Sensitive and specific CRISPR-Cas12a assisted nanopore with RPA for Monkeypox detection.
Sensitive and specific CRISPR-Cas12a assisted nanopore with RPA for Monkeypox detection.
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10.1016/j.bios.2023.115866
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发表时间:
2023-11
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12.6
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Md. Ahasan Ahamed;Muhammad Asad Ullah Khalid;Ming Dong;Anthony J Politza;Zhikun Zhang;Aneesh Kshirsagar;Tianyi Liu;W. Guan
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Md. Ahasan Ahamed;Muhammad Asad Ullah Khalid;Ming Dong;Anthony J Politza;Zhikun Zhang;Aneesh Kshirsagar;Tianyi Liu;W. Guan
Monkeypox virus (MPXV) poses a global health emergency, necessitating rapid, simple, and accurate detection to manage its spread effectively. The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technique has emerged as a promising next-generation molecular diagnostic approach. Here, we developed a highly sensitive and specific CRISPR-Cas12a assisted nanopore (SCAN) with isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) for MPXV detection. The RPA-SCAN method offers a sensitivity unachievable with unamplified SCAN while also addressing the obstacles of PCR-SCAN for point-of-care applications. We demonstrated that size-counting of single molecules enables analysis of reaction-time dependent distribution of the cleaved reporter. Our MPXV-specific RPA assay achieved a limit of detection (LoD) of 19 copies in a 50 μL reaction system. By integrating 2 μL of RPA amplifications into a 20 μL CRISPR reaction, we attained an overall LoD of 16 copies/μL (26.56 aM) of MPXV at a 95% confidence level using the SCAN sensor. We also verified the specificity of RPA-SCAN in distinguishing MPXV from cowpox virus with 100% accuracy. These findings suggest that the isothermal RPA-SCAN device is well-suited for highly sensitive and specific Monkeypox detection. Given its electronic nature and miniaturization potential, the RPA-SCAN system paves the way for diagnosing a wide array of other infectious pathogens at the point of care.