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Appl Environ Microbiol, March 1998, p. 907-913, Vol. 64, No. 3
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Detection of Clostridium proteoclasticum and Closely Related Strains in the Rumen by Competitive PCR

K. Reilly and G. T. Attwood*

AgResearch Grasslands, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Received 7 August 1997/Accepted 4 December 1997

A competitive PCR technique was used to enumerate the proteolytic bacterium Clostridium proteoclasticum from the rumen. A PCR primer, which circumscribes this organism and several closely related strains, was designed for a variable region within their 16S rRNA genes and was used in conjunction with a universal forward primer. This primer pair was tested for specificity against 85 ruminal bacterial strains. An internal control DNA was constructed for use in competitive PCRs and was shown to amplify under the same reaction conditions and with the same amplification efficiency as the target DNA. DNA from a known number of C. proteoclasticum cells was coamplified with the internal control to construct a standard curve. Rumen samples were collected from eight dairy cows fed four diets in rotation: high nitrogen, high nitrogen supplemented with carbohydrate, low nitrogen, and low nitrogen supplemented with carbohydrate. DNA extracted from these and spiked with internal control DNA was amplified with the C. proteoclasticum primer pair. The relative intensities of the PCR products were used to quantitate the numbers of C. proteoclasticum cell equivalents from the rumen samples. The numbers ranged from 2.01 × 106 ml-1 to 3.12 × 107 ml-1. There was no significant effect on the numbers of C. proteoclasticum detected in rumen samples among cows fed the four diets. The utility of the competitive PCR approach for quantifying ruminal bacterial populations in vivo and the occurrence of C. proteoclasticum in forage-fed dairy cows are discussed.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: AgResearch, Ruminant Digestion and Metabolism, Grasslands Research Centre, Tennent Drive, Private Bag 11008, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Phone: 64 6 356 8019. Fax: 64 6 351 8003. E-mail: attwoodg{at}agresearch.cri.nz.




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