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ArticleAMB Express2017

Survey of methanotrophic diversity in various ecosystems by degenerate methane monooxygenase gene primers.

Mohammad Ghashghavi, Mike S M Jetten, Claudia Lüke

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Article in AMB Express, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohammad GhashghaviDepartment of Microbiology, Radboud University, Heijendaalsweg 135, 6525, AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. mghash@science.ru.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5622-3463
Mike S M JettenDepartment of Microbiology, Radboud University, Heijendaalsweg 135, 6525, AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Claudia LükeDepartment of Microbiology, Radboud University, Heijendaalsweg 135, 6525, AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

Funding

European Research Council 339880
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributing to about 20% of global warming. Its mitigation is conducted by methane oxidizing bacteria that act as a biofilter using methane as their energy and carbon source. Since their first discovery in 1906, methanotrophs have been studied using a complementary array of methods. One of the most used molecular methods involves PCR amplification of the functional gene marker for the diagnostic of copper and iron containing particulate methane monooxygenase. To investigate the diversity of methanotrophs and to extend their possible molecular detection, we designed a new set of degenerate methane monooxygenase primers to target an 850 nucleotide long sequence stretch from pmoC to pmoA. The primers were based on all available full genomic pmoCAB operons. The newly designed primers were tested on various pure cultures, enrichment cultures and environmental samples using PCR. The results demonstrated that this primer set has the ability to correctly amplify the about 850 nucleotide long pmoCA product from Alphaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia and the NC10 phyla methanotrophs. The new primer set will thus be a valuable tool to screen ecosystems and can be applied in conjunction with previously used pmoA primers to extend the diversity of currently known methane-oxidizing bacteria.

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DiversityGenetic markerMethaneMethanotrophParticulate methane monooxygenase

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PMID28831762
PMCPMC5567572
OpenAlexW2745623151

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