RAPD分析氮离子注入甜菊种子后的幼苗基因组DNA变异

应用ＲＡＰＤ 技术检测经低能氮离子注入甜菊纯系种子引起的幼苗基因组ＤＮＡ 变异。筛选出ＯＰＪ系列中的１５ 种引物对实验及对照基因组ＤＮＡ 进行了ＰＣＲ 扩增,共获扩增片段１０３ 条,分子量在０．３ － ３ｋｂ 之间,其中５ 种引物ＯＰＪ－ １ ,７ ,９,１１ ,１２ 扩增出差异片段１２ 条。结果表明,低能氮离子注入甜菊种子可引起体内基因组ＤＮＡ 发生突变;ＲＡＰＤ 技术是检测基因组ＤＮＡ 发生诱变的一种简便、有效方法。本文同时探讨了离子强度和Ｔａｇ ＤＮＡ 聚合酶用量对甜菊ＲＡＰＤ 分析结果的影响,以及氮离子注入诱变效应的可能机制。     

用PCR扩增和克隆鸡传染性贫血病毒全基因组DNA

根据已发表的序列,分别在鸡贫血病毒（ＣＡＶ）环形基因组ＤＮＡ（全长２．３ｋｂ）的ＥｃｏＲＩ位点和ＢａｍＨＩ位点的两侧选择适当序列合成两对引物,用ＰＣＲ技术,从斑点杂交检测到病毒核酸的ＣＡＶ感染的ＭＤＣＣＲＰ１细胞基因组ＤＮＡ中,分别扩增出包含ＥｃｏＲＩ和ＢａｍＨＩ分割开的病毒基因组两部分（１．５ｋｂ和０．８ｋｂ）约１．５ｋｂ和约１．２５ｋｂ的两个片段。再将其中相应序列拼接克隆进ｐＵＣ１８载体,获得包含ＣＡＶ全基因组序列ＤＮＡ片段的克隆质粒ｐＣＡＶ２．４。酶切分析表明,该质粒具有预期的ＢａｍＨＩ位点、ＰｓｔＩ位点、ＨｉｎｄⅢ位点,而预期的ＥｃｏＲＩ位点消失。重组质粒插入ＤＮＡ片段的两端序列分析表明,质粒ｐＣＡＶ２．４是包含ＣＡＶ全基因组序列的重组质粒,插入ＤＮＡ片段序列中的ＥｃｏＲＩ位点序列发生了一个碱基突变。     

随机扩增DNA多态性及其在微生物分型中的应用

用于微生物分型的现代技术包括表型和基因型方法。随机扩增多态性ＤＮＡ是在聚合酶链反应技术基础上发展起来的一种新的基因分型法。主要特点是利用随机寡核苷酸引物扩增基因组ＤＮＡ片段,进而通过凝胶电泳分析其指纹图特征,借以显示不同菌株间存在细微差别。这种方法简单,快速,现已在许多微生物分型中得到运用。     

一种能表现水稻基因组DNA分化特征的重复DNA顺序

用ＤＮＡ 复性动力学方法克隆到一个水稻中度重复顺序。Ｓｏｕｔｈｅｒｎ 杂交、限制性内切酶分析及序列分析资料表明,该重复顺序在水稻基因组中具有串联重复和散布状态两种存在方式。以该ＤＮＡ 片段作探针,用Ｓｏｕｔｈｅｒｎ 杂交方法分析了多种野生稻种和栽培稻品种的基因组分化特征。某些限制性内切酶消化过的水稻ＤＮＡ,其图谱呈现出多达４０ 条以上的杂交带,包括强杂交带和弱杂交带两种类型。重复实验结果证明,强杂交带表现为ＢＢＣＣ染色体组型特异而弱带则在栽培稻各品种间显示出丰富的多态性,表明该重复顺序片段在水稻理论研究和育种实践中可能具有重要意义     

