10 September, 2004 Advanced Methods
Degenerate Oligonucleotides Short amino acid sequences can be used to create degenerate oligonucleotides. PCR primers Oligonucleotide probes Often important to determine the lease degenerate possible probe from a given sequence. Example: Arg-Leu-Met-Glu-Trp-Ile-Cys-Pro-Met-Leu –What sequence gives the least degenerate 17-mer primer? –What fold degeneracy does this primer have? –How does this compare with the fold-degeneracy of a probe that simply starts with the first amino acid in the sequence? This example is solved for you on Weaver, page 77.
End-labeling
Site-directed mutagenesis
Primer Extension
Filter Binding
Gel Mobility Shift
DNAse Footprinting
DMS Footprinting
Microarray Hybridization Suggested Background reading: