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New Genus-Specific Primers for PCR Identification of Rubrobacter Antonie van Leeuwenhoek https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-019-01314-3 (0123456789().,-volV)( 0123456789().,-volV) ORIGINAL PAPER New genus-specific primers for PCR identification of Rubrobacter strains Jean Franco Castro . Imen Nouioui . Juan A. Asenjo . Barbara Andrews . Alan T. Bull . Michael Goodfellow Received: 15 March 2019 / Accepted: 1 August 2019 Ó The Author(s) 2019 Abstract A set of oligonucleotide primers, environmental DNA extracted from soil samples Rubro223f and Rubro454r, were found to amplify a taken from two locations in the Atacama Desert. 267 nucleotide sequence of 16S rRNA genes of Sequencing of a DNA library prepared from the bands Rubrobacter type strains. The primers distinguished showed that all of the clones fell within the evolu- members of this genus from other deeply-rooted tionary radiation occupied by the genus Rubrobacter. actinobacterial lineages corresponding to the genera Most of the clones were assigned to two lineages that Conexibacter, Gaiella, Parviterribacter, Patulibacter, were well separated from phyletic lines composed of Solirubrobacter and Thermoleophilum of the class Rubrobacter type strains. It can be concluded that Thermoleophilia. Amplification of DNA bands of primers Rubro223f and Rubro454r are specific for the about 267 nucleotides were generated from genus Rubrobacter and can be used to detect the presence and abundance of members of this genus in the Atacama Desert and other biomes. GenBank accession numbers: MK158160–75 for sequences from Salar de Tara and MK158176–92 for those from Quebrada Nacimiento. Keywords Actinobacteria Á Rubrobacter Á Atacama desert Á Taxonomy Á Genus-specific primers Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-019-01314-3) con- tains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Introduction J. F. Castro Á I. Nouioui Á M. Goodfellow (&) School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Ridley The phylum Actinobacteria sensu Goodfellow (2012) Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK contains several deeply branching lines of descent e-mail: [email protected] (Gao and Gupta 2012; Ludwig et al. 2012) including one composed of Rubrobacter species (Norman et al. J. F. Castro Á J. A. Asenjo Á B. Andrews 2017). Rubrobacter, the type and only genus in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering family Rubrobacteraceae (Rainey et al. 1997; Zhi (CeBiB), University of Chile, Beauchef 851, Santiago, et al. 2009; Foesel et al. 2016) of the order Rubrobac- Chile terales (Rainey et al. 1997; Zhi et al. 2009; Foesel et al. 2016) of the class Rubrobacteria (Suzuki 2012a; A. T. Bull School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Foesel et al. 2016) is loosely associated with taxa Canterbury, Kent CT2 1NJ, UK classified in the orders Gaiellales (Albuquerque et al. 123 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2011; Foesel et al. 2016), Solirubrobacterales (Reddy Rubrobacter aplysinae isolated from the marine and Garcia-Pichel 2009; Foesel et al. 2016) and sponge Aplysina aerophoba (Ka¨mpfer et al. 2014), Thermoleophilales (Reddy and Garcia-Pichel 2009; Rubrobacter bracarensis from a deteriorated monu- Foesel et al. 2016), all of which belong to the class ment (Jurado et al. 2012; Albuquerque et al. 2014), Thermoleophilia (Suzuki and Whitman 2012; Foesel Rubrobacter calidifluminis and Rubrobacter naiadicus et al. 2016). Albuquerque et al. (2011) assigned two from a fumarole heated stream in the Azores (Albu- mesophilic strains isolated from a mineral aquifer in querque et al. 2014), Rubrobacter indicoceani from a Portugal to the genus Gaiella as Gaiella occulta; the deep-sea sediment sample collected from the Indian genus was assigned to the family Gaiellaceae of the Ocean (Chen et al. 2018), Rubrobacter spartanus from order Gaiellales. Similarly, the order Thermoleophi- soil adjacent to the Kilauea volcanic caldera in Hawai lales of the class Thermoleophilia (Suzuki and Whit- (Norman et al. 2017), Rubrobacter taiwanensis from man 2012; Foesel et al. 2016) includes the family the Lu-Shan hot spring in Taiwan (Chen et al. 2004) Thermoleophilaceae (Stackebrandt 2005; Zhi et al. and Rubrobacter xylanophilus from a thermally pol- 2009; Foesel et al. 2016) and the genus Ther- luted effluent of a carpet factory in the United Kingdom moleophilum (Zarilla and Perry 1984) which contains (Carreto et al. 1996). The type strains of all but three of two thermophilic species, Thermoleophilum album, these species grow optimally at either 50 or 60 °C; R. the type species (Zarilla and Perry 1984) and Ther- aplysinae grows optimally at 25 °C and R. bracarensis moleophilum minutum (Zarilla and Perry 1986). In and R. indicoceani at 28 °C (Jurado et al. 2012; turn, the