Research Article

Nucleic Acid, Antibody, and Virus Culture Methods to Detect Xenotropic MLV-Related Virus in Human Blood Samples

Figure 1

XMRV single-copy assay (X-SCA). X-SCA primers anneal to conserved regions in XMRV/MLV gag leader region while the probe spans a 24 nt deletion in XMRV compared to MLV (a) allowing for differential amplification profiles for XMRV and MLV (b). X-SCA amplification products run on a 2% agarose gel distinguish between the products being amplified since the XMRV product is 24 nt smaller than the MLV product. Lane 1 is the X-SCA product from the XMRV standard curve, Lane 2 is the MLV product from the genomic DNA extracted from TA3.Cyc-T1 mouse cells, and Lane 3 is the “no template” negative control (c).
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