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  MICROARRAY MEETING 2002: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MUTATION DETECTION AND GENE EXPRESSION
Segrate, MI (Italy), April 12, 2002
 

Minerva Biotecnologica 2002 December;14(3-4):269-71

Copyright © 2003 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

lingua: Inglese

Ligation detection reaction and universal array for detection and identification of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

Mezzelani A. 1, Bordoni R. 1, Consolandi C. 2, Rossi Bernardi L. 2, Frosini A. 2, Castiglioni B. 3, Rizzi E. 1, Marchitelli R. 4, Marmiroli N. 4, Corradini R. 4, Germini A. 4, Battaglia C. 2, De Bellis G. 1

1 Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Council of Research, Segrate, Milan, Italy; 2 Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 3 Institute of Agriculture Biology and Biotechnology, National Council of Research, Milan, Italy; 4 University of Parma, Parma, Italy


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Recent­ly, genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied ­plants, organ­isms con­tain­ing ali­en DNA ­which con­fers to the nov­el ­plants advan­ta­geous char­ac­ter­is­tics, ­were intro­duced in agri­cul­ture and ­then in the ­food ­chain. For ­this rea­son, ­intense pub­lic and polit­i­cal ­debate are ­held ­about ­them and how ­they ­relate to envi­ron­men­tal, ­food and ­feed safe­ty. ­Since the Euro­pe­an ­Union ­allows impor­ta­tion ­only to genetically modified (GM)-­maize and GM-soy­bean and for­bid to cul­ti­vate ­GMOs in ­Europe, it is of pri­mary impor­tance the pos­sibil­ity to ­detect, iden­ti­fy and quan­ti­fy genetically modified organism (GMO) in the nov­el ­food. To ­this pur­pose the Euro­pe­an ­Union has ­financed a 3 ­years pro­ject, ­named “DNA-­TRACK”, in ­order to devel­op and val­i­date tech­niques for ­these ­kinds of inspec­tions. Liga­tion Detec­tion Reac­tion cou­pled to micro­ar­ray tech­nique can be a use­ful ­tool for detec­tion, iden­tifi­ca­tion and quan­tifi­ca­tion of dif­fer­ent ­GMOs in a sin­gle experi­ment. To ­date, we suc­cess­ful­ly devel­oped a uni­ver­sal DNA-micro­ar­ray ­able to ­detect and iden­ti­fy the GM-Round­up ­Ready Soy­bean. As ­soon as the oth­er ­GMOs sequenc­es ­will be avail­able, (­GMOs sequenc­es are pat­ent­ed and so dif­fi­cult to ­obtain), a com­plete DNA-micro­ar­ray ­will be devel­oped and test­ed to iden­ti­fy and quan­ti­fy the GMO con­tent of raw mate­ri­al or ­foods.

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