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Attention combination mechanismDue to the difficulty in extracting features from target areas in images, the high computational effort of the model and the low accuracy of detection are addressed. As shown in Fig. 3, we introduce a lightweight feedforward convolutional attention module CBAM after the backbone network Focus module of the YOLOv5s network model. The SE-Net (Squeeze and Excitation Networks) channel attention module is posted at the end of the backbone network. We propose an attention combination mechanism based on the YOLOv5s network model and name the improved network model YOLOv5s-CS. Where the CBAM module has a channel number of 128, a convolutional kernel size of 3 and a step size of 2, the SELayer has a channel number of 1024 and a step size of 4.Figure 3YOLOv5 backbone network structure before and after improvement.Full size imageConvolutional block attention module networkIn 2018, Woo et al.25 proposed the lightweight feedforward convolutional attention module CBAM. The CBAM module focuses on feature information from both channels and space dimensions and combines feature information to some extent to obtain more comprehensive reliable attentional information26. CBAM consists of two submodules, the channel attention module (CAM) and spatial attention module (SAM), and its overall module structure is shown in Fig. 4a.Figure 4Principle of CBAM.Full size imageThe working principle of the CAM is shown in Fig. 4b. First, the feature map F is input at the input entrance. Second, the global maximum pooling operation and the global average pooling operation are applied to the width and height of the feature map respectively to obtain two feature maps of the same size. Third, two feature maps of the same size are input to the shared parameter network MLP at the same time. Finally, the new feature map output from the shared parameter network is subjected to a summation operation and a sigmoid activation function to obtain the channel attention features ({M}_{c}).The channel attention module CAM is calculated as shown in Formula (1):$${text{M}}_{rm{c}}({text{F}}){=sigma}({text{MLP (AvgPool (F))}}+ {text MLP (MaxPool (F)))}{=sigma}({rm{W}}_{1}({text{W}}_{0}({text{F}}_{{{rm{avg}}}^{rm{c}}}))+{rm{W}}_{0}({rm{W}}_{1}({rm{F}}_{{{rm{max}}}^{rm{c}}})))$$
(1)
where σ represents the sigmoid function, MLP represents the shared parameter network, ({text{W}}_{0}) and ({text{W}}_{1}) represent the shared weights, ({text{F}}_{text{avg}}^{text{c}}) is the result of feature map F after global average pooling, and ({text{F}}_{text{max}}^{text{c}}) is the result of feature map F after global maximum pooling.The working principle of SAM is shown in Fig. 4c. The feature map F’ is regarded as the input of the SAM. F’ is obtained by multiplying the input of SAM with the output of CAM. First, the global maximum pooling operation and the global average pooling operation are applied to the channels of the feature map to obtain two feature maps of the same size. Second, two feature maps that have completed the pooling operation are stitched at the channels and the feature channels are dimensioned down using the convolution operation to obtain a new feature map. Finally, spatial attention features ({text{M}}_{text{s}}) are generated using the sigmoid activation function.The spatial attention module (SAM) is calculated, as shown in Formula (2):$${text{M}}_{text{s}}left({text{F}}right) {=sigma}left({text{f}}^{7 times 7}left(left[{text{AvgPool}}left({text{F}}right)text{;MaxPool}left({text{F}}right)right]right)right) {=sigma}left({text{f}}^{7 times 7}left(left[{text{F}}_{text{avg}}^{text{s}} ; {text{F}}_{text{max}}^{text{s}}right]right)right)$$
(2)
where σ is the sigmoid function, ({text{f}}^{7 times 7}) denotes the convolution operation with a filter size of 7 × 7, ({text{F}}_{text{avg}}^{text{s}}) is the result of the feature map after global average pooling, and ({text{F}}_{text{max}}^{text{s}}) is the result of the feature map after global maximum pooling.Squeeze and excitation networkIn 2018, Hu et al.27 proposed a single-path attention network structure SE-Net. SE-Net uses the idea of an attention mechanism to analyze the relationship feature maps by modeling and adaptively learning to obtain the importance of each feature map28 and then assigns different weights to the original feature map for updating according to the importance. In this way, SE-Net pays more attention to the features that are useful for the target task while suppressing useless feature information and allocates computational resources rationally to different channels to train the model to achieve better results.The SE-Net attention module is mainly composed of two parts: the squeeze operation and excitation operation. The structure of the SE-Net module is shown in Fig. 5.Figure 5The SE-Net module structure.Full size imageThe squeeze operation uses global average pooling to encode all spatial features on the channel as local features. Second, each feature map is compressed into a real number that has global information on the feature maps. Finally, the squeeze results of each feature map are combined into a vector as the weights of each group of feature maps. It is calculated as shown in Eq. (3):$${text{Z}}_{text{c}}={text{F}}_{text{sq}}left({text{u}}_{text{c}}right)=frac{1}{text{H} times {text{W}}}sum_{text{i=1}}^{text{H}}sum_{text{j=1}}^{text{W}}{{text{u}}}_{text{c}}left(text{i,j}right) , , , $$
(3)
