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ArticleChembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology2014

Recombinase-based isothermal amplification of nucleic acids with self-avoiding molecular recognition systems (SAMRS).

Nidhi Sharma, Shuichi Hoshika, Daniel Hutter, Kevin M Bradley, Steven A Benner

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Article in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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Nidhi SharmaFoundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, P.O. Box 13174, Gainesville FL 32604 (USA).
Shuichi Hoshika
Daniel Hutter
Kevin M Bradley
Steven A Benner

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Abstract

Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) is an isothermal method to amplify nucleic acid sequences without the temperature cycling that classical PCR uses. Instead of using heat to denature the DNA duplex, RPA uses recombination enzymes to swap single-stranded primers into the duplex DNA product; these are then extended using a strand-displacing polymerase to complete the cycle. Because RPA runs at low temperatures, it never forces the system to recreate base-pairs following Watson-Crick rules, and therefore it produces undesired products that impede the amplification of the desired product, complicating downstream analysis. Herein, we show that most of these undesired side products can be avoided if the primers contain components of a self-avoiding molecular recognition system (SAMRS). Given the precision that is necessary in the recombination systems for them to function biologically, it is surprising that they accept SAMRS. SAMRS-RPA is expected to be a powerful tool within the range of amplification techniques available to scientists.

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Polymerase Chain ReactionTemperatureNucleic AcidsRecombinasesNucleic AcidsRecombinasesisothermal amplificationnucleotide analoguesoligonucleotidespolymerase chain reactionrecombinase polymerases

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PMID25209570
PMCPMC7162014

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