Unnatural base pair systems for sensing and diagnostic applications

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 321-331

  Kimoto, Michiko ^a,b   Cox, Robert Sidney ^a   Hirao, Ichiro ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TagCyx Biotechnologies   (Japan)

Author keywords

diagnostic PCR; DNA synthetic biology; hybridization; molecular beacon; nucleobase analog; real time PCR; unnatural base pair

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR BEACON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW;

BASE PAIRING; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOSIDES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79953888771     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: 17448352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erm.11.5     Document Type: Review

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