Abstract: The invention relates to a method for suppressing the FRET emitted by a reaction medium containing a pair of fluorescent FRET partner conjugates specific for a biological event, characterized in that a FRET signal killer which does not disturb said biological event is introduced into this medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to inositol phosphate derivatives, in which the inositol phosphate is substituted with one or two reactive groups G or one or two conjugated substances or molecules M, said reactive group(s) G or said substance(s) or molecule(s) M being linked to IP1 via a linkage group L, M being chosen from the following group: a tracer, an immunogen, a member of a binding partner pair, a solid support. Application: tools allowing the study of the inositol phosphate cycle and therefore, indirectly, the study of seven transmembrane domain receptors coupled to phospholipase C, receptors having a tyrosine kinase activity, and in general enzymes involved in the variations of the intracellular concentration of IP1.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for reducing the fluorescence quenching caused by the measuring medium, in a fluorescence assay for an analyte using at least one fluorescent label, characterized in that a fluorescent conjugate comprising an oligonucleotide bonded to a rare-earth metal cryptate is introduced into the measuring medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the detection of ligands (agonists or antagonists) specific for a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), which comprises the steps consisting in: 1) bringing a receptor labelled with a member of a donor/acceptor pair into contact with a G? or G?? subunit of a G protein labelled with the other member of the donor/acceptor pair; 2) measuring the transfer by proximity effect between the donor and the acceptor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for reducing the fluorescence quenching caused by the measuring medium in a fluorescence assay, by introducing into said medium of rare earth metal cryptates which are not very sensitive to this fluorescence quenching, said rare earth metal cryptates comprising at least one pyridine radical which is substituted one or more times or unsubstituted. The invention also relates to novel rare earth metal cryptates which are not very sensitive to the fluorescence quenching caused by the measuring medium.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fluorescent entity comprising a fluorophore, with the exception of a rare earth metal cryptate, covalently attached to one or more oligonucleotide(s) or oligonucleotide analog(s) and comprising at least one functional group, introduced or generated on the fluorophore or one of the oligonucleotides or oligonucleotide analogs, allowing it to be coupled with a carrier molecule. The invention also relates to a fluorescent conjugate consisting of a fluorescent entity covalently attached to a carrier molecule.

Abstract: The invention relates to a homogeneous method for detecting and/or determining by fluorescence a chemical or physicochemical interaction in a measuring medium, in which a rare-earth metal cryptate comprising a substituent is used, characterized in that the variation of at least one fluorescence characteristic of the rare-earth metal cryptate, induced by the change in the physicochemical properties of the substituent resulting from said interaction, is measured.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of measuring the luminescence emitted in a luminescent assay, which makes it possible to correct certain perturbations due to the measuring medium. The method comprises employing at least one luminescent tracer compound and a luminescent compound used as an internal reference, which, when exposed to the same excitation wavelength, are capable of emitting at different wavelengths, ?1 and ?2 respectively, either by direct luminescence or by the induction of a luminescent emission, and correcting the measurement of the luminescence emitted by the tracer compound at wavelength ?2 on the basis of the measurement of the luminescence emitted by the reference compound at wavelength ?1. The invention further relates to the use of the method in a homogeneous method of detecting and/or determining an analyte, and to a device for carrying it out.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel homogeneous method of detecting and/or determining the phosphorylating activity of a biological material towards a substrate containing tyrosine and/or serine and/or threonine, and to a kit for carrying out this method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for reducing the fluorescence quenching caused by the measuring medium in a fluorescence assay, by introducing into said medium of rare earth metal cryptates which are not very sensitive to this fluorescence quenching, said rare earth metal cryptates comprising at least one pyridine radical which is substituted one or more times or unsubstituted.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of measuring the luminescence emitted in a luminescent assay, which makes it possible to correct certain perturbations due to the measuring medium.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for measuring the luminescence emitted in a luminescent assay, which makes it possible to correct certain perturbations due to the measuring medium.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel fluorescent conjugates of nucleosides or nucleotides which can be used especially for detecting, locating and/or isolating nucleic acids or molecules of biological or clinical interest which have a nucleoside structure or are capable of interacting with nucleic acids. The invention further relates to the polynucleotides comprising at least one fluorescent conjugate of a nucleotide.

Abstract: The use of a phycobiliprotein-linker peptide complex as a fluorescent tracer in a fluorescent method of detecting and/or determining an analyte in a medium in which it may be present, is disclosed. Fluorescent conjugates consisting of said complex covalently bonded to one of the elements of a ligand/receptor specific binding pair, are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of reducing interference in a fluorescent assay of an analyte, which comprises adding fluoride ions to the measuring medium, and to its use in a fluorescent method of detecting and/or determining an analyte in a medium which may contain it.

Abstract: The invention relates to rare earth cryptates consisting of at least one rare earth salt complexed by a macropolycyclic compound corresponding to one of formulae I or II below, in which:the ring ##STR1## is the N.sub.2 O.sub.4 macrocycle, the N.sub.2 O.sub.3 macrocycle or the bis--bipyridine macrocycle;Y is a spacer arm or group which consists of a divalent organic radical selected from linear or branched C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkylene groups optionally containing one or more double bonds and/or optionally being interrupted by one or more heteroatoms such as oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur or phosphorus, or from C.sub.5 to C.sub.8 cycloalkylene groups or C.sub.6 to C.sub.14 arylene groups, the said alkylene or arylene groups optionally being substituted by alkyl, aryl or sulfonate groups;Z is a functional group capable of bonding covalently with a biological substance;R is a methyl group or represents the group --Y--Z; andR' is hydrogen or a group --COOR", in which R" is a C.sub.1 to C.sub.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method employing at least one luminescent tracer compound and a luminescent compound used as an internal reference, which, when exposed to the same excitation wavelength, are capable of emitting at difference wavelengths, .lambda..sub.2 and .lambda..sub.1 respectively, either by direct luminescence or by the induction of a luminescent emission, and correcting the measurement of the luminescence emitted by the tracer compound at wavelength .lambda..sub.2 on the basis of the measurement of the luminescence emitted by the reference compound at wavelength .lambda.1.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of amplifying the emission signal of a luminescent compound in a luminescent assay, and to its use in a luminescent method of detecting and/or determining an analyte in a medium in which it may be present.

Abstract: The invention relates to macrocyclic rare earth complexes which consist of at least one rare earth salt complexed by a macrocyclic compound of formula (I): ##STR1## in which: the bivalent radicals A, B, C and D, which are identical or different, are hydrocarbon chains optionally containing one or more heteroatoms, at least one of said radicals containing at least one molecular unit or essentially consisting of a molecular unit possessing a triplet energy greater than the energy of the emission level of the complexed rare earth ion, at least one of said radicals consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic system in which at least one of the nitrogen atoms carries an oxy group, and it being possible for one of the radicals C or D not to exist; andX.sub.1 and X.sub.2, which are identical or different, are hydrogen or a hydrocarbon chain (CH.sub.2).sub.

Abstract: The invention relates to macropolycyclic rare earth complexes, namely cryptates which are useful as fluorescent tracers.