Gut-specific actinobacterial community structure and diversity associated with the wood-feeding termite species, Nasutitermes corniger (Motschulsky) described by nested PCR-DGGE analysis

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-276

  Lefebvre, T ^a   Miambi, E ^b   Pando, A ^a   Diouf, M ^a   Rouland Lefevre C ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Actinomycetes; DGGE; Nested PCR; Termite gut

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERMITE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMYCETALES; CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; FAGUS; ISOPTERA; NASUTITERMES CORNIGER; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; RUBROBACTERACEAE; STREPTOMYCETACEAE;

EID: 76049083989     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-009-0020-6     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Bignell D. E., Anderson J. M. and Crosse R. 1991. Isolation of facultatively aerobic actinomycetes from the gut, parent soil and mound materials of the termites Procubitermes abutiensis and Cubitermes severus. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 85: 151-160.
2. Brauman A., Dore J., Eggleton P., Bignell D., Breznak J. A. and Kane M. D. 2001. Molecular phylogenetic profiling of prokaryotic communities in guts of termites with different feeding habits. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 35: 27-36.
3. Breznak J. A. and Brune A. 1994. Role of microorganisms in the digestion of lignocellulose by termite. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 39: 453-487.
4. Brune A. 2006. Symbiotic associations between termites and Prokaryotes. In: The Prokaryotes (3rd ed., Vol. 1): Symbiotic Associations, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology (Dworkin M., Falkow S., Rosenberg E., Schleifer K.-H. and Stackebrandt E., Eds), Springer, New York. pp 439-474.
5. Donovan S. E., Purdy K. J., Kane M. D. and Eggleton P. 2004. Comparison of Euryarchaea strains in the guts and food-soil of the soil-feeding termite Cubitermes fungifaber across different soil types. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 3884-3892.
6. Fall S., Hamelin J., Ndiaye F., Assigbetse K., Aragno M., Chotte J. L. and Brauman A. 2007. Differences between bacterial communities in the gut of a soil-feeding termite (Cubitermes niokoloensis) and its mounds. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 5199-5208.
7. Farris M. H. and Olson J. B. 2007. Detection of Actinobacteria cultivated from environmental samples reveals bias in universal primers. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 45: 376-381.
8. Hall T. A. 1999. BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. 41: 95-98.
9. Heuer H., Kresk M., Baker P., Smalla K. and Wellington E. M. H. 1997. Analysis of actinomycete communities by specific amplification of genes encoding 16S rRNA and gel-electrophoretic separation in denaturing gradients. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63: 3233-3241.
10. Hongoh Y, Ohkuma M. and Kudo T. 2003. Molecular analysis of bacterial microbiota in the gut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera; Rhinotermitidae). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 44: 231-242.
11. Hongoh Y., Deevong P., Inoue T., Moriya S., Trakulnaleamsai S., Ohkuma M., Vongkaluang C., Noparatnaraporn N. and Kudo T. 2005. Intra- and interspecific comparisons of bacterial diversity and community structure support coevolution of gut microbiota and termite host. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71: 6590-6599.
12. Hongoh Y., Ekpornprasit, Inoue T., Moryia S., Trakulnaleamsai S., Ohkuma M., Noparatnaraporn N. and Kudo T. 2006. Intracolony variation of bacterial gut microbiota among castes and ages in the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes gilvus. Mol. Ecol. 15: 505-516.
13. Hungate R. E. 1946. Studies on cellulose fermentation II. An anaerobic cellulose-decomposing actinomycete, Micromonospora propionici, N. Sp. J. Bacteriol. 51: 51-56.
14. Kawase T., Saito A., Sato T., Kanai R., Fujii T., Nikaidou N., Miyashita K. and Watanabe T. 2004. Distribution and phylogenetic analysis of family 19 chitinases in Actinobacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 1135-1144.
15. Kuhnigk T. and König H. 1997. Degradation of dimeric lignin model compounds by aerobic bacteria isolated from the hindgut of xylophagous termites. J. Basic Microbiol. 37: 205-211.
16. Kurtböke D. I. and French J. R. J. 2007. Use of phage battery to investigate the actinofloral layers of termite gut microflora. J. Appl. Microbiol. 103: 722-734.
