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Anneal

The sustained heating of a material such as steel or glass at aspecific high temperature, followed by gradual cooling, this is done to eliminate weakness or to produce other qualities.

The pairing of complementary dna or rna sequences, via hydrogenbonding, to form a double-stranded molecule. Mostoften used to describe the binding of a short primer or probe.


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Re: PCR & Agarose gel electrophoresis

Hi! Could you describe the experiment more detailed? where do the primers anneal? why are there two bands? did you use more than 2 primers? which polymerase did you use (proofreading or not)? does a primer anneal to the mutated site? I don't think that contamination ...

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by apolll
Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:40 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: PCR & Agarose gel electrophoresis
Replies: 3
Views: 123

DNA ligases

No. It'll anneal any broken strand. The vector is prevented from self-ligation by alkaline phosphatase.

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by Sepals
Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:44 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: DNA ligases
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Views: 434

Re: rna interference

... of RNA which contains a self-complementary region, and after the self-complementary region has been transcribed the two complementary sequences anneal together to form the hairpin. In the nucleus, the hairpin is cleaved by Drosha releasing a stem-loop. The hairpin is exported into the cytoplasm ...

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by jonmoulton
Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:17 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: rna interference
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Views: 722

Re: Question regarding Restriction Enzymes

It helps to consider both strands. Bam H1 gGATCC CCTAGg Bgl II aGATCT TCTAGa Bam H1 end g CCTAG Bgl II end a TCTAG Flip the Bgl II end over and anneal it to the Bam H1 site. Combined site after annealing gGATCT CCTAGa Does this site match either the Bam H1 or the Bgl II recognition sequence? What ...

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by jonmoulton
Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:05 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Question regarding Restriction Enzymes
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Views: 1579

PCR

... ggaagtgcca 481 tgagcaggcc tcttatacat tttggcaatg actatgagga ccgttactat cgtgaaaaca 3' -A diagram indicating where any primers or probes would anneal to the above sequence (you can annotate the sequence above). -A list of any reagents needed, i.e. oligonucleotides, enzymes, etc. -A statement ...

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by charanT
Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:54 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: PCR
Replies: 3
Views: 487
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