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+[[!meta title="Capture and Amplification by Tailing and Switching (CATS). An ultrasensitive ligation-independent method for generation of DNA libraries for deep sequencing from picogram amounts of DNA and RNA."]]
+[[!tag template_switching amplification method]]
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+RNA Biol. 2014;11(7):817-28. doi:10.4161/rna.29304
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+Turchinovich A, Surowy H, Serva A, Zapatka M, Lichter P, Burwinkel B.
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+Capture and Amplification by Tailing and Switching (CATS). An ultrasensitive ligation-independent method for generation of DNA libraries for deep sequencing from picogram amounts of DNA and RNA.
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+[[!pmid 24922482 desc="Pre-treatment by T4 PNK was needed when using circulating plasma RNA, probably because of phosphate or cyclo-phosphates at the 3′ end (caused by RNA cleavage). RT primer concentration scaled down according to the RNA amoounts (0.1 µM for 1 ng and 0.1 nM for 5 pg). TSO concentration: 1 µM."]]