分子信标核酸检测技术研究进展

介绍了分子信标设计和分子信标核酸检测原理、技术特性和在基因突变大规模自动化检测中的应用. 分子信标是一种基于荧光共振能量转移现象设计的发卡型寡核苷酸探针,空间结构上呈茎环结构, 环序列是与靶核酸互补的探针,茎序列由与靶序列无关的互补序列构成,茎的一端连上荧光分子,另一端连上淬灭分子.通过空间结构改变决定分子信标发射荧光特性,从而对核酸进行定量检测. 分子信标技术具有操作简单、敏感、特异、可对核酸进行液相实时检测和对活体内核酸动态进行检测等特点,已应用于HIV辅助受体基因等基因突变的大规模自动化检测,是一种新型核酸定量检测技术.

Research Advances in Molecular Beacons for Nucleic Acids Probing

Molecular beacons are hairpin-shaped oligonucleotide with a fluorescent moiety and a non-fluorescent quenching moiety attaching to each ends and can be used to report the presence of specific nucleic acids in homogeneous solution or in living cells.The design principles and advantage of molecular beacon and the application for gene mutation detection were briefly introduced.