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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 1112, Issue -, Pages 54-61Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2020.03.059
Keywords
Yersinia pestis; Lateral flow assay; Biotinylated dNTPs; Enzyme linked oligonucleotide assay (ELONA); Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT); Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA)
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- King Abdulaziz University, under the financing of the collaborative project Selection and application of aptamers against anabolic steroids
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Due to the extreme infectivity of Yersinia pestis it poses a serious threat as a potential biowarfare agent, which can be rapidly and facilely disseminated. A cost-effective and specific method for its rapid detection at extremely low levels is required, in order to facilitate a timely intervention for containment. Here, we report an ultrasensitive method exploiting a combination of isothermal nucleic acid amplification with a tailed forward primer and biotinylated dNTPs, which is performed in less than 30 min. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and enzyme linked oligonucleotide assay (ELONA) were used to optimise assay parameters for implementation on the LFA, and achieved detection limits of 45 pM and 940 fM using SA-HRP and SA-polyHRP, respectively. Replacing PCR with isothermal amplification, namely recombinase polymerase amplification, similar signals were obtained (314 fM), with just 15 min of amplification. The lateral flow detection of the isothermally amplified and labelled amplicon was then explored and detection limits of 7 fM and 0.63 fg achieved for synthetic and genomic DNA, respectively. The incorporation of biotinylated dNTPs and their exploitation for the ultrasensitive molecular detection of a nucleic acid target has been demonstrated and this generic platform can be exploited for a multitude of diverse real life applications. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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