中國有色金屬學報(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 18 No. 6 December 2008 |
differentiate close bacteria strains in acidic sites
LIU Jie(劉 杰)1, 2, LIU Xue-duan(劉學端)1, 2
（Key Laboratory of Biometallurgy of Ministry of Education,
School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China）
Abstract:To study the diversity of bacteria strains newly isolated from several acid mine drainage(AMD) sites in China, repetitive sequence based polymerase chain reaction (rep-PCR), a well established technology for diversity analysis of closely related bacteria strains, was conducted on 30 strains of bacteria Leptospirillum ferriphilium, 8 strains of bacteria Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, as well as the Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans type strain ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) 23270. The results showed that, using ERIC and BOX primer sets, rep-PCR produced highly discriminatory banding patterns. Phylogenetic analysis based on ERIC-PCR banding types was made and the results indicated that rep-PCR could be used as a rapid and highly discriminatory screening technique in studying bacterial diversity, especially in differentiating bacteria within one species in AMD.
Key words: rep-PCR; diversity; acid mine drainage; Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans; Leptospirillum ferriphilium
