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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 93, Issue 44, Pages 14885-14891Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04022
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [42076193, 81773483, 31772098]
- Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau [202002 N3061]
- State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products [ZS20190101]
- K.C. Wong Magna Fund at Ningbo University
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The dual-mode electrochemical biosensor designed using CRISPR/Cas12a system enables sensitive detection of genetically modified soybean without the need for PCR amplification, showing high accuracy and reliability. The detection method is simple to operate, with good stability and selectivity, suitable for rapid testing at room temperature.
A clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas12a-mediated dual-mode electrochemical biosensor without polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification was designed for sensitive and reliable detection of genetically modified soybean SHZD32-1. A functionalized composite bionanomaterial Fe3O4@AuNPs/DNA-Fc&Ru was synthesized as the signal unit, while a characteristic gene fragment of SHZD32-1 was chosen as the target DNA (tDNA). When Cas12a, crRNA, and tDNA were present simultaneously, a ternary complex Cas12a-crRNA-tDNA was formed, and the nonspecific cleavage ability of the CRISPR/Cas12a system toward single-stranded DNA was activated. Thus, the single-stranded DNA-Fc in the signal unit was cleaved, resulting in the decrease in the fast scan voltammetric (FSV) signal from ferrocene (Fc) and the increase in the electrochemiluminescence (ECL) signal from ruthenium complex (Ru) inhibited by Fc. The linear range was 1-10(7) fmol/L for ECL and 10-10(8) fmol/L for FSV, and the limit of detection (LOD) was 0.3 fmol/L for ECL and 3 fmol/L for FSV. Accuracy, precision, stability, selectivity, and reliability were all satisfied. In addition, PCR-free detection could be completed in an hour at room temperature without requiring complicated operation and sample processing, showing great potential in the field detection of genetically modified crops.
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