MACRO: A Combined Microchip-PCR and Microarray System for High-Throughput Monitoring of Genetically Modified Organisms

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• 作者：Ning Shao ; Shi-Meng Jiang ; Miao Zhang ; Jing Wang ; Shu-Juan Guo ; Yang Li ; He-Wei Jiang ; Cheng-Xi Liu ; Da-Bing Zhang ; Li-Tao Yang ; Sheng-Ce Tao
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：January 21, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：86
• 期：2
• 页码：1269-1276
• 全文大小：436K
• ISSN：1520-6882

文摘

The monitoring of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is a primary step of GMO regulation. However, there is presently a lack of effective and high-throughput methodologies for specifically and sensitively monitoring most of the commercialized GMOs. Herein, we developed a multiplex amplification on a chip with readout on an oligo microarray (MACRO) system specifically for convenient GMO monitoring. This system is composed of a microchip for multiplex amplification and an oligo microarray for the readout of multiple amplicons, containing a total of 91 targets (18 universal elements, 20 exogenous genes, 45 events, and 8 endogenous reference genes) that covers 97.1% of all GM events that have been commercialized up to 2012. We demonstrate that the specificity of MACRO is 100%, with a limit of detection (LOD) that is suitable for real-world applications. Moreover, the results obtained of simulated complex samples and blind samples with MACRO were 100% consistent with expectations and the results of independently performed real-time PCRs, respectively. Thus, we believe MACRO is the first system that can be applied for effectively monitoring the majority of the commercialized GMOs in a single test.