A two-step hybridization method for chemiluminescent detection of single copy genes. |
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Authors: | Q Nguyen F Witney A Tumolo |
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Affiliation: | Bio-Rad Laboratories, Richmond, CA 94806. |
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Abstract: | We have developed a technique for the chemiluminescent detection of single copy genes that eliminates the high backgrounds and problems with probe labeling associated with existing methods. The procedure employs a primary hybridization of single-stranded probe DNA to immobilized target DNA, a secondary hybridization with a covalently cross-linked oligonucleotide-alkaline phosphatase conjugate, followed by incubation in the chemiluminescent substrate AMPPD and detection on x-ray film. The key to the success of this method is that the primary probe contains a region complementary to the target DNA as well as to the oligonucleotide sequence of the secondary probe-alkaline phosphatase conjugate. Here we report our results using the two-step hybridization procedure to detect single copy genes from genomic Southern blots. |
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