Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is used widely to investigate potentially active microorganisms in environmental samples, including soil microorganisms and other microbial communities that are subjected to pronounced seasonal variation in temperature. This raises a question about the turnover of intracellular...
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author | Schostag, Morten Dencker Albers, Christian Nyrop Jacobsen, Carsten Suhr Priemé, Anders |
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description | Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is used widely to investigate potentially active microorganisms in environmental samples, including soil microorganisms and other microbial communities that are subjected to pronounced seasonal variation in temperature. This raises a question about the turnover of intracellular microbial rRNA at environmentally relevant temperatures. We analyzed the turnover at four temperatures of RNA isolated from soil bacteria amended with (14)C-labeled uridine. We found that the half-life of recently produced RNA increased from 4.0 days at 20°C to 15.8 days at 4°C, and 215 days at −4°C, while no degradation was detected at −18°C during a 1-year period. We discuss the implications of the strong temperature dependency of rRNA turnover for interpretation of microbiome data based on rRNA isolated from environmental samples. |
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spelling | pubmed-72618522020-06-09 Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures Schostag, Morten Dencker Albers, Christian Nyrop Jacobsen, Carsten Suhr Priemé, Anders Front Microbiol Microbiology Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is used widely to investigate potentially active microorganisms in environmental samples, including soil microorganisms and other microbial communities that are subjected to pronounced seasonal variation in temperature. This raises a question about the turnover of intracellular microbial rRNA at environmentally relevant temperatures. We analyzed the turnover at four temperatures of RNA isolated from soil bacteria amended with (14)C-labeled uridine. We found that the half-life of recently produced RNA increased from 4.0 days at 20°C to 15.8 days at 4°C, and 215 days at −4°C, while no degradation was detected at −18°C during a 1-year period. We discuss the implications of the strong temperature dependency of rRNA turnover for interpretation of microbiome data based on rRNA isolated from environmental samples. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7261852/ /pubmed/32523564 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00962 Text en Copyright © 2020 Schostag, Albers, Jacobsen and Priemé. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Schostag, Morten Dencker Albers, Christian Nyrop Jacobsen, Carsten Suhr Priemé, Anders Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures |
title | Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures |
title_full | Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures |
title_fullStr | Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures |
title_full_unstemmed | Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures |
title_short | Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures |
title_sort | low turnover of soil bacterial rrna at low temperatures |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261852/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32523564 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00962 |
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