SEQUENCING NUCLEIC ACIDS USING CHEMILUMINESCENT DETECTION

摘要

This invention pertains to methods of detecting nucleic acids by chemiluminescence and to methods of sequencing nucleic acids using chemiluminescence detection. Nucleic acids are covalently or non-covalently linked to a compound that can generate chemiluminescence. Preferably the nucleic acid is linked to an enzyme and the substrate for the enzyme is a stable but enzymatically triggerable substituted 1,2-dioxetane.