Serious overestimation in quantitative PCR by circular (supercoiled) plasmid standard: microalgal pcna as the model gene.

Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) has become a gold standard for the quantification of nucleic acids and microorganism abundances, in which plasmid DNA carrying the target genes are most commonly used as the standard. A recent study showed that supercoiled circular confirmation of DNA appeared to su...

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Main Authors: Yubo Hou, Huan Zhang, Lilibeth Miranda, Senjie Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2832698?pdf=render