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Jncml-Like, An Ef-Hand Motif-Containing Gene Seasonally Upregulated In The Transition Zone Of Black Walnut (Juglans Nigra L.), Priyanka Surana, Zhonglian Huang, Daisuke Kihara, Richard Meilan, Keith Woeste
Jncml-Like, An Ef-Hand Motif-Containing Gene Seasonally Upregulated In The Transition Zone Of Black Walnut (Juglans Nigra L.), Priyanka Surana, Zhonglian Huang, Daisuke Kihara, Richard Meilan, Keith Woeste
Priyanka Surana
The economic value of a black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) tree is strongly determined by the quality and quantity of darkly colored heartwood in its stem. To understand the regulation of heartwood formation, we analyzed the region of heartwood formation in walnut stems (i.e., the transition zone, TZ) for the expression of 80 ESTs. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR and real-time PCR was performed to detect expression changes of candidate genes in the TZ and sapwood of trees harvested in summer and fall. Results revealed that the transcript of a clone containing two presumed EF-hand motifs was expressed at higher levels in the …
Raman Multiplexers For Alternative Gene Splicing, Lan Sun, Chenxu Yu, Joseph Irudayaraj
Raman Multiplexers For Alternative Gene Splicing, Lan Sun, Chenxu Yu, Joseph Irudayaraj
Chenxu Yu
Nonfluorescent labels were used for an array-format multiplex detection of alternative splice junctions of breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1) by surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). A four-plex detection scheme using nonfluorescent labels was demonstrated for DNA sequences specific to four BRCA1 alternative splice variants: Δ(11q) (the last 3309 nt deleted from exon 11), Δ(9, 10) (exon 9 and 10 deleted), Δ(5) (exon 5 deleted), and Δ(5q, 6) (the last 22 nt of exon 5 and the entire exon 6 is deleted). This is the first proof-of-concept study to apply SERS-based detection using nonfluorescent labels to investigate alternative gene splicing. Detection …
Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Based Nonfluorescent Probe For Multiplex Dna Detection, Lan Sun, Chenxu Yu, Joseph Irudayaraj
Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Based Nonfluorescent Probe For Multiplex Dna Detection, Lan Sun, Chenxu Yu, Joseph Irudayaraj
Chenxu Yu
To provide rapid and accurate detection of DNA markers in a straightforward, inexpensive, and multiplex format, an alternative surface-enhanced Raman scattering based probe was designed and fabricated to covalently attach both DNA probing sequence and nonfluorescent Raman tags to the surface of gold nanoparticles (DNA-AuP-RTag). The intensity of Raman signal of the probes could be controlled through the surface coverage of the nonfluorescent Raman tags (RTags). Detection sensitivity of these probes could be optimized by fine-tuning the amount of DNA molecules and RTags on the probes. Long-term stability of the DNA-AuP-RTag probes was found to be good (over 3 months). …