Processes for quantitative or qualitative detection of single-stranded or double-stranded nucleic acids
First Claim
1. A process for detecting qualitatively or quantitatively the presence of a single-stranded or double-stranded nucleic acid of interest in a sample, said process comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing(i) a sample suspected of containing said nucleic acid of interest;
(ii) an oligonucleotide primer that comprises(A) a nucleic acid sequence complementary to at least a portion of said nucleic acid of interest; and
(B) one or more fluorescent first energy transfer elements;
(iii) a nucleic acid binding agent comprising one or more second energy transfer elements, wherein said nucleic acid binding agent is sequence independent;
(iv) reagents for carrying out nucleic acid strand extension, said reagents comprising deoxynucleotides;
(b) forming a reaction mixture comprising (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above;
(c) contacting under hybridization conditions said oligonucleotide primer (ii) in said composition with said nucleic acid of interest;
(d) extending said oligonucleotide primer with said deoxynucleotides to form a primer-extended sequence;
(e) binding said nucleic acid binding agent (iii) to said primer-extended sequence or to a complex comprising said nucleic acid of interest and said primer-extended sequence; and
(f) detecting the presence or quantity of said nucleic acid of interest by means of energy transfer between said first energy transfer element of said oligonucleotide primer and said second energy transfer element of said nucleic acid binding agent (a)(iii) bound to said primer-extended sequence or to said complex in step (e).
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Abstract
This invention provides for compositions for use in real time nucleic acid detection processes. Such real time nucleic acid detection processes are carried out with energy transfer elements attached to nucleic acid primers, nucleotides, nucleic acid probes or nucleic acid binding agents. Real time nucleic acid detection allows for the qualitative or quantitative detection or determination of single-stranded or double-stranded nucleic acids of interest in a sample. Other processes are provided by this invention including processes for removing a portion of a homopolymeric sequence, e.g., poly A sequence or tail, from an analyte or library of analytes. Compositions useful in carrying out such removal processes are also described and provided.
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104 Claims
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1. A process for detecting qualitatively or quantitatively the presence of a single-stranded or double-stranded nucleic acid of interest in a sample, said process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing (i) a sample suspected of containing said nucleic acid of interest; (ii) an oligonucleotide primer that comprises (A) a nucleic acid sequence complementary to at least a portion of said nucleic acid of interest; and (B) one or more fluorescent first energy transfer elements; (iii) a nucleic acid binding agent comprising one or more second energy transfer elements, wherein said nucleic acid binding agent is sequence independent; (iv) reagents for carrying out nucleic acid strand extension, said reagents comprising deoxynucleotides; (b) forming a reaction mixture comprising (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above; (c) contacting under hybridization conditions said oligonucleotide primer (ii) in said composition with said nucleic acid of interest; (d) extending said oligonucleotide primer with said deoxynucleotides to form a primer-extended sequence; (e) binding said nucleic acid binding agent (iii) to said primer-extended sequence or to a complex comprising said nucleic acid of interest and said primer-extended sequence; and (f) detecting the presence or quantity of said nucleic acid of interest by means of energy transfer between said first energy transfer element of said oligonucleotide primer and said second energy transfer element of said nucleic acid binding agent (a)(iii) bound to said primer-extended sequence or to said complex in step (e). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A process for detecting qualitatively or quantitatively the presence of a single-stranded or double-stranded nucleic acid of interest in a sample, said process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing (i) a sample suspected of containing said nucleic acid of interest; (ii) a first oligonucleotide primer that comprises a nucleic acid sequence complementary to at least a portion of one strand of said nucleic acid of interest; (iii) a second oligonucleotide primer that comprises a nucleic acid sequence identical to at least a portion of said one strand; (iv) a nucleic acid binding agent comprising one or more first energy transfer elements, wherein said nucleic acid binding agent is sequence independent; and (v) reagents for carrying out nucleic acid strand extension, said reagents comprising deoxynucleotides; wherein (ii), (iii) or both (ii) and (iii) comprise one or more fluorescent second energy transfer elements; (b) forming a reaction mixture comprising (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above; (c) contacting under hybridization conditions said first oligonucleotide primer in said composition (ii) with one strand of said nucleic acid of interest and contacting under hybridization conditions said second oligonucleotide primer in said composition (iii) with the complementary strand of said nucleic acid of interest if present; (d) extending said first oligonucleotide primer and said second oligonucleotide primer with said deoxynucleotides to form a first primer-extended nucleic acid sequence and a second primer-extended nucleic acid sequence if the complementary strand is present; (e) binding said nucleic acid binding agent (iv) to a primer-extended nucleic acid sequence or to a complex comprising said nucleic acid of interest and a primer-extended sequence; and (f) detecting the presence or quantity of said nucleic acid of interest by