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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2015
Prominex, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Michael McClellan Becker, San Diego, CA (US);
Prominex, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides methods for detecting a target nucleic acid in a sample by, for example, incubating the target nucleic acid with a detection probe containing a nucleic acid sequence complementary to at least a portion of the target nucleic acid and a nuclease enzyme that specifically cleaves double-stranded nucleic acids. Hybridization between the detection probe and the target nucleic acid thereby leads to cleavage of the detection probe, releasing a portion of the probe attached to a detectable agent. The portions of the digested probes attached to the detectable agent can be separated from unbound probe and detected in order to determine the presence of the target nucleic acid in the sample. Thus, the invention enables rapid and accurate analysis of a sample for the presence of desired nucleic acid biomarkers.