Characterization of the Bacterial Diversity of Drinking Water From 3 Parisian Treatment Plants Using Genomic Approaches

ABSTRACT: We characterized the bacterial diversity of chlorinated drinking water from three surface water treatment plants supplying the city of Paris, France. For this purpose, we used serial analysis of V6 ribosomal sequence tag (SARST-V6) to produce concatemers of PCR-amplified ribosomal sequence tags (RSTs) from the V6 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene for sequence analysis. Using SARST-V6, we obtained bacterial profiles for each drinking water sample, demonstrating a strikingly high degree of biodiversity dominated by a large collection of low-abundance phylotypes. In all water samples, between 57.2-77.4% of the sequences obtained indicated bacteria belonging to the Proteobacteria phylum. Full-length 16S rDNA sequences were also generated for each sample, and comparison of the RSTs with

ORGANISM(S): Bacteria

SUBMITTER: Jean Baptiste Poitelon 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-14318 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress