1Department of Immunology, Waiter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20307-5100; 2Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Toronto Hospital and The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2C4 In vitro transcription and translation are powerful tools for examining the s t ructure-funct ion relationships of proteins. Genes can be cloned into plasmid v...

We present a protocol for effi cient amplifi cation of a large number of DNA targets using a single-tube polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based on PCR suppression. This method allows amplifi cation of each DNA target with only one target-specifi c primer whereas the other primer is common for all targets. Thus, this approach requires n+1 primers for n targets instead of 2n in conventional PCR an...