970 results about "Multiplex polymerase chain reaction" patented technology

The present invention relates to a process for amplifying DNA of an organism. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a process for amplifying DNA of an organism through Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR) without any information regarding a primer needed for amplifying DNA of an organism.

This invention concerns a fluorometer preferably combined with a thermal cycler useful in biochemical protocols such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA melting curve analysis. The present flourometer features a low heat-generating light source such as a light emitting diode (LED), having a one-to-one correspondence to each of a plurality of sample containers, such as capped PCR tubes in a standard titer tray. The flourometer of the present invention further comprises an optical path between each LED and its correspondingly positioned container, and another optical path between each flourescing sample within the positioned container and an optical signal sensing means. The instrument can be computer controlled.

The present invention provides a method for identifying one or more low abundance sequences differing by one or more single-base changes, insertions, or deletions, from a high abundance sequence in a plurality of target nucleotide sequences. The high abundance wild-type sequence is selectively removed using high fidelity polymerase chain reaction analog conversion, facilitated by optimal buffer conditions, to create a restriction endonuclease site in the high abundance wild-type gene, but not in the low abundance mutant gene. This allows for digestion of the high abundance DNA. Subsequently the low abundant mutant DNA is amplified and detected by the ligase detection reaction assay. The present invention also relates to a kit for carrying out this procedure.

The present invention relates to a novel method for the amplification of DNA, this method being particularly useful for the amplification of the DNA or the whole genome of a single cell, chromosomes or fragments thereof. Described is also the use of the method in DNA analysis for medical, forensic, diagnostic or scientific purposes, like comparative genomic hybridization (CGH)-, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)-, polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-, single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP)-, DNA sequence-, "loss of heterozygosity" (LOH)-, fingerprint- and/or restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)-analysis.

Highly specific and sensitive methods were developed for multiplex amplification of nucleic acids on supports such as microarrays. Based on a specific primer design, methods include five types of amplification that proceed in a reaction chamber simultaneously. These relate to four types of multiplex amplification of a target DNA on a solid support, directed by forward and reverse complex primers immobilized to the support and a fifth type—pseudo-monoplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of multiple targets in solution, directed by a single pair of unbound universal primers. The addition of the universal primers in the reaction mixture increases the yield over the traditional “bridge” amplification on a solid support by approximately ten times. Methods that provide multitarget amplification and detection of as little as 0.45-4.5×10⁻¹² g (equivalent to 10²-10³ genomes) of a bacterial genomic DNA are disclosed.

The invention provides unique index sequences with a length of 7bp. The index sequences can be respectively imported into a DNA(deoxyribonucleic acid) index library through adapter link and PCR (polymerase chain reaction). The invention provides a method for building the DNA index library by using the index sequences based on a solexa sequencing platform of the current illumina company, and the method is applied to solexa DNA sequencing and has the effects on improving the preparation efficiency of the DNA index library, increasing the sequencing throughput of the DNA samples and lowering thesolexa sequencing cost of a single sample.

The invention discloses a primer set for detecting functional genes of wheat on the basis of a KASP [competitive allele specific PCR (polymerase chain reaction)] technology and application of the set primer. The primer set comprises totally 14 groups of KASP primers. The KASP primers are respectively designed for the 14 functional genes of the wheat, and particular nucleotide sequences of the KASP primers are sequences 1-42 in sequence tables. The primer set and the application have the advantages that the functional genes of different wheat varieties can be quickly detected by the aid of the KASP primer set, methods for detecting the functional genes of the wheat are simple, convenient and speedy, and detection results are accurate and reliable; the primer set has an important theoretical significance and important economic value in assistant selection of the wheat varieties by the aid of molecular markers.

The invention relates to compositions, methods, and kits for nucleic acid replication, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and mutagenesis reactions. A buffer composition is provided which allows higher concentrations of DNA polymerase to be used, resulting in greater yield of amplified product and faster reaction kinetics.

Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying and quantitating the presence of one or more DNA species in a sample population through PCR amplification. DNA species quantitation includes a determination of a threshold fluorescence value used in the assessment of the PCR amplification reaction. Various embodiments of the present invention incorporate an enhancement function useful in selecting appropriate threshold fluorescence values and facilitate the determination of DNA concentrations by quantitative PCR based methodologies.

The invention features methods that are capable of detecting single target molecules in a sample input volume of, e.g., 5 μl, and of quantifying organismal, e.g., chiamydial, DNA. Desirably, these methods employ a single tube format coupled with fluorescent detection of amplicons. This approach facilitates the application of quantitative PCR (qPCR) to microbiological diagnosis in clinical settings. The invention also features primers and probes for the detection of Chlamydia. The use of specific hybridization probes with qPCR amplification provides the ability for identification of individual species or strains of microorganisms.

This invention relates to one polymer enzyme linkage reaction fluorescence test method to dialogue dangerous human body nipple shape virus and to isolate DNA sample HPV gene type to test one set of dangerous HPV infection from patient by the method, wherein, it belongs to life science and biological technique. This invention agent case comprises one fluorescence meter PCR technique as base of multi-layer polymer enzyme reaction composed of multiple HPV positive lead object, reaction lead object and fluorescence detector.

