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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2004

Comparison of different primer sets for use in automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis of complex bacterial communities.

Massimiliano Cardinale, Lorenzo Brusetti, Paola Quatrini, Sara Borin, Anna Maria Puglia, Aurora Rizzi, Elisabetta Zanardini, Claudia Sorlini, Cesare Corselli, Daniele Daffonchio

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 148 papers.

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Massimiliano CardinaleDipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo, Sezione di Genetica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Lorenzo Brusetti
Paola Quatrini
Sara Borin
Anna Maria Puglia
Aurora Rizzi
Elisabetta Zanardini
Claudia Sorlini
Cesare Corselli
Daniele Daffonchio
University of Milan · ITUniversity of Palermo · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ITSF and ITSReub, constituting a new primer set designed for the amplification of the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic transcribed spacers, have been compared with primer sets consisting of 1406F and 23Sr (M. M. Fisher and E. W. Triplett, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:4630-4636, 1999) and S-D-Bact-1522-b-S-20 and L-D-Bact-132-a-A-18 (L. Ranjard et al., Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:4479-4487, 2001), previously proposed for automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA) of complex bacterial communities. An agricultural soil and a polluted soil, maize silage, goat milk, a small marble sample from the facade of the Certosa of Pavia (Pavia, Italy), and brine from a deep hypersaline anoxic basin in the Mediterranean Sea were analyzed with the three primer sets. The number of peaks in the ARISA profiles, the range of peak size (width of the profile), and the reproducibility of results were used as indices to evaluate the efficiency of the three primer sets. The overall data showed that ITSF and ITSReub generated the most informative (in term of peak number) and reproducible profiles and yielded a wider range of spacer sizes (134 to 1,387) than the other primer sets, which were limited in detecting long fragments. The minimum amount of DNA template and sensitivity in detection of minor DNA populations were evaluated with artificial mixtures of defined bacterial species. ITSF and ITSReub amplified all the bacteria at DNA template concentrations from 280 to 0.14 ng microl(-1), while the other primer sets failed to detect the spacers of one or more bacterial strains. Although the primer set consisting of ITSF and ITSReub and that of S-D-Bact-1522-b-S-20 and L-D-Bact-132-a-A-18 showed similar sensitivities for the DNA of Allorhizobium undicula mixed with the DNA of other species, the S-D-Bact-1522-b-S-20 and L-D-Bact-132-a-A-18 primer set failed to detect the DNA of Pseudomonas stutzeri.

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Environmental MicrobiologyBacteriaBacteriological TechniquesBase SequenceDNA, BacterialDNA PrimersDNA, Ribosomal SpacerEcosystemFood MicrobiologyPolymerase Chain ReactionSensitivity and SpecificitySoil MicrobiologyDNA, BacterialDNA PrimersDNA, Ribosomal Spacer

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PMID15466561
PMCPMC522057
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