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Optimization of RNA extraction for PCR quantification of aromatic compound degradation genes
Weidong Kong1, Cindy H Nakatsu
1Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054, USA.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|December 22, 2009
Abstract:
Seven different bacterial strains and primer sets and a mixed community were used to evaluate the use of reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR (Q-PCR) and Q-PCR of oxygenase genes to assess various approaches for monitoring the bioremediation of polluted sites. Differences in maximum activity were seen when different RNA extraction kits were compared.