where H is the height of the feature map, W is the feature map width, u is the result after convolution, z is the global attention information of the corresponding feature map, and the subscript c indicates the number of channels.After completing the squeeze operation to obtain the channel information, the feature vector is subjected to the excitation operation. First, it passes through two fully connected layers. Second, it uses the sigmoid function. Finally, the output weights are assigned to the original features. It is calculated as follows:$$text{s} = {text{F}}_{text{ex}}left(text{z,W}right){=sigma}left({text{g}}left(text{z,W}right)right){=sigma}left({text{W}}_{2}{delta}left({text{W}}_{1}{text{z}}right)right)$$
(4)
$$widetilde{{text{x}}_{rm{c}}}={text{F}}_{rm{scale}}left({text{u}}_{rm{c}}, {text{s}}_{rm{c}}right)={text{s}}_{rm{c}}{{text{u}}}_{rm{c}}$$
(5)
where σ is the ReLU activation function, δ represents the sigmoid activation function, and ({text{W}}_{1}) and ({text{W}}_{2}) represent two different fully connected layers. The vector s represents the set of feature mapping weights obtained through the fully connected layer and the activation function. (widetilde{{x}_{c}}) is the feature mapping of the x feature channel, ({text{s}}_{text{c}}) is a weight, and ({text{u}}_{text{c}}) is a two-dimensional matrix.Target detection layerThe garbage in rural areas is a smaller target and has fewer pixel characteristics, such as capsule, button butteries. Therefore, we insert a small target detection layer to improve the head network structure based on the original YOLOv5s network model for detecting objects with small targets to optimize the problem of missed detection in the original network model. The YOLOv5s network structure with the addition of the small target detection layer is shown in Fig. 6 and named YOLOv5s-STD.Figure 6The YOLOv5s-STD network structure.Full size imageIn the seventeenth layer of the neck network, operations such as upsampling are performed on the feature maps so that the feature maps continue to expand. Meanwhile, in the twentieth layer, the feature maps obtained from the neck network are fused with the feature maps extracted from the backbone network. We insert a detection layer capable of predicting small targets in the thirty-first layer. To improve the detection accuracy, we use a total of four detection layers for the output feature maps, which are capable of detecting smaller target objects. In addition to the three initial anchor values based on the original model, an additional set of anchor values is added as a way to detect smaller targets. The anchor values of the improved YOLOv5s network model are set to [5, 6, 8, 14, 15, 11], [10, 13, 16, 30, 33, 23], [30, 61, 62, 45, 59, 119] and [116, 90, 156, 198, 373, 326].Bounding box regression loss functionThe loss function is an important indicator of the generalization ability of a model. In 2016, Yu et al.29 proposed a new joint intersection loss function IoU for bounding box prediction. IoU stands for intersection over union, which is a frequently used metric in target detection. It is used not only to determine the positive and negative samples, but also to determine the similarity between the predicted bounding box and the ground truth bounding box. It can be described as shown in the Eq. (6):$$text{IoU} = frac{left|text{A} capleft.{text{B}}right|right.}{left|{text{A}} cupleft.{text{B}}right|right.}$$
(6)
where the value domain of IoU ranges from [0,1]. A and B are the areas of arbitrary regions. Additionally, when IoU is used as a loss function, it has to scale invariance, as shown in Eq. (7):$$text{IoU_Loss} = 1-frac{left|text{A} cap left.{text{B}}right|right.}{left|{text{A}} cup left.{text{B}}right|right.}$$
(7)
However, when the prediction bounding box and the ground truth bounding box do not intersect, namely IoU = 0, the distance between the arbitrary region area of A and B cannot be calculated. The loss function at this point is not derivable and cannot be used to optimize the two disjoint bounding boxes. Alternatively, when there are different intersection positions, where the overlapping parts are the same but in different overlapping directions, the IoU loss function cannot be predicted.To address these issues, the idea of GIoU (Generalized Intersection over Union)30, in which a minimum rectangular Box C of A and B is added, was proposed in 2019 by Rezatofighi et al. Suppose the prediction bounding box is B, the ground truth bounding box is A, the area where A and B intersect is D, and the area containing two bounding boxes is C, as shown in Fig. 7.Figure 7GIoU evaluation chart.Full size imageThen, the GIoU calculation, as shown in Formula (8), is:$$text{GIoU}= text{IoU}-frac{text{|C}-left({text{A}} cup {text{B}}right)text{|}}{text{|C|}}$$
(8)
The GIoU_Loss is calculated as (9):$$text{GIoU_Loss=1}-{text{IoU}}-frac{text{|C}-left({text{A}} cup {text{B}}right)text{|}}{text{|C|}}$$
(9)
The original YOLOv5 algorithm uses GIoU_Loss as the loss function. Comparing Eqs. (6) and (8), it can be seen that GIoU is a new penalty term (frac{text{|C}-left({text{A}} cup {text{B}}right)text{|}}{text{|C|}}) that is added to IoU and is clearly represented by Fig. 7.Although the GIoU loss function solves the problem that the gradient of the IoU loss function cannot be updated in time and the prediction bounding box, the direction of the ground truth bounding box is not consistent when predicting, but there are still disadvantages, as shown in Fig. 8.Figure 8Comparsion of loss values.Full size imageFigure 8 shows three different position relationships formed when the predicted bounding box and the ground truth bounding box overlap exactly. Among them, the ratio of the length to width of the green grounding truth bounding box is 1:2, and the red predicted bounding box has the same aspect ratio as the ground truth bounding box, but the size is only one-half of the green ground truth bounding box. When the prediction bounding box and the ground truth bounding box completely overlap, the GIoU degenerates to the IoU, and the GIoU value and IoU value for the three different position cases are 0.45 at this time. The GIoU loss function does not directly reflect the distance between the prediction bounding box and the ground truth bounding box. Therefore, we introduce the CIoU (Complete Intersection over Union)31 loss function to replace the original GIoU loss function in the YOLOv5 algorithm and continue to optimize the prediction bounding box.Therefore, the CIoU is calculated as (10):$$text{GIoU_Loss}=1-text{IoU}-frac{text{|C}-left({text{A}} cup {text{B}}right)text{|}}{text{|C|}}$$
