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Title: Foldable polymers as probes

Patent ·
OSTI ID:913254

Disclosed herein are novel probes, which can be used to detect and identify target molecules of interest in a sample. The disclosed probes can be used to monitor conformational changes induced by molecular recognition events in addition to providing signaling the presence and/or identity of a target molecule. Methods, including solid phase synthesis techniques, for making probe molecules that exhibit changes in their optical properties upon target molecule binding are described in the disclosure. Also disclosed herein are novel chromophore moieties, which have tailored fluorescent emission spectra.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
Assignee:
Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, WA)
Patent Number(s):
7,238,792
Application Number:
10/803,564
OSTI ID:
913254
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (5)

Folding versus Self-Assembling journal October 2003
Alternating DNA and π-Conjugated Sequences. Thermophilic Foldable Polymers journal May 2003
To Fold or to Assemble? journal February 2003
Molecular Beacons: Probes that Fluoresce upon Hybridization journal March 1996
Molecular beacon aptamer fluoresces in the presence of Tat protein of HIV-1 journal May 2000

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