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L L Vagner

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Regulation of average length of complex PCR product.

A method to achieve the preference towards longer products during PCR is described. The extent of this preference can be adjusted by slight variation of the PCR conditions. Being combined with the natural tendency of PCR to amplify shorter fragments more efficiently than longer ones, it allows one to regulate the average length of the complex PCR product over a very wide range to make it most suitable for further manipulations. The technique can be used for amplifying any complex DNA sample.

Bacteriophage lambda↗

Equalizing cDNA subtraction based on selective suppression of polymerase chain reaction: cloning of Jurkat cell transcripts induced by phytohemaglutinin and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.

The major drawback of subtractive cDNA libraries is that the original disproportion in concentrations of different types of transcripts is preserved. This usually makes the isolation of specific rare transcripts extremely difficult. To overcome this difficulty, we propose a strategy that introduces the equalization of concentrations (normalization) of specific transcripts during the subtractive process. This makes possible obtaining both rare and highly abundant transcripts in the resulting subtracted library. This technique has been applied for isolation of transcripts activated upon induction of Jurkat cells by phytohemaglutinin and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. Six novel up-regulated sequences belonging to a low-abundance class of transcripts have been obtained.

Blotting, Northern↗

[Cloning cDNA for the ha-SDGF gene from a Syrian hamster cell line with increased metastatic potential using subtractive hybridization].

Using subtractive hybridization, a cDNA library containing over 50% of clones specific for a highly metastatic cell line was obtained from two hamster embryo fibroblast lines with different metastatic potentials. Most of the clones (83%) contained new sequences. One clone contained the ha-SDGF gene cDNA homologous to SDGF cDNA from rodents. The level of ha-SDGF mRNA expression was considerably higher in the highly metastatic cell line.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

[A method for the preparation of normalized cDNA libraries enriched with full-length sequences].

We developed a new method for the preparation of normalized cDNA libraries enriched with full-length sequences. It is based on the properties of the recently characterized duplex-specific nuclease from the hepatopancreas of the Kamchatka crab. The duplex-specific nuclease is thermostable, it effectively cleaves double-stranded DNA and is inactive toward single-stranded DNA (Shagin et al., Genome Res., 2002, vol. 12, pp. 1935-1942). Our method enables the normalization of cDNA samples enriched with full-length sequences without use of laborious and ineffective stages of physical separation. The efficiency of the method was demonstrated in model experiments using cDNA samples from several human tissues.

Animals↗