Abstract
AbstractGreat Salt Lake (GSL), located northwest of Salt Lake City, UT, is the largest terminal lake in the United States. While the average salinity of seawater is ∼3.3%, the salinity in GSL ranges between 5-28%. In addition to being a hypersaline environment, GSL also contains toxic concentrations of heavy metals, such as arsenic, mercury, and lead. The extreme environment of GSL makes it an intriguing subject of study, both for its unique microbiome and its potential to harbor novel natural product-producing bacteria, which could be used as resources for the discovery of biologically active compounds. Though work has been done to survey and catalogue bacteria found in GSL, the Lake’s microbiome is largely unexplored, and little-to-no work has been done to characterize the natural product potential of GSL microbes. Here, we investigate the bacterial diversity of two important regions within GSL, describe the first genomic characterization of Actinomycetota isolated from GSL sediment, including the identification of a newSaccharomonosporaspecies, and provide the first survey of the natural product potential of GSL bacteria.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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