KR20130056408A - Device for detecting nucleic acid amplification reaction product - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a real-time monitoring device for nucleic acid amplification reaction products for monitoring in real time the production of the reaction product generated during the reaction while performing a nucleic acid amplification reaction such as a polymerase chain reaction of a plurality of trace samples. The present invention relates to a real-time monitoring device for a biochemical reaction including a polarizer, a polarizing beam splitter, a polarization converting system, and the like to effectively separate the interference of excitation light and fluorescence.
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The present invention relates to a device for detecting a nucleic acid amplification reaction product, and more particularly, a plurality of trace samples of a reaction product generated during the reaction while performing a nucleic acid amplification reaction such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A device for detecting nucleic acid amplification products for monitoring production in real time.
Recently, a real-time PCR method has been developed to monitor a reaction product in real time while performing a polymerase chain reaction. This method does not require electrophoresis on the gel, can identify amplification products during the reaction cycle, and has the advantage of obtaining quantitative results. The apparatus used for the real-time PCR is a device incorporating a thermal cycler (PCR) for a PCR reaction and a fluorometer for real-time detection of the reactants.
In general, the monitoring of real-time PCR is used for fluorescence detection using a fluorescent reagent, and the following methods are representative.
1) Interchelating method is a method of detecting fluorescence that is developed by amplification by adding a reagent (Interchelator; for example, SYBRGreen I, EtBr, etc.) that binds to double-stranded DNA to the reaction system and amplifies it. When the interchelator binds to the stranded DNA, it displays fluorescence. The fluorescence intensity can be detected to measure the melting temperature of the amplified DNA as well as quantitatively.
2) TaqManTM
As a probe method, an oligonucleotide in which the 5 'end is modified with a fluorescent material (FAM, etc.) and the 3' end with a quencher material (TAMRA, etc.) is added. Specific annealing with TaqMan ™ probe template DNA under annealing conditions but fluorescence is inhibited by the quencher. In the expansion reaction, the template is decomposed by 5 '-> 3' exonuclease activity possessed by Taq DNA polymerase, and the inhibition by capture is eliminated.
3) As a molecular beacon method, an oligonucleotide (Molecular Beacon probe) that forms a hairpin secondary structure in which both ends are modified with a fluorescent material (FAM, TAMRA, etc.) and a quencher material (DABCYL, etc.) is added to the reaction. Molecular Beaconprobe hybridizes specifically to regions complementary to the template under annealing conditions. At this time, the distance between the fluorescent material and the quencher material is far away and the suppression by the quencher material is eliminated. In addition, Molecular Beacon probe, which did not hybridize, has a secondary structure and is suppressed by the quencher material and does not exhibit fluorescence.
The conventional apparatus for real-time PCR is a
Recently, real-time PCR experiments using multiple colored fluorescent probes at the same time have been introduced. However, when the wavelength of the fluorescent probe used in the prior art is different, it is necessary to use different
In addition, the dichroic beam splitter used in the prior art has a problem in that the excitation light is about 105 times brighter than the fluorescence emitted from the sample, so that the excitation light and the fluorescence cannot be completely separated. Reflection light of the excitation light by the optical component is incident on the light-receiving unit, causing interference with the fluorescence generated in the sample.
Factors that reflect the excitation light include: 1) Fresnel lens (3) used to make the excitation light parallel, and 2) lid (2b) used to prevent evaporation of the sample in the reaction tube (2a). Or transparent tape and 3) elements that occur in the
The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, by using the polarizing characteristics of light (polarizing) to have the excitation light and the fluorescence in different directions to separate the excitation light and fluorescence in the prior art It aims to effectively separate excitation light and fluorescence irrespective of wavelength and remove incident light reflected from the excitation light to the light receiving unit without using a dichroic beam splitter used as a tool.
In order to achieve the above object, a real-time monitoring apparatus for a nucleic acid amplification reaction product according to the present invention includes a polarization converter (102) for polarizing excitation light excited from a light source (100); A
In addition, the present invention includes a
In addition, the present invention further includes a second
In addition, the present invention is provided between the
In addition, the present invention is characterized in that the sample container is further provided with the sample is accommodated.
The sample vessel is a tube or well plate having 1 to 1536 wells, a Petri dish (bacterial dish), a slide, a filter, and a Terasaki plate. It is preferable that it is any one selected from a PCR plate (PCRplate).
As described above, the real-time monitoring device of the nucleic acid amplification reaction product according to the present invention is an optical component (for example, Fresnel lens, glass heater, etc.) in which the excitation light is located on the optical path in the conventional real-time PCR device. ) And the cap or transparent tape used to prevent evaporation of the sample and reflected by the reaction tube, etc. is incident to the light-receiving unit and thus cannot collect only the fluorescence generated in the sample. In case of processing a large amount of sample, the capacity of the sample is reduced, and the amount of fluorescence generated in the sample itself is further reduced.
By improving the problem of the interference by the excitation light, the present invention has an advantage that the excitation light and the fluorescence have different polarities by using the polarization characteristic of the light so that the interference of the excitation light cannot affect the fluorescence. In addition, the present invention uses only one polarizing beam splitter to separate fluorescence and excitation light regardless of the wavelength and number of band pass filters without using a dichroic beam splitter as in the prior art. Since it can receive fluorescence, there is no need to install a plurality of dichroic beam splitters, and there is no need for replacement work, and there is no need for a mechanism for setting the dichroic beam splitter for each wavelength.
