Fluorescence Assay for Polymerase Arrival Rates

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Title: en_US Fluorescence Assay for Polymerase Arrival Rates
Creator: en_US Che, Austin
Date: 2004-10-20T20:32:21Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T20:32:21Z
Date Issued: en_US 2003-08-31
Identifier: en_US AITR-2003-017
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7112
Abstract: en_US To engineer complex synthetic biological systems will require modular design, assembly, and characterization strategies. The RNA polymerase arrival rate (PAR) is defined to be the rate that RNA polymerases arrive at a specified location on the DNA. Designing and characterizing biological modules in terms of RNA polymerase arrival rates provides for many advantages in the construction and modeling of biological systems. PARMESAN is an in vitro method for measuring polymerase arrival rates using pyrrolo-dC, a fluorescent DNA base that can substitute for cytosine. Pyrrolo-dC shows a detectable fluorescence difference when in single-stranded versus double-stranded DNA. During transcription, RNA polymerase separates the two strands of DNA, leading to a change in the fluorescence of pyrrolo-dC. By incorporating pyrrolo-dC at specific locations in the DNA, fluorescence changes can be taken as a direct measurement of the polymerase arrival rate.
Extent: en_US 112 p.; 92476964 bytes; 3362118 bytes
Format: application/postscript; application/pdf
Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-2003-017
Subject: en_US AI
Contributor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering

Item sets: AI Technical Reports (1964 - 2004)