(10)
where b and ({text{b}}^{text{gt}}) denote the centroids of the prediction bounding box and the ground truth bounding box, respectively, ({rho}) is the Euclidean distance between the two centroids, and c is the diagonal length of the minimum closed area formed by the prediction bounding box and the ground truth bounding box.(alpha) is the parameter used to balance the scale, and v is the scale consistency used to measure the aspect ratio between the prediction bounding box and the ground truth bounding box, as shown in Eqs. (11) and (12).$$alpha =frac{text{v}}{left(1-text{IoU}right)+{text{v}}^{{prime}}}$$
(11)
$$text{v} = frac{4}{{pi}^{2}}{left({text{arctan}}frac{{omega}^{text{gt}}}{{text{h}}^{text{gt}}}- text{arctan}frac{{omega}^{text{p}}}{{text{h}}^{text{p}}}right)}^{2}$$
(12)
Therefore, the expression of CIoU_Loss can be obtained according to Eqs. (10), (11) and (12).$$text{CIoU_Loss} =1-text{CIoU}=1-text{IoU}+frac{{rho}^{2}left(text{b,}{text{b}}^{text{gt}}right)}{{text{c}}^{2}}{+ alpha v }$$
(13)
Optimization algorithmAfter optimizing the loss function of the network model, the next step is to optimize the hyperparameters of the network model. The function of the optimizer is to adjust the hyperparameters to the most appropriate values while making the loss function converge as much as possible32. In the target detection algorithm, the optimizer is mainly used to calculate the gradient of the loss function and to iteratively update the parameters.The optimizer used in YOLOv5 is stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Since a large number of problems in deep learning satisfy the strict saddle function, all the local optimal solutions obtained are almost as ideal. Therefore, SGD algorithm is not trapped in the saddle point and has strong generality. However, the slow convergence speed and the number of iterations of SGD algorithm are still problems that need to be improved. Adam algorithm has both the first-order momentum in the SGD algorithm and combines the second-order momentum in AdaGrad algorithm and AdaDelta algorithm, Adaptive&Momentum. Adam formula can be described as follows:$${m}_{t}={beta }_{1}{m}_{t-1}+left(1-{beta }_{1}right){g}_{t}$$
(14)
$${v}_{t}={beta }_{2}{v}_{t-1}+left(1-{beta }_{2}right){g}_{t}^{2}$$
(15)
$${widehat{m}}_{t}=frac{{m}_{t}}{1-{beta }_{1}^{t}}$$
(16)
$${widehat{v}}_{t}=frac{{v}_{t}}{1-{beta }_{2}^{t}}$$
(17)
where ({beta }_{1}) and ({beta }_{2}) parameters are hyperparameters and g is the current gradient value of the error function, ({m}_{t}) is the gradient of the first-order momentum and ({v}_{t}) is the gradient of the second-order momentum.Adam is an adaptive one-step random objective function optimization algorithm based on a low-order moment. It can replace the traditional first-order optimization algorithm for the stochastic gradient descent process. It is able to update the weights of the neural network adaptively based on the data trained during the iterative process. The Adam optimizer occupies fewer memory resources during the training process and is suitable for solving the problems of sparse gradients and large fluctuations in loss values33. Therefore, we use the Adam optimization algorithm instead of the SGD optimization algorithm to train the network model based on the YOLOv5s network model. The calculation is shown in Table 3.Table 3 Computing method of the Adam optimizer.Full size tablewhere ({alpha}) is a factor controlling the learning rate of the network, ({beta}^{{prime}}) is the exponential decay rate of the first-order moment estimate, ({beta}^{{primeprime}}) is the exponential decay rate of the second-order moment estimate, and ({varepsilon}) is a constant that tends to zero infinitely as the denominator. More

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Serpentinite-hosted systems are rare and extreme habitats in which a hydrothermal process, serpentinization, alters ultramafic mantle rocks and yields hyperalkaline fluid rich in molecular hydrogen (H2) and reduced one-carbon compounds [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. These fluids are often electron acceptor depleted—oxygen, nitrate, sulfate, etc. are absent (i.e., anoxic) and even the least favorable exogenous acceptor, carbon dioxide (CO2), is limiting due to the high alkalinity. Though previous studies explore the diversity of organisms in serpentinite-hosted systems, we have little insight into how indigenous H2-utilizing microorganisms combat the unique metabolic challenges in situ. One recent study shows strategies that methane-generating archaea employ to oxidize H2 in situ [9], but how other microorganisms (i.e., H2-utilizing anaerobic bacteria) overcome the electron acceptor limitation is poorly understood. Further, given that life is theorized to have emerged as H2-utilizing lithotrophs in early Earth serpentinite-hosted systems [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24], modern lithotrophs inhabiting such ecosystems may represent valuable extant windows into the metabolism of primordial organisms. In this study, we pair metagenomics and thermodynamics to characterize uncultured putative anaerobic H2 utilizers inhabiting alkaline H2-rich serpentinite-hosted systems (Hakuba Happo hot springs in Hakuba, Japan, and The Cedars springs in California, USA; pH ~10.9 and ~11.9, respectively [25,26,27]) and elucidate novel, potentially ancient, lithotrophic