基于高通量测序技术马肠道菌群研究进展

马肠道非常发达,其中定居着丰富又复杂的微生物菌群,这些微生物在宿主的生理、代谢、营养和免疫功能等方面有着重要作用.基于高通量测序的宏基因组学技术和分析手段的改进,对复杂环境中微生物的研究更加方便、透彻.本文就基于高通量测序的宏基因组技术在马肠道核心菌群、不同肠道段菌群结构、不同因素对肠道菌群结构的影响,以及马肠道微生物...     

染色体外环形DNA研究进展及其在畜禽育种中的应用

染色体外环形DNA(extrachromosomal circular DNA,eccDNA)指来源于基因组DNA并游离于染色体之外的双链环状DNA分子,它在真核生物中普遍存在.eccDNA在数目、序列长度和基因组来源上存在很大差异,其功能也不尽相同,包括端粒可变延长、rDNA拷贝数维持、衰老、耐药性和肿瘤发生等,ec...     

Rapid Detection of the ACMG/ACOG-Recommended 23 CFTR Disease-Causing Mutations Using Ion Torrent Semiconductor Sequencing

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most frequently diagnosed autosomal-recessive diseases in the Caucasian population. For general-population CF carrier screening, the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG)/American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) have recommended a core panel of 23 mutations that will identify 49–98% of carriers, depending on ethnic background. Using a genotyping technology that can rapidly identify disease-causing mutations is important for high-throughput general-population carrier screening, confirming clinical diagnosis, determining treatment options, and prenatal diagnosis. Here, we describe a proof-of-concept study to determine whether the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) sequencer platform can reliably identify all ACMG/ACOG 23 CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutations. A WT CF specimen along with mutant DNA specimens representing all 23 CFTR mutations were sequenced bidirectionally on the Ion Torrent 314 chip to determine the accuracy of the PGM for CFTR variant detection. We were able to reliably identify all of the targeted mutations except for 2184delA, which lies in a difficult, 7-mer homopolymer tract. Based on our study, we believe PGM sequencing may be a suitable technology for identifying CFTR mutations in the future. However, as a result of the elevated rate of base-calling errors within homopolymer stretches, mutations within such regions currently need to be evaluated carefully using an alternative method.     

Efficient DNA Fingerprinting Based on the Targeted Sequencing of Active Retrotransposon Insertion Sites Using a Bench-Top High-Throughput Sequencing Platform

In many crop species, DNA fingerprinting is required for the precise identification of cultivars to protect the rights of breeders. Many families of retrotransposons have multiple copies throughout the eukaryotic genome and their integrated copies are inherited genetically. Thus, their insertion polymorphisms among cultivars are useful for DNA fingerprinting. In this study, we conducted a DNA fingerprinting based on the insertion polymorphisms of active retrotransposon families (Rtsp-1 and LIb) in sweet potato. Using 38 cultivars, we identified 2,024 insertion sites in the two families with an Illumina MiSeq sequencing platform. Of these insertion sites, 91.4% appeared to be polymorphic among the cultivars and 376 cultivar-specific insertion sites were identified, which were converted directly into cultivar-specific sequence-characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers. A phylogenetic tree was constructed using these insertion sites, which corresponded well with known pedigree information, thereby indicating their suitability for genetic diversity studies. Thus, the genome-wide comparative analysis of active retrotransposon insertion sites using the bench-top MiSeq sequencing platform is highly effective for DNA fingerprinting without any requirement for whole genome sequence information. This approach may facilitate the development of practical polymerase chain reaction-based cultivar diagnostic system and could also be applied to the determination of genetic relationships.     

