Journal
PNAS NEXUS
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad031
Keywords
visual; detection; transcription-mediated isothermal RNA amplification; RNA:DNA hybrid; antibody; SARS-CoV 2; viral; lateral flow assay
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This study presents a novel biosensor method for visual detection of viral RNA using an anti-RNA:DNA hybrid antibody, coupled with transcription-mediated isothermal RNA amplification. The method demonstrates rapid, sensitive, specific, and simple detection of viral RNA, with a total turnaround time of an hour. The technique shows high sensitivity and specificity when compared to a commercial gold standard assay.
The Development of reliable and field-compatible detection methods is essential to monitoring and controlling the spread of any global pandemic. We herein report a novel anti-RNA:DNA hybrid (anti-RDH) antibody-based biosensor for visual, colorimetric lateral flow assay, using gold nanoparticles, coupled with transcription-mediated-isothermal-RNA-amplification (TMIRA) for specific and sensitive detection of viral RNA. We have demonstrated its utility for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection. This technique, which we have named RDH-LFA (anti-RNA:DNA hybrid antibody-based lateral flow assay), exploits anti-RDH antibody for immunocapture of viral RNA hybridized with specific DNA probes in lateral flow assay. This method uses biotinylated-oligonucleotides (DNA(B)) specific to SARS-CoV-2 RNA (vRNA) to generate a vRNA-DNA(B) hybrid. The biotin-tagged vRNA-DNA(B) hybrid molecules bind to streptavidin conjugated with gold nanoparticles. This hybrid complex is trapped by the anti-RDH antibody immobilized on the nitrocellulose membrane resulting in pink color signal leading to visual naked-eye detection in 1 minute. Combining RDH-LFA with isothermal RNA amplification (TMIRA) significantly improves the sensitivity (LOD:10 copies/mu l) with a total turnaround time of an hour. More importantly, RDH-LFA coupled with the TMIRA method showed 96.6% sensitivity and 100% specificity for clinical samples when compared to a commercial gold standard reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase-chain-reaction assay. Thus, the present study reports a rapid, sensitive, specific, and simple method for visual detection of viral RNA, which can be used at the point-of-care without requiring sophisticated instrumentation.
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