means of energy transfer between a second energy transfer element in said first oligonucleotide primer, said second oligonucleotide primer, or both, and a first energy transfer element in said nucleic acid binding agent (a)(iv) bound to said primer-extended sequence or to said complex in step (e). - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A process for detecting qualitatively or quantitatively the presence of a single-stranded or double-stranded nucleic acid of interest in a sample, said process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing (i) a sample suspected of containing said nucleic acid of interest; (ii) at least one oligonucleotide primer that comprises a nucleic acid sequence complementary to at least a portion of said nucleic acid of interest; (iii) labeled deoxynucleotide or deoxynucleotides comprising a first energy transfer element; (iv) a nucleic acid binding agent comprising one or more second energy transfer elements, wherein said nucleic acid binding agent is sequence independent; and (v) reagents for carrying out nucleic acid strand extension; (b) forming a reaction mixture comprising (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above; (c) contacting under hybridization conditions said oligonucleotide primer in said composition (ii) with said nucleic acid of interest; (d) extending said oligonucleotide primer, thereby incorporating said labeled deoxynucleotide or deoxynucleotides; (e) binding said nucleic acid binding agent to said primer-extended sequence; and (f) detecting the presence or quantity of said nucleic acid of interest by means of energy transfer between said first energy transfer element and said second energy transfer element. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65. A process for detecting qualitatively or quantitatively the presence of a single-stranded or double-stranded nucleic acid of interest in a sample, said process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing; (i) a sample suspected of containing said nucleic acid of interest; (ii) a first oligonucleotide primer that comprises a nucleic acid sequence complementary to at least a portion of one strand of said nucleic acid of interest; (iii) a second oligonucleotide primer that comprises a nucleic acid sequence identical to at least a portion of said one strand; (iv) one or more labeled deoxynucleotides comprising a first energy transfer element; (v) a nucleic acid binding agent comprising one or more energy transfer elements, wherein said nucleic acid binding agent is sequence independent; and (vi) reagents for carrying out nucleic acid strand extension; (b) forming a reaction mixture comprising (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) above; (c) contacting under hybridization conditions said first oligonucleotide with one strand of said nucleic acid of interest and contacting under hybridization conditions said second oligonucleotide primer with the complementary strand of said nucleic acid of interest if present; (d) extending said first oligonucleotide primer and said second oligonucleotide primer to form a first primer-extended nucleic acid sequence and a second primer-extended nucleic acid sequence if the complementary strand is present, thereby incorporating said labeled deoxynucleotide or deoxynucleotides; (e) binding said nucleic acid binding agent (v) to said first primer-extended nucleic acid sequence, and to said second primer-extended nucleic acid sequence if the complementary strand is present; and (f) detecting the presence or quantity of said nucleic acid of interest by means of energy transfer between said first energy transfer element and said second energy transfer element. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86)
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87. A process for detecting qualitatively or quantitatively the presence of a single-stranded or double-stranded nucleic acid of interest in a sample, said process comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing (i) a sample suspected of containing said nucleic acid of interest; (ii) either (a) a first oligonucleotide primer wherein said first oligonucleotide primer comprises a sequence for a phage RNA promoter or (b) a first oligonucleotide primer and a second oligonucleotide primer, wherein either the first oligonucleotide primer or the second oligonucleotide primer comprises a sequence for a phage RNA promoter; (iii) one or more labeled ribonucleotides comprising a first energy transfer element; (iv) a nucleic acid binding agent comprising a second energy transfer element, wherein said nucleic acid binding agent is sequence independent; (v) reagents for carrying out nucleic acid strand extension of an oigonucleotide primer with deoxynucleotides and reagents for carrying out RNA transcription from a phage RNA promoter with ribonucleotides; (b) forming a reaction mixture comprising (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above; (c) contacting under hybridization conditions said first oligonucleotide primer with one strand of said nucleic acid of interest; (d) extending said first oligonucleotide primer to form a primer-extended nucleic acid sequence; (e) synthesizing a second nucleic acid strand complementary to said primer-extended nucleic acid sequence or a portion thereof, thereby forming a double-stranded nucleic acid that comprises said phage RNA promoter; (f) transcribing said double-stranded nucleic acid formed in step (e) with a cognate phage RNA polymerase to incorporate said labeled ribonucleotides (iii) into labeled transcripts; (g) binding said nucleic acid binding agent (iv) to said labeled transcripts; (h) detecting the presence or quantity of said nucleic acid of interest by means of energy transfer between said first energy transfer element and said second energy transfer element; wherein said transcribing step (f) is carried out by an RNA promoter in either the first primer-extended nucleic acid sequence or the second nucleic acid strand synthesized in step (e). - View Dependent Claims (88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104)
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