Efficiency of peptide nucleic acid-directed PCR clamping and its application in the investigation of natural diets of the Japanese eel leptocephali.

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-clamping using blocking primer and DNA-analogs, such as peptide nucleotide acid (PNA), may be used to selectively amplify target DNA for molecular diet analysis. We investigated PCR-clamping efficiency by studying PNA position and mismatch with complementary DNA by de...

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Main Authors: Takeshi Terahara, Seinen Chow, Hiroaki Kurogi, Sun-Hee Lee, Katsumi Tsukamoto, Noritaka Mochioka, Hideki Tanaka, Haruko Takeyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3206044?pdf=render