291 results about "Methylation Site" patented technology

The present invention generally relates to the determination of the state of one or more locations within a nucleic acid and, in particular, to the determination of the methylation state of one or more methylation sites within a nucleic acid such as DNA. In one aspect of the invention, a nucleic acid, such as DNA, that is suspected of being methylated is exposed to a nucleic acid probe able to hybridize the nucleic acid at or near the methylation site. After hybridization, the nucleic acid-probe hybrid is exposed to a methylation-sensitive restriction endonuclease able to bind at or near the methylation site. The restriction endonuclease is not able to cleave the nucleic acid-probe hybrid if the DNA is methylated at the methylation site, but is able to cleave the nucleic acid-probe hybrid if the nucleic acid is not methylated at the methylation site. Determination of the cleavage state of the probe can thus be used to determine the state of the methylation site.

An improved multiplex ligation-dependent amplification method is disclosed for detecting the presence of specific methylated sites in a single stranded target nucleic acid, while simultaneously, the quantification of the target nucleic acid sequence can be performed, using a plurality of probe sets of at least two probes, each of which includes a target specific region and non-complementary region containing a primer binding site. At least one of the probes further includes the sequence of one of the strands of a double stranded recognition site of a methylation sensitive restriction enzyme. The probes belonging to the same set are ligated together when hybridised to the target nucleic acid sequence, the hybrid is subjected to digestion by the methylation sensitive restriction enzyme, resulting in non-methylated recognition sites being cleaved. The probes of the uncleaved (methylated) hybrid are subsequently amplified by a suitable primer set.

Particular aspects relate to a method for determining the methylation pattern of a polynucleic acid, comprising: a) preparing a solution comprising a mixture of fragments of the polynucleic acid; b) coupling the fragments with a substance being detectable with a detection method; c) contacting a solution comprising the fragments of b) with a DNA microarray having a plurality of different immobilized oligonucleotides, each comprising at least one methylation site, at respectively assigned different locations thereon, the contacing under conditions affording hybridization of fragments with correlated immobilized oligonucleotides under defined stringency, and wherein the immobilized oligonucleotides have a length of less than 200 bases; d) optionally performing a a washing step; and e) detecting, using the physical detection method, such immobilized nucleic acids to which solution fragments are hybridized and/or to which solution fragments are not hybridized.

The invention discloses a prediction method for protein post-translational modification methylation loci, and belongs to the field of bioinformatics. Protein methylation modification participates in cell functions and many life activities of cell processes, and recognition of protein methylation modification loci has very important significance in understanding of the life activities of cells. The prediction method combines with sequence information, evolutionary information and physical and chemical properties to conduct feature coding on a protein methylation sequence, an information gain optimization feature method is adopted and combines with a support vector machine to construct a prediction model, and it is shown through independent testing results that the prediction method has a good prediction property on the protein methylation loci; meanwhile, a network prediction platform is developed and used for conducting online prediction on the protein methylation loci.

The purpose of the present invention is to develop and provide a less expensive and novel oxidizing agent for 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, which can selectively oxidize 5-hydroxymethylcytosine on DNA into 5-formylcytosine while preventing the DNA structure from destabilization and suppressing side reactions, and a method for detecting a demethylation site at a high accuracy in demethylation of DNA with the use of the aforesaid oxidizing agent.

Provided is an oxidizing agent for 5-hydroxymethylcytosine that comprises a nitroxyl radical molecule and a copper salt or a copper complex, and/or a nitroxyl radical molecule-copper complex.

A new technique to determine the extent of DNA methylation entails generating DNA fragments of a test sample by cleaving at methylation sites that are not methylated while sparing methylation sites in the DNA that are methylated. This approach provides enhanced sensitivity to differences of even a single methylated cytosine, within or outside of a CpG island, and yet it can be employed to ascertain the methylation status of a region of DNA comprising a CpG island, a DNA region comprising one or more CpG-containing islands, or even a large variety of DNA regions.

