Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving nucleic acid
Patent
1995-09-15
1997-12-23
Myers, Carla J.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving nucleic acid
435 5, 436172, 935 77, 935 78, C12Q 168, C12Q 170
Patent
active
057006466
ABSTRACT:
A method of identifying pathogens, comprising the steps of forming a micrhere having a fluorescent compound attached thereto as a solid matrix for the fluorescent compound. A single strand of DNA is immobilized on the matrix to form a probe, and prior to that a short complementary central piece is formed with a fluorescent compound labelled on one end thereof which joins the central piece to the probe. The two strands bind to form a microsphere/probe complex which is subjected to contact with a complementary strand of an unknown sample to displace the centrally attached probe appendage to provide an increase in fluorescent signal indicative of the emission maxima of the dye in the microsphere to verify the similarity of the unknown sample with known members of the complex. It will be noted that transfer of resonant energy between the complex and the unknown sample identifies the presence of an antigen an adhesin or an antibody, the transfer occurring by use of two fluorescent compounds, one of which absorbs energy at substantially the same wavelength as the other emits energy. Similarly, the presence of a particular sequence of DNA in the unknown sample is determined by fabricating the complementary strand, lysing the organism, splitting the strand of DNA and mixing the resulting probe with the unknown sample, whereby junction of the two strands is affirmed by a chemical signal from the fluorescent dye.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4766062 (1988-08-01), Diamond
patent: 5232830 (1993-08-01), Van Ness
Biffoni Ulysses John
Callaghan John E.
Goldberg Edward
Myers Carla J.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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