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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 107, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/53411
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Environmental Sciences; Issue 107; Endospores; separation; vegetative cells; endospore-forming bacteria; cell lysis; diversity; microbial ecology
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A-132358/1, 31003A_152972, 151948]
- Fundation Pierre Mercier pour la Science
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_152972, 31003A_132358] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Endospore formation is a survival strategy found among some bacteria from the phylum Firmicutes. During endospore formation, these bacteria enter a morpho-physiological resting state that enhances survival under adverse environmental conditions. Even though endospore-forming Firmicutes are one of the most frequently enriched and isolated bacterial groups in culturing studies, they are often absent from diversity studies based on molecular methods. The resistance of the spore core is considered one of the factors limiting the recovery of DNA from endospores. We developed a method that takes advantage of the higher resistance of endospores to separate them from other cells in a complex microbial community using physical, enzymatic and chemical lysis methods. The endospore-only preparation thus obtained can be used for re-culturing or to perform downstream analysis such as tailored DNA extraction optimized for endospores and subsequent DNA sequencing. This method, applied to sediment samples, has allowed the enrichment of endospores and after sequencing, has revealed a large diversity of endospore-formers in freshwater lake sediments. We expect that the application of this method to other samples will yield a similar outcome.
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