1 is a view showing a real-time monitoring device of the nucleic acid amplification reaction products of the prior art.
Figure 2 is a perspective view showing a real-time monitoring device of the nucleic acid amplification reaction product of the present invention.
3 shows polarization characteristics of light;
4 is a view illustrating polarization characteristics of a polarizing beam splitter.
Figure 5 is a photograph of the reaction tube (plate) in the light receiving unit when using a non-polarization optical system.
Figure 6 is a photograph of the reaction tube (plate) in the light receiving unit when using the optical system of the present invention.
With reference to the accompanying drawings, a preferred embodiment of a real-time monitoring device of the nucleic acid amplification reaction product according to the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail.
The present invention provides an apparatus for effectively separating the excitation light and the fluorescence emitted from the sample using the polarization property of light.
2 is a perspective view showing a real-time monitoring device of the nucleic acid amplification reaction product of the present invention, Figure 3 is a view showing the polarization characteristics of light, Figure 4 is a view showing the polarization characteristics of a polarizing beam splitter (Polarizing Beam Splitter), 5 is a photograph of a reaction tube (plate) in the light receiving unit when using a non-polarization optical system, Figure 6 is a photograph of a reaction tube (plate) in the light receiving unit when using the optical system of the present invention.
As shown, the real-time monitoring device of the nucleic acid amplification reaction product according to the present invention comprises a
Monitoring of real-time PCR according to the present invention is a fluorescence detection using a fluorescent reagent disclosed in the Patent Application Publication No. 10- <42> 2006-0009246 (Applicant's name: real-time monitoring device of the biochemical reaction) Use
The
Light emitted from the
In addition, the light emitted from the
The polarizing converting
The
The
The first
According to the present invention, when using various types of fluorescent probes, different types of bandpass filters should be used according to respective fluorescent probes, and accordingly, different types of dichroic beam splitters (
The
The
The polarized light separated by the
In the present invention, for the sake of explanation, it is assumed that the
The sample vessel is a tube or well plate having 1 to 1536 wells, a Petri dish (bacterial dish), a slide, a filter, and a Terasaki plate. It is preferable that it is any one selected from a PCR plate (PCRplate), and any sample container which can receive and measure a sample is possible.
In addition, it is preferable that an
The
The
The fluorescence generated from the sample also has non-polarization characteristics and thus has both S-wave and P-wave components. When the fluorescence of this characteristic is incident on the
Here, even though the excitation light is reflected on the optical path and incident toward the
The fluorescence reflected by the
As described above, the present invention has one polarization component for the excitation light and removes one polarization component from the light receiving unit collecting fluorescence from the sample, and passes only the remaining polarization component to the light receiving sensor, thereby effectively removing the excitation light. Will be.
The second
The
In addition, the present invention is a
In addition, the present invention is provided between the
The present invention utilizes the polarization characteristics of the light, the excitation light is used to prevent evaporation of a particular optical component or sample on the optical path (see
(Example)
5 is a photograph of a reaction tube (plate) in a light receiving unit in an optical system using an unpolarized excitation light source and non-polarized fluorescence. In this picture, the left and right sides of the center are wells containing fluorescent probes, and the reflected light is visible through several wells in the center.
In the case of Figure 6 is an image of the excitation light source and the polarized fluorescence polarized as in the present invention photographed from the light receiving unit. As shown in the figure, the reflected light at the bottom center disappeared completely.
100: light source 101: UV and infrared cut filter
102: Polarizing converting system
103: condenser lens
104: light tunnel
105: first band pass filter
106: imaging lens 107: second polarizer
108: Polarizing Beam Splitter
109: Surface Mirror
110: Fresnel lens
111: first polarizer
112: second band pass filter 113: light receiving unit
114: light receiving lens
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Condensing lens 103 for collecting the excitation light generated from the light source 100
An optical waveguide 104 converting the excitation light collected by the condenser lens 103 into a uniform surface light source and transmitting the converted light;
A first band pass filter (105) for passing the polarization of the surface light source transmitted from the optical waveguide (104) to pass the polarization of a specific wavelength in accordance with the excitation characteristic of the fluorescent probe;
A first polarizer 111 for polarizing the excitation light having a specific wavelength passing through the first band pass filter 105;
A polarization beam splitter (108) for separating polarization of a specific wavelength passing through the first polarizer (111);
A surface mirror 109 which transmits the polarized light separated from the polarization beam splitter 108 to the sample and reflects the fluorescence generated from the sample to the polarization beam splitter 108;
A second polarizer 107 which fluorescence reflected by the surface mirror 109 is transmitted to the polarization beam splitter 108 to polarize the fluorescence so as to have a component opposite to the polarization converted by the first polarizer 111;
A second band pass filter (112) for passing only fluorescence of a specific wavelength in accordance with light emission characteristics of the fluorescent probe among the polarized fluorescence transmitted from the second polarizer (107);
And a light receiving unit (113) for receiving fluorescence that has passed through the second band pass filter (112).
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