荧光标记复合PCR扩增微卫星位点的构建与优化

本研究采用毛细管电泳技术,构建并优化了荧光标记复合PCR同时扩增多个微卫星位点。主要过程为：首先根据设计所扩增微卫星位点的期望长度,将9个微卫星位点分成两组,5个位点用FAM（蓝色）标记,4个位点用HEX（绿色）标记;两种荧光类型分组优化,用琼脂糖胶电泳检测。其次,荧光标记的复合PCR扩增8个中华绒螯蟹样品的9个微卫星位点,采用ABI3730xl毛细管电泳检测,以ROX500（红色）为长度标准物,结果经Genemapper3.5软件 分析,检测结果表明毛细管电泳检测荧光标记复合PCR产物不仅精确读取微卫星位点的长度（分辨率高达1bp）,还能区分微卫星位点复制时滑链所引起的“回声斑”;调整各微卫星位点引物比列使所有位点扩增强弱均匀。最后,逐一检测复合PCR基本参数（dNTP浓度、 PCR程序和模版DNA用量）对复合PCR产物的影响,优化PCR。结果表明通过毛细管电泳检测荧光标记复合PCR产物来读取微卫星位点的基因型具有精确性、高效性和稳定性。     

TP-M13自动荧光检测法在高粱SSR基因型鉴定中的应用

研究利用TP-M13自动荧光检测法对48份高粱材料进行了简单序列重复(SSR)标记的基因型鉴定.在这个方法中,需要合成一个普适性的用荧光(如FAM)标记的M13引物,并把M13的正向引物和一个SSR反向引物相连(称为TP-M13引物),利用3条引物序列进行PCR扩增,其PCR产物在DNA测序仪(如ABI3700仪)上进行自动荧光检测.结果表明,这种方法和其他的传统方法相比,具有经济、灵敏、高效的优点.建议在利用数量很多的SSR标记对数量有限的基因组较小的材料进行基因型鉴定时,使用TP-M13自动荧光检测系统.     

基于枇杷转录组序列的SSR分子标记引物开发

为获得更多的枇杷SSR引物,对枇杷转录组测序得到的1 kb以上的11 798条Unigenes进行SSR位点搜索。结果在3515 条Unigenes（6.77%）中共获得4438个SSR位点,其中主要重复类型为双碱基重复和三碱基重复,二者占SSR总数的68.27%,而四、五、六碱基重复类型较少,仅占1.42%。对选出的SSR标记采用Primer3进行引物设计,得到7911 对SSR位点特异引物,可用于枇杷遗传多样性分析、分子标记辅助育种、育种群体的建立等研究。     

中华绒螯蟹两种微卫星DNA分型方法的应用比较

为对比荧光标记毛细管电泳和聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳在微卫星等位基因分型上的效果,试验选择6对微卫星引物,对60个中华绒螯蟹个体基因组DNA进行PCR扩增,荧光标记法共检测出等位基因129个,平均每个位点21.5个等位变异,聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳共检测出等位基因174个,平均每个位点29个等位变异。对位点Esin67的PCR产物分别进行重复检测,发现荧光标记法的重复率为100%,而聚丙烯酰胺凝电泳法两次结果存在较大差异,证实了荧光标记法检测的可靠性显著高于聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳。对两种方法的检测效率和经济成本的分析表明,荧光标记法虽然成本较高,但效率高于聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳法。建立单重PCR的多重毛细管电泳技术是提高效率、降低成本的有效途径。     

粳稻糙米钙含量QTL分析

以'十和田'为轮回亲本,'丽粳2号'为供体,培育出糙米钙含量近等基因系下的重组近交系261个BC_5F_6株系,采用BSA法从遍布水稻12条染色体上的600对SSR引物中筛选到1个与糙米钙含量有关联的SSR标记RM5536.进一步据其在水稻染色体上的位置,结合PCR找到了与糙米钙含量有关的3个SSR标记(RM5794、RM5362和RM12178).用MAPMAKER/EXP3.0软件做出了这4个标记的连锁群,最后采用混合线性模型找到了糙米钙含量QTL位点.QTL分析结果显示:该位点位于1号染色体引物RM12178和RM5362之间,贡献率为9.62%,为新发现的糙米钙含量QTL位点,暂命名为qBRCA-1.并发现与糙米锶含量有关的QTL位点,其位于标记RM5362和RM5794之间,贡献率为3.93%.同时本试验首次从分子水平上验证了偏相关比简单相关更准确解释元素间的相关性.     

