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LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
卷 68, 期 1, 页码 2-8出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/lam.13091
关键词
16S; contamination; kitome; microbiome; mixome; PCR
资金
- Australian Postgraduate Award from the University of Western Australia
- Women and Infants Research Foundation
- National Health and Medical Research Council [APP1144040]
- WIRF
Reagent-derived contamination can compromise the integrity of microbiome data, particularly in low microbial biomass samples. This contamination has recently been attributed to the 'kitome' (contamination introduced by the DNA extraction kit), prior to which attention was mostly paid to potential contamination introduced by PCR reagents. In this study, we assessed the proportion to which our DNA extraction kit and PCR master mix introduce contaminating microbial DNA to bacterial microbial profiles generated by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Utilizing a commercial dsDNase treatment protocol to decontaminate the PCR master mix, we demonstrated that the vast majority of contaminating DNA was derived from the PCR master mix. Importantly, this contamination was almost completely eliminated using the simple dsDNase treatment, resulting in a 99% reduction in contaminating bacterial reads. We suggest that dsDNase treatment of PCR reagents should be explored as a simple and effective way of reducing contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies and producing more robust and reliable data.
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