Highly Reproducible Absolute Quantification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex by Digital PCR
2015
Digital PCR (dPCR) offers absolute quantification through the limiting dilution of template nucleic acid molecules and has the potential to offer high reproducibility. However, the robustness of dPCR has yet to be evaluated using complex genomes to compare different dPCR methods and platforms. We used DNA templates from the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis to evaluate the impact of template type, master mixes, primer pairs and, crucially, extraction methods on dPCR performance. Performance was compared between the chip (BioMark) and droplet (QX100) formats. In the absence of any external calibration, dPCR measurements were generally consistent within ∼2-fold between different master mixes and primers. Template DNA integrity could influence dPCR performance: high molecular weight gDNA resulted in underperformance of one master mix, while restriction digestion of a low molecular weight sample also caused underestimation. Good concordance (≤1.5-fold difference) was observed between chip and droplet format...
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- Restriction digest
- Digital polymerase chain reaction
- Primer (molecular biology)
- Limiting
- Analytical chemistry
- Real-time polymerase chain reaction
- Molecular biology
- Polymerase chain reaction
- Chemistry
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Chromatography
- absolute quantification
- Template
- extraction methods
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