大白菜高通量SSR标记鉴定体系的建立和应用

大白菜是重要的蔬菜作物,准确鉴定大白菜品种对于大白菜种质资源管理、新品种测试、种子质量检测等具有重要意义。本研究从已定位到大白菜10个连锁群的205个SSR标记中,筛选出30个在连锁群上分布均匀、PCR扩增稳定、带型简单的标记,用于大白菜品种DNA指纹鉴定。对入选的引物用4种荧光染料进行了标记,利用基于毛细管电泳荧光检测的DNA分析仪对SSR扩增产物进行检测。通过比较分析2种不同型号的3台DNA分析仪的扩增片段检测数据,明确了不同DNA分析仪的检测数据间一般存在明显的系统误差。系统误差的大小取决于引物,一般在1~4 bp之间。使用扩增产物的片段长度对各SSR位点的不同等位变异进行命名。通过使用一组参照品种,消除了不同批次、不同DNA分析仪型号间的系统误差,保证了检测数据的可重复性和可再现性。在此基础上,对184份大白菜品种进行了DNA分子数据采集。     

伯乐树转录组SSR分布特征及其引物开发

基于伯乐树(Bretschneidera sinensis Hemsl.)转录组测序数据,采用生物信息学方法分析该物种转录组中SSR位点的分布特征,利用TP-M13-SSR(Simple sequence repeat with tailed primer M13)方法检测12株无亲缘关系样本SSR引物位点的多态性.结...     

西花蓟马EST-SSR信息分析、标记筛选及其与Genomic-SSR的多态性比较

西花蓟马Frankliniella occidentalis是一种世界性入侵昆虫, 近年来传入我国并不断扩散蔓延。基于简单重复序列（simple sequence repeats, SSRs）的西花蓟马种群遗传结构研究对于揭示其传播途径等具有重要的指导价值。本研究对来源于西花蓟马的13 839条EST序列进行了uni-EST组装、 EST-SSR信息分析以及标记筛选, 并比较了EST-SSR与Genomic-SSR在分析遗传多样性方面的差异。结果表明： 在7 707个singlets中共找到2 623个SSR位点, 分布于1 930个uni-EST中, 平均每2.21 kb就出现一个SSR位点。重复单元中, 以单碱基重复单元为主（83.00%）, 其次是四碱基重复单元（11.17%）, 而二、 三、 五和六碱基重复单元所占比例较低（分别为1.41%, 0.80%, 2.02%和0.91%）。设计出的22对EST-SSR引物中, 4对引物能稳定扩增出清晰的目的条带; 荧光标记毛细管电泳发现3对引物表现出多态性。西花蓟马EST-SSR与Genomic-SSR多态性分析表明, 这3对多态性EST-SSR引物揭示的多态信息含量（PIC）为0.48~0.69, 比5对多态性Genomic-SSR引物揭示的PIC（0.88~0.92）略低。本研究结果可为今后更深入开展西花蓟马的种群遗传结构分析提供帮助。     

Characterization and molecular marker screening of EST-SSRs and their polymorphism compared with Genomic-SSRs in Frankliniella occidentalis ( Thysanoptera: Thripidae)

