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+[[!meta title="5' RACE by tailing a general template-switching oligonucleotide."]]
+[[!tag template_switching method library]]
+
+Shi X, Kaminskyj SG.
+
+Biotechniques. 2000 Dec;29(6):1192-5 doi:10.2144/00296bm07
+
+5' RACE by tailing a general template-switching oligonucleotide.
+
+[[!pmid 11126119 desc="Generate a collection of TSOs by TdT tailing DNA oligos with GTP. As the lengh of the G tail is variable, it is thought to be more suited to the template switching on cDNAs where the C tail is also variable in length."]]
cDNAs with dA, and add 5′ linkers with T4 DNA ligase and duplex adapters
ending with a (T)TTTGGG overhang.
+ - Noticing that the length of the dC tail on the first-strand cDNA is varialbe,
+ [[Shi and Kaminskyj (2000)|biblio/11126119]] prepared collections of TSOs
+ with variable rG tail length, using TdT.
+
- In SMART (switching mechanism at the 5′ end of the RNA transcript), [[Zhu,
- Machleder, Chenchik, Li and Siebert (2001)]] , first-strand cDNAs are
+ Machleder, Chenchik, Li and Siebert (2001)|biblio/11314272]] , first-strand cDNAs are
prepared with rGrGrG TSOs containing a SfiIB site and oligo-dT RT primers
containing a SfiIA site. Second-strand synthesis with low-cycle PCR, followed
with standard cloning methods.