Development of an on-disc isothermal in vitro amplification and detection of bacterial RNA

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• 作者：Des Brennan^a ; ^{des.brennan@tyndall.ie" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Helena Coughlan^b ; ^c ; ^d ; Eoin Clancy^b ; ^cAuthor Vitae ; Nikolay Dimov^c ; Thomas Barry^c ; ^dAuthor Vitae ; David Kinahan^e ; Jens Ducré ; e^eAuthor Vitae ; Terry J. Smith^b ; ^c ; Paul Galvin^aAuthor Vitae
• 关键词：Isothermal amplification ; Lab-on-a-Disc(LoaD) ; tmRNA ; IR heating ; Fluorescence detection
• 刊名：Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：239
• 期：Complete
• 页码：235-242
• 全文大小：1482 K

文摘

We present a centrifugal microfluidic “Lab-on-a-Disc” (LoaD) system capable of implementing nucleic acid in vitro amplification using non-contact heating and fluorescence detection. The system functionality is verified by implementing a Nucleic Acid Sequence Based Amplification (NASBA) reaction, targeting the tmRNA transcript of Haemophilus influenzae. The NASBA assay incorporates fluorescent molecular beacon probes reporting target tmRNA amplification for endpoint detection. The system implements non-contact IR heating to heat the NASBA reaction to the required target temperatures during denaturation and amplification steps. The LoaD control system facilitates spin speed and chamber positioning for heating and fluorescence detection. The LoaD alignment system uses magnetic fields to locate and lock the chamber in the required position (heating or detection). The NASBA assay was implemented on the system using Haemophilus influenzae tmRNA over the range 10²–10⁴ cell equivalent (CE) units. For comparison, identical qNASBA assays were implemented on a Roche LightCycler 2.0 over this concentration range.