Recovery of Microbial DNA by Agar-containing Solution from Extremely Low-biomass Specimens Including Skin

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2023 Nov 11

PMID 37952000

Authors

Rina Kurokawa

Hiroaki Masuoka

Lena Takayasu

Yuya Kiguchi

Yusuke Ogata

Ryoko Miura-Kawatsu

Masahira Hattori

Wataru Suda

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Abstract

Recovering a sufficient amount of microbial DNA from extremely low-biomass specimens, such as human skin, to investigate the community structure of the microbiome remains challenging. We developed a sampling solution containing agar to increase the abundance of recovered microbial DNA. Quantitative PCR targeting the 16S rRNA gene revealed a significant increase in the amount of microbial DNA recovered from the developed sampling solution compared with conventional solutions from extremely low-biomass skin sites such as the volar forearm and antecubital fossa. In addition, we confirmed that the developed sampling solution reduces the contamination rate of probable non-skin microbes compared to the conventional solutions, indicating that the enhanced recovery of microbial DNA was accompanied by a reduced relative abundance of contaminating microbes in the 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data. In addition, agar was added to each step of the DNA extraction process, which improved the DNA extraction efficiency as a co-precipitant. Enzymatic lysis with agar yielded more microbial DNA than conventional kits, indicating that this method is effective for analyzing microbiomes of low-biomass specimens.

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