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Metagenomics Rob Edwards
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What is metagenomics Cloning genes from the environment, screening for function 16S sequencing Random community genomics Eukaryotic metagenomics
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Screening from the environment
Random fragments of DNA Clone into a vector Low copy vectors BACs YACs
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BACs Science Creative Quarterly
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Screening from the environment
Random fragments of DNA Clone into a vector Low copy vectors BACs YACs Screen for a phenotype e.g. Diversa patents > 1,000 amylase genes Why did Diversa sequence whale-falls?
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Screening from the environment
Expression host? Pathway or single gene? Get what you select But remember … A selection is worth a thousand screens
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16S sequencing Catalogs the bacteria that are present
PCR amplify the 16S gene with standard primers Sequence the primers Compare to known databases
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Ribosomes Ribosomes are made of proteins and RNA Prokaryotic ribosome:
Large subunit: 50S 5S and 23S rRNA Small subunit: 30S 16S rRNA
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30S Thermus aquaticus subunit
Blue: protein Orange: rRNA
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16S rRNA secondary structure
E. coli 16S rRNA secondary structure Highly conserved Base pairs = stems No pairing = loops
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16S rRNA secondary structure
E. coli 16S rRNA secondary structure V7 V6 V5 V8 V4 V9 V3 V1 Variable regions in the 16S rRNA. Vn – 9 regions forward/rev primers V2
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16S Primers 27F – 1492R full length 1,465 base pairs
967F – 1046R V6 region 1380F – 1510R V9 region 1,465 base pairs 79 base pairs 130 base pairs
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Variable regions = Variable results!
V1-V3 V3-V5 V6-V9
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16S databases Greengenes http://greengenes.lbl.gov/
Gary Andersen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory SILVA – ARB Frank Oliver Glöckner, MPI, Bremen, Germany VAMPS Mitch Sogin, Woods Hole, USA Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) James Cole, Michigan State University, USA
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16S sequencing Cheap Easy Portable PCR bias
Variable regions give variable answers Only tells you which organisms are present & abundance Does not explain much of the variance of the data What does 16S sequencing actually tell you?
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What does 16S sequencing tell you?
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What does 16S sequencing tell you?
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What does 16S sequencing tell you?
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How do you sequence the environment?
Extract DNA Soil extraction kit Water extraction kit Create library LASLs fosmids Sequence fragments
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Linker amplified shotgun libraries (LASLs)
Soil Extraction Kit This method produces high coverage libraries of over 1 million clones from as little as 1 ng DNA Breitbart (2002) PNAS
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Random community genomics
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Bioinformatics Bribery Blackmail Coercion Give up!!
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Bioinformatics MG-RAST CAMERA IMG/M ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/
Real time metagenomics
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All pipelines work the same way!
Raw reads Filter FragGeneScan InterProScan BLAST HMMER3
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Eukaryotic metagenomics
ITS sequences Internal transcribed spacer regions Individual genes Cox1 Exome sequencing Pull out ESTs and sequence
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