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+[[!meta title="Highly efficient single-stranded DNA ligation technique improves low-input whole-genome bisulfite sequencing by post-bisulfite adaptor tagging."]]
+[[!tag method ligase]]
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+Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 May 22. pii: gkz435. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz435
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+Miura F, Shibata Y, Miura M, Sangatsuda Y, Hisano O, Araki H, Ito T.
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+Highly efficient single-stranded DNA ligation technique improves low-input whole-genome bisulfite sequencing by post-bisulfite adaptor tagging.
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+[[!pmid desc="Add a A-tail with TdT before ligation, because ligase prefers As."]]
linker to RNA ends, thus prevents unwanted ligation products
([[Viollet et al., 2011|biblio/21722378]]).
-DNA and RNA ligases can be used to adenylylate a substrate.
+DNA and RNA ligases can be used to [[adenylylate|adenylylation]] a substrate.
- [[McLaughlin, Piel and Graeser (1985)|biblio/3978074]] noted that
adenylylated RNA is a better substrate for T4 RNA ligase, and that
better tolerated with higher GC content and lower temperature. Surprisingly,
TNA overhangs were especially hard to ligate.
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+## Methods using ligases:
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+(works continuously in progress)
+ - TACS (terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-assisted adenylate
+ connector-mediated ssDNA) tails DNA with As using the TdT, in order to
+ benefit from the ligase's preference for As ([[Miura and coll.,
+ 2019|biblio/31114914]]).
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