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The availability of novel and advanced molecular methods based on soil nucleic acids has revolutionized
our studies of the microbiota of soil. In particular, our understanding of the daunting diversity of soil
microbes has grown to maturity, opening up a new box of challenging research questions about
microbial functioning and interactions. We here review recent developments in, as well as the stateof-the-art of, the molecular methods applied to soil, and discuss a few salient cases in which they have
enhanced our understanding of the soil microbiota and its functioning. In particular, we place a focus on
the interface between soil fungal hyphae and the corresponding non-fungal-affected soil, i.e., the
mycosphere. This selective environment may reduce the diversity of its inhabitants, allowing an
improved picture of their ecology and functioning via molecular techniques. We present arguments for
the contention that, to investigate testable hypotheses, a polyphasic approach is needed, in which work
on the basis of molecular approaches such as metagenomics and metatranscriptomics is coupled to that
based on culturable organisms. Thus, advances in our understanding of local functioning and adaptation
of bacterial mycosphere inhabitants will be fostered by combined metagenomics/metatranscriptomics
and cultivation-based approaches.
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Keywords:
Molecular methods
Soil microbiota
Mycosphere
1. Introduction
The analysis of microbial populations in natural habitats such as
soil is one of the cornerstones of current research on the functioning of natural ecosystems. In traditional soil microbiological
approaches, data on soil microorganisms have been obtained by
analyzing material derived from microbial growth, i.e., cells in
liquid cultures or colonies obtained by plating. Methods derived
from microbiology, cellular biochemistry, molecular biology (DNAor RNA-based) and physiology have traditionally been used with
such material. However, such methods have often met with strong
limitations, the reason being that only a small fraction of the
microbiota in soil can be accessed on the basis of cultivation. This
phenomenon has been coined the Great Plate Count Anomaly [1].
Researchers thus soon realized that the only sensible way to
understand the complex soil microbial community was by developing direct molecular assessments, for which pre-extraction of
cellular macromolecules like DNA and/or RNA was a prerequisite. In
the light of the astounding development of analytical methods in
molecular biology ever since the 1980-ies, exciting opportunities
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Table 1
An overview of methods suitable for assessments of bacteria in soil and the mycosphere. Special emphasis is placed on both the promise and the potential caveats of these methods.
Reproducibility Interpretation of results
Advantages
Disadvantages
Major pitfalls
Remarks
Medium
High
PCR/qPCR
High
Only culturable
microorganisms
found (only 1%
of community).
Chemical integrity and
purity of soil DNA may
limit analyses
Only species >0.1e1%
abundance are visible
Cultivation-based analyses
key support for
molecularly-based observations
Stable isotope
probing and BrdU
High
Microarrays
Medium
High-throughput sequencing:
-metagenome
-metatranscriptome
Medium
Laborious preparation
of sample
Problems of opportunists
blurring the data
Relies on activity of
Widely appreciated method to
microorganisms,
describe in situ activities
which can be very low
Problems due to
cross-hybridizations
with low-homology
sequences
Large amounts of information on total All-in-once analysis in high-throughput. Methods are error-prone! Wrong interpretations
and active members of the community High potential for comparative studies
due to artifacts/errors
at sequence level
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Method
Cultivation
(plating)
Reproducibility: divided in three classes: high (average SD below 10%), medium (average SD 10e25%) and high (average SD > 25%).
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Fig. 1. An overview of methods that are recommended to study the diversity and function of bacterial inhabitants of the mycosphere. The combination of cultivation-independent
with cultivation-dependent methods is predicted to enable great advances in our understanding of the system.
free DNA). On the other hand, enzymatic lysis may not affect those
bacteria that are resistant to too soft lysis, and these will thus
escape detection. In both cases, substantial biases are introduced in
the analyses. The type of desorption and lysis thus determines our
ultimate view of the microbial community in the sample [8,22]. It
seems mandatory that attempts are made to optimize cell lysis in
accordance with the soil type and the bacterial taxon that is targeted. Furthermore, it should be recognized that, in different soils,
DNA/RNA extraction methods will most likely work differently. For
instance, the nucleic acids that are liberated may bind differently to
soil particles (clay and organic matter) in soils of different texture
or mineral composition. Comparison of the microbiota in different
soil types may thus be hampered by this variable DNA extraction
efciency. On the positive side, a reassuring degree of commonality
was found between bacterial communities in soils of similar
texture [23], which supported the contention that, across soils, in
a grossly similar extraction background, similar types of potential
biases will be encountered.
