Stable-isotope probing (SIP) is a technique in microbial ecology for tracing uptake of nutrients in biogeochemical cycling by microorganisms. A substrate is enriched with a heavier stable isotope that is consumed by the organisms to be studied.[1][2] Biomarkers with the heavier isotopes incorporated into them can be separated from biomarkers containing the more naturally abundant lighter isotope by isopycnic centrifugation. For example, 13CO2 can be used to find out which organisms are actively photosynthesizing or consuming new photosynthate. As the biomarker, DNA with 13C is then separated from DNA with 12C by centrifugation. Sequencing the DNA identifies which organisms were consuming existing carbohydrates and which were using carbohydrates more recently produced from photosynthesis.[3] SIP with 18O-labeled water can be used to find out which organisms are actively growing, because oxygen from water is incorporated into DNA (and RNA) during synthesis.[4]

When DNA is the biomarker, SIP can be performed using isotopically labeled C, H, O, or N, though 13C is used most often. The density shift is proportional to the change in density in the DNA, which depends on the difference in mass between the rare and common isotopes for a given element, and on the abundance of elements in the DNA. For example, the difference in mass between 18O and 16O (two atomic mass units) is twice that between 13C and 12C (one atomic mass unit), so incorporation of 18O into DNA will cause a larger per atom density shift than will incorporation of 13C. Conversely, DNA contains nearly twice as many carbon atoms (11.25 per base, on average) as oxygen atoms (6 per base), so at equivalent labeling (e.g., 50 atom percent 13C or 18O), DNA labeled with 18O will be only slightly more dense than DNA fully labeled with 13C. Similarly, nitrogen is less abundant in DNA (3.75 atoms per base, on average), so a weaker DNA buoyant density shift is observed with 15N- versus 13C-labeled or 18O-labeled substrates. Larger buoyant density shifts are observed when multiple isotope tracers are used.[5] Because density shifts as a predictable function of the change in mass caused by isotope assimilation, stable isotope probing can be modeled to estimate the amount of isotope incorporation, an approach called quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP),[6] which has been applied to microbial communities in soils,[7] marine sediments,[8] and decomposing leaves[9] to compare rates of growth and substrate assimilation among different microbial taxa.

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  5. ↑ Cupples AM, Shaffer EA, Chee-Sanford JC, Sims GK (2007). "DNA buoyant density shifts during 15N-DNA stable isotope probing". Microbiological Research. 162 (4): 328–34. doi:10.1016/j.micres.2006.01.016. PMID 16563712.
  6. ↑ Hungate, Bruce A.; Mau, Rebecca L.; Schwartz, Egbert; Caporaso, J. Gregory; Dijkstra, Paul; van Gestel, Natasja; Koch, Benjamin J.; Liu, Cindy M.; McHugh, Theresa A.; Marks, Jane C.; Morrissey, Ember M. (2015). Schloss, P. D. (ed.). "Quantitative Microbial Ecology through Stable Isotope Probing". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81 (21): 7570–7581. Bibcode:2015ApEnM..81.7570H. doi:10.1128/AEM.02280-15. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 4592864. PMID 26296731.
  7. ↑ Starr, Evan P.; Shi, Shengjing; Blazewicz, Steven J.; Koch, Benjamin J.; Probst, Alexander J.; Hungate, Bruce A.; Pett-Ridge, Jennifer; Firestone, Mary K.; Banfield, Jillian F. (2021). "Stable-Isotope-Informed, Genome-Resolved Metagenomics Uncovers Potential Cross-Kingdom Interactions in Rhizosphere Soil". mSphere. 6 (5): e0008521. doi:10.1128/msphere.00085-21. PMC 8550312. PMID 34468166. S2CID 237373088.
  8. ↑ Coskun, Ömer K.; Özen, Volkan; Wankel, Scott D.; Orsi, William D. (2019). "Quantifying population-specific growth in benthic bacterial communities under low oxygen using H218O". The ISME Journal. 13 (6): 1546–1559. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0373-4. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 6776007. PMID 30783213.
  9. ↑ Hayer, Michaela; Schwartz, Egbert; Marks, Jane C.; Koch, Benjamin J.; Morrissey, Ember M.; Schuettenberg, Alexa A.; Hungate, Bruce A. (2016). "Identification of growing bacteria during litter decomposition in freshwater through quantitative stable isotope probing". Environmental Microbiology Reports. 8 (6): 975–982. doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12475. ISSN 1758-2229. PMID 27657357.

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