| Title: | Assessment of the real-time PCR and different digital PCR platforms for DNA quantification |
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| Authors: | ID Pavšič, Jernej (Author)
ID Žel, Jana (Author)
ID Milavec, Mojca (Author) |
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| Files: |  PDF - Presentation file, download (1,19 MB)
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 URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-015-9107-2
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  NIB - National Institute of Biology
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| Abstract: | Digital PCR (dPCR) is beginning to supersede real-time PCR (qPCR) for quantification of nucleic acids in many different applications. Several analytical properties of the two most commonly used dPCR platforms, namely the QX100 system (Bio-Rad) and the 12.765 array of the Biomark system (Fluidigm), have already been evaluated and compared with those of qPCR. However, to the best of our knowledge, direct comparison between the three of these platforms using the same DNA material has not been done, and the 37 K array on the Biomark system has also not been evaluated in terms of linearity, analytical sensitivity and limit of quantification. Here, a first assessment of qPCR, the QX100 system and both arrays of the Biomark system was performed with plasmid and genomic DNA from human cytomegalovirus. With use of PCR components that alter the efficiency of qPCR, each dPCR platform demonstrated consistent copy-number estimations, which indicates the high resilience of dPCR. Two approaches, one considering the total reaction volume and the other considering the effective reaction size, were used to assess linearity, analytical sensitivity and variability. When the total reaction volume was considered, the best performance was observed with qPCR, followed by the QX100 system and the Biomark system. In contrast, when the effective reaction size was considered, all three platforms showed almost equal limits of detection and variability. Although dPCR might not always be more appropriate than qPCR for quantification of low copy numbers, dPCR is a suitable method for robust and reproducible quantification of viral DNA, and a promising technology for the higher-order reference measurement method. |
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| Keywords: | real-time PCR, molecular diagnostics, human cytomegalovirus, DNA quantification, digital PCR |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.01.2016 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2016 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 107-121 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 408, iss. 1 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-19699  |
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| UDC: | 577.2 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1618-2642 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s00216-015-9107-2 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 3649615 |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 25.07.2024 |
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| Views: | 368 |
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