Molecular techniques

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Archaea belonging to the kingdom Crenarchaeota deserve attention. Although it has been assumed that these are extreme thermophiles, members of this group have been identified by molecular techniques in other habitats, for example, soils (Buckley et al. 1998), boreal forest soil (Jurgens et al. 1997), and in plant extracts (Simon et al. 2005). 

Many methods for determination of cannabinoids in plant material have been developed. Commonly HPLC or GC is used, often in combination with mass spectrometry. Molecular techniques are also available to detect these compounds and will be discussed in this section. 

Estimates of the diversity of DNA-based soil organisms so far have not been able to answer the questions concerning the functions of soil ecosystem, although, they can serve as an efficient tool for explaining DNA diversity in situ. The presence of a certain microbial gene does not assure that the metabolic process, for which the gene is responsibile, is carried out. The challenge for molecular techniques is to provide quantitative measures for microbial cells and activities rather than Just qualitative measures. To this purpose, DNA-based techniques... 

These molecular techniques have allowed the monitoring of indigenous and... 

Because the time required for growth of pure cultures delays identification, serological and molecular techniques that bypass this step are often employed. These methods often are able to show the presence of target organisms in mixed samples. 

Widada, J. Nojiri, H. Omori,T. Recent developments in molecular techniques for identification and monitoring of xenobiotic-degrading bacteria and their catabolic genes in bioremediation. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2002,60,45-59. 

To further ensure the environmental safety UniCrop s GM production plants, the company has developed a specific Transgene Escape Prevention System (patent pending) based on molecular techniques [31, 32]. 

Fortunately, recent advances in molecular techniques have made it possible for scientists and engineers to monitor dye-degrading communities and their interaction with the other microorganisms during the degradation process (see review [150]). Before the advent of such techniques, the key microbial species in wastewater treatment plants were either unknown or sometimes inefficient bacteria were... 

FISH, terminal restriction-fragment length polymorphism analysis (rRNA-based molecular techniques) and comparative 16S rDNA analysis... 

The performance of a biotreatment system ultimately depends on optimization of the activity of microbes and the ability to control the process parameters of the treatment system [157]. In this respect, the ability to monitor gene copy numbers and gene expression is highly useful for real time optimization of the efficiency of a biotreatment system. Advanced molecular techniques as well as low cost methods (e.g., antibody detection of enzymes based on color reaction strips fluorescence i.e., GFP marked organisms with UV light detection) can also be applied to monitor the microbial community structure, persistence of the added bacteria, and their interactions with indigenous populations. 

Padayachee P, Ismail A, Bux F (2006) Elucidation of the microbial community structure within a laboratory-scale activated sludge process using molecular techniques. Wat SA 32 679-686... 

Volume 35 Regulation of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, Beltsville, Maryland, June, 2000... 

The relation between microbial diversity and soil functions is poorly understood because we cannot measure easily the microbial diversity, even if we can detect unculturable microorganisms by molecular techniques (Nannipieri et al. 2003). In addition, the present assays for measuring microbial functions determine the overall rate of entire metabolic processes, such as respiration, or specific enzyme activities, without identifying the active microbial species involved. The recent advances in RNA extraction from soil might permit us to determine active species in soil (Griffiths et al. 2000 Hurt et al. 2001). Further advances in understanding require us to determine the composition of microbial communities and microbial functions in microhabitats. 

Mycobacteria of the Mycobacterium avium complex are implicated in disseminated bacterial infections in AIDS patients. RFLP studies followed by hybridization with radiolabeled probe specific for an insertion sequence in M. avium (IS 1311) have been useful for typing M. avium stains (R2). A variety of molecular techniques are available for the diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infection. In addition to PCR, a method based on the ligase chain reaction has also been found to be sensitive to the detection of C. trachomatis infection in urine specimens collected from male and female subjects (VI). The differentiation between low-risk genotypes of human papilloma virus (HPV 6 or 11) from genotypes of high... 

However, in this formulation, G /8 is simply a fitted parameter, since there is no rigorous molecular definition for this form of the interfacial energy. In addition, this model suffers the same problem as do other continuum models, in that it contains parameters that must be determined from experimental data and that cannot be estimated a priori from molecular techniques. 

Ahmed FE. 2002. Molecular techniques for studying gene expression in carcinogenesis. J Environ Sci Elealth... 

Modern approaches based on the use of molecular techniques presumed to circumvent the need for culturing prokaryotes, fail to provide sufficient and reliable information for estimation of prokaryote diversity. Many properties that make these organisms important members of the living world are amenable to observation only through the study of living cultures. Since current culture techniques do not always satisfy the need of providing a balanced picture of the microflora composition, future developments in the study of bacterial diversity should include improvements in the culture methods to approach as closely as possible the conditions of natural habitats. Molecular methods of microflora analysis have an important role as guides for the isolation of new prokaryotic taxa. 

Eunctional studies may help clarify a mechanism of clinical association and are often chosen based on the location of the SNP. The technique that is chosen obviously depends on the mechanism that is being assessed. This section provides examples of how molecular techniques have been used to provide functional information about a SNP and how that information suggested a possible mechanism for the reported clinical association. In case of unfamiliarity with the technique used in the examples, brief descriptions of these techniques are provided at the end of this section. These descriptions are not intended to provide a comprehensive explanation of the technique. Detailed description of how to perform these techniques, as well as a summary of the technical issues relevant to them, can be found in texts such as Current Protocols in Molecular Biology (22). 

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