摘要:
A method is provided for determining a concentration of a target nucleic acid by using a nucleic acid probe labeled with a fluorescent dye. The method comprises:
providing, as the probe, a nucleic acid probe capable of reducing fluorescence emission from the fluorescent dye when hybridized with the target nucleic acid; hybridizing the probe to the target nucleic acid; and measuring a decrease in fluorescence emission from the fluorescent dye after the hybridization relative to fluorescence emission from the fluorescent dye before the hybridization.
摘要:
Nucleic acid probes are provided, each of which is formed of a single-stranded oligonucleotide which can hybridize to a target nucleic acid and is labeled with a fluorescent dye or with a fluorescent dye and a quencher substance. The nucleic acid probes can be easily designed, permit determination, polymorphous analysis or real-time quantitative PCR of nucleic acids in short time, and are not dissociated during reactions. Nucleic acid determination methods, polymorphous analysis methods and real-time quantitative PCR methods, which make use of the nucleic acid probes, are also provided.
摘要:
A novel nucleic acid probe for simultaneously assaying nucleic acids with a simple apparatus in case where one or more nucleic acids are present in the assay system, characterized in that, in a single-stranded nucleic acid probe labeled with a plural number of fluorescent pigments so as to form at least one pair of fluorescent pigments causing the FRET phenomenon (i.e., a fluorescent pigment capable of serving as a donor pigment and another fluorescent pigment capable of serving as an acceptor pigment), the base sequence is designed so that the fluorescent intensity of the acceptor pigment is weakened when the probe is hybridized with the target nucleic acids, and the above pigments are labeled.