Patent Grant
9447461
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The present application relates to the field of microfluidics and to the fields of detection and amplification of biological entities.
Existing methods for nucleic acid amplification and quantitative analysis include real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Real-time methods are typically based on the detection of an exponential increase of fluorescence intensity and rapid thermal cycling between the dissociation temperature (˜95° C.), annealing temperature (˜50° C.), and synthesis temperature (˜70° C.).
Digital PCR is another method for quantitative analysis of nucleic acids. By dividing a diluted sample into a large number of small-volume reaction compartments, single copies of nucleic acid template can be confined in isolated compartments and amplified by PCR. Only a “yes or no” readout is required, and the number of target molecules in the sample is determined by performing a statistical analysis on the number of “positive” and “negative” wells. This method transfers the exponential amplification profile into a linear, digital format. These digital PCR methods still require thermal cycling and accurate temperature control, both of which may be challenging to ensure in resource-limited field conditions. Accordingly, there is a need in the art for, inter alia, devices and methods for isothermal processes applicable to detection and even quantification of one or more analytes. The value of such devices and methods would be further enhanced if the devices and methods were in at least some embodiments, manually portable.
In meeting the described challenges, the present disclosure first provides methods, the methods comprising: effecting relative motion between a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate having a first population of wells formed therein, the second substrate having a second population of wells formed therein, the relative motion between the first and second substrates giving rise to at least some wells of the first population of wells being placed into fluid communication with at least some wells of the second population of wells; and effecting contact between a first material disposed within at least some of the first population of wells and a second material disposed within at least some of the second population of wells.
The present disclosure also provides methods, the methods comprising inducing relative motion between a first substrate and a second substrate so as to dispose a first material into first and second populations of wells formed in at least one of the substrates; inducing relative motion between the first and second substrates so as to dispose a second material into third and fourth populations of wells formed at least one of the substrates, the first and second materials being contacted to one another.
Further provided are devices. These devices (as well as those devices described in the priority documents) may be referred to as SlipChip™ brand devices. In some embodiments, the device suitably comprising a first substrate having a first population of wells formed therein, at least one well of the first population of wells having at least one satellite well disposed proximate to the at least one well, the at least one satellite well being adapted to retain material from the at least one well; a second substrate having a second plurality of wells formed therein, the first and second substrates being slidably engagable with one another such that relative motion between the first and second substrates places at least some of the first population of wells in register with at least some of the second population of wells so as to form combined reaction chambers. The devices presented in the present disclosure may be of such a size that they are manually portable. For example, a device may define a cross-sectional dimension (e.g., height, width, thickness) that is in the range of 1 mm to about 1 cm, to about 5 cm, to about 10 cm, or even to about 50 cm. The disclosed devices may be larger than the foregoing.
Additionally disclosed are kits. The disclosed kits suitably include a first substrate having a first population of wells formed therein; a second substrate having a second population of wells formed therein, the first and second substrates being superposable and slidably engagable with one another such that relative motion between the substrates places at least some of the first population of wells into fluid communication with at least some of the second population of wells; and a supply of at least one reagent adapted to participate in amplification of nucleic acid.
Also provided are methods. The methods suitably include amplifying a nucleic acid molecule, comprising contacting (a) a sample comprising at least one nucleic acid molecule disposed at a plurality of first areas, with (b) at least one component of an amplification reagent disposed in a plurality of second areas, the contacting being effected by placing the first and second areas into direct fluid communication with one another; and the contacting comprises effecting relative motion between a substrate comprising the first area with a substrate comprising the second area; and exposing the area having the at least one nucleic acid molecule to conditions effective for amplification of the at least one nucleic acid molecule.
The present disclosure also provides devices. The devices suitably include a first substrate having a first population of areas, at least one area of the first population of areas having at least one satellite area disposed proximate to the at least one area, the at least one satellite area being adapted to retain material from the at least one area; a second substrate having a second plurality of area formed therein, the first and second substrates being engagable with one another such that relative motion between the first and second substrates places at least some of the first population of areas in register with at least some of the second population of areas so as to place the first and second areas into fluid communication with one another.
Additionally provided are methods of effecting amplification of at least one nucleic acid target molecule. These methods suitably include contacting (1) a sample material disposed in a plurality of first areas, the sample material comprising a nucleic acid target, and at least one of the first areas containing one molecule of the nucleic acid target, with (2) a reactant material disposed in a plurality of second areas, the contacting being effected by pairwise placement of at least some of the first areas and at least some of the second areas into direct fluid communication with one another, the contacting effecting amplification of at least one nucleic acid target molecule.
Further provided are methods, the methods suitably comprising dispersing a first sample that comprises at least one molecule of interest among a plurality of first areas, at least one of the first areas containing a single molecule of interest; dispersing a reactant material into a plurality of second areas; and effecting pairwise placement of at least some of the plurality of first areas into direct fluid communication with at least some of the plurality of second areas so as to contact reactant material with the first sample.
The summary, as well as the following detailed description, is further understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the invention, there are shown in the drawings exemplary embodiments of the invention; however, the invention is not limited to the specific methods, compositions, and devices disclosed. In addition, the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:
The present invention may be understood more readily by reference to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying figures and examples, which form a part of this disclosure. It is to be understood that this invention is not limited to the specific devices, methods, applications, conditions or parameters described and/or shown herein, and that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments by way of example only and is not intended to be limiting of the claimed invention. Also, as used in the specification including the appended claims, the singular forms a, an, and the include the plural, and reference to a particular numerical value includes at least that particular value, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.
The term plurality as used herein, means more than one. When a range of values is expressed, another embodiment includes from the one particular value and/or to the other particular value. Similarly, when values are expressed as approximations, by use of the antecedent about, it will be understood that the particular value forms another embodiment. All ranges are inclusive and combinable. Any documents cited herein are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties for any and all purposes.
Certain description herein refers to “areas.” It should be understood that the term “area” refers to a site where two or more materials may be contacted with one another. The term may also refer to a region that maintains a material thereon, therealong, or therein. An “area” may take on a physical structure such as a hole, well, cavity, or indentation, and may also have any cross-sectional shape along its length, width, or depth, such as rectangular, circular, or triangular. An area may also be a region of a substrate, which region may include a treatment to render it hydrophilic or hydrophobic.
For convenience and also for purposes of ease of illustration, a number of exemplary embodiments provided herein describe areas by illustrating areas with well structures. Such description and illustration should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present disclosure to embodiments that feature wells, as the disclosed devices and methods may be applied to any one or more of the various types of areas described above. The term “wells” should be understood as being representative of “areas,” and that other types of areas may be used in place of the “wells” used to illustrate an exemplary embodiment.
In a first aspect, the present disclosure provides methods. The methods suitably include effecting relative motion between a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate suitably has a first population of wells formed therein, and the second substrate suitably has a second population of wells formed therein.
It should be understood that a substrate may have multiple populations of areas (e.g., wells) formed therein. As one example, the first substrate may include one population of wells that are placed into fluid communication with one another by way of a first conduit formed in the substrate, the conduit being configured to allow filling of the wells from a source exterior to the substrate (e.g.,
The first and second substrate may be configured such that relative motion between the first and second substrates gives rise to at least some wells of the first population of wells being placed into fluid communication with at least some wells of the second population of wells. This relative motion may be referred to in some places for convenience as “slipping,” and may refer to linear motion (as shown in exemplary
The methods also suitably include effecting contact between a first material disposed within at least some of the first population of wells and a second material disposed within at least some of the second population of wells. This contact may be effected, for example, by placing a well of the first population into fluid communication with a well of the second population, as shown in exemplary
In some embodiments, the user may introduce the first material into a population of wells by exerting the one or more materials into a conduit formed in the second substrate, the conduit being in fluid communication with the first population of wells. This is illustrated in exemplary
In some embodiments, at least some of the first material remains uncontacted with the second material. Some of the second material may also remain uncontacted with the first material. This may be done to create control wells for a given experiment or analysis.
The methods may also include amplifying one or more nucleic acids present within the first population of wells, the second population of wells, or both. A variety of amplification techniques are known in the field; amplification techniques that are performed essentially isothermally are considered especially suitable. By isothermal is meant a reaction that involves fewer than 10 changes in temperature. It should be understood that although isothermal techniques are particularly useful, the present disclosure is not limited to isothermal amplification. A non-exclusive listing of suitable amplification techniques includes loop-mediated amplification, nucleic acid sequence based amplification, recombinase polymerase amplification, rolling circle amplification, helicase-dependent amplification, transcription-mediated amplification, multiple displacement amplification, strand-displacement amplification, and the like. An exemplary listing of amplification techniques is provided in application PCT/US2010/028316, the entirety of which is incorporated herein by reference. Combinations of techniques may be used. For example, one set of wells may be used in the amplification of nucleic acids by a first technique, and a separate set of wells may be used in the amplification of nucleic acids by a second technique.
A non-exclusive listing of suitable isothermal amplification techniques are provided below. These techniques are illustrative only, and do not limit the present disclosure.
A first set of suitable isothermal amplification technologies includes NASBA, and RT-RPA. These amplification techniques can operate at 40 deg. C. (a lower temperature preferred for certain POC devices): NASBA (product: RNA), RT-RPA (product: DNA), RT-LAMP using one of LAMP HIV-RNA 6-primer sets, transcription-mediated amplification (TMA, 41 deg. C.), helicase dependent amplification (HAD, 65 deg. C.), and strand-displacement amplification (SDA, 37 deg. C.),
In addition to standard PCR techniques, the disclosed methods and devices are compatible with isothermal amplification techniques such as loop-mediated amplification (LAMP), Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA), nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA), transcription-mediated amplification (TMA), helicase-dependent amplification (HAD), rolling circle amplification (RCA), and strand-displacement amplification (SDA). The multivolume SlipChip can be used to digitize such platforms.
