期刊
ISME JOURNAL
卷 6, 期 4, 页码 814-826出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.136
关键词
DNA microarray; hydrogenase; reductive dehalogenation; microbial mat
资金
- Strategic Environmental Research Defense Project (SERDP) [ER-1588]
- Stanford University
We developed a broad-ranging method for identifying key hydrogen-producing and consuming microorganisms through analysis of hydrogenase gene content and expression in complex anaerobic microbial communities. The method is based on a tiling hydrogenase gene oligonucleotide DNA microarray (Hydrogenase Chip), which implements a high number of probes per gene by tiling probe sequences across genes of interest at 1.67 x -2 x coverage. This design favors the avoidance of false positive gene identification in samples of DNA or RNA extracted from complex microbial communities. We applied this technique to interrogate interspecies hydrogen transfer in complex communities in (i) lab-scale reductive dehalogenating microcosms enabling us to delineate key H-2-consuming microorganisms, and (ii) hydrogen-generating microbial mats where we found evidence for significant H-2 production by cyanobacteria. Independent quantitative PCR analysis on selected hydrogenase genes showed that this Hydrogenase Chip technique is semiquantitative. We also determined that as microbial community complexity increases, specificity must be traded for sensitivity in analyzing data from tiling DNA microarrays. The ISME Journal (2012) 6, 814-826; doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.136; published online 13 October 2011
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