Kevin Sowers - Baltimore MD, US Joy Watts - Baltimore MD, US Harold May - Pleasant SC, US
International Classification:
C12Q 1/68 C07H 21/04 C12N 1/20 B09C 1/10
US Classification:
435006000, 435252300, 536024100, 435262500
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an assay for identification of PCB dechlorinating organisms that are capable of biologically removing PCBs from contaminated materials. Specifically, the invention provides a set of primers for detecting PCB dechlorinating organisms in a sample. These individual primers of the primer set have a sequence of at least 12 nucleotides that is unique to 16S rDNA of PCB dechlorinating organisms.