A different approach to RNA sequencing (original) (raw)
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Abstract
DURING the past few years techniques to simplify the systematic sequence determination of nucleic acids have become available; these involve the use of polyacrylamide gels from which the sequence may be directly and rapidly read off. The most recent of these, applicable to RNA fragments, rely on the base-specific nature of cleavage by _T_1 and _U_2 RNases1,2 and pancreatic RNase and RNase I from _Physarum polycephalum_2 by which a spectrum of 5′ terminally-labelled fragments may be produced and comigrated with a ‘ladder’ achieved by incubating the fragment with alkali or hot formamide. We describe here a method for the sequence determination of RNA fragments bearing a blocked 5′ terminus, in which the above enzymatic hydrolysis steps and their accompanying problems may be avoided.
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- JOHN STANLEY
Present address: Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, De Dreijen 11, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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JOHN STANLEY - Novosibizsk State University, Novosibizsk, 90, USSR
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STANLEY, J., VASSILENKO, S. A different approach to RNA sequencing.Nature 274, 87–89 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274087a0
- Received: 02 March 1978
- Accepted: 27 April 1978
- Published: 01 July 1978
- Issue Date: 06 July 1978
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/274087a0