SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
...RNA samples are amplified by PCR instead of RPA. Unlike RPA, this technique uses Taq polymerase which is...isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) using a commercially available amplification kit...regions of gene S and Orf1ab gene are amplified. RPA reactions also contain reverse transcriptase to produce...fluorescence upon cleavage. Upon amplification by the RPA primers, the Cas12a-crRNA binds to the complementary...nucleic acids, the target sequence is amplified by PCR/RPA using biotinylated primers. These are then immobilized...