scholarly journals Design and Performance of a 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probe for Detection of Members of the Genus Bdellovibrio by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 921-921
Author(s):  
Khaled K. Mahmoud ◽  
Damian McNeely ◽  
Chelsea Elwood ◽  
Susan F. Koval
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Oligonucleotide Probe ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals Design and Performance of a 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probe for Detection of Members of the Genus Bdellovibrio by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (22) ◽  
pp. 7488-7493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled K. Mahmoud ◽  
Damian McNeely ◽  
Chelsea Elwood ◽  
Susan F. Koval
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Environmental Samples ◽  
Oligonucleotide Probe ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Specific Hybridization ◽  
And Performance

ABSTRACT A 16S rRNA-targeted, Cy3-labeled oligonucleotide probe was designed to detect members of the genus Bdellovibrio by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Specific hybridization conditions were established; however, the detection of bdellovibrios in environmental samples required enrichment, confirming that Bdellovibrio spp. are not present in large numbers in the environment.

Counting and Size Classification of Active Soil Bacteria by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization with an rRNA Oligonucleotide Probe

1999 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1753-1761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Christensen ◽  
Michael Hansen ◽  
Jan Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Nucleotide Sequence ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Soil Bacteria ◽  
Oligonucleotide Probe ◽  
A Value ◽  
Nonspecific Staining ◽  
Dry Soil ◽  
Active Bacteria

ABSTRACT A fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) technique based on binding of a rhodamine-labelled oligonucleotide probe to 16S rRNA was used to estimate the numbers of ribosome-rich bacteria in soil samples. Such bacteria, which have high cellular rRNA contents, were assumed to be active (and growing) in the soil. Hybridization to an rRNA probe, EUB338, for the domain Bacteria was performed with a soil slurry, and this was followed by collection of the bacteria by membrane filtration (pore size, 0.2 μm). A nonsense probe, NONEUB338 (which has a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of probe EUB338), was used as a control for nonspecific staining. Counting and size classification into groups of small, medium, and large bacteria were performed by fluorescence microscopy. To compensate for a difference in the relative staining intensities of the probes and for binding by the rhodamine part of the probe, control experiments in which excess unlabelled probe was added were performed. This resulted in lower counts with EUB338 but not with NONEUB338, indicating that nonspecific staining was due to binding of rhodamine to the bacteria. A value of 4.8 × 108 active bacteria per g of dry soil was obtained for bulk soil incubated for 2 days with 0.3% glucose. In comparison, a value of 3.8 × 108 active bacteria per g of dry soil was obtained for soil which had been air dried and subsequently rewetted. In both soils, the majority (68 to 77%) of actively growing bacteria were members of the smallest size class (cell width, 0.25 to 0.5 μm), but the active (and growing) bacteria still represented only approximately 5% of the total bacterial population determined by DAPI (4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) staining. The FISH technique in which slurry hybridization is used holds great promise for use with phylogenetic probes and for automatic counting of soil bacteria.

scholarly journals Quantification of Target Molecules Needed To Detect Microorganisms by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and Catalyzed Reporter Deposition-FISH

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (16) ◽  
pp. 5068-5077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuhiko Hoshino ◽  
L. Safak Yilmaz ◽  
Daniel R. Noguera ◽  
Holger Daims ◽  
Michael Wagner
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Oligonucleotide Probes ◽  
Pure Cultures ◽  
Technical Modifications ◽  
Catalyzed Reporter Deposition ◽  
Card Fish

ABSTRACT Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes is a method that is widely used to detect and quantify microorganisms in environmental samples and medical specimens by fluorescence microscopy. Difficulties with FISH arise if the rRNA content of the probe target organisms is low, causing dim fluorescence signals that are not detectable against the background fluorescence. This limitation is ameliorated by technical modifications such as catalyzed reporter deposition (CARD)-FISH, but the minimal numbers of rRNA copies needed to obtain a visible signal of a microbial cell after FISH or CARD-FISH have not been determined previously. In this study, a novel competitive FISH approach was developed and used to determine, based on a thermodynamic model of probe competition, the numbers of 16S rRNA copies per cell required to detect bacteria by FISH and CARD-FISH with oligonucleotide probes in mixed pure cultures and in activated sludge. The detection limits of conventional FISH with Cy3-labeled probe EUB338-I were found to be 370 ± 45 16S rRNA molecules per cell for Escherichia coli hybridized on glass microscope slides and 1,400 ± 170 16S rRNA copies per E. coli cell in activated sludge. For CARD-FISH the values ranged from 8.9 ± 1.5 to 14 ± 2 and from 36 ± 6 to 54 ± 7 16S rRNA molecules per cell, respectively, indicating that the sensitivity of CARD-FISH was 26- to 41-fold higher than that of conventional FISH. These results suggest that optimized FISH protocols using oligonucleotide probes could be suitable for more recent applications of FISH (for example, to detect mRNA in situ in microbial cells).

