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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1996
Hashem Akhavan-Tafti, Brighton, MI (US);
Katsuaki Sugioka, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Yumiko Sugioka, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Lekkala V Reddy, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Lumigen, Inc., Southfield, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods of detecting analytes or target species using two enzyme-labeled specific binding partners where the two enzymes function in concert to produce a detectable chemiluminescent signal are disclosed. The methods use a specific binding partner labeled with a hydrolytic enzyme to produce a phenolic enhancer in close proximity to a peroxidase-labeled second specific binding partner. The method is useful to detect and quantitate with improved specificity various biological molecules including antigens and antibodies by the technique of immunoassay, proteins by Western blotting, DNA by Southern blotting, RNA by Northern blotting. The method may also be used to detect DNA mutations and juxtaposed gene segments in chromosomal translocations and particularly to unambiguously identify heterozygous genotypes in a single test.