Nilsson Mats, Gullberg Mats, Dahl Fredrik, Szuhai Karoly, Raap Anton K
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Wassenaarseweg 72, 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Jul 15;30(14):e66. doi: 10.1093/nar/gnf065.
We describe a method to monitor rolling-circle replication of circular oligonucleotides in dual-color and in real-time using molecular beacons. The method can be used to study the kinetics of the polymerization reaction and to amplify and quantify circularized oligonucleotide probes in a rolling-circle amplification (RCA) reaction. Modified molecular beacons were made of 2'-O-Me-RNA to prevent 3' exonucleolytic degradation by the polymerase used. Moreover, the complement of one of the stem sequences of the molecular beacon was included in the RCA products to avoid fluorescence quenching due to inter-molecular hybridization of neighboring molecular beacons hybridizing to the concatemeric polymerization product. The method allows highly accurate quantification of circularized DNA over a broad concentration range by relating the signal from the test DNA circle to an internal reference DNA circle reporting in a distinct fluorescence color.
我们描述了一种使用分子信标以双色和实时方式监测环状寡核苷酸滚环复制的方法。该方法可用于研究聚合反应的动力学,并在滚环扩增(RCA)反应中扩增和定量环化的寡核苷酸探针。修饰的分子信标由2'-O-甲基核糖核酸制成,以防止所用聚合酶的3'核酸外切酶降解。此外,RCA产物中包含分子信标一个茎序列的互补序列,以避免相邻分子信标与串联聚合产物杂交导致的分子间杂交引起的荧光猝灭。该方法通过将测试DNA环的信号与以不同荧光颜色报告的内部参考DNA环相关联,能够在很宽的浓度范围内对环化DNA进行高度准确的定量。