189 results about "Mutant allele" patented technology

Plants, plant parts and plant seeds that are resistant to imidazolinone herbicides are provided. Plants are disclosed that contain a mutation in an AHAS gene. Specifically, plants are disclosed that contain a mutant AHAS gene allele of the Brassica juncea B genome. Two B. juncea AHAS gene sequences (BjAHAS-a and BjAHAS-b) and one B. nigra AHAS gene sequence (BngrAHAS) are disclosed. The sequence of the mutant allele, BjAHAS-bR, is also disclosed. Various methods are disclosed that include creation of mutant B. juncea lines, selection for herbicide resistant lines and determining the presence of the BjAHAS-bR mutant allele after crosses.

This disclosure concerns a plant of the genus, Brassica, or parts thereof, which comprise one or more traits selected from the group consisting of high oleic acid content, low linolenic acid content, increased herbicide resistance, restorer of cytoplasmic male sterility, and increased clubroot disease (Plasmodiophora brassicae) resistance, compared to a wild-type plant of the same species. This disclosure further relates to wild-type and mutant alleles of genes involved in these traits, molecular markers linked thereto, and methods of their use.

In various aspects, the invention provides Brassica juncea plants, seeds, cells, nucleic acid sequences and oils. Edible oil derived from plants of the invention may have significantly higher oleic acid content than other B. juncea plants. In one embodiment, the B. juncea line MJ02-086-3 contains a mutant allele MJ02-086-3/BjFAD2-a at the BjFAD2-a gene locus, having a premature stop codon, so that there are no functional copies of the FAD2 gene in MJ02-086-3 plants. Seeds from MJ02-086-3 plants may for example yield an oil having oleic acid content of greater than about 70% by weight.

The present application discloses a method for detection of insertion deletion mutation based on second generation sequencing, a device and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps:comparing a sample to be tested with a file of a reference genome to extract a set of candidate mutation sites with mutation allele frequency being greater than or equal to a threshold; filtering to remove sites in a short tandem repeat region; making detail statistics of comparison information of the mutation sites and comparison information surrounding the mutation sites, wherein the comparisoninformation includes InDel site and reference base support number, comparison quality, coverage depth, surrounding non-reference base and other insertion deletion mutations, surrounding read quality;and filtering to remove sites that do not reach the set threshold according to statistical information to obtain mutation results. The method does not require partial assembly, and filters second-generation sequencing data in advance to quickly eliminate most of false positive results caused by the comparison, reduces detection running time and computing resources, improves detection efficiency, has strong sensitivity and specificity, and can quickly and accurately detect InDel mutations.

The invention discloses a next generation sequencing-based point mutation detection filtering method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method comprises the steps of performing comparison with files of a reference genome by utilizing a to-be-detected sample, and extracting candidate point mutation site sets with variant allele frequencies exceeding a set threshold; preliminarily calculatingsupport numbers of mutant bases and reference bases of candidate point mutation sites, and filtering results with the mutant support numbers lower than the set threshold and/or the variant allele frequencies lower than the set threshold; performing detailed statistics on the candidate point mutation sites and surrounding comparison information, wherein the information comprises at least one of thefollowing information: the support numbers of the mutant bases and the reference bases of the candidate point mutation sites, base and comparison quality, coverage depth, surrounding non reference base and insertion/deletion statuses, and surrounding read quality; and according to the statistical information, filtering the results which do not meet set requirements to obtain a point mutation detection result. While the resource demands and the detection speed are optimized, the sensitivity and specificity of point mutation detection are improved.

