Title
DePIE: Designing Primers for Protein Interaction Experiments.
Abstract
Several primer prediction and analysis programs have been developed for diverse applications. However, none of these existing programs can be directly used for the design of primers in protein interaction experiments, since proteins may have transmembrane domains (TMDs) and/or a signal peptide that must be excluded from experiments. Furthermore, it is frequently the case that a short restriction sequences must be added to each primer in order to clone PCR products into a given destination vectors for expression. DePIE, a web-based primer design tool, was developed to address these deficiencies. The program takes as input NCBI protein accession numbers and returns primer information including nucleotide sequences, thermodynamic melting temperature of the nucleotide sequences and the target positions. DePIE is implemented in JAVA, PERL and PHP and has proven to be very efficient in designing primers for our interaction experiments. DePIE services can be accessed at the web site: http://biocore.unl.edu/primer/primerPI.html.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1093/nar/gkg577
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
proteins,polymerase chain reaction,signal peptide,internet,nucleotide sequence,dna primers,sequence analysis,transmembrane domain
Transmembrane domain,Biology,Accession number (library science),Protein Sorting Signals,Primer (molecular biology),Signal peptide,Genetics,Molecular biology,Java,Perl,Sequence analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
13.0
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guoqing Lu131.80
Michael T. Hallett247942.87
Stephanie Pollock300.34
David Thomas4115.59