What's the difference between primer and template?

Primer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, primes
  • (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
  • (a.) First; original; primary.
  • (n.) Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
  • (n.) A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
  • (n.) A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (2) Elongation of existing RNA primers by the human polymerase-primase was semi-processive; following primer binding the DNA polymerase continuously incorporated 20 to 50 nucleotides, then it dissociated from the template DNA.
  • (3) This cDNA was obtained because of an identical 10 bp match with the 3' end of one of the GnRH primers.
  • (4) When PCR products in each of the 12 cats were subjected to a second amplification using the same primer pair (two-step amplification: double PCR), FIV proviral DNA was detected in all of the cats.
  • (5) In junctions, 3' PSS termini are preserved by fill-in DNA synthesis, although their 5' recessed ends cannot serve as a primer.
  • (6) Previous studies demonstrated that, when poly(dT).oligo(dA) was used as a template-primer, both proteins were required for poly(dA) synthesis.
  • (7) 5'-Ends of transcripts of the region were located by S1 nuclease mapping and primer extension.
  • (8) Nucleotide incorporation kinetics were determined and sequence specific pausing was analyzed by primer-extension.
  • (9) Primer extension and S1 nuclease protection analysis demonstrate that the hepatic and kidney specific mRNAs are transcriptionally initiated at different sites within the sialyltransferase gene.
  • (10) alpha 1 and alpha 2 were very similar as DNA polymerases in their sensitivity to several inhibitors and their preference for template-primers, except that alpha 1 had a slightly greater preference for poly (dT) X (rA)10 than alpha 2 did.
  • (11) Our results indicate that provirus expression occurs by two different mechanisms: one provirus acquired a single base pair mutation in the retrovirus tRNA primer binding site, permitting provirus expression; expression of three proviruses was mediated by 5'-flanking DNA sequences.
  • (12) Cognate sites in genomes that diverged approximately 100 million years ago can be detected by PCR assays based on primer pairs from unique sequences.
  • (13) HDV cDNA was then directly amplified with Taq polymerase using three pairs of specific primers.
  • (14) This reaction involved the synthesis of a short oligoribonucleotide primer which was then extended into a DNA chain.
  • (15) cDNA was prepared by reverse transcription of peripheral blood mRNA and amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers corresponding to sequences 400 bp apart on the cDNA, spanning the last three exons (X, Y, Z) of the beta-Sp gene.
  • (16) B.subtilis phage M2 uses a protein, instead of RNA, as the primer of its DNA replication.
  • (17) Optimum specific amplification resulted when the primer annealing temperature was 60 degrees C. The gene fragment was amplifiable in 25 different Brucella species and strains.
  • (18) Primer extension experiments show that in fission yeast transcripts are initiated at the same starting point as in tomato, indicating for the first time that a plant promoter can be correctly recognized in fission yeast.
  • (19) Genomic clones for the mouse estrogen receptor have been isolated from a cosmid library and used in conjunction with the cDNA clones to study the expression of the receptor in vivo by RNase mapping, primer extension, and Northern blotting.
  • (20) By using primer 1 (5'-AAAGAATTCATGGAATCCAGGATCTG-3', upstream nucleotides 157 to 2877), primer 2 (5'-AAAGAATTCATGAACGTGAAGGAATCG-3', upstream nucleotides 1846 to 2877), and primer 4(5'-ATAAAGCTTAATCAGACGTTCTCTTCTTC-3', downstream nucleotides 157 to 2877 and 1846 to 2877), the HCMV B gene code region sequence and its glycoprotein 52 kd antigenic domain sequence were amplified from the recombinant plasmid pBH1 DNA containing the HCMV B gene.

Template


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Templet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
  • (2) The RNA polymerase activity was tested after the solubilization and chromatographic resolution of the three types of polymerases with exogenous template.
  • (3) Gene 4 protein does not catalyze the hydrolysis of NTPs in the presence of duplex DNA, nor can T7 DNA polymerase use duplex DNA as a template.
  • (4) Elongation of existing RNA primers by the human polymerase-primase was semi-processive; following primer binding the DNA polymerase continuously incorporated 20 to 50 nucleotides, then it dissociated from the template DNA.
  • (5) Lysates of cells were compared to purified DNA as PCR template.
  • (6) Infidelity of replication is a hallmark of the HIV-1 RT, and replication errors by the enzyme on RNA and DNA templates are discussed.
  • (7) This suggested that carcinogen-induced error incorporation during DNA synthesis was restricted solely to the treatment of a deoxynucleotide template.
  • (8) Globin cDNA was used as the template for the synthesis of a complementary strand (ccDNA) by avian myeloblastosis virus DNA polymerase.
  • (9) In some cases, effective transcription requires supercoiling of such mutant template.
  • (10) Previous studies demonstrated that, when poly(dT).oligo(dA) was used as a template-primer, both proteins were required for poly(dA) synthesis.
  • (11) VZV TK templates were linearized at internal restriction sites and RNAs transcribed from these templates directed the synthesis of polypeptides with sizes consistent with the colinearity of the VZV TK gene.
  • (12) alpha 1 and alpha 2 were very similar as DNA polymerases in their sensitivity to several inhibitors and their preference for template-primers, except that alpha 1 had a slightly greater preference for poly (dT) X (rA)10 than alpha 2 did.
  • (13) DNA membrane complexes from sucrose gradients, as well as the crude M-band preparation and a non-membrane-associated DNA fraction from nuclei can synthesize DNA in vitro without the addition of an external DNA template or DNA polymerase.
  • (14) Parameters affecting assembly of these complexes were sequences in circular DNA templates, sizes and sequences of linear DNA templates, temperature and incubation time.
  • (15) Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that termination of DNA synthesis occurred at least as frequently opposite as 3' to a modified deoxyguanosine in the template.
  • (16) This modification improves the convergence properties of the network and is used to control a switch which activates the learning or template formation process when the input is "unknown".
  • (17) While it has been possible to readily produce large numbers of such templates from M13 or other single-stranded vectors for several years, the sequencing of double-stranded DNA templates using the ABI 373 DNA Sequencer has had a considerably lower success rate.
  • (18) The predominant activity is that of a DNA polymerase preferring a DNA-RNA hybrid as the template.
  • (19) The sites for replication stoppage as well as the lack of a Mn2+ effect on adducted templates have implications for the mechanisms of mutagenesis by activated AFB1.
  • (20) Synthesis with denatured DNA as template presumably proceeds from 3'-hydroxyl termini formed at loop-back regions since the synthesized DNA product and template are covalently linked.