Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes

  • Ramona Marasco,
  • Marco Fusi,
  • Cristina Coscolín,
  • Alan Barozzi,
  • David Almendral,
  • Rafael Bargiela,
  • Christina Gohlke neé Nutschel,
  • Christopher Pfleger,
  • Jonas Dittrich,
  • Holger Gohlke,
  • Ruth Matesanz,
  • Sergio Sanchez-Carrillo,
  • Francesca Mapelli,
  • Tatyana N. Chernikova,
  • Peter N. Golyshin,
  • Manuel Ferrer,
  • Daniele Daffonchio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36610-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Temperature shapes the adaptation and composition of microbiomes, but whether their enzymes drive the thermal response remains unknown. Using an analysis of seven enzyme classes from worldwide marine microbiome data, this study shows that enzyme thermal properties explain microbial thermal plasticity and they are both finely tuned by the thermal variability of the environment.