A novel retrieval system for nearly complete microbial genomic fragments from soil samples

Journal of Microbiological Methods
Wen-Han YuChia-Yin Lee

Abstract

The construction of a complex genomic library is one of the comprehensive ways to study a complex bacterial community and to access the variety of metabolic pathways present in the rich soil environment. In this report, we developed a new protocol whereby we are able to retrieve nearly complete microbe genomic fragments from soil samples, which are employed to generate a metagenomic library for visualizing the basic scaffolding of the soil microbial community. The use of direct cell lysis within soil-embedded agarose plugs, along with a double-size selection, enabled us to successfully isolate pure and high-molecular weight DNA (0.1-1 Mb) without the need for any further purification. A metagenomic library containing 1.2 Gbp of DNA in total was constructed. Furthermore, analysis of the microbial community structure using 16S rDNA partial sequences found the dominant phylotypes to consist of alpha-Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria, which are similar to those seen in forest and agricultural soils, and numerous uncultured microbes from a wide variety of bacterial taxa as well. In conclusion, this study presents a novel protocol for generating a metagenomic library that carries much larger and diverse DNA fragments from soil bacter...Continue Reading

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Jun 1, 2008·Indian Journal of Microbiology·So-Youn Park, Geun-Joong Kim
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