Universal PCR primers can be designed to target the conserved regions of 16S making it possible to amplify the gene in a wide range of different microorganisms from a single sample. While the conserved region makes universal amplification possible, sequencing the variable regions allows discrimination between specific different microorganisms such as bacteria, archaea and microbial eukarya.
Identification of viruses requires metagenomic sequencing the direct sequencing of the total DNA extracted from a microbial community due to their lack of the phylogenetic marker gene 16S. Fig 1 — Approximately 1. Originally, studies of environmental samples required cultivation and isolation of species for identification, a laborious and time consuming process[4].
As this database returns matches based on the highest similarity, this allows confirmation of the identity of the bacteria of interest. When handling microorganisms, it is essential to follow good microbiological practice, including using aseptic technique and wearing appropriate personal protective equipment.
After performing an appropriate risk assessment for the microorganism or environmental sample of interest, obtain a test culture.
In this example, a pure culture of Bacillus subtilis is used. To begin, grow your microorganism on a suitable medium in the appropriate conditions. In this example, Bacillus subtilis is grown in LB broth overnight in a shaking incubator set to rpm at 37 degrees Celsius. Then, load the sample onto a 0.
After this, load a one kilobase molecular mass standard onto the gel, and run the electrophoresis until the front dye is approximately 0. Once the gel electrophoresis is complete, visualize the gel on a blue light transilluminator. The gDNA should appear as a thick band, above 10 kilobase in size and have minimal smearing.
Then, use a pipette to dispense 90 microliters of sterile distilled water into each of the tubes. Next, add 10 microliters of the gDNA solution to the 10X tube. Pipette the whole volume up and down to ensure the solution is mixed thoroughly. Then, remove 10 microliters of the solution from the 10X tube and transfer this to the X tube. Mix the solution as previously described. Finally, transfer 10 microliters of the solution in the X tube, to the X tube. To begin the PCR protocol, thaw the necessary reagents on ice.
Then, prepare the PCR master mix. Since the DNA polymerase is active at room temperature, the reaction set up must occur on ice. Aliquot 49 microliters of the master mix into each of the PCR tubes. Then, add one microliter of template to each of the experimental tubes and one microliter of sterile water to the negative control tube, pipetting up and down to mix.
After this, set the PCR machine according to the program described in the table. Place the tubes into the thermocycler and start the program. Once the program is complete, examine the quality of your product via agarose gel electrophoresis, as previously demonstrated.
A successful reaction using the described protocol should yield a single band of approximately 1. In this example, the sample containing X diluted gDNA yielded the highest quality product. Now the PCR product can be sent for sequencing. In this example, the PCR product is sequenced using forward and reverse primers. Thus, two data sets, each containing a DNA sequence and a DNA chromatogram, are generated: one for the forward primer and the other for the reverse primer.
First, examine the chromatograms generated from each primer. An ideal chromatogram should have evenly spaced peaks with little to no background signals. If the chromatograms display double peaks, multiple DNA templates may have been present in the PCR products and the sequence should be discarded. If the chromatograms contained peaks of different colors in the same location, the sequencing software likely miscalled nucleotides.
This error can be manually identified and corrected in the text file. The presence of broad peaks in the chromatogram indicates a loss of resolution, which causes miscounting of the nucleotides in the associated regions.
This error is difficult to correct and mismatches in any of the subsequent steps should be treated as unreliable. Poor chromatogram reading quality, indicated by the presence of multiple peaks, usually occurs at the five prime and three prime ends of the sequence.
Some sequencing programs remove these low quality sections automatically. If your sequence was not truncated automatically, identify the low quality fragments and remove their respective bases from the text file. Use a DNA assembly program to assemble the two primer sequences into one continuous sequence. Remember, sequences obtained using forward and reverse primers should partially overlap. Then, click the submit button and wait for the program to return the results. To view the assembled sequence, click on Contigs in the results tab.
Then, to view the details of the alignment, select assembly details. Enter your sequence into the query sequence text box and select the appropriate database in the scroll down menu. Finally, click the BLAST button on the bottom of the page, and wait for the tool to return the most similar sequences from the database.
In this example, the top hit is B. Aligned nucleotides will be joined by short vertical lines and mismatched nucleotides will have gaps between them. Focusing on the identified mismatched regions, revise the sequence and repeat the BLAST search if desired. Subscription Required. Please recommend JoVE to your librarian.
Identifying bacterial species is important for different researchers, as well as for those in healthcare. In time, it has been implemented in metagenomic studies to determine biodiversity of environmental samples and in clinical laboratories as a method to identify potential pathogens. It enables a quick and accurate identification of bacteria present in clinical samples, facilitating earlier diagnosis and faster treatment of patients. To learn more about our GDPR policies click here. If you want more info regarding data storage, please contact gdpr jove.
Your access has now expired. Provide feedback to your librarian. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our customer success team. The suitability of the RTG database as a reference for discriminating different Bacteroides species was assessed by extracting the 16S rRNA gene sequences for each Bacteroides genome contained therein. The resulting tree Supplementary Fig. Sequences from each sample were therefore extracted and aligned to the single 16S rRNA gene reference sequence used in the mock community analysis.
Stool samples were again contributed by competitive cyclists enrolled in the study described by Petersen et al. Ethical oversight and sample collection were as described above. Bacteria were cultured on a variety of media and under anaerobic conditions, unless otherwise stated Supplementary Data 2.
A subset of multiplexed libraries were sequenced on multiple SMRT cells at varying loading concentrations Supplementary Data 2 resulting in different numbers of total reads. Each repeated run was therefore treated as a technical replicate to determine i the measurement error for the estimation of intragenomic 16S gene SNP frequencies attributable to the sequencing platform and ii the relationship between measurement error and sequencing depth.
Sequence data for each isolate were quality filtered and adapters removed as described above. Filtered sequences were reoriented using the mothur command align. Gaps in alignments were subsequently removed with the mothur command degap. The most abundant unique sequence for each isolate was then extracted on the assumption it was the least likely to contain sequencing errors and was used as a reference against which to align all reads for that isolate.
Due to the prevalence of sequencing errors in processed reads e. Substitution errors in alignments were filtered in a multi-step process to separate true intragenomic SNPs from background error. First, samples with fewer than aligned reads were discarded, because preliminary investigation indicated they had insufficient signal-to-noise ratio for the detection of true SNPs. Second, the distribution of the frequency of substitution errors was calculated across the entire aligned region of the 16S gene.
Base positions where the substitution error frequency was well outside instrument error nine interquartile ranges above the upper quartile were identified as true SNPs. We also took advantage of variation in sequencing depth between replicates to determine whether the measurement error was affected by the number of reads available for SNP phasing.
Resulting hits were sorted first by e -value, then bitscore and the taxonomy of the highest scoring sequence was reported. The phylogenetic relationship between isolates was determined by aligning the most abundant unique sequence for each isolate, then constructing a maximum-likelihood tree using FastTree v2.
To determine the total number of unique nucleotide substitution profiles generated from sequenced isolates, all isolates identified as belonging to the same OTU were compared with one another. Two isolates were considered different if the substitution frequency at one or more SNP loci differed more than 3 SDs above the mean measurement error i.
Further information on research design is available in the Nature Research Reporting Summary linked to this article. Data underlying Figs. All other data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
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