Specificity-enhanced hot-start PCR: Addition of double-stranded DNA fragments adapted to the annealing temperature

BioTechniques

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 278-282

  Kainz, Peter ^a   Schmiedlechner, Angela ^a   Strack, Hans Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; TAQ POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; THERMUS AQUATICUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0033967153     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/00282st04     Document Type: Article

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