(12)
United States
Patent
Korlach
et al.
(54)
METHOD
FOR
SEQUENCING NUCLEIC
ACID
MOLECULES
(75) Inventors:
Jonas
Korlach,
Ithaca,
NY
(US);
Watt
W. Webb, Ithaca,
NY
(US);
Michael
Levene, Ithaca,
NY
(US);
StephenTurner,
Ithaca,
NY
(US);
Harold
G.
Craighead,
Ithaca,
NY
(US);
Mathieu
Foquet,
Ithaca,
NY
(US)(73) Assignee:
Cornell
Research Foundation,
Inc.,Ithaca,
NY
(US)(
*)
Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term
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thispatent is extended
or
adjusted under 35
U.S.c.
154(b)
by
0 days.This patent is subject to a terminal dis-claimer.(21) Appl. No.: 111014,015(22) Filed: Dec. 15, 2004(65)
Prior
Publication
Data
US 2005/0158761
Al
luI.
21, 2005
Related
U.S.
Application
Data
(63) Continuation
of
application No. 09/572,530, filed
on
May 17, 2000.(60) Provisional application No. 60/134,827, filed
on
May19, 1999.(51)
Int.
Cl.
C12Q
1/68 (2006.01)
C12M
3/00
(2006.01)
G01N
21/00
(2006.01)
C07H
21/02
(2006.01)
(52) U.S. Cl. ....................... 435/6; 4351183; 435/287.2;436/94; 4361164; 536/23.1; 536/24.33; 536/25.32(58) Field
of
Classification
Search
.................... 435/6,435/91.1,91.2, 183,287.2; 536/23.1,24.31,536/24.33,25.72; 436/94, 164See application file for complete search history.
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Patent
No.:
US
7,033,764 B2
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Apr.
25, 2006
45)
Date
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Patent:
(56) References
Cited
U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
4,994,373 A
2/1991
Stavrianopoulos et al.
(Continued)
Primary
Examiner-Bradley
L. Sisson
(74) Attorney, Agent,
or
Firm-Wilson
Sonsini Goodrich
&
Rosati(57)
ABSTRACT
The present invention is directed to a method
of
sequencinga target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality
of
bases. Inits principle, the temporal order
of
base additions during thepolymerization reaction is measured
on
a molecule
of
nucleic acid, i.e. the activity
of
a nucleic acid polymerizingenzyme
on
the template nucleic acid molecule to
be
sequenced is followed in real time. The sequence is deduced
by
identifYing which base is being incorporated into thegrowing complementary strand
of
the target nucleic acid bythe catalytic activity
of
the nucleic acid polymerizingenzyme at each step in the sequence
of
base additions. Apolymerase on the target nucleic acid molecule complex isprovided
in
a position suitable to move along the targetnucleic acid molecule and extend the oligonucleotide primerat
an
active site. A plurality
of
labelled types
of
nucleotideanalogs are provided proximate to the active site, with eachdistinguishable type
of
nucleotide analog being complemen-tary to a different nucleotide
in
the target nucleic acidsequence. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended byusing the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to thenucleic acid strand at the active site, where the nucleotideanalog being added is complementary to the nucleotide
of
the target nucleic acid at the active site. The nucleotideanalog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result
of
thepolymerizing step is identified. The steps
of
providinglabelled nucleotide analogs, polymerizing the growingnucleic acid strand, and identifYing the added nucleotideanalog are repeated
so
that the nucleic acid strand is furtherextended and the sequence
of
the target nucleic acid isdetermined.24
Claims,
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