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Nature ; 450(7169): 560-5, 2007 Nov 22.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18033299

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From the standpoints of both basic research and biotechnology, there is considerable interest in reaching a clearer understanding of the diversity of biological mechanisms employed during lignocellulose degradation. Globally, termites are an extremely successful group of wood-degrading organisms and are therefore important both for their roles in carbon turnover in the environment and as potential sources of biochemical catalysts for efforts aimed at converting wood into biofuels. Only recently have data supported any direct role for the symbiotic bacteria in the gut of the termite in cellulose and xylan hydrolysis. Here we use a metagenomic analysis of the bacterial community resident in the hindgut paunch of a wood-feeding 'higher' Nasutitermes species (which do not contain cellulose-fermenting protozoa) to show the presence of a large, diverse set of bacterial genes for cellulose and xylan hydrolysis. Many of these genes were expressed in vivo or had cellulase activity in vitro, and further analyses implicate spirochete and fibrobacter species in gut lignocellulose degradation. New insights into other important symbiotic functions including H2 metabolism, CO2-reductive acetogenesis and N2 fixation are also provided by this first system-wide gene analysis of a microbial community specialized towards plant lignocellulose degradation. Our results underscore how complex even a 1-microl environment can be.


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Bacterias/metabolismo , Genoma Bacteriano/genética , Genómica , Intestinos/microbiología , Isópteros/metabolismo , Isópteros/microbiología , Madera/metabolismo , Animales , Bacterias/enzimología , Bacterias/genética , Bacterias/aislamiento & purificación , Fuentes de Energía Bioeléctrica , Carbono/metabolismo , Dominio Catalítico , Celulosa/metabolismo , Costa Rica , Genes Bacterianos/genética , Glicósido Hidrolasas/química , Glicósido Hidrolasas/genética , Glicósido Hidrolasas/metabolismo , Hidrólisis , Lignina/metabolismo , Modelos Biológicos , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa , Simbiosis , Madera/química , Xilanos/metabolismo
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Front Microbiol ; 5: 408, 2014.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25177317

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Faster-cycling PCR formulations, protocols, and instruments have been developed to address the need for increased throughput and shorter turn-around times for PCR-based assays. Although run times can be cut by up to 50%, shorter cycle times have been correlated with lower detection sensitivity and increased variability. To address these concerns, we applied Compartmentalized Self Replication (CSR) to evolve faster-cycling mutants of Taq DNA polymerase. After five rounds of selection using progressively shorter PCR extension times, individual mutations identified in the fastest-cycling clones were randomly combined using ligation-based multi-site mutagenesis. The best-performing combinatorial mutants exhibit 35- to 90-fold higher affinity (lower Kd ) for primed template and a moderate (2-fold) increase in extension rate compared to wild-type Taq. Further characterization revealed that CSR-selected mutations provide increased resistance to inhibitors, and most notably, enable direct amplification from up to 65% whole blood. We discuss the contribution of individual mutations to fast-cycling and blood-resistant phenotypes.

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