Properties of the Reverse Transcription Reaction in mRNA Quantification
Author(s) -
Anders Ståhlberg,
Joakim Håkansson,
Xiaojie Xian,
Henrik Semb,
Mikael Kubista
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2003.026161
Subject(s) - reverse transcriptase , reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction , microbiology and biotechnology , gene expression , transcription (linguistics) , biology , gene , complementary dna , general transcription factor , transcription factor ii d , chemistry , rna , promoter , genetics , linguistics , philosophy
In most measurements of gene expression, mRNA is first reverse-transcribed into cDNA. We studied the reverse transcription reaction and its consequences for quantitative measurements of gene expression.
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