Nanopore sequencing has the potential to become a fast and low-cost DNA sequencing platform. An ionic current passing through a small pore would directly map the sequence of single stranded DNA (ssDNA) driven through the constriction. The pore protein, MspA, derived from Mycobacterium smegmatis, has a short and narrow channel constriction ideally suited for nanopore sequencing. To study MspA's ...

Single-stranded viral DNA of bacteriophage f1 is cleaved into specific fragments by endo R-HaeIII, a restriction endonuclease isolated from Hemophilus aegyptius. The sites of the single strand cleavage correspond to those of the double strand cleavage. A single-stranded DNA fragment containing only one HaeIII site is also cleaved by this enzyme. This observation suggests that the reaction of si...

Insertion of bacterial insertion sequence IS911 can often be directed to sequences resembling its ends. We have investigated this type of transposition and shown that it can occur via cleavage of a single end and its targeted transfer next to another end. The single end transfer (SET) events generate branched DNA molecules that contain a nicked Holliday junction and can be considered as partial...

A rapid 5'-labeling method of single-stranded DNA/RNA was developed, which is based on the utilization of an adenylated intermediate in the reaction of T4 RNA ligase. This method is commonly useful for fluorescence-, isotope- or biotin-labeling of the 5'-ends of both oligo- and polynucleotides.

An improved method is described for the efficient production of M13 phage and M13 single-stranded (ss)DNA in a relatively short time period. Infection of E. coli (F') cells with as few as 5 phage particles can yield 10(12) phage particles/mL in 3 hours if the cells are grown in LB broth or SOB broth supplemented with about 5 mM Mg2+. The method tolerates large variations in the initial multipli...

The preference of murine DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase (Dnmt1) for single stranded DNA substrates is increased up to 50-fold by the presence of a proximal 5-methyl cytosine (5(me)C). This modulation is distance-dependent and is due to an enhanced binding affinity and minor changes in catalytic efficiency. No modulation was observed with double stranded DNA. Modulation requires that the 5(m...

The design of two single-input single-output (SISO) controllers for induction motors based on adaptive passivity is presented in this paper. The two controllers work together with a field orientation block. Because of the adaptive nature of the proposed controllers, the knowledge of the set motor-load parameters is not needed and robustness under variations of such parameters is guaranteed. Sim...