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Advances in quantitative PCR technology: 5' nuclease assays.
Current opinion in biotechnology - 1 Feb 1998
Lie Y S, Petropoulos C J
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The development of 5' nuclease assays represents a significant advance in nucleic acid quantitation. This approach utilizes the 5'-3' exonuclease activity of Thermus aquaticus (Taq) polymerase to cleave a dual-labelled probe annealed to a target sequence during amplification. The release of a fluorogenic tag from the 5' end of the probe is proportional to the target sequence concentration (copy number), and can...
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