西花蓟马Frankliniella occidentalis是一种世界性入侵昆虫,近年来传入我国并不断扩散蔓延.基于简单重复序列(simple sequence repeats,SSRs)的西花蓟马种群遗传结构研究对于揭示其传播途径等具有重要的指导价值.本研究对来源于西花蓟马的13839条EST序列进行了uni-EST组装、EST-SSR信息分析以及标记筛选,并比较了EST-SSR与Genomic-SSR在分析遗传多样性方面的差异.结果表明:在7707个singlets中共找到2623个SSR位点,分布于1 930个uni-EST中,平均每2.21 kb就出现一个SSR位点.重复单元中,以单碱基重复单元为主(83.00％),其次是四碱基重复单元(11.17％),而二、三、五和六碱基重复单元所占比例较低(分别为1.41％,0.80％,2.02％和0.91％).设计出的22对EST-SSR引物中,4对引物能稳定扩增出清晰的目的条带;荧光标记毛细管电泳发现3对引物表现出多态性.西花蓟马EST-SSR与Genomic-SSR多态性分析表明,这3对多态性EST-SSR引物揭示的多态信息含量(PIC)为0.48 ～0.69,比5对多态性Genomic-SSR引物揭示的PIC(0.88 ～0.92)略低.本研究结果可为今后更深入开展西花蓟马的种群遗传结构分析提供帮助.     

编码区和非编码区SSR标记对水稻类群的比较研究

设计14对水稻编码区SSR引物和选取已公布的非编码区SSR引物12对、编码区SSR引物3对,采用SSR技术,对29个标记在60个水稻材料中的多态性进行分析。结果表明,编码区SSR标记平均检测到3.59个多态性位点,多态信息量PIC(polymorphism information conten)在0.032～P0.853之间,平均值为0.447;非编码区SSR标记平均检测到3.92个多态性位点,PIC在0.063～P0.795之间,平均值为0.521。聚类分析显示,非编码区SSR标记能更加精确地区分来自不同地区的水稻类群,编码区SSR标记也具有良好的多态性,同样可以用于分析水稻的亲缘关系。     

Universal fluorescent labeling (UFL) method for automated microsatellite analysis.

We have devised a novel method for automated microsatellite analysis using "universal" fluorescent labeling. This system is based on polymerase chain reactions driven by sequence-specific primers and a reporter primer labeled with a fluorescent dye at its 5' end. The forward sequence-specific primer is designed with a tag region bearing no homology to any human genomic sequence. Complementary tag sequences act as templates for the 6-carboxyfluorescein-labeled reporter primer, and those products can be analyzed with an autosequencer. The results we achieved with this assay system were consistent with the results of conventional assays using radioisotope-labeled primers, and diagnosis required less time. Furthermore, the fluorescent-labeled reporter primer is "universal" in that it can be used with different sequence-specific primers designed to carry the appropriate tag sequence at their 5'-ends. Our observations suggest that the "universal" fluorescent labeling method is an efficient tool for analyzing sequence variations in human DNA.     

Plant microsatellite genotyping with 4-color fluorescent detection using multiple-tailed primers

We extended the concept of fluorescent microsatellite genotyping with a single-universal tailed primer to the simultaneous use of three different tailed primers to allow multiplexed 4-color detection for medium throughput genotyping of plant species. The method was tested on Eucalyptus DNA samples using three forward primer sequences of human microsatellite markers labeled with different fluorescent dyes. The robustness of the method was tested for the simultaneous detection and genetic analysis of microsatellites in a genetic mapping experiment. This method allows reliable and cost-effective genotyping with the same level of multiplexing attained in regular microsatellite fluorescent detection assays. Besides the enhanced quality of the genotypic data provided by the fluorescent detection method when compared to colorimetric ones, the economy brought about by this method becomes greater with an increasing number of microsatellite markers. This method has been particularly useful for genotyping populations of several tropical tree species addressing community-wide population genetics and conservation questions.     

