Interdependence between DNA template secondary structure and priming efficiencies of short primers.

Abstract:

:Here we analyze the effect of DNA folding on the performance of short primers and describe a simple technique for assessing hitherto uncertain values of thermodynamic parameters that determine the folding of single-stranded DNA into secondary structure. An 8mer with two degenerate positions is extended simultaneously at several complementary sites on a known template (M13mp18) using one, two or three (but never all four) of the possible dNTPs. The length of the extension is site specific because it is limited by the first occurrence in the downstream template sequence of a base whose complementary dNTP is not present. The relative priming efficiencies of different sites are then ranked by comparing their band brightnesses on a gel. The priming efficiency of a short primer (unlike conventional long primers) depends dramatically on the secondary structure of the template at and around the priming site. We calculated the secondary structure and its effect on priming using a simple model with relatively few parameters which were then optimized to achieve the best match between the predictions and the actual rankings of the sites in terms of priming efficiency. This work introduces an efficient and conceptually novel approach that in the future can make use of more data to optimize a larger set of DNA folding parameters in a more refined model. The model we used, however crude it may be, significantly improved the prediction of priming efficiencies of 8mer primers and appreciably raised the success rate of our DNA sequencing technique (from 67 to 91% with a significance of P < 7 x 10(-5)), which uses such primers.

journal_name

Nucleic Acids Res

journal_title

Nucleic acids research

authors

Lvovsky L,Ioshikhes I,Raja MC,Zevin-Sonkin D,Sobolev IA,Liberzon A,Shwartzburd J,Ulanovsky LE

doi

10.1093/nar/26.23.5525

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-12-01 00:00:00

pages

5525-32

issue

23

eissn

0305-1048

issn

1362-4962

pii

gkb842

journal_volume

26

pub_type

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