order Solirubrobacterales encompasses four Ka¨mpfer et al. 2014; Chen et al. 2018). R. radiotoler- families of mainly soil bacteria, the Conexibacter- ans, R. taiwanensis and R. xylanophilus strains are aceae (Stackebrandt 2005; Zhi et al. 2009; Foesel et al. remarkable for their resistance to high levels of c- 2016), Parviterribacteraceae (Foesel et al. 2016), radiation (Yoshinaka et al. 1973; Ferreira et al. 1999; Patulibacteraceae (Takahashi et al. 2006; Foesel et al. Chen et al. 2004), a property which may be conferred 2016) and Solirubrobacteraceae (Stackebrandt 2005; by stress genes, such as those involved in DNA repair Zhi et al. 2009; Foesel et al. 2016) and associated homologous recombination, oxidative stress and com- species, including the type strains Conexibacter woesei patible solute production (Egas et al. 2014). (Monciardini et al. 2003), Parviterribacter kavango- Little is known about the ecology of Rubrobacter nensis (Foesel et al. 2016), Patulibacter minatonensis strains though they tend to be associated with extreme (Takahashi et al. 2006) and Solirubrobacter pauli biomes, notably high temperature environments (Singleton et al. 2003), respectively. (Yoshinaka et al. 1973; Carreto et al. 1996; Ferreira The genus Rubrobacter was proposed by Suzuki et al. 1999; Chen et al. 2004; Albuquerque et al. 2014) et al. (1988) to accommodate a c-radiation resistant while closely related strains have been isolated from isolate from a hot spring in Japan and classified as Australian pasture soils (Janssen et al. 2002; Sait et al. Arthrobacter radiotolerans (Yoshinaka et al. 1973) 2002) and earthworm burrows (Furlong et al. 2002). In prior to being renamed Rubrobacter radiotolerans. addition, culture-independent studies show that mem- The genus description was emended by (Albuquerque bers of the genus Rubrobacter and closely related taxa et al. 2014). In general, Rubrobacter strains are are a feature of prokaryotic communities associated obligately aerobic, Gram-stain positive, asporoge- with rosy discoloured masonry and historic wall nous, nonmotile actinobacteria which form irregular paintings (Schabereiter-Gurtner et al. 2001; Imperi rods that occur singly, in pairs, tetrads and chains; the et al. 2007), acid peat bog soil (Rheims et al. 1996), diamino-acid of the peptidoglycan is either L-lysine or arid desert soils in Antarctica (de la Torre et al. 2003; meso-diaminopimelic acid; the predominant respira- Saul et al. 2005; Aislabie et al. 2006), Australia tory lipoquinone is MK-8, iso- and anteiso-fatty acids (Holmes et al. 2000; Janssen 2006) and Chile (Connon tend to prevail; their polar lipid patterns are complex, et al. 2007; Neilson et al. 2012; Crits-Christoph et al. but usually include diphosphatidylglycerol and phos- 2013; DiRuggiero et al. 2013), heavy metal contam- phatidylglycerol; and DNA G ? C ratios fall within inated soils (Gremion et al. 2003; Moffett et al. 2003), the range of 65–69 mol% (Suzuki 2012b). as well as from Scottish grassland soils (McCaig et al. In addition to the type species, the genus currently 1999) and earthworm burrows (Furlong et al. 2002). contains eight species with validly published names, Holmes et al. (2000) designed an oligonucleotide 123 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek probe, Rubro749, and used it to show that Rubrobacter species, as shown in Table S1. The corresponding and closely related taxa accounted for 2.6 and 10.2% sequence of Escherichia coli strain K-12 sub-strain of the bacterial flora of Australian Desert soils. These MG1655 was accessed by its EcoGene number authors generated highly specific amplicons of EG30084. Nucleotide alignments designed to identify Rubrobacter 16S rRNA genes from community conserved regions in Rubrobacter 16S rRNA genes DNA extracted from a desert environmental sample were sought with the Clustal Omega (Sievers et al. using the oligonucleotide probe in tandem with the 2011) webserver (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/ universal primer 27f (Lane 1991). It is important to clustalo/) leaving the parameters in default mode. evaluate the effectiveness of such oligonucleotide Nucleotide alignments were visualised in Jalview primers given the addition of new 16S rRNA gene version 2 (Waterhouse et al. 2009); the position of sequences to curated databases. nucleotides in the alignments followed E. coli 16S In the present study, a pair of oligonucleotide rRNA gene sequence numbering (Brosius et al. 1978; primers was generated and shown to distinguish the Yarza et al. 2014). In silico assessment of the speci- type strains of Rubrobacter species from representa- ficity of the primers designed for the genus tives of the other aforementioned genera deeply rooted Rubrobacter was performed with the tool Probe Match in the actinobacterial
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