放大器
数字聚合酶链反应
多路复用
熔化曲线分析
化学
聚合酶链反应
生物信息学
生物
基因
生物化学
作者
Yu Ye,Ziqing Yu,Xufeng Pan,Lei Xu,Rui Guo,Xiaohua Qian,Feng Shen
出处
期刊:Analyst
[The Royal Society of Chemistry]
日期:2022-01-01
卷期号:147 (4): 625-633
被引量:12
摘要
Digital polymerase chain reaction (digital PCR) can provide absolute quantification of target nucleic acids with high sensitivity, excellent precision, and superior resolution. Digital PCR has broad applications in both life science research and clinical molecular diagnostics. However, limited by current fluorescence imaging methods, parallel quantification of multiple target molecules in a single digital PCR remains challenging. Here, we present a multiplex digital PCR method using digital melting curve analysis (digital MCA) with a SlipChip microfluidic system. The self-partitioning SlipChip (sp-SlipChip) can generate an array of nanoliter microdroplets with trackable physical positions using a simple loading-and-slipping operation. A fluorescence imaging adaptor and an in situ thermal cycler can be used to perform digital PCR and digital MCA on the sp-SlipChip. The unique signature melting temperature (Tm) designed for amplification products can be used as a fingerprint to further classify the positive amplification partitions into different subgroups. Amplicons with Tm differences as low as 1.5 degrees celsius were clearly separated, and multiple amplicons in the same partition could also be distinguished by digital MCA. We further demonstrated this digital MCA method with simultaneous digital quantification of five common respiratory pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumannii, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Hemophilus influenzae, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Since digital MCA only requires an intercalation dye instead of sequence-specific hydrolysis probes to perform multiplex digital PCR analysis, it can be less expensive and not limited to the number of fluorescence channels.
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