Universal mitochondrial PCR combined with species-specific dot-blot assay as a source-tracking method of human, bovine, chicken, ovine, and porcine in fecal-contaminated surface water.

Randa Kortbaoui 1 Annie Locas 1 Marianne Imbeau 1 Pierre Payment 1 Richard Villemur 1, *
* Corresponding author
1 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier
Abstract : Mitochondrial (mt) DNA has the potential to be used as an animal-specific genetic marker for source-tracking of fecal contamination in surface waters and groundwaters. In this report, we describe the development of a method to detect in a single assay human, bovine, ovine, porcine and chicken mitochondrial (mt) DNA in water. Consensus nucleic sequences were found between human, bovine, porcine, ovine and chicken mtDNA to design three sets of PCR universal primers. Upon polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with a digoxigenin-labeled nucleotide and the universal primers, species determination was carried out by dot-blotting membranes containing specific oligonucleotides for these five animals. Our method was carried out with three river samples and three wastewater samples, and the results were compared with those obtained by multiple nested PCR with specific primers for these five species. Our results showed that the dot-blot assays were as specific and sensitive as the nested-PCR approach. The proposed method has the advantage that it requires the use of only one PCR per sample and very little amounts of DNA. Finally, it is an alternative to multiplex PCR approach which is less sensitive, and shows the way for the development of DNA arrays for source-tracking of many more animal species in fecal-contaminated water.
Keywords : Source-tracking Water Fecal contamination Mitochondrial DNA DNA array
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Randa Kortbaoui, Annie Locas, Marianne Imbeau, Pierre Payment, Richard Villemur. Universal mitochondrial PCR combined with species-specific dot-blot assay as a source-tracking method of human, bovine, chicken, ovine, and porcine in fecal-contaminated surface water.. Water Research, IWA Publishing, 2009, 43 (7), pp.2002-10. ⟨10.1016/j.watres.2009.01.030⟩. ⟨pasteur-00819920⟩

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