16S rRNA
Bacterial classification molecule
16S rRNA is a component of bacterial ribosomes, the cellular machinery that builds proteins.
The gene encoding it is used as a molecular fingerprint to identify and classify bacteria—its sequence is conserved enough to allow comparison across species but variable enough to distinguish between them.
The lab ran 16S rRNA sequencing to identify the pathogen.
- ribosomeProtein synthesis site
- bacteriaNucleus-free single-celled organisms
- PCRDNA amplification technique
- sequencingDetermining element order
- microbiomeBody's microbial community
phylogeny · primer · gene · prokaryote · taxonomy · conserved · universal · archaea · operon · mutation · alignment · species · probe · marker · evolution · identification · nucleotide · subunit
- MetagenomicsMAG, gut microbiome, binning, species identification, reads
- RNAmRNA, tRNA, pre-mRNA
- rRNA
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