TaqMan® Protein Assays Core Reagents Base Kit contains the reagents required to perform the ligation and PCR amplification steps of TaqMan® protein expression experiments. The Universal PCR Assay contains optimized concentrations of TaqMan® probe and oligonucleotide primers (forward and reverse) that are designed to amplify a region of the protease-treated ligation product for detection on an Applied Biosystems real-time PCR system.