strategies.Thermodynamics and geochemistryThe two primary strategies for utilizing H2 under anoxic conditions without favorable exogenous electron acceptors are methanogenesis and homoacetogenesis. As bacteria were detected in both Hakuba and The Cedars, yet archaea were absent in Hakuba, we focused our analyzes on metabolic strategies supporting bacterial H2 utilization (i.e., homoacetogenesis). To evaluate whether homoacetogenesis is viable in situ, we examined the in situ geochemical environment and the thermodynamics of H2/formate utilization and homoacetogenesis. The spring waters of both Hakuba and The Cedars contained H2 (e.g., 201–664 μM in Hakuba [27]). Formate, another compound thought to be abiotically generated through serpentinization, was also detected in Hakuba (8 μM in drilling well #3 [28]) and The Cedars (6.9 µM in GPS1). Acetate has also been detected in situ (4 μM in Hakuba [28] and 69.3 µM in The Cedars GPS1), suggesting these ecosystems may host novel H2- and/or formate-utilizing homoacetogens. Thermodynamic calculations using newly measured and published geochemical data (Tables S1 and S2) confirmed that H2 and formate are reductants in situ (i.e., H2 = 2H+ + 2e−/Formate− = H+ + CO2 + 2e−): the Gibbs free energy yields (∆G) for oxidation (coupled with physiological electron carriers NADP+, NAD+, and ferredoxin) are less than −4.78 kJ per mol H2 and −24.92 kJ per mol formate in Hakuba, and −10.73 and −22.03 in The Cedars respectively (H2 concentration was not available for The Cedars so the highest concentration observed in Hakuba [664 µM] was used; see Supplementary Results). However, serpentinite-hosted systems impose a unique challenge to homoacetogenesis—a key substrate, CO2, is at extremely low concentrations due to the high alkalinity. We estimate that the aqueous CO2 concentration is below 0.0006 nM in Hakuba (pH 10.7 and  +24.92 or +22.02 kJ per mol formate). Thus, catabolic reduction of CO2 to acetate is thermodynamically challenging in situ and may only run if investing ATP (e.g., Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle [−6 ATP; ∆G of −361.68 kJ per mol acetate in Hakuba] or reductive tricarboxylic acid [−1 ATP; −61.68 kJ per mol]). Under CO2 limitation, autotrophs are known to accelerate CO2 uptake through HCO3− dehydration to CO2 (carbonic anhydrase) or carbonate mineral dissolution, but both only modify kinetics and are not effective in changing the maximum CO2 concentration (determined by equilibrium with carbonate species). In addition, in Hakuba, the CO32− concentration is too low (84.7 nM CO32−) to cause carbonate mineral precipitation (e.g., [CO32−] must exceed 38.5 µM given Ks of 5 ×  10−9 for CaCO3 and [Ca2+] of 0.13 mM).Based on thermodynamic calculations, the energy obtainable from H2/CO2-driven homoacetogenesis is too small to support life in many serpentinite-hosted systems, yet acetate is detected in some of these ecosystems (Fig. S2 and Table S2; note that we cannot exclude the possibility that acetate may be produced abiotically by water–rock reactions [30]). Thus, CO2-independent electron-disposing metabolism may have been necessary for extremophilic organisms to gain energy from H2 in the hyperalkaline fluids of hydrothermal systems. Here, we explore the metabolic capacities of organisms living in serpentinite-hosted systems to gain insight into potential metabolic strategies for utilizing H2 under the extreme conditions in situ.Diverse putative H2- and formate-utilizing organismsThrough metagenomic exploration of the two serpentinite-hosted systems (Table S3), we discover a plethora of phylogenetically novel organisms encoding genes for H2 and formate metabolism (19 bins with 73.2–94.8% completeness and 0.0–8.1% contamination [86.1% and 3.8% on average respectively]; available under NCBI BioProject PRJNA453100) despite challenges in acquisition of genomic DNA (15.7 and 18.9 ng of DNA from 233 and 720 L of filtered Hakuba Happo spring water, respectively; RNA was below the detection limit). We find metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) affiliated with lineages of Firmicutes (e.g., Syntrophomonadaceae and uncultured family SRB2), Actinobacteria, and candidate division NPL-UPA2 [31] (Fig. S3). We also recovered MAGs for a novel lineage, herein referred to as “Ca. Lithacetigenota”, that inhabits both Hakuba and The Cedars and, to our knowledge, no other ecosystems (Figs. 1, 2a, S3, and S4). The average amino acid identity (AAI) between Ca. Lithacetigenota and neighboring phyla (Coprothermobacterota, Dictyoglomi, Thermodesulfobiota [GTDB-defined phylum], Thermotogae, and Caldiserica) was comparable to the average interphylum AAI among the neighboring phyla (45.33 ± 0.86% vs 45.17 ± 0.99%), suggesting that Ca. Lithacetigenota represents a novel phylum-level lineage (Fig. 2a, b). These genomes encode enzymes for oxidizing H2 and formate (i.e., hydrogenases and formate dehydrogenases [32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39]; see Supplementary Results), suggesting that organisms in situ can employ H2 and formate as electron donors.Fig. 1: Ribosomal protein tree including high-quality MAGs from 74 GTDB-defined phylum-level lineages.Representative genomes (highest quality based on a score defined as completeness – 5*contamination, both estimated by CheckM) were chosen for bacterial classes that contain at least one genome the meet the following criteria: (i) cultured organisms with ≥90% completeness, ≤5% contamination (as estimated by CheckM), and ≤ 20 contigs; (ii) uncultured organisms with ≥85% completeness, ≤3% contamination, and ≤20 contigs; and (iii) Ca. Patescibacteria with ≥60% completeness and ≤1 contig. Universally conserved ribosomal proteins were collected from each genome, aligned with MAFFT v7.394, trimmed with BMGE v1.12 (-m BLOSUM30 -g 0.67 -b 3), and concatenated. A maximum likelihood tree was calculated using IQ-TREE v2.1.3 with the UDM0064LCLR model (-m Poisson+UDM0064LCLR), ultrafast bootstrap approximation, and SH-like approximate likelihood ratio test (-B 1000 -alrt 1000; bootstrap values are recalculated with BOOSTER using the -tbe option). Branches with ≥90% ultrafast bootstrap support and ≥80% SH-alrt support are indicated with black circles. Archaeal and eukaryotic genomes were used as an outgroup. The inter-domain branch was shortened with a break to 1/10 of the calculated length for illustrative purposes. Phylogenetic groups corresponding to “Gracilicutes” and “Terrabacteria” are indicated yellow and blue respectively. Ca. Lithacetigenota are highlighted (magenta). See Supplementary Fig. S4 for full tree.Full size imageFig. 