C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 12 – Q
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
12
Q
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01) C12M 1/40 (2006.01) C12Q 1/70 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2151065
Apparatus and method for determining an unknown starting molar concentration of target nucleic acid molecules at the beginning of a polymerase chain reaction in a sample reaction mixture containing suitable buffers, two complementary kinds of oligonucleotide primers, a molar excess of four kinds of nucleoside triphosphates, a DNA polymerase, and the unknown starting molar concentration of target nucleic acid molecules, wherein the two kinds of primersare provided in a known concentration (CpO), the method including the steps of adding a reporter molecule which does not significantly interfere with the reaction and does not emit a strong signal in the absence of double-stranded DNA, but makes the dsDNA created by the reaction detectable and measurable at least once each cycle, thermal cycling one or more standard reaction mixtureswhich are substantially the same in every respect except they have known starting molar concentration of target nucleic acid molecules to obtain one or more growth curves with known starting molar concentrations of target nucleic acid molecules, exciting the reaction mixture during at least the extension portion of each cycle, detecting and measuring the intensity of the signal during at least the extension portion of each of the cycles, converting said intensity to molar concentration values of dsDNA and storing the molar concentration values for each of the extension portions of each of the cycles, generating a measured curve of molar concentration of dsDNA versus cycle number from the stored concentration values, using successive approximations, determining values of ev, es, a, Cz(n) and Az(n) which provide a best fit of the measured curve to theone or more known growth curves according to the following relation: Cn+1=CnCv PLUS THE MINIMUM OF Image OR Image where: Cn+1 and Cn are the DNA template molar concentrations at the end of the n and n+1 cycle extension periods; ev is in theory the template's probability of survival to the next cycle; es is in theory the template's probability of being synthesized; Co is the molar concentration of starting target nucleic acid molecules; Cpo is the starting primer molar concentration; a is in theory the primer/complementary strand competition factor; Cz is molar concentration of the polymerase enzyme; Az is specific activity of the polymerase; tz is extension time in seconds; Lt is length of template in bases; Lp is length of primers in bases; and calculating the molar concenlration of starting nucleic acid of the unknown samples by fixing ev, es, a, Cz(n), and Az(n), and adjusting the starting concentration Co to get a best fit to the measured growth curve of each unknown sample.
Applera Corporation
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Llp
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