RRC ID 5554
Author Teramoto K, Kitagawa W, Sato H, Torimura M, Tamura T, Tao H.
Title Phylogenetic analysis of Rhodococcus erythropolis based on the variation of ribosomal proteins as observed by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry without using genome information.
Journal J Biosci Bioeng
Abstract Rhodococcus erythropolis strains characterized as antibiotic producers can be classified into three groups according to their antibiotic spectrum and growth compatibility. Due to their high genotypic similarity, the taxonomic relationship of these strains has not been elucidated. In this study, ribosomal protein profiling using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) was employed to classify twenty-one strains of R. erythropolis (15 antibiotic producers and 6 non-antibiotic producers). In the first step in this method, a total of 30 intense peaks observed for purified ribosomal subunit proteins of the type strain (R. erythropolis JCM 3201(T)) were selected as the reference peaks. The mass spectra observed for the cell lysates of each sample strain were then checked as to whether peaks were observed at the same masses of the reference peaks. The results of peak matching were processed by cluster analysis, generating a dendrogram. Four major clusters of the R. erythropolis strains corresponded to three antibiotic groups and the non-antibiotic group. Furthermore, the topology of the dendrogram was highly comparable with the phylogenetic tree based on DNA gyrase subunit B gene (gyrB) sequencing. These results indicate that our proposed ribosomal protein profiling method using MALDI-MS is a potentially reliable and sufficiently high-throughput technique for the taxonomic analysis of closely related bacterial strains without using DNA sequence information.
Volume 108(4)
Pages 348-53
Published 2009-10-1
DOI 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2009.04.010
PII S1389-1723(09)00202-3
PMID 19716527
MeSH Anti-Bacterial Agents / biosynthesis Bacterial Proteins / genetics* Cluster Analysis DNA Gyrase / genetics Gene Expression Profiling / methods Genome, Bacterial Rhodococcus / classification* Rhodococcus / genetics* Ribosomal Proteins / genetics* Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / methods*
IF 2.366
Times Cited 21
WOS Category FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
Resource
General Microbes JCM3201