Selected publications

1. Shagina I., Bogdanova E., Mamedov I., Lebedev Y., Lukyanov S., Shagin D. (2010). Normalization of genomic DNA using duplex-specific nuclease. BioTechniques 48 (6), 351–355 [+]

   An application of duplex-specific nuclease (DSN) normalization technology to whole-genome shotgun sequencing of genomes with a large proportion of repetitive DNA is described. The method uses a thermostable DSN from the Kamchatka crab that specifically hydrolyzes dsDNA. In model experiments on human genomic DNA, we demonstrated that DSN normalization of double-stranded DNA formed during C0t analysis is effective against abundant repetitive sequences with high sequence identity, while retaining highly divergent repeats and coding regions at baseline levels. Thus, DSN normalization applied to C0t analysis can be used to eliminate evolutionarily young repetitive elements from genomic DNA before sequencing, and should prove invaluable in studies of large eukaryotic genomes, such as those of higher plants.

2. Bogdanov A.M., Bogdanova E.A., Chudakov D.M., Gorodnicheva T.V., Lukyanov S., Lukyanov K.A. (2009). Cell culture medium affects GFP photostability: a solution. Nat. Methods 6 (12), 859–60
3. Shcherbo D., Merzlyak E.M., Chepurnykh T.V., Fradkov A.F., Ermakova G.V., Solovieva E.A., Lukyanov K.A., Bogdanova E.A., Zaraisky A.G., Lukyanov S., Chudakov D.M. (2007). Bright far-red fluorescent protein for whole-body imaging. Nat. Methods 4 (9), 741–6 [+]

   A novel fluorescent protein Katushka with far-red emission preferable for signal registration inside animal tissues was created. Katushka is 10 fold brighter than other far-red proteins and is also characterized with fast maturation, high pH-stability and photostability. This constellation of properties makes it an instrument of choice for in vivo labeling of particular cells within whole organisms. A monomeric variant of Katushka named mKate was introduced for intracellular protein localization studies.

4. Shagin D.A., Rebrikov D.V., Kozhemyako V.B., Altshuler I.M., Shcheglov A.S., Zhulidov P.A., Bogdanova E.A., Staroverov D.B., Rasskazov V.A., Lukyanov S. (2002). A novel method for SNP detection using a new duplex-specific nuclease from crab hepatopancreas. Genome Res. 12 (12), 1935–42 [+]

   A new enzyme — Duplex-Specific Nuclease from Camchatka crab hepatopancreas — was found and characterized. DSN is highly specific to double-strand DNA and exhibits no activity against single-strand DNA and RNA in a wide temperature range. Its unique properties make it a perfect tool for eliminating double-strand DNA from complex mixtures of nucleic acids.