A method has been developed to prepare random DNA fragments using PCR. First, two cycles are carried out at 16 degrees C with the Klenow's fragment and oligonucleotides (random primers) with random 3'-sequences and the 5'-constant part containing the site for cloning with the site-specific endonuclease. The random primers can link to any DNA site, and random DNA fragments are formed during DNA ...

Completion of lagging strand DNA synthesis requires processing of up to 50 million Okazaki fragments per cell cycle in mammalian cells. Even in yeast, the Okazaki fragment maturation happens approximately a million times during a single round of DNA replication. Therefore, efficient processing of Okazaki fragments is vital for DNA replication and cell proliferation. During this process, primase...

The suitability of random amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR for the detection of differences between Mycobacterium malmoense strains was evaluated. With two of the 32 tested primers seven fingerprint patterns which proved excellent in distinguishing intraspecies variations of M. malmoense were obtained. The combination of the results obtained with the two primers permitted a clear separation of the...

To predict alterations in single-strand DNA mobility in non-denaturing electrophoretic gels, Zuker's RNA folding program was modified. Energy files utilized by the LRNA RNA folding algorithm were modified to emulate folding of single-strand DNA. Energy files were modified to disallow G-T base pairing. Stacking energies were corrected for DNA thermodynamics. Constraints on loop nucleotide sequen...

Recent simulations of the solid phase DNA amplification (SPA) by J.-F. Mercier et al (Biophys. J. 85 (2003) 2075) are generalized to include two kinds of primers and the off-lattice character of the primer distribution on the surface. The sigmoidal character of the primer occupation by DNA, observed experimentally, is reproduced in the simulation. We discuss an influence of two parameters on th...

Intracellular bacteria have been found previously in one isolate of the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus Gigaspora margarita BEG 34. In this study, we extended our investigation to 11 fungal isolates obtained from different geographic areas and belonging to six different species of the family Gigasporaceae. With the exception of Gigaspora rosea, isolates of all of the AM species harbored bact...