颜氏大疣蛛毒腺转录组学研究

颜氏大疣蛛Macrothele yani个体大、毒性强、易取毒,是农林生态系统中害虫的重要天敌,也是天然药物研究工作者进行新药挖掘和毒液开发利用的重要选择对象。本研究利用高通量测序平台Illumina Hiseq 2000对颜氏大疣蛛雌雄成体的毒腺进行转录组测序和生物信息学分析,共获得转录组样本数据37.8 G,总计301 024条unigenes,总长度170 512 372 bp,最短201 bp,最长36 105 bp,平均长度566 bp,GC含量平均值为38.17%,N50长度为705 bp。将unigenes序列与NR（非冗余蛋白序列数据库）、String（蛋白质相互作用数据库）、Swiss-prot（蛋白质序列数据库）、Pfam（蛋白质家族数据库）、GO（基因本体论）、KOG（真核生物蛋白质直系同源数据库）、KEGG（京都基因与基因组百科全书）数据库进行比对（e≤10^-10）,分别获得31 409、6 549、11 817、8 216、11 480、7 804条unigenes注释。通过生物信息学对雌雄颜氏大疣蛛unigenes进行表达量分析,筛选高表达量且高可信度的差异表达基因,并进行对这些差异基因进行GO和KEGG功能富集分析;与雄蛛相比,雌成体有205条unigenes表达量上调,113条unigenes表达量下调。最后在所有的转录本数据中共比对到68条毒素相关序列。本研究获得的颜氏大疣蛛转录组信息,为颜氏大疣蛛的功能基因挖掘提供了重要的信息资源。     

Rapid identification of thousands of copperhead snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) microsatellite loci from modest amounts of 454 shotgun genome sequence

Optimal integration of next-generation sequencing into mainstream research requires re-evaluation of how problems can be reasonably overcome and what questions can be asked. One potential application is the rapid acquisition of genomic information to identify microsatellite loci for evolutionary, population genetic and chromosome linkage mapping research on non-model and not previously sequenced organisms. Here, we report on results using high-throughput sequencing to obtain a large number of microsatellite loci from the venomous snake Agkistrodon contortrix, the copperhead. We used the 454 Genome Sequencer FLX next-generation sequencing platform to sample randomly ∼27 Mbp (128 773 reads) of the copperhead genome, thus sampling about 2% of the genome of this species. We identified microsatellite loci in 11.3% of all reads obtained, with 14 612 microsatellite loci identified in total, 4564 of which had flanking sequences suitable for polymerase chain reaction primer design. The random sequencing-based approach to identify microsatellites was rapid, cost-effective and identified thousands of useful microsatellite loci in a previously unstudied species.     

纳米孔测序技术在环境微生物研究中的应用

高通量测序技术是研究环境微生物的有效手段,而以纳米孔测序为代表的第三代测序技术以其测序读长长、测序速度快、测序数据实时监控、仪器方便携带、无GC偏好性、无需经过PCR扩增等显著优势有力推动了环境微生物研究的发展.本文对纳米孔测序技术的技术原理和特点进行了简要概述,重点介绍了纳米孔测序技术在环境微生物扩增子测序、宏基因组...     

基于高通量测序技术研究水貂远端肠道细菌群落组成(英文)

【目的】研究水貂远端肠道微生物群落组成及其多样性。【方法】通过高通量测序技术研究水貂远端肠内容物细菌的组成和多样性。【结果】从10只健康水貂远端肠道内容物样品中得到146 287高质量序列代表17个菌门、167个细菌属。水貂肠道细菌以厚壁菌门(59.99%)、拟杆菌门(16.2%)、梭杆菌门(11.5%)、放线菌门(5.9%)和变形菌门(5.3%)为主,其中厚壁菌门最为丰富。厚壁菌门中的梭菌目是最丰富的目,而梭菌目中的链球菌占有50%以上的OTUs,是最大的细菌属。【结论】水貂肠道内存在复杂的微生物区系,这对进一步研究水貂对营养物质吸收利用提供了理论基础。     

