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Home >> Biotechnology and Genomics >> DNA-Based Molecular Markers in Biotechnology >>Random Amplified Microsatellite Retroposon Micro Satellite Amplified Polymorphism

Random amplified microsatellite polymorphism (RAMP) and retroposon-micro­satellite amplified polymorphism (REMAP).

In this approach, amplification is performed using a pair of primers, of which one primer is an anchored microsatellite (SSR) and the other primer can be either a RAPD primer (as in RAMP) or a retroposon L TR primer (as in REMAP.

In a study, in barely, while using REMAP, Copia-specific BARE-I primer (BARE-1 retroposon was isolated from barely) was used with an anchored SSR primer, so that the acronym copia-SSR was used for this technique.

In both these approaches (RAMP and REMAP), the amplified products resolve length polymorphism that may be present either at the SSR target site itself, or at the associated sequence between the binding sites of the two primers.

The RAPD/retroposon primer binding site actually serves as an arbitrary endpoint for the SSR-based specific, amplified sequence, as its is with ISAIISSR, where a single anchored primer is used.

The amplified products may also be digested with a restriction enzyme, to resolve further the polymorphism, so that it is then described as 'digested RAMPs (dRAMPs)' as done in barley.

The merit of RAMP and REMAP lies in the fact that undigested total genomic DNA is used as a template, instead of preamplified restriction digested DNA that is used in AFLP/SAMPLIS-SAP (to be discussed in the next section).

 

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