Antisense and pretargeting optical imaging
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1. A method of optically imaging a target entity in a subject, the method comprising(a) administering to the subject a binding molecule that comprises an oligomer moiety and specifically binds to the target entity,(b) contacting the binding molecule with a quenched first linear oligomer duplex comprising a detectably labeled oligomer, wherein the detectably labeled oligomer is hybridized to a quenching oligomer;
- the detectable label is quenched unless the detectably labeled oligomer and the quenching oligomer dissociate; and
the detectably labeled oligomer has a higher affinity to form a linear duplex with the oligomer moiety of the binding molecule than to form a linear duplex with the quenching oligomer, and(c) detecting the presence of unquenched detectable label in the subject, wherein the presence of unquenched detectable label indicates that the detectably labeled oligomer has dissociated from the quenching oligomer and hybridized to the oligomer of the binding molecule to form a second linear oligomer duplex, permitting optical imaging of the target entity in the subject.
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Abstract
The present invention relates, in part, to detectably labeled oligomer duplexes and their use in optical imaging, including, in vivo optical imaging. The invention includes methods of optical imaging including in vivo pretargeting methods and in vivo antisense optical imaging methods.
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1. A method of optically imaging a target entity in a subject, the method comprising
(a) administering to the subject a binding molecule that comprises an oligomer moiety and specifically binds to the target entity, (b) contacting the binding molecule with a quenched first linear oligomer duplex comprising a detectably labeled oligomer, wherein the detectably labeled oligomer is hybridized to a quenching oligomer; - the detectable label is quenched unless the detectably labeled oligomer and the quenching oligomer dissociate; and
the detectably labeled oligomer has a higher affinity to form a linear duplex with the oligomer moiety of the binding molecule than to form a linear duplex with the quenching oligomer, and(c) detecting the presence of unquenched detectable label in the subject, wherein the presence of unquenched detectable label indicates that the detectably labeled oligomer has dissociated from the quenching oligomer and hybridized to the oligomer of the binding molecule to form a second linear oligomer duplex, permitting optical imaging of the target entity in the subject. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
- the detectable label is quenched unless the detectably labeled oligomer and the quenching oligomer dissociate; and
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20. A method of optically imaging a target entity in a subject, the method comprising
(a) administering to the subject a linear oligomer duplex comprising a detectably labeled oligomer and a quenching oligomer, wherein the detectable label is quenched by the quenching oligomer unless the detectably labeled oligomer and quenching oligomer of the duplex dissociate, and wherein the detectably labeled oligomer has a higher affinity to form a duplex with a specific target nucleic acid than to form a duplex with the quenching oligomer, and (b) detecting the presence of unquenched detectable label in the subject, wherein the presence of unquenched detectable label in the subject indicates that the detectably labeled oligomer has formed a duplex with the specific target nucleic acid, permitting optical imaging of the target nucleic acid in the subject.
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