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ArticleNucleic acids research2011

Optimization of turn-back primers in isothermal amplification.

Yasumasa Kimura, Michiel J L de Hoon, Shintaro Aoki, Yuri Ishizu, Yuki Kawai, Yasushi Kogo, Carsten O Daub, Alexander Lezhava, Erik Arner, Yoshihide Hayashizaki

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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Yasumasa KimuraRIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC), RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan.
Michiel J L de Hoon
Shintaro Aoki
Yuri Ishizu
Yuki Kawai
Yasushi Kogo
Carsten O Daub
Alexander Lezhava
Erik Arner
Yoshihide Hayashizaki

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Abstract

The application of isothermal amplification technologies is rapidly expanding and currently covers different areas such as infectious disease, genetic disorder and drug dosage adjustment. Meanwhile, many of such technologies have complex reaction processes and often require a fine-tuned primer set where existing primer design tools are not sufficient. We have developed a primer selection system for one important primer, the turn-back primer (TP), which is commonly used in loop-mediated amplification (LAMP) and smart amplification process (SmartAmp). We chose 78 parameters related to the primer and target sequence, and explored their relationship to amplification speed using experimental data for 1344 primer combinations. We employed the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) method for parameter selection and estimation of their numerical coefficients. We subsequently evaluated our prediction model using additional independent experiments and compared to the LAMP primer design tool, Primer Explorer version4 (PE4). The evaluation showed that our approach yields a superior primer design in isothermal amplification and is robust against variations in the experimental setup. Our LASSO regression analysis revealed that availability of the 3'- and 5'-end of the primer are particularly important factors for efficient isothermal amplification. Our computer script is freely available at: http://gerg.gsc.riken.jp/TP_optimization/.

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