It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for converting non-methylated cytosine in a single-stranded DNA into uracil by a novel bisulfite reaction with higher conversion efficiency from non-methylated cytosine into uracil as compared with the conventional bisulfite method, a method for amplifying the single-stranded DNA in which non-methylated cytosine has been converted into uracil, and a method for detecting methylated cytosine in the single-stranded DNA.
The present invention relates to (1) a method for converting non-methylated cytosine in a single-stranded DNA into uracil, comprising subjecting the single-stranded DNA to bisulfite reaction under the presence of at least one of compounds shown by the above-described general formula [1] to [8]; (2) a method for amplifying single-stranded DNA in which non-methylated cytosine has been converted into uracil, comprising further subjecting the single-stranded DNA after bisulfite reaction of (1) to PCR reaction; and (3) a method for detecting methylated cytosine in the aforementioned single-stranded DNA, comprising subjecting the single-stranded DNA amplified in (2) to nucleotide sequence analysis,
本发明的目的是提供一种通过新型
亚硫酸氢盐反应将单链DNA中的非甲基化
胞嘧啶转化为尿
嘧啶的方法,与传统的
亚硫酸氢盐方法相比,该方法将非甲基化
胞嘧啶转化为尿
嘧啶的效率更高;还提供一种扩增已将非甲基化
胞嘧啶转化为尿
嘧啶的单链DNA的方法,以及一种检测单链DNA中甲基化
胞嘧啶的方法。
本发明涉及(1)一种将单链 DNA 中的非甲基化
胞嘧啶转化为尿
嘧啶的方法,包括在上述通式[1]至[8]所示化合物中至少一种化合物存在的情况下,将单链 DNA 进行
亚硫酸氢盐反应;(2) 扩增非甲基化
胞嘧啶已转化为尿
嘧啶的单链DNA的方法,包括进一步将(1)
亚硫酸氢盐反应后的单链DNA进行PCR反应;以及 (3) 检测上述单链DNA中甲基化
胞嘧啶的方法,包括将(2)中扩增的单链DNA进行核苷酸序列分析、