Method for sequencing DNA base pairs
Abstract
The base pairs of a DNA structure are sequenced with the use of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The DNA structure is scanned by the STM probe tip, and, as it is being scanned, the DNA structure is separately subjected to a sequence of infrared radiation from four different sources, each source being selected to preferentially excite one of the four different bases in the DNA structure. Each particular base being scanned is subjected to such sequence of infrared radiation from the four different sources as that particular base is being scanned. The DNA structure as a whole is separately imaged for each subjection thereof to radiation from one only of each source. 6 figures.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5349198
- Patent Number(s):
- 5270214
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 30 May 1990
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; DNA SEQUENCERS; DNA SEQUENCING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INFRARED RADIATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; LABORATORY EQUIPMENT; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RADIATIONS; STRUCTURAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; 550200* - Biochemistry; 550400 - Genetics
Citation Formats
Sessler, A M, and Dawson, J. Method for sequencing DNA base pairs. United States: N. p., 1993.
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Sessler, A M, & Dawson, J. Method for sequencing DNA base pairs. United States.
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"Method for sequencing DNA base pairs". United States.
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