In various aspects, the invention provides Brassica juncea plants, seeds, cells, nucleic acid sequences and oils. Edible oil derived from plants of the invention may have significantly higher oleic acid content than other B. juncea plants. In one embodiment, the B. juncea line MJ02-357-3 contains a mutant allele MJ02-313-1/BjFAD2-a at the BjFAD2-a gene locus, having a single base-pair change (a G to A substitution in the ORF at position 281 in reference to the first ATG start codon) relative to the wild type sequence. The change is predicted to encode a Glycine-94 Aspartic acid mutation in the sequence of the predicted BjFAD2-a protein. In another embodiment, the B. juncea line MJ02-357-3 contains a mutant allele MJ02-357-3/BjFAD2-a at the BjFAD2-a gene locus, having a single base-pair change (a C to T substitution in the ORF at position 647 in reference to the first ATG start codon) relative to the wild type sequence. The change is predicted to encode a Proline-216 Leucine mutation in the sequence of the predicted BjFAD2-a protein. As a result of these mutations, it can be predicted that the function of the BjFAD2-a proteins are negatively affected in Brassica juncea lines MJ02-313-1 and MJ357-3 as reflected in the increased levels of oleic acid in seed oil in comparison with the wild-type line J96D-4830. Seeds from MJ02-313-1 and MJ02-357-3 plants may for example yield an oil having oleic acid content of greater than 70% by weight.

The invention discloses a rape heat shock protein gene HSP17.8 and application thereof. The invention provides a nucleotide sequence and an amino acid sequence of the gene, gene sequences which at least have 70 percent homology with a DNA sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:1 in other crops, and mutant alleles or derivatives produced by adding, substituting, inserting or deleting one or more nucleotides. At the same time, the heat shock protein gene also proves that the overexpression of the heat shock protein gene strengthens the heat resistance of arabidopsis at high temperature by means of model plant, namely the arabidopsis through transgenic technology, increases the yield of seeds at high temperature, and improves the yield of the arabidopsis under high temperature stress, so the heat shock protein gene has good application prospect in heat-tolerance breeding of crops.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to complexes comprising a muscle-targeting agent covalently linked to a molecular payload. In some embodiments, the muscle-targeting agent specifically binds to an internalizing cell surface receptor on muscle cells. In some embodiments, the molecular payload promotes the expression or activity of a functional dystrophin protein. In some embodiments, the molecular payload is an oligonucleotide, such as an antisense oligonucleotide, e.g., an oligonucleotide that causes exon skipping in a mRNA expressed from a mutant DMD allele.

The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing myeloid malignancy comprising determining the presence of a mutant allele of the calreticulin gene. Also genomic sequences, cDNA sequences, mRNA sequences and protein sequences of the mutant calreticulin are subject of the present invention. Further, the invention relates to medical uses of inhibitors of mutant calreticulin.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to complexes comprising a muscle-targeting agent covalently linked to a molecular payload. In some embodiments, the muscle-targeting agent specifically binds to an internalizing cell surface receptor on muscle cells. In some embodiments, the molecular payload promotes the expression or activity of a functional dystrophin protein. In some embodiments, the molecular payload is an oligonucleotide, such as an antisense oligonucleotide, e.g., an oligonucleotide that causes exon skipping in a mRNA expressed from a mutant DMD allele.

The present invention provides methods for detecting and identifying sequence variations in a nucleic acid sequence of interest using a detector primer. It has been found that the reduced efficiency of primer extension by DNA polymerases when the 3′ end of a primer does not hybridize perfectly with the target can be adapted for use as a means for distinguishing or identifying the nucleotide in the target which is at the site where the diagnostic mismatch between the detector primer and the target occurs. The detector primer hybridizes to the sequence of interest and is extended with polymerase. The efficiency of detector primer extension is detected as an indication of the presence and/or identity of the sequence variation in the target. The inventive methods make use of nucleotide mismatches at or near the 3′ end of the detector primer to discriminate between the nucleotide sequence of interest and a second nucleotide sequence which may occur at that same site in the target. The methods are particularly well suited for detecting and identifying single nucleotide differences between a target sequence of interest (e.g., a mutant allele of a gene) and a second nucleic acid sequence (e.g., a wild type allele for the same gene).

