Construction of a metagenomic library for the marine sponge Halichondria okadai

Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2012;76(4):633-9. doi: 10.1271/bbb.110533. Epub 2012 Apr 7.

Abstract

Symbionts of the marine sponge Halichondria okadai are promising as a source of natural products. Metagenomic technology is a powerful tool for accessing the genetic and biochemical potential of bacteria. Hence, we established a method of recovering bacterial-enriched metagenomic DNA by stepwise centrifugation. The metagenomic DNA was analyzed by ultrafast 454-pyrosequencing technology, and the results suggested that more than three types of bacterial DNA, Alphaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Cyanobacteria, had been recovered, and that eukaryotic genes comprised only 0.02% of the metagenomic DNA. These results indicate that stepwise centrifugation and real-time quantitative PCR were effective for separating sponge cells and symbiotic bacteria, and that we constructed a bacteria-enriched metagenomic library from a marine sponge, H. okadai, selectively for the first time.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Actinobacteria / genetics*
  • Alphaproteobacteria / genetics*
  • Animals
  • Centrifugation
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Cyanobacteria / genetics*
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • Genomic Library
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Metagenomics*
  • Phylogeny
  • Porifera / genetics*
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / genetics
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Symbiosis / physiology

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 18S