A simple modification to improve the accuracy of methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Magdalena Krygier; Justyna Podolak-Popinigis; Janusz Limon; Paweł Sachadyn; Anna Stanisławska-Sachadyn

doi:10.1016/j.ab.2016.01.020

A simple modification to improve the accuracy of methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme quantitative polymerase chain reaction

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DNA digestion with endonucleases sensitive to CpG methylation such as HpaII followed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) quantitation is commonly used in molecular studies as a simple and inexpensive solution for assessment of region-specific DNA methylation. We observed that the results of such analyses were highly overestimated if mock-digested samples were applied as the reference.We determined DNA methylation levels in several promoter regions in two setups implementing different references: mock-digested and treated with a restriction enzyme that has no recognition sites within examined amplicons. Fragmentation of reference templates allowed removing the overestimation effect, thereby improving measurement accuracy.

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Magdalena Krygier
- Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny Katedra i Zakład Biologii i Genetyki
Justyna Podolak-Popinigis dr inż.
Janusz Limon Prof. dr hab.
- Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny Katedra i Zakład Biologii i Genetyki
Paweł Sachadyn prof. dr hab. inż.
Anna Stanisławska-Sachadyn
- Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny Katedra i Zakład Biologii i Genetyki

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY no. 500, pages 88 - 90,
ISSN: 0003-2697
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2016
Bibliographic description:: Krygier M., Podolak-Popinigis J., Limon J., Sachadyn P., Stanisławska-Sachadyn A.: A simple modification to improve the accuracy of methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme quantitative polymerase chain reaction// ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY. -Vol. 500, (2016), s.88-90
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.ab.2016.01.020
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