They produced about two-thirds less of the messenger RNA templates for the hormone leptin, which controls appetite and is overproduced in insulin-resistant people.
An internal calibrant consisting of synthetic nucleic acid template is also included in each well for both assays which controls for false negatives (eg. from PCR inhibitors) and enables a semi-quantitative analysis of the amount of template DNA present.
Histone H3, Spt16, and Rpb3 ChIP signals for each gene were normalized to a No ORF control template, which is located within a region of chromosome V that lacks open reading frames (Komarnitsky et al. 2000).
A template which did not contain recognizable CTCF sites served as a negative control (lanes 11 12).
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To test whether nested PCR amplification of SDHB significantly distorts the starting fraction of mutant cDNAs, we amplified control plasmid templates which contained pre-determined fractions of mutant DNAs and quantified the percentage of mutant molecules by TaqI RE digestion and capillary gel electrophoresis.
Each run also included a no template control which was left uncapped throughout the process to control for contamination, and 3 no-template controls which were used to establish the baseline of the PCR reaction.
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The ubiquitin10 (UBQ10) gene was used as an internal template control, which was amplified using 5'-GGT ATT CCT CCG GAC CAG CAG C-3' and 5'-CGA CTT GTC ATT AGA AAG AAA GAG ATA ACA GGA ACG G-3' as primers for 22 cycles.
Traditional MCM-41 MSNs were also synthesised as a control, using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as a pore templating agent, which was subsequently removed via 3 post-synthesis washes and calcination37.
