摘要:
To provide a method of making measurements for a sample on the measuring surfaces of a substrate which makes it possible to simplify the control and construction of a measuring device, shorten the measuring period, make the measuring conditions constant, and improve the positional accuracy. The method and a device for carrying out the method are characterized in that measurements for the sample is performed by forming a circular orbit of detection areas, where detection is performed with a detector, on the measuring surfaces of the substrate while moving the detection areas relative to the substrate.
摘要:
To provide a method of efficiently removing excitation light in a device for measuring fluorescence emitted from samples on a measuring surface of a substrate while illuminating the samples with excitation light.The method is a fluorometry characterized in that an excitation light illumination portion where the samples are illuminated with the excitation light and a light detecting portion where measurements are made of the fluorescence are placed in such a manner as to make it possible to prevent the excitation light from approaching the light detecting portion, and measurements of the fluorescence emitted from the samples on the measuring surface of the substrate are made in such a manner as to relatively move the samples from the excitation light illumination portion to the light detecting portion after illuminating the same with the excitation light.
摘要:
A liquid discharging device includes a plurality of liquid discharge sections. Each liquid discharge section includes a reservoir, a nozzle that discharges a solution supplied from the reservoir, and discharge energy generating means that generates energy to discharge the solution from the nozzle. The number of the liquid discharge sections corresponds to the number of probe types to be formed. The nozzles are two-dimensionally arranged. Using this liquid discharging device, probe liquids are discharged from the corresponding reservoirs onto a solid-phase substrate to form a predetermined two-dimensional probe array of high-purity probes on the substrate. This process exhibits high reproducibility and processability, and the resulting probe array has high array density.
摘要:
A probe array comprises a plurality of probes immobilized at a plurality of matrix sites on a substrate for capturing a target substance, wherein the probes are sequentially synthesized at the matrix sites on the substrate until a desired length, the probes are different from each other, and a labeling compound is coupled to each terminus of the probes in a final step of the synthesis. The probe array of the invention allows sensitive and reliable detection of the target substance. A method of evaluating the amount of the fully synthesized probes at respective matrix sites is also provided.
摘要:
Provided is a method for performing a hybridization reaction that comprises the steps of providing a sample containing a target single-stranded nucleic acid and a probe array; heat-denaturing the probe array in a solution containing the sample; and reducing temperature to the extent suitable for a double-strand formation reaction, wherein the probe array remains immersed in the sample solution during reducing the temperature. Also disclosed is a method for detecting a certain sequence in a sample.
摘要:
A method for screening presence or absence of a variation in a region of a nucleic acid which comprises the steps of (a) preparing a sample containing a test nucleic acid corresponding to the region, (b) preparing a probe having a base sequence fully complementary to a normal sequence of the region, and a plurality of probes each having at least one base not complementary to the normal sequence, (c) fixing the probes in separate regions on a surface of a substrate to prepare a DNA array substrate, (d) reacting the test nucleic acid with the probes on the DNA array substrate, (e) measuring signals in each region where the signals are originated from respective hybrids formed between the test nucleic acid and one of the probes, and (f) calling variation in the test nucleic acid using a pattern of total signals of all regions.
摘要:
A method for identifying an unknown base sequence present in a target single-stranded nucleic acid utilizing a probe array in which single-stranded nucleic acid probes are arranged as isolated spots on a substrate, where each probe has a base sequence complementary to one of the plural base sequences expected to be the unknown base sequence, and a fluorescence pattern of a sample on the probe array is compared with template patterns to identify the base sequence of the sample.
摘要:
A method for identifying an unknown base sequence present in a target single-stranded nucleic acid utilizing a probe array in which single-stranded nucleic acid probes are arranged as isolated spots on a substrate, where each probe has a base sequence complementary to one of the plural base sequences expected to be the unknown base sequence, and a fluorescence pattern of a sample on the probe array is compared with template patterns to identify the base sequence of the sample.
摘要:
A method for dry detection/quantification of targeted nucleotide chains, comprising the steps of:(1) realizing a state in which a hybrid (C) of a certain amount of targeted nucleotide chain (A), which is derived from a sample solution and subjected to detection or quantification, and a probe nucleotide chain (B), which has a base sequence complementary to a specific site of the base sequence of the targeted nucleotide chain, is formed on a solid-phase substrate by mutually reacting the two types of nucleotide chains with each other, and in which there exists a fluorescence dye (D), which acts on the hybrid (C), thereby emits fluorescence or increases its fluorescence intensity, and is capable of continuing to emit fluorescence even in the dried state while acting on the hybrid;(2) drying the hybrid (C) and the fluorescence dye (D) on the substrate; and(3) measuring the fluorescence emitted from the fluorescence dye (D), as a measuring means, after the drying operation.
摘要:
A reaction site array to be used in conducting a plurality of reactions between two or more kinds of substances in a liquid medium with a trace amount is provided. The reaction site array comprises a plurality of reaction sites separated each other, each of the reaction sites is composed of a first region and a second region, the second region is raised from the first region to separate the first regions each other, and the first region has an affinity to the liquid medium and the second region has an affinity to the liquid medium lower than that of the first region. A preparation process of the reaction site array and a reaction process using the reaction site array are also provided.