DNA SEQUENCING BY LASER-BASED SPECTROMETRY

基于激光光谱法的 DNA 测序

• 批准号: 2208280
• 负责人: ROBERT J LEVIS
• 金额: $ 5.25万
• 依托单位: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-08 至 1997-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2208280
• 关键词: DNA; bioengineering /biomedical engineering; biomedical automation; biomedical equipment development; lasers; mass spectrometry; nucleic acid sequence

This proposal outlines a program focused on using state-of-the-art experimental methods to address important biological problems. The immediate goal of this RCDA proposal is the development of a new high speed DNA sequencer. The realization of this instrument will allow DNA sequencing to be performed at a rate approaching one million bases per day - a rate three orders of magnitude faster than currently available techniques. To achieve this objective current DNA sequencing strategies will be combined with three new technologies to produce a low-cost, easily automated sequencing method. Laser vaporization is used to transfer tagged strands of DNA into the gas phase. Once in the gas phase resonance- enhanced, multiphoton ionization is used to place precisely one unit of positive charge on each strand and then time-of-flight mass analysis performed. The automation of the technology proposed would result in an extremely sensitive and cost effective DNA sequencing method requiring little manual labor.

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