Compartmentalization in a water-in-oil emulsion repressed the spontaneous amplification of RNA by Qβ replicase

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1809-1813

  Urabe, Hiroya ^a   Ichihashi, Norikazu ^a   Matsuura, Tomoaki ^a   Hosoda, Kazufumi ^a   Kazuta, Yasuaki ^a   Kita, Hiroshi ^b   Yomo, Tetsuya ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL PHASE; GENOMIC RNA; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; RNA REPLICATION; WATER IN OIL EMULSIONS;

AMPLIFICATION; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; GENES; RATE CONSTANTS;

RNA;

INTRALIPID; QBETA REPLICASE; RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPARTMENTALIZATION METHOD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOME; HUMAN; KINETICS; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION;

ALLOLEVIVIRUS; EMULSIONS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OILS; Q BETA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; WATER;

EID: 77749289998     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901805u     Document Type: Article

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