Reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibition of PCR at low concentrations of template and its implications for quantitative RT-PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 669-677

  Chandler, Darrell P ^a   Wagnon, Christina A ^a   Bolton Jr , Harvey ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS; NOSTOC;

EID: 0031889693     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.669-677.1998     Document Type: Article

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