Multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived DNA oligonucleotides

While the cost of DNA sequencing has dropped by five orders of magnitude in the past decade, DNA synthesis remains expensive for many applications. Although DNA microarrays have decreased the cost of oligonucleotide synthesis, the use of array-synthesized oligos in practice is limited by short synth...

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Main Authors: Klein, Jason C., Lajoie, Marc J., Schwartz, Jerrod J., Strauch, Eva-Maria, Nelson, Jorgen, Baker, David, Shendure, Jay
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797260/
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spelling pubmed-47972602016-03-21 Multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived DNA oligonucleotides Klein, Jason C. Lajoie, Marc J. Schwartz, Jerrod J. Strauch, Eva-Maria Nelson, Jorgen Baker, David Shendure, Jay Methods Online While the cost of DNA sequencing has dropped by five orders of magnitude in the past decade, DNA synthesis remains expensive for many applications. Although DNA microarrays have decreased the cost of oligonucleotide synthesis, the use of array-synthesized oligos in practice is limited by short synthesis lengths, high synthesis error rates, low yield and the challenges of assembling long constructs from complex pools. Toward addressing these issues, we developed a protocol for multiplex pairwise assembly of oligos from array-synthesized oligonucleotide pools. To evaluate the method, we attempted to assemble up to 2271 targets ranging in length from 192–252 bases using pairs of array-synthesized oligos. Within sets of complexity ranging from 131–250 targets, we observed error-free assemblies for 90.5% of all targets. When all 2271 targets were assembled in one reaction, we observed error-free constructs for 70.6%. While the assembly method intrinsically increased accuracy to a small degree, we further increased accuracy by using a high throughput ‘Dial-Out PCR’ protocol, which combines Illumina sequencing with an in-house set of unique PCR tags to selectively amplify perfect assemblies from complex synthetic pools. This approach has broad applicability to DNA assembly and high-throughput functional screens. Oxford University Press 2016-03-18 2015-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4797260/ /pubmed/26553805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv1177 Text en © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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author Klein, Jason C.
Lajoie, Marc J.
Schwartz, Jerrod J.
Strauch, Eva-Maria
Nelson, Jorgen
Baker, David
Shendure, Jay
spellingShingle Klein, Jason C.
Lajoie, Marc J.
Schwartz, Jerrod J.
Strauch, Eva-Maria
Nelson, Jorgen
Baker, David
Shendure, Jay
Multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived DNA oligonucleotides
author_facet Klein, Jason C.
Lajoie, Marc J.
Schwartz, Jerrod J.
Strauch, Eva-Maria
Nelson, Jorgen
Baker, David
Shendure, Jay
author_sort Klein, Jason C.
title Multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived DNA oligonucleotides
title_short Multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived DNA oligonucleotides
title_full Multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived DNA oligonucleotides
title_fullStr Multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived DNA oligonucleotides
title_full_unstemmed Multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived DNA oligonucleotides
title_sort multiplex pairwise assembly of array-derived dna oligonucleotides
description While the cost of DNA sequencing has dropped by five orders of magnitude in the past decade, DNA synthesis remains expensive for many applications. Although DNA microarrays have decreased the cost of oligonucleotide synthesis, the use of array-synthesized oligos in practice is limited by short synthesis lengths, high synthesis error rates, low yield and the challenges of assembling long constructs from complex pools. Toward addressing these issues, we developed a protocol for multiplex pairwise assembly of oligos from array-synthesized oligonucleotide pools. To evaluate the method, we attempted to assemble up to 2271 targets ranging in length from 192–252 bases using pairs of array-synthesized oligos. Within sets of complexity ranging from 131–250 targets, we observed error-free assemblies for 90.5% of all targets. When all 2271 targets were assembled in one reaction, we observed error-free constructs for 70.6%. While the assembly method intrinsically increased accuracy to a small degree, we further increased accuracy by using a high throughput ‘Dial-Out PCR’ protocol, which combines Illumina sequencing with an in-house set of unique PCR tags to selectively amplify perfect assemblies from complex synthetic pools. This approach has broad applicability to DNA assembly and high-throughput functional screens.
publisher Oxford University Press
publishDate 2016
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797260/
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