Construction and validation of yeast artificial chromosome contig maps by RecA-assisted restriction endonuclease cleavage
AUTOR(ES)
Lauer, Peter
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
RecA-assisted restriction endonuclease (RARE) cleavage is an “Achilles’ heel” approach to restriction mapping whereby a RecA-protein–oligodeoxynucleotide complex protects an individual restriction site from methylation, thus limiting subsequent digestion to a single, predetermined site. We have used RARE cleavage to cut yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) at specific EcoRI sites located within or adjacent to sequence-tagged sites (STSs). Each cleavage reaction produces two YAC fragments whose sizes are a direct measure of the position of the STS in the YAC. In this fashion, we have positioned 45 STSs within a contig of 19 independent YACs and constructed a detailed RARE-cleavage map that represents 8.4 Mbp of human chromosome 6p21.3–22. By comparing maps of overlapping YACs, we were able to detect seven internal deletions that ranged from ≈75 kbp to ≈1 Mbp in size. Thirteen pairs of EcoRI sites were targeted for double RARE cleavage in uncloned total human DNA. The excised fragments, up to 2 Mbp in size, were resolved by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and were detected by hybridization. In general, the genomic RARE-cleavage results support the YAC-based map. In one case, the distance in uncloned DNA between the two terminal EcoRI sites of a YAC insert was ≈1 Mbp larger than the YAC itself, indicating a major deletion. The general concept of RARE-cleavage mapping as well as its applications and limitations are discussed.
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