Soil microorganisms are important components of terrestrial ecosystems, affecting soil formation and fertility, plant growth and stress tolerance, nutrient turnover and carbon storage. In this study, we collected soil samples (humus layer, 0-10 cm, 10-20 cm, 20-40 cm, and 40-80 cm) from shrubland in Shanxi subalpine to explore the composition, diversity, and assembly of soil bacterial communities at different depths across the soil profile. The results showed that Actinomycota (19%-28%), Chloromycota (10%-36%) and Acidobacteria (15%-24%), and Proteobacteria (9%-25%) were the dominant bacterial phyla.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrobial communities are the key component to maintaining the structure and function of forest soil ecosystems. The vertical distribution of bacterial communities on the soil profile has an important impact on forest soil carbon pools and soil nutrient cycling. Using Illumina MiSeq high-throughput sequencing technology, we analyzed the characteristics of bacterial communities in the humus layer and 0-80 cm soil layer of in Luya Mountain, China, to explore the driving mechanisms affecting the structure of bacterial communities in soil profiles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo reveal the assembly mechanisms of soil protozoan community in subalpine forest ecosystems, we analyzed the composition and diversity of protozoan communities and their drivers at the six strata (the litter profile, humus profile, 0-10 cm, 10-20 cm, 20-40 cm and 40-80 cm) of soil profiles in subalpine forest in Luya Mountain using Illumina Miseq high-throughput sequencing technology. The results showed that protozoa in the soil profiles belonged to 335 genera, 206 families, 114 orders, 57 classes, 21 phyla, and 8 kingdoms. There were five dominant phyla (relative abundance >1%) and 10 dominant families (relative abundance >5%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough soil microbes play a key role in grassland ecosystem functioning, the response of their diversity to grassland degradation has not been fully investigated. Here, we used shotgun metagenomic sequencing to analyze the characteristics and influencing factors of soil microbial taxonomic and functional diversity at four different degradation stages[i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlanktonic and epiphytic bacterial communities play an important role in wetland nitrogen pollutant removal and water purification, yet their community dynamics are far from understood compared with those of the wetland soil bacterial community. Taking the planktonic bacterial community in the Yuguqiao constructed wetland and the epiphytic bacterial community on the leaf surface of the common submerged plant as the research objects, the composition, structure, and functional diversity of planktonic and epiphytic bacterial communities were analyzed using high-throughput sequencing. The results showed that the compositions of the planktonic and epiphytic bacterial communities were significantly different, with more heterotrophic and denitrifying bacteria present in the epiphytic bacterial community than in the planktonic bacterial community.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGrassland degradation has become a worldwide ecological problem. Although soil microorganisms, as the main participants in the process of grassland degradation, play a key role in maintaining ecosystem function and improving soil productivity, little is known about the changes in microbial communities caused by grassland degradation and their relationship with soil properties and plant communities. In this study, we used Illumina MiSeq sequencing to analyze the soil fungal communities of subalpine meadow soil at four different degradation stages[i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Shi Yan Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi
February 2021
Objective: To investigate the molecular mechanism in stable cell strains expressing Mini-hF9 gene with nonsense mutation.
Methods: Mini-hF9 gene and its nonsense mutants were transfected into HeLa cells independently, and stable cell strains were obtained after G418 resistance screening and monoclonal transformation. The altered splicing and protein expression of mRNA in Mini-hF9 gene in stable cell strains were detected by using RT-PCR and Western blot.
