| 摘要 |
Disclosed is a method for detecting one or more mismatches in a test nucleic acid which preferentially hybridizes to a reference nucleic acid. The method involves a) providing the test nucleic acid in its single-stranded form; b) providing the reference nucleic acid immobilized on a solid support, the reference nucleic acid being in its single-stranded form and the solid support being compatible with a slot in an electrophoretic gel; c) contacting the single-stranded test nucleic acid with the single-stranded immobilized reference nucleic acid under conditions allowing heteroduplex formation, whereby the heteroduplex is immobilized on the solid support; d) contacting the immobilized heteroduplex with a resolvase (for example, T4 endonuclease VII) capable of recognizing at least one single base pair mismatch in the heteroduplex under conditions which permit the resolvase to cleave the heteroduplex; e) inserting the solid support into the slot of the electrophoretic gel under conditions sufficient to release all or a cleaved portion of the immobilized heteroduplex into the slot; and f) analyzing the released product by gel electrophoresis, the presence of a cleavage product being an indication of a mismatch in the test nucleic acid. |
