title: Biophysical characterization of double-stranded oligonucleotides using ETBR and isothermal fluorescence spectroscopy: implication for SNP genotyping.
abstract: The UV-absorption, fluorescence and CD spectra of aps 23 bp oligoduplexes were performed for potential diagnostic purpose. These oligonucleotide sequences were mimicked from natural mutations (mitochondrial genome) of human population (unpublished). This work was designed on the basis of hybridization of non-self complementary oligoduplexes (aps) containing no mismatch, one-mismatch and two-mismatches. Since melting temperature is dependent on concentration of the oligoduplex, various concentrations were used in this study protocol. The thermal spectra profiles (UV absorbance and fluorescence) of these oligoduplexes (aps) are different for a particular concentration, and can be implicated for mutations. -dF/dT (or dA/dT) vs T, lnK (or RlnK) vs TM, DeltaG vs TM, DeltaS vs TM and DeltaH vs TM are also variable for those sequences. All these thermodynamic data were calculated from absorbance (at 260 nm) data. On the contrary to the 23 bp oligoduplexes (aps), the PCR products of 97 bp and 256 bp length were genotyped with ETBR (excitation 530 nm, emission 600 nm) fluorimetrically. But our attempts to genotype these PCR sequences with isothermal UV absorbance spectroscopy were unsuccessful. Isothermal UV absorbance spectra has a limitation of sequence length. However, the structural conformation (all B-type) of the oligoduplexes (aps) was determined using CD. The minor discrepancy in CD spectra of these oligoduplexes are not significant for mutational analysis. 97 bp nested PCR product was an amplicon having either GcT or AcC mutation of mitochondria of normal human population, whereas 256 bp PCR product was an amplicon of human BRCA2 gene (NCBI Accession No. AY151039) of chromosome 13 having either A or G mutation at position -26.
authors.affiliation: National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India. pbhattacharya@mail.jnu.ac.in
authors.forename: Pradip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Swarkar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Sailesh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gochhait
authors.forename: Rameshwar N K
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Bamezai
mesh_terms: D051017:Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins; D024682:BRCA2 Protein / Q000235:genetics; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D004996:Ethidium / Q000032:analysis*; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics*; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D051017:Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins; C118024:BLID protein, human; D024682:BRCA2 Protein; C551750:BRCA2 protein, human; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D004996:Ethidium