There are complex interrelationships between plant microorganisms (phyllosphere and rhizosphere) and host plants, which can promote plant growth and enhance the tolerance of host plants to stress. In this study, we selected the dominant species as the research subject in a copper tailings dam. Using high-throughput sequencing, we investigated the structures of the fungal communities and diversities in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman activities and climate change cause the degradation of subalpine lake ecosystems, which induce the shift of microbial community structure. The spatio-temporal dynamics and the diversity maintenance mechanisms of bacterial communities in Gonghai Lake in Ningwu, Shanxi, were investigated by using Q-PCR and DGGE. The results showed that the temperature), pH, dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity salinity, and ammonium nitrogen (NH) contestation were significantly different among the different sampling depths during different months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWorld J Gastroenterol
November 2019
Background: Pediatric enteritis is one of the infectious diseases in the digestive system that causes a variety of digestive problems, including diarrhea, vomiting, and bellyache in children. Clinically, () infection is one of the common factors to cause pediatric enteritis. It has been demonstrated that aberrant expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) is found in gastrointestinal diseases caused by , and we discovered a significant increase of miR-32-5p in -related pediatric enteritis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe composition and diversity of fungal communities are essential to maintain the ecosystem balance of subalpine lakes. The aquatic fungal communities at different depths from the subalpine Pipahai (PPH, 0, 2, 4 m), Mayinghai (MYH, 0, 2, 4, 6 m), and Gonghai (GH, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 m) lakes were studied. In addition to that, the distribution pattern and diversity maintenance mechanism (determination process vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCopper mining caused severe damage to the ecological environment of mining areas. The combination of microbe and plant remediation has an application potential in improving the absorption and transformation efficiency of heavy metals. The phyllosphere is the largest biointerface on the planet, and bacteria are the dominant microbial inhabitants of the phyllosphere, believed to be critical to plant growth and health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe community assembly process, which purports that the trade-off between the stochastic process and the deterministic process, is the central issue of community ecology, and is one of the most controversial ecological issues. The current research investigated the fungal community in the forests of the Guandi Mountains and elucidated the relative role of the stochastic and deterministic processes in the assembly of soil fungal community on a local scale. The correlation analysis and redundancy analysis of the physicochemical factors in soil and dominant fungal phyla, as well as the structural equation model analysis, showed that these physicochemical factors and aboveground vegetation diversity had significant effects on fungal communities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe maintaining mechanism of community diversity is the core of community ecology. The mine tailing is a good field for studying on the underlying mechanism of community diversity, as a kind of original bare land with heavy metal pollution, where the physicochemical characteristics of soil change with the restoration periods. We examined the driving forces for bacterial community diversity based on the investigation of edaphic factors, plant community, and bacterial communities in Shibahe copper mine tailing, Shanxi.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSoil microorganisms drive the biogeochemical process of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, and play a key role in maintaining soil carbon sink and ecosystem function. The study on effects of environmental and spatial factors on the structure of microbial community in boreal coniferous forest soil will provide theoretical basis for making management measures in local forest ecosystem. Our research analyzed five soil fungi communities (LpMC1, LpMC2, PwMC, PtMC, and BMC) in four forest types, including forest, forest, forest and spp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe relative importance of the deterministic versus stochastic processes underlying community dynamics has long been a central theme in community ecology, and is intensively debated in the field. Microbial communities play key roles in nutrient cycling and the flow of energy in ecosystems. The research on the structural dynamics of microbial community will provide data and theoretical support for understanding the assembly mechanisms of community, and for predicting the dynamics of microbial community under environmental stress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMining for metal and mineral resources lead to the rapid rise of tailings dams and caused serious damage to the ecological environment of the mining area. Soil physicochemical characteristics and enzyme activities were important indexes for ecosystem functions, and they were also important factors in evaluating soil restoration qualities. We selected nine sub-dams of the Eighteen River copper tailings in Yuanqu County, and analyzed the relationship between soil physicochemical properties and soil enzyme activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnvironmental selection and dispersal limitation are two basic processes underlying community assembly. The relative importance of those two processes differs across scales, community identities, and community types. The processes responsible for structuring microbial communities in soil of temperate subalpine forest are poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to reveal the effects of heavy metal pollution on microbial community compositions and microbial community diversity in tailing area,we conducted an experiment by examining the microbial community in tailing water,sediments and tailing sand in Shibahe copper tailing in Zhongtiao Mountain.Differences in microbial community compositions in different habitats and their relationships with environmental parameters were analyzed.The results showed that the richness and diversity of microbial community were the largest in tailing sand,but the lowest in tailing water.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Shi Yan Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi
April 2013
This study was purposed to construct the recombinant hF9 minigene and its stable nonsense mutant cell lines, and to investigate its significance. Minigene hF9 was cloned into the mammalian expression vector pCMV-Tag3B; a nonsense mutant containing a premature termination codon (PTC) in the 121(st) amino acid residue was obtained by PCR site-directed mutagenesis; minigene hF9 and nonsense mutant were respectively transfected into HepG2 cells with G418 treatment to get stable HepG2-WT and HepG2-N cell lines. The results confirmed that the minigene hF9 and nonsense mutant were constructed successfully.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Microbiol Biotechnol
February 2012
Eukaryotic translation termination is governed by eRF1 and eRF3. eRF1 recognizes the stop codons and then hydrolyzes peptidyl-tRNA. eRF3, which facilitates the termination process, belongs to the GTPase superfamily.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn eukaryotes, eRF3 participates translation termination and belongs to the superfamily of GTPase. In this work, dissociation constants for E. octocarinatus eRF3 binding to nucleosides in presence and absence of eRF1a were determined using fluorescence spectra methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Shi Yan Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi
June 2010
The purpose of this study was to construct 4 types of nonsense-mutated eukaryotic expression plasmids of fIX gene, using pcDNA3.1 plasmid containing fIX cDNA as template, and to identify, then to perform their expression in COS-7 cells. These stop mutants constructed by site-directed mutagenesis based on PCR, and further confirmed by DNA sequencing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe expansion of trinucleotide repeats in genome is related to the phthogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. A GARP (glutamic acid-rich protein) gene was isolated from the macronuclear plasmid mini library of Euplotes octocarinatus. A micronuclear version of the GARP gene was amplified by polymerase chain reaction.
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