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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
James E Dahlberg, Madison, WI (US);
Victor I Lyamichev, Madison, WI (US);
Mary Ann Brow, Madison, WI (US);
Mary C Oldenburg, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Third Wave Technologies Inc., Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 19 ; 435199 ; 435 9153 ;
Abstract
A means for cleaving a nucleic acid cleavage structure in a site-specific manner is disclosed. A cleaving enzyme having 5' nuclease activity without interfering nucleic acid synthetic ability is employed as the basis of a novel method of detection of specific nucleic acid sequences.