Detectably and removably tagged nucleic acids
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1. An isolated nucleic acid composition comprising:
- A) a first oligonucleotide covalently linked to a removable tag, wherein the removable tag by a first photocleavable linker, is an amino acid, a peptide, a polymer, biotin, digoxygenin, a fluorescent dye or a dye impregnated bead, wherein the tag is detectable by a method selected from the group consisting of absorption spectra, antibody binding and optical sorting, and wherein at least a portion of the first oligonucleotide is complementary to a first region of a transcribed gene, and B) a second oligonucleotide covalently linked to a selector tag by a second photocleavable linker, wherein at least a portion of the second oligonucleotide sequence is complementary to a second region of the transcribed gene, wherein the removable tag and the selector tag are distinguishable, wherein the first and the second photocleavable linker are cleavable at different wavelength and wherein the first oligonucleotide and the second oligonucleotide can be used as a primer pair to amplify a target region of the transcribed gene.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method of detecting specific nucleic acids using an oligonucleotide linked to a cleavable tag. The presence of a specific nucleic acid in a population of nucleic acids is determined by hybridizing an oligonucleotide containing the tag to a population of nucleic acids, separating hybridizing bound oligonucleotides, and then removing and identifying the tag. Also provided are compositions and kits comprising oligonucleotides linked to a cleavable tag.
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1. An isolated nucleic acid composition comprising:
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A) a first oligonucleotide covalently linked to a removable tag, wherein the removable tag by a first photocleavable linker, is an amino acid, a peptide, a polymer, biotin, digoxygenin, a fluorescent dye or a dye impregnated bead, wherein the tag is detectable by a method selected from the group consisting of absorption spectra, antibody binding and optical sorting, and wherein at least a portion of the first oligonucleotide is complementary to a first region of a transcribed gene, and B) a second oligonucleotide covalently linked to a selector tag by a second photocleavable linker, wherein at least a portion of the second oligonucleotide sequence is complementary to a second region of the transcribed gene, wherein the removable tag and the selector tag are distinguishable, wherein the first and the second photocleavable linker are cleavable at different wavelength and wherein the first oligonucleotide and the second oligonucleotide can be used as a primer pair to amplify a target region of the transcribed gene. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 13)
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- 6. An isolated nucleic acid composition comprising a first oligonucleotide covalently linked to a first removable tag by a first photocleavable linker, and a second oligonucleotide covalently linked to a second removable tag by a second photocleavable linker, wherein the first and second photocleavable linkers are cleavable at different wavelengths.
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