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Application of nonsense-mediated primer exclusion (NOPE) for preparation of unique molecular barcoded libraries

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SHAGIN D.A. TURCHANINOVA M.A. SHAGINA I.A. SHUGAY Mikhail ZARETSKY A.R. ZUEVA O.I. BOLOTIN D.A. LUKYANOV S. CHUDAKOV Dmitriy

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source BMC Genomics
MU Faculty or unit

Central European Institute of Technology

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Web https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12864-017-3815-2?site=bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3815-2
Keywords High-throughput sequencing; Unique molecular identifiers; Targeted resequencing; PCR
Description Background: Recently we proposed efficient method to exclude undesirable primers at any stage of amplification reaction, here termed NOPE (NOnsense-mediated Primer Exclusion). According to this method, added oligonucleotide overlapping with the 3'-end of unwanted amplification primer (NOPE oligo) simultaneously provides a template for its elongation. This elongation disrupts specificity of unwanted primer, preventing its further participation in PCR. The suggested approach allows to rationally manage the course of PCR reactions in order to facilitate analysis of complex DNA mixtures as well as to perform multistage PCR bypassing intermediate purification steps. Results: Here we apply NOPE method to DNA library preparation for the high-throughput sequencing (HTS) with the PCR-based introduction of unique molecular identifiers (UMI). We show that NOPE oligo efficiently neutralizes UMI-containing oligonucleotides after introduction of UMI into sample DNA molecules, thus allowing to proceed with further amplification steps without purification and associated loss of starting material. At the same time, NOPE oligo does not affect the efficiency of target PCR amplification. Conclusion: We describe a simple, robust and cheap modification of UMI-labeled HTS libraries preparation procedure, that allows to bypass purification step and thus to preserve starting material which may be limited, e.g. circulating tumor DNA, circulating fetal DNA, or small amounts of isolated cells of interest. Furthermore, demonstrated simplicity and robustness of NOPE method should make it popular in various PCR protocols.
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