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What Is The Use Of QPCR Used To Determine The Amount Of DNA?

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Being able to determine the amount of DNA present in an organism has been successfully done using qPCR. In this experiment, qPCR was used to identify how much fungi could infect mutant and wildtype lines of A. thaliana. Also, qPCR was used to amplify the 16s rRNA ITS (internal transcribed spacer) of an unknown fungal pathogen. Other ways qPCR has been used in recent years include the use of qPCR to quantify copy number variants in the HER-2 gene which is a proto-oncogene. This method was particularly employed in the formalin-fixed-parafilm-embedded tissues - due to the fact that their DNA is usually broken into smaller pieces – to gain accurate results. This study concluded that qPCR produced similar results with already existing …show more content…

The mutated protein is seen to possess a leucine rich region (LRR) and a family of receptors known as Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR). We see from Kobe and Kajava (2001), that repeated amino acids seem to be structurally and functionally important. Leucine rich regions are usually involved in interactions with other proteins. LRRs are involved in several biological activities including development in early mammals, interactions involving receptors and hormones, cell adhesion and polarization, resistance to plant diseases and many others. Meyers et al. (2002), says that the TIR domain possess three conserved regions and a stretch of 200 amino acids that may link TLR receptors with signalling pathways. Plant resistant disease proteins (R-proteins) in Arabidopsis have two large families and TIR domain belongs to one of them. LRR repeats located at the c-terminal and a nucleotide binding site(NBS) are contained in many disease resistant genes (R-genes). Additionally, some of these NBS-LRR resistance proteins contain TIR domains at their N-terminus. These NLR proteins are immune receptors involved in intracellular downstream signalling which plays a huge role in how pathogens are recognized and how quick the innate immune system would respond to an infection (Narusaka et al., 2016). Therefore, when comparing the

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