Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures
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Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures. / Schostag, Morten Dencker; Albers, Christian Nyrop; Jacobsen, Carsten Suhr; Priemé, Anders.
I: Frontiers in Microbiology, Bind 11, 962, 2020.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures
AU - Schostag, Morten Dencker
AU - Albers, Christian Nyrop
AU - Jacobsen, Carsten Suhr
AU - Priemé, Anders
N1 - CENPERMOA[2020]
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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 14C-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.
AB - 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 14C-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.
KW - environmental RNA
KW - ribosomal RNA
KW - rRNA half-life
KW - temperature response
KW - uridine
U2 - 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00962
DO - 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00962
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32523564
AN - SCOPUS:85086233880
VL - 11
JO - Frontiers in Microbiology
JF - Frontiers in Microbiology
SN - 1664-302X
M1 - 962
ER -
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