Method for separating long-chain nucleic acids

US5057426A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diagen Institut fur Molekularbiologische Diagnostik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Karsten Henco · Erkrath, DE
• Arndt Stichel · Goldkronach, DE
• Metin Colpan · Essen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 23, 1987
• Grant date: Oct 15, 1991
• Expiry date: Nov 23, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2030/885
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for the separation of long-chain nucleic acids from other substances in solutions containing nucleic acids and other materials, comprising fixing long-chain nucleic acids in a nucleic acid-containing solution onto a porous matrix, washing the porous matrix to separate the other substances from the long-chain nucleic acids, and removing the fixed long-chain nucleic acids from the porous matrix is disclosed. A device for carrying out the method of the claimed invention is also described.