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JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
卷 102, 期 2, 页码 90-96出版社
SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
DOI: 10.1263/jbb.102.90
关键词
cyanobacteria; mcyA gene; microcystin; Microcystis sp.; real-time PCR
The presence of cyanobacterial bloom in water supply reservoirs can cause potential health hazards. In this study, we aimed at the quantification of microcystin-producing cyanobacteria based on the microcystin synthetase A (mcyA) gene using real-time PCR. To perform a highly sensitive real-time PCR assay, the novel primer MSR-2R was designed and a coprecipitation DNA extraction method was used in this study. Cyanobacterial cells could be collected efficiently by coprecipitation with other bacteria suspended in solution even in the case of low concentrations of cyanobacteria. The detection limit of the method was found to be 8.8 cells per reaction. When cyanobacterial growth was monitored in pure culture, the cell concentration determined by real-time PCR positively correlated with the cell concentration determined from direct microscopic count. Furthermore, we could detect and quantify the mcyA gene in lake water samples using real-time PCR. It was concluded that the quantification of the mcyA gene based on real-time PCR is a powerful tool for the rapid quantification of microcystin-producing cyanobacteria in environmental samples.
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