水稻重复DNA顺序克隆pRRD3的研究

用ＤＮＡ复性动力学方法克隆到一个水稻（ＯｒｙｚａｓａｔｉｖａＬ．）中度重复ＤＮＡ顺序。不同限制性内切酶消化和Ｓｏｕｔｈｅｒｎ杂交分析显示,这段重复ＤＮＡ顺序以串联加散布的形式存在于水稻基因组中;序列分析表明在它内部含有一个典型的植物启动子序列ＴＧＴＡＴＡＡＡＴＡ;以ｐＲＲＤ３克隆片段作探针,对水稻３４个品种进行拷贝数测定,在野生稻与栽培稻、籼稻与粳稻之间均存在拷贝数上的明显差异;对ＡＡ基因组不同亚型水稻ＤＮＡ进行Ｓｏｕｔｈｅｒｎ杂交分析,得到基因组亚型特异的杂交带谱,说明该重复顺序是研究水稻进化和分类的一个有用探针。     

基于Hi-C技术识别基因组结构变异及其在肿瘤研究中的应用

基因组结构变异是多种肿瘤发生的重要驱动因素.虽然目前有基于核型分析、PCR免疫荧光和芯片杂交以及高通量测序等技术可用于基因组结构变异的检测,但由于技术的局限性,现今仍缺乏被广泛认可的基因组结构变异检测方法和相应的分析工具.在肿瘤样本中检测基因组结构变异更是面临严峻的挑战.近20年来,染色体构象捕获技术及其衍生的高通量技术Hi-C等,已经为三维基因组结构的解析提供了大量的组学数据.基因组结构变异通常引起三维基因组空间图谱的异常,通过Hi-C图谱的异常来检测结构变异成为一个新的研究方向.基于Hi-C技术的检测方法有其独特的优势,如可以比较准确地检测位于基因组上重复序列区域的结构变异,但也存在一定的局限性,如不能检测小的结构变异等.本文系统回顾了基因组结构变异的主要研究方法、工具及相应的原理等,并重点讨论了运用Hi-C技术检测结构变异的基本原理、技术优势和局限性,最后介绍了该技术在肿瘤研究中的实际应用.     

棉蚜微卫星DNA的克隆及其多态性检测

微卫星ＤＮＡ (ｍｉｃｒｏｓａｔｅｌｌｉｔｅＤＮＡ)是由 2～ 6ｂｐ核苷酸序列组成的简单串联重复序列 ,广泛存在于基因组的间隔顺序和内含子等非编码区。由于其高度的多态性 ,呈共显性遗传 ,并且其多态性可用ＰＣＲ技术结合电泳被检测出来 ,且可克服ＤＮＡ多位点方法 (如ＲＡＰＤ及ＤＮＡ指纹图等 )中把来自不同位点但具有相同大小的等位基因混淆等优点 ,使其已成为生物群体遗传结构与变异及彼此关系研究中的一种极有价值的分子遗传标记工具。棉蚜Ａｐｈｉｓｇｏｓｓｙｐｉｉ是一种重要的农业害虫 ,其寄主广 ,且季节分化明显。目前已记载…     

水稻花药培养植株后代的DNA变异

对籼稻圭６３０和粳稻０２４２８及其Ｆ１通过花药培养获得的８１个ＤＨ系进行了ＲＦＬＰ分析,有２８个探针揭示了ＤＮＡ变异。８１个ＤＨ系不同程度地发生了变异,并具有以下特点：（１）ＤＮＡ变异类型包括限制性片段长度的变化、９ＮＡ片段的丢失以及ＤＮＡ序列的扩增;（２）变异发生在籼稻圭６３０供体片段中的频率高于粳稻０２４２８,表现出基因型差异;（３）染色体组中第３、８、９和１０染色体较少发生变异,在其它染色体上均存在易变异位点;（４）在染色体的一些区段,相邻的探针均揭示了ＤＮＡ变异,表明在染色体上存在ＤＮＡ易变异区域;（５）变异位点和变异类型具有特异性,在同一位点不同的ＤＨ系中发生相同的变异。     