Other isothermal amplification methods are also suitable. Isothermal exponential amplification reaction (EXPAR) can amplify a 10-20 bp trigger oligonucleotide generated from a genomic target more than 106 times in less than 10 minutes at 55 deg. C. by repeating cycles of polymerase and endonuclease activity, and has been coupled with DNA-functionalized gold nanospheres for the detection of herpes simplex virus. Isothermal and chimeric primer-initiated amplification of nucleic acids (ICANs) amplify target DNA at 55 deg. C. using a pair of 50-DNA-RNA-30 primers and the activity of RNase H and strand displacing polymerase.
Signal-mediated amplification of RNA technology (SMART) produces copies of an RNA signal at 41 deg. C. in the presence of an RNA or DNA target by way of the three-way junction formed between the target and two probes, one of which contains the RNA signal sequence and a T7 promoter sequence for T7 RNA polymerase. The single stranded RNA product may be detected by hybridization-based methods and because the signal is independent of the target, SMART can be easily adapted for detection of different target sequences. Cyclic enzymatic amplification method (CEAM) detects nucleic acids in the picomolar range in less than 20 minutes at 37 deg. C. using a displacing probe and Exonuclease III (Exo III) to generate amplification of fluorescent signal in the presence of a target. Isothermal target and signaling probe amplification (iTPA) combines the principle of ICAN and the inner-outer probe concept of LAMP along with fluorescence resonance energy transfer cycling probe technology (FRET CPT) for simultaneous target and signal amplification in 90 minutes at 60 deg. C., and has been shown to detect Chlamydia trachomatis at single copy level.
Other suitable amplification methods include ligase chain reaction (LCR); amplification methods based on the use of Q-beta replicase or template-dependent polymerase; helicase-dependent isothermal amplification; strand displacement amplification (SDA); thermophilic SDA nucleic acid sequence based amplification (3SR or NASBA) and transcription-associated amplification (TAA).
Non-limiting examples of PCR amplification methods include standard PCR, AFLP-PCR, Allele-specific PCR, Alu-PCR, Asymmetric PCR, Biased Allele-Specific (BAS) Amplification, Colony PCR, Hot start PCR, Inverse PCR (IPCR), In situ PCR (ISH), Intersequence-specific PCR (ISSR-PCR), Long PCR, Multiplex PCR, Nested PCR, Quantitative PCR, Reverse Transcription PCR(RT-PCR), Real Time PCR, Single cell PCR, Solid phase PCR, Universal Size-Specific (USS-PCR), branched-DNA technology, and the like
A variety of specific amplification techniques are described below. Each of these techniques is suitably performed by the disclosed devices and methods. Allele-specific PCR is a diagnostic or cloning technique based on single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (single-base differences in DNA). It requires some knowledge of a DNA sequence, including differences between alleles, and uses primers whose 3′ ends encompass the SNP. PCR amplification may be less efficient in the presence of a mismatch between template and primer, so successful amplification with an SNP-specific primer signals presence of the specific SNP in a sequence.
Assembly PCR or Polymerase Cycling Assembly (PCA) is an artificial synthesis of long DNA sequences by performing PCR on a pool of long oligonucleotides with short overlapping segments. The oligonucleotides alternate between sense and antisense directions, and the overlapping segments determine the order of the PCR fragments, thereby selectively producing the final long DNA product.
Asymmetric PCR preferentially amplifies one DNA strand in a double-stranded DNA template. It is used in sequencing and hybridization probing where amplification of only one of the two complementary strands is required. PCR is carried out as usual, but with a great excess of the primer for the strand targeted for amplification. Because of the slow (arithmetic) amplification later in the reaction after the limiting primer has been used up, extra cycles of PCR are required. A recent modification on this process, known as Linear-After-The-Exponential-PCR (LATE-PCR), uses a limiting primer with a higher melting temperature (Tm) than the excess primer to maintain reaction efficiency as the limiting primer concentration decreases mid-reaction.
Helicase-dependent amplification is similar to traditional PCR, but uses a constant temperature rather than cycling through denaturation and annealing/extension cycles. DNA helicase, an enzyme that unwinds DNA, is used in place of thermal denaturation.
Hot start PCR is a technique that reduces non-specific amplification during the initial set up stages of the PCR. It may be performed manually by heating the reaction components to the denaturation temperature (e.g., 95° C.) before adding the polymerase. Specialized enzyme systems have been developed that inhibit the polymerase's activity at ambient temperature, either by the binding of an antibody or by the presence of covalently bound inhibitors that dissociate only after a high-temperature activation step. Hot-start/cold-finish PCR is achieved with new hybrid polymerases that are inactive at ambient temperature and are instantly activated at elongation temperature.
Intersequence-specific PCR (ISSR) is a PCR method for DNA fingerprinting that amplifies regions between simple sequence repeats to produce a unique fingerprint of amplified fragment lengths.
Inverse PCR is commonly used to identify the flanking sequences around genomic inserts. It involves a series of DNA digestions and self ligation, resulting in known sequences at either end of the unknown sequence.
Ligation-mediated PCR: uses small DNA linkers ligated to the DNA of interest and multiple primers annealing to the DNA linkers; it has been used for DNA sequencing, genome walking, and DNA footprinting.
Methylation-specific PCR (MSP) is used to detect methylation of CpG islands in genomic DNA. DNA is first treated with sodium bisulfate, which converts unmethylated cytosine bases to uracil, which is recognized by PCR primers as thymine Two PCRs are then carried out on the modified DNA, using primer sets identical except at any CpG islands within the primer sequences. At these points, one primer set recognizes DNA with cytosines to amplify methylated DNA, and one set recognizes DNA with uracil or thymine to amplify unmethylated DNA. MSP using qPCR can also be performed to obtain quantitative rather than qualitative information about methylation.
Miniprimer PCR uses a thermostable polymerase (S-Tbr) that can extend from short primers (“smalligos”) as short as 9 or 10 nucleotides. This method permits PCR targeting to smaller primer binding regions, and is used to amplify conserved DNA sequences, such as the 16S (or eukaryotic 18S) rRNA gene.
Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) permits multiple targets to be amplified with only a single primer pair, as distinct from multiplex-PCR.
Multiplex-PCR: consists of multiple primer sets within a single PCR mixture to produce amplicons of varying sizes that are specific to different DNA sequences. By targeting multiple genes at once, additional information may be gained from a single test-run that otherwise would require several times the reagents and more time to perform. Annealing temperatures for each of the primer sets must be optimized to work correctly within a single reaction, and amplicon sizes. That is, their base pair length should be different enough to form distinct bands when visualized by gel electrophoresis.
Nested PCR: increases the specificity of DNA amplification, by reducing background due to non-specific amplification of DNA. Two sets of primers are used in two successive PCRs. In the first reaction, one pair of primers is used to generate DNA products, which besides the intended target, may still consist of non-specifically amplified DNA fragments. The product(s) are then used in a second PCR with a set of primers whose binding sites are completely or partially different from and located 3′ of each of the primers used in the first reaction. Nested PCR is often more successful in specifically amplifying long DNA fragments than conventional PCR, but it requires more detailed knowledge of the target sequences.
Overlap-extension PCR or Splicing by overlap extension (SOE): a genetic engineering technique that is used to splice together two or more DNA fragments that contain complementary sequences. It is used to join DNA pieces containing genes, regulatory sequences, or mutations; the technique enables creation of specific and long DNA constructs.
Quantitative PCR (Q-PCR): used to measure the quantity of a PCR product (commonly in real-time). It quantitatively measures starting amounts of DNA, cDNA, or RNA. Q-PCR is commonly used to determine whether a DNA sequence is present in a sample and the number of its copies in the sample. Quantitative real-time PCR can have a high degree of precision. QRT-PCR (or QF-PCR) methods use fluorescent dyes, such as Sybr Green, EvaGreen or fluorophore-containing DNA probes, such as TaqMan, to measure the amount of amplified product in real time. It is also sometimes abbreviated to RT-PCR (Real Time PCR) or RQ-PCR. QRT-PCR or RTQ-PCR are more appropriate contractions, since RT-PCR commonly refers to reverse transcription PCR (see below), often used in conjunction with Q-PCR.
Reverse Transcription PCR (RT-PCR): for amplifying DNA from RNA. Reverse transcriptase reverse transcribes RNA into cDNA, which is then amplified by PCR. RT-PCR is widely used in expression profiling, to determine the expression of a gene or to identify the sequence of an RNA transcript, including transcription start and termination sites. If the genomic DNA sequence of a gene is known, RT-PCR can be used to map the location of exons and introns in the gene. The 5′ end of a gene (corresponding to the transcription start site) is typically identified by RACE-PCR (Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends).
Solid Phase PCR: encompasses multiple meanings, including Polony Amplification (where PCR colonies are derived in a gel matrix, for example), Bridge PCR[32] (primers are covalently linked to a solid-support surface), conventional Solid Phase PCR (where Asymmetric PCR is applied in the presence of solid support bearing primer with sequence matching one of the aqueous primers) and Enhanced Solid Phase PCR (where conventional Solid Phase PCR can be improved by employing high Tm and nested solid support primer with optional application of a thermal ‘step’ to favour solid support priming).
Thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR (TAIL-PCR) may be useful for isolation of an unknown sequence flanking a known sequence. Within the known sequence, TAIL-PCR uses a nested pair of primers with differing annealing temperatures; a degenerate primer is used to amplify in the other direction from the unknown sequence.
