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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Enzymol. 2014 Dec 5;550:23–39. doi: 10.1016/bs.mie.2014.10.030

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Coupled ligand-dependent ligation and ligand-independent exponential amplification. An aptazyme (Eapt) catalyzes ligand-dependent ligation of two substrates (A1 and A2-B) to form seed copies of the self-replicating RNA enzyme (Eseed), which then initiate exponential amplification utilizing substrates A and B.