title: Bacterial community dynamics during the application of a Myxococcus xanthus-inoculated culture medium used for consolidation of ornamental limestone.
abstract: In this study, we investigated under laboratory conditions the bacterial communities inhabiting quarry and decayed ornamental carbonate stones before and after the application of a Myxococcus xanthus-inoculated culture medium used for consolidation of the stones. The dynamics of the community structure and the prevalence of the inoculated bacterium, M. xanthus, were monitored during the time course of the consolidation treatment (30 days). For this purpose, we selected a molecular strategy combining fingerprinting by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) with the screening of eubacterial 16S rDNA clone libraries by DGGE and sequencing. Quantification of the inoculated strain was performed by quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) using M. xanthus-specific primers designed in this work. Results derived from DGGE and sequencing analysis showed that, irrespective of the origin of the stone,the same carbonatogenic microorganisms were activated by the application of a M. xanthus culture. Those microorganisms were Pseudomonas sp., Bacillus sp., and Brevibacillus sp. The monitoring of M. xanthus in the culture media of treated stones during the time course experiment showed disparate results depending on the applied technique. By culture-dependent methods, the detection of this bacterium was only possible in the first day of the treatment, showing the limitation of these conventional techniques. By PCR-DGGE analysis, M. xanthus was detected during the first 3-6 days of the experiment. At this time, the population of this bacterium in the culture media varied between 108-106 cells ml-1, as showed by qPCR analyses. Thereafter, DGGE analyses showed to be not suitable for the detection of M. xanthus in a mixed culture. Nevertheless, qPCR analysis using specific primers for M. xanthus showed to bea more sensitive technique for the detection of thisbacterium, revealing a population of 104 cells ml-1 in the culture media of both treated stones at the end of the consolidation treatment. The molecular strategy used in this study is proposed as an effective monitoring system to evaluate the impact of the application of a bacterially induced carbonate mineralization as restoration/conservation treatment for ornamental stones.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Microbiology, Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, Vienna, Austria. guadalupe.pinar@univie.ac.at
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Piñar
authors.forename: Concepcion
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jimenez-Lopez
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sterflinger
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ettenauer
authors.forename: Fadwa
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jroundi
authors.forename: Antonia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernandez-Vivas
authors.forename: Maria Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Muñoz
mesh_terms: D002119:Calcium Carbonate; D003470:Culture Media; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D054892:Metagenome / Q000235:genetics; D016941:Myxococcus xanthus / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D002119:Calcium Carbonate
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