Soil nucleic acid extraction (often consisting of processing a soil
sample, in several steps, up to the so-called crude lysate) is
commonly followed by one or more purication steps, as the crude
extract often still contains a substantial amount of compounds like
humic or fulvic acids, which hamper subsequent analytical
methods that require PCR or labelling for hybridization. The
required purication steps may incur losses of material, which
should be minimized [24]. Ideally, purication steps are harmonized across samples, as comparisons based on data from
DNA extracts that underwent different purication protocols
may be scientically unwarranted in the light of possible biases
between these.
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characterized in terms of their reannealing [18] and/or hybridization behavior [25]. The rst criterion, i.e., the rate of reannealing of
molten soil DNA, has been taken as characteristic for the level of
complexity (diversity) of the microbial communities under study,
the premise being that the more complex the microbial community
is, the lower the rate of reannealing of completely molten soil DNA
will be [18]. The second criterion (hybridization) has enabled
investigators to assess the levels of commonality between soil
ecosystems, or even the prevalence of particular genes of interest in
the community [26]. However, a major problem often encountered
with hybridization analyses performed directly on environmental
DNA extracts is their general lack of sensitivity, which limits these
analyses to populations of cells or genes that occur in relatively
high numbers in the environmental samples [27]. Hence, further
processing steps that offer increased analytical power (with respect
to the analysis of microbial community make-up) are required,
being PCR performed on environmental nucleic acids the obvious
choice.
3.3. PCR underlies many nucleic acid based analytical
approaches
3.3.1. PCR as the basis for highly-sensitive analytical approaches
to the soil microbiota
A major step forward in the study of the soil microbiota via DNA
(and/or RNA) has been the development of direct PCR amplication
of target genes [28e30]. Such target genes include a phylogenetically-tuned marker such as the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene or
the rpoB gene, or functional gene markers like amoA (encoding
ammonia monooxygenase, a key enzyme in the oxidation of
ammonia) or nifH (encoding nitrogenase reductase, a key enzyme
in nitrogen xation). Using PCR followed by cloning/sequencing or
ngerprinting approaches, information on the extant sequences of
the gene of choice can thus be obtained from soil nucleic acids. In
a seminal paper in which PCR amplication of 16S rRNA genes was
used following by cloning and sequencing, Liesack and Stackebrandt [31] were the rst to describe a totally novel bacterial
phylum, denoted the Planctomycetales, from soil. Ribosomal RNA
gene-based PCR analyses of soil and other environmental DNAs
have, in many later studies, been primordial in the discovery of
a large number of novel bacterial radiations, and this process is still
ongoing [32]. Some of the novel phyla, e.g., TM7, are without
cultured representatives to date, although microcultivation techniques have been partially successful [33,34]. In a similar fashion,
PCR amplication of functional genes has allowed a depiction of the
diversities of such genes.
PCR can be based on soil DNA or RNA, the latter following prior
reverse transcription (yielding cDNA). The method is based on the
cyclic enzymatic extension of a particular gene region (using
temperature-driven cycles of denaturing and annealing), with two
primers that anneal at the opposite ends of the template. This
results in the generation of numerous copies of the region spanned
by the two primers. Given the high denaturing temperature (often
94 C), the DNA polymerase used in PCR has to be resistant to high
temperature. A range of thermally-stable DNA polymerases are
currently in use, all with their specicities in respect of reaction
delity, proofreading activity and thermal stability. Special attention to the delity and consistency of amplication offered by such
enzymes is required, as PCR error levels differ. PCR based on soil
nucleic acids has turned into a basic step in soil molecular analyses,
like the sequencing of inserts in so-called clone libraries and/or
molecular ngerprinting techniques such as DGGE or T-RFLP.
