Department of Agriculture, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2013 May;79(10):3148-55. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00256-13. Epub 2013 Mar 8.
Following recent trends in environmental microbiology, food microbiology has benefited from the advances in molecular biology and adopted novel strategies to detect, identify, and monitor microbes in food. An in-depth study of the microbial diversity in food can now be achieved by using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) approaches after direct nucleic acid extraction from the sample to be studied. In this review, the workflow of applying culture-independent HTS to food matrices is described. The current scenario and future perspectives of HTS uses to study food microbiota are presented, and the decision-making process leading to the best choice of working conditions to fulfill the specific needs of food research is described.
受环境微生物学领域近期发展趋势的影响,食品微生物学从分子生物学的进步中受益,并采用了新策略来检测、鉴定和监测食品中的微生物。现在,通过直接从待研究样本中提取核酸,然后使用高通量测序(HTS)方法,就可以深入研究食品中的微生物多样性。在本文中,我们描述了将非培养依赖型 HTS 应用于食品基质的工作流程。介绍了 HTS 用于研究食品微生物组的当前情况和未来展望,并描述了做出决策的过程,以选择最佳的工作条件来满足食品研究的具体需求。