人类基因组结构变异检测方法

本研究介绍了基因组结构变异检测的生物信息学基本方法和前沿技术。对基于第二代测序技术的四种检测方法(读对方法,读深方法,分裂片段方法和序列拼接方法)的原理和特点进行了详细解读,分析了第二代测序技术应用在检测结构变异上的特点与发展趋势。最后介绍了三代测序、Linked-reads和光学物理图谱等新技术在基因组结构变异检测中的应用,论述了融合新技术的结构变异检测方法的特点与优势。     

基于Web服务的流感病毒基因组自动化翻译注释系统

随着流感病毒基因组测序数据的急剧增加,深入挖掘流感病毒基因组大数据蕴含的生物学信息成为研究热点。基于中国流感病毒流行特征数据,建设一个集自动化、一体化和信息化的序列库系统,对于实现流感病毒基因组批量快速翻译、注释、存储、查询、分析具有重要的应用价值。本课题组通过集成一系列软件和工具包,并结合自主研发的其他功能,在底层维护的2个关键的参考数据集基础上另外追加了翻译注释信息最佳匹配的精细化筛选规则,构建具有流感病毒基因组信息存储、自动化翻译、蛋白序列精准注释、同源序列比对和进化树分析等功能的自动化系统。结果显示,通过Web端输入fasta格式的流感病毒基因序列,本系统可针对参考序列片段数据集(blastdb.fasta)进行Blast同源性检索,可以鉴定流感病毒的型别(A、B或C)、亚型和基因片段(1~8片段);在此基础上,通过查询数据库底层用于翻译、注释的基因片段参考数据集,可以获得一组肽段数据集,然后通过循环调用ProSplign软件对其进行预测。结合精细化的筛选准入规则,选出与输入序列匹配最好的翻译后产物,作为该输入序列的预测蛋白,输出为gbk,asn和fasta等通用格式的文件,给出序列长度、是否全长、病毒型别、亚型、片段等信息。基于以上工作,另外自主研发了系统其他的附加功能如进化树分析展示、基因组数据存储等功能,构建成基于Web服务的流感病毒基因组自动化翻译注释系统。本研究提示,系统高度集成系列软件以及自有的注释翻译数据库文件,实现从序列存储、翻译、注释到序列分析和展示的功能,可全面满足我国高通量基因检测数据共享化、本土化、一体化、自动化的需求。     

Capping DNA with DNA

Twelve classes of deoxyribozymes that promote an ATP-dependent "self-capping" reaction were isolated by in vitro selection from a random-sequence pool of DNA. Each deoxyribozyme catalyzes the transfer of the AMP moiety of ATP to its 5'-terminal phosphate group, thereby forming a 5',5'-pyrophosphate linkage. An identical DNA adenylate structure is generated by the T4 DNA ligase during enzymatic DNA ligation. A 41-nucleotide class 1 deoxyribozyme requires Cu(2+) as a cofactor and adopts a structure that recognizes both the adenine and triphosphate moieties of ATP or dATP. The catalytic efficiency for this DNA, measured at 10(4) M(-1) x min(-1) using either ATP or dATP as substrate, is similar to other catalytic nucleic acids that use small substrates. Chemical probing and site-directed mutagenesis implicate the formation of guanine quartets as critical components of the active structure. The observation of ATP-dependent "self-charging" by DNA suggests that DNA could be made to perform the reactions typically associated with DNA cloning, but without the assistance of protein enzymes.     

Eukaryotic DNA polymerases in DNA replication and DNA repair

DNA polymerases carry out a large variety of synthetic transactions during DNA replication, DNA recombination and DNA repair. Substrates for DNA polymerases vary from single nucleotide gaps to kilobase size gaps and from relatively simple gapped structures to complex replication forks in which two strands need to be replicated simultaneously. Consequently, one would expect the cell to have developed a well-defined set of DNA polymerases with each one uniquely adapted for a specific pathway. And to some degree this turns out to be the case. However, in addition we seem to find a large degree of cross-functionality of DNA polymerases in these different pathways. DNA polymerase α is almost exclusively required for the initiation of DNA replication and the priming of Okazaki fragments during elongation. In most organisms no specific repair role beyond that of checkpoint control has been assigned to this enzyme. DNA polymerase δ functions as a dimer and, therefore, may be responsible for both leading and lagging strand DNA replication. In addition, this enzyme is required for mismatch repair and, together with DNA polymerase ζ, for mutagenesis. The function of DNA polymerase ɛ in DNA replication may be restricted to that of Okazaki fragment maturation. In contrast, either polymerase δ or ɛ suffices for the repair of UV-induced damage. The role of DNA polymerase β in base-excision repair is well established for mammalian systems, but in yeast, DNA polymerase δ appears to fullfill that function. Received: 20 April 1998 / Accepted: 8 May 1998     

