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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2001, p. 469-472, Vol. 67, No. 1
Department of Zoology, Natural History
Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, United
Kingdom1; Department of
Plant-Microorganism Interactions, Centre for Terrestrial Ecology,
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, 6666 ZG
Heteren,3 and Department of Microbial
Ecology, Centre for Limnology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, 3136 AC Nieuwersluis,2 The Netherlands; and
Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37932-25754
Received 3 August 2000/Accepted 6 October 2000
A defined template mixture of seven closely related 16S-rDNA clones
was used in a PCR-cloning experiment to assess and track sources of
artifactual sequence variation in 16S rDNA clone libraries. At least
14% of the recovered clones contained aberrations. Artifact sources
were polymerase errors, a mutational hot spot, and cloning of
heteroduplexes and chimeras. These data may partially explain the high
degree of microheterogeneity typical of sequence clusters detected in
environmental clone libraries.
The use of PCR targeting the 16S
rRNA gene has provided a powerful, culture-independent means of
characterizing microbial communities, which has advanced our
understanding of microbial diversity and evolution (16).
In addition to revealing novel lineages, the analysis of environmental
16S rDNA clone libraries often produces unresolved "bushes" of
closely related clones (7, 22). It is not known to what
extent these bushes relate to true microheterogeneity of ribotypes
versus noise introduced by PCR and cloning procedures. We therefore
sought to determine the potential for multiple competitive PCR and
cloning of the products thereof to induce an elevated occurrence of
sequence errors under conditions as close to optimal as possible. This
study for the first time uses a controlled experiment to track
potential origins of microvariation, including intermolecular
interactions, within 16S rDNA clone libraries.
The experiment utilized a multiple competitive PCR amplification,
designed to simulate 16S rDNA retrieval of closely related sequences
from environmental samples. Seven closely related environmental clones,
Gm3 (accession number AJ003751), Vm6 (accession no. AJ003758), Gm9
(accession no. AJ003752), Vm10 (accession no. AJ003760), Vm11
(accession no. AJ003761), Vm12 (accession no. AJ003762), and Ws23
(accession no. AJ003775), containing 16S rDNA sequences related to
ammonia-oxidizing bacteria of the
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Microvariation Artifacts Introduced by PCR and
Cloning of Closely Related 16S rRNA Gene Sequences
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-subgroup
Proteobacteria (20), were mixed in equal
quantities. A mixed-plasmid template was chosen to maximize control of
DNA quality and quantity while avoiding potential variables of
chromosomal DNA templates, such as chromosome size, rrn copy
number, sequences flanking the priming sites, and intrastrain rRNA
heterogeneity (5). PCR was performed using 0.5 ng of the
mixed-plasmid template, the Expand High Fidelity (Expand H-F) DNA
polymerase system (Boehringer, Mannheim, Germany), primers matching the
terminal ends of the 16S rDNA insert (13), and 25 thermocycles, as described previously (21). Expand H-F
polymerase has a reported error rate of 8.5 × 10
6
mismatches bp1 and consists of a mixture of
Taq and Pwo polymerases, the latter containing 3'
exonuclease activity. The 1,180-bp PCR fragment was recovered following
standard agarose electrophoresis using QIAquick columns (Qiagen,
Hilden, Germany) and ligated into a pGEM-T vector (Promega, Madison,
Wisc.) for transformation of Epicurian Coli XL1-Blue MRF' cells
(Stratagene, La Jolla, Calif.). Seventy white colonies were chosen
randomly from Luria broth-5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl -D-galactopyranoside-isopropyl--D-thiogalactopyranoside
1.5% agar plates for colony PCR using the 357f-GC/518r primers, a
touch-down thermocycling program (14), and Taq
polymerase (2 U) (Gibco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.), and 66 produced
a 180-bp product. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE)
screening (27) revealed that 14% (9 clones) exhibited
novel DGGE migration (designated Nclone). All original clone mobilities
were observed in the clone library, with each original mobility being
found in 6 to 18% of the clones examined (Fig.
1).
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FIG. 1.
DGGE analysis of individual clones and mixed PCR
products. Vm, Gm, and Ws designations indicate PCR products derived
from the original seven clones used to create the template mix
(21). Lanes labeled a to g give examples of recovered
clones whose DGGE mobilities match those of one of the original clones.
The numbers between parentheses indicate the number of recovered clones
showing the given DGGE mobility. pMix indicates that the original
plasmid mix was used as a template in an amplification reaction using
the 357f-GC and 518 primers, and the nMix sample used products of the
AMOf/AMOr PCR as a template. The arrow indicates E. coli contamination. The poor amplification of clone Vm11 is due to
a single mismatch with the 518r primer. The marker lanes (M) contained
PCR-amplified 16S rDNA fragments of Lactococcus lactis and
E. coli according to the method of Zwart et al.
(27). The bands labeled A and B in the nMix sample were
excised for DNA elution and reamplification using the 357f-GC and 518 primers. The DGGE analysis of these products is shown in the right
panel, with lanes labeled according to the original excised band.
All clones with novel DGGE mobility plus two additional clones (Pclone4
and Pclone29) were chosen for full-length sequencing of both DNA
strands (21) by two or more researchers to eliminate the
possibility of misreading faithful sequence data, and a compressed alignment and distance matrix are shown in Fig.
2. The most closely related original
clone sequence was deemed the putative parent sequence. Novel clone
sequences (Nclone) showed a divergence from their putative parent
sequences ranging between 0.2 and 1.2%. Pclone4 and Pclone29 revealed
deviations of 0.5 and 0.4% from their putative original clone
sequences, with all sequence differences falling outside the region
examined by DGGE.
