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For the sake of simplicity, Fig. 10.4 omitted one step of cDNA library construction. The figure implied that the last step of the process is the ligation of blunt-ended cDNAs into plasmid cloning vectors. Although such ligation reactions can occur, in reality they are highly inefficient. Instead, scientists convert blunt-ended cDNA molecules into sticky-ended molecules using adapters, and then they ligate the cDNAs into vectors with compatible sticky ends.
Adapters are short, partly double-stranded DNA molecules made by hybridization of
Two single-stranded oligonucleotides made in a DNA synthesizer. Suppose that the following two oligonucleotides were synthesized and then mixed together at high concentration and at a temperature that promotes hybridization of complementary DNA sequences:
a. | Draw the hybridized DNA molecules. These are the adapters. |
b. | Suppose you added the adapters and ligase enzyme to blunt-ended cDNAs at a very high molar ratio of adapters to cDNAs, so that each cDNA molecule is ligated to one adapter at each of its ends. Draw a picture of a resulting cDNA molecule. |
c. | The particular adapters discussed in this problem allow the cDNAs to be ligated efficiently into a vector treated with a commonly used restriction enzyme listed in Table 9.1. Name this restriction enzyme. |
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