Targeted Gene Capture by Hybridization to Illuminate Ecosystem Functioning

Methods in Molecular Biology
Céline RibièrePierre Peyret

Abstract

Microbial communities are extremely abundant and diverse on earth surface and play key role in the ecosystem functioning. Thus, although next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have greatly improved knowledge on microbial diversity, it is necessary to reduce the biological complexity to better understand the microorganism functions. To achieve this goal, we describe a promising approach, based on the solution hybrid selection (SHS) method for the selective enrichment in a target-specific biomarker from metagenomic and metatranscriptomic samples. The success of this method strongly depends on the determination of sensitive, specific, and explorative probes to assess the complete targeted gene repertoire. Indeed, in this method, RNA probes were used to capture large DNA or RNA fragments harboring biomarkers of interest that potentially allow to link structure and function of communities of interest.

Citations

Apr 4, 2017·Database : the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation·Cyrielle GascPierre Peyret
Apr 25, 2018·Journal of Dairy Science·T A McAllisterR Zaheer
Aug 8, 2019·Indian Journal of Microbiology·Hitesh Tikariha, Hemant J Purohit
Nov 2, 2021·Frontiers in Microbiology·Magali Ranchou-PeyruseAnthony Ranchou-Peyruse

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