TY  - JOUR
A1  - Shibata, H
A1  - Tahira, T
A1  - Hayashi, K
T1  - RNA-primed PCR.
Y1  - 1995/11/01 
JF  - Genome Research 
JO  - Genome Research 
SP  - 400 
EP  - 403 
DO  - 10.1101/gr.5.4.400 
VL  - 5 
IS  - 4 
UR  - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/5/4/400.abstract 
N2  - We show that RNA can serve as a primer in PCR. Use of rTth DNA polymerase is essential because it has strong reverse transcriptase activity. RNA primers can be obtained by in vitro transcription and are less costly than DNA primers, which are chemically synthesized. RNA-primed PCR also opens the possibility that a specific amplification reaction can be achieved in the absence of knowledge of the target nucleotide sequence. 
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