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Polymerase chain reaction

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Bart Deplancke, David Hacker, Bastien Mangeat, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Julie Marie Russeil, Daniel Alpern, Antonio Carlos Alves Meireles Filho

Despite its widespread use, RNA-seq is still too laborious and expensive to replace RT-qPCR as the default gene expression analysis method. We present a novel approach, BRB-seq, which uses early multiplexing to produce 3 cDNA libraries for dozens of sample ...

2019

Differences in viral disinfection mechanisms as revealed by quantitative transfection of Echovirus 11 genomes

Urs von Gunten, Tamar Kohn, Jason Robert Torrey

Virus inactivation mechanisms can be elucidated by methods which measure the loss of specific virus functionality (e.g., host attachment, genome internalization, genome replication). Genome functionality is frequently assessed by PCR-based methods, which a ...

2019

Detection of mRNA by Whole Mount in situ Hybridization and DNA Extraction for Genotyping of Zebrafish Embryos

Andrew Charles Oates, Rachna Narayanan

In situ hybridization is used to visualize the spatial distribution of gene transcripts in tissues and in embryos, providing important information about disease and development. Current methods involve the use of complementary riboprobes incorporating non- ...

BIO-PROTOCOL2019

Thiol-to-amine cyclization reaction enables screening of large libraries of macrocyclic compounds and the generation of sub-kilodalton ligands

Gerardo Turcatti, Julien Bortoli Chapalay, Xudong Kong, Van Manh Pham, Patrick Andreas Gonschorek, Sangram Shivdas Kale, Milan Bergeron-Brlek, João Miguel Franco Machado

Macrocyclic compounds are an attractive modality for drug development, but the limited availability of large, structurally diverse macrocyclic libraries hampers the discovery of leads. Here, we describe the discovery of efficient macrocyclization reactions ...

2019

Evaluation of Auramine O staining and conventional PCR for leprosy diagnosis: A comparative cross-sectional study from Ethiopia

Stewart Cole, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso

Background Diagnosis of leprosy mainly relies on clinical examination due to the inconsistent sensitivity and poor reproducibility of the current laboratory tests. Utilisation of alternative methods to the standard Ziehl Neelsen (ZN), Fite-Faraco (FF) and ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2018

Simultaneous preservation of the DNA quality, the community composition and the density of freshwater oligochaetes for the development of genetically based biological indices

Régis Lionel Vivien

Introduction. Oligochaetes are recognized as valuable bioindicators of sediment quality in streams and lakes. The development of an oligochaete index based on the identification of specimens using DNA barcodes requires a method for simultaneously preservin ...

2018

Isothermal multiple displacement amplification of DNA templates in minimally buffered conditions using phi29 polymerase

Carlotta Guiducci, Enrico Tenaglia

The isothermal amplification of DNA in minimally buffered conditions allows to perform and monitor nucleic acid amplification with minimal technological and operative requirements. We show in this work how phi29 can operate multiple displacement amplificat ...

2018

microRNA biosensors: Opportunities and challenges among conventional and commercially available techniques

Sandro Carrara, Tugba Kilic

As being the most extensively studied, non-coding, evolutionary conserved, post-transcriptional gene regulators of genome, microRNAs (miRNAs) have taken great attention among various disciplines due to their important roles in biological processes and link ...

2018

Properties of LINE-1 proteins and repeat element expression in the context of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert

BackgroundAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease involving loss of motor neurons and having no known cure and uncertain etiology. Several studies have drawn connections between altered retrotransposon expression and ALS. C ...

2018

The cold denaturation of IscU highlights structure–function dualism in marginally stable proteins

Paolo De Los Rios

Proteins undergo both cold and heat denaturation, but often cold denaturation cannot be detected because it occurs at temperatures below water freezing. Proteins undergoing detectable cold as well as heat denaturation yield a reliable curve of protein stab ...

2018

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