Genetic screening using the colour change of a PNA-DNA hybrid-binding cyanine dye
Journal article, 2002

As the relationship between human genes and various malfunctions and diseases becomes revealed at an ever-increasing pace, the need arises for the development of rapid genetic screening methods for diagnostic purposes. Genetic diseases show great diversity. Some are caused by a few characteristic localised mutations, while others arise from a large number of variations. Hence, It. is unlikely that. a single, general diagnostic method that applies to all cases will ever exist. Instead, a combination of methods is frequently applied. Here we propose the use of a dramatic colour change that a cyanine ye, 3,3'-diethylthiadicarbocyanine, displays upon binding to DNA-PNA duplexes. This method could become an inexpensive, fast and simple genetic screening test by visual inspection, with no need for complicated equipment. Our results demonstrate that this diagnostic method may be sufficiently sensitive to discriminate between even a fully complementary and a single mutation DNA sequence.

Mutations

Recognition

Author

Marcus Wilhelmsson

Department of Physical Chemistry

Bengt Nordén

Department of Physical Chemistry

K. Mukherjee

M. T. Dulay

R. N. Zare

Nucleic Acids Research

0305-1048 (ISSN) 1362-4962 (eISSN)

Vol. 30 2

Areas of Advance

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SO 2010-2017, EI 2018-)

Energy

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

Materials Science

Subject Categories

Physical Chemistry

Analytical Chemistry

DOI

10.1093/nar/30.2.e3

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10/7/2017