Promoting uranium immobilization by the activities of microbial phophatases

Sobecky, Patricia A. ; Taillefert, Martial

Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA

关键词: Dna;    Phosphatases;    Genes;    59 Basic Biological Sciences;    Uranium;   

DOI  :  10.2172/896843
RP-ID  :  ERSD-1024775-2006
RP-ID  :  None
RP-ID  :  896843

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The following is a summary of progress in our project ''Promoting uranium immobilization by the activities of microbial phosphatases'' during the second year of the project. (1). Assignment of microbial phosphatases to molecular classes. One objective of this project is to determine the relationship of phosphatase activity to metal resistance in subsurface strains and possible contributions of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) to the dissemination of nonspecific acid phosphatase genes. Non-specific acid phosphohydrolases are a broad group of secreted microbial phosphatases that function in acidic-to-neutral pH ranges and utilize a wide range of organophosphate substrates. To address this objective we have designed a collection of PCR primer sets based on known microbial acid phosphatase sequences. Genomic DNA is extracted from subsurface FRC isolates and amplicons of the expected sizes are sequenced and searched for conserved signature motifs. During this reporting period we have successfully designed and tested a suite of PCR primers for gram-positive and gram-negative groups of the following phosphatase classes: (1) Class A; (2) Class B; and (3) Class C (gram negative). We have obtained specific PCR products for each of the classes using the primers we have designed using control strains as well as with subsurface isolates.