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Synthesis of Wavelength-shifting DNA Hybridization Probes by Using Photostable Cyanine Dyes
Published on: July 6, 2016
Studies on the spectrophotometric determination of DNA hybridization from renaturation rates
V A Huss1, H Festl, K H Schleifer
1Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München, 8000 München 2, Federal Republic of Germany.
Systematic and Applied Microbiology
|December 1, 2012
Abstract:
The optical method of De Ley et al. (1970) for determining DNA/DNA homologies was reexamined. Several parameters such as incubation temperature, incubation time, DNA concentration and DNA fragment length were checked and the optimal conditions established. Hybridization data of several anaerobic Gram-positive cocci were compared with values obtained by the membrane filter technique. The agreement is excellent above a degree of binding of 25-30%.