2: “Ca. Lithacetigenota” phylogeny, lithotrophic acetate generation pathways, and comparative genomics with neighboring phyla.a A maximum likelihood tree was calculated for a concatenated alignment of universally conserved ribosomal protein sequences from representative genomes of individual phyla (aligned with MAFFT v7.394 [default parameters] and trimmed with BMGE v1.12 (−m BLOSUM30 −g 0.67 −b 3) using IQ-TREE v2.1.3 with the UDM0064LCLR model (-m Poisson+UDM0064LCLR), ultrafast bootstrap approximation, and SH-like approximate likelihood ratio test (-B 1000 -alrt 1000; bootstrap values are recalculated with BOOSTER using the -tbe option). Branches with ≥90% ultrafast bootstrap support and ≥80% SH-alrt support are indicated with black circles. Phylum names are shown for NCBI taxonomy (italicized) or GTDB classification (*). b The average inter-phylum AAI (as calculated by CompareM) was calculated using GTDB species representatives. c Putative metabolic pathways potentially adapted to the CO2-limited hyperalkaline conditions encoded by “Ca. Lithacetigenota” members and others: formate- and glycine-reducing acetate generation. Arrow colors indicate oxidative (pink), reductive (blue), ATP-yielding (orange), and ATP-consuming (green) steps. d Venn diagram of COGs/NOGs (as predicted by eggnog-mapper) fully conserved across all members of each phylum (genomes included in GTDB release 95 with completeness ≥85% and contamination ≤5%). COGs/NOGs related to lithotrophy and alkaliphily are highlighted. * “COG” abbreviated.Full size image“Ca. Lithacetigenota” has unique site-adapted metabolismInspection of the serpentinite-hosted environment-exclusive phylum “Ca. Lithacetigenota” reveals specialization to H2-driven lithotrophy potentially suitable for the low-CO2 in situ conditions (Fig. 2c). We discover that The Cedars-inhabiting population (e.g., MAG BS5B28, 94.8% completeness and 2.9% contamination) harbors genes for H2 oxidation ([NiFe] hydrogenase Hox), a nearly complete Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, and an oxidoreductase often associated with acetogenesis—NADH:ferredoxin oxidoreductase Rnf [40, 41] (Tables S4 and S5). One critical enzyme, the formate dehydrogenase, is missing from all three “Ca. Lithacetigenota” MAGs from The Cedars (and unbinned contigs), indicating that these bacteria can neither perform H2/CO2-driven nor formate-oxidizing acetogenesis (Fig. 2c). However, even without the formate dehydrogenase, the genes present can form a coherent pathway that uses formate rather than CO2 as a starting point for the “methyl branch” of the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway (i.e., formate serves as an electron acceptor; Fig. 2c). This is a simple yet potentially effective strategy for performing homoacetogenesis while circumventing the unfavorable reduction of CO2 to formate. Coupling H2 oxidation with this formate-reducing pathway is thermodynamically viable as it halves the usage of CO2 (3H2 + Formate− + CO2 = Acetate− + 2H2O; ∆G of −29.62 kJ per mol acetate) and, as a pathway, is simply an intersection between the conventional H2/CO2-driven and formate-disproportionating acetogenesis (Fig. 2c and S5). Although use of formate as an electron acceptor for formate-oxidizing acetogenesis is quite common, no previous homoacetogens have been observed to couple H2 oxidation with acetogenesis from formate, likely because CO2 has a much higher availability than formate in most ecosystems.The Hakuba-inhabiting “Ca. Lithacetigenota” (HKB210 and HKB111) also encodes Hox for H2 oxidation but lacks genes for homoacetogenesis (no homologs closely related to The Cedars population genes were detected even in unbinned metagenomic contigs). We suspect that this population forgoes the above H2/formate-driven homoacetogenesis because the estimated energy yield of the net reaction in situ (∆G of −19.94 kJ per mol acetate) is extremely close to the thermodynamic threshold of microbial catabolism (slightly above −20 kJ per mol) and, depending on the actual threshold for “Ca. Lithacetigenota” and/or even slight changes in the surrounding conditions (e.g., ∆G increases by 1 kJ per mol if H2 decreases by 20 µM decreases in Hakuba), the metabolism may be unable to recover energy. Through searching the physicochemical environment for alternative exogenous electron acceptors and MAGs for electron-disposing pathways, we detected a low concentration of glycine in situ (5.4 ± 1.6 nM; Table S6) and found genes specific to catabolic glycine reduction (see next paragraph). We suspect that some portion of this glycine is likely geochemically generated in situ, given that (a) glycine is often detected as the most abundant amino acid produced by both natural and laboratory-based serpentinization (e.g., H2 + Formate = Formaldehyde ⇒ Formaldehyde + NH3 = Glycine) [10, 16, 42,43,44,45,46,47] and (b) no other amino acid was consistently detectable (if glycine was cell-derived, other amino acids ought to also be consistently detected).For utilization of the putatively