TY - JOUR
T1 - Simultaneous pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA, IncP-1 trfA, and merA genes
AU - Holmsgaard, Peter Nikolai
AU - Sørensen, Søren Johannes
AU - Hansen, Lars H.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - The use of amplicon pyrosequencing makes it possible to produce thousands of sequences of the same gene at relatively low costs. Here we show that it is possible to simultaneously sequence the 16S rRNA gene, IncP-1 trfA gene and mercury reductase gene (merA) as a way for screening the diversity of several genes in the same samples. As a proof-of-concept two different soil samples and a wastewater sample were screened. Multiplexing identifiers (MIDs) and sequencing adapters were added to amplicons using a tailed PCR approach and the universal overhangs U1 and U2 for this approach were redesigned. Furthermore, this is the first time the IncP-1 plasmid diversity was studied by amplicon pyrosequencing and for this purpose a clustering threshold of 89% nucleotide sequence similarity was determined to differentiate the IncP-1 subgroups.
AB - The use of amplicon pyrosequencing makes it possible to produce thousands of sequences of the same gene at relatively low costs. Here we show that it is possible to simultaneously sequence the 16S rRNA gene, IncP-1 trfA gene and mercury reductase gene (merA) as a way for screening the diversity of several genes in the same samples. As a proof-of-concept two different soil samples and a wastewater sample were screened. Multiplexing identifiers (MIDs) and sequencing adapters were added to amplicons using a tailed PCR approach and the universal overhangs U1 and U2 for this approach were redesigned. Furthermore, this is the first time the IncP-1 plasmid diversity was studied by amplicon pyrosequencing and for this purpose a clustering threshold of 89% nucleotide sequence similarity was determined to differentiate the IncP-1 subgroups.
U2 - 10.1016/j.mimet.2013.09.016
DO - 10.1016/j.mimet.2013.09.016
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 24080123
SN - 0167-7012
VL - 95
SP - 280
EP - 284
JO - Journal of Microbiological Methods
JF - Journal of Microbiological Methods
IS - 2
ER -