DNA topoisomerases and DNA repair

DNA topoisomerases are enzymes that can modify, and may regulate, the topological state of DNA through concerted breaking and rejoining of the DNA strands. They have been believed to be directly involved in DNA excision repair, and perhaps to be required for the control of repair as well. The vicissitudes of this hypothesis provide a noteworthy example of the dangers of interpreting cellular phenomena without genetic information and vice versa.     

DNA knots and DNA supercoiling

Comment on: Witz G, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2011; 108:3608-11.     

DNA supercoiling by DNA gyrase

Using purified DNA gyrase to supercoil circular plasmid pBR322 DNA, we examined how the linking number attained at the steady state (‘static head’) varies with the concentrations of ATP and ADP, both in the absence and presence of spermidine. In the absence of spermidine at total adenine nucleotide concentrations between 0.35 and 1.4 mM, the static-head linking number was independent of the sum concentration of ATP and ADP, but depended strongly on the ratio of their concentrations. We established that the same linking number was attained independent of the direction from which the steady state was approached. The decrease in linking number at static head is more extensive when spermidine is present in the incubation, but remains a function of the [ATP]-to-[ADP] ratio. These results are discussed in terms of various kinetic schemes for DNA gyrase. We present one kinetic scheme that accounts for the experimental observations. According to this scheme our experimental results imply that there is significant slip in DNA gyrase when spermidine is absent. It is possible that spermidine acts through adjustment of the degree of coupling of DNA gyrase.     

DNA杂交与DNA指纹技术

Southern印迹杂交和DNA指纹技术在分子生物学研究以及疾病的诊断、亲缘关系鉴定、犯罪分子确认等过程中发挥了重要作用。回顾了2种技术的发明、发展历程和在生命科学研究中的作用,并探讨了可能的发展方向,从中可以从一个侧面了解分子生物学的发展历程和体会科学家的智慧在科学技术发展中所起的重要作用。     

DNA supercoiling inhibits DNA knotting

Despite the fact that in living cells DNA molecules are long and highly crowded, they are rarely knotted. DNA knotting interferes with the normal functioning of the DNA and, therefore, molecular mechanisms evolved that maintain the knotting and catenation level below that which would be achieved if the DNA segments could pass randomly through each other. Biochemical experiments with torsionally relaxed DNA demonstrated earlier that type II DNA topoisomerases that permit inter- and intramolecular passages between segments of DNA molecules use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to select passages that lead to unknotting rather than to the formation of knots. Using numerical simulations, we identify here another mechanism by which topoisomerases can keep the knotting level low. We observe that DNA supercoiling, such as found in bacterial cells, creates a situation where intramolecular passages leading to knotting are opposed by the free-energy change connected to transitions from unknotted to knotted circular DNA molecules.     

Characterisation of rye B chromosome DNA by DNA/DNA hybridisation

The DNAs of wheat and rye plants with rye B chromosomes have been compared with wheat, rye and oats DNAs by DNA/DNA hybridisation. The presence of DNA from B chromosomes made no significant difference to the proportion of repeated sequence DNA. The repeated sequence fractions of these cereal DNAs were quantitatively divided into eight different groups on the basis of the amount of DNA/DNA hybridisation occurring between the different DNAs. Rye A and B chromosomes contained similar proportions of three of the groups. These results, together with estimates of the thermal stabilities of all the renatured DNA duplexes suggest that rye B chromosome DNA is very similar to rye A chromosome DNA in the proportion and heterogeneity of its repeated sequences.