The ability to detect and monitor single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in biological samples is an enabling research and clinical tool. We have developed a surprising, inexpensive primer design method that provides exquisite discrimination between SNPs. The field of DNA computation is largely reliant on using so-called toeholds to initiate strand displacement reactions, leading to the executi...

shigella species are among the common causes of bacterial diarrhoeal diseases. traditional detection methods are time-consuming resulting in delay in treatment and control of shigella infections thus there is a need to develop molecular methods for rapid and simultaneous detection of shigella spp. in this study a rapid multiplex pcr were developed for simultaneous detection of three pathogenic ...

plasma membrane h+-atpase is a major integral membrane protein with a role in various physiological processes including abiotic stress response. to study the effect of nacl on the expression pattern of a gene encoding the plasma membrane h+-atpase, an experiment was carried out in a completely random design with three replications. a pair of specific primers was designed based on the sequence o...

A novel human leukocyte antigen-B (HLA-B) allele, B*420502, was identified in a patient with leukemia (Caucasoid, Czech ancestry) and his mother during intrafamily search for the hematopoietic stem cell donor. The novel allele was initially detected by HLA typing at low resolution using both sequence specific primers and sequence specific oligonucleotides techniques that resulted in unique reac...

Objective(s): The population in Iran is a genetic admixture of the ancestral Aryan and other populations neighboring Iran. Different ethnic groups in Iran show wide regional distributions for many human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. Therefore, it is necessary and sensible to study the differences in HLA allele distribution in different area. We studied the HLA class I and II allele frequenci...

The pituitary-specific transcription factor (PIT1) gene is responsible for pituitary development and hormone secreting gene expression in mammals. PIT-1 is studied as a candidate genetic marker for growth, carcass and also for milk yield traits. In dairy farm animals, the principal goal of the selection is the improvement of milk yield and composition. The genes of milk proteins and hormones ar...

The diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 gene (DGAT1) was identified as a strong candidate gene affecting mutton quality traits in sheep. Single nucleotide polymorphism creates a single base mutation (C to T) in AGCT site of endonuclease AluI. DGAT1 is one of the candidate genes to improve carcass characteristics in feedlot animals. In order to study area T487C in exon 17 of the DGAT1 polymorphism,...

Members of the genera Desulfuromonas and Dehalococcoides reductively dechlorinate tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene. Two primer pairs specific to hypervariable regions of the 16S rRNA genes of the Dehalococcoides group (comprising Dehalococcoides ethenogenes and Dehalococcoides sp. strain FL2) and the acetate-oxidizing, PCE-dechlorinating Desulfuromonas group (comprising Desulfuromona...