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Telomere Length and Telomerase Activity; A Yin and Yang of Cell Senescence
Published on: May 22, 2013
A polymerase chain reaction-based approach for evaluation of telomere-associated sequences and interstitial telomeric
Eva Sýkorová1, Miloslava Fojtová, Vratislav Peška
1Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 612 65 Brno, Czech Republic. evin@ibp.cz
Abstract:
Telomere minisatellites could be present in both terminal and internal chromosomal regions. We monitored the progress of BAL-31 nuclease digestion on Arabidopsis thaliana genomic DNA prepared by standard isolation techniques to verify its cleavage at terminal and internal genomic regions. A subtelomeric position of candidate sequences was validated using conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR), combining the C-strand-specific telomeric primer with a subtelomeric reverse primer, and confirmed by quantitative PCR (qPCR) using sequence-specific primer pairs on DNA samples after BAL-31 digestion. qPCR amplification showed a gradual decrease in subtelomeric sequence signals, in contrast to interstitial telomeric sequences from pericentromere and control sequences.
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