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A Pyrosequencing-Based Metagenomic Study of Methane Li et al. Biotechnology for Biofuels 2013, 6:3 http://www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com/content/6/1/3 RESEARCH Open Access A pyrosequencing-based metagenomic study of methane-producing microbial community in solid-state biogas reactor An Li1†,Ya’nan Chu2†, Xumin Wang2, Lufeng Ren2, Jun Yu2, Xiaoling Liu1, Jianbin Yan1, Lei Zhang1, Shuangxiu Wu2* and Shizhong Li1* Abstract Background: A solid-state anaerobic digestion method is used to produce biogas from various solid wastes in China but the efficiency of methane production requires constant improvement. The diversity and abundance of relevant microorganisms play important roles in methanogenesis of biomass. The next-generation high-throughput pyrosequencing platform (Roche/454 GS FLX Titanium) provides a powerful tool for the discovery of novel microbes within the biogas-generating microbial communities. Results: To improve the power of our metagenomic analysis, we first evaluated five different protocols for extracting total DNA from biogas-producing mesophilic solid-state fermentation materials and then chose two high-quality protocols for a full-scale analysis. The characterization of both sequencing reads and assembled contigs revealed that the most prevalent microbes of the fermentation materials are derived from Clostridiales (Firmicutes), which contribute to degrading both protein and cellulose. Other important bacterial species for decomposing fat and carbohydrate are Bacilli, Gammaproteobacteria, and Bacteroidetes (belonging to Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Bacteroidetes, respectively). The dominant bacterial species are from six genera: Clostridium, Aminobacterium, Psychrobacter, Anaerococcus, Syntrophomonas, and Bacteroides. Among them, abundant Psychrobacter species, which produce low temperature-adaptive lipases, and Anaerococcus species, which have weak fermentation capabilities, were identified for the first time in biogas fermentation. Archaea, represented by genera Methanosarcina, Methanosaeta and Methanoculleus of Euryarchaeota, constitute only a small fraction of the entire microbial community. The most abundant archaeal species include Methanosarcina barkeri fusaro, Methanoculleus marisnigri JR1, and Methanosaeta theromphila, and all are involved in both acetotrophic and hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis. Conclusions: The identification of new bacterial genera and species involved in biogas production provides insights into novel designs of solid-state fermentation under mesophilic or low-temperature conditions. Keywords: Solid-state fermentation, Biogas production, Pyrosequencing, Metagenomics, DNA extraction, Anaerococcus, Psychrobacter * Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected] †Equal contributors 2The CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.1-7 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China 1Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua Garden, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, China © 2013 Li et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Li et al. Biotechnology for Biofuels 2013, 6:3 Page 2 of 17 http://www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com/content/6/1/3 Background wastewaters [9,10], thermophilic upflow anaerobic filter Due to fossil fuel crisis, atmospheric pollution, and global reactor [11], fully- stirred reactor fed with fodder beet warming, the development of renewable and clean energy silage [12], thermophilic municipal biogas plant [13], and forms has become a critical task for the human society. two-phase liquid biogas reactor operated with silages [14], The production of biogas through biomass fermentation, have been conducted. Thermophilic anaerobic municipal regarded as an environment-friendly, clean, and renewable solid-waste digester [15] and packed-bed reactor for resource, has been gaining more attention in many deve- degrading organic solid wastes of artificial garbage slurry loped and developing countries [1,2]. In China, solid [16] were also studied. However, the methodology used biomass wastes (SW), such as kitchen, livestock, and for these studies was based on constructing and sequen- agricultural wastes (largely crop straws and stalks), cing 16S rDNA and mcrA clone libraries, and the choice are produced at the multi-million ton level annually of PCR primers for amplifying sequence fragments of the [3] and the untreated disposals of such wastes may target genes and other sequences typically creates biases, lead to severe long-term environmental hazards and and it has been difficult to cover the entire complexity of resource