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- Title
CODEHOP (COnsensus-DEgenerate Hybrid Oligonucleotide Primer) PCR primer design.
- Authors
Rose, Timothy M; Henikoff, Jorja G; Henikoff, Steven
- Abstract
We have developed a new primer design strategy for PCR amplification of distantly related gene sequences based on consensus-degenerate hybrid oligonucleotide primers (CODEHOPs). An interactive program has been written to design CODEHOP PCR primers from conserved blocks of amino acids within multiply-aligned protein sequences. Each CODEHOP consists of a pool of related primers containing all possible nucleotide sequences encoding 3-4 highly conserved amino acids within a 3' degenerate core. A longer 5' non-degenerate clamp region contains the most probable nucleotide predicted for each flanking codon. CODEHOPs are used in PCR amplification to isolate distantly related sequences encoding the conserved amino acid sequence. The primer design software and the CODEHOP PCR strategy have been utilized for the identification and characterization of new gene orthologs and paralogs in different plant, animal and bacterial species. In addition, this approach has been successful in identifying new pathogen species. The CODEHOP designer (http://blocks.fhcrc.org/codehop.html) is linked to BlockMaker and the Multiple Alignment Processor within the Blocks Database World Wide Web (http://blocks.fhcrc.org).
- Publication
Nucleic acids research, 2003, Vol 31, Issue 13, p3763
- ISSN
1362-4962
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/nar/gkg524