B van Gemen, P v d Wiel, R van Beuningen, P Sillekens, S Jurriaans, C Dries, R Schoones, T Kievits
{"title":"The one-tube quantitative HIV-1 RNA NASBA: precision, accuracy, and application.","authors":"B van Gemen, P v d Wiel, R van Beuningen, P Sillekens, S Jurriaans, C Dries, R Schoones, T Kievits","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.s177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.s177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"S177-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554684","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}
K Majumder, F A Fattah, A Selvapandiyan, R K Bhatnagar
{"title":"Background-minimized cassette mutagenesis by PCR using cassette-specific selection markers: a useful general approach for studying structure-function relationships of multisubstrate enzymes.","authors":"K Majumder, F A Fattah, A Selvapandiyan, R K Bhatnagar","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An efficient protocol, termed background-minimized cassette mutagenesis (BMCM) by PCR, has been developed for multiple mutagenesis of DNA. This method uses suitable extension primers for incorporating various mutation(s) and is not limited by either the nature of the mutation or the size and spatial location of mutational loci. Minimization of the wild type background clone and mutant selection at very high frequency were easily achieved through a two-step process. First, a deletion of a unique restriction site within the cassette was introduced through additional silent mutation(s). Then, the recombinant clones were digested with the corresponding enzyme followed by transformation when selective linearization of wild-type clone led to its near total removal leaving the mutant clones as the only practicable transformants. Because it is generally possible to design several such cassette-specific unique background minimization markers for any gene, for multiple mutagenesis involving distally located portions of the gene the present protocol is superior to other currently available methods. The efficiency of BMCM-PCR has been demonstrated here by using the multisubstrate enzyme 5-enolpyruvyl-shikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPs) of Bacillus subtilis as a model system. Three different sets of cassettes of varying sizes were generated to encompass the three putative active/binding regions in the beginning, middle, and the end of the gene encoding EPSPs. Very high efficiency of mutation incorporation and selection were obtained in all cases. Furthermore, by taking advantage of the unique cassette-specific background elimination markers, it was possible to generate a nested set of double and/or triple mutants. The mutant enzymes were overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified to near homogeneity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"212-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554687","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":"Quantitative detection of reverse transcriptase-PCR products by means of a novel and sensitive DNA stain.","authors":"C Schneeberger, P Speiser, F Kury, R Zeillinger","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.234","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We constructed a plasmid for the in vitro synthesis of a competitor RNA for use as an internal exogenous control during reverse transcriptase--PCR (RT-PCR) detection of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression. The competitor RNA harbors a 32-base deletion compared with wild-type EGFR mRNA and generates a PCR product that is easily distinguished from the wild-type PCR product by agarose gel electrophoresis. We encountered the problem of heteroduplex formation during later stages of PCR, which could be solved by decreasing the PCR cycle number. This was accompanied by a significant loss of sensitivity. Sensitivity could be restored by using a novel and extremely sensitive DNA stain (SYBR Green I) instead of ethidium bromide.</p>","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"234-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1101/gr.4.4.234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554584","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":"PCR with deoxyinosine-containing primers using DNA polymerases with proofreading activity.","authors":"H Fujiwara, K Fujiwara, K Hashimoto","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"239-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554585","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":"Identification of the species origin of highly processed meat products by mitochondrial DNA sequences.","authors":"M Unseld, B Beyermann, P Brandt, R Hiesel","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"241-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1101/gr.4.4.241","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554586","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":"Metastable single-strand DNA conformational polymorphism analysis results in enhanced polymorphism detection.","authors":"T Kasuga, J Cheng, K R Mitchelson","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.227","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Single-strand DNA conformational polymorphism (SSCP) makes use of sequence-dependent folding of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), which alters the electrophoretic mobility of the fragments, to detect sequence differences between closely related molecules. In this study ssDNAs were purified by depletion of the complementary strand and PCR reactants on magnetic M-280-strepavidin beads. It was found that SSCP profiles created by purified ssDNAs differ from the profiles created by more usual SSCP methods. Under some conditions, SSCP profiles using whole PCR reaction products may result from the interaction between residual PCR primers and ssDNAs. We observed that the ratio of conformers revealed by band position and band intensity may vary between the assay techniques and misinterpretation of sequence variants may result. Another observation of this study was the formation of metastable conformational isomers with bead-purified ssDNAs by eliminating the thermal treatment used in conventional SSCP methods. The metastable SSCP (mSSCP) represents a novel and sensitive system for detection of sequence variation between closely related DNAs. The technique used here for the preparation of the purified ssDNAs is potentially useful for automated PCR-SSCP analysis using capillary electrophoresis or other methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"227-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1101/gr.4.4.227","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554583","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}
Y Shibasaki, J C Maule, R S Devon, E M Slorach, J R Gosden, D J Porteous, A J Brookes
{"title":"Catch-linker + PCR labeling: a simple method to generate fluorescence in situ hybridization probes from yeast artificial chromosomes.","authors":"Y Shibasaki, J C Maule, R S Devon, E M Slorach, J R Gosden, D J Porteous, A J Brookes","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A simple and efficient method to generate hapten-labeled DNA fragments from a trace amount of YAC DNA isolated by PFGE is described. After agarase digestion of the gel slice containing the resolved YAC recombinant, the purified DNA is digested with Sau3Al and a compatible CL oligonucleotide duplex ligated on. A probe is generated by PCR amplification using a primer complementary to the CL with a single biotin moiety incorporated at the 5' end. When used as a FISH probe, this material yields mapping results superior to Alu-PCR or whole YAC labeling methods and allows sensitive detection of chimerism.</p>","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"209-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554686","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":"An evaluation of competitor type and size for use in the determination of mRNA by competitive PCR.","authors":"R K McCulloch, C S Choong, D M Hurley","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.219","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The technique of competitive PCR for measuring mRNA is used widely. Several variations of the method have been reported. We have evaluated some of the commonly used competitor types as part of our study into expression of the androgen receptor (AR). These included mutant, intron, deletion construct, and nonhomologous competitors, which were assessed with an emphasis on their ability to amplify the target with the same efficiency, as well as their capacity to form heteroduplexes with it. The effect of competitor size on amplification efficiency was also investigated. We found that the use of a common primer set did not guarantee equal amplification efficiencies among DNAs sharing the same primer sequences. For the competitors evaluated in this study, sequence length was the major determinant of amplification efficiency. The longest competitors were amplified with the least efficiency. Differences in amplification efficiencies were corrected for by standardizing the competitor against the target. Constructing competitors of different sizes to the target may not eliminate heteroduplex formation when they share common sequence with the target as with the intron and deletion type competitors. Such heteroduplexes may interfere with the analysis if they cannot be resolved from both the target and competitor. Use of a mutant competitor constructed by the conversion of one enzyme restriction site to another produced determinations that were independent of both heteroduplex formation and cycle number. A method is described for generating a mutant competitor with a single PCR.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"219-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554688","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 of subtractive cDNA library using magnetic beads and PCR.","authors":"A Lönneborg, P Sharma, P Stougaard","doi":"10.1101/gr.4.4.s168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.4.4.s168","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77315,"journal":{"name":"PCR methods and applications","volume":"4 4","pages":"S168-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1101/gr.4.4.s168","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19554683","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}