Abstract
Los Humeros volcanic complex, located at the eastern end of the Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt, possess superficial thermal manifestations (fumaroles, heat steam-soils and alteration zones), with temperatures between 50 °C and 90 °C. This is the first work to explore the bacterial diversity of a steam soil of Los Humeros geothermal field using a metagenomic 16S RNA gene analysis, and the presence of lipolytic enzymes’ genes after an enrichment culture by a whole-genome shotgun approach. High diversity indexes were found in soil samples, with Firmicutes, Chloroflexi, Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Acidobacteria as the most prevalent phyla. Alicyclobacillus was the most prevalent genus at 15 cm and Anoxybacillus at 50 cm depth; anaerobic and obligate thermophilic and hyperthermophilic members were found at 50 cm depth. Firmicutes was favored by the oil-rich medium, and the dominant genera were Geobacillus and Caldibacillus. 165 genes related to lipolytic enzymes were found; carboxilesterases and phospholipases C were the most abundant, and 43% were assigned to uncharacterized lipolytic enzymes. The diversity as well as the high percentage of non-characterized lipolytic enzymes found after soil enrichment in an oil-rich medium suggest the presence of biotechnologically promising organisms and enzymes that deserve to be investigated.
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