{"title":"Extremely-rapid RNA detection in dot blots with digoxigenin-labeled RNA probes","authors":"Chih-Yang Huang, Matsuo Kasai, Dennis E. Buetow","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00003-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00003-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An RNA dot blot technique is described which uses digoxigenin-labeled antisense RNA probes and a highly-sensitive chemiluminescent substrate. Detection is extremely rapid: 10 s for even low abundance mRNA.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 4","pages":"Pages 109-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00003-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20745235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jingzhong Liu , Hua Xiang , Yan Zhou , Zhangling Zhu , Jing Zhang
{"title":"A new technique of screening gene mutation—fluorescent fingerprinting","authors":"Jingzhong Liu , Hua Xiang , Yan Zhou , Zhangling Zhu , Jing Zhang","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00008-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00008-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A new technique called fluorescent fingerprinting (FF) was set up and used to screen and detect gene mutation from a large number of samples by using fluorescent labelled ddNTP and ABI-373A sequencer. By comparing the colour ladders of several lanes from the same sequencing region of different samples, any band with a different colour from its neighbours or a pattern displacement could be easily found out in the Macintosh screen which indicates a gene mutation. Then, the sequencing peak-chromatograms were made out only for the selected samples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 4","pages":"Pages 113-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00008-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20745236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construction and sequencing of new derivatives of the pIN-III-ompA secretion vector","authors":"Alan Fauconnier, Ary Van Elsen, Alex Bollen","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00005-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00005-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The growing interest in proteins exported by bacteria led to the development of cloning vectors designed for targeting recombinant proteins to extracytoplasmic compartments. The pIN-III-<em>ompA</em> vector family fulfils such a function. Here we report the construction and sequencing of new pIN-III-<em>ompA</em> derivatives with alternate polylinker sites, increasing the cloning flexibility of these vectors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 4","pages":"Pages 129-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(98)00005-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20745240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trans-kingdom conjugation offers a powerful gene targeting","authors":"Masanobu Nishikawa , Kazuo Yoshida","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10003-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10003-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Gene targeting is one of the powerful techniques used to investigate eukaryotic genes. In a typical eukaryotic microbe, <em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</em> yeast, we examined trans-kingdom conjugation between <em>Escherichia coli</em><span> bacterium and yeast as a gene targeting tool. Here, it is shown that trans-kingdom conjugation effectively induced gene replacement even on yeast's target loci (e.g. </span><em>ura3-52</em><span> allele) which is never targeted by conventional transformation. This clearly indicates that trans-kingdom conjugation offers a very powerful gene targeting tool in yeasts. In fact, Southern hybridization analysis of transconjugants distinctly verified the accuracy in the conjugative gene replacement. The efficiency of gene replacement was about 0.4×10</span><sup>−7</sup> per recipient yeast. This is enough to sustain gene targeting with gene replacement by trans-kingdom conjugation. We also discuss the mechanism of conjugative gene replacement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 3","pages":"Pages 65-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10003-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20449104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marianne Tvermyr , Bjørn E Kristiansen, Tom Kristensen
{"title":"Cloning, sequence analysis and expression in E. coli of the DNA polymerase I gene from Chloroflexus aurantiacus, a green","authors":"Marianne Tvermyr , Bjørn E Kristiansen, Tom Kristensen","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10002-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10002-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We have cloned and sequenced the <em>pol</em>A gene from <em>Chloroflexus aurantiacus</em>, a green nonsulfur eubacterium, and expressed the recombinant protein in <em>Escherichia coli</em>. One open reading frame encodes a protein with 942 amino acids showing 38% identity with DNA polymerase I from <em>E. coli</em>. Sequence alignments with other members of DNA polymerase family A and analysis of the separate domains show that the central 3′-5′ exonuclease domain is 30% identical to the corresponding <em>E. coli</em> domain and that three sequence motifs associated with 3′-5′ exonuclease activity are conserved. Also, a protein fraction from <em>E. coli</em> expressing the <em>Chloroflexus</em> polymerase contains a thermostable 3′-5′ exonucleolytic activity, indicating that this activity is present in the enzyme, in agreement with the sequence analysis. The N-terminal 5′-3′ exonuclease domain and the C-terminal polymerase domain show 31 and 46% identity, respectively, with the corresponding <em>E. coli</em> domains and all sequence motifs associated with these two enzymatic activities also are conserved. Since several DNA polymerase I enzymes lack the proofreading activity associated with the central domain it has been suggested that the ancestral <em>pol</em>A gene contained only the two more conserved N- and C-terminal domains and that the proofreading 3′-5′ exonuclease domain was introduced later in those eubacterial branches that have this activity. Our data indicate a different scenario where the ancestral <em>pol</em>A gene contained both the exonucleolytic activities in addition to the polymerase activity and where several eubacterial branches lost the polymerase-associated proofreading activity during evolution.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 3","pages":"Pages 75-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10002-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20449105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bernd Rautenstrauss , Christina Fuchs , Arif Ekici , Eva Nelis , Christine Van Broeckhoven , Thomas Liehr
