定量稳定性同位素探针技术及其在微生物生态学研究中的应用

定量稳定性同位素探针技术(qSIP)是将生态系统中微生物分类性状与代谢功能联系起来的有效工具,能够定量测定特定环境中单个微生物类群暴露于同位素示踪剂后微生物代谢活动或生长速率.qSIP技术采用定量PCR与高通量测序技术并结合稳定同位素探针技术(SIP),通过向环境样品添加标记底物进行培养,提取微生物生物标记物,利用超高...     

稳定性碳同位素技术在生态学研究中的应用

 植物光合作用是自然界产生碳同位素分馏的最重要过程,也是碳同位素技术在生态学研究中应用的基础。最初,碳同位素主要应用于光合途径的鉴别。随着技术的不断完善和研究的不断深入,目前此项技术在生态学研究的许多领域都得到了广泛的应用。作者从植物叶片、功能群、群落冠层、生态系统以及全球等几个不同的尺度上,对碳同位素技术在生态学研究中的主要应用进行了简要的总结。     

稳定性同位素技术在生态学上的应用

稳定性同位素技术早在20世纪70年代末期就被引入到生态学领域。最初是利用植物稳定性碳同位素的差异。开展了许多有关营养流动方面的研究;到90年代,稳定性碳和氮同位素被用来分析动物的食性、营养级位置关系以及食物链结构;本世纪初,由于技术的进步,稳定性同位素(特别是氢同位素)被用来开展动物迁徙习性方面的研究。到目前为止,国内有关这方面的研究还鲜有报道,而且对自然界存在的稳定性同位素的理解还存在一定偏差。本文主要介绍了稳定性同位素效应及其分馏原理、稳定性同位素在示踪动物食性信息、确定营养级位置关系、分析食物网结构以及研究动物迁徙生态学中的作用等方面的内容。     

稳定性同位素技术在生物科学中的应用

稳定同位素技术是一项相对新兴的技术,其最早主要应用于地质学和地球化学.近些年来,稳定性同位素技术在农业、医学、环境学、海洋学、石油、化工、冶金等方面的应用也日益广泛.利用稳定性同位素技术还可以解决生物科学中一些传统方法难以解决的问题.对稳定性同位素的相关概念进行了介绍,并对其在植物、动物和微生物生理、生态学领域研究中的应用进行了综述,同时对其在环境保护、兴奋剂检测、毒品和炸药的产地辨别等领域的应用作了概述.     

CARD-FISH技术及其在微生物生态学研究中的应用

催化报告沉积荧光原位杂交技术(Catalyzed reporter deposition-fluorescence in situ hybridization,CARDFISH)是基于传统的FISH技术发展而来,由于其较高的灵敏度及稳定性,可以检测微生物的rRNA、mRNA和DNA上的目标基因等,获得环境微生物的群落及功能信息,现已成为微生物生态学研究领域中的重要技术手段。近些年,CARD-FISH与同位素示踪技术、纳米二次离子质谱技术(Nano SIMS)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、流式细胞仪等技术方法的联合使用,不仅可以研究复杂环境中微生物的物种组成、数量及其高分辨形态学信息,而且可以获得微生物在单细胞水平的生理代谢信息及其活性,对在单细胞水平认识原位环境微生物的生理生态功能具有重要意义。本文重点介绍了CARD-FISH的技术路线和要点,并探讨CARD-FISH与相关技术联用在环境微生物生态学研究中的应用及进展。     

核酸杂交技术在微生物生态学上的应用

由于自然界中大部分的微生物种类到目前为止仍不可培养,传统基于培养和纯种分离的技术在研究微生物生态时面临很大障碍。分子生物学的进展为诸多长期困扰微生物学研究的问题提供了解决办法。核酸杂交技术已被证实在微生物系统分类的微生物生态等领域的研究具有巨大潜力并已被广泛应用。综述核酸杂交技术的基本原理、实际应用及其主要优点和局限性,以及提高其检测灵敏度和特异性的方法,并对该技术的应用前景作了探讨。     

DGGE技术在微生物生态学研究中的应用

简要介绍了DGGE（denaturing gradient gel electrophorests）的基本原理,及其在研究微生物类群多样性,环境中微生物变化的动态监测,微生物新物种的发现,不同DNA提取方法效果的比较和功能基因多样性研究等微生物生态学领域中的应用,并对该技术自身存在的缺陷进行了评价。     

