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Miraculous catch of iron–sulfur protein sequences in the Sargasso Sea
Author(s) -
Meyer Jacques
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.06.030
Subject(s) - sargasso sea , diversity (politics) , sequence (biology) , oceanography , sulfur , biology , chemistry , geology , biochemistry , organic chemistry , sociology , anthropology
Recent shotgun sequencing of filtered Sargasso Sea water samples has yielded data in astounding amount and diversity. Iron–sulfur proteins, which are ancient, diverse and ubiquitous, have been implemented here to further probe the sequence diversity of the Sargasso Sea database (SSDB). Sequence searches and comparisons confirm that the SSDB by and large equals in diversity the combined currently available databases. The data thus suggest that microbial diversity has so far been underestimated by orders of magnitude.