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Naoumi N, Araya-Farias M, Megariti M, Alexandre L, Papadakis G, Descroix S, Gizeli E. Acoustic detection of a mutation-specific Ligase Chain Reaction based on liposome amplification. Analyst 2024; 149:3537-3546. [PMID: 38758167 DOI: 10.1039/d3an02142d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
Abstract
Single nucleotide variants (SNVs) play a crucial role in understanding genetic diseases, cancer development, and personalized medicine. However, existing ligase-based amplification and detection techniques, such as Rolling Circle Amplification and Ligase Detection Reaction, suffer from low efficiency and difficulties in product detection. To address these limitations, we propose a novel approach that combines Ligase Chain Reaction (LCR) with acoustic detection using highly dissipative liposomes. In our study, we are using LCR combined with biotin- and cholesterol-tagged primers to produce amplicons also modified at each end with a biotin and cholesterol molecule. We then apply the LCR mix without any purification directly on a neutravidin modified QCM device Au-surface, where the produced amplicons can bind specifically through the biotin end. To improve sensitivity, we finally introduce liposomes as signal enhancers. For demonstration, we used the detection of the BRAF V600E point mutation versus the wild-type allele, achieving an impressive detection limit of 220 aM of the mutant target in the presence of the same amount of the wild type. Finally, we combined the assay with a microfluidic fluidized bed DNA extraction technology, offering the potential for semi-automated detection of SNVs in patients' crude samples. Overall, our LCR/acoustic method outperforms other LCR-based approaches and surface ligation biosensing techniques in terms of detection efficiency and time. It effectively overcomes challenges related to DNA detection, making it applicable in diverse fields, including genetic disease and pathogen detection.
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- Nikoletta Naoumi
- Department of Biology, University of Crete, Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion, 70013, Greece
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-FORTH, 100 N. Plastira Str., Heraklion 70013, Greece.
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- Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, CNRS UMR 168, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Paris, France
- Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes for Microfluidic (IPGG), Paris, France
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-FORTH, 100 N. Plastira Str., Heraklion 70013, Greece.
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- Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, CNRS UMR 168, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Paris, France
- Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes for Microfluidic (IPGG), Paris, France
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-FORTH, 100 N. Plastira Str., Heraklion 70013, Greece.
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- Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, CNRS UMR 168, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Paris, France
- Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes for Microfluidic (IPGG), Paris, France
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- Department of Biology, University of Crete, Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion, 70013, Greece
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-FORTH, 100 N. Plastira Str., Heraklion 70013, Greece.
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Zhang M, Wang H, Han J, Wang H, Jia Y, Hong W, Tang F, Li Z. Specific recognition and sensitive quantification of mRNA splice variants via one-pot ligation-dependent loop-mediated isothermal amplification. Analyst 2023; 148:5605-5611. [PMID: 37818948 DOI: 10.1039/d3an01382k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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Specific recognition and sensitive quantification of mRNA alternative splice variants have been a necessity for exploring the regulatory mechanism of RNA splicing and revealing the association between pre-mRNA splicing and transcriptome function, as well as disease diagnosis. However, their wide abundance range and high sequence homology pose enormous challenges for high sensitivity and selectivity quantification of splice variants. Herein, taking advantage of the excellent specificity of ligation and the powerful nucleic acid replication feature of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), we developed a one-pot method (termed one-pot ligation-LAMP) for specific recognition and sensitive quantification of mRNA splicing variants based on two splicing junction-specific stem-loop DNA probe ligation and the subsequently initiating LAMP. The one-pot ligation-LAMP can specifically detect as low as 100 aM mRNA splice variants without any nonspecific signals and quantify them with a wide dynamics range spanning at least six orders of magnitude. We have demonstrated that the one-pot ligation-LAMP is a versatile and practical strategy for accurately quantifying different splicing variants in complex biological samples with high sensitivity all in one tube within 90 min, thereby providing an attractive tool for mRNA splice variant-related studies.
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- Mai Zhang
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China.
