Assessment of the plasmidome of an extremophilic microbial community from the Diamante Lake, Argentina

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 21459 - 14
• Main Authors: Perez, María Florencia, Saona, Luis Alberto, Farías, María Eugenia, Poehlein, Anja, Meinhardt, Friedhelm, Daniel, Rolf, Dib, Julián Rafael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.11.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/326; 631/326/171; 631/326/2565; 631/326/26; 631/326/41; Arsenic; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - growth & development; Bacteria - isolation & purification; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA repair; DNA sequencing; DNA, Bacterial - analysis; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Extremophiles - genetics; Extremophiles - growth & development; Extremophiles - isolation & purification; Genetic analysis; Genotypes; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Humanities and Social Sciences; Lakes; Lakes - microbiology; Microbiomes; Microbiota; Microorganisms; multidisciplinary; Nucleotide sequence; Oxidative stress; Phylogeny; Plasmids; Plasmids - analysis; Plasmids - genetics; Plasmids - isolation & purification; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sequence analysis; Sewage - microbiology

Diamante Lake located at 4589 m.a.s.l. in the Andean Puna constitutes an extreme environment. It is exposed to multiple extreme conditions such as an unusually high concentration of arsenic (over 300 mg L −1 ) and low oxygen pressure. Microorganisms thriving in the lake display specific genotypes th...