RT-PCR difficulty - PLEASE HELP!!!!!

[Taek H. You]

In article <tyou.320.321E9A69 at postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu> tyou at postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Taek H. You) writes:
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>Subject: Re: RT-PCR difficulty - PLEASE HELP!!!!!
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>In article <Pine.OSF.3.93.960821121627.6082B-100000 at alpha.Colorado.EDU> Tonja
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>>From: Tonja Burshek <burshek at ibg.colorado.edu>
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>>Subject: RT-PCR difficulty - PLEASE HELP!!!!!
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>>        Background:  We are trying to reverse transcribe (following DNase
>>digestion and clean-up) using an anchored poly-T primer, followed by PCR

>Is this poly-T a RNA primer or you mean a poly-dT primer?                       
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>>using the same poly-T paired with a 10-mer.

>Can you use the same primer in PCR as in RT?
>It must be a poly-dA primer to be annealed to the poly-T sequence used in cDNA 
>synthesis.

>>        Upon many moons of optimization IT WORKED BEAUTIFULLY!!!

>If I am correct, that the beautiful product might turn out to be the 
>ugly nonspecific (unwanted) product.

>Overall, am I missing anything or misunderstanding?


I've made a mistake on this.
I only thought about PCR, not considering RT reaction.
Did you used a specific primer in PCR?