Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures.
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SUBMITTER: Schostag MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7261852 | biostudies-literature | 2020
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Low Turnover of Soil Bacterial rRNA at Low Temperatures.
Schostag Morten Dencker MD Albers Christian Nyrop CN Jacobsen Carsten Suhr CS Priemé Anders A
Frontiers in microbiology 20200525
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is used widely to investigate potentially active microorganisms in environmental samples, including soil microorganisms and other microbial communities that are subjected to pronounced seasonal variation in temperature. This raises a question about the turnover of intracellular microbial rRNA at environmentally relevant temperatures. We analyzed the turnover at four temperatures of RNA isolated from soil bacteria amended with <sup>14</sup>C-labeled uridine. We found that the ...[more]
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