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. 2009 Jul;75(14):4747-52.
doi: 10.1128/AEM.00568-09. Epub 2009 May 22.

Selection of enzymes for terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of fungal internally transcribed spacer sequences

Pablo Alvarado  1 , Jose L Manjón
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Selection of enzymes for terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of fungal internally transcribed spacer sequences

Pablo Alvarado et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) profiling of the internally transcribed spacer (ITS) ribosomal DNA of unknown fungal communities is currently unsupported by a broad-range enzyme-choosing rationale. An in silico study of terminal fragment size distribution was therefore performed following virtual digestion (by use of a set of commercially available 135 type IIP restriction endonucleases) of all published fungal ITS sequences putatively annealing to primers ITS1 and ITS4. Different diversity measurements were used to rank primer-enzyme pairs according to the richness and evenness that they showed. Top-performing pairs were hierarchically clustered to test for data dependency. The enzyme set composed of MaeII, BfaI, and BstNI returned much better results than randomly chosen enzyme sets in computer simulations and is therefore recommended for in vitro TRFLP profiling of fungal ITSs.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Common space plot of PROXSCAL (distances as interval; 50,000 random starting points; SPSS 11.5) multidimensional scaling of the Jensen-Shannon square root divergence matrix computed from the average frequency distributions for the top 50 PEPs. Each point represents a different PEP.
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FIG. 2.
Comparisons of differently sized enzyme sets. Databases of 4,618 entries (squares), 2,500 entries (triangles), and 1,000 entries (diamonds) were constructed.
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