METHOD OF NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION

摘要

It is intended to detect a target nucleic acid from a sample easily, rapidly, at low cost and with high accuracy. There is provided a method of nucleic acid detection characterized by including the first step of using a nucleic acid probe having a base sequence complementary to a target nucleic acid and a double strand recognition compound having affinity with nucleic acid double strand, bringing the nucleic acid probe into contact with a sample containing a target nucleic acid to thereby form a nucleic acid double strand; the second step of reacting the nucleic acid double strand with the double strand recognition compound to thereby form a complex containing the target nucleic acid, nucleic acid probe and double strand recognition compound; and the third step of directly or indirectly detecting the double strand recognition compound contained in the complex with the use of a label compound.