity, and limited vitamin transport functional genes affected the Chlorella yield. It can be inferred that Chlorella yield was significantly affected by three factors: associated bacterial load, diversity, and transport functional genes of vitamins.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	bacterial diversity; B-complex vitamins; Chlorella; metagenome; PICRUSt
Subjects:	500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 08 Botanical sciences > 01 Botany > 01 Algae
Divisions:	Plant Cell Biotechnology
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	19 May 2022 09:05
Last Modified:	19 May 2022 09:05
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/15257

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