Touchdown PCR (Step-down PCR) is a variant of PCR that aims to reduce nonspecific background by gradually lowering the annealing temperature as PCR cycling progresses. The annealing temperature at the initial cycles is usually a few degrees (3-5° C.) above the Tm of the primers used, while at the later cycles, it is a few degrees (3-5° C.) below the primer Tm. The higher temperatures give greater specificity for primer binding, and the lower temperatures permit more efficient amplification from the specific products formed during the initial cycles.
PAN-AC uses isothermal conditions for amplification, and may be used in living cells.
Universal Fast Walking is useful for genome walking and genetic fingerprinting using a more specific ‘two-sided’ PCR than conventional ‘one-sided’ approaches (using only one gene-specific primer and one general primer—which can lead to artefactual ‘noise’) by virtue of a mechanism involving lariat structure formation. Streamlined derivatives of UFW are LaNe RAGE (lariat-dependent nested PCR for rapid amplification of genomic DNA ends), 5′RACE LaNe, and 3′RACE LaNe.
COLD-PCR (co-amplification at lower denaturation temperature-PCR) is a modified Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) protocol that enriches variant alleles from a mixture of wildtype and mutation-containing DNA.
An alternative isothermal amplification and detection method that is isothermal in nature is described at http://www.invaderchemistry.com/ (Invader Chemistry). This method may be performed by the disclosed devices and methods. Another alternative amplification technique (so-called qPCR) is disclosed by MNAzyme (http://www.speedx.com.au/MNAzymeqPCR.html), which technique is also suitable for the presently disclosed devices and methods.
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In some embodiments, the one or more nucleic acids may reside on a label bound to a protein. This may be applied in immuno-amplification techniques, as described elsewhere herein, which techniques enable detection and quantification of proteins.
In certain embodiments of the disclosed technology, at least one well of the first population of wells, the second population of wells, or both, is disposed proximate to a satellite well. Such a satellite well is suitably adapted to retain material from the at least one well. This is illustrated in, e.g., non-limiting
The relative motion between the first and second substrates places at least some of the first population of wells in register with at least some of the second population of wells so as to form combined reaction chambers. This are shown in illustrative
Wells formed on a substrate may have comparatively small volumes, e.g., about 0.1, 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, or even about 1000 nL per well. A substrate may include wells of two or more volumes, and given, discrete population of wells (e.g., a set of wells that are in fluid communication with a conduit formed in the substrate in which the wells reside) may include wells of two or more volumes.
In other embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods, the methods including inducing relative motion between a first substrate and a second substrate so as to dispose a first material into first and second populations of wells formed in at least one of the substrates; inducing relative motion between the first and second substrates so as to dispose a second material into third and fourth populations of wells formed at least one of the substrates, the first and second materials being contacted to one another.
In some embodiments, the user may introduce the first material to at least one well by exerting the material through a conduit in fluid communication with the well. The user may also introduce the second material to at least one well by exerting the material through a conduit in fluid communication with the well.
As described elsewhere herein, at least some of the first material may remain uncombined with the second material. Likewise, at least some of the second material may remain uncombined with the first material. This is shown in
The user may also amplify one or more nucleic acids present within a population of wells. Such amplification may be effected with temperature cycling; isothermal methods of amplification are considered especially suitable. Suitable methods of amplification are described elsewhere herein. Suitable well and substrate configurations—including satellite wells—are described elsewhere herein.
It should be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to isothermal processes, and that the disclosed devices and methods may be adapted to effect other molecular reactions, including single-molecule reactions. For example, a sample may be introduced to a first set of compartments such that at least one well contains (or is estimated to contain) only a single molecule of sample. The sample may be undergo a reaction (e.g., labeling, neutralizing, acidification, digestion, ligation, translation, transcription, reverse transcription, crystallization, incubation, dissolution, detection and the like) in that first set of compartments. With specific regard to detection reactions, the detection reaction may include molecular beacons, sequencing, enzymatic reactions, fluorogenic reactions, colorimetric reactions, and the like. The detection methods provided in priority application PCT/US2010/028316 (incorporated herein in its entirety) are suitable for the disclosed devices and methods.
The user may effect relative motion between that first set of compartments and a second set of compartments that contains a particular reagent so as to place the first and second sets of compartments into register and direct fluid communication with one another. The material (i.e., reacted sample) in the first set of wells then contacts the reagent in the second set of wells, and the reacted sample may then react with the reagent in the second set of wells. In some embodiments, this reaction may be an amplification reaction, or labeling, neutralizing, acidification, digestion, ligation, translation, transcription, reverse transcription, crystallization, incubation, dissolution, and the like. The reaction may also be a detection reaction. Accordingly, as described above, a given sample that resides in a first set of compartments may undergo multiple, sequential reactions as the sample is exposed to other reagents by way of relative motion between the compartment(s) in which the sample is disposed and other compartments that contain other reagents. This in turn enables effecting sequential processing on multiple sample compartments in parallel.
Some embodiments of the devices and methods disclosed here provide for amplification of nucleic acids, followed by recovery of the amplified material. Such recovery may be carried out, in some embodiments, by accessing individual wells of a device. In some embodiments, recovery may be achieved by combining material from multiple wells, for example by slipping a device to the loading position and using a carrier fluid to expel the material from the device. Such recovery may be used for additional analysis of nucleic acids, such as sequencing, genotyping, analysis of methylation patterns, and identification of epigenetic markers. In some embodiments, recovered material may be removed from the device. In some embodiment, recovered material may be transferred to another device, or another region of the same device. Amplification may be carried out by the methods described herein or by other methods known in the art or by their combinations.
Some embodiments of the devices and methods disclosed here provide for a method of carrying out sequential reactions on multiple compartments. For example, a first fluid containing one or more molecules of interest can be introduced into a device. Compartmentalization of the fluid may be carried out by slipping to create the first set of compartments. In some preferred embodiments, some of the first compartments have single molecules of interest. A first reaction can be carried out, for example, by incubation at a particular temperature or combination of temperatures, by applying fields and gradients, and/or by other means. Second compartments of a second fluid, containing a reagent, can be created either in parallel with creating the first compartments, or prior to first compartments, or subsequently to the first compartments. After the desired extent of the first reaction, the first compartments containing the first reaction mixtures can be combined with the second compartments to carry out the second reaction. The second reaction could be carrying out on the product of the first reaction (for example, a second detection reaction on the product of the first nucleic acid amplification reaction), or could be performed on other components of the first reaction mixture (for example detecting a protein in the second reaction following a detection of a nucleic acid in the first reaction). In some embodiments, such sequential reactions can be carried out in parallel, for example in devices such as those illustrated in
As an additional example, molecules of interest can be molecules of nucleic acids. The first reaction could be an amplification reaction, and the second reaction could be a subsequent amplification reaction. The first reaction can be a reverse-transcription reaction and the second reaction could be an amplification reaction. The first reaction can be an amplification reaction, and the second reaction can be a detection reaction. The first reaction could be a sequencing library preparation reaction, and the second reaction could be an amplification reaction. Examples of other first and second reactions, which should not be considered limiting examples, include detection reactions. A non-limiting listing of reactions is provided at, e.g., paragraphs 0112-0124 in published United States Application 2011/0166044, the entirety of which is incorporated herein by reference. The exemplary embodiments disclosed herein regarding NASBA and LAMP amplification processes illustrate the foregoing, namely, a multi-step reaction process. Additional examples of embodiments that feature first and second reactions are described in priority application PCT/US2010/028316 at, e.g., at paragraph 0194 and elsewhere in that application. In one embodiment, the first reaction may be nucleic acid amplification (e.g., PCR), and the second reaction may be a recovery of the amplification products. In some embodiments, recovery of amplification products need not necessarily be performed by a reaction. The amplification products may be recovered by a filter, a monolith, and the like—materials that preferentially adsorb amplification products are considered especially suitable.
Recovery of products (e.g., amplified nucleic acid products) may be effected by removing the product (e.g., by pipette, syringe, or other device). Recovery may also be effected by actuating amplification product fluid with a carrier or lubricating fluid, as described in priority application PCT/US2010/028316. Further methods of moving fluids are also described in priority application PCT/US2010/028316.
As one example, a user might combine nucleic acids and amplification to form an admixture. The user may then introduce that admixture into a device according to the present disclosure so as to distribute the admixture among multiple areas (e.g., wells). The areas may be in fluid communication with one another, but may also be in fluid isolation from one another. Once the admixture is disposed into these areas, the user may apply conditions (heat, light) sufficient to effect a reaction in the admixture. The reacted admixture may then be distributed among other compartments, where the reacted admixture undergoes further reactions.
It should be understood that the devices and methods disclosed herein may be configured to effect a time delay between steps. For example, a sample and reagent may be introduced into a set of reaction compartments. At that time, the user may apply heat to the materials so as to effect a reaction between the sample and reagent. The user may then, after a time sufficient to allow the reaction to reach a desired stage, effect contact between the reacted material and another reagent, as described elsewhere herein. Delay may be effected manually or by action of a controller that actuates substrates, valves, pumps, or other components of the disclosed technology. Delays in the range of from one thousandth of a second to one second are suitable delay lengths, as such delays may be sufficient to allow sufficient progress of a reaction. Thus, in some embodiments, the devices may effect a first reaction during a delay, place the reaction products into contact with an additional reagent, and then effect a delay so as to allow a second reaction to take place.
