Specific suppression of false-positive signals in the product-enhanced reverse transcriptase assay

BioTechniques

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 210-217

  Lugert, Raimond ^a   König, Herbert ^a   Kurth, Reinhard ^a   Tönjes, Ralf R ^a,b  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Paul Ehrlich lnstitut   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BROMOVIRUS; DNA; DNA POLYMERASE I; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; ONCOVIRINAE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0030023835     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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