Selective amplification

The method of PCR allows selective amplification from a complex genome by enzymatic amplification in vitro. The double-stranded genomic DNA template is denatured by heating, and the temperature is then decreased to allow oligonucleotide primers to hybridize (anneal) to their complementary sequences on opposite strands of the template. The... 

The lower part of Fig. 6.5 shows the electric signal obtained with the aid of the described method. An exact differentation of the upper curve is obtained by the selective amplification of the fundamental frequency of the modulation. In fact, at the inflexion point of the upper curve, a sinusoidal variation of the azimuth causes a practically sinusoidal variation of intensity. At any other place, the variation of the intensity can only be described by a Fourier series with the same basic frequency. The higher frequencies are not detected electronically. The amplitude ratio AIJA

absolute value of the curve. This is the reason, why sharp edges are observed in the lower curve at the extinction positions. This forms a welcome increase of the accuracy of the determination. The advantages of this method clearly follow from Fig. 6.514. 

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Kirhbright, G. F., A. M. Smith, and T. S. West A Selective Amplification-Titration Procedure for the Determination of Microgram Amounts of Phosphate. Analyst 93, 224 (1968). 

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Libert F, Parmentier M, Lefort A, et al. Selective amplification and cloning of four new members of the G protein-coupled receptor family. Science 1989 244 569-572. 

By growing cells in the presence of increasing concentrations of aminopterin a number of resistant cells lines have been isolated (Hakala and Ishihara, 1962 Littlefield, 1969). These have been characterised as having either an altered permeability to the drug or an altered folate reductase or an increased rate of synthesis and hence increased amounts of the enzyme (Alt et al., 1976), resulting, at least in part, from a selective amplification of the dihydrofolate reductase gene (Alt et al., 1978 Schimke et al., 1988). The problem is considered in more detail in 11.8.1. The importance of the antifolates lies in their role in the HAT selection technique ( 13.5) devised by Szybalski (1962) (see also Szybalski et al., 1962 and Littlefield, 1964) for the isolation of hybrids between mutant cells defective on the one hand in thymidine kinase and on the other hand... 

Finally, it may also be possible to extract useful data from the number and variety of consensus sequences found by iterative selection/amplification methods. The change in these data as mutation rates are changed may be particularly useful, though the relevant mathematics has not been developed. 

Genetic algorithm approaches Genetic algorithms (GAs) are a computer search technique very similar in approach to laboratory selection/amplification methods such as... 

Fig. 2.6. Evolutionary design of biopolymers in selection cycles. Properties of biomolecules, for example binding to a target or catalytic function, are optimized iteratively through selection cycles. Each cycle consists of three phases (i) amplification, (ii) diversification by replication with problem adjusted error rates (or random synthesis), and (iii) selection. Amplification and di-...

Fig. 7 (a) Selection-amplification of porphyrin tetrameric boxes using olefin metathesis, (b) Structure of dynamers formed via reversible Diels-Alder reaction, (c) Generation of a DCL of (R) and (S) nitroaldols from five differently substituted benzaldehydes... 

Figure 10.14 Screening of the cyclic phage libraries L4 and L5 for PDZ domains (PDZ) syntrophin binding the selection/amplification process and the structures of the best birders 10.5 10.7.

Figure 10.16 Screening of the constrained phage library L7 for FN3 fibronectin binding the selection/amplification process and the structure of the best binder 10.8.

Figure 10.20 Screening of the mAh 17Ell-biased antibody phage library L9 to find optimized catalytic antibodies for the transition state analogne/selection substrate 10.13 the selection/amplification process.

Figure 10.22 Screening of the frog cDNA phage-expressed library Lll to find macromolecu-lar binding partners for SH3 protein domains the selection/amplification process using the biotinylated selection substrate 10.18.

Figure 10.23 Screening of the phage display libraries L12 and L13 to find macromolecular binding partners for intersection the selection/amplification process and the structuie of selected binding sequences 10.19-10.21 for the EH domains of intersectin.

The in vitro selection/amplification strategy has also been applied to modified ONs, especially where the 2 -ribose position has been changed and where phosphorothioates or other phosphate replacements have been used (Fig. 10.25, top). Several strucmres of modified ON chains that have been synthetically produced to obtain constrained sequences or sequences with higher stability to nucleases have also been reported (Fig. 10.25, bottom). Examples of biosynthetic modified ON libraries are covered in the next section. 

Figure 10.27 Screening of the biosynthetic ON libraries L16 and L17 for aptamers binding to chloramphenicol 10.24 the selection/amplification process using the supported selection...

Figure 10.28 Screening of the biosynthetic ON library L18 for aptamers binding to the transcription factor NF-kB the selection/amplification process and the structures of the most active aptamers 10.29 and 10.30.

Figure 10.30 Evolution of a natural, RNA-cleaving ribozyme into a DNA-cleaving enzyme the selection/amplification process using the selection/amplification substrate 10.34.

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