This may be illustrated by reference to
It should also be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to application to molecules, as the disclosed devices and methods may be applied to organisms (such as those described in paragraph 0133 of priority application PCT/US2010/028316 and also elsewhere in that application), single cells, single biological particles (e.g., bacteria), single vesicles, single exosomes, single viruses, single spores, lipoprotein particles, and the like, and single non-biological particles. Furthermore, it should also be understood that the disclosed devices and methods may be applied to stochastic confinement (described in, for example, “Stochastic Confinement to Detect, Manipulate, And Utilize Molecules and Organisms,” application no. PCT/US2008/071374), and reactions and manipulations of stochastically confined objects. As one non-limiting example, biological samples may be assessed for the presence or level of certain bacteria, such as those organisms that serve as markers for bacterial vaginosis. This assessment may be performed by amplifying nucleic acids that may be present in the sample and correlating the levels of those nucleic acids to the presence or absence of the marker organisms. An exemplary approach to such an analysis is found at http://www.viromed.com/client/cats/BV%20LAB.pdf.
Also presented are devices. The devices suitably include a first substrate having a first population of wells formed therein, at least one well of the first population of wells having at least one satellite well disposed proximate to the at least one well, the at least one satellite well being adapted to retain material from the at least one well; a second substrate having a second plurality of wells formed therein, the first and second substrates being slidably engagable with one another such that relative motion between the first and second substrates places at least some of the first population of wells in register with at least some of the second population of wells so as to form combined reaction chambers.
Exemplary devices are shown and described in
The relative motion (which may be referred to as actuating) may give rise to at least one reaction vessel defined by a well of the first population of wells in fluid communication with a well of the second population of wells, the at least one reaction vessel. The reaction vessel may be in fluidic isolation from other wells or other reaction vessels, also fluidic isolation is not q requirement. The reaction vessel may have a volume in the range of from about 1 nL to about 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, or even about 2000 or even 5000 nL, depending on the user's needs. Exemplary fabrication methods for such devices are set forth in Du et al., Lab Chip 2009, 9, 2286-2292. A population of wells of the disclosed devices may include two or more wells of different volumes. As described elsewhere herein, a reaction vessel may include at least one satellite well, which wells are described elsewhere herein, and are shown in exemplary
It should be understood that the methods may include one, two, or more applications of relative motion between substrates. For example, a first relative motion (e.g., rotation) may be applied so as to place first and second sets of wells into fluid communication with one another. Once the contents of the first and second wells have contacted one another, additional rotation may be applied to place the wells with mixed contents into fluid communication with another set of wells with different contents, which in turns enables the user to effect processes that require separate and/or sequential mixing steps of two, three, or more sample volumes. This might be done, for example, to (1) mix materials in well A and well B in well A; and then (2) to contact the mixed materials in well A with a buffer in well C so as to dilute the contents of well A. Alternatively, the mixed contents of well A might then be contacted (via relative motion of substrates) with well C such that the contents of well C may react with the contents of well A (which well included the contents of well A and well B).
The devices may be configured such that relative motion between the substrates gives rise to at least about 2, 5, 10, 100, 500, 1000, 2500, or even about 10,000 (including any and all intermediate values) combined reaction chambers. The disclosed devices may include one or more supplies of a reagent or reagents that are adapted (or selected) to participate in nucleic acid amplification. Such reagents may be packaged together with the first and second substrates. A partial, non-exclusive listing of such reagents includes buffers, primers, and the like. The reagent may be dried and disposed in a well before or after the substrates are engaged with one another. The reagent may also be disposed within a well and then dried.
The present disclosure also provides kits. The kits suitably include a first substrate having a first population of wells formed therein; a second substrate having a second population of wells formed therein, the first and second substrates being superposable and slidably engagable with one another such that relative motion between the substrates places at least some of the first population of wells into fluid communication with at least some of the second population of wells; and a supply of at least one reagent adapted to participate in amplification of nucleic acid. The kits may, however, include reagents in addition to or even in place of the amplification reagent. Such reagents may include lysis agents, acids, bases, surfactants, enzymes, preservatives, labels (e.g., fluorophores), and the like. A nonexclusive set exemplary reagents are provided in priority application PCT/US2010/02816. The reagent may be packaged with the substrates. The reagent may also be packaged (e.g., in dried form) within an area (e.g., a well) of a substrate. The kit may also include one or more fluids (e.g., water, buffer) that may be used to reconstitute a reagent stored within the kit. The kit may also include a sample collection device (swab, syringe, pipette) for collecting a sample.
As described elsewhere herein, the first population of wells comprises two or more wells that differ in volume from one another; similarly, the second population of wells comprises two or more wells that differ in volume from one another. The reagent may be adapted (or selected) to participate in one or more of polymerase chain reaction, nucleic acid sequence based amplification, recombinase polymerase amplification, loop-mediated amplification, rolling circle amplification, helicase dependent amplification, transcription mediated amplification, multiple displacement amplification, strand displacement amplification, or any combination thereof.
In the disclosed kits, the at least one reagent may be disposed within at least some of the first population of wells, the second population of wells, or both. The reagent may be, as described elsewhere herein, present in dried form.
The first and second substrates may be planar at a region of overlap between the two substrates, as shown in
The disclosed kits may include a device capable of supplying or removing heat from the first and second substrates. Such devices include heaters, refrigeration devices, infrared or visible light lamps, and the like. The kits may also include a device capable of collecting an image of at least some of the first population of wells, the second population of wells, or both. The device may be further configured to analyze the image and to estimate a level of an analyte present in a sample that has been processed by the kit. In such embodiments, the device may be configured to detect the presence or absence of a target present in the first population of wells, the second population of wells, or both. The device may be manually portable (e.g., a mobile phone, a table computer, or digital camera).
As one example, an iPhone 4S™ is useful to capture results on a disclosed device. A fluorescence readout is achieved by a standard iPhone 4S™ 8 MP camera equipped with a yellow dichroic long-pass filter 10CGA-530 (Newport, Franklin, Mass.). Fluorescence excitation is achieved by shining light (e.g., blue light) on a device. The light may be applied at an oblique angle, e.g., about 30 degrees. A variety of light sources may be used; one suitable source is a blue LED (LIU003) equipped with a blue short-pass dichroic filter FD1B (Thorlabs, Newton, N.J.). Excitation light may reach the sample by direct illumination, by multiple reflections between the device plates, or both.
Exemplary estimation methods are described in, e.g., Shen et al., JACS 2011 133: 17705-17712; Kreutz et al., Anal. Chem. 2011 83: 8158-8168; and Shen et al., Anal. Chem. 2011 83: 3533-3540, each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. These and other estimation methods may be applied to the devices and methods presented herein.
In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides methods of amplifying a nucleic acid molecule. These methods suitably include contacting (a) a sample comprising at least one nucleic acid molecule disposed at a plurality of first areas, with (b) at least one component of an amplification reagent disposed in a plurality of second areas; the contacting is suitably effected by placing the first and second areas into direct fluid communication with one another. The contacting also suitably includes effecting relative motion between a substrate comprising the first area with a substrate comprising the second area, and exposing the area having the at least one nucleic acid molecule to conditions effective for amplification of the at least one nucleic acid molecule,
The amplification may be effected essentially isothermally. Various methods of essentially isothermal amplification are set forth elsewhere herein. The essentially isothermal amplification suitably comprises fewer than 10 changes in temperature. As stated elsewhere herein, however, it should be understood that the disclosed devices and methods are not limited to isothermal methods of amplification.
In some embodiments, at least two of the plurality of first areas differ from one another in volume. In some embodiments, at least two of the plurality of second areas differ from one another in volume; in still other embodiment, at least one first area differs in volume from at least one second area, or any combination thereof. The differences in volumes allow a user to place populations of areas (e.g., wells) into fluid communication with one another to create paired areas in register with one another. These paired areas (e.g., wells) then define a combined reaction region. In certain embodiments, the paired areas define combined reaction regions of different volumes. For example, a 1 nL area may be placed pairwise into fluid communication with a 5 nL area to give rise to a combined reaction region having a volume of about 6 nL. The user may also combine a 1 nL area with a 10 nL area so as to give rise to a combined reaction region having a volume of about 11 nL. In this way, a user may give rise to a set of combined reaction regions having different volumes (6 nL and 11 nL, in the present example).
The amplification may also be performed in a multiplexed fashion. In one such embodiment, amplification is performed at multiple areas. In another embodiment, amplification of different nucleic acids is performed at multiple areas; a user might amplify a first nucleic acid at 10 locations, and amplify a second nucleic acid at 10 different locations.
The relative motion between the various areas may be linear translation, rotational motion, or nonlinear motion. The relative motion may be effected manually (e.g., by hand). Alternatively, the relative motion may be effected under control of a programmed (or programmable) controller. Such a controller may interface with a motor that in turn effects motion of the substrates.
In some embodiments, the first and second areas are placed into direct fluid communication with one another; i.e., the areas face one another. In some embodiments, one may remove a barrier (e.g., a membrane, film, and the like) that resides between first and second areas.
A user may also estimate a level (e.g., concentration) of nucleic acid present in the sample. This estimation may be performed by a variety of methods described herein. Exemplary estimation methods are described in, e.g., Shen et al., JACS 2011 133: 17705-17712; Kreutz et al., Anal. Chem. 2011 83: 8158-8168; and Shen et al., Anal. Chem. 2011 83: 3533-3540, each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
In some embodiments, at least 10 first areas are placed into direct fluid communication with at least 10 second areas essentially simultaneously. In other embodiments, at least 50 first areas are placed into direct fluid communication with at least 50 second areas essentially simultaneously. A user may place at least 500 first areas into direct fluid communication with at least 500 second areas essentially simultaneously.
Areas that define a volume in the range of from about 0.1 nL to about 1000 nL are considered particularly suitable. Volumes in the range of from about 5 to about 10 nL are considered suitable.
In applying the disclosed methods, the area having the at least one nucleic acid molecule is estimated to contain one molecule of nucleic acid. This estimation may be performed mathematically; a user may modulate sample concentration and area volume so as to arrive at a configuration wherein at least one area contains a single nucleic acid molecule.
