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Highly rapid amplification-free and quantitative DNA imaging assay.

ABSTRACT: There is an urgent need for rapid and highly sensitive detection of pathogen-derived DNA in a point-of-care (POC) device for diagnostics in hospitals and clinics. This device needs to work in a 'sample-in-result-out' mode with minimum number of steps so that it can be completely integrated into a cheap and simple instrument. We have developed a method that directly detects unamplified DNA, and demonstrate its sensitivity on realistically sized 5?kbp target DNA fragments of Micrococcus luteus in small sample volumes of 20??L. The assay consists of capturing and accumulating of target DNA on magnetic beads with specific capture oligonucleotides, hybridization of complementary fluorescently labeled detection oligonucleotides, and fluorescence imaging on a miniaturized wide-field fluorescence microscope. Our simple method delivers results in less than 20 minutes with a limit of detection (LOD) of ~5?pM and a linear detection range spanning three orders of magnitude.

SUBMITTER: Klamp T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3655336 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Highly rapid amplification-free and quantitative DNA imaging assay.

Klamp Tobias T Camps Marta M Nieto Benjamin B Guasch Francesc F Ranasinghe Rohan T RT Wiedemann Jens J Petrášek Zdeněk Z Schwille Petra P Klenerman David D Sauer Markus M

Scientific reports 20130101

There is an urgent need for rapid and highly sensitive detection of pathogen-derived DNA in a point-of-care (POC) device for diagnostics in hospitals and clinics. This device needs to work in a 'sample-in-result-out' mode with minimum number of steps so that it can be completely integrated into a cheap and simple instrument. We have developed a method that directly detects unamplified DNA, and demonstrate its sensitivity on realistically sized 5 kbp target DNA fragments of Micrococcus luteus in ...[more]

PMID: 23677392

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Highly rapid amplification-free and quantitative DNA imaging assay.

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