PCR-DGGE技术在微生物生态学中的应用

PCR-DGGE技术是随着现代分子生物学发展起来的一种很重要的分析手段,与传统的种群鉴定方法相比,PCR-DGGE技术具有快速和操作简便等优点,对于不可培养的微生物也能达到分离的效果,因而在微生物生态学中受到普遍关注与重视。介绍了该技术的基本原理、主要影响因素等研究动态以及在微生物生态学中的应用现状,并对其应用前景作了综述。     

稳定性同位素核酸探针技术DNA-SIP 原理与应用

稳定性同位素核酸探针技术DNA-SIP(Stable isotope probing),是将复杂环境中微生物物种组成及其生理功能耦合分析的有力工具.微生物的体积在μm尺度,因此,自然环境中微生物群落在μm尺度下生理过程的发生、发展,其新陈代谢物质在环境中累积与消减的动力学变化规律,形成了微生物生理生态过程,决定了不同尺度下生态系统物质和能量的良性循环.利用稳定性同位素示踪复杂环境中微生物基因组DNA,实现了单一微生物生理过程研究向微生物群落生理生态研究的转变,能在更高更复杂的整体水平上定向发掘重要微生物资源,推动微生物生理生态学和生物技术开发应用.本文重点探讨了DNA-SIP的技术原理、主要技术瓶颈及对策,初步展望了DNA-SIP为基础的环境微生物基因组学发展趋势.     

PCR-DGGE技术及其在微生物生态学中的应用

现代分子生物学技术PCR-DGGE是一种分析微生物群落的有效工具,可以用于研究生态系统中微生物多样性和群落动态性。本文简要介绍了PCR-DGGE技术原理及其在微生物生态学领域的应用,并对该技术的局限性进行了评价。     

High-throughput isotopic analysis of RNA microarrays to quantify microbial resource use

Most microorganisms remain uncultivated, and typically their ecological roles must be inferred from diversity and genomic studies. To directly measure functional roles of uncultivated microbes, we developed Chip-stable isotope probing (SIP), a high-sensitivity, high-throughput SIP method performed on a phylogenetic microarray (chip). This approach consists of microbial community incubations with isotopically labeled substrates, hybridization of the extracted community rRNA to a microarray and measurement of isotope incorporation—and therefore substrate use—by secondary ion mass spectrometer imaging (NanoSIMS). Laboratory experiments demonstrated that Chip-SIP can detect isotopic enrichment of 0.5 atom % ¹³C and 0.1 atom % ¹⁵N, thus permitting experiments with short incubation times and low substrate concentrations. We applied Chip-SIP analysis to a natural estuarine community and quantified amino acid, nucleic acid or fatty acid incorporation by 81 distinct microbial taxa, thus demonstrating that resource partitioning occurs with relatively simple organic substrates. The Chip-SIP approach expands the repertoire of stable isotope-enabled methods available to microbial ecologists and provides a means to test genomics-generated hypotheses about biogeochemical function in any natural environment.     

单细胞拉曼光谱在微生物研究中的应用

拉曼显微光谱是一种能够提供0.5–1.0μm空间分辨率的单个微生物细胞内化学结构信息的研究技术。近几年来,拉曼显微光谱被越来越多地应用于微生物单细胞的研究中,它可以快速无损地检测微生物细胞内的特征化学组分。典型的单个微生物细胞的拉曼光谱包含核酸、蛋白质、碳水化合物、脂质和色素(例如类胡萝卜素)等信息,这些信息能够表征微生物细胞的基因型、表型和生理状态。所以单细胞拉曼显微光谱是一种可用于区分微生物样品的\"全生物指纹\"技术,它可用于研究单个微生物细胞生命阶段的转变、鉴定微生物单细胞中的色素及其他化合物的含量变化等。本文综述了目前拉曼显微光谱在微生物单细胞研究上的应用,主要包括与稳定同位素标记(stable isotope probing,SIP)、拉曼成像、光谱分类和细胞分选技术结合来探究微生物单细胞对物质吸收后特征峰的变化、推导物质循环过程、进行微生物分类鉴定和探索基因型与表型的关系。拉曼显微光谱作为微生物单细胞研究的手段之一,在代谢过程的研究、活细胞分选和细胞对物质的利用上具有广泛的应用前景。     

