title: Fidelity genotyping of point mutation by enhanced melting point difference using DNA ligase.
abstract: Melting curve analysis is a powerful tool for detecting single-base mutations that may be linked to genetic diseases. Current existing methods provide insignificant melting point difference for some point mutations with the risk of wrong genotyping results, causing great limitations to their applications in clinic diagnosis. Here, we have developed an enhanced melting point difference approach to genotype single-base mutations using DNA ligase. Ligase covalently joins an allele-specific discriminating probe and a signal probe flanked the mutation site to form a long duplex, resulting in an enhanced melting temperature. CD17 and Ivs-2-654 point mutations of beta-globin gene in thalassemia disease were identified by using this approach, and the homozygotes and heterozygotes were scored accurately and conveniently. To the best of our knowledge, the use of ligase to improve the differences of melting temperature between various genotypes has not been reported. This method will provide a promising tool for clinical diagnosis of gene-mutant diseases.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Institute of Biological Technology, Biomedical Engineering Center, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiangxian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Huimin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Kemin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Weihong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Qiuping
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Xiaohai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Qiuhua
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Mo
authors.forename: Xiangmin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu