Homopyrimidine oligodeoxyribonucleotides with EDTA-Fe attached at a single position bind the corresponding homopyrimidine-homopurine tracts within large double-stranded DNA by triple helix formation and cleave at that site. Oligonucleotides with EDTA.Fe at the 5' end cause a sequence specific double strand break. The location and asymmetry of the cleavage pattern reveal that the homopyrimidine-...

The demand for forensic DNA profiling at the crime scene or police stations is increasing. currently performed in specialized laboratories by PCR amplification of Short Tandem Repeats (STR) followed amplicon sizing using capillary electrophoresis. need bulky equipment to identify alleles after presents a challenge shifting decentralized workflow. We devised novel hybridization-based STR-genotyp...

DNA-stabilized fluorescent silver nanoclusters (AgNC DNA) are a new class of fluorophore that are formed by sequence specific interactions between silver and single-stranded DNA. By incorporating both target-binding and fluorescent-reporting sequences into a single synthetic DNA oligomer, AgNC DNA probes eliminate the need to conjugate dye or quencher molecules. In this study, we modify a AgNC ...

DNA microarrays provide an efficient means of identifying single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA samples and characterizing their frequencies in individual and mixed samples. We have studied the parameters that determine the sensitivity of DNA probes to SNPs and found that the melting temperature (T (m)) of the probe is the primary determinant of probe sensitivity. An isothermal-melting ...

We report a novel procedure, which can be applied to probing of specific DNA, for covalently attaching probe DNA to complementary sequences in double-stranded target DNA. Employing hairpin-like oligonucleotide probes in combination with successive use of recA protein and DNA ligase, probes can be attached directly to target DNA molecules without dissociation of the DNA. The hairpin-like structu...

In many cells, the process of apoptosis is accompanied by endonuclease-mediated double-strand cleavage of DNA between nucleosomes, resulting in the production of discrete fragments of 200 bp or multiples thereof. To address the question of whether this endonuclease attack occurs randomly or nonrandomly along chromosomes, we first constructed chromosome fluorescence in situ hybridization probes ...

Two different DNA fragments, one of 2.9 kilobases and the other of 5.1 kilobases, were cloned from Phytophthora citrophthora and showed no homology with DNA from plants and other related fungi. These DNA probes hybridized with DNA from 12 different P. citrophthora isolates obtained from a variety of hosts but did not hybridize with DNA from 6 P. citrophthora isolates obtained from cacao. Southe...

FISH probes are generally made out of BAC clones with genomic DNA containing a variable amount of repetitive DNA that will need to be removed or blocked for FISH analysis. To generate repeat free (RF) Probes without loss in genomic coverage, a random library is made from BAC clones by whole-genome amplification (WGA). Libraries are denatured in the presence of excess C(0)t-1 DNA and allowed to ...