ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Sarah A Al-Rashed, Ibrahim A. Arif and Afaf I. Shehata
1Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P. O. Box – 22452, Riyadh, 11495,Kingdom of Saudia Arabia.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2013;7(3):1663-1677
© The Author(s). 2013
Received: 18/04/2013 | Accepted: 25/05/2013 | Published: 30/09/2013
Abstract

Evaluate the phylogenetic diversity of isolated species from hot spring water in Bani Malik on the foot hill of Fifa mountain in Gizan Region of southwestern Saudi Arabia. The identification based on the molecular techniques such as 16Sr RNA, phycocyanine intergenic spacer (PG-IGS) and nitrogenase (nifH) amplification.  In addition, the differentiation between all isolated cyanobacterial strain applying restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and sequencing the gene produced.16Sr RNA-PCR amplification has been performed for all isolated strains; Fischerella sp., Synechococcus sp., Prochlorothrix sp., Oscillatoria sp., Phormidium sp., and the two species of Leptolyngbya sp. resulting number of bands which determine the identity of the genomes as prokaryotes. Amplification by PCR of the phycocyanine gene of intergenic spacer region (PG-IGS) observed that is highly conserved within genus, but differ significantly between genera. The results of RFLP  applications  showed a genetic heterogeneity among some isolates while there is a similarity for the other strains. Similar conclusions with bacteria showed that 16Sr RNA sequence similarly of 96+97%. The phylogenetic tree were conducted from the use of distant out groups, long branch attraction, heterogeneous base composition and site-specific rate variation using Mac lade 4-software. DNA sequences of the 16Sr RNA internal transcribed spacer region (16S-23S ITS) are known to be variable and exhibit enormous differences in sequences and length.   Diversity surveying, community fingerprinting, and functional interrogation of natural populations have become common, enabled by a battery of molecular and bioinformatics techniques, some specifically developed for the cyanobacteria, which are reviewed in detail.  The ensuring effects on our views of cyanobacterial ecology have been perhaps less revolutionary, because of the special characteristics of cyanobacteria among microbes, but also significant.

Keywords

Cyanobacteria, Genetic Profiling, Hot springs, 16Sr RNA

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