摘要:
This invention provides a nucleic acid amplification device whereby the abundance of a target molecule can be maintained before and after a step of separately amplifying a sample such that highly accurate analysis results that can be applied to gene expression analysis can be obtained. Also, a nucleic acid amplification device having a structure in which a plurality of minute reaction cells each comprising a set of a bead-retaining space capable of retaining a single analysis bead and a reagent reaction space retaining no bead but having a volume that is large enough to cause a reagent reaction therein are positioned so as to form a planar face is provided.
摘要:
A chemiluminescence detecting apparatus includes a thing called a plate where many reaction chambers are one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally arranged, and enzymes packed in a gel and DNA-immobilized beads are simultaneously charged into the reaction chambers, thereby trapping a large amount of enzymes in the reaction chambers, improving enzyme activity and achieving high sensitive pyrosequencing.
摘要:
This invention provides a nucleic acid amplification device whereby the abundance of a target molecule can be maintained before and after a step of separately amplifying a sample such that highly accurate analysis results that can be applied to gene expression analysis can be obtained. Also, a nucleic acid amplification device having a structure in which a plurality of minute reaction cells each comprising a set of a bead-retaining space capable of retaining a single analysis bead and a reagent reaction space retaining no bead but having a volume that is large enough to cause a reagent reaction therein are positioned so as to form a planar face is provided.
摘要:
Throughput is improved by increasing the number of micro-reaction chambers. There is provided a chemiluminescent detection system that has a so-called plate on which many reaction chambers are one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally arranged, characterized in that optical detection is performed using a line or area sensor having many detection pixels, the spacing of the optical detection pixels substantially matches the spacing of the reaction chambers on the plate, and the micro-reaction chambers and the pixels are made to correspond one-to-one with each other so that light from the reaction chambers on the plate enters the detection pixels most efficiently and does not scatter to other pixels. To make the micro-reaction chambers arrayed on the plate and the pixels of the image pickup element plate correspond one-to-one with each other, light-emitting substances or reflectors or photoabsorption substances are placed so as to serve as alignment marks.
摘要:
It is an object to provide a method of suitably analyzing the amount of gene expression of a single-cell.A method of detecting a nucleic acid comprising a step of sampling a single-cell from a sample containing at least a single-cell, a cell lysis step of lysing cell membrane of the sampled single-cell and extracting nucleic acids from the cell, a DNase treatment step of degrading DNA of the extracted nucleic acids with DNase, a step of hybridizing mRNA of the total RNA contained in the single-cell with oligo (dT) fixed onto a carrier, a step of performing reverse transcription of the mRNA hybridized with the oligo (dT) to fix cDNA derived from the single-cell onto the carrier, thereby preparing a single-cell derived cDNA library fixed onto a carrier, and a step of amplifying cDNA fixed onto the carrier and simultaneously detecting an amplification amount of the cDNA.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method for analyzing a nucleotide sequence comprising the steps of: carrying out complementary strand synthesis by adding at least one of four kinds of ddNTP corresponding to nucleotides A, G, T, and C, or derivatives thereof to a reaction vessel containing a nucleic acid sample to extend one nucleotide at a target site; performing a bioluminescent reaction with the use of ATP formed from released pyrophosphate as a reaction substrate; and typing the target site by determining the presence or absence of the complementary strand synthesis based on a result of the bioluminescent reaction. The method of the present invention allows multiplex SNPs to be typed in one reaction vessel
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide a luminescence detection apparatus compact in size which is capable of conveniently determining DNA base sequences at a low cost. According to the present invention, a luminescence detection apparatus 1 is provided comprising: a plurality of reaction cells 6 each having a transparent bottom portion; a solution-dispensing portion 19 equipped with capillaries 18 positioned above the reaction cells 6 and put into a one-to-one correspondence with the reaction cells 6; and a light-detecting portion 29 having a plurality of light-sensing elements 24 put into a one-to-one correspondence with the reaction cells 6 and arranged in proximity to the bottom surfaces of the reaction cells 6, wherein the a plurality of light-sensing elements 24 of the light-detecting portion 29 detect respective luminescences in the reaction cells 6 generated by injecting reagent solutions from the solution-dispensing portion 19 to the reaction cells 6.
摘要:
It is intended to provide a technique for amplifying, individually and in parallel, nucleic acids contained in a mixture of plural kinds of nucleic acid samples. The present invention provides a nucleic acid analysis method comprising amplification means, whereby amplification reaction is performed in a reaction solution comprising a homogeneous solvent and comprising at least plural template nucleic acids and solid phase carriers comprising one or more kinds of amplification probes immobilized on the surface, to prevent amplified products attributed to two or more template nucleic acids from being replicated in one solid phase carrier. According to the present invention, plural kinds of analyte nucleic acid samples in a mixed state can be amplified individually and in parallel. This method achieves one solid phase carrier-one nucleic acid. Therefore, a higher density of solid phase carriers with obtained amplified products is easily achieved, leading to improved throughput of amplified product analysis. Reactions in all the amplification reaction steps are performed under homogeneous solvent conditions. Therefore, the method of the present invention is performed by convenient procedures and as such, is suitable to automation.
摘要:
By the conventional technique for dispensing more than one reagents accurately, the system is complicated and thus a compact and inexpensive system is difficult to realize. In the present invention, the pressurized dispensing system utilizing a capillary is realized, and in addition, in order to reduce the leakage of reagents different from the reagent dispensed, by forming air layers at the tips of the capillaries after dispensing, a compact, simple, inexpensive analysis apparatus is realized.