ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2022
The Isolation and Characterization of Rare Mycobiome Associated With Spacecraft Assembly Cleanrooms.
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Abstract
Ensuring biological cleanliness while assembling and launching spacecraft is critical for robotic exploration of the solar system. To date, when preventing forward contamination of other celestial bodies, NASA Planetary Protection policies have focused on endospore-forming bacteria while fungi were neglected. In this study, for the first time the mycobiome of two spacecraft assembly facilities at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Kennedy Space Center (KSC) was assessed using both cultivation and sequencing techniques. To facilitate enumeration of viable fungal populations and downstream molecular analyses, collected samples were first treated with chloramphenicol for 24 h and then with propidium monoazide (PMA). Among cultivable fungi, 28 distinct species were observed, 16 at JPL and 16 at KSC facilities, while 13 isolates were potentially novel species. Only four isolated species
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