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Nucleic acid molecules containing recombination sites and methods of using the same

  • US 9,534,252 B2
  • Filed: 09/14/2012
  • Issued: 01/03/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for sequencing all or part of a nucleic acid segment, the method comprising;

  • (a) performing a topoisomerase cloning reaction comprising;

    (i) providing the nucleic acid segment which comprises a 3′

    overhang at each end;

    (ii) providing a second nucleic acid molecule having a 5′

    overhang at each end complementary to the 3′

    ends and a covalently linked topoisomerase at each of the 5′

    ends and wherein the second nucleic acid molecule also comprises at each of the 5′

    ends a first attL site and a second attL site which do not recombine with each other and wherein the first and the second attL sites each have a sequencing primer binding site wherein the sequencing primer binding sites encompass the IHF site of the first and the second attL sites and wherein the sequencing primer binding sites differ from each other by one, two, three or four nucleotides;

    (iii) combining the nucleic acid segment with the second nucleic acid molecule such that the 3′

    overhang of the nucleic acid segment hybridizes with the 5′

    overhang of the second nucleic acid molecule and the covalently linked topoisomerase ligates the nucleic acid segment and the second nucleic acid molecule resulting in the generation of a product nucleic acid molecule comprising the second nucleic acid molecule and the nucleic acid segment and allow for sequencing of the nucleic acid segment from the first and the second attL sites;

    (b) contacting a first set of the product nucleic acid molecule of (a) with a first sequencing primer which hybridizes to both of the primer binding sites of the product nucleic acid molecule, wherein the first sequencing primer mediates 5′

    to 3′

    extension from only one of the two binding sites and sequencing all or part of the nucleic acid segment with the first sequencing primer.

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