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US 8,476,014 B2Granted
Probe and method for DNA detection
AssigneeLos Alamos National Security, LLC
InventorsHsin-Chih Yeh, James Henry Werner, Jaswinder Kumar Sharma, Jennifer Suzanne Martinez
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Abstract
A hybridization probe containing two linear strands of DNA lights up upon hybridization to a target DNA using silver nanoclusters that have been templated onto one of the DNA strands. Hybridization induces proximity between the nanoclusters on one strand and an overhang on the other strand, which results in enhanced fluorescence emission from the nanoclusters.
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A probe for detecting a target DNA having a nucleotide sequence, the probe comprising:
- a first strand having
- (i) a nucleotide sequence that complements, and can hybridize with, a first portion of the nucleotide sequence of the DNA target,
- (ii) an end portion nucleotide sequence that does not hybridize with the DNA target and comprises templated fluorescent metal nanoclusters, and
- and a second strand having
- (iii) a nucleotide sequence that complements, and can hybridize with, a second portion of the nucleotide sequence of the target DNA, and
- (iv) an end portion nucleotide sequence that comprises a sequence that does not hybridize with the target DNA target and would enhance the fluorescence emission from the nanoclusters if it were in sufficient proximity to the nanoclusters,
- wherein upon hybridizing the first strand and second strand of the probe to the target DNA, the proximity of the end portion of the second strand enhances the fluorescence emission from the nanoclusters.
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A method for detecting a DNA target, comprising:
- providing a DNA target comprising a first nucleotide sequence and a second nucleotide sequence near the first nucleotide sequence,
- providing a probe for detecting the DNA target, the probe including a first strand having
- (i) a nucleotide sequence portion that complements, and can hybridize with, the first nucleotide sequence of the DNA target,
- (ii) an end portion that does not hybridize with the DNA target and comprises templated fluorescent metal nanoclusters,
- and a second strand having
- (iii) a nucleotide sequence portion that complements, and can hybridize with, the second nucleotide sequence of the DNA target, and
- (iv) an end portion that does not hybridize with the DNA target and would enhance the fluorescence emission from the nanoclusters if it were in sufficient proximity to the nanoclusters,
- hybridizing the first strand of the probe to the first nucleotide sequence of the DNA target and hybridizing the second strand of the probe to the second nucleotide sequence of the DNA target, which results in fluorescence emission from the nanoclusters, furthermore wherein hybridization results in the end portion of the second strand being in sufficient proximity to the nanoclusters to further enhance fluorescence emission from the nanoclusters, and
- detecting the enhanced fluorescence emission.
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A duplex comprising:
- a target DNA;
- a first strand comprising a first portion hybridized to the target DNA and a second portion not hybridized to the target DNA and comprising an oligonucleotide sequence having at least one guanine, and
- a second strand comprising a first portion hybridized to the target DNA and a second portion not hybridized to the target DNA and comprising silver nanoclusters,
- wherein the second portion of the first strand is in sufficiently close proximity to the silver nanoclusters to enhance the fluorescence emission of the silver nanoclusters.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.