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Template secondary structure promotes polymerase jumping during PCR amplification.

V K Viswanathan1, K Krcmarik, N P Cianciotto

  • 1Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

Biotechniques
|September 18, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Investigating Legionella pneumophila mutants revealed unexpected polymerase chain reaction (PCR) product sizes. This anomaly in mini-transposon (Tn10) insertion sites resulted from secondary DNA structures, not insertion size.

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