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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1995
Bob Van Gemen, Boxtel, NL;
Adriana Frederieke Schukkink, Houten, NL;
Akzo Nobel N.V., Arnhem, NL;
Abstract
A process for making the product of a nucleic acid amplification reaction, which amplification reaction employs one or more primer pairs, incapable of being a target for further amplification comprising: contacting the amplified product with an oligonucleotide capable of hybridizing to a stretch a nucleotides of the amplified product, said stretch being situated between the hybridisation sites of a pair of primers, under conditions which allow formation of a hybridisation complex between the oligonucleotide and the amplified product to occur, said oligonucleotide being modified in such a way that it.protects the double stranded part of the hybridisation complex hybridized to the oligonucleotide from degradation, and subjecting the hybridisation complex to a degradative treatment under circumstances such that at least the part of the hybridisation complex capable of hybridizing to the primers is degraded. An assay for diagnosing the presence of a nucleic acid sequence in a sample comprising carrying out the above-mentioned method and a kit for carrying out the above-mentioned method are also disclosed.