Methods of sequencing and detection using energy transfer labels with cyanine dyes as donor chromophores

Patent · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2000

OSTI ID:873390

Glazer, Alexander N ^[1]; Mathies, Richard A ^[2]; Hung, Su-Chun ^[3]; Ju, Jingyue ^[4]

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1. Orinda, CA
2. Moraga, CA
3. Richmond, CA
4. Redwood City, CA

Cyanine dyes are used as the donor fluorophore in energy transfer labels in which light energy is absorbed by a donor fluorophore and transferred to an acceptor fluorophore which responds to the transfer by emitting fluorescent light for detection. The cyanine dyes impart an unusually high sensitivity to the labels thereby improving their usefulness in a wide variety of biochemical procedures, particularly nucleic acid sequencing, nucleic acid fragment sizing, and related procedures.

• Research Organization: Univ. of California (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-91ER61125
• Assignee: Regents of University of California (Oakland, CA)
• Patent Number(s): US 6150107
• OSTI ID: 873390
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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