title: Electrochemical analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms of p53 gene.
abstract: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of cancer repression gene p53 were analyzed electrochemically with ferrocenyl naphthalene diimide (1) as a hybridization indicator. The SNPs studied were the transition to A from G in the codon for amino acid at positions 175, 248 or 273 and the transversion to C from G in the codon for the amino acid at position 72. Thus, 20-meric oligonucleotides carrying the SNP site were used both as a sample and a probe with the latter immobilized on an electrode. Even one base difference on the p53 gene resulted in a significant difference in the current response of 1 and the magnitude of the response correlated with the amount of the DNA hybrid on the electrode. Moreover, when PCR products of exon 4, on which the P72/R72 SNP resides, of the p53 gene were analyzed by this method, the heterozygote and homozygotes were discriminated with modest precision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroyoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miyahara
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kanai
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Shigeori
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takenaka