1Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health, Tuskegee University, Analysis, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA 2Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mercer University Atlanta Campus, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 3Thompson-Bishop-Sparks State Diagnostic Laboratory, Auburn, Alabama, USA 4Department of Animal Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA 5Center for Computational Epi...

1Department of Immunology, Waiter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20307-5100; 2Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Toronto Hospital and The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2C4 In vitro transcription and translation are powerful tools for examining the s t ructure-funct ion relationships of proteins. Genes can be cloned into plasmid v...

We present a protocol for effi cient amplifi cation of a large number of DNA targets using a single-tube polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based on PCR suppression. This method allows amplifi cation of each DNA target with only one target-specifi c primer whereas the other primer is common for all targets. Thus, this approach requires n+1 primers for n targets instead of 2n in conventional PCR an...

I n the last few years, molecular hybridization methods have been used extensively in basic and applied virology because of their technical flexibility and high specificity. Using these techniques, the detection of DNA and RNA viruses directly from clinical specimens, the analysis of the specific transcriptional activity of viral genes in vitro and in vivo, and the study of virus-host relations...