Bereskin & Parr LLP
Methods and compositions for the detection and identification of archaea based on the type II chaperonin (thermosome) gene
The present invention relates to primers for the universal amplification and detection of Archaea, which primers are designed based on a multiple sequence alignment of Archaea Type II chaperonin (thermo-some) genes. For detection of Archaea having templates with a GC content of below 60%, primers are designed so that inosine residues are found at degenerate positions. For amplification of higher GC content templates, degenerate positions are replaced with specific nucleotide bases found in the high GC organism. The primers are useful for detecting, identifying and quantifying Archaea in a sample and for determining a phylogenetic relationship of a test Archaea organism.
University of Saskatchewan
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Janet Elizabeth Bonnie Laura
Hill Chaban