[An immunoenzyme technic for demonstrating the molecular hybridization of nucleic acids]

An immunoenzymatic procedure has been developed based on the use of monoclonal antibodies specific for 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BdUr). It allows the detection of BdUr-labelled DNA immobilized on a nitrocellulose filter. Using this procedure, it was possible to detect up to 0.5 pg of mammalian DNA labelled in vivo with BdUr, 5 pg of nick-translated BdUr-labelled PBR-322 and, using this latter probe and dot-blot hybridization, 50 pg of native unlabelled PBR-322.