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A method for the separation of complementary strands with the help of the biotin-avidin system is described. Restriction fragments were terminally labeled at both ends with biotinylated nucleotides. The DNA was cut by a second restriction enzyme, and the fragments were bound to an avidin agarose column. The non-biotinylated strands were eluted with 0.1 M NaOH, and the biotin-labeled strands were subsequently released from the column by elution with 50% guanidine isothiocyanate/formamide. Contamination of the separated strands by complementary single strands was less than 4%.-Separated linear single strands of the vector pEMBL were prepared. On annealing with recombinant circular DNA a substitution loop is formed which provides position and orientation markers for the unambiguous electron microscopic analysis of heteroduplexes or hybrids formed with the inserted sequences. -The terminal biotin label was visualized by complex formation with a streptavidin-ferritin conjugate.
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