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Construction of a human heart cDNA library and identification of cardiovascular based genes (CVBest)

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Novel Methods in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry of Muscle

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The availability of high quality cDNA libraries is often crucial to the successful identification and characterization of genes. The concepts and potential pitfalls of constructing cDNA libraries are presented. Various applications requiring high quality cDNA libraries are outlined, including large-scale single pass sequencing of cDNA clones to generate expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and differential screening of cDNA libraries. The usefulness of combining such approaches for the discovery of novel disease-related and cardiovascular-based ESTs (CVBest) is discussed. (Mol Cell Biochem 172: 81–87, 1997)

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Abbreviations

EST:

expressed sequence tag

CVBest:

cardiovascular-based expressed sequence tag

DEPC:

diethylpyrocarbonate

ss:

single-stranded

ds:

double stranded

RE:

restriction endonuclease

dNTP:

deoxynucleoside triphosphate

ddNTP:

dideoxynucleoside triphosphate

DMSO:

dimethyl sulfoxide

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Liew, C.C. et al. (1997). Construction of a human heart cDNA library and identification of cardiovascular based genes (CVBest). In: Pierce, G.N., Claycomb, W.C. (eds) Novel Methods in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry of Muscle. Developments in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6353-2_8

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