Pufc Gene Targeted PCR Primers for Identification and Classification of Marine Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodovulum Sulfidophilum
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Acta Scientific MICROBIOLOGY (ISSN: 2581-3226) Volume 4 Issue 2 February 2021 Research Article pufC Rhodovulum sulfidophilum Gene Targeted PCR Primers for Identification and Classification of Marine Photosynthetic Bacterium Aoi Koga, Nao Yamauchi, Mayu Imamura, Mina Urata, Tomomi Received: Kurayama, Ranko Iwai, Shuhei Hayashi, Shinjiro Yamamoto and January 28, 2021 Hitoshi Miyasaka* Published: December 30, 2020 © All rights are reserved by Hitoshi Department of Applied Life Science, Sojo University, Nishiku, Japan Miyasaka., et al. *Corresponding Author: Sojo University, Nishiku, Japan. Hitoshi Miyasaka, Department of Applied Life Science, DOI: 10.31080/ASMI.2020.04.0770 Abstract Rhodovulum sulfidophilum - The marine non-sulfur purple photosynthetic bacterium has a wide application potential in the fields sify various R. sulfidophilum strains, we designed a PCR primer set targeting pufC of aquaculture, renewable energy production, environmental protection, and biomaterial production. To detect, identify and clas pufC R. sulfidophilum gene encoding one of the photosystem proteins. - Nucleotide sequence alignment of the genes from five strains revealed that the 3’ region of this gene is rich in ious R. sulfidophilum pufC gene. For the validation of this nucleotide substitutions (approximately 10 substitutions/100 bp), making it suitable for the identification and classification of var R. sulfidophilum strains. strains. We designed a primer set that amplified 0.7 kb of the 3’ region of primerKeywords: set, we used fish fecal DNA as Rhodovulumthe PCR templates, sulfidophilum and successfully identified and classified several Photosynthetic Bacteria; ; PCR; Fish Fecal DNA Introduction R. sulfidophilum Rho- Marsupenaeus japonicus classified several strains from the intestinal tracts dovulum sulfidophilum The marine non-sulfur purple photosynthetic bacterium of some fish and kuruma shrimps ( ). [1,2], bioremediation Materials and Methods has a wide variety of application potential, , wastewater treatment [4], nitrogenase-mediated Bacterial strains such as in probiotics for marine aquaculture [5,6] - pufM-pufC region of mercury [3] , RNA-drug [8] and spider silk [9], of R. sulfidophilum hydrogen production , and production of biomaterials, includ For the nucleotide sequence alignment of the and biosensors [10] R. sulfidophilum ing biodegradable plastics [7] , sequence data from our three original isolates, R. sulfidophilum strains may be a useful . The PCR-based method for the detection and and 2 sequence data of strains MB263 (accession classification of various number CP020384) and DSM 1374 (accession number CP015418) primers targeting pufC - tool in many fields of applications. In this study, we designed PCR fromOur the original public databaseisolates, were used.R. sulfidophilum OKHT16, KKMI01, R. sulfidophilum that encodes one of the photosynthetic cy and KHHN01 strains. OKHT16 was isolated from strains from environmental samples. R. sulfidophilum tochrome proteins to detect and classify various [11], and R. sulfidophi- lum KKMI01 and KHHN01 were isolated from the seashore area Osaka Bay, Japan as described previously To validate this primer set, we used fecal DNA from some fish and shrimps as the PCR templates, and successfully detected and Citation: Hitoshi Miyasaka., et al. “pufC Rhodovulum sulfidophilum". Acta Scientific Microbiology Gene Targeted PCR Primers for Identification and Classification of Marine Photosynthetic Bacterium 4.2 (2021): 69-75. pufC Gene Targeted PCR Primers for Identification and Classification of Marine Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum - 70 - R. sulfidophilum of Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan. The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ acces by agarose gel electrophoresis, and DNA sequencing were per sion numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of formed as described in section 2.2. pufC frag- OKHT16, KKMI01 and KHHN01 are LC037397, LC596063 and LC596064, respectively. The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the PCR amplification of the pufM-pufC region of R. sulfidophilum ments obtained by PCR amplification from fecal DNA are shown in strains the figure legend of figure 3. Phylogenetic analysis pufM-pufC regions of R. sulfidophilum - PCR amplification of the [12] using its default setting. strains was performed by using genomic DNA as the templates. The Phylogenetic analysis was performed on the Phylogeny.fr plat - - PCR primers used were pufM588F (5’- TACTACAACCCGTTCCACGC form (http://www.phylogeny.fr) ture of the pufM-pufC -3’) and pufC1031R (5’- CATGTCATGGCCGTTCAG -3’). The struc Branch support in the maximum likelihood (ML) tree was estimat region