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We have developed a novel method to amplify target RNA. The amplification procedure was carried out by sequential RT-PCR, effective separation, restriction enzymatic cleavage of cDNA strand, and run-off transcription in vitro of target RNA from its cDNA. Introduction of a unique stem-loop linker int...
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PMID: 21106769
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We present here a PCR-based method that allows a priori determination of the degree of chloroplast and mitochondrial contamination in DNA samples from plant environments. It is based on differential digestibility of chloroplast, mitochondrial and bacterial small subunit rRNA gene amplicons with the...
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PMID: 20816905
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The persistence of covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in hepatocytes plays a key role in viral persistence and resistance to therapy. Therefore, quantitative cccDNA measurement is of clinical importance for evaluating the efficacy of antiviral drugs, selecting an appr...
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PMID: 20691734
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Our novel DNA methylation assay reduces both the hands-on time and errors caused by handling and pipetting and allows methylation analyses to be completed within 90 min after DNA extraction. Combined with its precision and reliability, these features make the assay well suited for diagnostic procedu...
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PMID: 20472822
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Cheng Ran Lisa Huang,
Anna M Schneider,
Yunqi Lu,
Tejasvi Niranjan,
Peilin Shen,
Matoya A Robinson,
Jared P Steranka,
David Valle,
Curt I Civin,
Tao Wang,
Sarah J Wheelan,
Hongkai Ji,
Jef D Boeke and
Kathleen H Burns
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We perform transposon insertion profiling by microarray (TIP-chip) to map human L1(Ta) retrotransposons (LINE-1 s) genome-wide. This identified numerous novel human L1(Ta) insertional polymorphisms with highly variant allelic frequencies. We also explored TIP-chip's usefulness to identify candidate...
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PMID: 20602999
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We have a tool that can directly investigate the relationship between senescence and the load of short telomeres. The method is a variant of the chromosome-specific STELA method but has the advantage that it can demonstrate short telomeres regardless of chromosome. With Universal STELA, we find a st...
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PMID: 20331440
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We have a tool that can directly investigate the relationship between senescence and the load of short telomeres. The method is a variant of the chromosome-specific STELA method but has the advantage that it can demonstrate short telomeres regardless of chromosome. With Universal STELA, we find a st...
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PMID: 20331440
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We have a tool that can directly investigate the relationship between senescence and the load of short telomeres. The method is a variant of the chromosome-specific STELA method but has the advantage that it can demonstrate short telomeres regardless of chromosome. With Universal STELA, we find a st...
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PMID: 20331440
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We have a tool that can directly investigate the relationship between senescence and the load of short telomeres. The method is a variant of the chromosome-specific STELA method but has the advantage that it can demonstrate short telomeres regardless of chromosome. With Universal STELA, we find a st...
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PMID: 20331440
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We have a tool that can directly investigate the relationship between senescence and the load of short telomeres. The method is a variant of the chromosome-specific STELA method but has the advantage that it can demonstrate short telomeres regardless of chromosome. With Universal STELA, we find a st...
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PMID: 20331440
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We describe the potential of microchip electrophoresis with a Hitachi SV1100, which can be used to determine DNA sizes between 500 and 5000 bp with good quantification (DNA concentration, <8 ng/l) within 5 min, for the analysis of DNA ligation. On analysis of an electropherogram of a ligation mixtur...
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PMID: 20196235
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1) The positive relationship previously found between the percentage of homoplasy and genome size is a direct consequence of the number of observed bands and the GC content. For the same number of observed bands, the percentage of homoplasy is independent of the genome size of the species. 2) The di...
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PMID: 20056690
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This paper reports a new strategy, recursive directional ligation by plasmid reconstruction (PRe-RDL), to rapidly clone highly repetitive polypeptides of any sequence and specified length over a large range of molecular weights. In a single cycle of PRe-RDL, two halves of a parent plasmid, each cont...
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PMID: 20184309
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I enzymes that cut DNA randomly, but in terms of gene organization and protein assembly, most Type IIB restriction-modification systems have more in common with Type I than with other Type II systems. Our current knowledge of the Type IIB systems is reviewed in the present paper....
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PMID: 20298193
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We have shown that the combined bisulfite restriction analysis (COBRA) assay makes it possible to analyze methylation levels at a defined locus. The major steps are: bisulfite conversion of nonmethylate cytosines to uracils, locus-specific PCR amplification of converted DNA, restriction digestion, a...
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PMID: 20204865
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We have shown that the wheat-germ-based cell-free protein synthesis is useful for X-ray crystallography of one of the 4-bp cutter restriction enzymes, which are expected to be very toxic to all forms of cells retaining the genome. Our report on its structure represents the first report of structure...
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PMID: 20204855
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We have developed a novel approach for using massively parallel short-read sequencing to generate fast and inexpensive de novo genomic assemblies comparable to those generated by capillary-based methods. The ultrashort (<100 base) sequences generated by this technology pose specific biological and c...
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PMID: 20123915
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We have explored the possibility of modulating the activity of a restriction enzyme with light. By cross-linking two suitably located cysteine residues with a bifunctional azobenzene derivative, which can adopt a cis- or trans-configuration when illuminated by UV or blue light, respectively, enzymat...
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PMID: 20080559
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We will learn much from the study of epigentics --factors that can affect the phenotype of an organism without changing the genetic information--. He is proud that, in that studying restriction degradation and DNA methylation in the 1960s, he was among the first in studying epigenetic phenomenon....
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PMID: 20220745
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Stable integration of cloned gene products into the Xenopus genome is necessary to control the time and place of expression, to express genes at later stages of embryonic development, and to define how enhancers and promoters regulate gene expression within the embryo. The protocol demonstrated here...
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PMID: 20811326
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Screening of plasmid DNA was carried out among 94 streptomycetes cultures which were isolated from the samples of Ukrainian soils with different anthropogenic contamination. Seventeen streptomycetes strains containing plasmid DNA were found. It is established that some cultures contain more than one...
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PMID: 21117293
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