The pool of candidate reference targets comprised 11 bacterial genes. Nine of them (16S rRNA, 23S rRNA, dnaK, groEL, gyrB, recA, rho, rpoB, rpoD) were chosen based on literature data. Homologues of these sequences were derived from the complete genome of O. quorumnocens A44 (CP022602.1–CP022605.1) (detailed list of loci in Table 2). The two other genes were: gfp, carried on the artificially introduced vector pPROBE-GTkan45 (link) and CES85_4722, a hypothetical A44 gene with no data concerning its stability (a blind control). All PCR primers (Supplementary Table S1) were designed using the Primer3Plus software78 (link),79 (link) (http://primer3plus.com/). Specificity of the primers was verified using real-time PCR followed by melt curve analysis and electrophoresis in 1.2% agarose gel (TopVision, Thermo Scientific).
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