Patent ID: 8809238
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: C12Q

Abstract:
1. A method for detecting a target nucleotide sequence comprising: a) tagging the target nucleotide sequence with a nucleotide tag sequence, thereby producing a tagged target nucleic acid sequence; b) providing a probe oligonucleotide comprising a nucleotide tag recognition sequence complementary to the nucleotide tag sequence and a regulatory sequence 5′ to the nucleotide tag recognition sequence, wherein said probe oligonucleotide comprises a first label and has a melting temperature Tm c) amplifying the tagged target nucleic acid sequence in a PCR amplification reaction using the probe oligonucleotide as a primer, wherein said PCR amplification reaction is characterized by an annealing temperature Ta; wherein the PCR amplification reaction is carried out in the presence of a regulatory oligonucleotide comprising a sequence segment that is complementary to the regulatory sequence, wherein said regulatory oligonucleotide comprises a second label and has a melting temperature Tm d) detecting the product of the PCR amplification reaction; wherein the first label and the second label constitute a fluorescent reporter/quencher pair; and wherein Tm