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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1999
Jonathan M. Rothberg, Guilford, CT (US);
Michael W. Deem, Los Angeles, CA (US);
John W. Simpson, Madison, CT (US);
CuraGen Corporation, New Haven, CT (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a methodology which is directed to providing positive confirmation that nucleic acids, possessing putatively identified sequence predicted to generate observed GeneCalling™ signals, are actually present within the sample from which the signal was originally derived. The putatively identified nucleic acid fragment within the sample possesses 3′- and 5′-ends with known terminal subsequences, said method comprising; contacting said nucleic acid fragments in said sample in amplifying conditions with (i) a nucleic acid polymerase; (ii) “regular” primer oligonucleotides having sequences comprising hybridizable portions of said known terminal subsequences; and (iii) a “poisoning” oligonucleotide primer, said poisoning primer having a sequence comprising a first subsequence that is a portion of the sequence of one of said known terminal subsequences and a second subsequence that is a hybridizable portion of said putatively unidentified sequence which is adjacent to said one known terminal subsequence, wherein nucleic acids amplified with said poisoning primer are distinguishable upon detection from nucleic acids amplified with said nucleic acids amplified only with said regular primers; separating the products of the contacting step; and the detecting sequence is confirmed if the nucleic acids amplified with said poisoning primer are detected.