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Semi-quantitative Detection of RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase Activity of Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Protein
Published on: June 12, 2018
A Pt-nanoparticle electrocatalytic assay used for PCR-free sensitive telomerase detection
Zhijun Zhang1, Li Wu, Jiasi Wang
1Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Division of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. xqu@ciac.ac.cn.
Abstract:
An electrocatalytic assay was developed for telomerase activity detection by using superior catalytic properties of Pt nanoparticles. This design was PCR-free, and highly sensitive for telomerase with a detection limit of less than 2 cells.

