Diagnostic methods for identifying infectious pathogens include growth-dependent microbiology tests, immunology tests, and molecular biology tests.
Immunological tests can measure a patient's immune responses or directly identify the pathogen in host tissue or culture.
Western Blot is used to detect proteins in a protein mixture by separating them through gel electrophoresis and transferring them to a solid carrier membrane.
This therapeutic strain infected mouse pancreatic cancer cells and replicated in them without affecting normal pancreatic cells.
Fluorescent Antibody Identification and Enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) are used for the detection of microbial surface antigens.
Reverse transcriptases build up a hybrid double strand of RNA and DNA after a single-stranded RNA is presented.
The genes for the 16S rRNA were more abundant in the strain compared to the npt gene.
PCR is used to analyze DNA fragments and enables the identification of a DNA sequence within the genetic material.
The production of antibiotics, vitamins, amino acids, cortisone, enzymes, and insulin are applications of industrial microbiology and molecular biotechnology.
The mature insulin is comprised of two separate peptides: the A chain with 21 amino acids and the B chain with 30 amino acids.
Southern Blot is a method used to analyze DNA fragments and identify specific DNA sequences within the genetic material.
Hosts for molecular cloning
Production of transgenic plants using a binary vector system in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Cloning into a plasmid vector
Production of recombinant vaccinia virus
Reporter genes, e.g. lacZ (ß-Galactosidase) or the Green Fluorescent Protein gene (gfp)
Strategies for bacterial delivery of therapeutic agents using Listeria monocytogenes
Site-directed mutagenesis and gene disruption by cassette mutagenesis
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is a method used to analyze DNA fragments and amplify specific DNA regions through the binding of primers to the target sequence.
Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is used to quantify the amount of specific DNA sequences, such as 16S rRNA genes.