High GC contents of primer 5'-End increases reaction efficiency in polymerase chain reaction

Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 324-330

  Shinoda, Naoki ^a   Yoshida, Tomotaro ^a   Kusama, Toyoko ^a   Takagi, Masami ^a   Hayakawa, Toshiaki ^a   Onodera, Takashi ^b   Sugiura, Katsuaki ^a  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS INSPECTION CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplification efficiency; Polymerase chain reaction; Primer sequence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAW MEAT; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GC RICH SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 70449637990     PISSN: 15257770     EISSN: 15322335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15257770902963400     Document Type: Article

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