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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2017

The Effects of Dithiothreitol on DNA.

Søren Fjelstrup, Marie Bech Andersen, Jonas Thomsen, Jing Wang, Magnus Stougaard, Finn Skou Pedersen, Yi-Ping Ho, Marianne Smedegaard Hede, Birgitta Ruth Knudsen

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Søren FjelstrupDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. soeren.fjelstrup@inano.au.dk.
Marie Bech AndersenDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. marieba89@gmail.com.
Jonas ThomsenDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. jo07@mbg.au.dk.
Jing WangDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. jwang@mb.au.dk.
Magnus StougaardDepartment of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. magnstou@rm.dk.
Finn Skou PedersenDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. fsp@mbg.au.dk.
Yi-Ping HoDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. ypho@ee.cuhk.edu.hk.
Marianne Smedegaard HedeZymonostics ApS, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. msh@zymonostics.com.
Birgitta Ruth KnudsenDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. brk@mbg.au.dk.
Aarhus University · DKAarhus University Hospital · DKChinese University of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the novel possibilities for detecting molecules of interest with extreme sensitivity also comes the risk of encountering hitherto negligible sources of error. In life science, such sources of error might be the broad variety of additives such as dithiothreitol (DTT) used to preserve enzyme stability during in vitro reactions. Using two different assays that can sense strand interruptions in double stranded DNA, we here show that DTT is able to introduce nicks in the DNA backbone. DTT was furthermore shown to facilitate the immobilization of fluorescent DNA on an NHS-ester functionalized glass surface. Such reactions may in particular impact the readout from single molecule detection studies and other ultrasensitive assays. This was highlighted by the finding that DTT markedly decreased the signal to noise ratio in a DNA sensor based assay with single molecule resolution.

Indexed as

DithiothreitolDNADithiothreitolDNADNA modifying enzymeDNA nickingDNA sensorDTTsingle molecule detectionthiol

Identifiers

PMID28538659
PMCPMC5492665
OpenAlexW2620191498

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