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Marine methylotrophs revealed by stable-isotope probing, multiple displacement amplification and metagenomics

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Neufeld, Josh D., Chen, Yin, Dumont, Marc G. and Murrell, J. C. (J. Colin) (2008) Marine methylotrophs revealed by stable-isotope probing, multiple displacement amplification and metagenomics. Environmental Microbiology, Vol.10 (No.6). pp. 1526-1535. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01568.x

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Abstract

The concentrations of one-carbon substrates that fuel methylotrophic microbial communities in the ocean are limited and the specialized guilds of bacteria that use these molecules may exist at low relative abundance. As a result, these organisms are difficult to identify and are often missed with existing cultivation and gene retrieval methods. Here, we demonstrate a novel proof of concept: using environmentally-relevant substrate concentrations in stable-isotope probing (SIP) incubations to yield sufficient DNA for large-insert metagenomic analysis through multiple displacement amplification (MDA). A marine surface-water sample was labelled sufficiently by incubation with near in situ concentrations of methanol. Picogram quantities of labelled C-13-DNA were purified from caesium chloride gradients, amplified with MDA to produce microgram amounts of high-molecular-weight DNA (<= 40 kb) and cloned to produce a fosmid library of > 10 000 clones. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) demonstrated minimal bias associated with the MDA step and implicated Methylophaga-like phylotypes with the marine metabolism of methanol. Polymerase chain reaction screening of 1500 clones revealed a methanol dehydrogenase (MDH) containing insert and shotgun sequencing of this insert resulted in the assembly of a 9-kb fragment of DNA encoding a cluster of enzymes involved in MDH biosynthesis, regulation and assembly. This novel combination of methodology enables future structure-function studies of microbial communities to achieve the long-desired goal of identifying active microbial populations using in situ conditions and performing a directed metagenomic analysis for these ecologically relevant microorganisms.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QP Physiology
Q Science > QR Microbiology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) > Biological Sciences ( -2010)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Methylotrophic microorganisms, Marine microbiology, Stable isotope tracers, Metagenomics, Gene amplification, Methylotrophic bacteria, Polymerase chain reaction
Journal or Publication Title: Environmental Microbiology
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 14622912
Official Date: June 2008
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June 2008Published
Volume: Vol.10
Number: No.6
Number of Pages: 10
Page Range: pp. 1526-1535
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01568.x
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain) (NERC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC)
Grant number: NE/C001 923/1 (NERC)

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