Biological Nitrogen Removal Database

Uncultured fungus

• Phylum : nan
• Class : nan
• Order : nan
• Family : nan
• Genus : nan

Soil

copper-containing nitrite reductase 

• Encoding Gene:NirK
• DNA Size：334 bp
• Nucleotide FASTA sequence： Link

• UniProt I.D: A0A1C8DTW4

• Pro_GenBank I.D： ALD10256.1

• Length：111 aa
• Protein FASTA_sequence: Link

• Reference：Chen et al., 2016
• Title：Detection of N2O-producing fungi in environment using nitrite reductase gene (nirK)-targeting primers
• Pubmed ID：27890085.0
• Pubmed link： Link

• Full research link： Link

• Abstract：Fungal denitrification has been increasingly investigated, but its community ecology is poorly understood due to the lack of culture-independent tools. In this work, four pairs of nirK-targeting primers were designed and evaluated for primer specificity and efficiency using thirty N2O-producing fungal cultures and an agricultural soil. All primers amplified nirK from fungi and soil, but their efficiency and specificity were different. A primer set, FnirK_F3/R2 amplified ∼80 % of tested fungi, including Aspergillus, Fusarium, Penicillium, and Trichoderma, as compared to ∼40-70 % for other three primers. The nirK fragments of fungal and soil DNA amplified by FnirK_F3/R2 were phylogenetically related to denitrifying fungi in the orders Eurotiales, Hypocreales, and Sordariales; and clone sequences were also distributed in the clusters of Chaetomium, Metarhizium, and Myceliophthora that were uncultured from soil in our previous work. This proved the wide-range capability of primers for amplifying diverse denitrifying fungi from environment. However, our primers and recently-developed other primers amplified bacterial nirK from soil and this co-amplification of fungal and bacterial nirK was theoretically discussed. The FnirK_F3/R2 was further compared with published primers; results from clone libraries demonstrated that FnirK_F3/R2 was more specifically targeted on fungi and had broader taxonomical coverage than some others.