Metabolic Primers for the Detection of Perchlorate-Reducing Bacteria and Methods of Use Thereof
Project Leaders: Kelly Bender and Laurie Achenbach
Unit: Microbiology
Executive Summary:
Perchlorate is a soil and water contaminant that can cause many health and neurodevelopmental problems in humans. An excellent alternative to current costly and inefficient methods of remediation is natural remediation. The success of natural perchlorate remediation is dependent on the presence and activitiy of dissimilatory (per)chlorate-reducing bacteria (DPRB) within the target site that is undergoing remediation. The invention facilitates the rapid identification of the presence of DPRB at a given target site and allows prediction of whether a given target site is capable of undergoing perchlorate remediation. The probes in support of these patents are available to licensees.
Brief Description:
The present invention is directed to metabolic primers for the detection of perchlorate-reducing bacteria and methods and compositions for use of the same in environmental bioremediation.
Patent Status:
Patent no. 7,700,756, issued April 20, 2010. U.S. patent application number 20090068650, for a different set of primers, published March 12, 2009.
Contact:
Jeff Myers, Senior Technology Transfer Specialist, (618) 453-4543, fax: (618) 453-8038