wasting. Therefore, the utilization of anaerobic microbial communities based on just the sequences from fermentation to convert SW into biogas represents a a limited number of gene-specific clones. The next- promising effort if it can be accomplished at an industrial generation sequencing technologies have overcome many scale and in an economical way. In recent years, solid- of these problems, particularly the pyrosequencing state anaerobic digestion (SS-AD) has been promoted in platform (such as the Roche/454 GS FLX sequencer) that China because of its many advantages, including less generates longer read lengths ranging from 200 to 400 bp reactor-capacity demand, lower heating-energy need, and as compared to other platforms (such as the Illumina no stirring-energy consumption, particularly as opposed Hiseq2000 system that generates 50–150 bp reads in its to liquid-state anaerobic digestion [2]. However, the yield single-directional sequencing runs [17-20]) and creates of methane, the major end-product of this process, has less bias in sequencing library construction [21,22]. Based not been sufficient for an industrial-scale promotion, let on this platform, a German group conducted the first alone economical plausibility. metagenomic analysis on a complex system of biogas- The biochemical process for anaerobic methane produc- producing plant [20], and developed related bioinformatic tion is complex. The diversity and abundance of microbes methods [23,24]. They further revealed that in addition involved in the process certainly play a major role, which to the archaeal methanogen Methanoculleus species are influenced by microbial community compositions, (which play a dominant role in methane production) fermentation materials, climate variations, and designs of and abundant numbers of cellulolytic Clostridia chambers, to name just a few. In the initial steps of SS-AD, (which were important for the hydrolysis of cellulosic hydrolytic Firmicutes reduce large macromolecules (inclu- plant biomass for acetogenesis) other methanogen ding proteins, complex fats, and polycarbohydrates) to their taxa (including Streptococcus, Acetivibrio, Garciella, building blocks (i.e., amino acids, long-chain fatty acids, Tissierella,andGelria) are also detected but their and monosugars) and other bacteria (including acidogens precise functional roles in methane formation remain and acetogens) further degrade them into smaller inter- to be elucidated [17,25]. A similar study that used a mediates (such as acetate, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen). SOLiD™ short-read DNA sequencing platform has In the later steps, methanogens, which are mainly derived recently confirmed the importance of hydrogen metabolism from Archaea, convert the smaller substrates into methane in biogas production [26]. Nevertheless, a metagenomic through both aceticlastic and hydrogenotrophic pathways study on the SS-AD system based on deep-sampling and [4-6]. Therefore, a thorough understanding of composition, long-read sequencing supported by the next-generation structure, and function of the microbial communities resi- sequencing platforms is of essence in moving the ding in anaerobic reactors is crucial for developing novel field forward. fermentation strategies and improving methane yield of the Aside from sequencing and bioinformatic analysis, DNA existing biogas reactors as well as ideas for novel designs. extraction and its quality yield from samples of complex Although the biochemistry and enzymology of methano- materials (such as liquid vs. solid and source vs. processing) genesis for model organisms are well characterized [7], the also greatly affect results of metagenomic sequencing structure and function of biogas-producing microbial [27,28]. DNA extraction efficiency and quality from biogas communities have not been sufficiently explored, samples have also been compared to PCR-based analyses particularly under different anaerobic fermentation [29], but a robust method, particularly for analyzing conditions. In the past decade or so, investigations of samples from SW biogas fermentation materials and different biogas-producing systems and waste treatment based on high-throughput shotgun pyrosequencing, has conditions, including anaerobic mesophilic sludge digester yet to be reported. Toward this end, we first evaluated five [8], mesophilic anaerobic chemostats fed with synthetic DNA extraction protocols (including four based on Li et al. Biotechnology for Biofuels 2013, 6:3 Page 3 of 17 http://www.biotechnologyforbiofuels.com/content/6/1/3 commercial kits and one derived from the classic Table 1 Comparison of DNA yield and purity among five chloroform-isoamylalcohol
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