Energy transfer assay method and reagent
US6828116B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 15, 2001 |
| Grant date | Dec 7, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 15, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S435/968
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Disclosed is a non-fluorescent cyanine dye that may be used as an acceptor in fluorescence energy transfer assays involving the detection of binding and/or cleavage events in reactions involving biological molecules, and assay methods utilising such dyes. The non-fluorescent cyanine dye is a compound of formula (I), wherein the linker group Q contains at least one double bond and forms a conjugated system with the rings containing X and Y; groups R3, R4, R5 and R6 are attached to the rings containing X and Y, or optionally, are attached to atoms of the Z1 and Z2 ring structures; Z1 and Z2 each represent a bond or the atoms necessary to complete one or two fused aromatic rings each ring having five or six atoms, selected from carbon atoms and, optionally, no more than two oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur atoms; at least one of groups R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6and R7 is a target bonding group; any remaining groups R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 groups are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl, OR9, COOR9, nitro, amino, acylamino, quaternary ammonium, phosphate sulphonate and sulphate, where R9 is selected from H and C1-C4 alkyl; any remaining R1 and R2 are selected…
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