abiotic glycine, the Hakuba “Ca. Lithacetigenota” encodes glycine reductases (Grd; Fig. 3 and S6; Tables S4 and S5)—a unidirectional selenoprotein for catabolic glycine reduction [48, 49]. Based on the genes available, this population likely specializes in coupling H2 oxidation and glycine reduction (H2 + Glycine− → Acetate− + NH3; Fig. 2c). Firstly, the genomes encode NADP-linked thioredoxin reductases (NADPH + Thioredoxinox → NADP+ + Thioredoxinred) that can bridge electron transfer from H2 oxidation (H2 + NADP → NADPH + H+) to glycine reduction (Glycine− + Thioredoxinred → Acetyl-Pi + NH3 + Thioredoxinox). Secondly, though glycine reduction is typically coupled with amino acid oxidation (i.e., Stickland reaction in Firmicutes and Synergistetes [48, 50]), similar metabolic couplings have been reported for some organisms (i.e., formate-oxidizing glycine reduction [via Grd] [51] and H2-oxidizing trimethylglycine reduction [via Grd-related betaine reductase] [52]). Thirdly, Grd is a rare catabolic enzyme, so far found in organisms that specialize in amino acid (or peptide) catabolism, many of which are reported to use glycine for the Stickland reaction (e.g., Peptoclostridium of Firmicutes and Aminobacterium of Synergistetes [53]). Lastly, the population lacks any discernable fermentative (propionate [methylmalonyl-CoA pathway], butyrate [reverse beta oxidation], lactate [lactate dehydrogenase], and alanine [alanine dehydrogenase]) and respiratory (aerobic [terminal oxidases], nitrate [nitrate reductase, nitrite reductase, nitric oxide reductase, nitrous oxide reductase], sulfate [dissimilatory sulfate reductase and sulfite reductase], other sulfurous compounds [molybdopterin-binding protein family sulfurous compound reductases], and metals [outer membrane cytochrome OmcB]) electron disposal pathways and oxidative organotrophy (Tables S4 and S5). Although the BS5B28 genome encodes a bifunctional alcohol/aldehyde dehydrogenase and aldehyde:ferredoxin oxidoreductase, no complete sugar or amino acid degradation pathways could be identified, suggesting that these genes have a physiological role unrelated to ethanol fermentation. Further, though formate and glycine transporters were absent in the genomes, a survey of transporters (annotated in UniProtKB 2021_03 [54]) revealed that no alkaliphiles (organisms with optimum pH ≥ 9.5 in the DSMZ BacDive database [55]) encoded known formate transporters (focA; TIGR04060) or amino acid permeases (PF00324) (ABC transporters were not considered as substrate specificity for these complexes cannot be annotated reliably), indicating that alkaliphiles likely employ unknown transport proteins. Reflecting the lack of other catabolic pathways, the Hakuba “Ca. Lithacetigenota” MAGs display extensive genome streamlining, comparable to that of Aurantimicrobium [56, 57], “Ca. Pelagibacter” [58], and Rhodoluna [59] in aquatic systems, as also reported for other organisms inhabiting serpentinite-hosted systems [60, 61] (Fig. S7). Thermodynamic calculations show that H2-oxidizing glycine reduction is favorable in situ (∆G°’ of −70.37 kJ per mol glycine [∆G of −85.84 in Hakuba]; Fig. S1). Further, based on the pathway identified, this putative metabolism is >10 times more efficient in recovering energy from H2 (1 mol ATP per mol H2) than acetogenesis utilizing H2/CO2 (0.075 mol ATP per mol H2 based on the pathway Acetobacterium woodii utilizes) or H2/formate (0.075 mol ATP per mol H2, assuming no energy recovery associated with the formate dehydrogenase). We also detect glycine reductases in The Cedars “Ca. Lithacetigenota”, indicating that it may also perform this metabolism (∆G of −76.87 in The Cedars, assuming 201 µM H2).Fig. 3: Evolution and distribution of glycine reductases.a Phylogeny of serpentinite-hosted microbiome glycine reductase subunit GrdBE homologs (Hakuba Happo hot spring*, The Cedars springs†, and other serpentinite-hosted system metagenomes#) and a brief scheme for evolutionary history of Grd. Grd-related COG1978 homologs were collected from the representative species genomes in GTDB, filtered using a GrdB motif conserved across members of phyla known to perform glycine-reducing Stickland reaction (see Methods and Supplementary Fig. S6) and clustered with 75% amino acid sequence similarity using CD-HIT (-c 0.75). GrdB-related sarcosine reductase subunits were excluded by identification of a GrdF motif conserved across sequences that form a distinct cluster around the biochemically characterized Peptoclostridium acidaminophilum GrdF. GrdE neighboring GrdB were collected. D-proline reductase subunits PrdBA (homologous to GrdB and GrdE respectively) was used as an outgroup. GrdB+PrdB and GrdE+PrdA were aligned (MAFFT v7.394) and trimmed (BMGE v1.12 -m BLOSUM30 -g 0.05) separately, then concatenated. A maximum likelihood tree was calculated using IQ-TREE v2.1.3 (-m LG+C20+G+F) and 1000 ultrafast bootstrap replicates (bootstrap values are recalculated with BOOSTER). Branches with ≥95% ultrafast bootstrap support are indicated with pink circles. Serpentinite-hosted system-derived sequences are shown in blue and taxa that may have gained GrdB through horizontal transfer are shown in green. Though the GrdB motif did not match, the closest (and only) detectable archaeal homolog (COG1978) identified in Ca. Bathyarchaeota is included. An axis break is used for the branch connecting GrdBE (and the Ca. Bathyarchaeota homolog) and outlier PrdBA for readability (10% of actual length). See Supplementary Fig. S6 for complete tree and full branch length between GrdBE and PrdBA. In the brief scheme of Grd evolution (top left), the cladogram topology is based on Fig. S4. Vertical transfer (red lines in cladogram) and horizontal transfer (black arrows) inferred from tree structures are shown. Phyla that may have acquired Grd vertically (red) and