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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1997
Curtis A Lajoie, Rockwood, TN (US);
Christine Jo Kelly, Philadelphia, TN (US);
Alice C Layton, Knoxville, TN (US);
Gary S Sayler, Blain, TN (US);
Raymond Stapleton, Knoxville, TN (US);
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Abstract
The invention provides two new zoogloeal strains, mz1t and mz2t. The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid consisting of the nucleic acid of SEQ ID NO:1. Examples of nucleic acids of mz1t include SEQ ID NO:2 and SEQ ID NO:3. An example of a nucleic acid of mz2t is SEQ ID NO:4. The invention also provides an isolated nucleic acid consisting of the nucleic acid of SEQ ID NO:5. A method of detecting the presence of zoogloeal clusters in a wastewater sample is provided, comprising: a) contacting RNA from a sample of the wastewater with a nucleic acid comprising the nucleic acid of SEQ ID Nos:1,2,3,4 or 5 under conditions that permit specific hybridization; and b) detecting the presence of hybridization, the presence of hybridization indicating the presence of zoogloeal clusters. A new Hyphomicrobium spp. strain, designated M3, is provided herein. The invention provides novel nucleic acids of a Hyphomicrobium sp. M3. For example SEQ ID NO:6 and SEQ ID NO:7 rDNAs of M3. SEQ ID Nos:8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 are presumptive Hyphomicrobium spp. sequences. SEQ ID NO:15 is a consensus sequence from 6m3 and 3m3 (Hyphomicrobium sp. m3 isolated from sludge. A method of detecting the presence of a Hyphomicrobium species in a wastewater sample as described above, using a nucleic acid comprising the nucleic acid of SEQ ID NO:17 is also provided. The nucleic acids of SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:7, SEQ ID NO:8, SEQ ID NO:9, SEQ ID NO:10, SEQ ID NO:11, SEQ ID NO:12 SEQ ID NO:13, SEQ ID NO:14 and SEQ ID NO:15 can also be utilized in whole or as fragments in the detection method for Hyphomicrobium spp.