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Random base changes were defined as unique base-pair differences that
were not represented in any of the original clone sequences. Nclone10
had a change at position 449 (G), Nclone12 at positions 433 (A) and 798 (C); Nclone16 at 474 (G) and 716 (G); Pclone29 at 1062 (C); Nclone20 at
435 (C); Nclone34 at 443 (C), 816 (C), and 986 (C); Nclone33 at 996 (T); and Nclone8 at 300 (G) and 511 (T). Nclone16 also had a 3-bp
stretch of foreign sequence from position 581 to 583 (GCA
CAG).
Pclone4 contained two one-base deletions and a single one-base
insertion at positions 797, 811, and 823, respectively. The
introduction of random base anomalies depends on a number of factors,
including the DNA polymerase and the number of PCR cycles used
(9). However, even when using a proofreading polymerase
system, as described here, this source of sequence error study may be
high enough to affect genetic diversity estimates.
The majority of the aberrant clones contained an insertion of an A, a T, or an AT between Escherichia coli positions 389 and 390 (Fig. 2). No evidence for such a mutational hot spot was observed upon inspection of environmental clones from the database, and the origin of these sequence aberrations is not known.
In addition to errors introduced by polymerase and sequencing mistakes (9, 26), the formation of chimeric DNA molecules during the PCR has been recognized as a source of sequence infidelity (12, 24, 25). The Pclone4 sequence could be the result of a chimera between clones Gm9 and Vm11, which occurred between positions 1021 and 1036. DGGE analysis did not span this region, which would explain why this putative chimera was not detected by the screening procedure.
The frequency of heteroduplex formation (4, 8, 19) would be expected to increase in the later cycles of mixed PCR amplifications, when the amplified DNA species reach concentrations high enough to compete with primers for binding sites (23). Cloned heteroduplex molecules may be subjected to E. coli DNA repair mechanisms (2, 3, 11, 17, 18), resulting in hybrid plasmid inserts. Nclone8 contains marker nucleotides from clones Ws23 and Vm10. Vm10-like sequence spans positions 332 to 359, 629 to 645, and 932 to 1053, suggesting the possible role of heteroduplex formation followed by mismatch resolution in E. coli. In addition, Nclone8 appeared to contain two random base anomalies. Nclone34 contained five positions where heteroduplex-induced changes could have generated sequence differing from that of the putative parental clone, Vm12. Four of these positions, 203, 389, 629, and 862, are present in the original clone, Vm10, with two of these being identical to the consensus sequence. In addition, several clones differ from their putative parent sequence at positions where several clones might be implicated in sequence donation by intermolecular interactions. In such cases, it is not possible to determine which original clone was most likely to have been the source of the aberrant base pair.
An identical experiment using only a single environmental clone as a template (Vm6) resulted in only a 2% (1 of 50) recovery rate of clones showing novel DGGE mobility. This is in good agreement with the expected frequency of the error-containing fragments (1 to 2%) based upon the length of DNA fragment analyzed by DGGE, the number of cycles performed in the cloning experiment (25 cycles), and the enzyme system used (Expand H-F). Thus, the majority of aberrant clones seem to have been due to the interaction of the different template molecules during the PCR-cloning procedure.
To check heteroduplex formation, PCR-DGGE profiles were generated using the original plasmid mix and its PCR product as a DNA template (Fig. 1). Two novel DGGE bands were observed for both of these mixed products. Excision, re-amplification, and DGGE analysis of these two bands produced all the bands of the original mixed products, with differences in relative band intensities (Fig. 1, right panel), suggesting that these new bands contained more than a single homoduplex molecule (6, 15).
The fact that several of the clones, including Pclone4 and Pclone29, contain introduced errors outside the region used in the DGGE screening argues that the observed aberrant clone frequency of 14% is most certainly an underestimation. Despite a theoretical detection of more than 97% of all sequence variants for the size of DNA fragment screened (20), DGGE may fail to detect all sequence variants, thus leading to a further underestimation of unique clones. The overall phylogenetic placement of the recovered sequences was not affected by the introduced sequence anomalies (not shown). However, all the clones used in this study were affiliated with the same narrow Nitrosomonas-like sequence cluster (21). The exchange of sequence regions between more phylogenetically diverse sequences could impair phylogenetic placement. The frequency of occurrence of minor sequence artifacts found here supports the common practice of grouping clusters of sequences with less than 3% sequence variation when interpreting 16S rDNA clone data, and further relaxation in assignment of operational taxonomic units at the 95% similarity level may be warranted. Although different ecotypes may exhibit nearly identical 16S rRNA sequences (6), the identification of ecologically distinct microbial populations clearly demands additional evidence, beyond the recovery of closely related sequences from clone libraries. Detection of sequence hybrids between closely related 16S rDNA molecules is problematic (11; N. Larsen, Check_Chimera program of the Ribosomal Database Project, 1999), making it difficult to estimate the amount of real sequence microvariation in extant databases. The identified sources of aberrant sequence information merit consideration during both primer and probe design, as do the ecological and evolutionary interpretation of microheterogeneity within such environmental data, since a significant proportion of such variation may be artifactual.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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John R. Stephen and Elizabeth Kline were funded by the National Science Foundation (grant number DEB 9814813) and Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research (grant number DE-FC02-96ER62278White).
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* Corresponding author. Present address: Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, IMS Building, Foresterhill, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 1224 273149. Fax: 44 1224 273144. E-mail: a.speksnijder{at}abdn.ac.uk.
Publication 2679 of the NIOO Centre for Limnology, Nieuwersluis,
The Netherlands.
Present address: Crop and Weed Science, Horticulture Research
International, Wellesbourne, UK CV35 9EF.
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