Preface ...................................................... v
Contributors ................................................ xi
I Introduction
1 Basic Principles of Fluorescence and Energy Transfer ......... 3
Larry E. Morrison
II Applications
2 Multiplex Detection of Mutations ............................ 23
David S. Perlin, Sergey Balashov, and Steven Park
3 Detection of Salmonella Species in Foodstuffs ............... 33
Arvind A. Bhagwat, Jitu Patel, Trina Chua, Audrey Chan,
Saúl Ruiz Cruz, and Gustavo A. González Aguilar
4 Identification of Homozygous Transgenic Mice by Genomic
Real-Time PCR ............................................... 45
Gunter Schmidtke and Marcus Groettrup
5 Quantitative Analysis of Gene Expression Relative to 18S
rRNA in Carcinoma Samples Using the LightCycler®
Instrument and a SYBR Greenl-based Assay: Determining
FAT10 mRNA Levels in Hepatocellular Carcinoma ............... 59
Sebastian Lukasiak, Kai Breuhahn, Claudia Schiller, Gunter
Schmidtke, and Marcus Groettrup
6 Absolute Quantitation of Feline Leukemia Virus Proviral
DNA and Viral RNA Loads by TaqMan® Real-Time PCR and
RT-PCR ...................................................... 73
Valentino Cattori and Regina Hofmann-Lehmann
7 High-Throughput Real-Time PCR ............................... 89
Thomas D. Schmittgen, Eun Joo Lee, and Jinmai Jiang
8 Design and Use of Scorpions Fluorescent Signalling
Molecules ................................................... 99
Rachael Carters, Jennifer Ferguson, Rupert Gaut, Paul
Ravetto, Nicola Thelwell, and David Whitcombe
9 Hybridization Probe Pairs and Single-Labeled Probes: an
Alternative Approach for Genotyping and Quantification ..... 117
Thomas Froehlich and Oliver Geulen
III New Technologies
10 EasyBeaconsTM for the Detection of Methylation Status
of Single CpG Duplets ...................................... 137
Ulf B. Christensen
11 Quenched Autoligation Probes ............................... 161
Adam P. Silverman, Hiroshi Abe, and Eric T. Kool
12 HyBeacon® Probes for Rapid DNA Sequence Detection and
Allele Discrimination ...................................... 171
David J. French, David G. McDowell, Paul Debenham,
Nittaya Gale, and Tom Brown
13 FIT-Probes in Real-Time PCR ................................ 187
Elke Socher and Oliver Seitz
14 SNP Genotyping by Unlabeled Probe Melting Analysis ......... 199
Maria Erali, Robert Palais, and Carl Wittwer
IV Non-Nucleic Acid Targets
15 Molecular Beacons for Protein —DNA Interaction Studies ..... 209
Jun Li, Zehui Charles Cao, Zhiwen Tang, Kemin Wang, and
Weihong Tan
16 DNA Polymerase Profiling ................................... 225
D. Summerer
17 Modular Reporter Hairpin Ribozymes for Analyzing
Molecular Interactions ..................................... 237
S. Hani Najafi-Shoushtari and Michael Famulok
18 Screening of Molecular Interactions Using Reporter
Hammerhead Ribozymes ....................................... 251
Jörg S. Hartig and Michael Famulok
Index ...................................................... 265
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