Biology – Quantitative Biology – Biomolecules
Scientific paper
2006-07-18
Phys. Rev. E 73, 063901 (2006)
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Biomolecules
2 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.73.063901
In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. E 68, 011906 (2003)], Naef and Magnasco suggested that the "bright" mismatches observed in Affymetrix microarray experiments are caused by the fluorescent molecules used to label RNA target sequences, which would impede target-probe hybridization. Their conclusion is based on the observation of "unexpected" asymmetries in the affinities obtained by fitting microarray data from publicly available experiments. We point out here that the observed asymmetry is due to the inequivalence of RNA and DNA, and that the reported affinities are consistent with stacking free energies obtained from melting experiments of unlabeled nucleic acids in solution. The conclusion of Naef and Magnasco is therefore based on an unjustified assumption.
Barkema Gerard T.
Carlon Enrico
Heim Thomas
Wolterink Joanne Klein
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