Verrucomicrobia use hundreds of enzymes to digest the algal polysaccharide fucoidan

Funding

We thank K. Caspersen for help with metabolite measurements and N. Dubilier for providing access to mass spectrometry resources. We thank T. Ferdelman and K. Imhoff for expertise in sulfate quantification, M.-K. Zuhlke for submission of the proteome data to PRIDE, I. Kostadinov of German Federation for Biological Data for sequence data deposition and B. Huttel from the Max Planck-Genome-Centre Cologne for assistance with genome sequencing and assembly. A.S. and M.S.S. are members of the International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic). J.H.H. acknowledges funding from the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and from the Emmy Noether Program of the DFG (grant no. HE 7217/1-1). M.F.P. acknowledges support from the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0008743). We thank A. Bolte for the HPAEC-PAD measurements and acknowledge support from the HGF-POSY project. The work of S.M., T.S. and D.B. was financially supported by grants (nos. BE 3869/4-1 and SCHW 595/10-1) of the DFG in the framework of the research unit FOR 2406 'Proteogenomics of Marine Polysaccharide Utilization' (POMPU). F.U. was supported by a scholarship from the Institute of Marine Biotechnology.