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Enrichment of Alternatively Spliced Isoforms
Abstract
Most metazoan genes are alternatively spliced, and a large number of alternatively spliced isoforms are likely to be functionally significant and expressed at specific stages of pathogenesis or differentiation. Splicing changes usually only affect a small portion of a gene, and these changes may cause significant mRNA degradation. After RT–PCR, minor variants can form heteroduplexes with the major variants. Affinity purification of these heteroduplexes using immobilized Thermus aquaticus single-stranded DNA-binding protein allows purification of alternative splice forms in a 1:1 ratio, which makes it easy to sequence the rare form. This chapter provides a detailed protocol of the technique I have developed to identify spliced isoforms called enrichment of alternatively spliced isoforms or EASI.
Affiliation(s): (3) Laboratoire de génomique fonctionnelle de l’Université de Sherbrooke Centre de développement des biotechologies (CDB) de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology  |  Volume: 419  |  Pub. Date: Dec-21-2007  |  Page Range: 161-170  |  DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-033-1_11
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