GenotypingCryptococcus neoformansvar. neoformans with specific primers designed from PCR-fingerprinting bands sequenced using a modified PCR-based strategy

Selecting specific PCR primers with MFEprimer.

Selecting specific primers is crucial for polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Nonspecific primers will bind to unintended genes and result in nonspecific amplicons. MFEprimer is a program for checking the specificity of PCR primers against the background DNA. In this chapter, we introduce: (1) the factors that affect the specificity of primers; (2) the principle of MFEprimer and its settings; (3) ...

PCR with arbitrary primers

High-throughput expression-PCR using universal plasmid-specific primers.

PCR-based identification of Erysiphe pulchra and Phyllactinia guttata from Cornus florida using ITS-specific primers

The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of rDNA and the intervening 5.8S rRNA gene for the powdery mildew fungi Erysiphe (sect. Microsphaera) pulchra and Phyllactinia guttata were amplified using standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocols and the universal primer pairs, ITS1 and ITS4. PCR products for ITS were analysed by electrophoresis in a 1.5% agarose gel and sequenced. The si...

Multiplex allele-specific PCR with optimized locked nucleic acid primers.

The ease and advantages of allelespecific PCR (AS-PCR) for SNP genotyping, along with the difficulty of assay specificity with certain mismatched DNA primers, have been described in prior studies (1–3). More recently, the use of real-time PCR detection formats has been described for one or both alleles of AS-PCR (4–6). These detection enhancement methods do not overcome the inherent difficultie...