Application of repair enzymes to improve the quality of degraded DNA templates for PCR amplification

Prikladnaia biokhimiia i mikrobiologiia
A P Dovgerd, D O Zharkov

Abstract

PCR amplification of severely degraded DNA, including ancient DNA, forensic samples, and preparations from deeply processed foodstuffs, is a serious problem. Living organisms have a set of enzymes to repair lesions in their DNA. In this work, we have developed and characterized model systems of degraded high-molecular-weight DNA with a predominance of different types of damage. It was shown that depurination and oxidation of the model plasmid DNA template led to a decrease in the PCR efficiency. A set of enzymes performing a full cycle of excision repair of some lesions was determined. The treatment of model-damaged substrates with this set of enzymes resulted in an increased PCR product yield as compared with that of the unrepaired samples.

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