新疆冷泉沉积物葡萄糖利用细菌群落多样性的稳定同位素标记分析

新疆沙湾冷泉低盐且不含硫化物,为了解其沉积物细菌群落的碳源利用,以13C稳定同位素标记的葡萄糖作为底物培养沉积物中的细菌,通过提取和分离带有13C标记的总DNA,结合16S rDNA-PCR克隆文库法以及限制性片段长度多态性方法,对冷泉沉积物中葡萄糖利用细菌群落多样性进行分析.随机挑取417个阳性克隆,HaeⅢ酶切分型,共获得27个OTUs.经测序、序列同源性对比和系统发育学分析,归为细菌域中的9个门,即厚壁菌门(Firmicutes)、绿弯菌门(Chloroflexi)、硝化螺旋菌门(Nitrospirae)、放线菌门(Actinobacteria)、变形杆菌门(Proteobacteria)、拟杆菌门(Bacteroidetes)、浮霉菌门(Planctomycetes)、蓝细菌门(Cyanobacteria)和酸杆菌门(Acidobacteria),其中,厚壁菌门和变形杆菌门为优势类群,分别占克隆文库的28.3％和38.6％.与前期研究比较,以葡萄糖为碳源的细菌OTUs仅占总菌群的31％,表明该环境中可能存在其它碳源利用方式的细菌群落.     

Insights from quantitative metaproteomics and protein-stable isotope probing into microbial ecology

The recent development of metaproteomics has enabled the direct identification and quantification of expressed proteins from microbial communities in situ, without the need for microbial enrichment. This became possible by (1) significant increases in quality and quantity of metagenome data and by improvements of (2) accuracy and (3) sensitivity of modern mass spectrometers (MS). The identification of physiologically relevant enzymes can help to understand the role of specific species within a community or an ecological niche. Beside identification, relative and absolute quantitation is also crucial. We will review label-free and label-based methods of quantitation in MS-based proteome analysis and the contribution of quantitative proteome data to microbial ecology. Additionally, approaches of protein-based stable isotope probing (protein-SIP) for deciphering community structures are reviewed. Information on the species-specific metabolic activity can be obtained when substrates or nutrients are labeled with stable isotopes in a protein-SIP approach. The stable isotopes (¹³C, ¹⁵N, ³⁶S) are incorporated into proteins and the rate of incorporation can be used for assessing the metabolic activity of the corresponding species. We will focus on the relevance of the metabolic and phylogenetic information retrieved with protein-SIP studies and for detecting and quantifying the carbon flux within microbial consortia. Furthermore, the combination of protein-SIP with established tools in microbial ecology such as other stable isotope probing techniques are discussed.     

Identification of glucose-fermenting bacteria present in an in vitro model of the human intestine by RNA-stable isotope probing

16S rRNA-based stable isotope probing (SIP) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based metabolic profiling were used to identify bacteria fermenting glucose under conditions simulating the human intestine. The TIM-2 in vitro model of the human intestine was inoculated with a GI tract microbiota resembling that of the small intestine, to which subsequently 4, 20 or 40 mM of [U-(13)C]-glucose were added. RNA was extracted from lumen samples after 0 (control), 1, 2 and 4 h and subjected to density-gradient ultracentrifugation. Phylogenetic analysis of unlabeled 16S rRNA revealed a microbial community dominated by lactic acid bacteria and Clostridium perfringens. Distinct (13)C-incorporation into bacterial RNA was only observed for the 40-mM addition. 16S rRNA fingerprinting showed an activity drop of Lactobacillus fermentum after glucose addition, while Streptococcus bovis and C. perfringens were identified as the most active glucose-fermenters. Accordingly, NMR analysis identified lactate, acetate, butyrate and formate as the principal fermentation products, constituting up to 91% of the (13)C-carbon balance. RNA-SIP combined with metabolic profiling allowed us to detect differential utilization of a general model carbohydrate, indicating that this approach holds great potential to identify bacteria involved in the fermentation of dietary relevant oligo- and polymeric carbohydrates in the human intestine.     

Enterobacteriaceae facilitate the anaerobic degradation of glucose by a forest soil

Anoxic micro zones that occur in soil aggregates of oxic soils may be temporarily extended after rainfall and thus facilitate the anaerobic degradation of organic compounds in soils. The microbial degradation of glucose by anoxic slurries of a forest soil yielded acetate, CO₂, H₂, succinate, and ethanol, products indicative of mixed acid fermentation. Prokaryotes involved in this process were identified by time-resolved 16S rRNA gene-targeted stable isotope probing with [¹³C-U]-glucose. All labeled phylotypes from the ¹³C-enriched 16S rRNA gene were most closely related to Rahnella and Ewingella , enterobacterial genera known to catalyze mixed acid fermentation. These results indicate that facultative aerobes, in particular Enterobacteriaceae , (1) can outcompete obligate anaerobes when conditions become anoxic in forest soils and (2) may be involved in the initial decomposition of monosaccharides in anoxic micro zones of aerated forest soils.