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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2008
Applicants:

Kyle B. Cole, Stanford, CA (US);

Vivi Truong, Mountain View, CA (US);

Glenn H. Mcgall, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Anthony D. Barone, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kyle B. Cole, Stanford, CA (US);

Vivi Truong, Mountain View, CA (US);

Glenn H. McGall, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Anthony D. Barone, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01); C07H 15/00 (2006.01); C07H 21/00 (2006.01); C07H 19/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one aspect of the invention, a method is provided for end-labeling RNA (total RNA, mRNA, cRNA or fragmented RNA). In one aspect of the present invention, T4 RNA ligase is used to attach a 3'-labeled AMP or CMP donor to an RNA acceptor molecule. In another embodiment, a pyrophosphate molecule 3′-AppN-3′-linker-detectable moiety is used as donor molecule. In another aspect of the present invention, a method of detecting the presence of an RNA of interest in a sample is provided, the method having the following steps: providing the sample comprising RNA which may or may not have said RNA of interest; treating the sample with a fragmenting reagent to provide RNA fragments; removing phosphate groups from said fragments to provide fragments with free 3′ OH groups; ligating said fragment with a labeling reagent according to the instant invention; providing a nucleic acid array having probes directed to said RNA of interest; hybridizing the labeled nucleic acid fragments to said nucleic acid array; and determining the extent of hybridization to said probes to determine the presence of said RNA of interest.


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