horizontally (gray) are indicated. GTDB phyla belonging to Firmicutes were grouped together. * GTDB-defined phylum-level lineage nomenclature. b Number of glycine reductase-encoding GTDB-defined species representatives (GTDB r95) associated with different environments. Only genomes with both GrdB and GrdE were included.Full size imageGiven the phylogenetic and metabolic uniqueness of these populations, we report provisional taxonomic assignment to “Ca. Lithacetigenota” phyl. nov., “Ca. Lithacetigena glycinireducens” gen. nov., sp. nov. (HKB111 and HKB210), and “Ca. Psychracetigena formicireducens” gen. nov., sp. nov. (BS525, BS5B28, and GPS1B18) (see Supplementary Results). Based on a concatenated ribosomal protein tree, this serpentinite-hosted ecosystem-associated candidate phylum is closely related to the deepest-branching group of bacterial phyla in “Terrabacteria”, one of the two major of lineages Bacteria (Fig. 1). Comparative genomics shows that “Ca. Lithacetigenota” shares 623 core functions (based on Bacteria-level COGs/NOGs predicted by eggnog-mapper shared by the two highest quality Hakuba and The Cedars MAGs HKB210 and BS5B28; Fig. 2d). When compared with the core functions of two closest related phyla (Caldiserica and Coprothermobacterota), 176 functions were unique to “Ca. Lithacetigenota”, including those for NiFe hydrogenases (and their maturation proteins), selenocysteine utilization (essential for Grd), and sodium:proton antiporter for alkaliphily. With Coprothermobacterota, 232 functions were shared, including Grd, thioredoxin oxidoreductase (essential for electron transfer to Grd), and additional proteins for NiFe hydrogenases and selenocysteine utilization, pointing toward importance of H2 metabolism and glycine reduction for these closely related phyla. More importantly, among bacterial phyla in the deep-branching group, “Ca. Lithacetigenota” represents the first lineage inhabiting hyperalkaliphilic serpentinite-hosted ecosystems, suggesting that these organisms may be valuable extant windows into potential physiologies of primordial organisms who are thought to have lived under hyperalkaline conditions (albeit with 4 billion years of evolution in between; see discussion regarding Grd below).Widespread glycine reduction in serpentinite-hosted systemsUncultured members of Chloroflexi (Chloroflexota) class Dehalococcoidia inhabiting The Cedars and Firmicutes (Firmicutes_D) class SRB2 in Hakuba and The Cedars also possess glycine reductases (Table S5). In addition, these populations encode hydrogenases and formate dehydrogenases, suggesting that they may also link H2 and formate metabolism to glycine reduction. Closely related glycine reductases were also detected in other studied serpentinite-hosted systems (47–94% amino acid similarity in Tablelands, Voltri Massif, and Coast Range Ophiolite) [1, 2, 7]. Phylogenetic analysis of the glycine-binding “protein B” subunits GrdB and GrdE reveals close evolutionary relationships between glycine reductases from distant/remote sites (Fig. 3a and S6). Note that Tablelands spring glycine reductase sequences were not included in the analysis as they were only detected in the unassembled metagenomic reads (4460690.3; 69.7–82.2% similarity to Hakuba SRB2). Overall, “Ca. Lithacetigenota”, Dehalococcoidia, and SRB2 glycine reductases are all detected in at least two out of the seven metagenomically investigated systems despite the diverse environmental conditions (e.g., temperature). Thus, we propose glycine as an overlooked thermodynamically and energetically favorable electron acceptor for H2 oxidation in serpentinite-hosted systems. We suspect that glycine reduction may be a valuable catabolic strategy as the pathway requires few genes/proteins (a hydrogenase, Grd, acetate kinase, and thioredoxin oxidoreductase) and conveniently provides acetate, ammonia, and ATP as basic forms of carbon, nitrogen, and energy.Phylogenetic analysis of glycine reductases (Fig. 3a and S6) shows that the novel homologs recovered from serpentinite-hosted systems represent deep-branching lineages distantly related from those detectable in published genomes (GTDB r95 species representatives). Further comparison of the topology with a ribosomal protein-based genome tree (Fig. 2a) indicates that the two deep-branching serpentinite-hosted system-affiliated lineages (Ca. Lithacetigenota and novel Chloroflexi family) and Firmicutes vertically inherited glycine reductases. Thus, catabolic glycine reduction can be traced back to the concestor of these three lineages, suggesting the metabolism at least dates back to the ancestor of “Terrabacteria”. We further identified an archaeal GRD homolog (in Miscellaneous Crenarchaeota Group [MCG] or Ca. Bathyarchaeota member BA-1; Fig. 3a and S6), but whether this gene functions as a glycine reductase (GrdB motif not fully conserved) and, further, truly belong to this clade (source is metagenome-assembled genome) remains to be verified. Reconstruction of the ancestral Grd sequence and estimation of its pH preference (via AcalPred) showed that the ancestral enzyme likely had good efficiency under alkaline conditions (pH  > 9; probability of 0.9973 and 0.9858 for GrdB and GrdE, respectively). Thus, the currently available data suggest that Grd (and catabolic glycine reduction) is an ancient bacterial catabolic innovation in an alkaline habitat, dating back to one of the deepest nodes in the bacterial tree.While we detect glycine reductases in many serpentinite-hosted systems, examination of genomes derived from other natural ecosystems shows that only 107 species (species representatives in GTDB r95; 0.35% of all GTDB species) inhabiting such habitats encode GrdBE (Fig. 3b and S6). This is a level comparable to rare artificial contaminant-degrading enzymes (e.g., tetrachloroethane dehalogenase