Título:	Construction of a small-insert metagenomic library with Amazon soil DNA.
Autoria:	PALUAN, S. CUNHA, I. LEMOS, T. SANTOS, R. MACHADO, C. M. M. KRUGER, R. NORONHA, E. BARRETO, C. QUIRINO, B. F.
Afiliação:	SHELLY PALUAN, UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA; ISABEL CUNHA, UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA; THAIS LEMOS, UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA; RODRIGO SANTOS, EMBRAPA; CRISTINA MARIA MONTEIRO MACHADO, CNPAE; RICARDO KRUGER, UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA; ELIANE NORONHA, UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA; CRISTINE BARRETO, UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA; BETANIA FERRAZ QUIRINO, CNPAE.
Ano de publicação:	2009
Referência:	In: CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE MICROBIOLOGIA, 25., 2009, Porto de Galinhas. Resumos... São Paulo: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia, 2009.
Páginas:	1 p.
Conteúdo:	The world’s population is growing at a dramatic rate and the demand for fuel is greater than ever. This is rapidly destroying the planet and so it is utterly needed to find cheap and effective ways to produce biofuels that will not cause any more harm to the environment. Hence, microbial enzymes could be the solution to this dilemma. The Amazon is well known for its biodiversity of fauna and flora. Thus, it is expected that its microbial biodiversity is also immense. Since only about 1% of microbes can be cultured in a lab, another approach to investigating the microbiota of environmental samples, such as soil and water, is required. One of the most successful approaches currently used is that of metagenomics, in which the genetic structure of the whole microbial composition of a sample is assayed molecularly. The purpose of this study is to characterize the bacterial diversity of the Amazon soil utilizing the metagenome approach. For such, the total DNA from the soil was extracted. After extracting, cleaning and purifying the total DNA, the latter was quantified and then restriction digested with PstI. The digestion process yielded varying sizes of DNA fragments; however, for the purpose of this study, only the 3-8kb insert size portion was excised from the gel and purified to construct an expression library of 50.000 clones. In order to confirm these clones indeed had the plasmid, the plasmidial DNA of a few randomly selected clones was extracted and restriction digested with PstI. Using the linearized vector as a reference, these digested clones’ plasmidial DNAs revealed a series of different plasmids with varying sizes of inserts when run on a TBE agarose gel. Currently, the library is being screened for enzymatic activities such as celullase, xylanase, lipase and amylase, which are the main enzymes that can be potentially used in the production of biofuels.
Thesagro:	Bactéria
Palavras-chave:	Solo da Amazônia Bioprospecção Metagenoma
Tipo do material:	Resumo em anais e proceedings
Acesso:	openAccess
Aparece nas coleções:	Resumo em anais de congresso (CNPAE)