Design and calibration of a semi-synthetic DNA phasing assay
AUTOR(ES)
Hardwidge, Philip R.
FONTE
Oxford University Press
RESUMO
Electrophoretic assays of intrinsic DNA shape and shape changes induced by ligand binding are extremely useful because of their convenience and simplicity. The development of calibrations and empirical quantitative relationships permits highly accurate measurement of DNA shape using electrophoresis. Many conventional analyses employ the unidirectional ligation of short DNA duplexes. However, many oligonucleotides (typically more than 20) must often be synthesized for a single experiment. Additionally, the length of the DNA duplex can become limiting, preventing the analysis of certain DNA sequences. We now describe a semi-synthetic electrophoretic phasing method that offers several advantages, including a reduced number of required synthetic oligonucleotides, the ability to analyze longer DNA duplexes and a simplified approach for data analysis. We characterize semi-synthetic DNA probes in electrophoretic phasing assays by ligation of synthetic duplexes containing A5 tracts between two longer restriction fragments. Upon electrophoresis, the gel mobility is strongly correlated with the predicted DNA curvature provided by the reference A5 tracts. Having obtained this calibration, we show that the semi-synthetic phasing assay can be readily and economically applied to analyze DNA curvature induced by DNA charge modifications and DNA bending due to peptide binding.
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