In pyrosequencing (which employs instrumentation made by 454 Life Sciences, Inc. and also called 454 sequencing), segments of the DNA are immobilized on the surfaces of microscopic plastic beads (one DNA molecule per bead) that are deposited in small wells in a fiber-optic slide with one bead per well. A primer and DNA polymerase are added, and then a dNTP is introduced. If DNA polymerase adds that nucleotide to the growing DNA strand, pyrophosphate is released and undergoes a chemical reaction involving the firefly enzyme luciferase, which generates a flash of light. A detector records whether light is produced in the presence of a particular dNTP. In this way, the sequence of nucleotides complementary to the template strand can be deduced, and no electrophoretic separation is needed. Pyrosequencing can accurately determine reads of up to 700 nucleotides, somewhat shorter than the reads determined by chain-terminator sequencing. The fiber-optic slides contain numerous wells so that as many as ~1 million templates can be sequenced simultaneously. Consequently, the pyrosequencing system is ~1000-fold faster than the most advanced chain-terminator sequencing systems.
In pyrosequencing (which employs instrumentation made by 454 Life Sciences, Inc. and also called 454 sequencing), segments of the DNA are immobilized on the surfaces of microscopic plastic beads (one DNA molecule per bead) that are deposited in small wells in a fiber-optic slide with one bead per well. A primer and DNA polymerase are added, and then a dNTP is introduced. If DNA polymerase adds that nucleotide to the growing DNA strand, pyrophosphate is released and undergoes a chemical reaction involving the firefly enzyme luciferase, which generates a flash of light. A detector records whether light is produced in the presence of a particular dNTP. In this way, the sequence of nucleotides complementary to the template strand can be deduced, and no electrophoretic separation is needed. Pyrosequencing can accurately determine reads of up to 700 nucleotides, somewhat shorter than the reads determined by chain-terminator sequencing. The fiber-optic slides contain numerous wells so that as many as ~1 million templates can be sequenced simultaneously. Consequently, the pyrosequencing system is ~1000-fold faster than the most advanced chain-terminator sequencing systems.
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