Considerations in the use of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and confocal laser scanning microscopy to characterize rumen methanogens and define their spatial distributions

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 417-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith R. Valle ◽  
Gemma Henderson ◽  
Peter H. Janssen ◽  
Faith Cox ◽  
Trevor W. Alexander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Laser Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Confocal Laser Scanning ◽  
Confocal Laser

In this study, methanogen-specific coenzyme F420autofluorescence and confocal laser scanning microscopy were used to identify rumen methanogens and define their spatial distribution in free-living, biofilm-, and protozoa-associated microenvironments. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with temperature-controlled hybridization was used in an attempt to describe methanogen diversity. A heat pretreatment (65 °C, 1 h) was found to be a noninvasive method to increase probe access to methanogen RNA targets. Despite efforts to optimize FISH, 16S rRNA methanogen-specific probes, including Arch915, bound to some cells that lacked F420, possibly identifying uncharacterized Methanomassiliicoccales or reflecting nonspecific binding to other members of the rumen bacterial community. A probe targeting RNA from the methanogenesis-specific methyl coenzyme M reductase (mcr) gene was shown to detect cultured Methanosarcina cells with signal intensities comparable to those of 16S rRNA probes. However, the probe failed to hybridize with the majority of F420-emitting rumen methanogens, possibly because of differences in cell wall permeability among methanogen species. Methanogens were shown to integrate into microbial biofilms and to exist as ecto- and endosymbionts with rumen protozoa. Characterizing rumen methanogens and defining their spatial distribution may provide insight into mitigation strategies for ruminal methanogenesis.

Differential sensitivity of 16S rRNA targeted oligonucleotide probes used for fluorescence in situ hybridization is a result of ribosomal higher order structure

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 1061-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc E. Frischer ◽  
Peter J. Floriani ◽  
Sandra A. Nierzwicki-Bauer
Keyword(s):  
In Situ Hybridization ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization ◽  
Differential Sensitivity ◽  
Probe Design ◽  
Oligonucleotide Probes ◽  
Whole Cells ◽  
Gene Probes ◽  
Wide Range

The use of 16S rRNA targeted gene probes for the direct analysis of microbial communities has revolutionized the field of microbial ecology, yet a comprehensive approach for the design of such probes does not exist. The development of 16S rRNA targeted oligonucleotide probes for use with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) procedures has been especially difficult as a result of the complex nature of the rRNA target molecule. In this study a systematic comparison of 16S rRNA targeted oligonucleotide gene probes was conducted to determine if target location influences the hybridization efficiency of oligonucleotide probes when used with in situ hybridization protocols for the detection of whole microbial cells. Five unique universal 12-mer oligonucleotide sequences, located at different regions of the 16S rRNA molecule, were identified by a computer-aided sequence analysis of over 1000 partial and complete 16S rRNA sequences. The complements of these oligomeric sequences were chemically synthesized for use as probes and end labeled with either [γ-32P] ATP or the fluorescent molecule tetramethylrhodamine-5/-6. Hybridization sensitivity for each of the probes was determined by hybridization to heat-denatured RNA immobilized on blots or to formaldehyde fixed whole cells. All of the probes hybridized with equal efficiency to denatured RNA. However, the probes exhibited a wide range of sensitivity (from none to very strong) when hybridized with whole cells using a previously developed FISH procedure. Differential hybridization efficiencies against whole cells could not be attributed to cell wall type, since the relative probe efficiency was preserved when either Gram-negative or -positive cells were used. These studies represent one of the first attempts to systematically define criteria for 16S rRNA targeted probe design for use against whole cells and establish target site location as a critical parameter in probe design.Key words: 16S rRNA, oligonucleotide probes, in situ hybridization.

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