qPCR NEWS - October 2010 - focus on digital PCR
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Dear researcher,
dear Gene Quantification page reader,
Our newsletter informs about the latest news in quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR and qRT-PCR), which are compiled and summarised on the Gene Quantification homepage. The focus of this newsletter issue is:
NEW - Copy Number Variations => http://digital-PCR.gene-quantification.info
qPCR Symposium USA in November 2010
qPCR Application Workshops - and more ... ... ...
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Digital PCR (dPCR) is a refinement of conventional PCR methods that can be used to directly quantify and clonally amplify nucleic acids (including DNA, cDNA, methylated DNA, or RNA). The key difference between dPCR and traditional PCR lies in the method of measuring nucleic acids amounts, with the former being a more precise method than PCR. The main principle of digital PCR is that a single sample is split into many fractions, all of which are subsequently analysed by a standard PCR method. The sample is fractionated by the simple process of dilution so that each fraction contains approximately one copy of DNA template. This separation allows a more reliable collection and sensitive measurement of nucleic acid amounts. The other major feature of digital PCR is that data are recorded as positive or negative (i.e. generation of an amplification product or not). Hence, the individual readout signals are qualitative or `digital' in nature. The method has been demonstrated as useful for studying variations in gene sequences - such as copy number variants, point mutations, and it is routinely used for clonal amplification of samples for "next-generation sequencing."
=> http://digital-PCR.gene-quantification.info
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dPCR Reviews and application papers Concept of the limiting dilution assay
Limiting dilution analysis: from frequencies to cellular interactions.
Dozmorov I, Eisenbraun MD, Lefkovits I.
Immunol Today. 2000 Jan;21(1):15-8.
Dept of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
End-point limiting-dilution real-time PCR assay for evaluation of hepatitis C virus quasispecies in serum: performance under optimal and suboptimal conditions.
Ramachandran S, Xia GL, Ganova-Raeva LM, Nainan OV, Khudyakov Y.
J Virol Methods. 2008 Aug;151(2): 217-224
Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Digital PCR - publications
Digital PCR.
Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Aug 3;96(16):9236-41.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Nanoliter scale PCR with TaqMan detection.
Kalinina O, Lebedeva I, Brown J, Silver J.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1997 May 15;25(10):1999-2004.
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD 20892, USA.
Principle and applications of digital PCR.
Pohl G, Shih IeM.
Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2004 Jan;4(1): 41-47
Department of Pathology, 418 North Bond Street, B-315, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.
Microfluidics digital PCR reveals a higher than expected fraction of fetal DNA in maternal plasma.
Lun FM, Chiu RW, Allen Chan KC, Yeung Leung T, Kin Lau T, Dennis Lo YM.
Clin Chem. 2008 Oct;54(10): 1664-1672.
Centre for Research into Circulating Fetal Nucleic Acids, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Digital PCR for the molecular detection of fetal chromosomal aneuploidy.
Lo YM, Lun FM, Chan KC, Tsui NB, Chong KC, Lau TK, Leung TY, Zee BC, Cantor CR, Chiu RW.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 7;104(32): 13116-13121
Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Chemical Pathology, School of Public Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China.
Microdissection molecular copy-number counting (microMCC)--unlocking cancer archives with digital PCR.
McCaughan F, Darai-Ramqvist E, Bankier AT, Konfortov BA, Foster N, George PJ, Rabbitts TH, Kost-Alimova M, Rabbitts PH, Dear PH.
J Pathol. 2008 216(3): 307-316
Centre for Respiratory Research, Department of Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical School, The Rayne Institute, London WC1E 6JJ, UK.
Single-molecule genomics.
McCaughan F, Dear PH.
J Pathol. 2010 Jan;220(2):297-306.
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK.
Microfluidic digital PCR enables multigene analysis of individual environmental bacteria.
Ottesen EA, Hong JW, Quake SR, Leadbetter JR.
Science. 2006 314(5804): 1464-1467
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Methylation analysis
DNA methylation analysis by digital bisulfite genomic sequencing and digital MethyLight.
Weisenberger DJ, Trinh BN, Campan M, Sharma S, Long TI, Ananthnarayan S, Liang G, Esteva FJ, Hortobagyi GN, McCormick F, Jones PA, Laird PW.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Aug;36(14): 4689-98
Department of Surgery, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
The implications of heterogeneous DNA methylation for the accurate quantification of methylation
Thomas Mikeska, Ida LM Candiloro, & Alexander Dobrovic
Epigenomics 2010, Vol. 2: 561-573
Rapid analysis of heterogeneously methylated DNA using digital methylation-sensitive high resolution melting: application to the CDKN2B (p15) gene.
Candiloro IL, Mikeska T, Hokland P, Dobrovic A.
Epigenetics Chromatin. 2008 Nov 3;1(1): 7
Molecular Pathology Research and Development Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Australia.
GMO analysis
Absolute quantification of genetically modified MON810 maize (Zea mays L.) by digital polymerase chain reaction.
Corbisier P, Bhat S, Partis L, Xie VR, Emslie KR.
Anal Bioanal Chem. 2010 396(6): 2143-2150
find much more interesting dPCR papers here => http://digital-PCR.gene-quantification.info
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