The disclosed methods may also include the step of amplified nucleic acid. This detection may be effected by assaying an area for the presence of a marker (e.g., a label) that is indicative of the presence of the nucleic acid. A user may also correlated an estimated level of the at least one nucleic acid in the sample to a disease state in the source of the sample. As one example, a user may determine that the presence of a particular nucleic acid that marks the presence of a bacteria in an amplification product indicates the presence of that bacteria in the source of the sample. A user may also isolate a nucleic acid from the sample; such isolation may include manipulating the sample (pipetting, diluting, concentrating) so as to isolate nucleic acid. The user may also use a capture material (e.g., silica) that adsorbs nucleic acids.
In some embodiments, the user may disposed the at least one nucleic acid at the first area. This may be effected by pipetting, spraying, injecting, and the like. A user may introduce the sample at the first area, introducing a amplification reagent at the second area, or both.
In some embodiments, introducing the sample at the first area comprises exerting the sample through a conduit in fluid communication with the first area. The conduit may be formed in a substrate that comprises the first area. A user may also introduce sample at the second area; this may be accomplished by exerting the sample through a conduit in fluid communication with the second area. Such a conduit may be formed in a substrate that comprises the second area.
In some embodiments (e.g.,
A user may also distribute the at least one amplification reagent between the second area and a second control area. The reagent (see
Users may place amplification product into direct fluid communication with a third area. In this way, a user may create an amplification product and then place that product (e.g., by effecting relative motion between an area where that product resides and another area that contains a reagent) into contact with a reagent. In this way, a user may realize multistep processes that create a first product and then further process that product.
The present disclosure also provides devices. The devices suitably include a first substrate having a first population of areas, at least one area of the first population of areas having at least one satellite area disposed proximate to the at least one area, the at least one satellite area being adapted to retain material from the at least one area; a second substrate having a second plurality of area formed therein, the first and second substrates being engagable with one another such that relative motion between the first and second substrates places at least some of the first population of areas in register with at least some of the second population of areas so as to place the first and second areas into fluid communication with one another.
One such exemplary device is shown in
At least one of the first or second substrates suitably has a thickness in the range of from about 10 micrometers to about 5000 micrometers. Thicknesses in the range of from 20 micrometers to about 100 micrometers are considered especially suitable. At least one area of the first or second populations includes an area that defines a volume in the range of from about 1 pL to about 1 microL.
The disclosed devices may be configured such that the relative motion gives rise to at least one reaction region defined by an area of the first population of areas in fluid communication with an area of the second population of areas. Such a reaction region may define a volume in the range of from about 1 pL to about 1 microL. A satellite well is suitably disposed proximate to at least one reaction region.
As described elsewhere herein and in the priority documents, the first population of areas may include two or more areas that differ from one another in volume. Likewise, the second population of areas may include two or more areas that differ from one another in volume.
The devices may be configured such that the relative motion between the substrates gives rise to at least about 10 reaction regions. The devices may be configured such that the relative motion gives rise to at least about 50, 100, 1000, or even about 5000 reaction regions.
The devices may also include (or be packaged with) one or more reagents. The reagents are suitably selected so as to be capable of participating in one or more reactions that a user may effect on a sample disposed in the disclosed devices. As one example, a device may include a reagent adapted to participate in nucleic acid amplification.
Also provided are methods. These methods effect amplification of at least one nucleic acid target molecule, and the methods suitably include contacting (1) a sample material disposed in a plurality of first areas, the sample material comprising a nucleic acid target, and at least one of the first areas containing one molecule of the nucleic acid target, with (2) a reactant material disposed in a plurality of second areas, the contacting being effected by pairwise placement of at least some of the first areas and at least some of the second areas into direct fluid communication with one another, the contacting effecting amplification of at least one nucleic acid target molecule.
In some embodiments, the sample material may include a reagent. As one illustrative example, the sample material may include one or more nucleic acid target molecules as well as suitable amplification reagents. The amplification may, in some cases, be essentially isothermal. In embodiments that include amplification, a user may estimate the level of the at least one nucleic acid target.
In other embodiments, the reagent (disposed at the second area or areas) comprises an amplification reagent. In these embodiments, a user may effect amplification by using relative motion between the first and second areas to contact the sample with the amplification reagent. A user may also expose an area containing the at least one nucleic acid molecule to conditions effective for amplification of the at least one nucleic acid target so as to give rise to an amplification product. As described elsewhere herein, the amplification may be essentially isothermal. A user may also estimate the level of the at least one nucleic acid target.
The pairwise placement described above may be effected by relative motion of the first and second areas. This pairwise placement may act to place at least 10 first areas into direct fluid communication with at least 10 second areas. It may also act to place at least 50 first areas into direct fluid communication with at least 50 second areas. The relative motion between the first and second areas may, as described elsewhere herein, be effected manually by a controller, or both.
The present disclosure also provides methods. These methods include dispersing a first sample that comprises at least one molecule of interest among a plurality of first areas, at least one of the first areas containing a single molecule of interest; dispersing a reactant material into a plurality of second areas; and effecting pairwise placement of at least some of the plurality of first areas into direct fluid communication with at least some of the plurality of second areas so as to contact reactant material with the first sample.
In some embodiments, the first sample is dispersed among the plurality of the first areas at essentially the same time among the plurality of first areas. In some embodiments, the reactant material is dispersed among the plurality of second areas at essentially the same time among the plurality of second areas. The pairwise placement of the at least some of the plurality of first areas into direct fluid communication with at least some of the plurality of second areas may occur at essentially simultaneously the same time among the majority of any pairs formed by first and second areas. Some embodiments feature two or more of foregoing.
In a particular embodiment of the disclosed methods, the first sample comprises a reagent, and the user may effect a reaction between the reagent and at least one molecule of interest. The reaction may be nucleic acid amplification, which amplification may be essentially isothermal. A user may also recover a product of the nucleic acid amplification; suitable recover methods are described elsewhere herein. The pairwise placement of areas into fluid communication with one another is suitably effected by relative motion of the first and second areas, also as described elsewhere herein.
A user may effect a reaction between the contacted reactant material and the first sample. Various suitable reactions are described elsewhere herein, and can include nucleic acid amplification (including essentially isothermal amplification) of the at least one molecule of interest. The reactant may be an amplification reagent. A user may recover a product of the nucleic acid amplification, and this product may be subjected to further processing.
The recited pairwise placement may place at least 10 first areas into direct fluid communication with at least 10 second areas. The pairwise placement may place at least 50 first areas into direct fluid communication with at least 50 second areas.
Digital RPA
The following embodiments explore digital quantitative detection of nucleic acids was achieved at the single-molecule level by chemical initiation of over a thousand nanoliter, sequence-specific, isothermal amplification reactions in parallel. Digital polymerase chain reaction (digital PCR), a method used for quantification of nucleic acids, counts the presence or absence of amplification of individual molecules. Digital PCR, however, typically requires temperature cycling. This makes isothermal methods for nucleic acid amplification, such as recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) suitable.
A microfluidic digital RPA device is described here for simultaneous initiation of over a thousand nanoliter RPA reactions by adding a chemical initiator to each reaction compartment with a simple slipping step after instrument-free pipette loading.
Two device designs, two-step slipping and one-step slipping, are described using digital RPA. By using the disclosed devices, false positive results from pre-initiation of the RPA amplification reaction before incubation were eliminated. End-point fluorescence readout was used for “yes or no” digital quantification. The performance of digital RPA in the disclosed devices was shown by amplifying and counting single molecules of the target nucleic acid, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) genomic DNA. The digital RPA on the disclosed devices was also tolerant to fluctuations of the incubation temperature (37-42° C.), and its performance was comparable to digital PCR on the same device design. The digital RPA devices provide methods to quantify nucleic acids without requiring thermal cycling or kinetic measurements, with potential applications in diagnostics and environmental monitoring under resource-limited settings. The ability to initiate thousands of chemical reactions in parallel on the nanoliter scale using solvent-resistant glass devices is useful for a broad range of applications.
To reduce thermal cycling, different isothermal amplification methods have been developed, including loop-mediated amplification, nucleic acid sequence based amplification, recombinase polymerase amplification, rolling circle amplification, helicase-dependent amplification, transcription-mediated amplification, multiple displacement amplification (MDA), and strand-displacement amplification (SDA). These real-time methods of isothermal amplification can be sensitive to temperature because the enzyme activity is highly temperature-dependent. To avoid effects of temperature changes and fluctuations, calibration is preferably done in parallel to quantitatively analyze nucleic acids. Moreover, most of the methods for detection and analysis of nucleic acids using NASBA and RPA still depend on interpreting exponential amplification profiles.
Although digital PCR typically requires thermal cycling and accurate temperature control, the technique is straightforward because initiation of the amplification reaction is controlled by temperature. So-called “hot-start” modifications of PCR polymerases are now widely used and substantially eliminate any low-temperature non-specific pre-amplification. The PCR reaction mixture can be compartmentalized prior to initiation with minimal risk of false-positives due to pre-initiation. In situations where the infrastructure for thermal cycling is readily available, digital PCR is an attractive option for nucleic acid quantification. In limited-resource or point-of-care settings, digital isothermal amplification methods that take place at temperatures near room temperature (such as RPA) are advantageous because they do not rely on a raised temperature for initiation, but rather rely on mixing. If the nucleic acid target is premixed with the initiation reagent prior to compartmentalization, one might expect the amplification reaction to proceed even at room temperature and thus increase the target count. Thus, one may compartmentalize the sample containing the nucleic acid target prior to adding the initiation reagents. Multistep manipulation can also be done with valves and droplets, but such systems typically use complex control systems and instrumentation, so it is preferably achieved on a device that does not require complex control systems and instrumentation.
