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T J Gibson

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Arthropathy, skin and bone lesions in pancreatic disease.

A patient with a history of alcoholism and pancreatic calcification, developed subcutaneous fat necrosis and an arthropathy, associated with a pancreatic pseudocyst and accompanied by an elevation of serum lipase and amylase. The illness was complicated by bacteremia and destructive bone lesions. A clinical distinction between osteomyelitis and medullary fat necrosis proved difficult. Infection of bone was demonstrated at one site but did not exclude medullary fat necrosis elsewhere.

Amylases↗

Preparation of large numbers of plasmid DNA samples in microtiter plates by the alkaline lysis method.

A protocol is described for the growth and preparation of plasmid DNAs from small culture volumes (250 microliters) and utilizing standard 96-well plates. Several hundred plasmids can be prepared simultaneously, yielding sufficient DNA for subsequent analysis by restriction digestion and gel electrophoresis. This protocol may be useful for rapid screening of clones arising in recombinant DNA work such as site-directed mutagenesis, oligonucleotide cassette cloning, deletion analysis, etc. The technique was initially developed to meet our requirement to provide large numbers of cosmid DNAs for restriction enzyme fingerprint analyses in genome mapping projects.

Cosmids↗

DNA sequence and expression of the B95-8 Epstein-Barr virus genome.

The complete (172,282 base pairs) nucleotide sequence of the B95-8 strain of Epstein-Barr virus has been established using the dideoxynucleotide/M13 sequencing procedure. Many RNA polymerase II promoters have been mapped and the mRNAs from these promoters have been assigned to the latent or early/late productive virus cycles. Likely protein-coding regions have been identified and three of these have been shown to encode a ribonucleotide reductase, a DNA polymerase and two surface glycoproteins.

Base Sequence↗

Examination of cyanine intercalation dyes for rapid and sensitive detection of DNA fragments by capillary electrophoresis.

Recently, a series of cyanine dyes has been developed that are reported to offer superior fluorescence upon intercalation relative to ethidium bromide (EB). The dimeric cyanine dyes, such as POPO-3 (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.), are reported to offer the highest fluorescence enhancement of the cyanine dyes. Although POPO-3 does offer an improvement in sensitivity, achieving reproducible, high-efficiency results by employing pre-column, on-column, and postcolumn labeling strategies proved to be problematic. Evaluation of the labeling rate of these dimeric dyes indicates that perhaps the most limiting factor to using this dye for rapid CE analysis of DNA fragments is the apparent slow rate at which the dye fully intercalates into the DNA structure. Use of the monomeric analog PO-PRO-3 (Molecular Probes) resulted in much better separations and low limits of defection when employed for on-column intercalation. However, we find that the kinetics are too slow to employ this dye in a sheath flow cell for postcolumn derivatization.

Benzoxazoles↗