Xu, G;
Zhao, H;
Reboud, J;
Cooper, JM;
(2018)
Cycling of Rational Hybridization Chain Reaction To Enable Enzyme-Free DNA-Based Clinical Diagnosis.
ACS Nano
, 12
(7)
pp. 7213-7219.
10.1021/acsnano.8b03183.
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Abstract
In order to combat the growing threat of global infectious diseases, there is a need for rapid diagnostic technologies that are sensitive and that can provide species specific information (as might be needed to direct therapy as resistant strains of microbes emerge). Here, we present a convenient, enzyme-free amplification mechanism for a rational hybridization chain reaction, which is implemented in a simple format for isothermal amplification and sensing, applied to the DNA-based diagnosis of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in 54 patients. During the cycled amplification process, DNA monomers selfassemble in an organized and controllable way only when a specific target HBV sequence is present. This mechanism is confirmed using super-resolution stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy. The enabled format is designed in a manner analogous to an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, generating colored products with distinct tonality and with a limit of detection of ca. five copies/reaction. This routine assay also showed excellent sensitivity (>97%) in clinical samples demonstrating the potential of this convenient, low cost, enzyme-free method for use in low resource settings.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cycling of Rational Hybridization Chain Reaction To Enable Enzyme-Free DNA-Based Clinical Diagnosis |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsnano.8b03183 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b03183 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | DNA self-assembly, hybridization chain reaction, cycling, enzyme-free, diagnostic, HBV |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10114425 |
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