Certain embodiments of the disclosed devices comprise two plates containing wells and ducts that can be brought in contact and moved relative to one another to manipulate fluids by creating and breaking fluidic paths. The pattern of wells and ducts in the two plates can contain almost any program to manipulate fluid volumes; compartmentalizing a sample into many small volumes and mixing each small volume with a reagent can be performed by simple subsequent slipping of the two plates.
Here is described devices and methods to perform digital isothermal amplification by using RPA. It is demonstrated that digital RPA does not require precise temperature control, as equivalent quantification results were obtained when quantifying MRSA gDNA at 37° C., 39° C., and 42° C. One advance presented here is the capability to first confine individual target molecules into separate reaction compartments, and then deliver chemical initiators to initiate reaction in parallel, a requirement of digital RPA. The devices may, of course, be applied to perform other high throughput chemical reactions or screenings that require multistep processes such as confinement of one reagent and then addition of subsequent reagents in sequence, as the digital RPA described here is illustrative only.
RPA Results
The mechanism of DNA amplification and fluorescence signal generation facilitated by RPA is described in elsewhere. RPA uses nucleoprotein complexes consisting of oligonucleotide primers and recombinase proteins to target binding sites within template DNA. Upon their binding, the primers are extended by strand-displacing polymerases, thereby copying the target sequence. The use of primers binding to the opposing strands of the template initiates a process of exponential DNA amplification. The generation of amplified target material can be monitored by an appropriate oligonucleotide-probe based fluorescence detection system in the approach used here, a fluorophore/quencher bearing probe is nucleolytically cut in response to sequence-specific binding to amplified DNA. This processing step results in a separation of the fluorophore and quencher groups, thereby leading to an increase in observable fluorescence.
Although the RP A reaction normally proceeds at 39° C., it was first tested to determine to what extent it would proceed at room temperature (25° C.) upon mixing of the reagents in well plates, therefore potentially affecting the accuracy of the RPA results when performed in a digital format. The RPA solution was mixed with magnesium acetate and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) genomic DNA (gDNA, final concentration of 5 pg/11 L), then immediately placed in the plate reader (temperature controlled at 25° C.). The fluorescence intensity from wells containing gDNA template (
This result suggested that the RPA reaction amplified the target nucleic acid template in the presence of magnesium acetate at room temperature. Therefore, to achieve digital RPA without false-positive errors, the nucleic acid template may be compartmentalized first and then magnesium acetate is added to each individual compartment. The non-initiating components of the RP A reaction mixture (RPA enzymes, buffer, primers, and probe) can be added to the solution containing nucleic acid template, to the solution of magnesium acetate, or to both.
To achieve this goal, a device was designed that featured two-step slipping, which device was able to load and compartmentalize two different reagents that could be combined by slipping (
Each Type II well also had two satellite wells (0.2 nL) to address potential thermal expansion during the temperature change from room temperature to 39° C. The satellite wells provided additional space for thermal expansion of the aqueous reagent within the compartment formed by overlapping the Type I and Type II wells. A total of 1,550 reaction compartments (9 nL each) were formed by overlapping the Type I and Type II wells contained in the facing plates (
The digital RPA device was assembled by combining the top plate (
The two plates were then slipped relative to one another to compartmentalize RPA Reaction Mixture 1, simultaneously stochastically confining the gDNA template in the Type I wells and forming the second fluidic path by overlapping the Type II wells (
A digital RPA device was applied to a sample containing a 1:104 dilution of 5 ng/11 L of stock MRSA gDNA. The stock gDNA was purified from MRSA culture, and the optical density of the purified nucleic acid product was measured spectrophotometrically. At this concentration, the average copy number of gDNA per well was expected to be less than 1, and single-copy RPA was achieved. The reaction solution of RPA was made from rehydrating the lyophilized reagent, and was heterogeneous: microparticles of various sizes and shapes were still present even after sonication and vortexing the solution (
Performance of the digital RPA device was explored using a serial dilution of the MRSA gDNA stock solution at five orders of magnitude, from 1:10 dilution to 1:105 dilution. As the gDNA template was diluted, the fraction of positive wells on the RPA device decreased proportionally after incubation (
The device design described above uses a two-step procedure for loading reagents: the two reagents can be loaded independently of one another, an attractive capability for general parallel processing of samples and reactions. Incubation or thermal cycling can be performed after confining the target molecules or the first reagent into individual reaction compartments, then additional reagents can be delivered (e.g., reagents for readout) into each compartment in parallel. This feature also facilitates quality control during development of new methods. Digital RPA typically requires this parallel processing of reactions, but does not typically specifically require two-step processing. Also presented here is a simplified device that does not independently control reagents but instead allows compartmentalization and mixing of the two reaction mixtures in parallel by one-step slipping after simultaneous introduction of the reagents (
As shown, RPA can be initiated at room temperature (˜25° C.) after magnesium acetate is added (
Following that, the Type I and Type II wells were overlaid by slipping the top plate relative to the bottom plate. The device was then incubated at 39° C. for 1 hour. These results were compared to results obtained without pre-initiating the solution with magnesium acetate off-chip (from experiments shown in
To further demonstrate the performance of digital RPA on the devices, we compared experiments of digital RP A to experiments of digital PCR using the same concentration of MRSA gDNA on the same device (1:104 dilution, see also
The digital RPA device typically depends on the endpoint fluorescence reading of either “0” or “1”, unlike real-time PCR and real-time RPA that monitor the change of fluorescence intensity over time. Because the enzyme activity depends on the working temperature, the temperature can dramatically affect the amplification speed in real-time RPA Therefore, real-time amplification methods require accurate control of temperature and careful calibration for quantitative analysis. This may make real-time RPA less applicable in point-of-care diagnostics in resource limited settings. Because the digital devices detects the endpoint readout instead of real-time changes of fluorescent intensity, the digital RPA device may be more tolerant to temperature fluctuations than real-time methods. Amplifications of MRSA gDNA at 37° C., 39° C., and 42° C. were not significantly different (
Results Summary
Parallel initiation of pre-compartmentalized reactions on the disclosed devices is suitable for isothermal nucleic acid quantification by using recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) at 39° C. in a digital format. The RPA reaction will start even at room temperature once the magnesium acetate is added into the reaction mixture, increasing the number of false positives in digital RPA if the reaction mixture is compartmentalized after off-chip mixing of all reagents with the nucleic acid template. The digital devices addressed this issue by separating the reaction mixture containing nucleic acid template into individual compartments, in the absence of magnesium acetate, and then delivering magnesium acetate to all compartments simultaneously by slipping. A one-step device was also demonstrated using digital RPA, and the result was consistent with the results obtained on the two-step device. The digital RPA device was also demonstrated to be robust in the presence of small perturbations of incubation temperature from 37-42° C. The digital RPA device was designed to contain 1550 reaction compartments of 9 nL each, with two additional sets of wells for controls (50 wells for each control), giving a potential for, in certain embodiments, a detection limit of 300 copies/mL and dynamic range of 1400 to 1,000,000 copies/mL with three-fold resolution, calculated using the method described previously. The RPA reaction was robust and free of cross-contamination on the device. However, microparticles were present in the reaction mixture even after vortexing and sonication. A real-time imaging system can also be used. No false positive results were observed in the experiments. Incorporation of a reverse-transcription step with RPA can expand the applicability of the digital RPA devices for quantitative analysis of viral loads in resource-limited areas. The disclosed methods provide a platform for quantification of nucleic acids under resource limited settings and in the clinic, where digital PCR and real time PCR may not be available due to limited infrastructure; in the disclosed methods, reagents and template can be loaded as one solution and only one slip is required.
Chemicals and Materials—RPA
All salts and solvents purchased from commercial sources were used as received unless otherwise stated. The TwistAmp™ exo kit for RP A was purchased from TwistDx Limited (Cambridge, United Kingdom). The RP A primers and probe for detection of MRSA mecA gene were generously provided by TwistDx Limited. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) solution was ordered from Roche Diagnostics (Indianapolis, Ind.). Tetradecane, chloroform, acetone, ethanol, and DEPC-treated and nuclease free water were obtained from Fisher Scientific (Hanover Park, Ill.). Dichlorodimethylsilane was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Mo.). Soda-lime glass plates coated with photoresist and chromium were ordered from Telic Company (Valencia, Calif.). Spectrum food colors (brown and blue food dye) were obtained from August Thomsen Corp (Glen Cove, N.Y.). Photomasks were ordered from CADI Art Services, Inc. (Bandon, Oreg.). PCR tubes and barrier pipette tips were purchased from Molecular BioProducts (San Diego, Calif.). All PCR primers were purchased from Integrated DNA Technologies (Coralville, Iowa). SsoFast EvaGreen Supermix (2×) was obtained from Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, Calif.). Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA], ATCC 43300, was purchased from American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, Va.) and MRSA gDNA was purified according to the manufacturer's recommendations using Qiagene Puregene Yeast/Bact. Kit A obtained from Qiagen (Valencia, Calif.).