pceA—65 species [encoding KEGG KO K21647 based on AnnoTree with GTDB r95 and default settings [62]]; dibenzofuran dioxygenase—258 species [K14599 and K14600]). Most glycine reductase homologs are found in species affiliated with host-associated (mostly human body and rumen) or artificial habitats (360 species), the majority of which belong to the phylum Firmicutes. We suspect that glycine reduction has low utility in most natural ecosystems (e.g., no excess glycine via abiotic generation and no severe nutrient/electron acceptor limitation) and has been repurposed by some anaerobes for the fermentative Stickland reaction in organic-rich ecosystems (e.g., host-associated ecosystems) where excess amino acids are available but access to favorable electron acceptors is limited (Fig. 3b) (notably, glycine is the dominant amino acid in collagen [ >30%], the most abundant protein in vertebrate bodies).Other characteristics of putative indigenous homoacetogensIn contrast with members of “Ca. Lithacetigenota”, several other putative homoacetogenic populations encode the complete Wood–Ljundgahl pathway (Tables S4 and S5), indicating that other forms of acetogenesis may also be viable in situ. One putative homoacetogen in The Cedars, NPL-UPA2, lacks hydrogenases but encodes formate dehydrogenases. Although the NPL-UPA2 population cannot perform H2/formate-driven acetogenesis, it may couple formate oxidation with formate-reducing acetogenesis—another thermodynamically viable metabolism (∆G of –50.90 kJ per mol acetate in The Cedars; Fig. S5). The pathway uses CO2 as a substrate but has lower CO2 consumption compared to H2/CO2 homoacetogenesis and can produce intracellular CO2 from formate. A recent study also points out that methanogens inhabiting serpentinite-hosted environments oxidize formate presumably to generate intracellular CO2 [9]. In Hakuba, an Actinobacteria population affiliated with the uncultured class UBA1414 (MAG HKB206) encodes hydrogenases and a complete Wood–Ljungdahl pathway (Table S5) and, thus, may be capable of H2/formate or the above formate-disproportionating acetogenesis (Fig. 2c and S5). Indeed, the UBA1414 population was enriched in Hakuba-derived cultures aiming to enrich acetogens using the H2 generated by the metallic iron–water reaction [63] (Fig. S8). Many populations encoding a complete Wood–Ljungdahl pathway possess monomeric CO dehydrogenases (CooS unassociated with CODH/ACS subunits; NPL-UPA2, Actinobacteria, Syntrophomonadaceae [Hakuba and The Cedars], and Dehalococcoidia [The Cedars]; Table S4). Although CO is below the detection limit in Hakuba (personal communication with permission from Dr. Konomi Suda), another study shows that CO metabolism takes place in an actively serpentinizing system with no detectable CO [64]. Given that CO is a known product of serpentinization [7, 64], it may be an important substrate for thermodynamically favorable acetogenesis in situ. However, further investigation is necessary to verify this (e.g., need to measure CO at multiple time points).Another interesting adaptation observed for all putative homoacetogens detected in Hakuba and The Cedars was possession of an unusual CODH/ACS complex. Although Bacteria and Archaea are known to encode structurally distinct forms of CODH/ACS (designated as Acs and Cdh respectively for this study), all studied Hakuba/The Cedars putative homoacetogens encode genes for a hybrid CODH/ACS that integrate archaeal subunits for the CO dehydrogenase (AcsA replaced with CdhAB) and acetyl-CoA synthase (AcsB replaced with CdhC) and bacterial subunits for the corrinoid protein and methyltransferase components (AcsCDE) (Table S4). The Firmicutes lineages also additionally encode the conventional bacterial AcsABCDE. Given that all of the identified putative homoacetogens encode this peculiar hybrid complex, we suspect that such CODH/ACS’s may have features adapted to the high-pH low-CO2 conditions (e.g., high affinity for CO2 and/or CO). In agreement, a similar hybrid CODH/ACS has also been found in the recently isolated “Ca. Desulforudis audaxviator” inhabiting an alkaline (pH 9.3) deep subsurface environment with a low CO2 concentration (below detection limit [65, 66]) [67].Implications for primordial biologyThe last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is hypothesized to have evolved within alkaline hydrothermal mineral deposits at the interface of serpentinization-derived fluid and ambient water (e.g., Hadean weakly acidic seawater) [22,23,24]. Although such interfaces no longer exist (i.e., ancient Earth lacked O2 but most water bodies contain O2 on modern Earth), modern anoxic terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems harboring active serpentinization [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] may hold hints for how primordial organisms utilized H2 under hyperalkaline CO2-depleted conditions (e.g., post-LUCA H2-utilizing organisms that ventured away from the interface towards the alkaline fluids). Our findings suggest that unconventional modes of lithotrophy that take advantage of geogenic reduced carbon compounds (e.g., formate and glycine) as exogenous electron acceptors may have been viable approaches to circumventing thermodynamic issues and obtaining energy from H2 oxidation in situ. The strategies we discover are largely exclusive to the bacterial domain (archaeal CO2 reduction does not involve formate as an intermediate and, to our knowledge, glycine reduction is limited to Bacteria) and originated deep in the bacterial tree, suggesting they may have been relevant in the divergence towards the bacterial and archaeal domains. Notably, the estimated alkaliphily of the ancestral Grd also points towards the relevance of this metabolism in ancient alkaline habitats. More

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