Figure 1:
Organization of the rrn region in bacteria. (A) Hypothetical transcriptional arrangements expected for rrn and tested experimentally using 2 sets of primer pairs (see small arrows drawn in each configuration). (B) Agarose gel electrophoresis of PCR reactions performed under the 2 hypothetical arrangements of rrn; lanes: (i) 1 kb ruler (Fermentas), (ii) PCR reaction from the top configuration in (A), (iii) PCR reaction from the bottom configuration in (A). The GelAnalyser Java application was used to perform the band size analysis of the 1 kb ruler standard (C) and the amplicons obtained from human faecal DNA (D).