Universal primers for fluorescent labelling of PCR fragments--an efficient and cost-effective approach to genotyping by fluorescence

Directly labelling locus‐specific primers for microsatellite analysis is expensive and a common limitation to small‐budget molecular ecology projects. More cost‐effective end‐labelling of PCR products can be achieved through a three primer PCR approach, involving a fluorescently labelled universal primer in combination with modified locus‐specific primers with 5′ universal primer sequence tails. This technique has been widely used but has been limited largely due to a lack of available universal primers suitable for co‐amplifying large numbers of size overlapping loci and without requiring locus‐specific PCR conditions to be modified. In this study, we report a suite of four high‐performance universal primers that can be employed in a three primer PCR approach for efficient and cost‐effective fluorescent end‐labelling of PCR fragments. Amplification efficiency is maximized owing to high universal primer Tm values (approximately 60+ °C) that enhance primer versatility and enable higher annealing temperatures to be employed compared with commonly used universal primers such as M13. We demonstrate that these universal primers can be combined with multiple fluorophores to co‐amplify multiple loci efficiently via multiplex PCR. This method provides a level of multiplexing and PCR efficiency similar to microsatellite fluorescent detection assays using directly labelled primers while dramatically reducing project costs. Primer performance is tested using several alternative PCR strategies that involve both single and multiple fluorophores in single and multiplex PCR across a wide range of taxa.     

Cassette labeling for facile construction of energy transfer fluorescent primers.

DNA primer sets, labeled with two fluorescent dyes to exploit fluorescence energy transfer (ET), can be efficiently excited with a single laser line and emit strong fluorescence at distinctive wavelengths. Such ET primers are superior to single fluorophore-labeled primers for DNA sequencing and other multiple color-based analyses [J. Ju, C. Ruan, C. W. Fuller, A. N. Glazer and R. A. Mathies (1995) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 4347-4351]. We describe here a novel method of constructing fluorescent primers using a universal ET cassette that can be incorporated by conventional synthesis at the 5'-end of an oligonucleotide primer of any sequence. In this cassette, the donor and acceptor fluorophores are separated by a polymer spacer (S6) formed by six 1',2'-dideoxyribose phosphate monomers (S). The donor is attached to the 5' side of the ribose spacer and the acceptor to a modified thymidine attached to the 3' end of the ribose spacer in the ET cassette. The resulting primers, labeled with 6-carboxy-fluorescein as the donor and other fluorescein and rhodamine dyes as acceptors, display well-separated acceptor emission spectra with 2-12-fold enhanced fluorescence intensity relative to that of the corresponding single dye-labeled primers. With single- stranded M13mp18DNA as the template, a typical run with these ET primers on a capillary sequencer provides DNA sequences with 99% accuracy in the first 550 bases using the same amount of DNA template as that typically required using a four-color slab gel automated sequencer.     

Energy transfer cassettes for facile labeling of sequencing and PCR primers

Fluorescence energy transfer (ET) primers and terminators are the reagents of choice for multiplex DNA sequencing and analysis. We present here the design, synthesis and evaluation of a four-color set of ET cassettes, fluorescent labeling reagents that can be quantitatively coupled to a thiol-activated target through a disulfide exchange reaction. The ET cassette consists of a sugar-phosphate spacer with a FAM donor at the 3'-end, an acceptor linked to a modified T-base at the 5'-end of the spacer and a mixed disulfide for coupling to a thiol at the 5'-end. The acceptor dye emission intensities of ET labeled primers produced in this manner are comparable to commercial ET primers. The utility of our ET cassette-labeled primers is demonstrated by performing four-color capillary electrophoresis sequencing with the M13(-21)forward primer and by generating and analyzing a set of single-nucleotide-polymorphism-specific PCR amplicons.     

Reverse random amplified microsatellite polymorphism reveals enhanced polymorphisms in the 3' end of simple sequence repeats in the pepper genome

Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSR) are widely distributed in eukaryotic genomes and are informative genetic markers. Despite many advantages of SSR markers such as a high degree of allelic polymorphisms, co-dominant inheritance, multi-allelism, and genome-wide coverage in various plant species, they also have shortcomings such as low polymorphic rates between genetically close lines, especially in Capsicum annuum. We developed an alternative technique to SSR by normalizing and alternating anchored primers in random amplified microsatellite polymorphisms (RAMP). This technique, designated reverse random amplified microsatellite polymorphism (rRAMP), allows the detection of nucleotide variation in the 3' region flanking an SSR using normalized anchored and random primer combinations. The reproducibility and frequency of polymorphic loci in rRAMP was vigorously enhanced by translocation of the 5' anchor of repeat sequences to the 3' end position and selective use of moderate arbitrary primers. In our study, the PCR banding pattern of rRAMP was highly dependent on the frequency of repeat motifs and primer combinations with random primers. Linkage analysis showed that rRAMP markers were well scattered on an intra-specific pepper map. Based on these results, we suggest that this technique is useful for studying genetic diversity, molecular fingerprinting, and rapidly constructing molecular maps for diverse plant species.     