and the location of the primers are edResults with 100 bootstrap replicates. shown in Fig. 1. KOD-Plus DNA Polymerase (Toyobo Life Science, PCR primer design for the amplification of a part of pufC gene Osaka, Japan) was used for PCR, and the reaction was carried out of R. sulfidophilum on a Biometra TOne 96 thermal cycler (Analytik Jena GmbH, Jena, R. sulfidophilum, we designed Germany) under the following conditions: pre-denaturation at 94 pufC To detect, identify and classify °C (2 min), denaturation at 94 °C (30 s), annealing at 62 °C (30 s), a PCR primer set for the amplification of a part of encoding and extension at 68 °C (40 s) for 30 cycles, followed by one cycle of pufM-pufC gene fragments one of the cytochrome proteins involved in electron transfer to the final extension at 68 °C (10 min). PCR products were separated by pufL-pufM region of the puf photosynthetic reaction center [13]. For the identification of PSB 1% agarose gel electrophoresis, and the has been used [14,15] pufL-pufM from non-purified cultures, the cluster were purified. DNA sequence analyses were performed using a , because nucleotide sequences of commercial DNA sequence analysis service (Eurofins Genomics identify R. sulfidophilum strains, pufC - for the pufM-pufC gene fragments of R. sulfidophilum OKHT16, are well conserved among various PSB. In this study, to detect and Inc., Tokyo, Japan). The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers puf R. sulfidophi- gene was selected as the tar lum the get, because of its unique location in the cluster in KKMI01 and KHHN01 are LC596067, LC596065 and LC596066, - compared to other genera of photosynthetic bacteria, and respectively. teria . Shrimp and fish samples absence of this gene in several closely related photosynthetic bac M. japonicus [13] pufM-pufC from Live kuruma shrimps ( ) for laboratory experiments our three original isolates, we designed a primer set. To design First, to obtain the nucleotide sequence data of were provided by the shrimp pond of Takusui Co. Ltd. located in the forward primer in the pufM Imari, Saga, Japan. Wild-caught kuruma shrimps from Oita Bay of pufM genes from seven Rhodovulum sp., namely R. sulfidophilum Etrumeus teres - region, the nucleotide sequences and Seto Inland Sea, Japan, were purchased by online. Wild-caught R. sulfidophilum R. kholense Konosirus punctatus Pseudo- ocean fish such as round herring ( ), konoshiro giz R. visakhapatnamense type strain pleuronectes herzensteini Cyp- (AB020784), DSM 2351 (AP014800), zard shad ( ), and righteye flounder ( R. sp. R. euryhali- rinus carpio Salvelinus leucomaenis Misgurnus type strain JA297T (FM208076), ) and freshwater fish such as carp ( num R. marinum anguillicaudatus JA181T (AM944097), MTCH3IM048 (FN984739), ), iwana ( ) and loach ( (AF486825), and type strain JA128T (AM944096) ) were purchased from local markets or online. - Isolation of fecal DNA from shrimps and fish, and PCR amplifi- were aligned using CLUSTAL W (1.83) multiple sequence alignment - cation of the 3’ region of pufC program. The forward primer pufM588F (5’- TACTACAACCCGTTC ment. To design the reverse primer in the pufC - CACGC -3’) was designed in the well-conserved region in the align Rhodovulum sp., namely R. sulfidophilum region, the nucleo Isolation of fecal DNA was performed using the ISOFECAL kit R. sulfidophilum Rhodovulum tide sequences of three (Nippon Gene, Tokyo, Japan). PCR amplification, DNA purification (AB020784), DSM 2351 (AP014800), Citation: Hitoshi Miyasaka., et al. “pufC Rhodovulum sulfidophilum". Acta Scientific Microbiology Gene Targeted PCR Primers for Identification and Classification of Marine Photosynthetic Bacterium 4.2 (2021): 69-75. pufC Gene Targeted PCR Primers for Identification and Classification of Marine Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum sp. sulfidophilum from both R. sulfidophilum-fed shrimps and non-fed71 R. sul- OG-KC1M (AB088691) were aligned using CLUSTAL W (2.1) pufC gene, and designed the fidophilum multiple sequence alignment program. Based on these alignments, (control) shrimps (data not shown). This result suggests that pufC from we found several conserved regions in may commonly inhabit in the intestinal tract of kuruma reverse primer pufC1031R (5’- CATGTCATGGCCGTTCAG -3’). The shrimps. Based on this finding, we next tried to amplify will be provided on request. R. alignment data for the design of pufM588F and pufC1031R primers the fecal DNA of wild-caught kuruma shrimps as well as from some sulfidophilum other wild-caught ocean fish. As expected, being a marine PSB, pufM-pufC from the three original - did not inhabit in the intestinal tracts of freshwater R. sulfidophilum E. teres The nucleotide sequences of fish, and the fecal DNA of some freshwater fish was used as a nega K. punctatus P. herzensteini isolates (strains OKHT16, KKMI01 and KHHN01), tive control. As for ocean fish, round herring ( ), konoshiro C. carpio