Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving nucleic acid
Patent
1987-04-10
1989-12-26
Mays, Thomas D.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving nucleic acid
435 21, 4351723, 435196, 435320, 935 29, 935 77, C12Q 168, C12N 1500, C12N 916
Patent
active
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ABSTRACT:
A process is provided for producing an ordered series of cloned, circular, DNA molecules containing shortened target DNA segments derived from a long target DNA segment, which are suitable for use in determining the nucleotide sequence of the long target DNA segment, or for targeting specific regions within the target DNA segment. The process includes producing, by molecular cloning, a plurality of double-stranded recombinant DNA molecules each containing: (i) vector DNA; (ii) a sequencing primer binding site; and, (iii) a DNA region having unique endonuclease sites and a long target DNA segment. The sequencing primer binding site is spaced from the long target DNA segment by at least a portion of said DNA region having the unique endonuclease sites. The plurality of double-stranded circular recombinant DNA molecules are cleared using two restriction endonucleases. The cleavage occurs in the portion of the DNA having unique endonuclease sites lying between the long target DNA segment and the sequencing primer binding site. The cleavage and, if necessary, subsequent processing steps, produces double-stranded linear DNA molecules having an end containing a long target DNA segment that is susceptible to exonuclease digestion and a sequencing primer binding site end that is not susceptible to exonuclease digestion. Next, the target DNA segment end is subjected to exonuclease digestion. At timed intervals, portions of the exonuclease digested linear double-stranded DNA molecules are removed. Since part of the target DNA segment has been deleted by the exonuclease, the removed linear double-stranded DNA molecules include shortened target DNA segments. Next, the removed linear double-stranded DNA molecules are blunted and then recircularized to reform circular recombinant DNA molecules. The reformed recombinant DNA molecules are cloned to produce a plurality of circular DNA molecules containing shortened target DNA segments that differ in length by the amount of target DNA that was removed by the exonuclease. The reformed circular DNA molecules are suitable for use in DNA sequencing other molecular manipulations of genetic material.
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This invention was made with government support under Contract Nos. GM29009 and AL31232 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The government has certain rights in this invention.
Gelinas Richard E.
Henikoff Steven
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mays Thomas D.
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