The invention relates to a DNA methylation biomarker composition for bladder cancer detection. The biomarker composition comprises any two or more of sequences shown in the formulas of SEQ ID NO.1 toSEQ ID NO.22, or any two or more of completely complementary sequences shown in the formulas of SEQ ID NO.1 to SEQ ID NO.22. The invention also relates to a detection kit for the methylation biomarkercomposition. The bladder cancer occurrence is discriminated and analyzed by using the composition in the co-methylation state of a plurality of specific methylation regions, the specific methylationcomposition has high sensitivity for discriminating the bladder cancer occurrence, and the detection method is simple, convenient and feasible. The primer pair composition of the kit overcomes the defect of false positive results caused by single methylation site detection mismatch in primer sequence design, and considers the interaction between multiple methylation biomarker primer and probe paircomposition.

Biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of prostate cancer are provided. The biomarkers are promoter sequences have altered methylation patterns relative to normal prostate tissue. Altered expression of DNA methyltransferases (DNMT) and proteins that interact with DNMT result in increased methylation at a subset of prostate tumor hypermethylation sites.

The invention discloses a primer and a kit for detecting septin9 gene methylation. The primer comprises a target gene primer pair Septin9 forward primer F and an Septin9 reverse primer R. The kit comprises the primer and optimally further comprises a reference gene primer, a TaqMan-MGB probe and two Blocker primers. The kit is simple and convenient to operate, is easy to judge and is low in requirement for instruments; the whole PCR process is fully closed; the cross contamination possibility is avoided; the result is more accurate. Compared with the method of detecting by adopting PCR specific primer, the method of identifying the methylated site by utilizing the probe has higher flexibility and accuracy. Two Blocker primers are utilized to strictly control the amplification of the non-specific stripe, so that the kit has higher detection sensitivity and specificity and is especially fit for early screening of free DNA of colorectal cancer plasma.

The present invention features a method for determining the methyltransferase activity of a polypeptide and screening for modulators of methyltransferase activity, more particularly for modulators of the methylation of retinoblastoma by SMYD3. The invention further provides a method or pharmaceutical composition for prevention or treating of colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, bladder cancer and/or breast cancer using a modulator so identified. N-terminal truncated forms of SMYD3 (alias ZNFN3A1) have higher methylating activity. Lys 824 is a preferred methylation site on the RB1 protein for SMYD3.

The invention provides a method and kit for quantitatively detecting the methylation degree of a DNA specific site. The method provided by the invention comprises the following steps: 1) designing a PCR primer in accordance with a DNA sequence to be detected, and using the PCR primer for amplifying the DNA to be detected; 2) designing a pair of TaqMan probes in accordance with a CpG site-enriched region in the PCR product obtained by amplification in the step 1), wherein one probe is a CG probe designed in accordance with the DNA of which the CpG site is completely methylated, and the other probe is a TG probe designed in accordance with the DNA of which the CpG site is completely non-methylated and is used for specifically combining the PCR product and detecting the PCR product; and 3) carrying out real-time quantitative PCR based on the primer designed in the step 1) and the probes designed in the step 2), thus detecting the methylation degree of the DNA to be detected. By using the method, a specific methylated site can be detected, and the methylation states of other sites can not affect the detection result. The kit provided by the invention can be used for detecting the methylation degree of a DNA specific site.

The invention discloses a kit and a method for detecting the methylation level of liver cancer risk gene TSPYL5, and belongs to the field of biotechnologies. The kit for detecting the methylation level of the TSPYL5 comprises a primer pair A used for an MSRE-qPCR method or a primer pair B used for a BSP method, wherein the primer sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO. 1-22. According to the kit and the method disclosed by the invention, the relevance between the methylation of the TSPYL5 gene and liver cancer occurrence is found, and the methylation loci of the TSPYL5 are authenticated; the methylation method for the TSPYL5 by virtue of fluorescent quantitative PCR is established by combining specific methylation sensitive restriction endonuclease with the specific primers; the methylation level of the TSPYL5 is detected through the kit and the method based on MSRE-qPCR, the sensitivity is up to 83.9%, and the specificity is up to 93.25%.