中国人群肠道微生物鸟枪法宏基因组测序研究进展

肠道微生物与人类健康的相关性研究仍然是当前生命科学研究领域的前沿热点之一。不依赖培养的16Sr RNA基因高通量测序是当前的主要研究手段。但随着测序成本的降低和数据分析方法的日渐成熟,宏基因组鸟枪法测序因具有信息量更大、更全等优势,将逐渐成为今后一段时间内研究肠道微生物组的重要手段。美国在人类微生物组计划的资助下,对30 805份样品进行了肠道微生物宏基因测序分析。通过NCBI Pub Med和SRA数据库检索,共发现72项研究收集了约10000份中国人的肠道样品用于宏基因组测序。但到目前为止,仅56项研究进行了公开发表,其中与代谢性疾病相关的文献16篇,与感染和免疫性疾病相关的文献16篇,与心脑血管疾病相关的文献12篇。由于采样地点以北京、广州、上海等大城市为主,测序平台和测序分析方法均存在较大差异,且大部分研究仍以相关性分析为主,相关研究成果在临床疾病诊疗中所发挥的作用仍非常有限。规范采样方法、标准化测序平台和数据分析流程,开展多中心平行研究将有助于数据整合和比较分析。同时,结合使用转录组、蛋白质组和培养组学等多组学方法开展功能验证和分子作用机制研究,将有利于更好地将肠道微生物研究...     

南亚热带马尾松-红椎混交林及其纯林土壤细菌群落结构与功能

营建乡土阔叶树种人工纯林和针阔混交林是我国亚热带地区森林经营的发展趋势,但对人工纯林和针阔混交林土壤细菌群落结构及功能知之甚少。本研究以南亚热带乡土针叶树种马尾松、阔叶树种红椎人工纯林及二者的混交林为对象,运用细菌16S rRNA基因高通量测序技术和PICRUSt基因功能预测,分析了3种人工林不同土层(0～20、20～40和40～60 cm)土壤细菌群落的结构与功能。结果表明: 混交林和马尾松林土壤细菌群落结构相似,但与红椎林差异显著,红椎林土壤细菌群落多样性、生物通路代谢功能和氮循环功能低于马尾松林和混交林;土壤全氮、硝态氮和C/N是导致红椎林与马尾松林和混交林土壤细菌群落结构及功能差异的主要土壤理化因子。就土壤细菌群落结构与功能而言,在该地区营造红椎和马尾松针阔混交林要优于红椎纯林。     

Commercial high-throughput sequencing and its applications in DNA analysis

DNA sequences can be used for the analysis of genetic variation and gene function. The high-throughput sequencing techniques that have been developed over the past three years can read as many as one billion bases per run, and are far less expensive than the traditional Sanger sequencing method. Therefore, the high-throughput sequencing has been applied extensively to genomic analyses, such as screening for mutations, construction of genomic methylation maps, and the study of DNA-protein interactions. Although they have only been available for a short period, high-throughput sequencing techniques are profoundly affecting many of the life sciences, and are opening out new potential avenues of research. With the highly-developed commercial high-throughput sequencing platforms, each laboratory has the opportunity to explore this research field. Therefore, in this paper, we have focused on commercially-popular high-throughput sequencing techniques and the ways in which they have been applied over the past three years.     

中亚热带地区氮沉降对杉木幼林土壤细菌群落多样性及组成的影响

大气氮沉降量持续增加已经成为当前关注的热点.土壤细菌群落作为土壤环境中大量存在的微生物,在养分循环过程中发挥着不可忽视的作用.在福建三明森林生态系统与全球变化研究站陈大观测点,我们在野外模拟大气氮沉降试验,通过16S rDNA扩增子测序,研究中亚热带地区杉木幼林土壤细菌群落多样性和组成对氮沉降的响应.结果表明:短期施氮对研究区的土壤细菌群落多样性和组成并未产生显著影响,但高氮处理显著改变敏感菌群相对丰度,如富营养型类群丰度增加、贫营养型类群丰度降低.土壤细菌群落的营养策略发生变化,这可能是受到了养分有效性的驱动.因此,了解土壤细菌群落和养分分配格局对氮沉降的响应,有助于提高我们对未来环境的预测能力.     

未培养微生物研究策略概述

基于未培养微生物数量巨大、种类繁多、基因资源丰富等特点。扼要介绍了未培养微生物的纯培养分离策略和分子生物学研究方法。随着新型培养策略如原位仿生境培养、限制性培养、单细胞微操作等的出现,使未培养微生物的纯培养成为可能。同时由于宏基因组学和高通量DNA测序等现代分子生物学方法技术的逐渐成熟,使来源于未培养微生物的新基因和新活性物质的分离筛选出现了新的机遇与挑战。