Method for identifying and characterizing organisms
US4717653A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 25, 1981 |
| Grant date | Jan 5, 1988 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 25, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S435/803
- WIPO fieldBiotechnology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of characterizing an unknown organism which comprises comparing the chromatographic pattern of restriction endonuclease-digester DNA from the unknown organism, which digested DNA has been hybridized or reassociated with ribosomal RNA information-containing nucleic acid from or derived from a known probe organizm, with at least two equivalent chromatographic patterns, each one of the equivalent chromatographic patterns defining a known different organism species; and establishing the species of the unknown organism by means of a conserved set of ribosomal RNA sequence-containing restriction fragments present in the chromatographic pattern of the unknown organism.
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