{"title":"Assay of transfection rate in insect cells on a single cell level","authors":"Bernd Rautenstrauss , Christina Fuchs , Arif Ekici , Eva Nelis , Christine Van Broeckhoven , Thomas Liehr","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10001-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10001-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 3","pages":"Pages 103-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10001-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20449109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ZFX and ZFY loci in water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis):","authors":"Anita Pande, S.M Totey","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10004-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10004-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the present study a small region of ZFX and ZFY loci in buffalo have been amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) was also uncovered that can distinguish between male and female buffalo DNA. The study also found a second copy of the ZFX loci (ZFXR) present in both male and female. Sequence analysis showed that ZFXR has a single base deletion that results in a redundant putative protein</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 3","pages":"Pages 85-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10004-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20449106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Jurinke , Bernhard Zöllner , Heinz-Hubert Feucht , Dirk van den Boom , Anette Jacob , Susanne Polywka , Rainer Laufs , Hubert Köster
{"title":"Application of nested PCR and mass spectrometry for DNA-based virus detection: HBV-DNA detected in the majority of isolated anti-HBc positive sera","authors":"Christian Jurinke , Bernhard Zöllner , Heinz-Hubert Feucht , Dirk van den Boom , Anette Jacob , Susanne Polywka , Rainer Laufs , Hubert Köster","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10006-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10006-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>DNA preparations from three different groups of serum samples were examined for HBV-DNA via a nested polymerase chain reaction assay (lower detection limit: 10 viral genomes in 100 <em>μ</em>l serum): Group I consisted of 11 uninfected control sera, group II consisted of sera obtained from 11 HBV infected patients and group III consisted of 21 isolated anti-HBc positive samples. The 21 samples from group III were HBV-DNA negative according to a conventional non-nested PCR assay and hybridization with a <sup>32</sup>P-labelled probe. Using nested PCR and mass spectrometry, HBV-DNA was detected in none of group I and in all of group II samples. In 11 out of 21 (52%) of the isolated anti-HBc positive sera from group III, HBV-DNA was detected. No correlation was observed between HBV-DNA positivity and anti-HBc titers. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry provided a fast, sensitive and non-radioactive assay for the detection of PCR products without the need for gel electrophoresis or hybridization with labelled probes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 3","pages":"Pages 97-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10006-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20449108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cre/loxP-mediated excision and amplification of large segments of the Escherichia coli genome","authors":"Young G. Yoon, Ju H. Cho, Sun C. Kim","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10005-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10005-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The isolation and amplification of large, predetermined segments of a genome from its host have been explored. The prototype of our approach was the excisional replication of some viruses such as the λ-lysogen. Similar machinery was used to excise and amplify large genomic segments of <em>Escherichia coli</em> in its host. Two <em>loxP</em><span><span> sequences for a site-specific recombinase Cre, together with a conditional </span>replication origin (</span><em>π</em>-dependent <em>γ</em>-<em>ori</em><span>), were inserted into the genome by homologous recombination at predetermined sites, 50–100 kb apart. </span><em>Cre</em> and <em>pir</em>200 which encodes the site-specific recombinase Cre and an <em>ori</em><span>-specific replication protein </span><em>π</em>, respectively, were also introduced into the genome. The predetermined genomic segments flanked by the <em>loxP</em> sequences were excised and amplified upon induction of the <em>cre</em> and <em>pir</em>200 genes which were under the control of the <em>tet</em> promoter. This excised and amplified DNA could be easily purified as a large plasmid. This procedure can provide an alternative to conventional cloning methods by obtaining predetermined large genomic segments directly from the original organisms. In this study, using the Cre/<em>loxP</em><span> site-specific recombination and </span><em>π</em>/<em>γ</em>-<em>ori</em> replication system of plasmid R6K, a procedure was devised that could isolate a large segment of the <em>E. coli</em> genome and demonstrated the feasibility of the procedure by excising and amplifying the 50-kb <em>trg</em>-<em>nar</em>Z and 100-kb <em>trg</em>-<em>hip</em>A regions of the <em>E. coli</em> W3110 genome.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 3","pages":"Pages 89-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(97)10005-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20449107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rapid method for detection of point mutations using mismatch binding protein (MutS) and an optical biosensor","authors":"Masanori Gotoh, Masahisa Hasebe, Tomoko Ohira, Yukio Hasegawa, Yasuro Shinohara, Hiroyuki Sota, Junji Nakao, Mariko Tosu","doi":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)00009-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1050-3862(97)00009-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This paper describes a new method for detecting DNA point mutations using a mismatch binding protein. The interactions of mismatches and mismatch binding proteins are detected by the optical biosensor technology based on </span>surface plasmon resonance (SPR).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77142,"journal":{"name":"Genetic analysis, techniques and applications","volume":"14 2","pages":"Pages 47-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1050-3862(97)00009-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20280753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}