A versatile fluorescence-based multiplexing assay for CAPS genotyping on capillary electrophoresis systems

Recent advances in next-generation sequencing techniques and the development of genomics resources for crop plants with large genomes allow the detection of a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their use in a high-throughput manner. However, such large numbers of SNPs are on the one hand not needed in some plant breeding projects and on the other hand not affordable in some cases, raising the need for fast and low-cost innovative techniques for marker detection. In marker selection in plant breeding programs, cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) markers still play a significant role as a complement to other high-throughput methods for SNP genotyping. New methods focusing on the acceleration of CAPS-based genotyping are therefore highly desirable. The combination of the classical CAPS method and a M13-tailed primer multiplexing assay was used to develop an agarose-gel-free protocol for the analysis of SNPs via restriction enzyme digestion. PCR products were fluorescence-labeled with a universal M13 primer and subsequently digested with the appropriate restriction endonuclease. After mixing differently labeled products, they were detected in a capillary electrophoresis system. This method allowed the cost-effective genotyping of several SNPs in barley in a multiplexed manner at an overall low cost in a short period of time. This new method was efficiently combined with the simultaneous detection of simple sequence repeats in the same electrophoresis run, resulting in a procedure well suited for marker-based selection procedures, genotyping of mapping populations and the assay of genetic diversity.     

Energy-transfer cassette labeling for capillary array electrophoresis short tandem repeat DNA fragment sizing.

Energy-transfer (ET) dye-labeled primers significantly improve fluorescent DNA detection because they permit excitation at a single common wavelength and they produce well separated and intense acceptor dye emission. Recently, a new ET cassette technology was developed [Berti, L. et al. (2001) Anal. Biochem. 292, 188-197] that can be used to label any PCR, sequencing, or other primer of interest. In this report we examine the utility of this ET cassette technology by labeling seven different short tandem repeat (STR) specific primers with each of the four ET cassettes and analyzing the PCR products generated on a MegaBACE-1000 capillary array electrophoresis system. More than 60 amplicons were generated and successfully analyzed with the ET cassette-labeled primers. Both forward and reverse primers were labeled for multiplex PCR amplification and analysis. Single base pair resolution was achieved with all four ET cassettes. This ET cassette-primer labeling procedure is ideally suited for creating four-color fluorescent ET primers for STR and other DNA assays where large numbers of different loci are analyzed including sequencing, genetic identification, gene mapping, loss of heterozygosity testing, and linkage analysis.     

勒氏笛鲷微卫星位点的筛选及特征分析

采用PCR法快速筛选勒氏笛鲷(Lutjanus russelli)基因组文库, 以获得(CA)_n微卫星位点。勒氏笛鲷基因组DNA经限制性内切酶HaeⅢ+ DraⅠ双酶切后, 连接T-载体克隆, 构建基因组文库。以通用引物M13+/-与重复序列引物(CA)15对基因组文库进行筛选, 二次筛选后得到121个可能含有微卫星位点的阳性克隆。进行序列测定, 共获得53个CA(n≥7)重复序列, 重复次数主要分布于7~15(80.77%)。在所得微卫星序列中, 重复单元除CA外, 还观察到单碱基、三碱基、四碱基、五碱基重复单元。根据侧翼序列设计48对引物, 通过优化PCR反应条件, 可获得清晰可重复的目的条带。研究旨在为勒氏笛鲷遗传多样性研究及遗传图谱的构建等奠定基础, 为勒氏笛鲷资源的合理开发利用提供参考。