Alleviating cell lysate-induced inhibition to enable RT-PCR from single cells in picoliter-volume double emulsion droplets
M. Khariton, C. McClune, K. K. Brower, S. Klemm, E. Sattely, P. M. Fordyce, B. Wang
This study addresses RT-PCR inhibition in picoliter double emulsion droplets by identifying lysate-induced probe cleavage as the main issue and showing heat lysis can alleviate it, enabling single-cell PCR in 20 pL droplets.
bioRxiv · Aug 16, 2022Bioengineering