Evolutionary relationships in Vibrio and Photobacterium as determined by immunological studies of superoxide dismutase |
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Authors: | Sookie S Bang Linda Baumann Marilyn J Woolkalis Paul Baumann |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Bacteriology, University of California, 95616 Davis, California, USA |
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Abstract: | The amino acid sequence divergence of superoxide dismutases (SODs) from 22 species and five groups of Vibrio, Photobacterium, and a number of related organisms was determined by means of the microcomplement fixation technique and the Ouchterlony double diffusion procedure. Five reference antisera were used which had been prepared against the purified SODs from V. alginolyticus, V. splendidus II, V. fischeri, V. cholerae, and P. leiognathi. With a few exceptions the results were in agreement with past studies of other informational molecules and provided a comprehensive overview of evolutionary relationships in Vibrio and Photobacterium. The genus Vibrio was found to consist of a major group of primarily marine species which included V. fischeri, V. logei, V. splendidus, V. pelagius, V. nereis, V. campbellii, V. harveyi, V. natriegens, V. alginolyticus, V. parahaemolyticus, V. proteolyticus, V. fluvialis, V. vulnificus, V. nigripulchritudo, and V. anguillarum. On the outskirts of this large and relatively heterogeneous group were the fresh water and estuarine species V. cholerae and V. metschnikovii as well as the marine species V. gazogenes. A considerable distance from Vibrio were the related species of Photobacterium: P. phosphoreum, P. leiognathi, and P. angustum. Both genera were distant from species of Aeromonas as well as from Plesiomonas shigelloides, Escherichia coli, and Alteromonas hanedai, a luminous strict aerobe. The agreement between these and previous studies of evolution of informational molecules in Vibrio and Photobacterium is best explained by vertical evolution (involving no genetic exchange between species) rather than by its opposite — horizontal evolution.Non-Standard Abbreviations Anti-Plei, anti-Valg, anti-Vcho, anti-Vfis, anti-Vspl
antisera to the Fe-containing superoxide dismutases from Photobacterium leiognathi strain 480, Vibrio alginolyticus strain 90, V. cholerae strain M 13, V. fischeri strain 61, and v. splendidus biotype II strain 2, respectively
- AP
alkaline phosphatase
- ATCC
American Type Culture Collection
- GS
glutamine synthetase
- ImD
immunological distance
- NCMB
National Colleciion of Marine Bacteria
- NCTC
National Collection of Type Cultures
- NRC
National Research Council of Canada Culture Collection
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulfate
- SOD
superoxide dismutase |
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Keywords: | Evolution Vibrio Photobacterium Alteromonas Aeromonas Marine bacteria Superoxide dismutase |
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