Alkendi Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 I will be amplifying the variable regions for 16S rDNA and looking for Universal primers for bacteria only can some one help me with this please!!!!!!!!!!!!\ I looked up some articles but i got confused wether those primers are used for conserved regions that are the same among all bacteria or not. thanks
foodchain Posted February 27, 2007 Posted February 27, 2007 I will be amplifying the variable regions for 16S rDNA and looking for Universal primers for bacteria only can some one help me with this please!!!!!!!!!!!!\I looked up some articles but i got confused wether those primers are used for conserved regions that are the same among all bacteria or not. thanks From what I understand currently you are looking for specific primers for specific DNA? More acutely specific primers to look for specific DNA common to all bacteria, or a universal primer or primers then? You could look into multiplex pcr, I think that might help. There also seems to be more then one primer for what you are looking for, or more then one type of universal primer overall. I googled it and after about ten minutes had many different universal primers in terms of data to look at. This link might help you though http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/AEM.00849-06v1.pdf
Alkendi Posted February 27, 2007 Author Posted February 27, 2007 thanks for the reply but the article you sent speaks about the Universal primer that would amplify 900bp of the 16S rDNA gene. the variable regions I am talking about are scattered along the gene and interrupted by a conserved sequences (used as primers). Thanks for the help
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