17. Miyata R., Noda N., Tamaki H., Kinjyo K., Aoyagi H., Uchiyama H. and Tanaka H. 2007. Influence of feed components on symbiotic bacterial community structure in the gut of the wood-feeding higher termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 71: 1244-1251.
18. Muyzer G., de Wall E. C. and Uitterlinden A. G. 1993. Profiling of complex microbial populations by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genes coding for 16S rRNA. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59: 3233-3241.
19. Nakajima H., Hongoh Y., Usami R., Kudo T. and Ohkuma M. 2005. Spatial distribution of bacterial phylotypes in the gut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus and the bacterial community colonizing the gut epithelium. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 54: 247-255.
20. Nakatsu C. H. 2007. Soil microbial community analysis using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71: 562-571.
21. Nübel U., Engelen B., Felske A., Snaidr J., Wieshuber A., Amann R. I., Ludwig W. and Backhaus H. 1996. Sequence heterogeneities of genes encoding 16S rRNAs in Paenibacillus polymyxa detected by temperature gradient gel electrophoresis. J. Bacteriol. 178: 5636-5643.
22. Ohkuma M. and Kudo T. 1996. Phylogenetic diversity of the intestinal bacterial community in the termite Reticulitermes speratus. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 62: 461-468.
23. Pasti M. B. and Belli M. L. 1985. Cellulolytic activity of actinomycetes isolated from termites (Termitidae) gut. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 26: 107-112.
24. Porteus L. A., Seidler R. J. and Watrud L. S. 1997. An improved method for purifying DNA from soil for polymerase chain reaction amplification and molecular ecology applications. Mol. Ecol. 6: 787-791.
25. Rheims H. and Stackebrandt E. 1999. Application of nested polymerase chain reaction for the detection of as yet uncultured organisms of the class Actinobacteria in environmental samples. Environ. Microbiol. 1: 137-143.
26. Schmitt-Wagner D., Friedrich M. W., Wagner B. and Brune A. 2003. Axial dynamics, stability, and interspecies similarity of bacterial community structure in the highly compartmentalized gut of soil-feeding termites (Cubitermes spp.). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69: 6018-6024.
27. Shinzato N., Muramatu M., Matsui T. and Watanabe Y. 2005. Molecular phylogenetic diversity of the bacterial community in the gut of the termite Coptotermes formosanus. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 69: 1145-1155.
28. Shinzato N., Muramatu M., Matsui T. and Watanabe Y. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of the gut bacterial microflora of the fungus-growing termite Odontotermes formosanus. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 71: 906-915.
29. Smalla K., Oros-Sichler M., Milling A., Heuer H., Baumgarte S., Becker R., Neuber G., Kropf S., Ulrich A. and Tebbe C. C. 2007. Bacterial diversity of soils assessed by DGGE, T-RFLP and SSCP fingerprints of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA gene fragments: Do the different methods provide similar results? J. Microbiol. Methods69: 470-479.
30. Stach J. E. M., Maldonado L. A., Ward A. C., Goodfellow M. and Bull A. T. 2003. New primers for the class Actinobacteria: application to marine and terrestrial environments. Env. Microbiol. 5: 828-841.
31. Tamura K., Dudley J., Nei M. and Kumar S. 2007. MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4. 0. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 1596-1599.
32. Tanaka H., Aoyagi H., Shina S., Dodo Y., Yoshimura T., Nakamura R. and Uchiyama H. 2006. Influence of the diet components on the symbiotic microorganisms community in hindgut of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki. Appl. Environ. Biotechnol. 71: 907-917.
33. Thompson J. D., Higgins D. G. and Gibson T. J. 1994. CLUSTAL W: Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence weighing, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acid Res76: 4350-4354.
34. Warnecke F. and Hess M. 2009. A perspective: Metatranscriptomics as a tool for the discovery of novel biocatalysts. J. Biotechnol., in press.
35. Watanabe Y., Shinzato N. and Fukatsu T. 2003. Isolation of actinomycetes from termites' guts. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 67: 1797-1801.
36. von Wintzingerode F., Göbel U. B. and Stackebrandt E. 1997. Determination of microbial diversity in environmental samples: pitfalls of PCR-based rRNA analysis. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 21: 213-219.