scholarly journals Microbial diversity of a full-scale UASB reactor applied to poultry slaughterhouse wastewater treatment: integration of 16S rRNA gene amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e00443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Palladino Delforno ◽  
Gileno Vieira Lacerda Júnior ◽  
Melline F. Noronha ◽  
Isabel K. Sakamoto ◽  
Maria Bernadete A. Varesche ◽  
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Pathogens ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghaju Shrestha ◽  
Sherchan ◽  
Kitajima ◽  
Tanaka ◽  
Gerba ◽  
...  

This study aimed to identify the bacterial community in two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and to determine the occurrence and reduction of Arcobacter, along with virulence genes (ciaB and pldA). A total of 48 samples (24 influent and 24 effluent) were collected at two WWTPs in southern Arizona in the United States, monthly from August 2011 to July 2012. Bacterial DNA extract was utilized for 16S rRNA metagenomic sequencing. Quantification of Arcobacter 16S rRNA gene was conducted using a recently developed SYBR Green-based quantitative PCR assay. Among 847 genera identified, 113 (13%) were identified as potentially pathogenic bacteria. Arcobacter 16S rRNA gene was detected in all influent samples and ten (83%) and nine (75%) effluent samples at each plant, respectively. Log reduction ratios of Arcobacter 16S rRNA gene in Plant A and Plant B were 1.7 ± 0.9 (n = 10) and 2.3 ± 1.5 (n = 9), respectively. The ciaB gene was detected by quantitative PCR in eleven (92%) and twelve (100%) of 12 influent samples from Plant A and Plant B, respectively, while the pldA gene was detected in eight (67%) and six (50%) influent samples from Plant A and Plant B, respectively. The prevalence of potentially pathogenic bacteria in WWTP effluent indicated the need for disinfection before discharge into the environment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma E. Ilett ◽  
Mette Jørgensen ◽  
Marc Noguera-Julian ◽  
Gedske Daugaard ◽  
Daniel D. Murray ◽  
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Abstract Collection of faecal samples for microbiome analysis in acutely sick patients is logistically difficult, particularly if immediate freezing is required (i.e. fresh-frozen, or FF sampling). Previous studies in healthy/non-hospitalized volunteers have shown that chemical stabilization (i.e. stabilized-frozen, or SF sampling) allows room-temperature storage with comparable results to FF samples. To test this in a hospital setting we compared FF and SF approaches across 17 patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) using both 16S rRNA gene and shotgun metagenomic sequencing. A paired (same stool specimen) comparison of FF and SF samples was made, with an overall comparable level in relative taxonomic abundances between the two sampling techniques. Though shotgun metagenomic sequencing found significant differences for certain bacterial genera (P < 0.001), these were considered minor methodological effects. Within-sample diversity of either method was not significantly different (Shannon diversity P16SrRNA = 0.68 and Pshotgun = 0.89) and we could not reject the null hypothesis that between-sample variation in FF and SF were equivalent (P16SrRNA = 0.98 and Pshotgun = 1.0). This indicates that SF samples can be used to reliably study the microbiome in acutely sick patient populations, thus creating and enabling further outcomes-based metagenomic studies on similarly valuable cohorts.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Céline Elie ◽  
Magali Perret ◽  
Karen Louis ◽  
Asmaà Fritah-Lafont ◽  
Philippe Leissner ◽  
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Abstract Background: The gut microbiome is widely analyzed using high-throughput sequencing, such as 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomic sequencing (SMS). DNA extraction is known to have a large impact on the metagenomic analyses. The aim of this study was to select a unique and best performing DNA extraction protocol for both metagenomic sequencing methods. In that context, four commonly used DNA extraction methods were compared for the analysis of the gut microbiota. Commercial versions were evaluated against modified protocols using a stool preprocessing device (SPD, bioMérieux) in order to facilitate DNA extraction. Stool samples from nine healthy volunteers and nine patients with a Clostridium difficile infection were extracted with all protocols and sequenced with both metagenomic methods. Protocols were ranked using wet- and dry-lab criteria, including quality controls of the extracted genomic DNA, alpha-diversity, accuracy using a mock community of known composition and repeatability across technical replicates.Results: Independently of the sequencing methods used, SPD significantly improved efficiency of the four tested protocols compared with their commercial version, in terms of extracted DNA quality, accuracy of the predicted composition of the microbiota (notably for Gram-positive bacteria), sample alpha-diversity, and experimental repeatability. The best overall performance was obtained for the S-DQ protocol, SPD combined to the DNeasy PowerLyser PowerSoil protocol from QIAGEN.Conclusion: Based on this evaluation, we recommend to use the S-DQ protocol, to obtain standardized and high quality extracted DNA in the human gut microbiome studies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Durazzi ◽  
Claudia Sala ◽  
Gastone Castellani ◽  
Gerardo Manfreda ◽  
Daniel Remondini ◽  
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AbstractIn this paper we compared taxonomic results obtained by metataxonomics (16S rRNA gene sequencing) and metagenomics (whole shotgun metagenomic sequencing) to investigate their reliability for bacteria profiling, studying the chicken gut as a model system. The experimental conditions included two compartments of gastrointestinal tracts and two sampling times. We compared the relative abundance distributions obtained with the two sequencing strategies and then tested their capability to distinguish the experimental conditions. The results showed that 16S rRNA gene sequencing detects only part of the gut microbiota community revealed by shotgun sequencing. Specifically, when a sufficient number of reads is available, Shotgun sequencing has more power to identify less abundant taxa than 16S sequencing. Finally, we showed that the less abundant genera detected only by shotgun sequencing are biologically meaningful, being able to discriminate between the experimental conditions as much as the more abundant genera detected by both sequencing strategies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
Herto Dwi Ariesyady ◽  
Mentari Rizki Mayanda ◽  
Tsukasa Ito

