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Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion
SIMPLE SUMMARY: Termites represent a unique and highly efficient system for lignocellulose bioconversion. The highly efficient lignocellulolytic systems are achieved through contributions from gut bacterial symbionts. Despite extensive research, the complete picture of bacterial diversity and their...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37103218 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14040403 |
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author | Xie, Rongrong Dong, Chenchen Wang, Shengjie Danso, Blessing Dar, Mudasir A. Pandit, Radhakrishna S. Pawar, Kiran D. Geng, Alei Zhu, Daochen Li, Xia Xu, Qing Sun, Jianzhong |
author_facet | Xie, Rongrong Dong, Chenchen Wang, Shengjie Danso, Blessing Dar, Mudasir A. Pandit, Radhakrishna S. Pawar, Kiran D. Geng, Alei Zhu, Daochen Li, Xia Xu, Qing Sun, Jianzhong |
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description | SIMPLE SUMMARY: Termites represent a unique and highly efficient system for lignocellulose bioconversion. The highly efficient lignocellulolytic systems are achieved through contributions from gut bacterial symbionts. Despite extensive research, the complete picture of bacterial diversity and their associated functions towards lignocellulose digestion by fungus-growing termite species is still lacking. In line with this objective, the present study revealed a diversity profile of cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic bacterial symbionts in the gut systems of some representative fungus-growing termites. The potential functions of the bacteria towards lignocellulose digestion, particularly cellulose and hemicellulose hydrolysis, were further identified and analyzed. The present investigation provided a unique profile of lignocellulose degrading symbiotic bacteria from the termites in general and fungus-growing species in particular. ABSTRACT: Fungus-growing termites are eusocial insects that represent one of the most efficient and unique systems for lignocellulose bioconversion, evolved from a sophisticated symbiosis with lignocellulolytic fungi and gut bacterial communities. Despite a plethora of information generated during the last century, some essential information on gut bacterial profiles and their unique contributions to wood digestion in some fungus-growing termites is still inadequate. Hence, using the culture-dependent approach, the present study aims to assess and compare the diversity of lignocellulose-degrading bacterial symbionts within the gut systems of three fungus-growing termites: Ancistrotermes pakistanicus, Odontotermes longignathus, and Macrotermes sp. A total of 32 bacterial species, belonging to 18 genera and 10 different families, were successfully isolated and identified from three fungus-growing termites using Avicel or xylan as the sole source of carbon. Enterobacteriaceae was the most dominant family represented by 68.1% of the total bacteria, followed by Yersiniaceae (10.6%) and Moraxellaceae (9%). Interestingly, five bacterial genera such as Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Acinetobacter, Trabulsiella, and Kluyvera were common among the tested termites, while the other bacteria demonstrated a termite-specific distribution. Further, the lignocellulolytic potential of selected bacterial strains was tested on agricultural waste to evaluate their capability for lignocellulose bioconversion. The highest substrate degradation was achieved with E. chengduensis MA11 which degraded 45.52% of rice straw. All of the potential strains showed endoglucanase, exoglucanase, and xylanase activities depicting a symbiotic role towards the lignocellulose digestion within the termite gut. The above results indicated that fungus-growing termites harbor a diverse array of bacterial symbionts that differ from species to species, which may play an inevitable role to enhance the degradation efficacy in lignocellulose decomposition. The present study further elaborates our knowledge about the termite-bacteria symbiosis for lignocellulose bioconversion which could be helpful to design a future biorefinery. |
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spelling | pubmed-101462772023-04-29 Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion Xie, Rongrong Dong, Chenchen Wang, Shengjie Danso, Blessing Dar, Mudasir A. Pandit, Radhakrishna S. Pawar, Kiran D. Geng, Alei Zhu, Daochen Li, Xia Xu, Qing Sun, Jianzhong Insects Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: Termites represent a unique and highly efficient system for lignocellulose bioconversion. The highly efficient lignocellulolytic systems are achieved through contributions from gut bacterial symbionts. Despite extensive research, the complete picture of bacterial diversity and their associated functions towards lignocellulose digestion by fungus-growing termite species is still lacking. In line with this objective, the present study revealed a diversity profile of cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic bacterial symbionts in the gut systems of some representative fungus-growing termites. The potential functions of the bacteria towards lignocellulose digestion, particularly cellulose and hemicellulose hydrolysis, were further identified and analyzed. The present investigation provided a unique profile of lignocellulose degrading symbiotic bacteria from the termites in general and fungus-growing species in particular. ABSTRACT: Fungus-growing termites are eusocial insects that represent one of the most efficient and unique systems for lignocellulose bioconversion, evolved from a sophisticated symbiosis with lignocellulolytic fungi and gut bacterial communities. Despite a plethora of information generated during the last century, some essential information on gut bacterial profiles and their unique contributions to wood digestion in some fungus-growing termites is still inadequate. Hence, using the culture-dependent approach, the present study aims to assess and compare the diversity of lignocellulose-degrading bacterial symbionts within the gut systems of three fungus-growing termites: Ancistrotermes pakistanicus, Odontotermes longignathus, and Macrotermes sp. A total of 32 bacterial species, belonging to 18 genera and 10 different families, were successfully isolated and identified from three fungus-growing termites using Avicel or xylan as the sole source of carbon. Enterobacteriaceae was the most dominant family represented by 68.1% of the total bacteria, followed by Yersiniaceae (10.6%) and Moraxellaceae (9%). Interestingly, five bacterial genera such as Enterobacter, Citrobacter, Acinetobacter, Trabulsiella, and Kluyvera were common among the tested termites, while the other bacteria demonstrated a termite-specific distribution. Further, the lignocellulolytic potential of selected bacterial strains was tested on agricultural waste to evaluate their capability for lignocellulose bioconversion. The highest substrate degradation was achieved with E. chengduensis MA11 which degraded 45.52% of rice straw. All of the potential strains showed endoglucanase, exoglucanase, and xylanase activities depicting a symbiotic role towards the lignocellulose digestion within the termite gut. The above results indicated that fungus-growing termites harbor a diverse array of bacterial symbionts that differ from species to species, which may play an inevitable role to enhance the degradation efficacy in lignocellulose decomposition. The present study further elaborates our knowledge about the termite-bacteria symbiosis for lignocellulose bioconversion which could be helpful to design a future biorefinery. MDPI 2023-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10146277/ /pubmed/37103218 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14040403 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Xie, Rongrong Dong, Chenchen Wang, Shengjie Danso, Blessing Dar, Mudasir A. Pandit, Radhakrishna S. Pawar, Kiran D. Geng, Alei Zhu, Daochen Li, Xia Xu, Qing Sun, Jianzhong Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion |
title | Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion |
title_full | Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion |
title_fullStr | Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion |
title_full_unstemmed | Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion |
title_short | Host-Specific Diversity of Culturable Bacteria in the Gut Systems of Fungus-Growing Termites and Their Potential Functions towards Lignocellulose Bioconversion |
title_sort | host-specific diversity of culturable bacteria in the gut systems of fungus-growing termites and their potential functions towards lignocellulose bioconversion |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37103218 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14040403 |
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