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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2005
Applicants:
Zhiqiang Gao, Singapore, SG;
Hong Xie, Singapore, SG;
Fang Xie, Sydney, AU;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Agency for Science, Technology & Research, Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07F 15/00 (2006.01); C12Q 1/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A threading intercalator of general formula I:IG-DG-IG-(DG-IG)  (I)wherein IG, IG, and IGare the same or different and represent an intercalating group comprising a planar polyaromatic group; wherein DG represents an electrochemical, a chemiluminescent, a catalytic or an electrochemiluminescent detectable group; and wherein n represents 0 or 1. This invention also relates to a process of detecting a double strand nucleic acid molecule using the threading intercalator.