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- National Textile and Leather Product Quality Inspection and Testing Centre, 15 Xili-Balizhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100025, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China.
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Advances in ligase-based nucleic acid amplification technology for detecting gene mutations: a review. Mol Cell Biochem 2022; 478:1621-1631. [DOI: 10.1007/s11010-022-04615-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Wang H, Wang S, Wang H, Liang Y, Jia Y, Li Z. Light Scattering Technology-Combined Ligation-Dependent Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LL-LAMP) for Sensitive Detection of RNA. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:19957-19963. [PMID: 35721910 PMCID: PMC9202044 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c01759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) has been widely used in nucleic acid assay because of its high specificity, sensitivity, and isothermal property. However, the complexity of amplification product detection is still a major challenge for its wide applications. Herein, we developed a light scattering technology-assisted, low-cost, and simple detection manner of LAMP products without expensive reagents and complicated instruments. Only needing to add a kind of strong acid to the amplification products, the amplification products can aggregate into large particles in a strongly acidic medium, and large particles can produce strong light scattering, which shows a good proportional relationship with the number of amplification products in a wide range. The proposed method shows excellent sensitivity and high specificity that can quantify RNA as low as 100 aM with a single-base resolution.
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Liu X, Zhang P, Gao K, Wang X, Li Z. Multiple stem-loop primers induced cascaded loop-mediated isothermal amplification for direct recognition and specific detection of circular RNAs. Analyst 2022; 147:2124-2129. [DOI: 10.1039/d2an00261b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Through specific recognition of circRNA's unique junction sequence, a multiple stem-loop primers induced cascaded loop-mediated isothermal amplification method is designed for sensitive and specific quantification of sequence-specific circRNAs.
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- Xin Liu
- School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China
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Liu Q, Liu M, Jin Y, Li B. Rapid and enzyme-free signal amplification for fluorescent detection of microRNA via localized catalytic hairpin assembly on gold nanoparticles. Talanta 2021; 242:123142. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.123142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Gao K, Zhang P, Wang H, Wang H, Su F, Li Z. Ultrasensitive homogeneous detection of microRNAs in a single cell with specifically designed exponential amplification. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:5570-5573. [PMID: 33969838 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc01326b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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We firstly developed an ultrasensitive method based on specifically designed exponential amplification for miRNA detection with simple operation in homogeneous solutions. The proposed assay can detect miRNAs at a concentration as low as 1 aM and can be successfully applied for routine miRNA detection in a single cell.
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- Kejian Gao
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, P. R. China.
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Sun Y, Han B, Sun F. Ultra-specific genotyping of single nucleotide variants by ligase-based loop-mediated isothermal amplification coupled with a modified ligation probe. RSC Adv 2021; 11:17058-17063. [PMID: 35479710 PMCID: PMC9032167 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra00851j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Specific and accurate detection of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) plays significant roles in pathogenic gene research and clinical applications. However, the sensitive but ultra-specific detection of rare variants in biological samples still remains challenging. Herein, we report a novel, robust and practical SNV assay by integrating the outstanding features of high selectivity of an artificial mismatched probe, and the powerful loop-mediated isothermal amplification. In this strategy, we rationally introduce artificial mismatched bases into the 3′-terminal regions of the probe located in the ligation region to reduce the risk of nonspecific ligation, which can dramatically improve the specificity for the SNV assay. The proposed method can discern as little as 0.01% mutant DNA in the high background of wild-type DNA with high sensitivity (10 aM). In virtue of its outstanding performance, the artificial mismatched probe may also be employed and expanded in various DNA and RNA genetic analyses with ligase-assisted approaches, showing great potential in biomedical research, clinical diagnostics, and bioanalysis. An artificial mismatched base introduced in a ligation probe can effectively reduce nonspecific ligation and improve the specificity for SNV assay.![]()
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- Yuanyuan Sun
- Department of Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450052 Henan Province P. R. China .,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710062 Shaanxi Province P. R. China
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- Department of Translational Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450052 Henan Province P. R. China
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- Department of Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou 450052 Henan Province P. R. China
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