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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2015
Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander A. Gall, Woodinville, WA (US);
Sergey G. Lokhov, Bothell, WA (US);
Mikhail A. Podyminogin, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Ekaterina V. Viazovkina, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Kevin Patrick Lund, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are modified cytosine bases that provide enhanced base-pairing affinity for guanine bases in polynucleotide hybridization complexes. Also disclosed are polynucleotide oligomers, polynucleotide hybridization complexes that comprise such modified cytosine bases. Also disclosed are various methods of use. For example, in some embodiments, modified polynucleotide oligomers disclosed herein can be used as primers and probes for nucleic acid amplification and/or detection.