15. High-Throughput TAIL-PCR as a Tool to Identify DNA Flanking Insertions
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Thermal asymmetric interlaced polymerase chain reaction (TAIL-PCR) is a fast and efficient method to amplify unknown sequences
adjacent to known insertion sites in Arabidopsis. Nested, insertion-specific primers are used together with arbitrary degenerate primers (AD primers), which are designed
to differ in their annealing temperatures. Alternating cycles of high and low annealing temperature yield specific products
bordered by an insertion-specific primer on one side and an AD primer on the other. Further specifity is obtained through
subsequent rounds of TAIL-PCR, using nested insertion-specific primers. The increasing availability of whole genome sequences
renders TAIL-PCR an attractive tool to easily identify insertion sites in large genome tagging populations through the direct
sequencing of TAIL-PCR products. For large-scale functional genomics approaches, it is desirable to obtain flanking sequences
for each individual in the population in a fast and cost-effective manner. In this chapter, we describe a TAIL-PCR method
amenable for high-throughput production (HT-TAIL-PCR) in Arabidopsis (1). Based on this protocol, HT-TAIL-PCR may be easily adapted for other organisms.
Book Title: Plant Functional Genomics
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 236 | Pub. Date: Aug-06-2003 | Page Range: 241-271 | DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-413-1:241
Subject: Plant Sciences
Key Words: TAIL-PCR - HT-TAIL-PCR - T-DNA - transposon - Arabidopsis - high-throughput - reverse genetics - tagging population - knock-out
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