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Laboratory of Microbial Gene Technology, Department of Biotechnological Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, PO Box 5051, N-1432 Äs, Norway
Author for correspondence: Ingolf F. Nes. Tel: +47 64949471. Fax: +47 64941465. e-mail: bioifn{at}nlh10.nlh.no
ABSTRACT
It has been established that 16S rRNA gene-based phylogeny gives a low resolution between members of the chemoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) belonging to the β-subclass of the Proteobacteria. In this study, 12 isolates of AOB were ribotyped, and the sequences of the 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacer region (ISR) were determined and used in a phylogenetic study. 16S and 23S rDNA ribotyping revealed that the AOB studied contain only one rrn operon per genome, in contrast to most bacteria, which have 5--1 (copies of the rRNA genes per genome. It is likely that the presence of only one set of rRNA genes is related to the slow growth of the AOB. The 16S and 23S rRNA genes of the AOB were shown to be arranged in the classical way: a 16S rRNA gene, an ISR and a 23S rRNA gene. Despite the close phylogenetic relationship among the AOB, the relative location of the rRNA genes in the genome appears to vary considerably. The size of the ISR was approximately 400 bp in the Nitrosomonas isolates and 645--694 bp in the Nitrosospira isolates, suggesting a species-specific size difference in the ISR. The ISR contained two potential tRNA genes in the 5' end in all isolates studied. The similarity values between the ISR sequences of the AOB are low (42·9–96·2%) compared with the 16S rDNA sequence similarity values, and therefore the ISR sequences are valuable as a complementary phylogenetic tool in combination with 16S rRNA gene sequences. The phylogenetic analysis of the AOB based on ISR sequences confirms the 16S rRNA gene-based phylogeny but has the benefit of giving a higher resolution.
Key Words: chemoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria • copy number of rRNA genes • 16S and 23S rDNA ribotyping • 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacer region
The EMBL accession numbers for the 16S rDNA sequences and ISR sequences determined in this paper are AJ005543--AJ005558 (see Table 1).
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