A recent study illustrating this, revealed, on the basis of 16S rRNA
gene-based PCR applied to DNA from the mycosphere versus corresponding bulk soil, that selected bacterial (sphingomonad)
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communities were quite different in these two contrasting environments [35]. Although many studies use prior soil nucleic acid
based PCR, the method has a number of potential biases, which need
strong consideration. First, PCR on the basis of so-called universal
bacterial primers that target (part of) a common gene like the rRNA
gene will not amplify all extant bacterial diversity simply because
primers used may miss a considerable part of the community [36].
Second, following PCR, the perceived diversity is prone to so-called
differential amplication, which means that particular targets
amplify at higher rate than other ones. Third, the same PCR may
yield hybrid molecules called chimeras, which result from so-called
jumping PCR. Such chimeras need to be removed e using for
instance, the web-based programme CHECK_CHIMERA e from the
amplicons prior to further analyses, which is possible once
sequences are known. Finally, as indicated, only targets that are
dominant in the sample will be amplied, and hence PCR is biased
against the so-called rare biosphere. This latter problem can
actually be circumvented by using group-specic primers, which
allow amplication of DNA from low-abundance organisms. For this
purpose, primer sets e often consisting of nested or semi-nested
systems e that target bacteria at the group level (e.g., the a, b, gproteobacteria or bacilli) have been developed. Alternatively,
primer sets targeting specic taxa like the pseudomonads, methylobacteria and sphingomonads have been concocted and successfully applied [37e41]. These group-specic approaches have often
provided greater insights in the ecology (dynamics) of the target
groups, as they reduce the complexity of the target community.
Given the fact that the 16S rRNA genes may occur in multiple
copies per genome, alternative single-copy markers, like rpoS
[42,43], gyrB [44] and recA [43] have been sought. So far, the use of
these genes appears as a promising approach, as the polymorphisms within them may well reect evolutionary history and
also contemporary diversity across the members of a targeted
community [45]. However, the limited amount of sequence
information of these genes in the database stands in sharp
contrast to the enormous number of 16S rRNA gene sequences
that are present. This limitation for the alternative markers
hampers sequence analysis and primer design. Naturally,
researchers will provide increasingly more sequence data to the
databases, enhancing sequence resolution. Conversely, it has been
shown that, in particular for the pseudomonads, the resolving
power of the 16S rRNA gene is rather low. That is, pseudomonads
harboring very similar 16S rRNA genes may have quite different
ecological roles and hence differ strongly in particular accessory
genes elsewhere on the genome. Recent work of Costa et al. [46],
which was based on the use of the global regulator gacA as the
marker to separate the pseudomonads, revealed that this marker
gene gave a signicantly higher resolution than the 16S
rRNA gene.
3.3.2. Quantitative PCR (qPCR)
PCR of soil DNA can be used in a quantitative manner using a socalled Taqman or real-time approach [47]. The principle of this
method lies in the generation of a uorescent and detectable signal
by exonuclease activity of the polymerase. Signal is produced at
each cycle of the PCR reaction. Sensitive instruments have been
developed that allow the real-time detection of the signal
produced. When it passes a certain threshold level, the signal is
transformed into predicted target gene numbers on the basis of
a pre-established calibration line with standard target DNA. qPCR is
currently widely applied to soil-extracted DNA, allowing the
quantication of numbers of target genes such as 16S rRNA genes
(to quantify soil bacteria) or of functional genes like amoA or nifH.
Although successfully used in many soil studies (e.g., [30]), qPCR is
plagued by the very same biases as PCR based on soil DNA extracts;
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Acknowledgements
We thank Rashid Nazir for his assistance with providing material for this review. Three anonymous reviewers are acknowledged
for their very helpful comments.
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