| Literature DB >> 16337784 |
Andrew S Whiteley1, Mike Manefield, Tillmann Lueders.
Abstract
Microbial ecologists have long sought to associate the transformation of compounds in the environment with the microbial clades responsible. The development of stable isotope probing (SIP) has made this possible in many ecological and biotechnological contexts. RNA-based SIP technologies represent a significant leap forward for culture-independent 'functional phylogeny' analyses, where specific consumption of a given compound carrying a (13)C signature can be associated with the small subunit ribosomal RNA molecules of the microbes that consume it. Recent advances have led to the unequivocal identification of microorganisms responsible for contaminant degradation in engineered systems, and to applications enhancing our understanding of carbon flow in terrestrial ecosystems.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16337784 DOI： 10.1016/j.copbio.2005.11.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Biotechnol ISSN： 0958-1669 Impact factor: 9.740