1.Diversity analysis of archaeal and fungal communities in adjacent cucumber root soil samples in greenhouse by small-subunit rRNA gene cloning.
Zhixiang ZHAO ; Xiaofei LU ; Guohua CHEN ; Zhenchuan MAO ; Yuhong YANG ; Erming LIU ; Bingyan XIE
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2011;27(1):41-51
Soil archaea and fungi play important roles in the greenhouse soil ecosystem. To develop and apply rich microbial resources in greenhouse ecological environment, and to understand the interaction between microbes and plants, we constructed archaeal 16S rRNA and fungal 18S rRNA gene libraries to analyze the compositions of archaeal and fungal communities. Total greenhouse soil DNA was directly extracted and purified by skiving-thawing-lysozyme-proteinase K-SDS hot treatment and treatment of cetyltriethylammnonium bromide (CTAB). After PCR amplification, retrieving, ligating, transforming, screening of white clones, archaeal 16S rRNA and fungal 18S rRNA gene libraries were constructed. The sequences of archaea and fungi were defined into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) when 97% similarity threshold for OTU assignment was performed by using the software DOTUR. Phylogenetic analysis showed that crenarchaeota and unidentified-archaea were the two major sub-groups and only a few of euryarchaeota existed in the archaeal clone library, total 45 OTUs. All the crenarchaeota belonged to thermoprotei; except for Basidiomycotina, the other four sub-group fungi were discovered in the fungal library, total 24 OTUs. The diversities of archaea were very abundant and a few euryarchaeota (methanebacteria) existed in the archaeal clone library, it might be directly related to the long-term high temperature, high humidity, and high content of organic matter. The limitation of oxygen was the other reason for causing this phenomenon; Ascomycotina (over 80%) was the dominant sub-groups in fungal library. It was because most of the plant fungal diseases belonged to soil-borne diseases which gone through the winter by the ways of scierotium or perithecium and became the sources of primary infection.
Archaea
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genetics
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growth & development
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Biodiversity
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Cloning, Molecular
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Cucumis sativus
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growth & development
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Fungi
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genetics
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growth & development
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Gene Library
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Genes, rRNA
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Microclimate
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Phylogeny
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Plant Roots
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microbiology
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RNA, Archaeal
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genetics
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RNA, Fungal
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genetics
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RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
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genetics
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RNA, Ribosomal, 18S
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genetics
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Soil Microbiology
2.Studies on bacteriorhodopsin gene and sequence of 16S rRNA encoding genes of halophilic archaea of Xingjiang Aibi Lake.
Habden XUGELA ; Tohty DILBAR ; Min WU ; Pei-Jin ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2007;23(1):46-50
One hundred and forty-eight strains of halophilic archaea were isolated from 40 samples of soil, lake water, and silt. To study and analyze the species and bacteriorhodopsin(BR) protein resource, partial DNA fragments encoding BR protein from helix C to helix G andl6S rRNA encoding genes from 6 strains of halophilic archaea were amplified by polymerase chain(PCR) , and their DNA sequences were determined. The results indicate that the reduced amino acid sequences of BR protein from helix C to helix G of ABDH11 is obviously different from those of other existing proteins. The results of homology analysis on BR gene andl6S rRNA and phylogenetic analysis on 16S rRNA show that strains ABDH10 and ABDH40 are novel members of genus Natronorubrum and Natrinema, respectively; the sequence of ABDH40 was obtained from GenBank and the number of sequence is AY989910. The protein from helix C to helix G of ABDH11 is significantly different from that of other strains.
Amino Acid Sequence
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Bacteriorhodopsins
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genetics
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China
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DNA, Archaeal
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chemistry
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genetics
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Fresh Water
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microbiology
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Halobacteriaceae
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classification
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genetics
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isolation & purification
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Phylogeny
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RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
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genetics
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Sequence Homology, Amino Acid