The invention provides a multiplex quantitative PCR (polymerase chain reaction detection kit for vibrio parahaemolyticus toxin gene and a detection method. The kit mainly comprises specific primers, probes and PCR reaction reagent, wherein the specific primers and the probes consist of specific primers and probes of vibrio parahaemolyticus thermostable direct hemolysin gene (tdh), thermolabile hemomysin gene (tlh), toxin expression regulating protein gene (toxR) and thermostable related hemolysin gene (trh). The invention provides the quick, sensitive and specific multiplex fluorescent quantitative PCR detection kit and the detection method aiming at the vibrio parahaemolyticus toxin gene, and provides basis for controlling food poisoning caused by the vibrio parahaemolyticus in time and early diagnosis of the food poisoning caused by the vibrio parahaemolyticus.

The invention discloses a molecular identification method of an atlantic salmon. The molecular identification method comprises the following steps of 1, extraction of fish DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); 2, PCR (polymerase chain reaction) augmentation; 3, enzyme digestion and electrophoresis detection; and 4, identification. The atlantic salmon can be accurately determined in four steps. The molecular identification method of the atlantic salmon has the characteristics of being simple to operate, rapid and accurate, low in price, low in requirement on an instrument and equipment, and the like.

The invention provides a polymerase chain reaction-sequence based typing (PCR-SBT) method for ABO blood type genotyping. The method comprises the following steps of: preparing human genome DNA; amplifying segments of ABO gene exon 1, exons 2-4 and exons 5-7; performing double enzyme digestion purification on the obtained amplified products; performing a sequencing PCR reaction on the purified products; purifying the sequenced products by a sodium acetate-ethanol precipitation method and performing capillary electrophoresis sequencing; and analyzing the obtained sequences by using software to determine the genotype. The method has the advantages of solving the problems of identification of an ABO subtype, judgment of difficult blood types, discovery of a new mutational site, gene recombination among genes, genetic polymorphism detection and the like, exerting the characteristics of high flux and result accuracy of ABO genotyping operation by PCR-SBT, achieving great importance for the relative application in the fields of clinical transfusion medicinal research, genetics and the like and having important practical significance for medicinal research units, pharmic research and reagent development units.

The identification of pre-defined mutations expected to be present in a minor fraction of a cell population is important for a variety of basic research and clinical applications. The exponential, analog nature of the polymerase chain reaction is transformed into a linear, digital signal suitable for this purpose. Single molecules can be isolated by dilution and individually amplified; each product is then separately analyzed for the presence of pre-defined mutations. The process provides a reliable and quantitative measure of the proportion of variant sequences within a DNA sample.

The present invention relates to the use of primers in polymerase chain reaction assays for the detection of a Fusarium proliferatum, F. verticillioides and F. subglutinans. Specific primers are identified as being useful for the identification of fungal isolates using PCR based techniques.

Disclosed is a method for amplifying and detecting polynucleotides which can provide sensitive, specific detection of multiple targets from a clinical specimen within a relatively short time.

The invention provides a method for single-tube multiplex fluorescent polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of human coronavirus OC43, 229E, NL63, HKU1 and SARS. The method adopts primers having sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1-10, and probes having sequences of SEQ ID NO: 11-15. The invention also provides a kit for single-tube multiplex fluorescent PCR detection of human coronavirus OC43, 229E, NL63, HKU1 and SARS. The kit contains the primers and the probes. The method provided by the invention adopts the primers which are specific primers of OC43, 229E, NL63, HKU1 and SARS, and the probes which are Taqman probes, utilizes TAMRA/CY5/FAM/ROX/JOX multiple fluorescein labeling, realizes single-tube multiplex detection of human coronavirus OC43, 229E, NL63, HKU1 and SARS, and has the advantages of strong specificity, high sensitivity, fast detection speed, simple and convenient operation and low cost. The primers and the probes can be used as detection reagents for a scientific research and clinical application.

The invention relates to a microsatellite colorectal cancer instability amplification system and a detection kit thereof. The amplification system disclosed by the invention comprises a general-specific chimeric primer pair and a mixture of general primers, wherein the general-specific chimeric primer pair respectively aims at microsatellite sites BAT25, BAT26, D2S123, D5S346 and D17S250; the general primer is FluD5-Up; respective positive primer 5' ends in the general-specific chimeric primer pair are provided with a sequence of the FluD5-Up; the FluD5-Up is a fluorescent-labeled primer. The amplification system and the detection kit thereof which are disclosed by the invention overcome the shortcoming that different primers require for multiple fluorescent labels; five microsatellite gene sites are detected in the same PCR (polymerase chain reaction) system, so that a result is intuitive and reliable; the time can be saved, and the efficiency is high; MSI (medium-scale integration) gene sites can be effectively detected and analyzed.

The invention provides a method and a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) reagent kit for identifying DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) barcodes of animal medicinal materials. The PCR reagent kit comprises PCR enhancers. The PCR enhancers comprise bovine serum albumin, dithiothreitol, betaine and nonidet p40. The method and the PCR reagent kit for identifying the DNA barcodes of the animal medicinal materials have the advantages that low-abundance traditional Chinese medicine samples with difficulty in amplification, particularly, samples with difficulty in identifying DNA barcodes, such as samples of buffalo horns, antelope horns, tortoise shells, carapax trionycis, pangolins and snake slough, can be effectively amplified, accordingly, the amplification success rate which is close to 100%, of DNA barcode identification techniques can be guaranteed, and DNA barcode techniques can be widely applied.