摘要:
A compound of the following formula: Ea—La—X—Lb—Eb in which each of Ea and Eb independently is a group having oxidation-reduction activity and having a conjugated system in its group; X is a divalent cyclic group; and each of La and Lb independently is a group which does not form a conjugated system in combination with the conjugated system of each of Ea and Eb and at least one of which has a site imparting water solubility to the compound or a site that is convertible into a site imparting water solubility to the compound, is favorably employable as an electroconductive threading intercalator in an electrochemical method for detecting complementary DNA fragments.
摘要:
A method of analyzing a nucleic acid fragment sample to judge whether the nucleic acid fragment sample is uncomplementary, partly complementary or complementary to a DNA fragment in its specific base sequence is conducted by the steps of: bringing an aqueous solution of the nucleic acid fragment sample into contact with a DNA chip having an electroconductive substrate and the DNA fragment fixed onto the substrate in the presence of an electrochemical thread intercalator; measuring an electric current flowing from or to the electroconductive substrate along the DNA fragment under application of a potential to the substrate; and comparing the electric current measured above with a referential electric current which is prepared employing a DNA chip equivalent to the above DNA chip, the intercalator, and an aqueous solution of a nucleic acid fragment which is complementary to the DNA fragment of the DNA chip.
摘要:
A method of detecting nucleic acid fragments in plural samples is performed by the steps of: attaching an electroconductive label to nucleic acid fragments in one sample and attaching a different electroconductive label to nucleic acid fragments in another sample; preparing a mixture of these samples; spotting the mixture on an electroconductive microarray having plural electrodes onto which probe molecules complementary to the nucleic acid fragments are fixed, so that hybridization between the nucleic acid fragments and the probe molecules on the electroconductive microarray can proceed to form hybrid structures; applying to the electrode an electric potential corresponding to the oxidation-reduction potential of the former label and detecting on the electrode an electric current; applying to the electrode an electric potential corresponding to the oxidation-reduction potential of the latter label and detecting on the electrode an electric current; and comparing the electric current detected in the former detecting procedure and that detected in the latter detecting procedure.
摘要:
A DNA chip (or PNA chip) composed of a solid carrier and plural DNA fragments (or PNA fragments) fixed onto is the solid carrier at each one end, wherein a plurality of short chain spacer molecules having a hydrophilic moiety at each one end are fixed at each another end onto a surface of the solid carrier having no DNA fragments (or no PNA fragments) on its surface is effective for high sensitive quantitative analysis of a nucleic acid fragment complementary to the DNA fragment (or PNA fragment).
摘要:
A water-soluble fluorescent intercalator compound having the formula: F—La—X F is a fluorescent moiety, X is a divalent cyclic group, and La is a linking group, and at least one of X and La has a site imparting water solubility to the compound or a site that is convertible into a site imparting water solubility to the compound is favorably employable as a fluorescent intercalator in a method for fluorometrically detecting complementary DNA fragments.
摘要:
A reactive solid carrier favorably employable for manufacturing DNA chip is composed of a solid carrier and a plurality of vinylsulfonyl groups or their reactive precursors each of which is fixed onto a surface of the solid carrier by covalent bonding via a linking group, and a method for producing a DNA chip is performed by bringing the reactive solid carrier into contact with nucleotide derivatives or their analogues having a reactive group which is reactive with the vinylsulfonyl group or reactive precursor fixed to the solid carrier.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for analyzing a target nucleic acid fragment which can be simply and swiftly carried out by using a small apparatus, a kit for analyzing a target nucleic acid fragment using the method for analysis, and a dry analytical element for quantifying pyrophosphoric acid. The present invention provides a method for analyzing pyrophosphoric acid generated upon polymerase elongation reaction based on certain nucleotide sequence of a target nucleic acid, a kit for analysis for carrying out the above mentioned method for analysis, and a dry analytical element for quantifying pyrophosphoric acid.
摘要:
A method of producing a porous membrane, the method comprising: casting a polymer solution, in which a polymer is dissolved in a mixture of a good solvent, a poor solvent and a non-solvent, over a support, so as to form a casted polymer solution; drying the casted polymer solution, so as to form a cast film; and subjecting the cast film to a phase separation, wherein the porous membrane is produced under a condition where a temperature of a casted surface is lower than a temperature of the polymer solution, and each of a temperature change of the polymer solution and a temperature change of the casted surface is kept within ±3.0° C.
摘要:
The present invention is a method for isolating and purifying a nucleic acid, where generation of foams is able to be suppressed whereby the isolation and purification of a nucleic acid are easily and efficiently carried out, the method for isolating and purifying a nucleic acid comprising the step of: (1) contacting a sample solution containing nucleic acid to a solid phase to adsorb the nucleic acid onto the solid phase; (2) contacting a washing solution to the solid phase to wash the solid phase in such a state that the nucleic acid is adsorbed; and (3) contacting an elution solution to the solid phase to desorb the nucleic acid, wherein the sample solution containing nucleic acid contains an antifoaming agent.
摘要:
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for separation and purification of nucleic acid, which has excellent separating properties, high washing efficiency, and easy processability, which uses mass-producible solid phases with substantially uniform separating capacities, and wherein procedures can be automated, and a unit for separation and purification of nucleic acid suitable for implementing this method. The object of the present invention was attained by a method for separation and purification of nucleic acid comprising the steps of adsorbing nucleic acid onto a solid phase and desorbing the nucleic acid from the solid phase, wherein the solid phase comprises a base material in which a graft polymer chain having a hydrophilic group is bonded onto the surface; and a unit for separation and purification of nucleic acid which comprises, in a container having at least two openings, a solid phase of a base material in which a graft polymer chain having a hydrophilic group is bonded onto its surface.