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A glucose meter interface for point-of-care gene circuit-based diagnostics.

ABSTRACT: Recent advances in cell-free synthetic biology have given rise to gene circuit-based sensors with the potential to provide decentralized and low-cost molecular diagnostics. However, it remains a challenge to deliver this sensing capacity into the hands of users in a practical manner. Here, we leverage the glucose meter, one of the most widely available point-of-care sensing devices, to serve as a universal reader for these decentralized diagnostics. We describe a molecular translator that can convert the activation of conventional gene circuit-based sensors into a glucose output that can be read by off-the-shelf glucose meters. We show the development of new glucogenic reporter systems, multiplexed reporter outputs and detection of nucleic acid targets down to the low attomolar range. Using this glucose-meter interface, we demonstrate the detection of a small-molecule analyte; sample-to-result diagnostics for typhoid, paratyphoid A/B; and show the potential for pandemic response with nucleic acid sensors for SARS-CoV-2.

SUBMITTER: Amalfitano E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7851131 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A glucose meter interface for point-of-care gene circuit-based diagnostics.

Amalfitano Evan E Karlikow Margot M Norouzi Masoud M Jaenes Katariina K Cicek Seray S Masum Fahim F Sadat Mousavi Peivand P Guo Yuxiu Y Tang Laura L Sydor Andrew A Ma Duo D Pearson Joel D JD Trcka Daniel D Pinette Mathieu M Ambagala Aruna A Babiuk Shawn S Pickering Bradley B Wrana Jeff J Bremner Rod R Mazzulli Tony T Sinton David D Brumell John H JH Green Alexander A AA Pardee Keith K

Nature communications 20210201 1

Recent advances in cell-free synthetic biology have given rise to gene circuit-based sensors with the potential to provide decentralized and low-cost molecular diagnostics. However, it remains a challenge to deliver this sensing capacity into the hands of users in a practical manner. Here, we leverage the glucose meter, one of the most widely available point-of-care sensing devices, to serve as a universal reader for these decentralized diagnostics. We describe a molecular translator that can co ...[more]

PMID: 33526784

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A glucose meter interface for point-of-care gene circuit-based diagnostics.

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A glucose meter interface for point-of-care gene circuit-based diagnostics.

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