Project/Area Number |
08457640
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Laboratory medicine
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Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
Principal Investigator |
KAI Masaaki Kyushu University Pharmaceutical Sciences TITLE OF POSITION (Associate Professor), 薬学部, 助教授 (00160953)
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Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1997
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥5,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥5,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000)
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Keywords | Nucleic acid / DNA / Chemiluminescence / Imaging detection / Arylglyoxalreagents / CCD camera / Selective detection / Hybridization / 高感度検出 |
Research Abstract |
A novel reagent, 3', 4', 5'-trimethoxyphenylglyoxal has been found to specifically convert guanine bases of a nucleic acid in a neutral or alkaline phosphate solution to the corresponding chemiluminescent derivatives. The chemiluminogenic derivatization technique offers a facile method of the sensitive imaging detection for a DNA probe tailing with deoxyriboguanylic acid oligomers. A cooled charge-coupled device camera is usable to detect visually the chemiluminescence emitted from the derivatized probe that was hybridized with a target DNA fragment on a Nylon membrane. The proposed method permits the quantitative detection of the probe covalently attached with a 5'- (G) _<15>TT (G) _<15>TT deoxyoligomer at 3' terminus, indicating a detection limit of 0.1 pmol on the membrane. The detection sensitivity can be increased with larger contents of deoxyriboguanylic acid in the probe molecule.
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