By using a predetermined ratio of deoxyribonucleotides to dideoxynucleotides, it is possible to generate DNA fragments of different sizes when replicating DNA in vitro.
A Sanger sequencing reaction is just a modified in vitro DNA replication reaction. The ddNTPs are what distinguish a Sanger sequencing reaction from just a replication reaction. But at random locations, it will instead add a ddNTP. When it does, that strand will be terminated at the ddNTP just added. If enough template DNAs are included in the reaction mix, each one will have the ddNTP inserted at a different random location, and there will be at least one DNA terminated at each different nucleotide along its length for as long as the in vitro reaction can take place about nucleotides under optimal conditions.
The ddNTPs which terminate the strands have fluorescent labels covalently attached to them. After the reaction is over, the reaction is subject to capillary electrophoresis. All the newly synthesized fragments, each terminated at a different nucleotide and so each a different length, are separated by size. As each differently-sized fragment exits the capillary column, a laser excites the flourescent tag on its terminal nucleotide.
From the color of the resulting flouresence, a computer can keep track of which nucleotide was present as the terminating nucleotide. The computer also keeps track of the order in which the terminating nucleotides appeared, which is the sequence of the DNA used in the original reaction. In the late s, new methods, called second-generation sequencing methods, that were faster and cheaper, began to be developed. The most popular, widely-used second-generation sequencing method was one called Pyrosequencing.
Today a number of newer sequencing methods are available and others are in the process of being developed. These are often called next-generation sequencing methods.
The most widely-used sequencing method currently is one called Illumina sequencing after the name of the company which commercialized the technique , but numerous competing methods are in the developmental pipeline and may supplant Illumina sequencing.
In Illumina sequencing, up to ,, separate sequencing reactions are run simultaneously on a single slide the size of a microscope slide put into a single machine. Each reaction is analyzed separately and the sequences generated from all million DNAs are stored in an attached computer. Each sequencing reaction is a modified replication reaction involving flourescently-tagged nucleotides, but no chain-terminating dideoxy nucleotides are needed.
Sanger sequence can only produce several hundred nucleotides of sequence per reaction. Most next-generation sequencing techniques generate even smaller blocks of sequence. Genomes are made up of chromosomes which are tens to hundreds of millions of basepairs long.
They can only be sequenced in tiny fragments and the tiny fragments have to put in the correct order to generate the uninterrupted genome sequence. Most genomic sequencing projects today make use of an approach called whole genome shotgun sequencing. Whole genome shotgun sequencing involves isolating many copies of the chromosomal DNA of interest. The chromosomes are all fragmented into sizes small enough to be sequenced a few hundred basepairs at random locations.
As a result, each copy of the same chromosome is fragmented at different locations and the fragments from the same part of the chromosome will overlap each other. Each fragment is sequenced and sophisticated computer algorithms compare all the different fragments to find which overlaps with which.
By lining up the overlapped regions, a process called tiling, the computer can find the largest possible continuous sequences that can be generated from the fragments. Ultimately, the sequence of entire chromosomes are assembled. Two major classes of snoRNAs have been identified which possess distinctive, evolutionary conserved sequence elements. These modifications are important for the production of efficient ribosomes These RNA-protein complexes are involved in the epigenetic and and post-transcriptional gene silencing of transposable and other repetitive elements 58 , They have been found in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis but also in human microRNA precursors, albeit in low levels 27 , The high level of conservation and the example of miR with moRNAs conserved between humans and Ciona suggests that they might have a functional role 27 , A large number of such RNAs have been identified and constitute the largest portion of the mammalian non-coding transcriptome.
Such RNAs have been identified in both protein-coding loci and also within intergenic stretches. Attempts to functionalize these other classes of ncRNAs are currently in their very early stages. LincRNAs arise from intergenic regions and exhibit a specific chromatin signature that consists of a short stretch of trimethylation of histone protein H3 at the lysine in position 4 H3K4me3 — characteristic of promoter regions, followed by a longer stretch of trimethylation of histone H3 at the lysine in position 36 H3K36me3 — characteristic of transcribed regions.
Transcripts from active enhancer regions with another chromatin signature, the H3 lysine 4 monomethylation H3K4me1 modification have also been described, although it is not clear whether they represent a distinct class of lincRNAs. This consists of five types of small nuclear RNA molecules snRNA and more than 50 proteins small nuclear riboprotein particles. Proteins A protein is a molecule that performs reactions necessary to sustain the life of an organism.
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