Highly specific unnatural base pair systems as a third base pair for PCR amplification

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2793-2806

  Yamashige, Rie ^a   Kimoto, Michiko ^a,b   Takezawa, Yusuke ^a   Sato, Akira ^a   Mitsui, Tsuneo ^b   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,c   Hirao, Ichiro ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TagCyx Biotechnologies   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 NITRO 4 PROPYNYLPYRROLE; 7 (2 THIENYL)IMIDAZO[4,5 B]PYRIDINE; DNA POLYMERASE; PYRIDINE; PYRROLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE PAIRING; IMIDAZOLES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRIDINES; PYRROLES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84858990884     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1068     Document Type: Article

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