Quantitative rRNA-targeted solution-based hybridization assay using peptide nucleic acid molecular beacons

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 7297-7305

  Li, Xu ^a   Morgenroth, Eberhard ^b,c   Raskin, Lutgarde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; AMINES; CLONING; EXTRACTION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RATE CONSTANTS; RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TARGETS;

16S RRNA; APPARENT RATE CONSTANTS; CLONE LIBRARIES; COMPLEX MIXTURES; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; DETECTION LIMITS; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES; FORMAMIDE CONCENTRATIONS; HYBRIDIZATION ASSAYS; HYBRIDIZATION SIGNALS; KINETIC STUDIES; MOLECULAR BEACONS; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; QUANTITATIVE RESULTS;

ASSAYS;

PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; HYBRIDIZATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREACTOR; MOLECULAR BEACON; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA ISOLATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; RHODOCYCLACEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTIONS;

AZOSPIRA; AZOSPIRA ORYZAE; DECHLOROMONAS;

EID: 57149100950     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01002-08     Document Type: Article

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