title: Efficient purification and concentration of viruses from a large body of high turbidity seawater.
abstract: Marine viruses are the most abundant entities in the ocean and play crucial roles in the marine ecological system. However, understanding of viral diversity on large scale depends on efficient and reliable viral purification and concentration techniques. Here, we report on developing an efficient method to purify and concentrate viruses from large body of high turbidity seawater. The developed method characterizes with high viral recovery efficiency, high concentration factor, high viral particle densities and high-throughput, and is reliable for viral concentration from high turbidity seawater. Recovered viral particles were used directly for subsequent analysis by epifluorescence microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and metagenomic sequencing. Three points are essential for this method:•The sampled seawater (>150 L) was initially divided into two parts, water fraction and settled matter fraction, after natural sedimentation.•Both viruses in the water fraction concentrated by tangential flow filtration (TFF) and viruses isolated from the settled matter fraction were considered as the whole viral community in high turbidity seawater.•The viral concentrates were re-concentrated by using centrifugal filter device in order to obtain high density of viral particles.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage & Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture, China ; College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Guowei
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage & Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture, China ; College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Jinzhou
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage & Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture, China ; College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Hongming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage & Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture, China ; College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Chaowen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage & Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture, China ; College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Yingjie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University of Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Shuling
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Quality and Safety Risk Assessment for Aquatic Products on Storage & Preservation (Shanghai), Ministry of Agriculture, China ; College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Yongjie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Concentration; Concentration of marine viruses; High turbidity seawater; Marine viruses; Tangential flow filtration; Ultrafiltration