Characterization of the First Cultured Psychrotolerant Representative of Legionella from Antarctica Reveals Its Unique Genome Structure

• Published in: Microbiology Spectrum
• Main Authors: Shimada, Sho, Nakai, Ryosuke, Aoki, Kotaro, Kudoh, Sakae, Imura, Satoshi, Shimoeda, Norifumi, Ohno, Giichiro, Watanabe, Kentaro, Miyazaki, Yasunari, Ishii, Yoshikazu, Tateda, Kazuhiro
• Other Authors: Santos, Adriana Lopes dos, National Institute of Polar Research, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021
• Subjects: Infectious Diseases; Cell Biology; Microbiology (medical); Genetics; General Immunology and Microbiology; Ecology; Physiology; Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00424-21; https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/Spectrum.00424-21

This study characterized a unique cultivated representative of the genus Legionella isolated from an Antarctic lake. This psychrotolerant strain had some common properties of known Legionella species but also displayed other characteristics, such as plasticity in fatty acid composition and an enrichment of mobile genes in the genome.