Wang Xiaoxia, Yang Rui, Tang Tian, Zhou Yuzhen, Chen Heng, Jiang Yihao, Zhang Shirong, Qin Sihan, Wang Meijuan, Wang Chuan
West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Central & Clinical Laboratory of Sanya People's Hospital, Sanya, Hainan, China.
Front Microbiol. 2024 Dec 6;15:1503356. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1503356. eCollection 2024.
Compared to quantitative real-time PCR (q-PCR), CRISPR-Cas-mediated technology is more suitable for point-of-care testing (POCT) and has potential for wider application in the future. Generally, the operational procedure of CRISPR-Cas-mediated diagnostic method consists of two independent steps, the reaction of signal amplification and the CRISPR-Cas-mediated signal detection. Complex multi-step procedures can easily lead to cross-contamination. To develop a convenient and rapid method for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) detection, we propose a MCTOP method (ultiple cross displacement amplification-RISPR-Cas12b-based esting in ne-ot), which targets the open reading frame 1ab (ORF1ab) and nucleocapsid protein (N) gene of SARS-CoV-2. This method combines MCDA isothermal amplification and CRISPR-Cas-mediated sequence-specific detection into a one-pot reaction. The optimal reaction was achieved with isothermal amplification of 40 min and CRISPR-Cas-based detection of 15 min, both at 64°C. Then, the results can be visualized by the real-time fluorescence instrument and also lateral flow biosensor. The lowest detection limit of the proposed method is 10 copies of each of target sequences, and it has no cross-reactivity with non-SARS-CoV-2 templates. In a clinical test of 70 pharyngeal swab samples, MCTOP assay showed a specificity of 100% and sensitivities of 98 and 96% for the real-time fluorescence instrument and lateral flow biosensor, respectively. The MCTOP developed in this study is a rapid, convenient, highly sensitive, and specific method for SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection. It can be used as an effective point-of-care testing (POCT) tool for clinical diagnosis and epidemiologic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 infections, especially suitable for the basic, field and clinical laboratory.
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