Here we report a reduced graphene oxide-assisted rolling circle amplification for the detection of miRNA SNPs. The difference of the signal of a miRNA SNP reaches 100 fold, a value over 10 times larger than some current methodologies, which allows the discrimination of a SNP even with the naked eye.

Two complete genomes of starling circovirus (StCV) were recovered from Amphibola crenata, an estuarine New Zealand mollusc. This is the first report of StCV outside Europe. The viral genomes were recovered from rolling circle-amplified enriched circular DNA followed by back-to-back primers and specific primer PCR amplification.

All known polyomaviruses are associated with mammals or birds. Using virion enrichment, random-primed rolling circle amplification, and deep sequencing, we identified a polyomavirus associated with black sea bass (Centropristis striata). The virus has a variety of novel genetic features, suggesting a long evolutionary separation from polyomaviruses of terrestrial animals.

The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) aptasensors combined with rolling circle amplification and bio-bar-coded AuNP enhancement have been applied to detect the human α-thrombin for the first time. The assay platform exhibited excellent selectivity and sensitivity with detection limit as low as 0.78 aM.

Saint Louis polyomavirus (STLPyV) was recently discovered in human feces. Using random-primed rolling circle amplification combined with deep sequencing, we have found a divergent variant of STLPyV in a sanitized human skin wart specimen. The result strongly suggests that STLPyV directly infects humans and is not simply a dietary contaminant.

A novel mating-type switching-defective mutant showed a highly unstable rearrangement at the mating-type locus (mat1) in fission yeast. The mutation resulted from local amplification of a 134-bp DNA fragment by the mat1-switching phenomenon. We speculate that the rolling-circle-like replication and homologous recombination might be the general mechanisms for local genome region expansion.

A novel fluorescence detection system was developed for DNA methyltransferase (MTase) activity assay based on a target-protected dumbbell molecular probe mediated cascade rolling circle amplification. It showed excellent specificity and sensitivity with a detection limit of 0.0024 U mL(-1), and potential application in quantitatively monitoring MTase activity and screening of anticancer drugs.

Henriksson, S. 2010. Application of Padlock Probe Based Nucleic Acid Analysis In Situ. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 575. 41 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-7842-1. The great variation displayed by nucleic acid molecules in human cells, and the continuous discovery of their impact on life, consequently require ...

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomers can be employed as site-specifi c openers of the DNA double helix to locally expose a designated marker sequence inside duplex DNA. The opened DNA site is then hybridized to a circularizable oligonucleotide probe, which is subsequently closed by DNA ligase. This way, the marker sequence from the DNA duplex of interest can be isothermally amplifi ed by a vari...