title: Development of a universal probe for electronic microarray and its application in characterization of the Staphylococcus aureus polC gene.
abstract: Electronic microarray technology is an exceptionally accurate and effective technique for detecting and defining single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA sequences. Target oligonucleotides are electronically addressed to a gel matrix containing streptavidin to which biotinylated polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplicons are bound. Typically, a fluorescent-labeled reporter oligonucleotide specific for each locus of interest is hybridized and reported. We detail the development of a universal reporter system to replace the standard method that is used to detect many different sequences accurately. The universal reporter eliminates the need to synthesize specific labeled reporters for each SNP sequence thereby dramatically reducing the cost and time required for assay development. The feasibility of this approach was demonstrated by successfully analyzing eight SNPs distributed within a highly variable 1-kb region of the polC gene from six isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
authors.forename: Kara L F
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Richard V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Goering
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001483:Base Sequence; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; C446929:PolC protein, bacteria; D004259:DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase