Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Discovery of an Antarctic ascidian-associated uncultivated Verrucomicrobia with antimelanoma palmerolide biosynthetic potential
doi: 10.1101/2021.05.05.442870
Figure Lengend Snippet: Abundances of real time PCR-targeted coding regions in the candidate pal biosynthetic gene cluster in Antarctic ascidian samples. (A) Gene copies estimated for three targeted coding regions (Acyltransferase, AT1; 3-hydroxy-methyl-glutaryl coenzyme A synthase, HCS; and the condensation domain of a non-ribosomal peptide synthase; NRPS) in the candidate pal biosynthetic gene cluster surveyed over 63 DNA extracts derived from microbial cell preparations enriched from the Antarctic ascidian Synoicum adarenum . Nine samples were collected at each of seven sites: Bon, Bonaparte Point; Del, Delaca Island; Jan, Janus Island, Kil, Killer Whale Rocks; Lag, Laggard Island, Lit, Litchfield Island; Nor, Norsel Point . (B) Relationship between gene copy number for the three gene targets and the 16S rRNA gene ASV occurrences of Opitutaceae-related ASV_15 across a 63 S. adareanum microbial DNA sample set. * indicates samples Bon-1C-2011 and Del-2b-2011 that were selected for PacBio sequencing.
Article Snippet: Taxonomic attribution of the BGC was inferred using a real time PCR strategy targeting three coding regions of the putative palmerolide A BGC spanning the length of the cluster (acyltransferase, AT1; hydroxymethylglutaryl Co-A synthase, HCS, and the condensation domain of the non-ribosomal peptide synthase NRPS, ) to assay a Synoicum microbiome collection of 63 samples that have been taxonomically classified using Illumina SSU rRNA gene tag sequencing ( ).
Techniques: Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Derivative Assay, PacBio Sequencing