Fabrication of Devices For Digital RPA
The procedure for fabrication of t from soda lime glass was based on methods developed previously (Lab Chip 2009, 9, 2286-2292). To fabricate devices with wells of different depths, the following procedures were used: 1) The glass plate coated with chromium and photoresist was aligned with a photomask containing the design for Type I wells, Type II wells, and ducts by using a mask aligner, then the photoresist layer was exposed to UV light using standard exposure protocols. 2) After exposure, the glass plate was immersed in 0.1 mol/L NaOH solution to immediately remove the photoresist from exposed areas. 3) The exposed underlying chromium layer was removed by using a chromium etchant (a solution of 0.6:0.365 mol/L HClO4I(NH4)2Ce(NO3)6). 4) The glass plate was then thoroughly rinsed with Millipore water and dried with nitrogen gas. 5) The glass plate was then immersed in a glass etching solution (1:0.5:0.75 mol/L HF/NH4F/HN03) to etch the glass surface where photoresist layer and chromium coating were removed in the previous steps. 6) The glass plate was thoroughly washed with Millipore water and dried with nitrogen gas. 7) The glass plate was aligned with a second photomask containing the design of satellite wells and was exposed to UV light by using the standard exposure protocols. Then steps 2) to 6) were repeated. Finally, the remaining photoresist was removed by using acetone, and the underlying chromium layer was removed by using the chromium etchant. The etched depth was controlled by the etching time and speed, which was controlled by the etching temperature. The Type I and Type II wells were etched to be 50 μm deep, and the satellite wells were etched to be 15 μm deep. The volume of Type I wells, Type II wells, and satellite wells were 6 nL, 3 nL, and 0.2 nL respectively.
The glass plate was oxidized in a plasma cleaner (Structure Probe, Inc., West Chester, Pa.) for 10 minutes and then immediately transferred into a desiccator (Fisher Scientific, Hanover Park, Ill.). Dichlorodimethylsilane (50 11 L) was injected into the desiccator and then a vacuum was applied to perform gas-phase silanization for one hour. The silanized glass plate was thoroughly cleaned with chloroform, acetone, and ethanol, and then dried with nitrogen gas. The silanized glass plate was used for digital RP A experiments within one day. The glass plate was reused after thoroughly cleaning with piranha solution (3:1 sulfuric acid:hydrogen peroxide) and silanized with the procedure described above.
Assembling the Devices
The devices were assembled under tetradecane. The tetradecane was de-gassed before digital RPA experiments. The bottom plate was first immersed into tetradecane in a Petri dish, with the patterned wells facing up. The top plate was then immersed into tetradecane and placed on top of the bottom plate with the patterned side facing down. The two plates were aligned under a stereoscope (Leica, Germany) as shown in
Digital RPA on Two-Step Devices with on-Device Initiation
RPA master mixture was prepared by rehydrating the lyophilized enzyme mixture in 29.5 μL of rehydration buffer and 10 μL of water, then adding 3.5 μL each of RPA primers A and B (10 μM each) and 1 μL of the mecA-specific probe (TwistDx Ltd). The solution was pulse-vortexed three times and sonicated in a FS60H (Fisher Scientific) at room temperature for 10 minutes. 5 μL of BSA solution (20 mg/ml) was added to the RPA master mixture. For experiments with on-chip initiation of digital RPA (
RPA on a One-Step Device with on-Device Initiation
RPA master mixture was prepared by rehydrating the lyophilized enzyme mixture in 29.5 μL of rehydration buffer and 10 μL of water, then adding 3.5 μL each of RPA primers A and B (10 μM each) and 1 μL of the mecA-specific probe (TwistDx Ltd). The solution was pulse-vortexed three times and sonicated in a FS60H (Fisher Scientific) at room temperature for 10 minutes. 5 μL of BSA solution (20 mg/ml) was added to the RP A master mixture. 1.5 μL of MRSA gDNA template solution (1:104 dilution) was added to 28.5 μL of the RPA master mixture as Reaction Mixture 1 (
RPA On the Two-Step Device with on-Device-Initiation
For experiments with pre-initiation (
Quantitative RPA by Using a Plate Reader
RPA master mixture was prepared as described above. 5 μL of BSA solution (20 mg/mL) and 4 μL of Mg(OAc)2 solution (280 mM) were added to 48 μL of the RPA master mixture. Then 19 μL of the reaction mixture was placed in a well of a 96 well plate, and 1 μL of MRSA gDNA template solution (1:103 dilution) was added to each well. The well plate was immediately placed in a plate reader (BMG LABTECH, Germany) with temperature controlled at 25° C. For the control experiment without template, after loading the reaction mixture into a 96 well plate, 1 μL of water was added to each well instead of gDNA template solution (
Digital PCR on the Disclosed Devices
A digital RPA device was designed to be compatible to perform digital PCR as well (
The PCR reaction mixture was injected into the device to fill all the Type I wells (
An initial step at 95° C. (2 min) was used to activate the enzyme for reaction. Next, a total of 35 cycles of amplification were performed: denaturation step of 1 min at 95° C., annealing step of 30 sec at 55° C., and a DNA synthesis step of 30 sec at 72° C. After the final cycle, a final DNA extension step was performed for 5 min at 72° C.
Image Acquisition and Analysis
All fluorescence images were acquired by using a Leica DMI 6000 B epi-fluorescence microscope (Leica Microsystems, Germany) with a 5×I 0.15 NA objective and L5 filter. All fluorescence images were corrected by a background image obtained with a standard fluorescent slide. Fluorescence images were stitched together by using MetaMorph software (Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif.).
NASBA Amplification—Signal Generation
Nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA) is an isothermal amplification method that functions at around 41° C. and can reach very high levels of amplification (>1010). The mechanism is described in
In one embodiment, digital NASBA is performed by sequential reactions on multiple compartments. The first compartments are created with NASBA reagent (listed in Table 1) with exception of enzyme and molecular beacon after denaturation at 65 degrees Celsius. Enzyme is added to the first compartments to initiate NASBA reaction. This first reaction can be carried out by incubation at 41 degrees Celsius to amplify molecule of interest. Second compartments of molecular beacon solution are created and combined with the first compartments to carry out the second reaction. The second reaction is a detection reaction of amplification product.
In another embodiment, multiplex NASBA can be carried out by sequential reactions on multiple compartments. primers can be patterned in reaction areas (wells or surfaces) of one of the disclosed devices, for example, as described in Analytical Chemistry 2010 82:4606-4612, or the primer solution can be user-loaded as described in JACS 2010 132: 106-111. The NASBA reagent containing molecule of interest is compartmentalized and mixed with preloaded primers and the first reaction of amplification is carried out. The second compartments containing detection reagent, such as different molecule beacons, are created and combined with the first compartments to carry out the second reaction of detection.
Digital NASBA is now described here in further detail. Although the digitization process was performed in the disclosed devices, but functions in other platforms as well. See
Visual Readout—NASBA
Several visual readout methods based on hybridization of the RNA NASBA product are suitable. Simple concentration of functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNP's) such as in many lateral flow assays is one approach. Alternatively, nanoparticle-based aggregation, where two different types of AuNP's that would recognize different sequences on the product RNA, may be used to observe a color change to detect presence of product. The small scale of the wells may make these approaches impractical from an intensity standpoint, so additional amplification methods are also being explored.
One approach is silver amplification where AuNP's catalyze the deposition of Ag(s) from solution. The deposition chemistry was optimized to maximize signal in the presence of AuNP and minimize background; in this digitized approach, the presence of product is a key output. Through screening of various thiols, it was determined that ˜3-mercaptoethanol (˜3-ME) can suppress AuNP catalyzed amplification at low AuNP concentrations, and also further suppresses the background reaction (when no nanoparticles were present). A methoxy-terminated PEG 5000 thiol (PEGThiol) had no effect on the nanoparticle free reaction, but when nanoparticles were present it resulted in very strong signal generation (
NASBA Amplification—Additional Disclosure
Digital Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification (NASBA) can be performed at the single-molecule level on the disclosed devices. In one embodiment, the reagents for performing digital NASBA can be mixed together on a device as disclosed herein. For example, the amounts and types of reagents listed in Table 1 below have been used to perform digital NASBA on a disclosed device:
In another embodiment, the reagents listed in Table 1, with the exception of enzyme, can be pre-mixed and heated to 65 degrees Celsius before adding the mixture to the device, where it is combined with enzyme.
In another embodiment, the reagents listed in Table 1, with the exception of the molecular beacon, can be pre-mixed and heated to 65 degrees Celsius before adding the mixture to the device, where it is combined with the molecular beacon.
In yet another embodiment, the reagents for performing digital NASBA can be pre-mixed before adding the mixture to the device. For example, the amounts and types of reagents listed in Table 1 have been used to perform digital NASBA on the disclosed devices:
In experiments performed using the reagents in Table 1, the NASBA buffer together with Accusphere, both of which were obtained from LifeSciences Advanced Technologies Inc., were vortexed and then heated to 41° C. for 5-10 minutes then vortexed again prior to addition to tubes to maximize solubility and solution uniformity. The other buffer used was 10 mM Tris pH 8.5, 75 mM NaCl, 50 mcM EDTA. It was made using DNA grade H2O (BP2470-1 from Fisher), and was filtered through a 0.45 μm filter and autoclaved. All DNA primers, probes, and model templates were ordered from IDTDNA.com. They were dissolved to 100 μm in DNA grade H2O. Dilutions down to about 5 μM were made in Buffer. Dilutions below 1 μM were made in Buffer+Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA, 0.1%). The final primer and molecular beacon concentrations were 200 nM. 90 minutes of reaction time at 41 degrees Celsius was sufficient for reactions on the disclosed devices.
For performing digital NASBA on HIV viral RNA, the primers that were used have the following sequences:
The molecular beacon that was used had the following sequence:
This beacon was found in experiments to produce a 20 fold increase of fluorescence intensity on chip or using a plate reader and a 40 fold increase of fluorescence intensity on nanodrop. Another beacon with the same sequence, but replacing FAM with Cy5 and replacing 3IABkFQ with 3BHQ_2, has also been used. 90 minutes appears to be sufficient reaction time for on-chip experiments though shorter times may be possible (<1 hr) based on real time well plate experiments.
Digital Immuno-PCR
Also disclosed is the application of digital immuno-PCR to measure proteins at single molecule level. As compared with a bulk system, the digital format utilizes compartmentalization of single molecules into a relatively small volume, generating high local concentration. Secondly, compared with enzyme amplification, PCR amplification has several advantages: higher sensitivity, higher amplification efficiency, and no dead time. Anti-PSA capture antibody coated fluorescent magnetic beads (red) were used to capture the target PSA molecule.
