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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 52, Issue -, Pages 129-135Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2013.08.032
Keywords
Legionella pneumophila; Surface plasmon resonance imaging; Pathogen detection; 16s rRNA; Quantum dot; Hybridization
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- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Genome Canada/Genome Quebec
- Nano-Quebec
- Le Fonds Quebecois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies-Centre for Biorecognition and Biosensors
- NSERC [418289-2012]
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Legionellosis has been and continues to be a life-threatening disease worldwide, even in developed countries. Given the severity and unpredictability of Legionellosis outbreaks, developing a rapid, highly specific, and sensitive detection method is thus of great pertinence. In this paper, we demonstrate that sub-femtomole levels of 16s rRNA from pathogenic Legionella pneumophila can be timely and effectively detected using an appropriate designed capture, detector probes, and a QD SPRi signal amplification strategy. To achieve specific and sensitive detection, optimal hybridization conditions and parameters were implemented. Among these parameters, fragmentation of the 16s rRNA and further signal amplification by QDs were found to be the main parameters contributing to signal enhancement. The appropriate design of the detector probes also increased the sensitivity of the detection system, mainly due to secondary structure of 16s rRNA. The use of 16s rRNA from L. pneumophila allowed for the detection of metabolically active pathogens with high sensitivity. Detection of 16s rRNA in solutions as diluted as 1 pM at 450 mu L (0.45 femtomole) was achieved in less than 3 h, making our approach suitable for the direct, timely, and effective detection of L. pneumophila within man-made water systems. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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