Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 409, Issue 4, Pages 881-889Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-016-0084-x
Keywords
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP); Acid Chrome Blue K (ACBK); Metal indicator; Colorimetric; 35S promoter
Funding
- Public Technology Application Research of Zhejiang Province [2014C22001, 2015C32063]
- Zhejiang Provincial Foundation for Natural Science [LY15C200011]
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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a widely used isothermal nucleic acid amplification method. Here we developed a new closed-tube colorimetric method for judging LAMP with a novel metal indicator. First, the metal indicator, acid chrome blue K (ACBK), was evaluated in the LAMP reaction with various combinations of reaction reagents, such as reaction buffer, dNTP mixtures, primer mixtures, or Mg2+. We found that the solution color of the LAMP reaction with ACBK changed from red to blue based on a decrease in the Mg2+ concentration in the reaction solution. We then optimized the LAMP with ACBK method for detecting the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus 35S promoter. Further, the specificity of the new colorimetric assay using ACBK in the LAMP reaction for detecting the 35S promoter was tested with diverse transgenic events in different crops, and the sensitivity threshold of the assay was similar to 50 copies for transgenic rice genomic DNA and 100 ng of 0.1 % DNA from rice, soybean, rapeseed, and maize. Finally, the applicability of the LAMP assay was successfully validated using practical maize samples. All the detection results could be easily discerned either by UV-vis spectroscopy or the naked eye.
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