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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2011
Ruoying Tan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Caifu Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Karl J. Guegler, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ruoying Tan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Caifu Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Karl J. Guegler, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Applied Biosystems, LLC, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
The present teachings provide methods, compositions, and kits for quantifying target polynucleotides. In some embodiments, a reverse stem-loop ligation probe is ligated to the 3' end of a target polynucleotide, using a ligase that can ligate the 3′ end of RNA to the 5′ end of DNA using a DNA template, such as T4 DNA ligase. Following digestion to form an elongated target polynucleotide with a liberated end, a reverse transcription reaction can be performed, followed by a PCR. In some embodiments, the methods of the present teachings can discriminate between polymorphic polynucleotides that vary by as little as one nucleotide.