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. 2015 Mar 30;10(3):e0120889. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120889

Fig 1. Single-cell MALBAC-RNA amplification diagram.

Fig 1

After reverse transcription, primers with 7 random nucleotides at the 3’ end are annealed to the cDNA template at 4°C, then extended by DNA polymerase with strand displacement activity as temperature is increased. Amplicons are then melted off the original template after DNA extension, and looped at 58°C to protect themselves from being further amplified thanks to their 5’ ends being complementary to their 3’ ends. This MALBAC-RNA step includes a total of 10 cycles of quasilinear amplification, followed by another 19 cycles of PCR.