An improved method for sequencing double stranded plasmid DNA from minipreps using DMSO and modified template preparation.
An improved method for sequencing double stranded plasmid DNA from minipreps using DMSO and modified template preparation.
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DOI:
10.1093/nar/18.19.5905
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发表时间:
1990-10
影响因子:
14.9
通讯作者:
Donald Seto
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作者:
Donald Seto
DNA sequencing by the dideoxy chain termination method can be performed on double stranded DNA templates from quantities and purities achieved with miniprep procedures (1). Depending on the procedure used to isolate the DNA, sequencing reactions can be subject to high backgrounds and artifacts in band patterns, particularly presence of bands across two or more lanes on the sequencing gel. Dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) has been used in sequencing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products (2). Described herein is a procedure coupling a modified method for isolating and treating plasmid DNA and a protocol for using a DMSO-modified dideoxy chain termination sequencing reaction to overcome such artifacts to give unambiguous DNA sequence determination. E. coli DH5a bearing the yeast heat shock factor gene yHSF (3'A54 and 3'A63) in plasmid pOTSNcol2 (3) was freshly grown to late log phase: overnight cultures were diluted, re-grown, and harvested in a single day. 1.5 ml of this 5 ml culture was treated using a modified procedure of Holmes and Quigley (4). This miniprep protocol consists of the following steps: 1) resuspending the bacterial pellet in 300 /tl STET (8% sucrose, 5% Triton X-100, 50 mM EDTA, 50 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.0) and 20 /tl 10 mg/ml lysozyme; 2) incubating at room temperature for 5 minutes; 3) boiling this suspension for 2 minutes; 4) centrifuging and discarding the pellet; and 5) precipitating with 500/tl 2.5 M ammonium acetate—75% isopropanol at room temperature for 20 minutes. This final pellet was resuspended in 50 /tl of H2O. To ensure complete double stranded template separation, two denaturation steps were utilized. Per 50 /tl miniprep DNA, 4 /tl 2 N NaOH and 4 /tl 2 mM EDTA was added, and the sample incubated at 90°C for 5 minutes. To this was added 6 /tl 3 M NaAcetate (pH 5), 14 /tl H2O and 160 /tl ethanol. The DNA was precipitated at room temperature for at least 10 minutes. Samples were centrifuged for 20 minutes at room temperature and the DNA pellet was washed twice with 70% ethanol and vacuum dried. The pellet was dissolved in 25 /tl H2O; of this, 7 /tl was heated along with 2 /tl 5x sequencing buffer (50 mM Tris-Cl, pH 7.5, 60 mM NaCl, 35 mM MgCl2, 5 mM DTT), 1 /tl DMSO and 1 /tl (2.9 pmole) primer, at 65°C for 5 minutes and quickly frozen in dry ice. After quick thawing and aliquoting the annealed sample into individual G,A, C and T reaction tubes, subsequent DNA sequencing reactions similar to protocols described by Koop et al. (5) were performed with the modification of adding 10% v/v DMSO (final concentration) to both the labeling and terminating steps. The US Biochemical Corp. (Cleveland, OH) Sequenase kit may also be used with miniprep DNA template and DMSO inclusion. Figure 1 shows m