Activated sludge process is one of the wastewater treatment method that is applied for many wastewater types including painting process wastewater of automotive industry. This wastewater is well-known to have high heavy metals concentration which could deteriorate water environment if appropriate performance of the wastewater treatment could not be achieved. In this study, we monitored microbial community diversity in a Painting Biological Treatment (PBT) system. We applied a combination of cultivation and genotypic biological methods based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis to identify the diversity of active microbial community. The results showed that active microbes that could grow in this activated sludge system were dominated by Gram-negative bacteria. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis, it was revealed that their microbial diversity has close association with Bacterium strain E286, Isosphaera pallida, Lycinibacillus fusiformis, Microbacterium sp., Orchobactrum sp., Pseudomonas guariconensis, Pseudomonas sp. strain MR84, Pseudomonas sp. MC 54, Serpens sp., Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila, and Xylella fastidiosa with similarity of 86 – 99%. This findings reflects that microbial community in a Painting Biological Treatment (PBT) system using activated sludge process could adapt with xenobiotics in the wastewater and has a wide range of diversity indicating a complex metabolism mechanism in the treatment process.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyunghoi Kim

Deterioration of sediment quality has been found in the Nakdong River Estuary after large-scale reclamations. Here, I report microbial diversity in sediments of Nakdong River Estuary in the Republic of Korea based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing by next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seppo Virtanen ◽  
Schahzad Saqib ◽  
Tinja Kanerva ◽  
Pekka Nieminen ◽  
Ilkka Kalliala ◽  
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Abstract Background: Amplicon sequencing of kingdom-specific tags such as 16S rRNA gene for bacteria and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region for fungi are widely used for investigating microbial populations. So far most human studies have focused on bacteria while studies on host-associated fungi in health and disease have only recently started to accumulate. To enable cost-effective parallel analysis of bacterial and fungal communities in human and environmental samples, we developed a method where 16S rRNA gene and ITS-1 amplicons were pooled together for a single Illumina MiSeq or HiSeq run and analysed after primer-based segregation. Taxonomic assignments were performed with Blast in combination with an iterative text-extraction based filtration approach, which uses extensive literature records from public databases to select the most probable hits that were further validated by shotgun metagenomic sequencing. Results: Using 50 vaginal samples, we show that the combined run provides comparable results on bacterial composition and diversity to conventional 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. The text-extraction-based taxonomic assignment guided tool provided ecosystem specific annotations that were confirmed by Metagenomic Phylogenetic Analysis (MetaPhlAn). The metagenome analysis revealed distinct functional differences between the bacterial community types while fungi were undetected, despite being identified in all samples based on ITS amplicons. Co-abundance analysis of bacteria and fungi did not show strong between-kingdom correlations within the vaginal ecosystem of healthy women.Conclusion: Combined amplicon sequencing for bacteria and fungi provides a simple and cost-effective method for simultaneous analysis of microbiota and mycobiota within the same samples. Text extraction-based annotation tool facilitates the characterization and interpretation of defined microbial communities from rapidly accumulating sequencing and metadata readily available through public databases.


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