PMID- 20406291 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110315 LR - 20181201 IS - 1462-2920 (Electronic) IS - 1462-2912 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 9 DP - 2010 Sep TI - Detection of denitrification genes by in situ rolling circle amplification-fluorescence in situ hybridization to link metabolic potential with identity inside bacterial cells. PG - 2508-17 LID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02224.x [doi] AB - A target-primed in situ rolling circle amplification (in situ RCA) protocol was developed for detection of single-copy genes inside bacterial cells and optimized with Pseudomonas stutzeri, targeting nitrite and nitrous oxide reductase genes (nirS and nosZ). Two padlock probes were designed per gene to target both DNA strands; the target DNA was cut by a restriction endonuclease close to the probe binding sites, which subsequently were made accessible by 5'-3' exonucleolysis. After hybridization, the padlock probe was circularized by ligation and served as template for in situ RCA, primed by the probe target site. Finally, the RCA product inside the cells was detected by standard fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). The optimized protocol showed high specificity and signal-to-noise ratio but low detection frequency (up to 15% for single-copy genes and up to 43% for the multi-copy 16S rRNA gene). Nevertheless, multiple genes (nirS and nosZ; nirS and the 16S rRNA gene) could be detected simultaneously in P. stutzeri. Environmental application of in situ RCA-FISH was demonstrated on activated sludge by the differential detection of two types of nirS-defined denitrifiers; one of them was identified as Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis by combining in situ RCA-FISH with 16S rRNA-targeted FISH. While not suitable for quantification because of its low detection frequency, in situ RCA-FISH will allow to link metabolic potential with 16S rRNA (gene)-based identification of single microbial cells. CI - (c) 2010 Society for Applied Microbiology and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. FAU - Hoshino, Tatsuhiko AU - Hoshino T AD - Department of Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. FAU - Schramm, Andreas AU - Schramm A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100416 PL - England TA - Environ Microbiol JT - Environmental microbiology JID - 100883692 RN - 0 (DNA Primers) RN - 0 (DNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (Oligonucleotide Probes) RN - 0 (Sewage) RN - EC 1.- (Oxidoreductases) RN - EC 1.7.2.4 (nitrous oxide reductase) SB - IM MH - Betaproteobacteria/enzymology/*genetics MH - DNA Primers/genetics MH - DNA, Bacterial/genetics MH - Denitrification/*genetics MH - *Genes, Bacterial MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence/*methods MH - Oligonucleotide Probes MH - Oxidoreductases/genetics MH - Primed In Situ Labeling MH - Pseudomonas stutzeri/enzymology/*genetics MH - Sewage/microbiology EDAT- 2010/04/22 06:00 MHDA- 2011/03/16 06:00 CRDT- 2010/04/22 06:00 PHST- 2010/04/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/04/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/03/16 06:00 [medline] AID - EMI2224 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02224.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Microbiol. 2010 Sep;12(9):2508-17. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02224.x. Epub 2010 Apr 16.