METHOD FOR SYNTHESISING AND AMPLIFYING NUCLEIC ACIDS

摘要

The invention relates to a method for synthesising and amplifying nucleic acids by means of an enzyme-catalysed reaction wherein a nucleic acid is copied on the basis of a single-stranded initiator nucleic acid without said initiator nucleic acid hybridising with the nucleic acid being copied. According to the inventive method, a linear nucleic acid is copied on the basis of an initiator nucleic acid with a single-stranded area at least at the 3' end, through the activity of a polymerase. The initiator nucleic acid does not need to be homologous with the nucleic acid being copied.