The invention discloses a method and a kit for screening a target region of methylation PCR detection and an application of the target region. The method comprises the following steps: (1) acquiring ato-be-analyzed tumor methylation chip and corresponding transcriptome sequencing data from a database; (2) calculating methylation degree values of a normal group and a cancer group, and screening methylation sites, which keep obvious differences, in the various groups; (3) in combination with analysis on a transcriptome sequencing expression profile, calculating related coefficients, and screening negatively related sites; and (4) associating the methylation candidate sites which are acquired in the step (3) with related disclosed documents, screening sites which are supported and reported by many documents, keep a high inter-group methylation difference group and are in expression amount negative relation, and on the basis of a regression algorithm, acquiring a site set, namely the target region, achieving the optimal sensitivity and specificity. According to the method, through comprehensive analysis of the database, transcriptome sequencing and the documents and in combination with multiple data filtering and the regression algorithm, the target region of methylation PCR detection can be obtained sensitively and specifically.

The invention discloses a methylated marker IL-2RG in a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) whole blood genome and application thereof. The sequence of the marker is shown as SEQ ID NO:1. The methylated marker IL-2RG in the SLE whole blood genome is applied to the preparation of a reagent for diagnosing SLE, in particular to a kit for diagnosing SLE. By detecting the methylation level of the methylated marker IL-2RG, a specific methylation locus with a great meaning and a remarkable difference is counted and taken as a basis for early diagnosis of SLE. By adopting the methylated marker, an accurate, cheap and quick clinical tool for early diagnosis of SLE, the disease activity, the curative effect and the prognostic evaluation is provided.

The invention provides a construction method of an RNA methylation sequencing library. The construction method comprises the following steps: (S1) carrying out fragmentation on an RNA sample, so as to obtain fragmented RNA; (S2) carrying out co-immunoprecipitation on the fragmented RNA by virtue of an RNA methylation specific antibody, so as to obtain precipitates; (S3) digesting the precipitates by virtue of protease, so as to obtain a digestion product; (S4) extracting RNA from the digestion product, and carrying out reverse transcription on extracted RNA, so as to obtain cDNA; and (S5) constructing a sequencing library by virtue of the cDNA, so as to obtain the RNA methylation sequencing library. The digestion of protease is stronger than the competitive elution of analogues, so that the yield of RNA can be increased, the noise generated due to the introduction of methylation site analogues is avoided, the problem of high noise of constructed libraries in the prior art is solved, the library construction quality is improved, and therefore, the utilization rate of valid data output by the sequencing library is increased.

The invention discloses a double electrical signal and DNA circulating amplification technique-based Dam methyltransferase activity detection method, and belongs to the technical field of electrochemical sensing. After methylation of hairpin-shaped DNA containing methylation sites under the effect of Dam methyltransferase and cutting by DpnI endonuclease, double-stranded DNA is formed by hybridization of released single stranded DNA and protruding parts of dicyclopentadienyl iron-DNA on the electrode surface, and then is cut into DNA fragments by endonuclease III, so that dicyclopentadienyl iron leaves away from the electrode surface so as to reduce the current, current of G-four chain body-heme complex formed by the the single stranded DNA on the electrode surface and heme is enhanced, and Dam methyltransferase activity sensitive detection can be realized by proportion of current intensity of the two.

The invention provides a human tumor-related methylation site as well as a screening method and use thereof. The human tumor-related methylation site is selected from at least one methylation site on a human 18th chromosome, a human third chromosome and a human second chromosome; the change of methylation site, caused by BMI, on chromosomes is related to a human endometrial cancer; prognosis on a human tumor can be performed by detecting the methylation site changes on the chromosomes; the human tumor-related methylation site can be used as a potential prognosis marker of the tumor, and especially can be used as a prognosis marker of the human endometrial cancer.