The invention discloses a method and a kit for detecting the correlated mutation allele of a total farrow number of a sow as well as the application. The method adopts a PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)-SSCP (Single-Strand Conformation Polymorphism) method, PCR augmentation comprises a section from 315-bit deoxyribonucleotide at the 5' terminal of Gen Bank Accession Number AX752829, PCR augmentation products are detected by gel electrophoresis, and the gene type of the sow to be detected is confirmed according to an electrophoresis result: the gene type of the sow to be detected can be GG or AA which means a homozygote if the electrophoresis result presents two straps, and the gene type of the sow to be detected can be GA which means a heterozygote if the electrophoresis result presents three straps. The detection method of the invention has simple operation, low expense and high accuracy, can realize the automatic direct detection and has higher practical breeding application values. The method and the kit of the invention can be applied to breed grices, early select grices to be selected, effectively solve the problem of long time for selecting excellent grices in practical production, decrease the breeding expense, increase the total sow farrow number and improve the economic benefits.

The present invention provides methods for producing allele libraries and vectors for producing these libraries. The present invention also provides methods of identifying interaction domains between proteins. The vectors, kits, and methods of the present invention suitably utilize recombinational cloning to efficiently generate and screen full-length mutant alleles of target sequences of interest.

Compositions and methods for producing a plant population lacking sexually derived embryos are provided. Compositions include suppression cassettes encoding polynucleotides and promoters resulting in parthenogenesis. Further provided are parthenogenesis genetic elements used to prevent sexual reproduction in self-reproducing plants.

Methods include: utilizing maternal embryo defective recessive mutations which are maintained as a sterile inbred maintenance system, allowing generation of populations that are homozygous for recessive mutant alleles, but transgenically complemented. Methods include utilizing a toxin genes expressed via egg-cell specific promoters, creating a dominant, embryo-less phenotypes, non-transmittable through female gametes. Resultant hemizygous plants are transformed with egg-cell promoters driving the antidote, a pollen ablation PTU and a seed color marker for identification of transgenic seed. The generation of a plants 50% female fertile, having seed which when grown in the next generation will yield plants with 50% viable transgenic seed, and 50% non-viable embryo-less seed.

The present invention relates generally to the field of human genetics. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods and materials used to isolate and detect human diabetes mellitus predisposing gene, specifically the angiotensinogen (AGT) gene, some mutant alleles of which cause susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). More specifically, the invention relates to gernline mutations in the AGT gene and their use in the diagnosis of predisposition to diabetes. The invention also relates to the prophylaxis and/or therapy of diabetes associated with a mutation in the AGT gene. The invention further relates to the screening of drugs for diabetes therapy. Finally, the invention relates to the screening of the AGT gene for mutations, which are useful for diagnosing the predisposition to diabetes.

The invention discloses the detection of two novel single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites of a promoter region of a sheep myostatin (MSTN) gene, and the establishment of a detection method thereof. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, determining two mononucleotide mutational sites of the promoter region of the sheep myostatin gene, wherein the two mononucleotide mutational sites are positioned in a GeneBank sequence, the registry number is DQ530260, and the SNP sites (-959T/C, -784G/A) are positioned at -959th site and -784th site according to an initial codon ATG and comprise 6 genotypes (TT, TC, CC, GG, GA, AA); 2, detecting three specific primers of the mutant allele, wherein the lengths of the three specific primers are 22bp, 22bp and 21bp respectively, the first primer is used for the sequencing of the promoter region of the MSTN gene, and the second and third primers are bonded onto template strands of two mutant alleles respectively and are amplified to target genes obtained by the mutation of the alleles; and 3, performing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification on genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of a sample by a designed oligonucleotide primer, performing enzyme digestion analysis on products which are amplified to 985bp and 121bp fragments by utilizing Psp1406I and Rsa I restriction enzymes, and establishing a PCR-RFLP detection system of the SNP sites so as to obtain the polymorphism of the two mononucleotide mutational sites.