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DNA Sequencing

DNA sequencing determines the order of nucleotides in a DNA molecule. There are two main methods for DNA sequencing - the chemical cleavage method developed by Maxam and Gilbert in 1977, and the chain termination or dideoxy method developed by Sanger in 1977. The Sanger method is now the most widely used method and involves DNA synthesis using dideoxynucleotides to randomly terminate DNA strand elongation. The resulting fragments are separated by size and their sequence determined. Automated DNA sequencing uses fluorescent dyes and capillary electrophoresis to determine sequences faster and more accurately. DNA sequencing provides important information about genomes and genes.

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DNA Sequencing

DNA sequencing determines the order of nucleotides in a DNA molecule. There are two main methods for DNA sequencing - the chemical cleavage method developed by Maxam and Gilbert in 1977, and the chain termination or dideoxy method developed by Sanger in 1977. The Sanger method is now the most widely used method and involves DNA synthesis using dideoxynucleotides to randomly terminate DNA strand elongation. The resulting fragments are separated by size and their sequence determined. Automated DNA sequencing uses fluorescent dyes and capillary electrophoresis to determine sequences faster and more accurately. DNA sequencing provides important information about genomes and genes.

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DNA Sequencing

Dr. Serageldeen A. A. Sultan


PhD in Molecular virology
Yamaguchi University, Japan (2010)
Lecturer of virology
Dept. of Microbiology
SVU, Qena, Egypt
[email protected]
What is DNA sequencing?
-Determining the precise order of nucleotides in a
piece of DNA

-DNA sequence is useful in studying fundamental


biological processes and in applied fields such as
diagnostic or forensic research

-DNA sequencing methods have been around for


40 years, and since the mid-1970s
Founders of sequencing technology

Sanger Gilbert

Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980


Basic structure of nucleic acid

Acid 5’
Base
4’ 1’ Adenine
Purine
Phosphate Guanine
Sugar Thymine
Cytosine Pyrimidine
3’ 2’ Uracil
Ribose,
Deoxyribose
Nucleoside
Nucleotide
Nucleotides linked by phosphodiester
A T C G A T C G
5’ 3’
P OH

B 1’ 5’ pApTpCpGpApTpCpG-OH 3’
2’ 5’ pATCGATCG-OH 3’
R
3’
P ATCGATCG
5’
Two strands are antiparallel

5’ 3’

5’ pApTpCpGpApTpCpG-OH 3’
pCpGpApTpCpGpApT-OH 3’ 5’

3’ 5’
Sequencing methods
Two basic methods for DNA sequencing :-
A- Chemical cleavage method (Maxam and Gilbert, 1977)
- Base-specific cleavage of DNA by certain chemicals
- Four different chemicals, one for each base
- A set of DNA fragments of different sizes
- DNA fragments contain up to 500 nucleotides
B- Enzymatic method (Sanger, 1981)
The chain cleavage reaction
- Dimethyl sulfate
(DMS) mehylates G
-Acid (A)

-Hydrazine (C)
- Hydrazine & NaCl
(T)
- Piperidine
The fragments created by chain cleavage at guanines

32pGpCpTpGpCpTpApGpGpTpGpCpCpGpApGpC

G G G G G G G
32p
32pGpCpTp
32pGpCpTpGpCpTpAp
32pGpCpTpGpCpTpApGp
32pGpCpTpGpCpTpApGpGpTp
32pGpCpTpGpCpTpApGpGpTpGpCpCp
32pGpCpTpGpCpTpApGpGpTpGpCpCpGpAp
32pGpCpTpGpCpTpApGpGpTpGpCpCpGpApGpC
Chemical degradation method (Maxam–Gilbert method)
The Sanger DNA sequencing method
- Uses dideoxy nucleotides to terminate DNA synthesis.
- DNA synthesis reactions in four separate tubes
- Radioactive dATP is also included in all the tubes so the
DNA products will be radioactive.
-Yielding a series of DNA fragments whose sizes can be
measured by electrophoresis.
- The last base in each of these fragments is known.
O Base
O=P–O O

H H

2’, 3’ dideoxy nucleotide


Can not form phosphodiester
bound with next coming dNTP
The dideoxy sequencing method (Sanger method)

A labeled primer is used


to initiate DNA synthesis.
The addition of four
different dideoxy
nucleotides randomly
arrests synthesis.
The resulting fragments are
separated electrophoretically
and subjected to autoradiography
Recent methods of chain termination sequencing

Thermal cycler sequencing

Automated DNA sequencing

Pyrosequencing

Sequencing by hybridization
Automated DNA sequencing

-The primer extension reactions are run in the same


way as in the manual method

-Reaction carried out in one tube and all possible


products are actually produced

- The various reaction products separate according to


size on gel electrophoresis
-The bands are color-coded according to the termination
reaction that produced them

-A laser scanner excites the fluorescent tag on each band as


it passes by, and a detector analyzes the color of the
resulting emitted light

- Each colored peak is a plot of the fluorescence intensity


of a band as it passes through the laser beam
Printout of an automated DNA sequencing
Noisy or weak signal

- Partially failed sequencing reaction. secondary peaks


- Too much or too little DNA.
- Partial loss of sample during clean-up
Mixed DNA templates

- Two or more templates were present in the reaction


- Two primers were present in the sequencing reactions
- Two priming sites are present in DNA template
- Different sequencing reactions were accidentally mixed at the clean up stage
Short DNA sequencing read lengths

- Too much template DNA


- Excessive dilution of the BigDye reagent
- Too much primer
Blurry trace chromatogram peaks

- Capillary overload (dirty samples with large amount of DNA, proteins or salts)
- High sequencing run voltages
Dye Blobs (excess free dye terminators)

Moderate dye blob Minor dye blob

-Poor post-sequencing clean up


-Lost pellet
-Failed reaction
Sharp trace signal spikes

Small gas bubbles forming in the capillaries during electrophoreses


Sequence Slippage

Long runs of a mono nucleotide base


Template insertion and deletions

mixed sequencing after the seven T

Small G peak preceding the large single G peak

- Direct sequencing of PCR products derived from polymorphic templates


- Random mutation has occurred during the cloning process
Chimeras and sequence rearrangements

- Cloning two or more unrelated DNA fragments at once in the same vector
- 'Unstable' sequences like repeats as long poly A tails
Delayed sequencing signal start

- Capillary overload
The two most common causes of capillary overload are:-
too much template DNA
dirty template DNA contaminated with proteins an/or salt
Late "G" dye peaks

The breakdown of the BigDye sequencing chemistry before sample clean up


(excess heating or high numbers of freeze/ thaw cycles)
What can sequence tell us?
-Knowledge about the physical nature of genome
- Classification of microorganisms
- Relationship among diverse genomes
- Information about
- the origin of microorganism
-its movement in different population
-Searching for restriction endonuclease cleavage sites

- Vectors designed to over-express proteins or to


generate protein
-Identification of protein-coding regions (ORF)
within the DNA sequence

Similarity of DNA and protein data bases, can


lead to important insights about the function
and structure of a cloned gene and its product

-Analysis of the 5′ and 3′ non-coding regulatory


regions of a gene.
-DNA sequence information is essential for site
directed mutagenesis
-DNA sequence information (sequence tagged
sites, or STS; or expressed sequence tags, or
ESTs) are the basis of methods for mapping and
ordering large DNA segments cloned into yeast
or bacterial artificial chromosomes (CYACs;
BACs) or cosmids
Thank you

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