Continuously tunable nucleic acid hybridization probes.
Continuously tunable nucleic acid hybridization probes.
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DOI：
10.1038/nmeth.3626
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发表时间：
2015-12
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48
通讯作者：
Zhang DY
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作者：
Wu LR;Wang JS;Fang JZ;Evans ER;Pinto A;Pekker I;Boykin R;Ngouenet C;Webster PJ;Beechem J;Zhang DY
In silico designed nucleic acid probes and primers often fail to achieve favorable specificity and sensitivity tradeoffs on the first try, and iterative empirical sequence-based optimization is needed, particularly in multiplexed assays. Here, we present a novel, on-the-fly method of tuning probe affinity and selectivity via the stoichiometry of auxiliary species, allowing independent and decoupled adjustment of hybridization yield for different probes in multiplexed assays. Using this method, we achieve near-continuous tuning of probe effective free energy (0.03 kcal·mol−1 granularity). As applications, we enforced uniform capture efficiency of 31 DNA molecules (GC content 0% – 100%), maximized signal difference for 11 pairs of single nucleotide variants, and performed tunable hybrid-capture of mRNA from total RNA. Using the Nanostring nCounter platform, we applied stoichiometric tuning to simultaneously adjust yields for a 24-plex assay, and we show multiplexed quantitation of RNA sequences and variants from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded samples (FFPE).