The concentration of PSA was controlled so there was less than one molecule on one bead. A dsDNA tag was attached to an anti-PSA detection antibody and used as signal probe. After incubation between antibodies and antigen, magnetic beads with captured/labeled PSA were loaded into pL wells with PCR supermix. Each well contains either one or no bead. After amplification, only wells containing beads were counted. The ratio between “on” wells and the total number of wells were used to determine the concentration of target. Results are shown in
LAMP Amplification
Digital reverse transcription loop mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) can be performed on the disclosed devices. In some embodiments, digital RT-LAMP is performed on a multivolume SlipChip™ device.
In one illustrative case, one-step digital RT-LAMP is carried out by mixing template, primers, detection reagent, reaction mix and enzyme, then loading the solution onto a SlipChip device and heating up the device to a proper temperature for a period of time.
In one suitable example, the following mixture of reagents was used: 20 μL reaction mix, 2 μL enzyme mix (Loopamp RNA Amplification Kit from Eiken Chemical Co. LTD.), 2 μL detection reagent (Eiken Chemical Co. LTD.), 2 μL 20 mg/mL BSA, 8 μL RNase free water, 4 uL primer mix and 2 μL HIV RNA purified from AcroMetrix® HIV-1 Panel 1E6. The final concentration of primers was 2 μM for BIP/FIP, 1 μM for LOOP primers, 0.25 μM for B3/F3. All solutions were operated on ice.
The solution was loaded onto a multivolume SlipChip device (device design published in Shen, F.; Sun, B.; Kreutz, J. E.; Davydova, E. K.; Du, W. B.; Reddy, P. L.; Joseph, L. J.; Ismagilov, JACS 2011 133: 17705) and the relative position of the plates of the device were fixed by wax. The device was heated on a thermal cycler block (Eppendorf) at 63° C. for about 1 hour then terminated at 95° C. for 2 minutes. The fluorescence image was acquired by Leica DMI 6000 B epi-fluorescence microscope with a 5×/0.15 NA objective and L5 filter at room temperature. The measured concentration of digital RT-LAMP was 10% of that from digital RT-PCR using B3/F3 as primers.
In another embodiment, two-step digital RT-LAMP is carried out in two separate steps. Reverse Transcription is done by mixing template, BIP/FIP primers, reverse transcriptase, and reaction mix in a tube, and heating to a proper temperature. RNase H can be added afterwards to help the dissociation of DNA: RNA hybrid. Digital LAMP is performed by mixing obtained cDNA solution with all other components, loading the solution onto a SlipChip device, and heating the device at a proper temperature for a period of time.
In another embodiment, digital RT-LAMP is performed by running the reverse transcription step on the SlipChip device in a digital format, mixing the product with other components of LAMP on-chip and heating the device. The result of this protocol has been experimentally observed to be the same as when performing the RT step in a test tube.
Other embodiments that effect reactions (e.g., LAMP) operate via processes that include compartmentalizing materials, effecting a first reaction, and then effecting a second reaction. In one such embodiment, digital RT-LAMP is carried out by sequential reactions on multiple compartments. First compartments are created with the solution containing molecule of interest, BIP/FIP primers, reverse transcriptase, and reaction mix. The first reaction of reverse transcription is carried out at 50 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes to synthesize cDNA. The second compartments are created with LAMP reagents and combined with the first compartments to carry out the second reaction. This second reaction of LAMP is carried out at 63 degrees Celsius for 1 hour.
In one embodiment, multiplex LAMP can be carried out by sequential reactions on multiple compartments. primers can be patterned in reaction areas (wells or surfaces) of a SlipChip, for example, as described in Analytical Chemistry 2010 82:4606-4612, or the primer solution can be user-loaded as described in JACS 2010 132: 106-111. The LAMP reagent containing molecule of interest is compartmentalized and mixed with preloaded primers and the first reaction of amplification is carried out. The second compartments containing detection reagent are created and combined with the first compartments to carry out the second reaction of detection.
In one set of experiments performed with two-step digital RT-LAMP, 10 μL reaction mix, 1 μL 20 mg/mL BSA, 0.5 μL Superscript III reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen), 6 μL RNase free water, 0.5 uL BIP/FIP primer mix (10 μM) and 2 μL HIV RNA purified from AcroMetrix® HIV-1 Panel 1E6 were mixed together in a test tube. All solutions were operated on ice. The solution was heated to 50° C. for 15 min for reverse transcription.
All other components of LAMP mixture (2 μL enzyme mix, 2 μL detection reagent, 10 μL reaction mix, 1 μL 20 mg/mL BSA, all other primers and RNase free water to make up the volume to 20 μL.) were mixed together with the solution obtained from reverse transcription and loaded on a SlipChip device immediately. The whole device was heated on a thermal cycler block (Eppendorf) at 63° C. for about 1 hour then terminated at 95° C. for 2 minutes. Imaging settings were the same as described for the one-step RT-LAMP experimental protocol above. The measured concentration obtained after performing digital RT-LAMP was found to be 30% of that from digital RT-PCR using B3/F3 as primers.
In another set of experiments, the efficiency of two-step digital RT-LAMP was found to be improved by adding only BIP/FIP primer in the RT step, adding RNase H after the RT step and removing B3 from the primer mixture.
For example, 10 μL reaction mix, 1 μL 20 mg/mL BSA, 0.5 μL Superscript III reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen), 6 μL RNase free water, 0.5 uL BIP/FIP primer mix (10 μM) and 2 μL HIV RNA purified from AcroMetrix® HIV-1 Panel 1E6 were mixed together. All solutions were operated on ice. The solution was heated to 50° C. for 15 min for reverse transcription then followed by the addition of 0.5 μL RNase H (NEB) and incubation at 37° C. for 10 minutes.
All other components of LAMP mixture (2 μL enzyme mix, 2 μL detection reagent, 10 μL reaction mix, 1 μL 20 mg/mL BSA, all other primers except for B3 and RNase free water to make up the volume to 20 μL) were mixed together with the solution obtained from reverse transcription and loaded on a SlipChip device immediately. Heating and imaging settings were the same as described for the two-step RT-LAMP experimental protocol above. The measured concentration after performing digital RT-LAMP was found to be 60% of that obtained via digital RT-PCR using B3/F3 as primers.
In another set of experiments, the efficiency of two-step digital RT-LAMP was found to be improved by adding only BIP/FIP primer in the RT step, adding thermostable RNase H into the LAMP mixture and removing B3 from the primer mixture. Herein two step RT-LAMP was performed entirely on SlipChip device, where the product of first step RT was introduced to the second step LAMP by the overlapping of two sets of wells.
For example, 10 μL reaction mix, 1 μL 20 mg/mL BSA, 0.5 μL Superscript III reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen), 6 μL RNase free water, 0.5 uL BIP/FIP primer mix (10 pM) and 2 μL HIV RNA purified from AcroMetrix® HIV-1 Panel 1E6 were mixed and added onto SlipChip device. All other components of LAMP mixture (2 μL enzyme mix, 2 μL detection reagent, 10 μL reaction mix, 1 μL 20 mg/mL BSA, all other primers except for B3 and RNase free water to make up the volume to 19.5 μL) and 0.5 uL Hybridase™ Thermostable RNase H (Epicenter) were mixed together and loaded into another set of well on the same SlipChip device. The whole device was heated on a thermal cycler block (Eppendorf) at 50° C. for 15 minutes then slipped to allow overlapping of two sets of wells. Then the device was heated at 63° C. for about 1 hour then terminated at 95° C. for 2 minutes. The imaging settings were the same as described for the two-step RT-LAMP experimental protocols above. The measured concentration after performing digital RT-LAMP was found to be 60% of that obtained from digital RT-PCR using B3/F3 as primers.
To perform digital RT-LAMP, the primers we used have the following sequences:
They are modified based on a published paper.
Curtis, K. A.; Rudolph, D. L; Owen, M. Journal of Virological Methods 151 (2008) 264
The design and principles of primers were referred to http://loopamp.eiken.co.jp/e/lamp/primer.html
FIP: Forward Inner Primer (FIP) consists of the F2 region (at the 3′ end) that is complementary to the F2c region, and the same sequence as the F1c region at the 5′ end.
F3 Primer: Forward Outer Primer consists of the F3 region that is complementary to the F3c region.
BIP: Backward Inner Primer (BIP) consists of the B2 region (at the 3′ end) that is complementary to the B2c region, and the same sequence as the B1c region at the 5′ end.
B3 Primer: Backward Outer Primer consists of the B3 region that is complementary to the B3c region.
The Loop Primers (either Loop Primer B or Loop Primer F), containing sequences complementary to the single stranded loop region (either between the B1 and B2 regions, or between the F1 and F2 regions) on the 5′ end of the dumbbell-like structure
Additional background may be found in the following documents, each of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for any and all purposes.
This application is a continuation-in-part application of application Ser. No. 13/257,811, filed Sep. 20, 2011; which is the National Stage of International Application No. PCT/US2010/028316, filed on Mar. 23, 2010, which claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of U.S. Provisional Application 61/262,375, filed on Nov. 18, 2009, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/162,922, filed on Mar. 24, 2009, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/340,872, filed on Mar. 22, 2010; this Application further claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/516,628, filed Apr. 5, 2011 and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/518,601, filed May 9, 2011; the content of all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties for any and all purposes.
The United States Government has certain rights in this invention pursuant to Grant Nos. 1 R01 EB012946, GM074961, and DP1OD003584, awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and Grant No. CHE-0526693, awarded by the National Science Foundation.
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